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NEW YORK CONFERENCE
1st Night

Pastor xxxxxx speaking

The Media Ministry that we do, that allows us to meet a large number of people because of the fact that our Ministry reaches outside of our doors, by way of radio and television and, of course, you have seen a number of people come to this pulpit, and to this church as a result of the Media Ministry. Many of you all, are members of the Congregation because of the Media Ministry as well, and Pastor Vitale is one of those persons who we have met, as a result of, I believe it is television, I do not think it is radio, I think that is where she was spawned in our Television Ministry.

She, I think was here for one of the Conferences that we had a Billion Dollar Project Conference, maybe one of those, I cannot remember, but I remember seeing her coming in with an entourage of people,15 women with her, when she came in. She sat over there, they all walked in, all looking like one another, and they walked out. But who was this group of people that were sitting, and they came in and took the front row, which most people are afraid to do? Who on earth is this that is coming in as she was? She never introduced herself to me, she just came and attended the Conferences that we had, a year or so, I believe it was.

For whatever reason, I made her acquaintance, I am not sure exactly how that took place as well. I meet so many different people, but I know that when I did meet her, that I was greatly impressed with who she was, and how she spoke, but beyond that, we had no further contact. One day I received in the mail, several books that she had written, and I just took the time to open them up and began to read them. I realize that this woman wrote in such a profound way, that she captured my imagination and I just kept reading.

Normally I get a magazine or a book, I read a few paragraphs and then I put it aside. I do not have the time to read all the things that people send to me. By the way, if you sent me any recent emails, and I have not responded to them or read them yet, you can understand why. I get a lot of literature to read but this literature, this book that she sent, was so intriguing, and it demonstrated that this woman had an inside track with the Lord.

Most of the books that you get today, and without being very critical, self help books, are really books that are written, but they do not have an inside track; God has not inspired to writing; I think perhaps something else, such as money or some other idea has inspired to the writing of the book, but God is not in the writing; you do not see the wisdom, nor the hand, nor the power of God. We need to be aware of the fact that, when God does something, it is always unusual, and it is always beyond our ability to explain it; it has to be, if God does it. Now, I discovered this about the books that Pastor Vitale had written, and I was remittent impressed with her, so the next time I saw her, I mean I really saw her, I was appreciative of seeing someone who had such a gift, an inside track with the Lord, who could write the way she wrote.

I think she preached for us briefly during the 7 Last Words during the month of April, and all of you all were literally blown away. You all came in with your wigs all tightened down. You were looking so wonderful, I was doing so well, I mean you all were following. You should have seen the way you were following this presentation, and then I started with the wigs being falling away, but you all were, you really were, you were awe struck at the way in which she presented herself.

I have a hidden agenda, let me expose it now. I pray that the Lord will allow Pastor Vitale, and I to unite in ways in which we can demonstrate, or she can be instrumental in what xxxx, and what God is doing in this church and doing in this house. That we can unite to teach the word of God to people. When you hear her teach, you realize she is not the run of the mill, hum, drum, teacher that keeps rehashing the same old clichés over and over again. In fact, I do not know how you all deal with the boredom of churches and ministries, and pretty much all they do is this kind of rehash the same old clichés, but you know the mercies of God are new every morning, and you can never run out of the creative power, and the abilities of God to bring forth new, every time you stand to preach or teach God's people.

God does not have to repeat Himself over and over again. Now, He can, but Pastor Vitale had that kind of a gift, her teaching is fresh and invigorating, and incite full and full of wisdom and full of rebuke too, by the way. I pray that you all are ready, you all are adjusted to rebuke, cause she knows how to lay it on you. She lays it on you even worse than I do, so I am glad to meet someone who can rebuke better than me, but she is going to do that, I am sure, in the course of the meeting, but take it, because it takes that kind of teaching to get us to where God wants us to be.

I believe the Lord has put us together, and we will pray and see what the Lord will do with our future Ministries. I have had the opportunity to study under a number of people who purport to know the Bible and, of course, they did, and taught it quite well. But what I hear and read in Pastor Vitale's books, greatly exceed what I have learned from the schools and seminaries that I have attended. This is going to be a great meeting; it is. I believe it will take all 3 days to kind of set you in place.

The other thing that we have to realize that God has greatly blessed us, I do not care what you are going through, or how your facing what you facing here tonight, you need to know that you are greatly blessed of the Lord. Praise Almighty God. You all do not sound like you believe that. You sound like you are greatly distressed by the devil, rather than greatly blessed, but we are indeed greatly blessed by the Lord. We are excited about having Pastor Vitale at this xxxx Ministry. She is the Pastor of; by the way, I told you she calls everybody, brethren. Is that right? I read that in the book; I kept noticing there had to be some female references, but I kept noticing this term, brethren, and brethren, brethren, so I reference her and checked her back again, going through the book about Adam's sin or God fault. It was interesting. Did you bring that book with you tonight? Is that out there tonight?

Praise the Lord. At any rate, we are delighted to have her here. She is the Pastor of the Living Epistles Church in Port Jefferson Sta. Long Island, New York. I want to ask you all to stand and give her a great big, warm, xxxx Ministry, welcome tonight. Praise the Lord. Thank you, thank you so very much. You may take your seats.

There a number of you that I will need to meet with after the preaching session is over with.
 

Pastor Vitale Preaching

Well, praise the Lord, brethren, and brethren includes sisters and brethren; includes both males and females. Well, I have so much to say to you tonight, so please bear with me as I wait for the anointing to hit me, and bring it forth in a manner that you can consume. Because if I feed you food that you cannot consume, it will be of no worth to anybody, and sometimes if you take in a lot of food that you cannot consume, it makes you sick. And sometimes if you get sick, you act spiritually in a manner that is not edifying to yourself or to anybody.

The Lord has told me to start at the beginning. I have such a long story for you. You see, there is a new move of God. It started quite a long time ago, but it is so different than what you are all use to in the Holy Ghost, that it is very hard for the mind to comprehend it; that it is God. I remember years ago, I used to, but I do not do it any more, I used to do a word by word study, in the Interlinear Text. I have spent hours and years of my life pouring over the Interlinear Text. Do you know what the Interlinear Text is? It is either the Hebrew or the Greek Text. I have a computer program. It shows you either the Hebrew or the Greek Text, the English Translation, Strong's Number and a Pronunciation Key in Arabic letters. The English language uses Arabic letters as opposed to Hebrew or Greek letters, so that you can have some clue as to how to pronounce the word; if you want to. I have spent years of my life, locked up behind my computer studying in that manner.

I have brought forth, what the Lord calls a System of Knowledge that comes out of the Scripture that is powered by the Spirit of Christ, which is different than the Holy Ghost. During those deep studies, once, when I was studying Daniel Chapter 7, I found out that Christ looks so different than the average person under the anointing of the Holy Ghost, that the average person under the anointing of the Holy Ghost thinks that Christ is the Devil. The difference is so radical, you see. Jesus told us clearly that if you pour new wine into old wine sacks, that they would break. We are the old wine sacks, and it is our mind that breaks.

Did you ever think; why does not the Lord just come in and save us? Why does He not just rip us out of this hellish existence that we have? Because the hellish existence is in our mind. It is all woven together with our minds, and with our soul, which is our personality, so that would kill us, because we are in a fallen condition, and our condition is very vile, brethren. If you take a knife and you cut me, I could bleed to death. That is a vile condition. We are supposed to be invulnerable. We are supposed to be indestructible, walking in this earth with dominion over nature, but nature kills us all the time. The mosquito bites us and gives us malaria. The files bite us, the insects invade our homes.

There has been a reversal of the situation, and the conditions that the Lord set up in the Garden of Eden. A complete reversal. Nature has dominion over us, and the only reason, we are as comfortable as we are, is because we have the intelligence that came upon us from the Holy Ghost. I am convinced that the prosperity of this country, and of the whole western world; Great Britain, and the European Nations, is because of the honor or the Lord Jesus Christ. It is not because any group of people are smarter. It is because of the honor of Jesus Christ, just going to church on Sundays, and living a moral life style has brought the wisdom to men, to raise up this great nation. (Pastor xxxx That is right)

The only difference between us and other countries, and the third world; for example, that cannot get up on their feet, is the honor of Jesus Christ, as opposed to the lands that are still riddled with witchcraft, and the one thing that I could, (well, I do understand it because the mind of man is reprobate, you see.) All of these forces in this Country today, trying to bring Eastern beliefs in. What they are doing is, they are bringing in the spirit that has produced poverty and destruction and premature death; in India, in Africa, all over the world, in the third world. Why are you bringing in a spirit that produces death and trying to stamp out the Spirit that gives life? The reason for it, the Scripture tells us, is that men love the darkness. They love the sin and they are trying to break off the bands that control immorality, because morality is a dynamic that is associated with prosperity, that cannot be separated from it

We have forces in this Country today that want to tear down the moral requirements of Christianity. They are so ignorant; they become so intelligent, and so educated, that they are so ignorant, that they do not understand that, as they tear down all of the moral rules, they are going to tear down the entire structure, that has built this greatness. If the Lord does not intervene, which He will intervene; if the Lord does not intervene, this Country, in due season, would go back to seed. I am telling you it would go back to seed. (Pastor xxxxx Yes)

So what do we have here? We have a church; that they are just average people under the influence of the Holy Spirit. The new move of God is the Mind of Christ. Now, most Christians, well, they have the Mind of Christ. No, you do not have the Mind of Christ. The King James Translation says, or Paul says in the King James Translation, "But we have the Mind of the Spirit. What that means is, we have access to the Mind of the Spirit. We have access to it, but it is not in you, yet.

The Mind of Christ has the potential to make you everything that you are supposed to be; Supernatural Giants; walking above and beyond the authority of nature.

Now, I have a flash for you. Mother nature is Satan, you see. The Powers and Principalities that rule this world; they are all sent in various forms and functions, you see. It is all the Serpent. Revelation Chapter 20 says, "That old Serpent, the Devil and Satan." It is just the Serpent in various different manifestations. Just like, we have the Spirit of God, one Spirit, many administrations of that same Spirit. Satan is not some big, mysterious being with horns, and she is a she. (Laughter by Pastor & congregation) Satan is a female. I am a lady; do not get upset.

There is such a thing as spiritual sexuality. Soul is female. Spirit is male. See, the Lord wants to make us spiritual, brethren, but to be spiritual, we first have to get a spiritual mind. What the Lord told me to do; the one instruction that I have from Him because as I told Captain xxxxxx, my Ministry is very prophetic, and the anointing has not hit me yet. We will see what is going to happen today. He did tell me to prepare you for what He wants to do. In this preparation, He wants you to know that you need something that you do not have. If you think you have the Mind of Christ, you are not going to be looking for it. You do not have it.

Now, there is two basic different manifestations of the Mind of Christ. I call it the, "Imputed Mind of Christ," which means, it is the Mind of Christ that comes forth in the person who has pursued God with all their strength in the Holy Spirit, and the fruit of the Spirit begins to be formed in you. The fruit of the Spirit is the basics of the Mind of Christ. Before that, you are a carnal man under the influence of the Holy Ghost. Is that bad? No. It is a step, a stage in your maturation. We have to grow up into Christ. The only thing that is free, is that initial Spirit; that is the free gift, that gets you started. Then you have to walk this thing through. You have to grow up just like you grow up in the natural world. It is a process. It is not just learning the Word, learning the Word is very important, but you have to change. That Word has to get inside of you. It has to change you. The nature of Jesus Christ must appear in you.

The power is in righteousness, and the soul man, which we all are, when the Lord calls us, is unrighteous, desperately wicked, who can know it. The heart of man is desperately wicked, who can know it. We all want to be, we want to be Christians, we want to be good, we want to be Christ like, so we bury our evil potential. We hide our evil side and we put up a veneer, a false front, a mask. We have a church filled with people who really want to serve God but they do not know how, so they make it up. They make it up, and then something happens after a season, they forget what they did. You know, most of the time, this is subconscious.

You are going to hear me talk about the mind a lot. The reason we are going to talk about the mind a lot, is that the only way the Christ Mind is going to rise in you and possess you; He wants to possess you. The only way that is going to happen, is by the dismantling of the carnal mind that you had when you came to Christ. In order to dismantle that evil mind; it is an evil mind. (Pastor xxxxxx says It is) It is a mind of death. The way we dismantle it, is by looking at it, and not just what is up here but the unconscious part of the mind.

As you proceed in God, you will become spiritual; more and more spiritual. Everything the occult does out there; some of you have some background in witchcraft, some of you know about it. Everything that is done in witchcraft is a counterfeit. The only reality is Christ Jesus. Every manifestation of witchcraft that you know about, and that you do not know about is a counterfeit of some great experience; some great legal spiritual experience in Christ Jesus that will glorify God. (Pastor xxxxx says That's right) That is what He wants to give you, but you have to die to your carnal mind. Your carnal mind has to die. John the Baptist said, "I must decrease so that He can increase." Now, all of you well meaning people, when you hear things like that; when you read this Bible, you are reading it with your carnal mind, but I know that in this church you know that there is a Revealed Word; you know that.

There is a Revealed Word and only the Mind of Christ can understand this Revealed Word. The Lord wants to give you a New Mind, so that you can hear what He has to say. He wants to give you a New Mind, so that when He destroys your sin filled mind, you will survive. You have to understand this Bible in the Spirit. To live as Christ, but to die is gain, but my Bible says, "My death is the last enemy." What do you mean, "To die is gain," death is my enemy? Contradiction. Then some unbeliever comes in and says, "That Bible; that is not the Word of God; look at that contradiction; to die is gain but death is the last enemy, death is your enemy." Every contradiction or apparent contradiction; there is no contradiction in this Bible. Every apparent contradiction is because we are lacking understanding.

One of the biggest problems that we have, is that a lot of us think that this is the Word of God, but it is not. It is a translation of the Scripture. (Pastor xxxxxx says That's right) The Word of God is the glorified Jesus Christ with eyes of fire, and hair like wool; running across the earth, judging in righteousness, judging sin in righteousness. The Word of God is Christ in you. Christ cannot sin, you can sin, I can sin. I sin every second of every minute of every day. Why? Because the unconscious part of my mind never ceases from devising wickedness, but I have another mind. I am not alone in here. Christ Jesus judges my sins every day, and because He judges my sins every day, and because I work with Him, and not against Him, my sins are under the blood.

A lot of Christians walk around saying, "Put it under the blood, put it under the blood." Brethren, to put it under the blood; first of all you must understand what you have done, then you must truly regret doing it, and then you must find out what the alternative godly behavior is, to replace it with. It is a process, and this process is killing the mind of death.

You see Paul talks about the body of death. Well, there are all kinds of bodies. Paul says there are all kinds of bodies. The mind is a body. It is the body of a spirit. The spirit lives in the mind. The mind lives in the soul, so the soul is the body of the mind. That is what supposed to be my introduction; you need a new mind. It is not enough to get that imputed Christ; that Christ that comes into existence in you, because you are just chasing after God with all your strength, and you come into church and you are reading that Bible, and the fruit of the Spirit begins to appear in you.

What you have, can be likened to the branches of a tree. Now, the branches of a tree without a root will not survive very long. You have to get the Engrafted Word, which is the root. That branch of the tree that is in you, because you love Jesus so much; the root has to get in you or the branch is going to die. The way the root gets in you, is by being grafted. You see, Jesus was the only one, and will always be the only one, that received the nature and the Mind of God from seed. We are not getting the seed of God; we are getting a cutting from the glorified Jesus Christ. You are all here in the City; are any of you gardeners, do you know what a cutting is? Okay. A cutting is; you take a tree or a bush and you cut a branch off, and you stick the branch in the ground. That is much faster than watching something grow up from seed. Jesus is the only one that came forth from seed. We are all cuttings of His life. We are all in Christ; one generation, the offspring of the glorified Jesus Christ. In Him we are truly all brethren, and it is His full intention to fully posses us.

Brethren, this church is playing games. This is not a game. This is not a game. The Lord is not fooling, you see. We are His bride and we are all running from the marriage. I like being engaged; keep giving me the gifts, taking me out; I am not ready to get married yet. He is not waiting much longer, and the reason He is not waiting much longer, is that this Country is going to self destruct if the Sons of God do not stand up. We are the Sons of God. If we do not stand up in spiritual power, this nation is going down, and with it the whole Christian world. Now, that is impossible; I am just telling you that is the plan. That is the plan. It is impossible and I will tell you why it is impossible, because Jesus Christ is glorified.

Everything that we see in this world is an image of a spiritual reality. You are a image of a spiritual reality. You exist in heaven; your angel stands before God in heaven. Jesus Christ is glorified. He must have a visible expression. It is impossible to cut off the visible expression of a glorified man that exists in heaven, but that does not mean that every person that answered an altar call, is going to fulfill the call on their life.

You have to get another mind. Even if you hear from God, you have to distinguish between the gift and the nature of Christ. You can prophesy, you can speak in tongues, you can do exploits, you can do miracles, you can rise people up out of a wheelchair, and you are going to have this glory for a season, and you are going to pass out of this world.

I know we have maybe a little doctrinal disagreement here, Captain xxxxxx. I believe that there is going to be a manifestation of the supernatural nature of Christ in a company of people. I do not believe that we will be raptured. I believe there is a rapture, but it is spiritual. It is a spiritual rapture, you see. You cannot stay this way, I cannot stay this way. It is a spiritual rapture. Everybody that reads this book, all these well meaning Christians, including me, for years; you take everything that you read on the surface, but it is the secret of the Word. It is the Revealed Word that is the truth. It is a spiritual rapture. We are going to rise up above this carnal mind that we are born with. We bought it to the church. We are carnal; we are sold under sin. We are dead. Do you know that we are dead? Adam died, and we all died and we are dead.

If you read it in the Hebrew, it says, "Dying you shall die." When the curse; well, actually God did not really curse Adam. He really did not. When God said all that to Adam, do you know what that was? God said to him, "This is the consequence of what you did." God did not curse him. He said, "I warned you not to do it." Just like you tell your teenage daughter, do not fool around with your boyfriend, but she did, she is pregnant. Was she cursed. Did her mother curse her; when her mother said to her, and her father said to her, "I told you not to run around with that boy?" Now, you have a problem. Is that a curse? No. She is experiencing the fruit of her own indiscretion.

God did not curse Adam. You see, there is a law. There are laws that rule this universe that are inviolable, they cannot be changed. They are spiritual laws. Just like physical laws. If I drop this book it is going to fall down. If you jumped out of a 10 story window, you are going to smash your body. There are spiritual laws that cannot be changed. Be not deceived, God is not mocked. You shall surely reap what you have sown, and I heard Pastor xxxxxx preach that. Do not think because you answered an Altar Call, you do not have to reap what you sow.

The only difference between the person who has faith in Jesus Christ; concerning judgment now, the only difference between the person who has faith in Jesus Christ, and the person who does not is this: The person who does not have faith in Jesus Christ goes under judgment unto destruction. The person that has faith in Jesus Christ goes under judgment unto correction, and you learn from your experience. Then God gives you a whole new life, like you and like me. I should have been dead years ago. That is the only difference. Everybody is going to get judged; corrective judgment. Read it in the Psalms. O God, Thy judgments are wonderful, judges the Lord, that we might live. Judge us.

Do you want to know the most powerful warfare prayer you could pray? Lord, show me everything I am doing wrong. Everything. Every wrong thought, every wrong emotion, every wrong behavior, every wrong deed. He will answer you, and He will come to you, and He will give you the opportunity to make it right. You cannot just forget about it. Except in rare cases, where it is not very appropriate to look up the person. If you owe them money, you have to pay it. You have to pay it with interest, sometimes. You have to hear from God. You have to apologize, you see.

The church is dying from pride. Pride is killing us. We are dying from ignorance, you see. You need to know that your sins must be exposed if you want to go on, because you know what happens? If your sins are not exposed, do you know what happens to you? You keep on going, you think you are growing in Christ, you think you are growing. It looks good, your Ministry is growing, it looks good. Then all of a sudden the bottom falls out. You want to know; what hit me, what hit me; Satan hit me. Well, I want to tell you something. Satan is God's faithful servant. She is a she. She is the queen. All people get upset over this one. In all of my books, I have a whole page saying, "There is no male or female in Christ Jesus.

The soul realm, which today is run away. You see, there was a rebellion in the Garden. The female aspect of the creation rebelled. We are told in the Book of Zechariah, she departed and set up a creation on her own base. She set up another foundation; this mortal foundation that we exist on. It is female, it is spiritually female.

Now listen, all of you physical men and physical women; spiritual sex is determined by your mind. If you live your life by the Mind of Christ, you are male, does not matter what your body is. Of course, for the natural wife, you have to be orderly in your physical life, and in your marriage; you have to be orderly. For spiritual purposes, the one who lives by the Mind of Christ is male, and the one who lives by the carnal mind is female. I think men take that a little bit harder than the women, but the answer is; become male, right? Study to show yourself approved; confess your sin; repent, and become a male.

You know what it means to be a spiritual male; it means to rule. We are supposed to be Rulers of the Universe. We fell down, and we received a corrupt mind from that female element of the creation that rebelled, and Jehovah sold us under sin. Jehovah sold us. Yes, He did. He said, "You are never going to stay attached to Me in that condition. Cut you off. Universal law; What you sow you shall reap. You sow disobedient, you reap death. I warned you, He said, I warned you, Adam; I told you. Disobedience reaps death. We are dead, and you know there is no way of escape, because once you die, we just do not have the power to stand up. That is what Paul told us in the Book of Romans, Chapter 7 & 8. We do not have the strength to stand up, and we are dead because of a righteous judgment.

Sin will never overcome a righteous judgment, but thank God for them, praise be to God. Our Creator loves us, and is merciful and He always makes a way of escape, so He sent His Son, made in the likeness of sinful flesh to show us how to get out of here, because this is Hell.

Jesus came as an example for us, as to how to get out of here. He never said or did one thing that the Father did not tell him to say or do. We do not have the where with all to do that, until we get the Mind of Christ. Then when you get the Mind of Christ, you have a period of warfare because your carnal mind that serves Satan is not happy that there is somebody new in the house. She is particularly not happy that it is a man in the house. (Laughter from Pastor & congregation) She has been in charge for a long time, Pastor xxxxxx.

Everything that happens in this visible world is a manifestation of what is happening in the Spirit, and where is the Spirit? Where is it? It is mind. The Spirit is in your mind. Be ye renewed in the Spirit of your mind. Now, this community here, and all of the problems that it has, is a visible expression of the collective mind of the people that live in this house.

Now, what you are called to do, is to raise up a collective manifestation of the Mind of Christ. Every time Captain xxxxxxx preaches, (I do not know what word to use here.) I am going to use the word; if you do not like it, you can be mad at me; Thought Forms. You see, a lot of the terminology that I am going to use; if you are familiar with occult writings, it is the terminology of the occult writings, and this is why. Let me tell you why; because I am a spiritual teacher, and I have to use spiritual terms to describe spiritual things, but the church is not spiritual, brethren.

The church is carnal, and they cannot tell the difference. When they hear spiritual terms, they say, "Occult, occult, occult, occult, teacher," and they panic. Sometimes I try to change the word to make them acceptable to the church, but sometimes I cannot, because it does not work, so when somebody that is preaching from Christ; not a well meaning preacher under the influence of the Holy Spirit; I am not saying that is bad, okay. When someone is preaching from Christ; Thought Forms are created. Mind pictures; they are invisible, and they go out into the atmosphere, and right now; and it is not only me, everyone in this building that is in agreement with me or receiving what I am saying, we are collectively manufacturing Thought Forms by the Spirit of Christ, and they are floating out into this community here. They are waging war against all the Thought Forms that the drug attics, and the alcoholics, and the pimps, and everybody out there are manufacturing, because they are manufacturing their Thought Forms too.

You do not need more people here. What you need is more power. You do not need a lot of people. It is a lie that you need a lot of people. O, you think the whole church is wrong, and you are right. Yes. Yes. Right. It is this Mind of Christ that preaches, that creates the Thought Forms that have the power to destroy the other Thought Forms out there.

Brethren, this is the Scriptural definition of an Apostle. We have a lot of people in the church today, calling themselves Apostles. The Scriptural definition of an Apostle is, when Christ is formed to the point in you, that He preaches to you, you are an Apostle, and you are affecting everybody that hears your word, and those who do not. It does not make you a great one, cause you have to decrease so that Christ in you can increase. Let me tell you something; to live your life under the anointing of Christ, is a very sacrificial life. You have to continually sacrifice what you would like, what you think is right, what your opinion is, what you desire, would you want to go, would you want to live, because there is a spiritual man that is living in you now, and He has the completely opposite opinion of your female opinion.

When Paul said, "That the women should not prophesy in the church unless her head is covered," he was not talking about a handkerchief on your head. First of all, the spiritual female should not prophesy. If you are in your carnal mind; you should not prophesy unless there is somebody there with the authority to judge, whether or not you are under the influence of the Holy Spirit. Is Paul trying to shut you up and not give you a chance? No. If you are prophesying, and you are not under the influence of the Holy Spirit, who are you under the influence of? You are under the influence of Satan. Oh, but I did not say anything bad, I wished you well and I prophesied; happiness and peace upon you.

Satan is good and evil. Christ is righteous. Do you the church is invaded today by an alien spirit? Did you know that? An alien spirit is speaking in tongues, prophesying, casting out demons, doing everything. It is Satan in the church, and the people are falling like flies, because they cannot discern the spirit. That man of Sin. The hour is short, brethren. That means, the Sons of God have to stand, not because of anything we are doing, not because of our righteousness, not even because God loves us; here let me tell you something. God loves us, but He has a plan that is higher than you or me, you see. His plan is to save mankind. If we want to run with Him, He is going to give us a place in His plan, and it is glorious, but if He is going that way, and you are going that way, He is still going that way. He loves you but you better follow Him, and the longer you are in God; the more mature in God; the more He requires of you, just like we requires more and more of our children as they grow up.

I am going on and on, I did not finish my introduction. I told you, you need a new mind, and I told you that this mind is so different than the carnal mind. How is it different? It is different in the way it thinks. It is different in its opinion. It is different in the way it reasons, it is different in the way it manifests logic. It is so different; it is diametrically opposite; it is a 180 degree difference. These two minds are on two mountain peaks, sitting opposite one another. The average Christian will consider Christ perverse or occult or whatever other words they feel like using at the moment.

It is our job to test the spirit, and I would like to give you some instructions as to how to do that. It is the other part of my introduction. The Lord wants you to know how to test the Spirit. If you are going to test somebody's doctrine by the words that they say alone, you will be deceived.

There had somebody write to me through the Internet not too long ago. She was looking everywhere for some information about the Serpent ,and I answered her question. Now, to me it was a very basic question. She wrote back to me again and she asked me something about testing the Spirit, and I instructed her. I told her; "Look, you have to get your witness from the Savior in the midst of you that directed you to this web site." You have to read the material, you have to pray about it, you have to ask God if this is His word. You have to ask God if this is His Spirit, cause you could have a true word in the wrong spirit, and I know you know that.

Then she wrote to me again and she said to me, "Prove it." I said to her I will not do it. It is not my job to prove what I say to you, because if that is what you are looking for; if you want me to pick up this book and be a pharisee and get into a debate, over what Scriptures are going to support what I am saying, I will be able to deceive you, because you are basing your witness on intellect alone. Things that everything you know about Jesus Christ in the Scripture; if you want to be responsible before God, what you need to do, if get before your God, and say, "Lord, I know that I am a very young Christian, and I know that if You do not help me, I am not going to find out the truth in this situation. I am willing to put my opinion on the shelf; You tell me if this is the truth or not.

Now, the first time I did that years ago, when I was a young disciple, I waited two weeks, and when I did not hear from God, I decided the teacher was wrong. Two years later, I had to repent. Silence does not mean you are right and the other person is wrong. Silence means, either God is not talking to you, or you have not heard Him. Sometimes we do not hear Him because we do not like what He is saying. Sometimes we do not hear Him because He is disagreeing with us and we do not hear people who disagree with us, even God. We do not hear anybody that disagrees with us. Brethren, if we do not find the ability in Christ, to set our own opinions aside, and really listen to what God has to say, you will stay in your carnal mind. Is God going to be mad at you? No. Is He going to punish you. No, but you will reap what you sow. You are going to stay in death.

Do not be afraid. Now, you have faith in Jesus Christ for healing. You have faith in Jesus Christ to come out of poverty. You have faith in Jesus Christ to raise you up to whatever degree He has raised you up. Now, it is time to have faith in Jesus Christ to witness the truth of His word to you, and you have to let go of your carnal opinion. Now, I am not telling you to be a fool, but you have to pray, and you have to be willing to be wrong. You have to be willing to change. You have to be willing to hear something different, and change. You see, this is a living word. It is a living word. Do you know, I could take a Scripture from this Book, and I could preach, four different messages in four days on that same Scripture.

The Scripture is fluid. It is not ridged, brethren. Now, if you are going to read a book, especially when you get into prophesy, and say, "Well, this is what that means, and that is what that means, and I have got this whole thing worked out. This is what is going to happen at the end time, and that is going to happen first, and that is going to happen next; you are going to block out the move of the Spirit in your mind. Now, you may not be able to do this right away but you can ask the Lord to give you this ability. I call it standing neutral. This is what I believe, Lord, but I am open. All I ask of You is that you give me what this is, that will satisfy me, because I do not want to be a fool, and I want to be responsible but I am not going to be afraid. I am going to believe that if I make a mistake, if I believe something that is wrong, that You are going to get me out of this. I have made mistakes and the Lord has corrected me and I am still here.

A lot of people that have faith; from finances to healing; some people even have faith to be raised from the dead but they do not have the faith to trust Jesus Christ to teach them the truth. They do not have the faith that Jesus Christ will protect you as you step out into the swirling violent waters of the spirit. You know, the Spirit World is likened; at least the level of the Spirit World that is next to us, is likened to a whirl pool, violently swirling waters. There are all kinds of evil entities there, that are just waiting to deceive you.

Do you know that it is a wide spread practice through the Church today to speak to the dead. Do you know what the rationalization for it is? Listen to this. Well, we are saved, right? My son died, he was saved and he went to heaven, so he is not dead, so, I could talk to him, when he is on the other side, because he is not dead, he is saved. It is a cancer that is spread through the whole Church. Demons come in and talking to them, and the Pastors too. It is in the Ministry. I have heard International Evangelists stand up and give testimonies; that I am sitting there with my mouth open, that they could really believe that God would say something like that to them.

It is prophesied; there is going to be a great falling away, and the only people that will not be deceived, are the people who abide in the Mind of Christ. Now, this kind of teaching; the spirit that is bringing forth this kind of teaching, can grasp that; I am calling it a seed. Well, James calls it, "The engrafted word." James does not call it a seed. Sometimes I call it a seed; but it is not the same; you see there are many different seeds. There are several Greek words translated, seed, in the Scripture. Several Greek words, all translated into the English word, seed.

When you receive the engrafted word, it is a seed, but it is not a seed likened to the seed that Jesus Christ received. Jesus Christ received the seed directly of the Father. We are receiving the seed of Jesus Christ; 2^nd Generation; we are 2^nd Generation. We are the 2^nd Generation. The Spirit that is here tonight; if you want it, ask the Lord for it. What He wants to give you tonight, He wants to graft Himself to you.

I want to tell you, this message is better than any Science Fiction I have ever heard of. Remember the Body Snatchers? I am telling you, the Spirit of Christ wants to latch onto you, and He wants to literally bite into you, and never let go. There is only one problem. When He does that, He starts to control your life, and a lot of people think it is Satan. Satan is after me, man Satan is after me, cannot do what I want to do anymore. Blocking me every time I try to go. Every time I try to go to that place, someone is screaming at me and yelling at me. You are going to have a lot of trouble in your life. You are going to go into tribulation, and the tribulation is the conflict between the Christ in you and the old you. The more that you are educated, the easier it is going to be for you. The Scripture likens this to a woman in labor having a baby, and technically speaking, the Old Testament calls everyone that is pregnant with Christ, a midwife, because we are literally caring for and responsible for the birth of this child.

You see, you thought you were born again, but I have a flash for you, it is Christ that is being born again in union. Would you not want that; Christ being born in you; the Glory of God; the righteousness; the strength; the power of Jesus Christ being born again in you? When He born again in you, you are up there with Him. When we see Him we will be like Him. When He appears we are going to be with Him, if you do not kill Him, because there is spiritual abortion, brethren. You see, God is into education. As far as I know, He never forces anybody to do anything. He educates you, He teaches you, and He says, "Choose." If you choose the wrong thing, you are going to reap what you sow. Satan is the enforcer of God's righteous, sowing, and reaping judgment. The sowing and reaping judgment is the law of the Universe. We would be utterly self destroyed without it. When you do evil, Satan does evil to you. Oh, I thought my neighbor did evil to me. Satan is the unconscious part of your carnal mind. Brethren, it is grow up time.

The demons are in you, the angels are in you, Christ is in you, and Satan is in you and in me. Do not get upset, Christ wants to appear in you. That evil mind is in you. That is why you are sick; that is why you die; that is why you are poor; that is why you cannot stand up; that is why you find your fifth marriage. It is in your head. The curses are in the way that you think. I could stand up here and say, "I break every curse on everybody here." I have spiritual power, I break those curses. If you walk out of here, and you do not do anything or learn anything, that curse is still on you. You know what is going to happen, when I say, "I break that curse, in the name of Jesus?" Either Pastor xxxxxx is going to stand up here and preach to you what you need to hear, to change your mind about what you are thinking that is producing the manifestation of that curse in your life, or you are going to walk out of here and you are going to learn it the hard way.

You are going to wind up in jail; you are going to wind up on drugs; you learned the hard way, right? Someone is going to teach you. This is the difference between the destructive judgments of God, which is unto death or the corrective judgments of God which are unto life, but you have to change. You have to change the way you think, because if you just change your behavior, you have not changed.

You see, I use to hear salvation is a change of mind. I always thought that it was a change of opinion. You have to watch your words. Salvation is not a change of opinion. I use to think it was okay to smoke, and now I do not think it is okay to smoke. I use to think it was okay to fornicate, but now I know it is not okay to fornicate. All the times that you fornicated; that was a sowing, and you have reaped spirits of fornication. They are inside of you. Deal with it; do not get upset; deal with it or it is going to get passed on to your children. Deal with it before it gets passed on to your children. That is the corrective judgment. Little by little we dismantle that carnal mind, and in direct proportion the Mind of Christ prospers. Everything is in us, brethren.

What are we? We are skins. You know, we are the skins that God provided for Adam in the Garden. Look, we are spiritual beings; we are not this here; the body? It is just a body; you are a spiritual person. Well, who are you? Do not be afraid to ask the question, because no matter how bad the answer is, Christ is here to make you into Christ. If you think you are Christ now, you are not going to change.

I still have not finished my introduction. You need a new mind. You have to be willing to admit that you are wrong and learn a new way. You have to be willing to learn a new way because the spiritual life is radically different than the carnal life, which is all just works; things that you do. The last thing I want to warn you of, is that your carnal mind does not like what I am telling you right now. You may feel happy; I do not know what you are feeling now; I do not feel any hostility at this point. You need to know that you have an enemy, and that, that enemy is inside of you. You see, she is not outside. Now, if you are receiving this message, she is getting ready to bite you; I kid you not.

Nobody has ever really comprehended what I have said; when I give this warning, but I have to give it anyway. When you are in the midst of a violent manifestation, and you are screaming, "God what happened to me, what happened to me?" You can say; remember what that preacher said to you? There is a serpent inside of you and she is punishing you because you received what she said, and you are asking me for that engrafted word, and she is going to do the worse damage she can possibly do to you. Sometimes you have a delayed reaction.

You know, you are a tough bunch here. I have to tell you my opinion of this church. You are the most qualified group of people that I have seen in 15 years to receive this word, because there has been a lot of failure. God has brought this word to a lot of people, and there is a scenario, you know, that everybody loves the word. Oh, it is so exciting; we are going to be spiritual, and the word is gratifying, and it is satisfying, and then they walk out of here, and Satan hits, and there is some big explosion, and everybody changes their mind, and scatters for the hills.

You are the most qualified people I have seen in a long time, and what qualifies you? What qualifies you is that you are already under correction. You are in a Ministry that is correcting your sins, so already you have got something going for you. You have something going for you. You are a group of people who are willing to be corrected or at least, even if you do not do it, you are willing to sit under it, and there is a cover in this church, that is a true cover of Christ. That is what has drawn me here; that there is a true manifestation of Christ.

I am warning you that if you walk out of here today or tomorrow or next week, and all of a sudden a spiritual storm hits you, do not panic. You know something about deliverance here; break the curses, batten down the hatches, cry out to Jesus, pick up that Bible, pray; rebuke it; rebuke Satan; tell her you are going to serve God, and you are not going to be scared away, because she is going to try to scare you away. You see, this is the spiritual manifestation of going into the Promise Land, after the Hebrew children, (and you talked about that earlier,) after the Hebrew children came out of Egypt, and the spies went into the Promised Land; it was a spiritual experience.

The Promise Land is the Mind of Christ, and He is different. He is radically different. His reactions to think are radically different. Now, you are going to experience Him, and experience His reactions within you. You are going to start having personal experiences, and you need to be asking the Lord, to help you to distinguish between Christ, and your carnal mind because that is the challenge of the hour. Satan is in the church; she is in the 5 Fold Ministry, which by the way, is not the real 5 Fold Ministry, it is not. I do not mean to put anybody down, it is just that is a group of people that came forth first, but the true Ministry is going to come out of that first, in the natural, and then in the spiritual.

Brethren it is a spiritual life. The ascension or the rapture is spiritual. It is a catching up to the spiritual power; the level of spiritual power that Jesus walked in. You will never be greater than He is, but we can experience what He experienced in the days of His flesh. He will always be greater than we are because He is our Father, and it is His life, it is His glorified life that is now infusing us. I am telling you it is like a science fiction movie; He is taking us over, you see. It is a positive body snatcher. We are going to become new people. We are going to think different, we are going to believe different, and when your mind starts operating on this level, great power generates out of your mind. Even when you sleep, you are going to get to the point that just your thought process is generating. It is generating.

You know, I was in North Carolina once, and I have had very strange experiences. I have a very unusual Ministry, and lots of times I go under cover. That is what the Lord says, I go under cover; like I came in here, and I did not introduce myself. I just go where God sends me, and sometimes it is to a church, and sometimes I go to individuals. I was in North Carolina staying with these people, and the woman said, "Oh, I have this wonderful healer, (and she is doing this; whatever she is doing to me; I do not remember what she said,) and I want you to meet her. You see, people meet me, and they see this spirituality on me, and they cannot separate me from some witch, you see. They cannot tell the difference.

My spirituality arises out of the Spirit of Christ, but the church is so carnal that the people with spiritual power, people who have the ability to recognize spirituality on somebody; they are not used to seeing a spiritual person in the church, so they figure that they are among the other side. Really.

You know, I was in Florida a few weeks ago, checking out at a public supermarket, and there was a man bagging the groceries, and he is staring at me, and staring at me, and I did not realize it until I got outside, that I was hearing his thoughts. The thoughts that were in my mind was, voodoo, high priestess, voodoo high priestess, and I walked out into the parking lot and I said, "Why am I thinking, voodoo high priestess," and the Lord said to me, "That man that was staring at you, he discerned the anointing on you and he thought you were a voodoo high priestess." You see, he never heard of a Christian having an anointing like that but it was not just for me, the only reason I had this anointing, is because I am so dead. You see, the Lord took me off death row. I should have died years ago, and the life that I now live, I live by the Son of God, you see, because I am crucified to the world in me. The carnal mind is the world in me, and I am crucified to Christ. It is nothing I have done, believe me. You would not want to go through what I went through to get this, but you all have your own call on your life, and the whole church, every single member of the church has the potential, and the opportunity to walk in great spiritual power.

I was telling you about this woman in North Carolina. She took me to the witches house, you know, who was healing her. When we got there, the place was empty. The woman beat it. The doors were opened; the house was opened; nobody was there, and the testimony of this witch was that even the flies would not come in her house. She had so much spiritual power in the middle of North Carolina, in the dead of the summer; I walked in the house; there was not one fly in her house. The woman that brought me there; she was mad that she missed her appointment, and that the witch was not there for her.

Do you want to know how you are going to clean up this town? You are going to clean up this town by ascending in spiritual power; by producing a collective Mind of Christ in this building, that is going to turn this whole community around. Now, it will manifest in the natural, of course. It will manifest in your school building; it will manifest in the natural, but it will be done by the Spirit, you see, and it is done by pursuing the spiritual word. How does that work? When you focus on the spiritual word, the Mind of Christ is manifested. When the Mind of Christ manifests, He is producing and generating spiritual power that is constructively interfering with the spiritual power that moves this community, and the whole country, and the whole world.

The Lord wants to give you the Mind of Christ. He wants you to be ready to fight the warfare that will surely come. Brethren, it will surely come. Everybody will say, "Oh, no not me." I hope everything is okay, but I am just telling you, if you have any manifestations today or tomorrow or the next day, try and stay cool, and rebuke it, break the curses, and tell Satan to go take a walk, that you are going to follow Christ no matter what, and you are all going to make it; you are really a tough bunch. This is not the kids, this is a tough walk.

As Christ in you rises up, and you become more and more spiritual, Satan is going to be testing you every step of the way, and you have to break her back. In every area that she is opposing Him, you have to resist her until you break her back.

There was a time, we could not even get a particular book printed; we publish our own books, and that printer just would not work. The same problem; only when I try to print a particular book, I had to pray, and break the curses over that printer. You cannot ever give up, but what you have to do, is get before God and find out if you are in His will. That is what you have to do. Lord, is this is what You want me to do? Is this what You want me to do now? Am I off in any way; reveal any mistake I am making; maybe I misunderstood You? Then there is a time it is wrong, and when you confirm that it is what God wants you to do now, you do not ever give up. If you do not give up you will break Satan's power. You have to break her power.

This is the real thing; the church is playing games, and the church really today is in preschool; we are retarded, brethren. The church is retarded. Maybe I am not as tough as the Captain; I really do not want to hurt anybody's feelings. I am not putting anybody down. What I am telling you is, the lord wants you to come up, so you have to hear how you are going to take me. That is another point I wanted to make. It is very common that the carnal mind misunderstands me. It is very, very common. (Comment - from the Pastor.) Yes. I have this note and there is no opposition here at all.

As you receive my Spirit; because if you receive me, you receive the One that sent me, and He is going through the congregation right now, and He is grafting the root to the tree that is already in you. He has been planting it in you. That tree that is in you has to be growing up out of you. That is where the righteousness comes in. The branch is the spiritual power. The branch is the miracle manifestations, but that root; that is the righteousness. Eternal life and immortality which is what we are promised is in righteousness. It is impossible to be righteous when we are living out of our carnal mind. You have got to die. Precious is the death of His saints in the Lord's eyes.

It is good to live, because as soon as you receive the Holy Spirit, you receive life, but death is gain. Death is your opportunity for immortality. There is no immortality in the Holy Spirit. That is preschool. Speaking in tongues and prophesying; it is fun. You know, when I first started speaking in tongues and prophesying; Oh, I felt wonderful. The whole church listened to me, and I had all these good things to say, and the first time I ever prophesied, the Pastor looked out over the pulpit, and wondered, who is that prophesying like that, with such a profound prophesy, but brethren, we are called to die. We are called to die to everything of this carnal life so that Christ can be fully expressed through us; fully. I am telling you, He wants to possess us, and He is our righteousness. There is no righteousness in our self; we have got to die.

I have had some incredible supernatural experiences. As far as I am concerned they should happen more often. I do not always understand; I do understand. God will do a supernatural manifestation for His own purpose. He wants to help somebody. He is not out to glorify me, you see.

This supernatural life; you have to get very small, because there is all kinds of people out there; you are back in the wild west, you know. All kinds of people; they are trying to test your power. Well, you do not go up and fight brethren, unless the Lord sends you because you are going to die. You have learn to recognize pride, and avoid it, shun it, at all costs because if you go to war, and the Lord has not sent you, you are going to be defeated.

You know, someone came into my life through another person, and I had no idea that this woman's background was highly occult. She had been spiritually captured by a voodoo high priestess, and she was running from her. She was looking for someone to help her in the church. That is a joke, right? I do not know anyone in the church, including me that can stand against a voodoo high priestess; today, I am telling you the truth. I did not know this woman's background. All of a sudden, I am aware that somebody is astral-projecting into my house. I said, "Lord, what is going on here?"

The next day I got an email from this woman; spilling her whole story to me; how she made a league with this voodoo high priestess, who is now after her for her pound of flesh, and she thinks she is going to hide behind me. So, this woman is astral-projecting into my house; she gives me a cardiac attack. My heart is beating so fast; I said, "Lord, what should I do; shall I go to a doctor; what do I do?" The Lord said to me, "Do not fight with her." The Lord said, "Do not fight with her and if you do not listen to Me, I am going to let her get you." That is what He said to me. That is what He said to me; "You think you are so smart; you are so spiritual that you are going to take this battle on, you are going to die."

Well, the fact the cardiac arrested from is 5 days, and the Lord said, "You do not need a doctor; He said, "Do not even send the curses back." He said, "If you break a curse and you send it back, you are fighting with her; just turn it away." The Lord said to me, "She is going to come to you in the spirit, and you are going to have the opportunity to talk to her." You tell her, you are not a witch. You tell her, this is the Spirit of Christ, and that she could have it too if she wants it; and it came to pass, and I told her. I do not know what happened to her. I am telling you brethren, it is exciting; but you have to die to yourself or you are going to get killed.

This is the real thing brethren. The Lord tonight is inviting you to the real Christianity. It is a very exciting life, but you have to have a holy walk, and you have to be willing to look at your sins. (Pastor xxxx saying, "That's right.) Becoming spiritual means; you see the unconscious part of your mind is a spiritual realm; I will do it linearly just to make a point. There are grades of spirituality. We are here down at the bottom and each grade gets more and more spiritual. When you start getting spiritual, you start becoming conscious on one of these other planes. Now, if you are going to start knowing what other people are thinking, you have to also know what you are thinking because if you are not checking out the unconscious part of your mind, and casting down every thought that is not of God, you are moving in a spirit of witchcraft. Listen, the difference is as subtle as my hand going this way or going that way. (Pastor xxxx That's right)

The church is filled with witchcraft. People praying for other people that they should get married or that they should go here, or they should do that. The church is filled with witchcraft. People trying to control other people because they think that they know what is best for the other people. (Pastor xxxxx That is right.) Brethren, spiritual power does not belong to you. It is not yours, you see. It is lent to you, and that, in due season, if you come to term (which I hope you all do; I hope I come to term; I have not come to term yet,) then the spiritual power becomes yours. To be honest with you, I do not even know if that happens at any time in the flesh. Right up to the last minute, Jesus said, "I only do what my Father tells me to do."

What I am suggesting is that, that ability to determine when one can manifest spiritual power, but may never happen in the flesh. I know a lot of things I will not even pray for you if you ask me. I will always ask God to have mercy on you, always. Always ask God to have mercy on you; I will always ask God to heal you; I will always ask God to grant you the ability to fulfill every potential in your life; spiritual, intellectual, physical. You should be everything that you could possibly be. That is my prayer for you.

If you come to me and ask me to pray for a specific thing, very frequently I will tell you, I cannot do that, because I do not know what God's will is, but I have I have a secret. When I pray the way I just described in this general way, "Lord do good to this person; Lord you heard this person's problem, what are You willing to do for them." That is a very common prayer that I pray. What are you willing to do for them Lord? Sometimes, a day, a week, a month goes by, and the anointing hits me with a prayer that comes out of the realm of the Spirit, and if it is the prayer that comes out of the realm of the Spirit, it is done.

You do not need my prayer. I am an intercessor, you know. God hears me. I will say, "Lord, have mercy on this person." More than that, you do not want me praying for you out of my own self because really I could do nothing for you. A lot of people cannot understand that, and they get mad at me. They get mad at me if I do not do it, and they get mad at me if I do, do it. They get mad at me if it is the Lord manifesting through me. They cannot separate me from God, so they are mad at me, and if I will not do it, they are mad at me because they think I have all this power, but I do not have any power. All of my power is in obedience in submission to the Lord Jesus Christ. (Pastor xxxx That is right,) so I really have a lot of power, but only through death. I have a lot of power through death. Let us be baptized into this death, that Jesus was baptized into. That is what Paul said, "Let us be baptized into His death."

You know Jesus had a carnal mind? He had a mortal mother. He had a mortal mother. His physical body was formed from the blood and flesh, and the whole sin nature of Mary. Look I am going very deep. I just hope you are all okay. Listen, I told you earlier, when I first started talking to you, that Jesus came to show us the way out of here. Now, if He was born fully perfect, what have we learned? The pharisaical doctrine in the church is, "Well, Jesus died for you, and now there is nothing for you to do except die and go to heaven." How is Jesus an example unto us? Brethren, Jesus was born with a carnal mind, and He was born with the Holy Spirit.

We are told in Romans, Chapter 1 Verse 4, that He overcame that carnal mind with the Spirit of Holiness. He overcame by the Spirit of Holiness that He was born with, that is now being grafted to you tonight; that same Spirit. You see, if that same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead, dwells in you, it is going to quicken your mortal body too. O, I thought I just had to die and go to heaven. Do you not want your mortal body quickened? The same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead has to dwell in you.

Then look you can choose; I will give you a choice; this is the way I would like to put it to you. This is your tutoring. You want to believe that Jesus was born perfect, and He was born perfect; there really was nothing to overcome; the temptation was just a farce because He was born perfect anyway, right? He has just given you this passive power that you are going to go to heaven, and walk on streets of gold, and live forever. Or would you like to believe that Jesus was born as a mortal man with the Holy Spirit, and that He received a double portion of that Holy Spirit when John baptized Him in the Jordan, and signified or symbolized by a dove coming down on Him. He received the anointing that was on John added to the anointing that He was born with, and that double anointing fused, and it fused in the form of a quantum leap, you see. It was more than one anointing, plus another anointing; it was that quantum leap; it became a great anointing.

The Spirit drove Him up into the wilderness to be tested by Satan. Where did Satan come from? The unconscious part of the carnal mind that He received from His mother. Who was going to prevail over this man, Jesus of Nazareth; the carnal mind that He received from His mother or the glory of God that was in His body, fighting for the possession of this human being? Who would control Him? Which mind will you obey? Jesus choose Christ.

Satan said to Him, "Look how strong you are now, You can rule men. I will give you all the Kingdoms of the World. You can control humanity. You will be an emperor of the world, and You will not have to be righteous. You can have all the women You want. You can do every kind of thing that You enjoy doing. You can gamble. You can drink. You can drug. You are un-stoppable." Do you know who the Kingdoms of the World are? The people. "I will give you control over the whole human race." Jesus said, "Get thee behind Me Satan." That was the 3^rd one.

Satan said to Him, "Let us see you make some bread here where there is no bread." Do you know what the revealed word of that is? Why do you not raise up all the people in spiritual power without righteousness? Do you know, that is what Satan is doing in the church right now? The whole church is experiencing the temptation now. Satan said, "Go ahead, give the power; raise up the people; they will love you. They will give you their money, they will sing your praises. Raise them up in power with their pride in full force, so that they will use it to get money, and glory, and love, and power, and everything else that men want. When I say men, I am talking about human beings; men and women.

Jesus said, "Get thee out of here, I will serve the Lord my God, and I will serve no other. I will not use this power to glorify myself, but I will live by every word that comes from My God, and I will do what He tells me to do, and I will reject what you tell me to do."

I want to tell you that Jesus of Nazareth experienced a spiritual manifestation of Revelation Chapter 20. Christ in Him came with a big chain, and laid hold of that unconscious part of His mind; that old Serpent, even Satan, and the Devil that is in the carnal mind of man, and bound it. Put it down in the bottomless pit under the feet of Christ so completely; that the man who was a mortal man; He was born a mortal man; that sin nature was so completely bound, and imprisoned, that He was sinless, and He became God. At that point He became God.

It can happen to you. Do you want to die and go to heaven, and get a mansion? Is that what you want? You do not want that. You just have not heard the truth, you see. You have not really heard the message, brethren, because when you get a hold of this message, you are going to gallop after this message, and you are not going to stop galloping until you get it because it is glorious. It is a glorious message.

Jesus of Nazareth came to show us the way out, and wicked men; they killed His body, you see. They did not kill the Son of God. They did not kill the Son of God; they killed the son of man. They killed His body, but that glorious mind; that glorious mind did not die on the cross. That mind was so powerful in that man, Jesus of Nazareth, that it had fused with His personality. The Scriptural term is marriage. Christ in the man, Jesus of Nazareth married His soul, and they left that dead body. They left that carcass, and they ascended on high.

The Greek clearly shows; if you want to do a study, that Jesus left that body before it died. Did you know that? That is an easy one; you can just check it out in the Greek. (Pastor - Yes, Yes) He breathe out of that body before it died. Every human being that dies in this fallen world; our body dies, and then our soul is released. Not so with Jesus of Nazareth.

Tape 2

He died in a few hours on the cross. It takes most people much longer to die than that. That is why He died; that is why the body died because the spiritual man breathed out of the body, and ascended. You see, He ascended into a higher spiritual plane, which provided a spiritual body for Him.

The spiritual plane that you exist in; you see the spiritual man is like a magnet, and he attracts to him the material molecules of the planes that he exists in. You are getting a lot tonight brethren. That spiritual man, Christ, the Mind of Christ, plus the personality of Jesus, His wife; (because the soul is female in relationship to the Spirit) now became one new man, Christ Jesus; the only mediator between God and man; who now wants to live in you. So they ascended to a high spiritual plane, where the material aspect of the plane is much finer, (or it is a word that is not used very much; the word is rare; not like in your steak) but it means thin; like the air is rarified. So they ascended to higher spiritual plane, where the material aspect of that plane is much rarer than down here. As they ascended, that spiritual man attracted to itself, material atoms.

Any of you remember the invisible man? Remember that movie, The Invisible Man? It was a long time ago. There was a scientist, you see, and he drank a portion that made him invisible. He would talk to people, and he would scare them so bad, that he decided that he better put a jacket on, and he wrapped some bandages around his head, so that he was not scaring people half to death. They thought he was a ghost. That is what the spiritual man is. As they ascended into this higher plane of consciousness, the material atom clung to that form, and that is how Jesus received His spiritual body. Today Jesus is a shape shifter.

We are stuck in these physical bodies; you cannot change them. These bodies are prison houses. Brethren, this is not God's creation. This is not God's creation. Do you really believe that Almighty God; Almighty God would make a creation that dies from generation to generation. You have to start thinking.

You know, I use to read this Bible, and I thought that everybody in this Bible was good. My first clue that everybody in this Bible was not good, was when I had some enlightenment on that Levite Priest that stole the idol of the other Levite Priest. I sat there at my desk, and I said, "I do not get this Lord, I do not understand why a Levite Priest has an idol in the first place, and I cannot believe that one Levite Priest is going to steal from another Levite Priest." I do not get this because I was trying to make something good out of it, you see but the Bible is filled with evil deeds, by evil people; many of which God loves very much; like us.

Bear with me please, I really do not know how far the Lord wants me to go, so just let us see. You all seem to be okay. Praise the Lord.

Brethren, this message is life. I call it the Doctrine of Christ. It is the spiritual food that Christ in you needs to survive, and to mature. You are all doing so well, I cannot tell you but there is a really good chance, most likely, all of you have what I call, that, "Imputed Christ," that formation of Christ that came because you have been pursing the Lord with all of your strength.

What the Lord wants to give you is the root of that tree, because the "Imputed Christ," cannot change your nature. It may change your behavior but it will not change your nature, because everybody has a tree growing out of them. Remember, "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn." Everyone has a tree growing out of them, and if it is not the Tree of Life, it is the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, you see. You could be good and not evil, but you are still going to die because you are not righteous. Not only that but it is very dangerous to be good, and evil because you may be good today, and then the pressure comes on you tomorrow, and you could become evil.

When the righteous one; when the Tree of Life is grafted to you, then you are a double minded man. I told you that when I was here on Good Friday. That is when you become a double minded man, and the two trees in you are at war with one another. I want to tell you brethren; this is very important that you hear this. The tree or the man or the mind that is going to win this battle in you, is the man that you choose to honor. You have the carnal mind, and you have the Christ mind, and they are fighting with each other for you. Just like in the olden days where the knights fought for the women. We are all female in relation to the spiritual realm. We are female.

When Christ possesses you, you become everything that the mind is, that you marry. If you are married to the carnal mind, you become a spiritual female. You can become a spiritually powerful spiritual female. That means you are a witch. If you marry the Mind of Christ, you become a spiritually powerful spiritual male because we, of ourselves, are nothing.

We are an expression of the mind, that expresses itself through us. That is what we are. Do you know what the Scripture calls us? The Scripture calls us chameleons; spiritual chameleons. Do you know what a chameleon is? It is that little lizard type thing, that, wherever it goes it takes on the color of the surrounding, (I cannot think of the word,) of the surrounding area, of the geophysical area. We are spiritual chameleons. The spirit that gets inside of us makes us in His image. We are malleable clay. We are clay that can be spiritually engraved. If a strong spirit comes along; he can knock us down, and wipe out that engraving, and put his name on us. Until we really get changed in Christ Jesus, we can be captured, and used, and abused in a multiple of ways.

You know, spiritual prosperity is a very important thing. Nobody wants to be poor. You can be spiritually prosperous, and be under Satan's control. You can be filled with envy; you can be filled with pride; you can be filled with witchcraft; you can be filled with hatred for your fellow man. Of course, we have to fight this war, and come up out of poverty, and come up out of disease, and out of sickness because when you are hurting, brethren, (if you do not have enough money; if you do not have your needs met,) you are hurting, and you cannot put your whole effort into pursuing spiritual things.

God wants you to have everything that you need so that you can have the peace of mind that you need, to pursue Him. He wants you to have it, so that you can pursue Him. Of course, you have to pray for these things but that is just the beginning. That is just the clothing that the Lord is giving you when you start school because He is calling you to school. To develop the Mind of Christ in you involves going to school. There is so much to learn, and you cannot possibly learn it overnight. You cannot get this by reading a book, brethren because it happens to you; it is changing you. You cannot learn it any faster then you can change with it.

I was pursuing an advanced course of study not too long ago, and I think a spirit of pride got on me, and I said, "Oh, I am going to get this, I am going to get this." I am reading, and reading, and reading, and reading, and reading, and then I stopped one day, and I said, "I do not have a clue as to what I am reading." I had to go all the way back, half way back in the book. I was reaching backwards saying, "Now where did I lose this." When I saw how far I had to go back, I had to repent because it was my pride that just wanted to get ahead. You see, there is nothing wrong in wanting the knowledge; it is just a fine line you know. It is not a knowledge, you see. Now, knowledge is very important. Knowledge is essentially important but it is not the core of the program. The core of the program is spiritual change, from glory to glory into His image. Into the image of righteousness because the power is in righteousness.

You know, the first lesson I learned about this, was when I was in a Deliverance Ministry. I started out in a Deliverance Ministry. Oh, I cast out demons; I was tough. The demons saw me coming; they screamed. I had a reputation in that church. If they could not get it out, they called me. Well, one day I said, "Come out," and it did not come out. The next day I said, "Come out," and it did not come out. Then the 3^rd day I said, "Come out," and it did not come out, and I started to get scared. I said, "Lord, why are they not coming out." The Lord said, "Because you do not have any power to cast out demons, I was doing it the whole time." (Laughter in the congregation.) Who do you think you are? I pick you up off the garbage heap; I saved your life, you should be dead. Who do you think you are? I said, "I guess I am nothing." He took that anointing from me.

Now, I do not doubt that the day would come that I would be in a place where the Lord wanted to use me to cast out a demon, that I could do it but that is no longer the focus of my spiritual ministry because the Lord moved me on. (Pastor xxxx says That is right.) You see, I was in a church at that time where my Pastor was teaching me; if you get out of deliverance, you are not going to make it. If you get out of deliverance, you have been deceived; you are going into destruction, and I was scared. The Lord convinced me that, that was not true. That He was bringing me into a new place.

I know a lot of; what they call deliverance ministers. You know, they have churches where the focus is primarily casting out demons, and that is okay if God tells you to do it. That ministry saved my life. I had demons cast out of me; less than 5 years having demons cast out of me; mostly demons of witchcraft, it saved my life. I had 3 curses of death broken on me.

Well, I know a lot of those ministers. You see, what happens is, you get delivered, your mind gets delivered, and then you are not in deliverance any more, so you think no one else needs deliverance either. Well, that is not right. You see, God has children of all ages. God has all kinds of Ministries, and as long as it is the anointing on the Ministry, leave it alone. Do you not have enough trouble yourself in your own Ministry, right?

Then the Lord sent me to Africa. This is a joke. The Lord sent me to Africa, and I was part of a team of Evangelists. We went out into the villages with big crowds of people, and all these Evangelists were going out into the crowds laying on hands, and people were manifesting, screaming; demons were screaming, and nobody would manifest for me. I would lay hands on the people; nothing happened. I was mortified. I had ascended out of this Ministry, and I was so embarrassed.

I said, "Lord, this is terrible, everybody is out there laying hands on the people; the demons are coming out; they are screaming, they are yelling, and I am praying for people, and nothing is happening." The Lord had mercy on me. You see, he did not let me cast out a demon. I had ascended out of that realm, and He was not going to send me back in because I was embarrassed because embarrassment is pride anyway. So He sent me all the way unto the Outskirts. What an experience.

Look, we have a long, long, journey. A long, long, journey, and you have not arrived until you are indestructible. You need to know that. You have not arrived until you are indestructible. I am not indestructible, I am very destructible but I have a powerful God that guards me. I still can get hurt but it is never unto my destruction; I always survive. I look forward to the day that I do not get hurt anymore. Why? Because that is the way it is supposed to be.

We are going back to our first estate. What is our first estate? Immortality, brethren. I want to tell you that I am completely persuaded that it is in flesh. I am completely persuaded that we have to inhabit the earth, which will be completely transformed. When the Mind of Christ prevails, it will not be a corruptible place any more. It will be a visible creation. A visible creation in spiritual bodies. What does that mean? Spiritual bodies look just like this but this unchangeable body is a prison, that we are trapped in. That is why the Scripture could say that Jesus made an open show of the powers and principalities. He made an open show that the grave could not hold Him. What is the grave? The body that He was in could not hold Him. He left that body, and He lived. The grave could not hold Him. You have to know this body is a grave.

You have to get a whole new vocabulary, and lots of times the spiritual message of this book; (you see, this Bible is very important.) I read this King James. It is the point of contact. It is the place where God meets me. He gives me the deep meaning of the Word. That is life unto my bones. Now, I know people that stopped reading the Bible.

Do you know there are so many groups of people that I know, then probably much more that I do not know of, that have set their foot on the path to spirituality in Christ, and they all are destroyed. Every group that I know; every preacher that I know, that set their foot on the spiritual path, has been destroyed. Either they are out of the Ministry or they are in the occult or they are in some kind of mess somewhere, astral projecting, and visiting people. All kind of crazy things; talking to the dead, and you cannot tell them anything. You cannot tell them a thing.

That is the journey. That is the journey into the promise land, and I am telling you the giants are very great but you could do it. The giants are very great, they are powerful but you could do it. If you die to your pride, and you stay in Christ, you can do it. Christ Jesus is like a space suit. He is our ship. Everything is backwards in the Spirit. Our ship is inside of us. Who can go sailing on water with your ship inside of you. Everything is backwards in the Spirit. This world is the mirror image. We are the mirror image of the spiritual world.

I think maybe you had enough tonight. I just would like to pray for you all, if I may. Look, you have got a really big dose tonight. You do not know; well, maybe you do know what you received tonight. Sometimes when people overeat they vomit. I hope you do not vomit. I hope you digest everything that I have given you. If anything that I have said has disturbed you, please ask the Lord. Do not get upset. You can disagree with me if you want to but ask the Lord to give you the truth.

Father, in the name of Jesus I bless this congregation Lord, bless their leader, Captain xxxxxxx, and his wonderful wife that assists him. I just pray for them Lord, that this word should not fall on the wayside Lord but that every one of them should be good ground Lord, and that the seed should graft, and that it should be firm and sure. That the birds should not pluck it out, O God. I pray that they should take dominion over their negative forces that dwell in all of humanity, O God, and that Christ should grow up in them a strong tree, O God, and prevail, and that this congregation should be every thing that you have called it to be, O God. It should be strong and powerful, and undefeatable. That it should rise up and overtake the wickedness in this community. That this community formerly known as xxxxxx should become a garden spot of the world, all done by your Spirit Lord. That people should come here and say, "How, how, could this have happened." By the word of the Lord; by the confession of sin, and repentance through righteousness. The only true spirituality may it cleave unto them Lord, the only true spirituality that comes from righteousness. I bless them Lord, I forgive their sins, and I pray that they should go forth fearless Lord, with great strength, in name of Jesus. Amen.

Congregation applause

Pastor xxxxxx speaking.

It has been a great evening. One of the things that I want to say after listening to Pastor Vitale is that I am thankful to the Lord that, for whatever reason, He has allowed us as a congregation to have this evening but to be ready to receive what she has said. Not in any prideful way but obviously we have found favor in the sight of the Lord, to such a degree, that He would speak to us like He has just spoken to us. I think it also says to us that we have grown far beyond what we thought about ourselves, otherwise, all of what was said over the last hour, so it would not have made any sense at all, except that we have moved to a spiritual plane whereby we were captivated by, (I could feel though I did not see you, I could feel your soaking in what this preacher has said to us tonight, it is just awesome.) It is a confirmation from the Lord Jesus Christ that we have grown tremendously as a people, and this word has been so wonderful, and so powerful.

I am convinced that after about half an hour of the introduction, which went on for an hour and a half, (Laughter by Pastor and congregation) I am seriously stating that I wanted some time to be able to think about the first half an hour of what was said. It was just so compelling and challenging in the mind, and I understand clearly the things that have been said. Pastor xxxxx up in xxxxxxxxx would always ask me, what did you preach the morning that I would arrive at this church in the afternoon. I said, "O, I preached the same thing this morning in here but I hear so clearly the death; the Mind of Christ; the choosing righteousness. I even hear the song of 50,000 righteous men, and what it would do to this community. It gives so much validity to the things that we have just kind of spoken, and taken for granted. Be the Son about it, that it is righteousness, for the power is; (and the church is in a fallen state; I see it so clearly; the church spirits, the masking that parades around this church.)

We have been blessed. We have been blessed. I thank the Lord that I am confident in the will of God, that He found it, for this to be our time. I do not know if you realize what has taken place here tonight. Not to applaud or to praise Pastor Vitale, that is not what I am doing, (she realizes that,) and Jesus realizes because I am confident that this was His plan, to say to us, that we have a strength that has come through the knowledge that the word of God has constantly been taught to us from the Lord Jesus Christ by the Spirit of Christ, in this Ministry, that we are able to receive the truth and the power of what was spoken here tonight by Pastor Vitale. I was saying of the first half an hour; it was just being so much said; you cannot comprehend it all. You did not lose us one second. I think of anything happened, Pastor Vitale, we were just so overwhelmed with so much coming out at us at one time but we received you, we heard you, and we thank God for you. We love you, and what an unusual experience has happened here to us tonight.

We have two other nights to go. I am not going to try to add anything further. I simply wanted to take just a few moments to say, on behalf of this house, and on behalf of the work of the Lord Jesus Christ ,and this woman, and bringing us together here tonight, that we have fully, and completely received it.

We now have an introduction to the understanding of the work that God assigned us to do in this community by destroying the demons that are here. We clearly understand, and we know that we can get it done. We thank you for that but beyond that, our lives are even greater than this community. In fact, there is just so much that has happened.

We thank you Pastor Vitale, is what I want to say. I want you to know in no way has this house or that God missed the connection by bringing you here tonight. It was not a mistake, and, as Pastors; Pastor Vitale understands that she stated that there is no hostility. All of us who are Pastors and preachers, who spend time before people, can instantly begin to detect when there is hostility coming at us from what we are saying, by the individuals or by the entire group but there was no hostility. Even though I was not looking at the congregation, I sat, and I felt no hostility from this congregation at the free flowing of the word, and the upbraiding of the language, and understanding that we have just experienced over the last hour and a half. It has been absolutely beyond awesome.

It leads me to ask the question about, what God is getting ready to do with us, now that He has stepped in and confirmed, as He has done in this preacher, of the absolutely revelatory power of the Lord Jesus Christ. We have been so wonderfully blessed.

I wonder if I could ask you all once again, to engage in an applaud to the Lord Jesus Christ for what He has done. Praise God. Thank the Lord. Thank you so very much.

We want to be able on tomorrow night to get Pastor Vitale up, right at 8:00 o'clock. I estimated; I think while we were discussing some other matters, I estimated that she might be 45 minutes to an hour. I see that she is now in an hour and 45 minutes. (Laughter by Pastor and congregation) So tonight was a short night. So let us be in place by 8:00 o'clock tomorrow night, so that we can get her up, and we can spend the balance of the time listening to the teaching. Make no mistake about it, the Lord has sent this word because we have attracted this form to us. We have drawn it to us, we have. Our spiritual plane has brought us the level of teaching of where we are. We thank God for her but it is really, it is us. It is this house that is attracting to it; this kind of power, and understanding; everybody is in class. Some people are in the first grade, some are in kindergarten, some did not get started yet. We have attracted this level in class to us, and we have fully received it as well.

I am going to ask you to do something and do it. Also, Pastor Vitale tends to like to have questions also. She did not do it tonight, for whatever reasons. She may want to get clarity to you, in either tomorrow night or Friday night, so let us give her the time that she needs.

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