An Extensive Look At The Conquering Of Death 1 For you that are spiritual, herein is mentioned, the great ultimate

of the God-expression in your life. The Bible tell us that the last enemy to be conquered is death. This is the whole purpose of God, and the plan of salvation to mankind, for Christ was manifested to destroy the works of the devil. Since death came by man, (Adam) it is reasonable to think that life also comes by man. This life came by the second man, Adam at Calvary, but the benefits could not be enjoyed unless they could be comprehended through an height, depth and width of godly mind and measurements. This resurrected Christ, as He, himself gave reference to His own state of being, saying that I Am (to you who can receive it) the divine transforming, inspirational, resurrecting, quickening Spirit or Word of Life, in a revelated form, that is to say, unveiled; a transforming radiance of godly life, intelligence and beauty. 2 If you will notice, here we see the conquering of death, for the declaration of Himself from within, shall, from measure, as the sounding of the last trump, (His own voice) change you from glory to glory, into the fulness of His stature. 3 Let us consider revelation from another angle. Is death really conquered? Is it true that some shall be changed and not others? If so, then Pauls writings are correct; he really did have a revelation that would conquer death, but the times and seasons to one born out of season, would not lawfully permit the utterance to bring the change before its time. Though Enoch was allowed to be translated by faith of the revelation, which is the faith of Christ, which faith is referred to as faith to faith, as revealed to us by measure, that is to say, contending for the faith. God let Paul experience the change by going into the third heaven, but would not let him know whether was in his body or out of his body, so as to hide the mystery of the change, until the time appointed. He did make the statement that he could not tell. As to how he meant this , we do not know. The one thing we do know is Jesus completed His course, and on the Mount of Transfiguration, as a human being, walked into the celestial, and did not have to die to return into heaven. He had, as Enoch, discovered the way. Having to die for our sins, He went to Calvary, saying to Thomas and the others, Ye know the way that I go, for I Am the Door to the sheepfold. Not only was He the Word of Truth, but He was also the Way and the Life: for He was the transformating revelated Word that would strike the human intelligence, swallowing it up, even as the king snake swallows up his perverted adversary as the Brazen Serpent of Calvary, making a way; Peters Open Door, the abundant entrance into eternal life, that he spoke of. We see this illustrated in the Old Testament types where Moses rod was turned into a serpent, and swallowed up the serpents of the magicians of Egypt. We, who can comprehend in our times, the benefits of the unveiled Christ, then become eternal, and gods that cannot die. 1 Look once again! If death is the last enemy to be conquered, then, lets you and I together, examine its measures and means. What is death, to begin with? First of all, we know of a surety, that it is Gods enemy, and is the result of sin, which measures and means are the acts of unbelief, resulting in the elementary stages of death, which we refer to as sickness, metal or bodily disorders, oppressions, fears and frustrations, all, having begun in the garden by human desire, which is beastly passion. The word, desire is referred to as lust in the King James Version. The writer said that sin is in the world because of lust, finding its entrance through Eve, the mother of all living, having been transmitted to Adams offspring, in that all nations are of one blood. So then, in Adam, all die, as in Christ, all is made alive (the second man Adam, the regeneration). Watch, as the writer expresses himself concerning this. First is the enticement, as we behold with our eyes, that by which we are charmed or fascinated, the serpent charming the bird. Next, we are drawn away by our own lust or desire. Then, when lust conceives, that is to say, when our sensual appetites affect our spirit within the heart, the act of unbelief, which is disobedience from an evil heart of unbelief, projects itself through our bodily being in the act of sin, which means death. The temple is defiled! God must destroy it, for when sin is finished, it brings forth death; Gods judgement on the creature, which is nothing more than the disfellowshiping of the shekinah glory or presence of God, which is life, inasmuch as our iniquity is the barrier of separation. Christ, Himself, willing to receive the punishment for our sins, took our punishment at Calvary, for He was bruised for our iniquities, and the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, therefore, being justified by faith in the atonement, we have peace and eternal life in God, through Christ. 2 So then, if memory can be eradicated, that is, memory of condemnation, then death is conquered, because condemnation kills faith. John said that obedience, being better than all sacrifice or human efforts, that is, obeying from the heart, Gods own form of doctrine, will liberate our souls, commanding actins of virtue and godliness from within the desire of our own hearts, a joyful act and proclamation of His love to the world. 3 The memory of evil is the sin that so easily doth beset us; whereas, we ought to cast down imaginations, for medical science has proven that sickness which corrupts the body is caused by mans disposition. Even hereditary diseases will follow certain natures, thus producing evil spirits that, through birth, will disfigure or deform the fruit of the womb, in that the nature of a thing determines the fixed image, whether singular or plural, as concerning the conception or cross breeding. This, of course, follows all the way back to Adam

( Satans spirit and his spirit living in his heart, flowing freely with his blood, reproducing the blood cell of reproduction to all ages). 1 If you will notice, each disease relates back to a spirit of infirmity; the origin of the spirit, a derivative from sin and lust, by the hearts conception of unbelief. In determining these factors as a heavenly physician, you have discerned this mans life, by the measure of Christ, in that the Word is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Your young men, seeing visions in the last days, means that, through eyes of understanding, they will perceive the measures and means of the Spirit, that is to say, receive revelation in part, which shall enlarge itself to a more substantial conception of the heart, resulting in a vivid picture of heavenly activities or spiritual things. 2 Look at death, principally speaking, now that we know that it is Gods enemy, and what it is. How does it exist or continue its work? By what means it its strength? Paul said that sin gets its strength by the law. The reason is, because of our weakness, our bodies being relative to sensual desires, in that the creature has been made subject to carnality, and is sustained by carnal means. Satan, who is a spirit, because of expulsion from heaven, is seeking refuge in the human body from the dry places. Even so, do his followers seek refuge from Gods wrath, which is the dry places, where they are cut off from the waters of life. They find a refuge momentarily, from the vengeance of God, hiding from His fiery indignation, inhabiting mens fleshy senses like a parasite, he saps the life of God through Gods creature, and enjoys His creation; thus causing, by means of overcharged appetites, a greed of passion in mankind, the violation of the temperance of God, which preserves the human body from sickness and sin. Through seductive means, he gradually seduces the individual, and sits at the stern of the boat, showing himself as God; in Gods temple, having been made heir to the world through the fall, and by perverted means, has subdued all humanity, and is become the prince of the world; but, through the revelation of Christ, he had been cast out, for ye are not in the flesh, but dead to the flesh, by the body of Christ, but ye are in the Spirit, without spot or blemish, a glorious church, your spirit sealed within by His Holy Spirit, until the body is changed into His glorious image. 3 Once again, let us consider, By what means doth righteousness come, by the law or by grace? Death came by the law, the tree of knowledge of good and evil, telling us of Gods strength and our weakness, condemning us to death because of our guilt. The purpose of the law was to subject us to Christ, our Head, as a schoolmaster, that God might be all in all. But look at the tree of life, producing grace, bringing us to equality of God, by His strength, His sufferings and His mercy, by means of faith in the atonement. 4 Now then, we can clearly see what I am about to state. If sin exists by the law, and death by sin; if there is no law, there is no sin. If there is no sin, there is no death. If there is no death, the grave holds no victory nor triumph. Watch this closely analysis. If am free from the law of sin and death; for what the law could not do, in that the flesh was weak toward the performance of it; God, sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, condemned sin in the flesh at Calvary, that we, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit, could be free from death. We do mind or think upon the things of the Spirit, for we have the mind of Christ. Those who are not born again, being absent from the mind of Christ, do mind the things of the flesh, for they are in the flesh, that is to say, that their spirit is in the control of intellectual and sensual desires, whereas ours is in the control of heavenly and godly desires. 1 Notice this one thing! He that is born of God, cannot sin, for the inward seed of the word of Spirit, in a conviction of unyielding faith, by Christian atonement; therefore he is Christ, in His righteousness, in the eyes of God. God can no longer see him, but patiently waits, as the little chick patiently pecks his way through his shell, into his glorious liberties, out of the darkness of human intelligence, into the radiance of the glorious light of heaven. 2 Now, we know that sin is the sting of death. If a man cannot sin, then, death has lost its stinger and hath become helpless. God has said that the soul that sinneth shall surely die. In that He made the creatures subject to vanity, He, Himself, hath paid the price for the fall, but, sin of the soul comes from ones own sovereignty, therefore, God cannot be blamed. Faith is imputed to us as righteousness, as with Abraham, for we have accepted Gods righteousness that He wrought in the earth by Christ, no being found with our own righteousness, which is as filthy rags; not as the Jews, who went about to establish their own righteousness by ritualistic practices and man-made ordinances concerning the Law, for they stumbled at the stumbling-stone, Jesus Christ; for, lest our righteousness exceed that of the Pharisees, whose righteousness was by the Law, we have no part with God; but Christ, our righteousness, exceeds that of the Law. 3 For the last look at this subject, we see the change of the Law to faith, and the change of the priesthood to the five-fold ministry. Now, that which is not of faith is sin, for faith is the transforming power that transforms into His image. If we cannot sin, we cannot die, so then, death is swallowed up in victory, the victory that overcometh the world, even your faith in Christ, which has defeated the world, having made you dead to the world, and the world to you, by His own body. 4 So then, to the last enemy we say, Death, where is they sting? Christ abolished it in His sufferings at Calvary, so then; Grave, where is thy victory? Christ conquered it by resurrection, for, having been delivered for our offences to Calvary, so was He resurrected for our justification. Even so, have we been planted in the

likeness of His death by the fore-knowledge of God. Old things are passed away, and behold, all things have become new, and now we are at our change, in a moment, the twinkling of an eye; from corruption to incorruption, from terrestrial to celestial. Rev. George L. Pike Sr. - From Spiritual Conquest