66. Following Is to Be Blameless

Following Is to Be Blameless

Now notice what God says is to be the end of those who follow the Lamb. They are to be without blame before the throne. That is what God is working up to. In the midst of all the tests of your lives that will face you remember this: Keep your eye upon the throne. It will help you to endure. It will help you to stand; and one day the Lamb will lead you by the fountains of living waters, and God will wipe away all your tears. My last word is this. How are we to do it? How can you and I go back and follow the Lamb whithersoever He goes? How are we to be disciples? In our own strength and wisdom? No. In the strength that we get from such a time of fellowship as this? No, blessed though it is. I will read two verses in John’s Gospel, the first chapter: “The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:29). “And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon Him” (John 1:32). Now join those two passages and you have the secret of being His, able to follow Him. What did John see? The Lamb, on Whom rested a dove: a Lamb indwelt by a dove. It is the combination of those two characteristics that will give us power to follow the Lamb whithersoever He goes. The mark of discipleship is a Lamb spirit and a Lamb life. That is the result of making Christ first. Let me say this to you who are beset by difficulties, who are tried by very hard circumstances, who are surrounded perhaps by ungodly people, who are being tested through and through. Beloved, it is the Lamb life that Christ means you to live, and it is the Lamb spirit in you that is going to win. In that wonderful vision that John had in Revelation 4, he heard the angel say, “Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah.” And John says, “I looked for the Lion, and Isaw a Lamb.” Oh, it is the Lamb life with the lion courage that is going to conquer. As you go to your work or out to the mission field, remember this, the world is only going to be won to Christ by lambs, but it takes the heart of a lion, in these days, to live the life of the Lamb. The Lamb life, that is obedience; the dove life, that is peace and power. The lamb means, “Thy will for me”; the dove means, “Thy power in me.” And so we come face to face with the most tremendous question we can ever meet, and it is this: Am I ready to follow the Lamb? Am I ready to go to my home, and church, and business, and work, and follow the Lamb? Do you see it is the way of the cross? But it is worthwhile. Do you know why? The future belongs to the Lamb. Calvary means Victory. The future belongs to the Lamb, and He is going on to victory. He is here now wanting an answer to this question: Will you follow me? And He is not going to wait for an answer, He must have it tonight. Are we ready to give that answer? Shall we bow in prayer before Him?