<TITLE>07. Par 33-37</TITLE>L-33 Now, we find out this lamb's simple. He must be led. Look at the Lamb of God. Now, here comes the Dove coming to the Lamb of God. Now, the dove is the most meekest bird of all the heavens. A lamb is the meekest animal of all the earth. One of them is of the earth, the other's of the heavens. The lamb is earthbound; he can't fly. And the dove flies in the heavens. One of them was Christ, represent; other one represented God. Now, you see the lamb, he's an innocent substitute. He must be clean; he must be innocent to be a substitute. Now, the dove must also be the same nature of the lamb or they can't dwell together.
Now, that's the reason, sometimes, that we get all mixed up, is because we got one kind of a nature, wanting the Dove to dwell on us.
Now, when that Dove came down and lit on the Lamb, what if that Lamb would've snorted like a wolf? You know what would've happened? That Dove would've took His flight, right now. Certainly He would. He couldn't have stayed on there. It must be the same type of nature. And if you want to be a Christian, you've got to be a lamb. And if you're going to be a lamb, you've got to get away from your own thoughts and just let the Holy Spirit do the leading. Certainly.

L-34 Now, a dove, a dove cannot by no means... Oh, I want you to see it. A dove is the only bird that I know of, that doesn't have a gall. He can't digest just anything; he has a certain diet. And that dove can only eat a certain diet. If he would go over and eat dinner with the crow or the buzzard, he'd die. He couldn't stand it. And that's the way it is with a believer. All the gall of bitterness is taken out of you, and you don't want no more of the things of the world. You don't have to worry about a dove. You ain't going to find him eating dead things, 'cause he can't. His nature's different. And when a man becomes a Christian, his nature's different. He's made up different. All the old desire of the world's gone from him. He becomes united with the Dove of God.

L-35 When this Dove came from the heavens, the meekest bird of all the heavens came to the meekest animal on all the earth, heaven and earth kissed each other. Heaven and earth was united together. Man and God was reconciled in one Body, the Lord Jesus Christ. Certainly it was. It was the God of heaven in a form of Dove, the Son of God in the form of Lamb. And the Dove came down on the Lamb and abode on Him, never just come down and lit and went away; It stayed there. It was satisfied. And the Lamb was satisfied to have the Dove.
Look at Him being led by the Father: not His own will, the Father's will that sent Him. "I've come not to do My own will, but the will of Him that sent Me."

L-36 Now--now, the lamb cannot be--can lead hisself. But we call ourselves God's lamb, and we want to figure out our own way. "I'm going to see if I can stand this or not." See? You try to figure out your own way. And as soon as the Dove comes and lights on you, and you try to figure out your own way, and how you're going to do this, and how you're going to do that, God can't lead you any more, so the Dove just takes Her flight.

L-37 Now, I want you to notice another thing. The Lamb was a willing lamb to be led. It was willing. And God's lambs are willing to be led by God's Spirit. "My sheep know My voice; a stranger they won't follow." Now, it's a willing Lamb. And another thing, it was a self-sacrificing Lamb. It had no selfish motives. The Lamb was willing to give everything it had. A little lamb, you can take him out there, and he's only got one thing that belongs to him, and that's his wool. You can throw the little fellow up on the table and tie his feet (I've done it a many time.), and shave every bit of the rights that he has away from him; he'll stand still.
But, oh, how different we are. Oh, my. You try to shave us one time. Oh, yeah. Brother, we get hot in the collar and tell them off, don't we? Then you wonder what's the matter with us. That's right. Oh, a lamb is a willing lamb.


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