<TITLE>11. Par 85-88</TITLE>L-85 See, lifted up above the shadows, and out of the grime, a foretaste, we have the Earnest now of our complete inheritance, because God has already pulled loose the ground roots from the things of the world and has planted us on higher grounds: lifted me up, trans-set me, transformed me from the things of the world; took out roots, branches, everything, and lifted me up out of the miry clay, out of the old muck of sin, and planted me on top of Zion's Hill, setting in the orchard of the beloved saints of God. And now we are citizens of that Kingdom, brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus, all filth and gaum and nastiness gone from our minds. Our water--bodies are washed with pure water and our hearts are sprinkled by the Blood of the Lord Jesus, and the Holy Spirit is abiding with His breeze blowing through our branches all day long, shoving us, and pushing us, and making us take good roots and grow down deep. Isn't that wonderful? The Earnest of our salvation...

L-86 Our lost inheritance this chapter reveals. Our lost inheritance has been reclaimed by our gracious, precious Kinsman Redeemer. How God came down and become--changed His cast from God and was made man in order to be human, to become a human Kinsman Redeemer to redeem back a natural world to a natural people. Amen. How that God the Supernatural became natural to become a Kinsman, because He could not defy His own laws. He had to come by the kinsman redeemership because that's the way He--that's His plan. That's the way He did it.
God knowing that man would fall, yet He could not make man fall... God knowing man would be lost, though He did not want anybody lost... But to order that the great display of the attributes of God might be manifested to all men, that He could be a Redeemer, He could be a Saviour, man had to fall. It was in him to fall, but it was in God to redeem him again. That's the reason we have to have nighttime to make daytime right. We have to have sickness to make us enjoy health. Everything, a pro and con... Now, and our Kinsman Redeemer...

L-88 Now, I want you to notice here. I'm looking right down at this 5th chapter, when he looked at it, "Fear not..." In this 5th verse, "Fear not..." See, always you don't want to get scared about anything.
... one of the elders said unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
... and, lo, behold, in the... lo, in the midst of the throne and... the four beasts,... in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb...
"A Lamb..." Why didn't he see the Lamb before? The Lamb had been seated on the Father's throne, inside the--the guards. John could not see into there; he only seen those four-headed--or those four beasts standing there, those four Cherubims standing there guarding that holy place. And we got it last Sunday, and over in the other lessons, that he seen that but he could not see what was beyond that. And in there, all at once, there appeared, just mysteriously, suddenly, there was One, a Lamb.
Now, it showed It was not a natural beast, lamb, because It took the Book out of the right hand of Him that set upon the throne; the lamb couldn't do that. See? He was--He was--He was a... Lamb was Christ. In other words, in His attributes He was meek and gentle like a lamb.


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