<TITLE>07. Par 58-69</TITLE>L-58 The most innocent thing that we have, I suppose, would be, the--the animal, the--the lamb. When God wanted to identify Jesus Christ, He identified Him as a Lamb. And when He wanted to identify Himself, He identified Himself as a bird, a Dove. And the dove is the most innocent and cleanest of all the bird life, and the--the lamb is the most innocent and pure of all the animal life. So you see when the...

L-59   Jesus was baptized by John, and the Bible said, "And--and he saw the Spirit of God, like a dove, coming down upon Him." Therefore if it had been a... If it would have been a wolf, or if it had been any other animal, the--the nature of the dove could not have blended with the nature of the wolf, neither could the--the nature of the dove blended with any other animal but the lamb. And those two natures came together, then they could agree with each other.

L-60   Now do you see predestination? It was a lamb when it come there. See? See? The... It was a lamb when it--when it was brought. It was a lamb. It was born a lamb. It was raised up, a lamb. See?

L-61 And, therefore, that's the only kind of a true Spirit that can receive the Word, that can receive Christ. Rest of them will try, they tried to get It, and put the Spirit of God upon a wolf, see, angered, ill, mean. It won't stay there. The Holy Spirit just flies right away. It will not do it.

L-62   What if that Dove had come down, and, instead of It being a Lamb, there would have been some other animal? It would have quickly have took Its flight and went back. See? But when He found that nature that He could blend into, It just become One.

L-63 And then the--the--the Dove led the Lamb, and, notice, It led the Lamb to slaughter. Now, the Lamb was obedient to the Dove. See? No matter where It led It, It was willing to go.

L-64   I wonder, today, when God leads us to a--a life of complete surrender and service to Him, I wonder if our spirits then sometime don't rebel, kind of showing that, wonder if we are a lambs? See? See? A lamb is obedient.

L-65 A lamb is self-sacrificial. It--it doesn't--it doesn't take, claim its own. Can lay it right down and shear the wool off of it. That's the only thing it's got. It never--never says anything about it; just sacrifices everything it's got. That's a lamb. It gives everything to its... gives everything away, itself and all it is.

L-66 And that's the way a real Christian is, if they're... self-sacrifice themselves, caring nothing for this world, but giving all they got to God. See?

L-67   And now this was the perfect Lamb, Christ was. And then through the shed of this lamb, the natural lamb in Egypt, the blood was applied, and, when it was, it stood for a token, then what would the Blood of this Lamb stand for? See? The Token that we are dead to ourselves and identified with our Sacrifice. See? Then, the Lamb and the--and the--the Blood and the person becomes identified together, the Sacrifice and the believer. See, you are identified in your life, by your Sacrifice. That makes you what you are.

L-68   Then the blood was a token, or a identification. The blood identified that the worshiper had slain the lamb, and accepted the lamb, and applied the token to himself, that he was not ashamed. He didn't care who saw it. He wanted everybody to see it, and it was placed in such a position that everybody passing by could see that token.

L-69 See, many people wants to be Christians, and they--they--they like to do it secretly so nobody would--would know that they were Christians. Or, the--the associates they run around with, some of them think, "Well, now, look, I--I--I want to be a Christian, but I don't want So-and-so to know about it." See? Well, now, you see, that's not Christianity.


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