We Must Forsake All To Follow A Crucified CHRIST.

What it is to follow the LAMB?

(William Dyer, "Follow the Lamb")

"These are the ones who follow the LAMB 
wherever HE goes!" Revelation 14:4

What it is to follow the Lamb?

To follow the LAMB wherever HE goes--

is to follow HIM in four things:

1st, We follow the LAMB 

in HIS COMMANDMENTS.

"If you love ME--
you will keep MY commandments!"
John14:15.

"You are MY friends--
if you do what I command you."
John 15:14.

Oh, beloved, we cannot follow 

the LAMB wherever HE goes, unless 

we follow HIM in HIS commandments! 

True Christians take as much delight 

in those precepts that enjoin holiness--

as in those promises that assure happiness.

2ndly, We follow the LAMB in HIS TEACHING. 

"My sheep hear MY voice, and 
I know them, and they follow ME! 
But they will never follow a stranger; 
in fact, they will run away from him 
because they do not recognize 
a stranger's voice." John 10:5, 27

3rdly, We follow the LAMB in 

HIS PROVIDENCE. Through
all afflictions, all straits, all
discouragements and sorrows
whatever, though it is
the way of death! 

We must forsake all to follow 

a crucified CHRIST, a condemned 

CHRIST, in bloody paths of sufferings--

if HE calls us to it! 

"For," says Paul, "I am ready 

not to be bound only--

but also to die at Jerusalem, for the 

name of the LORD JESUS CHRIST!" 
(Acts 21:13b)

We must be willing to venture the loss 

of all for HIM: our liberty, our estates, 

our relations, and our life itself! 

"We have forsaken all--
and followed YOU!" Matthew 19:27

4thly, We follow the LAMB 

in HIS EXAMPLE. 

"I have given you an example 

that you also should do just as 

I have done for you." John 13:15. 

"CHRIST has suffered for us, leaving 

us an example that we should follow 

in HIS steps." 1 Peter 2:21. 

To follow in CHRIST'S steps--

is to take HIM for our example.

We must not follow wicked men's

example, who walk in the broad

way that leads to death, for

"They are the children of their father

the devil, and they love to do the evil

things he does!" John 8:44.

But we must follow our head CHRIST,
who went about doing good, Acts 10:38.

Now this is to follow the LAMB,
wherever HE goes:

  in HIS commands,

  in HIS teaching,

  in HIS providences,

  in HIS examples.

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