Behold the Lamb of God (John 1:36)! Pilate called Jesus a man, but John called Him the Lamb of God. Do you know Jesus, do you really know Him? Do you know Him in the power of His Resurrection? Do you know where He came from? Is He rich or poor? Is He trustworthy and dependable? Does He keep His promises? What does God say about Him? What is His record of providing for the human race?

You will find Jesus in every book of the Bible. In types and shadows He appears in the Old Testament, and then, stepping out of the shadowy veil of types, He takes center stage in the New Testament as the living Christ. Jesus seeks to be all living reality for every man, woman, boy and girl. In Jesus we are complete.

Paul wrote these words to the Colossians—no one could teach Christ Jesus like the Apostle Paul! As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving (Colossians 2:6,7). With thanksgiving, abound in the Word of God, in the pure, true Word of God.

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him—If you do not have Jesus, your life is not complete. You are complete in Him which is the head of all principality and power: In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross [bringing us grace]; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it (Colossians 2:8-15). Behold the Lamb of God, the Lamb of victory, the Lamb that came with all power!

Jesus said, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth (Matthew 28:18). Jesus is over all the powers on the earth; no power can defeat Him. He has provided that power for your benefit, power to make you complete. Keeping that in mind, let’s go back to Colossians 2:10: And ye are complete in him.

That ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God (Colossians 4:12). Dwell on the Word. How do you stand perfect before God? You stand in His perfect love, in the love that Jesus brought. Jesus said, Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect (Matthew 5:48). Jesus not only brought love in perfection, He lived love in perfection, served perfect love.

Perfect love casteth out fear (I John 4:18). The Bride will stand perfect and complete in the will and love of God. To be complete in the Lord means you are perfect in Him, perfect in His peace, love, in all of Him. That’s what is in Jesus for you.

How wonderful to know the meaning of the word complete! To be complete is to lack none of the parts. Being complete in Christ, we lack nothing. We have every part in Him that we need to make us run well, every part in Him to help us stand before God perfect and complete just as Jesus stood.

Jesus came to make us new, to set us free from sin. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed (John 8:36). Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new (II Corinthians 5:17). It’s through the blood of Jesus that people are made brand-new.

Complete means to be full, to be whole. Being complete in Jesus is to be made whole, soul, mind and body, filled with the satisfying Christ. Jesus came for the whole person. To be complete is to have everything needed, no lack. Completeness is entire, without continuation. Jesus is the end of our search for Heaven, the end of our search for peace and joy. He is the beginning and the end, the glorious end.

To be complete means to be finished. Dying on Calvary, Jesus cried, It is finished! He meant that the plan of salvation was complete, nothing was lacking in it. He had completed His mission, paid the price for anything we will ever need.

Jesus was not weak or full of doubt, and neither need we be. Being complete in Jesus is being full of His faith, strength and love. Every time we look in on Him in the Bible, He was full of love that brought forgiveness even when surrounded by His enemies. Jesus was and is today full of love. He lacked nothing in pleasing God.

If you are not complete in Jesus, you are living beneath your privilege. You can have all of Him.

To be complete means to be concluded. A book that is concluded is finished. No need to look for more of the story. When you have all of Jesus, you don’t need to search for more of Him. You have the Father, Son and Holy Ghost through Jesus, all the powers of Heaven.

To be complete, you must let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing (James 1:4). Do you let patience have its perfect work in your life? If you do not handle tribulation well, patience is not working perfectly in you. Paul said, We glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience (Romans 5:3). To have the patience you need, you must face tribulation in the Spirit that Jesus used. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you (Matthew 5:11,12). When the patience of Jesus has its perfect work in you, you are entire, lacking nothing.

Have patience to wait upon the Lord. After Abraham had patiently endured, he obtained the promise (Hebrews 6:15). Lack of patience has robbed many of the blessings of God, kept people from reaping the benefits of the whole Jesus. Examine yourself; find if you are letting patience have its perfect work.

If we suffer, we shall also reign with him (II Timothy 2:12). However, unless you suffer in the Spirit Jesus suffered in, your suffering is in vain. If you are not willing to suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are not letting patience have its perfect work. In patience, suffer in well-doing. If you don’t suffer in patience, you are apt to suffer in resentment, stubbornness and bitterness. Face tribulations, I say again, in the Spirit of Jesus, your example. He shows you the path to walk and the attitude you must have on that walk. If you ever walk a path that doesn’t have the footprints of Jesus, you are on a path God did not intend you to be on. If you ever find yourself in a valley that does not have the footprints of Jesus, you’re in the wrong valley; get out of it the way you came in.

In the Lord’s valley, you follow the footprints of Jesus leading out of that valley and up the mountainside. You know you can climb that mountain because Jesus goes before you. He never directs you onto a path He hasn’t tested. Jesus did not use any more power when He was here on Earth than you can use as a new creature in Him.

Behold the Lamb of God, your Lamb of Heaven’s peace! Many Christians have closed the door to Heaven’s peace and sought Earth’s peace instead, a peace fragile and easily destroyed. Dining on Heaven’s peace, trusting in it, is a way of life when your whole trust is in Jesus. Depend on Him, not on man or human nature, for all the spiritual help you need; look to Jesus. Divine help comes from the divine Christ.

But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace (Ephesians 2:13,14). Jesus is Heaven’s peace. Since you have been made nigh to Christ, why wouldn’t you have His peace? He is the Christ of peace; you are in His presence. If you don’t have peace, you are living beneath your privilege, not enjoying Jesus Christ, accepting Him only part-time. Have you ever met people who claimed to have Jesus and yet were nervous wrecks? No peace about them, they were living beneath their privilege.

God’s people were meant to have peace. Blessed are the peacemakers in the family of God! We go on our way rejoicing, carrying the peace of God in our hearts. When I found Jesus, I found peace. How could you find Jesus and not find peace when He is your peace? Some people don’t have peace because they are not looking to the Lamb for their peace; they look to people who are anything but peace. Jesus is our peace who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us (Ephesians 2:14). In Old Testament days—even on the Day of Atonement—man stood outside the most holy place unable to get in to God. When Jesus came, He tore down that wall that separated man from his God, and today there is no separation as long as there is no sin. No longer does man need to be shut outside of Eden; all who want can be closed within a spiritual Eden with Lord Jesus and go in and out to pasture and dine with Him. He promised to never leave or forsake us as we walk with Him.

Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you (Philippians 4:9). Paul taught what Jesus taught, received what Jesus brought, and people saw Jesus in him. Paul accepted and served all of Jesus. If you do these things I taught you, Paul is saying, the God of peace will be with you.

Many do not have peace because they will not obey the Word of God. Obedience to the Word brings peace. Do what God said to do, and the God of peace shall be with you. If you were to enter a place of confusion full of frustrated angels running in circles not knowing what to do or whom to trust, would you think you were in Heaven or hell? God is the God of peace, not the God of strife and confusion.

Love in your home that wears thin is not eternal and has no real peace. Peace comes when the walls and floors in your home are covered with God’s love, not just human love. Human love wears out, and peace leaves; that’s the reason some people fuss and fight so much. More wars are waged in homes than in public. All too often, the home has turned into a battlefield. The breaking down of discipline in the home has launched great disorder.

Do you think you must be tormented in your mind? The peace of God will keep your heart and mind through Christ Jesus. If you are tormented in your mind, you either do not have the peace of God or you are not using it. Yielding to the Word of God brings peace to your mind in abundance. The more you yield to the Holy Spirit, the more abundantly the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit will be produced in your life.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts (Colossians 3:15). What rules your heart? If the peace of God is not ruling there, you will fuss. When you murmur, grumble and complain, you have left the peace of God out of your life. Let the peace of God rule in your heart, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful (verse 15). We are called in one body, the body of Christ. Bone of His bone, flesh of His flesh, we praise and thank Him for such close communion. Remember your benefits; know what belongs to you in Jesus. Leave self behind as you live in the Word of God and under the blood of Jesus.

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength (Isaiah 26:3,4). God will keep you in perfect peace when your mind is stayed on Him because you trusteth in Him. Every word in the English language that ends in “eth” means to continue. Your trust is to continue, to never stop.

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 5:1). Justified through faith—not through self, not in feelings, not by your own opinion—you have peace. Self-justification is unacceptable to God. Living by feelings is a trick of the devil. The Word of God is your faith. If you are justified by the Word, you are justified; and if the Word condemns, you are condemned. Through Jesus Christ you have peace with God. Behold the Lamb! Even going to Calvary, Jesus had peace. He knew He must die in order to reconcile man to his God; He had come to do the will of His heavenly Father. He told the disciples: Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid (John 14:27). Jesus didn’t say you would never have problems or tribulations; He promised you His peace when you are in the eye of the storm.

The Early Church went through much. Some were fed to the lions, burned at the stake, crucified, persecuted in terrible ways; but they knew Jesus had left His peace with them, and they knew how to use it. My peace I give unto you, Jesus said. They used His peace when they were disowned by their families, disinherited, persecuted.

God’s peace is a gift. You don’t merit it, can’t buy or earn it. Many try to buy the world’s peace; they try to buy it in the home, paying children to behave. God’s peace has nothing to do with the world. Jesus said He gave peace, not as the world giveth. It was His peace. Don’t be troubled, don’t be afraid, He is saying, you have my peace. You are complete in me.

God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind (II Timothy 1:7). I say again, being justified by faith you have peace through Jesus Christ. It’s yours. Jesus intended you to use it and to not let your heart be troubled. He did not leave His followers in a state where their hearts had to be troubled.

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God (Philippians 4:6). To be careful for nothing means to be anxious about nothing. People become anxious over many, many things, turning into classic worrywarts. To receive all the benefits of Jesus, use reckless faith. Make your requests known to God in prayers and supplications. When you cry to the Father to answer your request, He hears you. Adopted into the family of God, you are rooted and grounded in the truth. Your voice is heard at the Throne just like Jesus’ voice was heard each time He spoke when He was here on Earth. You sound just like Jesus, look like Him; you are His child.

Do you believe there was one time when Jesus spoke that Heaven didn’t hear? Of course not. The Father heard every word. Jesus said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always (John 11:41,42). Again and again the Bride will cry those words of Jesus: Father, you always hear me! Knowing God hears is the reason the Bride will pray so many victorious prayers. In the past, God’s people have prayed more defeated prayers than they have prayed victorious prayers. But in this final walk, saith the Lord, the Bride will pray victorious prayers. Her days will be filled with victorious prayers because she will give herself so completely to Jesus.

The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we will yield completely to Him, be just like Him, think like Him, act like Him, and take on His mind. The Bible tells us to take on the mind of Christ. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus (Philippians 2:5).

Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus (Romans 15:5). Remember, you must have the mind of Jesus, that mind of love, peace, wisdom, knowledge and understanding. The new creation can have that heavenly mind.

That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 15:6). In one mind and one accord as with one mouth, we glorify God. When we come together it should be like one mind is speaking and glorifying God, one mouth praising God. Every heart beating in unison with the heart of God is filled with the love and greatness of God.

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:7). The peace of God is beyond the human mind; it’s profound, eternal. The Lord wants His children to have and to serve peace, and so He provided the fruit of peace in one of the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, the fruits of the Spirit are produced in you when you cultivate the right soil for that production. Don’t try to understand the peace of God; just use it freely. It won’t wear out.

Human peace can grow thin. Depending on it one minute, you can lose it the next. Eternal peace, however, is stable, secure. There is no substitute for the eternal peace that Jesus brought.

The Bride will claim all the benefits that Jesus brought; that’s the reason she will be so different, why she will win so many victories and be a terror to the devil. The devil will not be able to rob her of the promises of God. He didn’t rob Jesus, although he tried, and he won’t rob the Bride. The devil is no match for Jesus, and he will be no match for the Bride. She will be as terrible to him as an army with banners. Song of Solomon describes the Bride: Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners (Song of Solomon 6:10)? She is the Bride of Christ, seeing the things of God just as Jesus saw them. She will have the face that the Lord can look upon, and He will look and rejoice.

Behold the Lamb! Behold your elder brother! Jesus is your Savior, but is He your elder brother? If you are in the family of God, He is. If you have accepted Him completely for all He has claimed to be, then He is your elder brother. For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother (Matthew 12:50). By doing the will of the Lord, you are a brother or sister to the Lord. He is your elder brother; you’re in the family of God. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:26). Faith in Jesus Christ makes you a child of God. Not everyone belongs to God, only those who by faith in Christ Jesus are God’s children.

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God (Ephesians 2:8). By grace through faith you are saved, faith in the Word, faith in Jesus, faith in His divine blood. His divine blood makes you a partaker of divinity when you accept Him.

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name (John 1:12). Jesus had power to make people sons and daughters of God when He was here on Earth before He went to Calvary. Our elder brother could forgive sins because He was divine. Without the divine blood there would be no power in his name. You can’t believe on His name unless you believe in His divine blood. If you don’t believe in His blood, you don’t believe in His divinity.

Only divinity can sanctify through the blood of Jesus. Those whom divinity sanctifies are one with divinity. For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren (Hebrews 2:11). The sanctified ones are those who are living holy, pure and clean, free from all sin. They are one in Christ. How could you be one in the Lord and still have even a speck of sin or deceit in your spirit? It could never be. One sin in Eden wrecked the world, the whole plan of God for man; it shut man and woman away from God, and mankind still suffers for that one sin today. Lucifer’s one sin in Heaven robbed him of Heaven and robbed the angels that fell with him.

In Old Testament days the blood of animals was used to make people acceptable to God, but that blood was only a type and shadow of the blood of Jesus; it wasn’t sufficient to keep mankind from sin. The blood of Jesus, however, is sufficient; it works. All who accept it are made holy, and you can’t live holy unless you first are made holy. When you are sanctified through His blood, He delights to be your brother. You can depend on Him. The Bible, speaking of brethren, refers to those in the family God.

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God (Ephesians 2:19). Born again, you are a fellow citizen with the saints, no longer a foreigner to Heaven. Journeying through this world, a member of the household of God, you are on your way home to Heaven.

Behold the Lamb! Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is (I John 3:1,2). The world doesn’t know us as sons and daughters of God, but as objects of ridicule. How mistaken they are! The divine blood of Jesus has made us different, made it possible for us to be adopted into the royalty of Heaven, members of the family of God. Not having to wait until we reach Heaven to be sons and daughters of God, we are His sons and daughters now.

We don’t know yet all that God has in store for us, but as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him (I Corinthians 2:9). We do know, however, that when Jesus appears we shall be like Him. Our souls have already been changed through the blood, and when Jesus comes to catch us away at the Rapture, our bodies will be changed into glorified bodies. We will ascend to Heaven just like Jesus did. The earth couldn’t hold Jesus, and it will not be able to hold us. If you are like Jesus, you need not worry about making the Rapture. If you are not like Him, then it’s time to do something about it.

When Jesus appears we shall see Him as He is in all His divine glory. Peter, James and John saw Jesus in great glory on the Mount of Transfiguration. They were astounded. Peter was so carried away with the experience that he wanted to build three tabernacles on the Mount. How many people would have walked up a mountain to go to church? Peter was in the flesh, human enthusiasm. The work is not on the mountaintop but in the valley of human needs.

If you are going to follow the glory of Jesus, you will go where souls are crying for deliverance from sin. Jesus came to serve, and you are called to serve, too. You didn’t receive salvation just to rock it to your bosom and then go to Heaven. There is work for you to do. Every member of the family of God is a servant. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost all serve every person who will allow them. If God didn’t serve you air, you couldn’t breathe. If He didn’t serve sunshine, the moon and stars, you would be in total darkness. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above (James 1:17).

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God (Romans 8:14). You can’t walk with God if you have any sin at all in your heart. God doesn’t fellowship with sin, with darkness. To be a son or daughter of God, you must be made new through the blood of Jesus and led by the Spirit of God. When you are that new creation, you are in the family of God. That’s what is in Jesus for us. Behold the Lamb!

Remember, we are complete in Him, nothing lacking, no parts missing. Just because something may be wrong with us doesn’t mean something is wrong with Jesus. There is no fault in Him. He is wonderful, great, and He is all ours. How proud we are of our elder brother on whom we can depend! Aren’t you glad you can take your burdens to Him! We have been given a big brother, exceedingly strong, possessing all the wisdom and knowledge we need. How sad that many do not recognize Him or acknowledge Him for who He is! Even some Christians act as though He were a total stranger and they are outcasts. It’s how the devil wants people to feel. Children of God living in their feelings miss completely the greatness of God for their lives.

Know who you are in the Lord, that you have an all-caring divine elder brother, that your Father is rich, that you and your elder brother are joint-heirs. Why act like a pauper? Why talk like one? Your Father is rich in houses and lands, and you’re an heir. Earth possessions you will have to leave behind one day, but Heaven’s possessions belong to the children of God for all eternity. Heaven’s possessions make what we hold so valuable here on Earth look like trash.

The Lord is letting you have part of Heaven down here; all God’s promises are eternal; they won’t wear out, but you have to yield to the Word to be able to use them. If you don’t have the Word with you, it won’t light up your path so you can use God’s promises. Without the light of God you have no vision.

Faith has the light of God to give you His vision, it has all His sight. The sight of God is in His faith. Some people think that walking by faith is walking without sight, that they are blind. If you are in the family of God you are not blind. No one who is a true member of the family of God is blind, for those members have the eyes of God’s faith that see forever. Through God’s faith you can even see eternity.

Behold the Lamb of redemption! Behold the Savior Lamb! Without spot, blemish or any such thing, He is your Lamb, and He has come to make you like Him. Your Lamb said these words: And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free (John 8:32). The truth will make you free. Free from what? Free from everything bad, free from the powers of the devil. In Jesus you have deliverance, power to cast out devils and trample them underfoot. Jesus said, In my name shall they cast out devils (Mark 16:17). Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you (Luke 10:19). This does not mean that the flesh cannot be hurt, but that the eternal you cannot be destroyed. Not enough devils exist that can destroy your soul as long as you keep the life of God in it.

They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin (John 8:33,34). Some preachers say you can’t live free from sin, but Jesus said if you sin, you are sin’s servant. And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed (verses 35,36). Born again, you no longer are a servant of sin, but a servant of righteousness, abiding in God’s house as an heir forever.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death (Romans 8:2). Jesus came to give you victory over the law of sin and death; He came to destroy all sin in your innermost being, to free you completely of sin and to give you power to live free from it. As you live eternally with Jesus in Heaven, the law of death will never touch you. The penalty of sin is death, and Jesus stepped in to pay that penalty when He conquered death, hell and the grave. He canceled out eternal death and gave you eternal life. The body will die, but the soul, the real you, will live forever with Him when you are born again.

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (II Corinthians 3:17). If the Spirit of God is in your life, you are free from all sin. You can be a church member, baptized in water, but if you are not free of sin, the Spirit of God is not in your life. You must have the Jesus blood-bath. Nothing but the blood of Jesus can wash away your sins. The Spirit of God and sin do not mix, for sin is total disobedience against God. Total obedience to God, however, brings the Spirit of God and liberty.

Jesus said when He was here on Earth: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord (Luke 4:18,19). Jesus is talking about deliverance for the whole person, for all the human race who will accept Him. He came to preach the acceptable year of the Lord, the year of Jubilee. He is the Jubilee Christ.

But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord (Romans 6:22,23). You are delivered from the powers of the devil, delivered from the power of eternal death. You are free from sin when Jesus is in your heart. You, however, are not free from that which you still have. If a speck of sin is in your heart and spirit, you are still in bondage.

The servants of God have the fruit of holiness in their lives: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control. The fruit of righteousness will not stay where the fruit of unrighteousness resides. The two are incompatible. You who are born again have the fruit of holiness, righteousness and the purity of God. Nothing contaminated with sin is in the fruits of the Spirit; none of these fruits are wormy.

The fruits of the Spirit are healthy, as pure as God Himself. It is essential to realize what you have in Christ. Unless you can see Jesus as your Lamb who took your place, became your substitute and died for you, you can’t have what He offers.

Those who are in Jesus belong to Him. He said, My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me…and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. I and my Father are one (John 10:27,29,30). The only way a Christian can be out of the hand of God is by his own willful sin. As long as you commit no sin, nothing can take you out of God’s hand. You are a free moral agent, the only one who can leave the hand of God because you are the only one who can disobey God, commit sin and bring the judgment of God to your soul.

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death (Revelation 12:11). Behold the Lamb! They overcame the enemy by love and the blood of the Lamb—our Lamb, my Lamb, your Lamb. He belongs to you. Praise Him daily for the blood. He’s your elder brother, your peace, your victory over all the powers of the enemy. Do you recognize Him? Can you identify with Him? Have you staked your claim? Are you really a member of the family of God? Who are you?

The bride will know who she is. She will have her identification—His love—with her all the time. Jesus said, By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another (John 13:35). The Bride will carry the badge of love, love that can never be contaminated with anything. Love is all Jesus served.

If the Word of God is going to work in your life, you must use it in all faith believing. The Word of God—the Gospel—is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth (Romans 1:16). You had to believe the Word before you could be saved. Without the Bible you couldn’t have salvation, redemption or the Lamb of God. The Word was made flesh—the Lamb. Behold the Lamb! Behold the Word!

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world (I John 4:4). Who is in you? The Lamb of God. You are bone of His bone, flesh of His flesh. Do you recognize Him? If not, you don’t recognize the peace you need, the love, the patience and the many, many other things He offers you.

And these signs shall follow them that believe (Mark 16:17). Believe what? Believe in Jesus, in the Lamb. You know Him. He is yours when you live according to what He taught and brought and are walking hand in hand with the nail-riven hand.

In my name, Jesus said, shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues (Mark 16:17). Jesus had told the disciples about the baptism in the Holy Ghost, the power from On High. Before Jesus ascended back to Heaven, He commanded the disciples to not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence (Acts 1:4,5). What happened in the Upper Room when they were all filld with the Holy Ghost? They began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance (Acts 2:4). The baptism in the Holy Ghost is in Jesus for us. Behold the Lamb! Ye are complete in Him.

How wonderful is the Lord! Love Him, appreciate Him, be grateful for all He brings to you. He explains to those who want to know why things are the way they are. He is making clear paths to the nations, giving me understanding of how to evangelize them. God will deal with the Bride much the way He deals with me, making plain paths for her feet. She will know and understand His spiritual Canaan, live in it and enjoy its great spiritual benefits.

Think of all the wonderful things in Jesus, the divine Lamb of God, your Lamb. He is God’s Only Begotten Son. Don’t ever forget what you have in Jesus. Treasure the scriptures, use them. You have in Jesus the example of how to please God. Man struggled on his own trying to please God and became discouraged. Then Jesus came and showed us exactly how to please Him.

There is no excuse for ignorance, no need for anyone to be in darkness. And the times of this ignorance [in the past] God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent (Acts 17:30). We must get the light of the Gospel to everyone who will accept it, for in the light of the Gospel is the knowledge of how to please God.

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God (Hebrews 11:5). Enoch was taken to Heaven alive because he pleased God, and that is the same reason the Bride will be taken to Heaven alive, changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, caught away to be with the Lord.

What an example for us our elder brother is! For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps (I Peter 2:21). We are called to follow the steps of Jesus. Everything Jesus used was made available to the disciples in that day and is available to us today. Jesus used no more power, no more divinity than we can use. He shares His divinity with us. But how can you follow in His steps if you have any sin in your heart? You can’t do it.

Jesus was obedient in all things, even to the Cross. Jesus who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed (I Peter 2:22-24). Jesus was obedient in all suffering. It made no difference, whatever the heavenly Father wanted, Jesus wanted. He said, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God (Hebrews 10:9).

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour (Ephesians 5:1,2). How do you follow God? By obeying your elder brother when He leads the way. Your elder brother will show you how to walk; He will teach you. To please God you walk in the same love Jesus walked in, you have the same Spirit He had, the same goodness and mercy working through you, the same compassion for the lost, and you shed the same kind of tears, the tears of Calvary. When you love like Jesus, you are a sweet-smelling fragrance to God. A wonderful fragrance abounded when Jesus was here on Earth!

From the fall of the first Adam until the second Adam appeared, God did not have that sweet-smelling fragrance in any great way. Just a little of it from time to time rose to Heaven. It came up in Noah’s day and had a great effect. In Enoch’s day the fragrance was so marvelous that God caught Enoch up to be with Him. In Moses’ day, in Elijah’s and Elisha’s day, that fragrance was apparent. On special occasions the sweet-smelling fragrance went up before God, and God responded with all of His love.

The fragrance of the Bride today will cause God to respond with all of His love, with all of His mercy, forgiveness, help, power. He will back up the Bride as though she were already in Heaven, and the devil will not be able to defeat her. She will win just like the angels win over the devil now. The Bride and angels are going to join hands together, saith the Lord, to do battle against the devil. The Bride will be in perfect harmony with the Lord, divine unity and accord; she will be in the same mind as the angels to do the whole will of God. There will be no speck of disobedience in her, only perfect obedience. What power, what glory, what victories will be hers! At last the Lord will have what He wants to put the devil in his place, to defeat Lucifer for every man, woman, boy and girl who wants the help of Heaven, the power of God. Behold the Lamb! Behold the Lamb of power, of saving grace!

He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked (I John 2:6). If you say you are abiding in Jesus, you ought to walk like He walked. Don’t compare yourself to others; compare yourself to Jesus. Through the blood you can be like Him. Divine blood makes the difference; divine blood changes you into the new creation, holy, acceptable to God. Divine blood makes you as innocent and pure as the first Adam before the fall. You must have the pureness of the blood and keep it within. You cannot, I say again, contaminate the divine blood with one speck of sin. If you do, you destroy the value and strength of the blood in your life, and it will not be able to operate for you; you will lose your salvation.

God has many sons and daughters, and He will have many more in this final hour to do battle with the devil. Jesus started this battle, and the Bride and the angels will help Him finish it, bringing in the harvest of souls before the Great Tribulation.

Whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many (Mark 10:43-45). The Lord was teaching divine humility. Humility doesn’t appeal to the human spirit. Some of God’s people have problems with their egos. I see it in them. They become puffed up over nothing worthwhile, treasuring hurt feelings as though they were valuable attributes. Then there are the people who become carried away with their own importance. They think God’s greatness is their greatness, and they take full credit for it. Inflated egos are the reason God has not been able to use people very much. God’s using you is nothing to be egotistical about. The more God works through His true servants, the more humble they become. When the power of God moves in, when the greatness of Him is moving, I just want to bury my face in the floor. I see nothing great in myself; God is the great one. Having the mind of Jesus means you walk like Him, talk like Him; there is no egotism in you.

I don’t have my eyes on prestige or money. I give myself to the Lord for Him to use me however He sees fit. I want to be His humble servant. He is leading me. Every step is ordered by Him to the nations, every step in His divine will, in His divine Spirit. That’s all I want; the will of God. I live for it and I would die for it. I told Him my heart, and He said, I know. I know your desires; I know how you feel. Those things humble me before our Lord. Behold the Lamb!

Jesus didn’t come to Earth to live a life of ease. He came to serve. Many Christians want to have the riches of this world. They don’t want to humble themselves, don’t want to be a servant to all. It’s time for us to put on our working clothes for the Lord, time to lay aside our garments of self and put on the garment of Jesus, the serving garment. The Bride will have on the Jesus serving garment; that’s the reason she will serve Jesus to the whole world. Behold the Lamb!

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross (Philippians 2:5-8). Do you have the mind of Christ? Do you think like Him, live like Him? Do you care for the harvest as He does? Do you have the thoughts of Jesus today or the thoughts of self? Jesus didn’t come to be famous; He didn’t try to win a popularity contest. Those who were against Him couldn’t discourage Him, and the common people received Him gladly. What humility it took for the divine Christ to leave His glory in Heaven and come to Earth in the form of a man! Man in his weakness of soul, mind and body was far removed from the glory Jesus knew in Heaven. What humility He displayed! Knowing who He was, He allowed people to talk to Him as though He were the scum of the earth.

Jesus set the example of humility for us, the example of how to please God. The Lord wants us to be humble before Him, to not be high and mighty, thinking we are better than others. We are to be His righteousness, His witnesses willing to sacrifice all in the same Spirit He displayed.

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another (John 13:34). Do you love God’s people like Jesus loved His disciples? Do you love one another or do you backbite sometimes? Do you gossip? Do you use your telephone to report on others—not to edification but to destruction and hurt? Do you do those things and still think you are like Jesus? Are you using Christ as your example and pleasing the Lord? If you gossip and think you are all right, you have been deceived by the devil. He is seeking to destroy your soul in hell, and he will do just that if you don’t change.

When you wear the love bridle, you speak words that edify and bless. If something unpleasant has to be reported, you do it to edification, to right a wrong, and you tell only those with the authority to work on the problem. If you do otherwise, you are a hurt to the cause of Christ, deceiving people with a false righteousness, making them think you are holy and have wisdom and knowledge. In reality, you are poor and undone without the righteousness of God. Your tongue is not clean but dirty.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren (I John 3:16). Could you die for the sake of Christ, for the love of your brothers and sisters in the Lord? Would you give your life to protect them? Do you have that kind of love? If you do, then you will try to protect their influence and lift them up. You do not cast slurs on them and damage their reputation. Your words edify; you are a blessing and not a curse.

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye (Colossians 3:13). Do you forgive others or do you keep fussing and criticizing them? Who are you following, the devil, people or Jesus? Who is your example? Do you measure yourself with Jesus? Do you use His love as your measuring rod?

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God (Hebrews 12:2). Jesus despised the shame of the cross, but He endured because He loved us. If we follow His example of dedication, we, too, will sit down at the right hand of the throne of God one day with Jesus the Son of God.

For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds (Hebrews 12:3). The Lord has made Jesus your example: look to Him. Consider Him who endured the poison words of sinners. Evil men denied that He was the Son of God, called Him an impostor possessed with a devil. Consider how He handled it all when persecution comes against you. You will be cast down, too, if you follow Him, criticized. People, even some of your own relatives, may say all manner of evil against you. Will you be wearied in well-doing or will you follow Jesus’ example?

Hold your head high not in egotism but high in the glory and love of God, in His holiness and righteousness. Be upright, speaking words of edification and purity. Display His holiness in conversation as you talk, act and are like Jesus.

Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God (Romans 15:7). Receive one another in love, not criticism. The Lord looks into the heart. When you meet others, look for the Jesus in them; look into the heart. Do you know Jesus? Can you recognize Him? If don’t know Jesus very well, you can be mistaken; but if you really know Jesus, nothing can confuse you. You look for the Lamb, for that one face you love in each person.

When I lost my lovely wife, Angel, I was looking for one face. How strange, I would think, people all around me, and I’m so lonely. It was as though everyone were dead. One face I looked for, one face I loved, and that’s the way it is with the Bride. There is one face she loves, the face of Jesus. One face she looks for in everyone, that one face of love, peace, gentleness, mercy and grace. She won’t see faults and failures when she sees Jesus in people. Had Jesus seen the faults and failures in His disciples, He would have given up on them. Knowing what they could be, He taught them how to be like Him, so that when the Father looked for that one face He loved, He would see it in each one of the disciples.

In the beginning of the Church, the members had unity of mind and spirit. When two faces appeared in the Church that were not like the face of the one they loved, God killed those two on the spot—Ananias and his wife had lied to the Holy Spirit. In this hour the Lord is looking for that one face. He sees the faces of the heathen today, and He wants those faces changed into one face, the face of Jesus. Therefore we are carrying the Gospel, and we’re carrying it with all the sacrificing needed, with all the tears of Calvary that must be shed. Because we’re like Him, no sacrifice will be too great, for no sacrifice was too great for Jesus. We will love like Him, be like Him and look like Him, our elder brother. All of God’s children will look alike; all are related through the blood, all have been made new in His likeness. The divine blood He spilled on Calvary makes people like Jesus. When God the Father looks, He sees that one face He loves, a face like His Only Begotten; He hears one voice. The new creations sound like Jesus, believe and talk like Him.

Yea, saith the Spirit of the Lord: I’m in your midst, and I’m moving for you in this last hour. I’m bringing you into all the greatness of my Son, nothing lacking. I’m offering you everything that He was given when He came to Earth, and everything that He used is yours to use. The Bride will not come up lacking. The Bride will do great and mighty work.

The Bride will see the unbelievable, and the Bride will witness the great outpouring that I promised. The Bride will see miracles, miracles, miracles like she never thought she would see. She will see the weakness of the devil, and she will discern his weakness. She will discern how helpless he is through the power that she has. With great victory and joy she will trample him underfoot. She will destroy his influence over those that will look to Calvary, and she will help the multitudes to Calvary in this her last hour. She will have all the strength that my Son had as He went to Calvary. Her cross will be lost humanity, and she will sacrifice and sacrifice to get souls to Calvary. She will pay any price of suffering to get them there, and she won’t be disappointed. She will be victorious. She will have power to defeat the devil for those that want to be free—and they will be set free by the multitudes in this her last hour.

With great victory she will rise up to meet her Lord, bringing the sheaves with her. It will be a victorious cry like has never been, like Heaven has never heard, as she meets her Lord in the air, bringing in the harvest, and the harvest of souls—no way for the human mind to number them. She will meet her Lord with the multitudes that she helped bring to Calvary. She will be my treasure as well as His. She will be my delight for all eternity, and she will shine in my Kingdom as the stars forever and ever. My love is set upon the Bride, and I will not take my eyes off of her, not for one moment, in this her final hour. I will be strength and power and victory to her, and the blood of my Son will defeat all demonic spirits for her, saith the Lord.

The Lord is moving; His grace is abounding. Behold the Lamb, our salvation, our Lord, Master, Savior, peace, love and determination; He’s our everything.

Oh Sinner, how do you dare travel without Him? How do you have the courage to close your eyes one more time in sin? You may never wake up again in this life. There will be people who will go to sleep tonight and wake in eternity. Remember when you reach over to turn off the light: it may be the last light you will ever see. Think just before you turn out that light, “If I never see this artificial light again, will I have light for all eternity?” If you have Jesus, you will. If you don’t have Jesus, pray this prayer with me now: Oh, God, save my soul! Forgive me for all of my sins. I’m so sorry, Lord, that I sinned against you, but I have come home. I will serve you, Lord, the rest of my life. I believe that Jesus died for me, and I believe the blood of Jesus washes away all of my sins, all of them! Come into my heart, Jesus! Come on in, Jesus!

If you meant that prayer, He has come. If you meant it, He will be your light for time and eternity. Hold to that light. You can’t afford to ever let that light go out in your soul. The cost is too great to pay.

You who are sick and afflicted, I am not a healer. I have no secret power of my own. The angel of God stands by my side, and I can hear what is being said. He will tell me the diseases of the people. I marvel when the angel touches my eyes and I can look inside people, see their diseases and see the miracles taking place. It amazes me to look into a soul and see the devils that bind that person. The angel of the Lord tells me how many devils are in a person. I never get used to how God works through me. I never get used to seeing angels, to seeing Jesus. I say again, I have no secret powers of my own, but I believe in the power of prayer. Do you? If you do, you can have a miracle; you can have a healing.

The Word of God says, The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up (James 5:15). I am one of the Lord’s believers in the prayer of faith. You with heart trouble, cancer, any kind of disease, affliction or deformity, believe your God for healing today. God has healed so many thousands, and He wants to heal you. Lord, I’m your servant; there is nothing great about me but your greatness that is within. Lord, pour yourself through this your humble servant now to work your will for the people. I know it is your will for them to be healed. From your gifts of healing, from your gift of miracles it comes in the name of your Son Jesus: Heal! Heal! in the name of the Lord, the holy name of Jesus.

With His blood stripes you can have healing—don’t you feel it? That healing will linger in your body or in the body of your child to get you or yours well. Praise God and look for all signs of improvement. Write and tell me about it, and I will rejoice with you. God keep you and bless you; you are so very, very special to Him.

All I have given you in this message is what thus saith the Lord. You can see Jesus like you have never seen Him before, saith the Lord, in this revelation from the Word of God. This isn’t man’s imagination; it’s thus saith the Lord concerning Jesus. If you don’t believe the Word, there is no hope for you. Your opinions are nothing just as mine are nothing. Take all opinions to the Word of God. If they don’t stand the Word test, they are worthless. Cast them aside and take the Word of the living God given with power. Heaven and Earth will pass away, but the Word of God will abide forever, and the Word says we are complete in Jesus.