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SUBJECT: 075. "Follow Me."
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"Follow Me."
The practical question is, How can you and I be that sort of a man? Well, the Master has shown us the secret of victory. We are to be as He. Let us look at the road He has beaten down for our feet. You will remember that there are five finger-posts marking the road.
First of all there must be no sin in us if we are to be overcomers. Sin is Satan's footing. He works through the sin in us. There must be no sin. "But," you say, "that rules us out at once, for we have all sinned." The answer to that is very simple—our sin must be put over upon our Lord Jesus. There was no sin in Him; but there was sin on Him—ours. There is sin both in us and on us. But it can all be put upon our sin-bearer. We meet this first condition by trusting the Lord Jesus as Saviour. There is no sweeter verse in Holy Writ than this of John's, "the blood of Jesus Christ continually cleanseth from all sin." (1Jn_1:7.) There is never a moment when we do not need to trust that precious bloodshedding of His on account of our sins.
Out of the midst of that great conflict between the heavenly host under Michael, and the forces of evil under Satan, with the great victory for Michael that settled it, there comes this ringing cry, "they overcame on the ground of the blood of the Lamb." (Rev_12:11.) We can overcome daily by trusting the blood of the Lamb, and only so. The tempter hates that Name, and that truth, and he flees before it. When temptation comes to you, claim the power of the blood, and both temptation and tempter will flee.
Then there is a second word to be put in here—It can be true that there is no sin in you as far as the purpose of your life is concerned. We can be sinless in purpose. And as we tread that road we shall become more and more free from sin in actual life. We can choose that sin shall be put out and kept out. That choice must be daily. It must control every action of life. It must be as constant as temptation is.