This the song, this the glory of angels and redeemed sinners in heaven. To know, to believe in, love and follow the Lamb, constitutes our heaven upon earth. Sin is our hell: hut the Lamb of God taketh away our sin; then heaven is in our souls. O that ever we should be ashamed of this Lamb, who is heaven's wonder and heaven's glory! Is not the thought of being ashamed of the Lamb of God like a dagger to one's heart Lamb of God, have mercy upon us!
Why is our dear Saviour called a LAMB? Because of his immaculate purity; he was holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, without a spot of sin or stain of impurity. He was also meek and inoffensive like a lamb. A lamb has no weapon of hostility: it never hurts any one: it cannot defend itself against assaults: it becomes an easy prey: all this Christ was in his life. Like a lamb he was also taken and slain: he was the very paschal lamb, to take away our sin by his blood. As a slain lamb is precious for food and useful for clothing: so the flesh of Christ is meat indeed; his blood is drink indeed; his righteousness is the clothing of our souls: we live by feeding on him; we are justified in him; our sins are washed away in his precious blood; our souls are perfect before God, in his glorious righteousness.
Can you say from your inmost soul, Worthy is the Lamb? Then you have the grace of heaven in your heart. Proclaim it aloud, as they do in glory, with your lips; and show it forth in your life: study to walk worthy of the LAMB; look at your sins; humble yourself before the LAMB; honor him by believing that he has atoned for them, and taken them away from before God, by his blood. Look at yourself as a sinner; glorify the LAMB for redeeming you to God by his blood, presenting you before God in his righteousness, and making you one with God by his grace; look constantly on yourself as a sinner saved by the Limb: have nothing to do with any other name under heaven for salvation from sin, death and hell. Of all the faith of your heart, the love of your soul, and glory of your life–worthy is the Lamb. And, O let it be the daily joy and rejoicing of your spirit, that you, a vile sinner, shall soon join the redeemed around his throne, incessantly and eternally to shout his praise who hath "washed us from our sins in his own blood."
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