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Higher Experience
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His humiliation would receive pardon and everlasting life. He was
wounded for their transgressions, bruised for their iniquities. The
chastisement of their peace was upon Him, and with His stripes
they were healed. See
Isaiah 53:11, 5
. He heard the shout of the
redeemed. He heard the ransomed ones singing the song of Moses
and the Lamb. Although He must first receive the baptism of blood,
although the sins of the world were to weigh upon His innocent soul,
although the shadow of an unspeakable woe was upon Him, yet for
the joy that was set before Him He chose to endure the cross; He
despised the shame.
This joy all His followers are to share. However great and glori-
ous the hereafter will be, not all our reward is to be reserved for the
time of final deliverance. Even here we are by faith to enter into the
Savior’s joy. Like Moses, we are to endure as seeing the Invisible.
Now the church is militant. Now we are confronted with a world
in darkness, almost wholly given over to idolatry.
The Joy of the Lord
There were ninety and nine that safely lay
In the shelter of the fold,
But one was out on the hills away,
Far, far from the gates of gold—
Away on the mountains wild and bare,
Away from the tender Shepherd’s care.
“Lord, Thou hast here Thy ninety and nine;
Are they not enough for Thee?”
But the Shepherd made answer: “One of Mine
Has wandered away from Me,
And although the road be rough and steep,
I go to the desert to find My sheep.”
But none of the ransomed ever knew
How deep were the waters crossed,
Nor how dark was the night that the Lord passed through
Ere He found His sheep that was lost.
Far out in the desert He heard its cry—