chose the form of a servant. He said: "The Son of Man is not come to be
ministered unto, to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom
for many." And you know, in the last night, He took the place of a slave,
and girded Himself with a towel, and went to wash the feet of Peter and the
other disciples. Beloved, the life of Jesus upon earth was a life of the
deepest humility. It was this gave His life its worth and beauty in God's
sight. And then His death--possibly you haven't thought of it much in this
connection--but His death was an exhibition of unparalleled humility. "He
humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the
cross." My Lord Christ took a low place all the time of His walk upon
earth; He took a very low place when He began to wash the disciples' feet;
but when He went to Calvary, He took the lowest place there was to be found
in the universe of God, the very lowest, and He let sin, and the curse of
sin, and the wrath of God, cover Him. He took the place of a guilty sinner,
that He might bear our load, that He might serve us in saving us from our
wretchedness, that He might by His precious blood win deliverance for us,
that He might by that blood wash us from our stain and our guilt.

We are in danger of thinking about Christ, as God, as man, as the
atonement, as the Saviour, and as exalted upon the throne, and we form an
image of Christ, while the real Christ, that which is the very heart of His
character, remains unknown. What is the real Christ? Divine humility, bowed
down into the very depths for our salvation. The humility of Jesus is our
salvation. We read, "He humbled Himself, therefore God hath highly exalted
Him." The secret of His exaltation to the throne is this: He humbled
Himself before God and man. Humility is the Christ of God, and now in
Heaven, to-day, that Christ, the Man of humility, is on the throne of God.
What do I see? A Lamb standing, as it had been slain, on the throne; in
the glory He is still the meek and gentle Lamb of God. His humility is the
badge He wears there. You often use that name--the Lamb of God--and you use
it in connection with the blood of the sacrifice. You sing the praise of
the Lamb, and you put your trust in the blood of the Lamb. Praise God for
the blood. You never can trust that too much. But I am afraid you forget
that the word "Lamb" must mean to us two things: it must mean not only a
sacrifice, the shedding of blood, but it must