“I follow after.” (verse 12). Now with that take the teaching of John who says, “If there be a will to know the truth or the doc­ trine, and we follow on to know, we shall know.” Remember the teaching along that line? (John 7:17). “If there be a will or desire to know the doctrine,” He says, “if we follow on in that obe­ dience, we will have the knowledge of the doctrine.'' But you can’t have it unless there is the surrender of the will. If I am will­ ing to follow on, I’ll know the doctrine, that is, I’ll know the truth. But wouldn’t it be lovely for us to get a revelation of certain truths without going through all that? “Well, couldn’t the Lord show me? And couldn’t I possess that? And couldn’t I have it in my life?” He says, “Not unless you are willing to do this: if there be a willingness; if you will to know and you follow on, you shall know.'' Paul seemed to have discovered it so he begins to follow, and follow. Now comes in Philippians 3:12. This is Paul on his ascent; this is the way he is going back to the heart of God to realize the vision and he says, “This is the vision; now these are the things I am doing: I have to follow on.,, “All right, Paul, what are you following?” “I have to follow in the footsteps, in the pathway of this One Who has gone on ahead of me.'' Where will that take us? To the book of Revelation: “Who are these people?” The Scripture says, “These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth” (Rev. 14:4). That has to be the spirit of the thing. Paul says, “This is what I want to realize, but I find that it will never be mine unless I do somefollowing. I have to follow Him in the path that He makes, the path that He has taken. That will build this fellowship, and will make possible for Paul to realize the thing he is after, but not otherwise. “These are they” … who prayed hard? No!. “These are they” … who were blessed? “These are they” … No! ‘‘These are they who J-o-1-1-o-w.,, They followed the Lamb whithersoever He went. Now go back to your gospels and see the movings of Jesus. Follow the movings of Jesus and then you follow Him. How many of you know you are going through several crises? Why? Because the life of Jesus consisted of several outstanding crises, several outstanding crises in His elevation, in His moving, in His going back. If I follow Him, I too am going to have that in duplicate form, in miniature fashion, but I will have it. So will you. It may not be in all the fulness of the Christ, but I will have a portion of it that is adequate for my life. And what will that little part do? It will make me one with Him, and it will make me to understand Him. So, I will be one with Him and I will understand with Him; with the measure that He is able to give me. Here is a great ocean: some may have a great big receptacle and dish it up, and some of us may come along with a thimble and we dip it full, but you know if that is filled to its thimble capacity with the ocean, it has the same essence; it isn’t filled with milk or ink; it is filled with ocean. This encouraged me. I had been reading a great deal about these great saints of God and those who walked with Him, the mystics, these spiritually minded people, and I said, “Lord, I could never be like that; they are wonderful to me, but I could never be like that. I could never have what St. Francis had. Look at these great leaders …” And the Lord stopped me! He said, “Listen! according to your capacity, that is all I am seeking. You may partake of the same identical essence of the thing that they had which had made them to move leaps and bounds ahead of you.” Do you get it? That is my privilege. So He says, “You don’t have to worry whether you are as wonderful in God, in Spirit, as some of these great giants offaith, you don’t have to be disturbed over that.” “But,” He said, “according to your capacity, let it be filled. For in the end it will be filled with exactly the same essence of the thing that has brought them into that which God has wanted of them.” So that was very encouraging. I said, “Thank You, You aren’t expecting me to be St. John of the Cross.” And He isn’t expecting you to be Madam Guyon. He isn’t expecting any of us to be any of those people at all. He is expecting us to be exactly who we are. “And He gave to every man according to his several ability” (Matt. 25:15). Now that helps me this way: I don’t have to compare my life with anyone else’s, for that is forbidden in the Scriptures. It says we should never compare ourselves one with another. (2 Cor. 10:12) Do you remember that? That is scriptural. Never compare yourself one with another, because we are individuals, He has forbidden it. So I don’t have to worry whether I have the amount of what this one has or that one, I don’t have to think of it at all. I have to be very sure of this: Is the capacity I have, filled out to its ‘nth degree; that is all I have to think about. And if He has only given me a thimble to take my ocean in, I don’t have to worry about the one who has a whole quart. Let me tell you something. How many know that every ounce you have bears a terrific responsibility with it? Or didn’t you sense that? “For unto whom­ soever much is given, of him shall be much required” (Luke 12:48). “Can your capacity increase?” someone asks. ‘‘Yes, it can enlarge; you can work in that.” But what I am after is the fact that for me to hide away and say, mine is so little and hers is so great … Nol Nol you can’t compare yourselves; don’t do that. Do this: Accept the capacity which you have; then by His grace see to it that it is filled to its ‘nth degree. He says, ‘‘That is all I will ever ask of you, I will never ask anything more of you. I will never ask you ‘why didn’t you do as he or she?’ Never, never, never in the world.” He only asks in your little pattern what is the requirement for your pattern. My pattern in life and your pattern in life, in the will of God, calls for certain things. You don’t make them; God will make them. To fill that pattern it calls for certain things which He brings into your life, into your pattern. Now we learn how to meet them, how to handle them, how to interpret them, how to take from them all that He wants; that in the end IF I follow on and follow on and follow on, He will be satisfied to know that that little capacity after all, has been filled with God, filled with God. Will the displays all be the same? Not at all. I believe in the heavenlies there are going to be saints, wonderful in God, who have never even been named. I believe there will be saints we never even dreamed of who have received in God the thing that He wanted, and they allowed Him to work in their lives the thing that He wanted, and their names are not recorded. I am glad they are not, or we would have more saints to worship! I am glad they are not named. It isn’t according to the display; it is accor­ ding to what is found in the deposit that counts. Do you get that? Paul says, “I find that I have to follow this Lamb; I have embraced Him, and I will go through these several crises which HE had, to take Him to the glory, and in my little capacity, with my little miniature fashion, I too will partake of what He had there; and I will partake of what He had there; and I will partake of what He had there; so that our fellowship will be sweet.” Now will you all not be afraid when He works with you? Please don’t. I have given you some rather terrifying things, I suppose. I have given you some truth you think is rather disastrous, but I’ll tell you something. Don’t be afraid of it; don’t be afraid of it; please don’t be afraid of it. It will work the miracle in you because there is no other way of working it. Follow with Him. ‘7hese are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth.” Look at the places He goes! Look at the places He goes! Follow Him in the gospels and in the silence of your heart you can say, “Jesus, take me there with You; You take me, Lord, I can’t go there alone. You take me into that; I want, as far as my little life is able, to partake of it, I want to partake of that.” He will give it to you. “I will follow on.” Now Paul says in verse twelve, there is a little more counting: