Please turn with me once more to Ex.12:11 - "Now you shall eat in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord's Passover."  
 
"Your loins girded up, your sandals on your feet",- a grip on the walk.  
 
You know, we will never make any progress unless there is friction; every step we take depends upon friction.  
 
Have you ever tried to walk on slippery Ice without skates on? - You did not make much progress, did you?  
 
You have got to have a grip, you have got to have something under your feet that your feet can grip on; there must be friction.   
 
And we do not make any progress without friction; you can interpret that as you like, but I venture to say that ‘the Lord’ sees to it that there is plenty of friction, that there is something to overcome, to take hold of, to stand upon, to master.  
 
"Sandals on your feet, and the staff in your hand"  
 
I am not going to start with the meaning of all these things, they are symbols of ‘being ready to go’.  
 
Now while we have to note it, we want to see that it is in the right context: "make haste".  
 
"Be in a hurry" it says, ‘in a hurry’, ‘in haste’.  
 
Of course, it is not Impulse or anything like that, the unspiritual Hurry and Rush and Dash of so many, but it is being ‘urgent’, really urgent, and getting on with it; not being involved in, or hung up on this, that and the other.  
 
Do I need to multiply words?  
 
This is the spirit of the Old Testament, it is the spirit of the New Testament, it is ‘the Mind of Jesus Christ’, and let it be in you also.  
 
And what is it all unto? - Everything left and now laid hold of this "That I may know Him, - that I may know Him".  
 
Remember that is said by the Apostle Paul in his Letter to the Philippines out of his Roman Prison at the end of his long Life of knowing, endless knowing of ‘the Lord’.  
 
You can see the development of Paul's Life if you study his letters; the Growth of this Man, the Increase of his Knowledge and Understanding.  
 
He never contradicts anything before that, but he leaves a lot of things behind, they are settled.  
 
And at the end of his very full Life of growing Knowledge he is still saying, his passion still is “That I may know Him, that I may know Him; I have not yet already attained, I am not already complete", but I have one thing, I am a Man of one thing, no divided Mind, no two Interests; one positive thing governing everything else "That I may know Him, that I may apprehend Him".  
 
That is 'the Mindedness of Christ', the 'Mindedness of His servant', and a 'Mindedness' which he lays down as a 'Law of Growth', a 'Law of Progress', a 'Law of Spiritual Increase'.  
 
We never will come into anything unless we have a ‘Mind’ like that.  
 
You may make some mistakes, as we all do, perhaps lots of mistakes, and I am not one of those people who think that Paul was infallible and never made any mistakes.  
 
However, he is learning, and sometimes learning by mistakes. 
 
Yes, we may make mistakes, but I am quite sure of this, that even with our mistakes, if we have got this 'Mind', God is going to look after the End, look after the Interests, look after the ‘Ultimate’; He is going to overrule our mistakes if only we are so committed.
 
It is the impelling Power of a 'New Mind', of another ‘Mind’, of a ‘Mindedness for Christ'.   
 
It impels us, it prods us, and without it we will get nowhere.  
 
This 'Mindedness' is the expulsive Power of a 'New Affection'.   
 
What a lot we leave behind, we expel, leave behind when we have got this 'New Affection'.   
 
Like Paul is saying in the same letter “For me to live is Christ”; to live is ‘Christ’, to be here at all, is ‘Christ’, to have any Interest in being on this Earth, in this World, is just ‘Christ’, no more and no less, it is ‘Christ’, - that is all!

And this ‘Affection’, this ‘Heart-Captivation by the Lord Jesus’ makes us say that the things which were once Gain I now count Loss for the Excellency of the ‘Knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord’; I suffered the loss of all things for Him, expelling so much.  
 
Look again at the list in Philippines, Chapter 3,  the list of things that this 'New Affection' expelled out of the Life of Paul; which where powerful things once, they are expelled.  
 
And you know, just let me say this to you, many of our Doctrines over which we quarrel and argue, have such Debates and Discussions have only been produced by the absence of this kind of 'Mindedness'.  
 
What do I mean by that?  
 
Well, for example, there has been a tremendous amount of controversy and quarreling in some Christian circles over something that is called 'Selective Rapture', sometimes called 'Partial Rapture'.  
 
And there are wide divisions on this matter of who will be caught up when the Lord comes and who will be left behind. 

Listen, I am not bothered one little bit about that,- Why?- Because I am not going to take any Chances.   

Whether some Christians are going to be caught up in the Rapture, and some are left behind, I am not going to take any Risk about this matter at all. 
 
I am going to see to it that I am in the Rapture!  
 
Whatever it is, whenever it is, whoever it is, I am in for that.  
 
If any of you do not have that ‘Mind’, - Alright!    
 
I am not going to resolve it into a Doctrine or Theology, a system of Teaching.  
 
This thing has only been brought in and is being kept alive because people are so divided.  
 
They see Christians, some are going on with the Lord, and some are still holding on to the world, and so they say: 'Well, these will go, and the others will be left behind when the Lord comes', and so, they resolve it into a 'system of Doctrine' called 'Partial Rapture', or something like that.  
 
Now you may think that that is in 'the Word of God', - alright, if you like to turn on that, you can. (e.g. North Hollywood).  
 
But what I am saying is this: 'If you are not going to take any Chance, and I do encourage you not to take any Risk, you be 'utter' and you will be in the Rapture alright!  
 
You will have no reservations; and you will go with the 'first lot', however 'many lots' there may be afterwards.  
 
Are you not glad that I do not bother you with all those things, Doctrines, and so on?  
 
To tell you the Truth, I am glad that I am not bothered by them; for I left all those things behind.  
 
Do you know what I mean?  
 
So many of these controversial questions are answered if only there is this Heart; a lot of other 'systems of Teaching', and 'Doctrines', have sprung up out of this very thing.  
 
A question about the Standing and the Status of Christians.  
 
Well, the Bible, the New Testament does not tell us about these things precisely; what the New Testament is saying all the time is: 'go on', 'do not take Risks', 'go on', 'right on', 'fully girded in your loins'.  
 
This ‘Mind’,- this ‘Mind’ in you; this is 'the Law of Progress', of 'Attaining'.  
 
And before I close, I must enunciate or point to a corresponding 'Law': "The Law of Obedience" to every bit of Light that the Lord gives us. 

We will not go on if we dilly dally with any Light that God has given us.  
 
If the Lord has said anything to us which is a Challenge, which calls for an Attitude, a Decision, a Cross to be taken up; if He has said anything to us whatever that is a Demand upon us to go on in any Way, to take some Step, to settle some Question, some Issue, and we do not do it, from that Day our Progress stops,- it does.  
 
The Lord may go on and we may have some difficulty in catching up when we do decide, but that day sees our journey at a standstill.  
 
We will not get anywhere until that is settled. 

You see, It is ‘The Law of Obedience’ from the beginning to the end.
 
He gives some Light, He gives some Counsel, He gives some Advice, He gives some Suggestion, and then our Destiny is in the balances of our 'Obedience'.  
 
'The Law of Progress' and this matter of 'Obedience to Light' is, let us go on, let us get this thing cleared up as quickly as possible, do not let this thing lie about, it is only going to interrupt our 'Spiritual Growth' and 'Progress'.  
 
Let us go on in 'Obedience', in full 'Compliance'.  
 
Well now, where did it all start?  
 
Notice: It always comes back to the starting point.  
 
Every year throughout their long history, the Israelites had "The Feast of the Passover", and what was it?  
 
If we look at the instructions and the context, we will find that it was every year, be it Centuries, of going back to 'the first one'; come back here where your history started, ‘for this day shall be unto you, this month shall be unto you the beginning 
of months’.

But it is the all-inclusive instruction of history, back here to 'the Passover', right back to what this means.  
 
What does it mean?  
 
Well, in ‘the New Testament’ and in ‘Christianity’ this is the thing that you would have found every 'Lord's day', every 'first day of the week'.  
 
If you had gone to any one of these new companies of Christians in great cities, in towns, in villages, in remote hamlets, in any part of the wide World you would have found them.  

You would have found this, on 'the first day of the week', - what where they doing?  
 
They were getting back to the beginning. 

What was the beginning? - What does it say? - What does this 'loaf of bread' say that is being distributed amongst us, and yet remaining 'one loaf'? 

We have had a number of representations of the loaf, people here this morning as we do every Sunday morning.  
 
And all the world over how many loafs there are, all representations of loafs, thousands, perhaps millions, but God only sees 'one', - yes, God only sees 'one'.  
 
In the light of Heaven it is not so many, it is just 'one', and  it says 'Christ is one' and 'He is one’ in every Believer.

And the ‘Unity of Believers’ is not Formal Unity, it is not Doctrinal Unity, Theological Unity, Organizational Unity, Ritual Unity, or any other of the many things that people talk about as the basis of ‘Unity’.  
 
‘The Unity of the People of God' in all the universe is ‘Christ’, - just ‘Christ’.

Is 'Christ' your very Life and Sustenance and Substance, - is He?  
 
'Your daily bread'? - 'Bread', of course, has become the symbol of staple food; it may have many other forms, but what we mean by ‘Bread’ is our ‘Food of Faith’.   
 
'Christ' is our basic ‘Sustenance of Life’; without Him as our Bread, our Food, we should die.  
 
And they are saying that everywhere: 'Christ' is the very basis of our existence, and not only that, He is the basis of our going on, of our growth.  

He is our great ‘Uniting Factor’!

You know, I have been in Meetings and Conventions where there where represented many Nationalities, Languages, Colors, and what not, all there and yet totally oblivious to Nationality and the Language and all that.  
 
We were all beautifully and wonderfully 'one', and so we take the loaf in testimony that 'Christ' is Super-National, Super-Lingual, Super-Color, He is above all that. 

We are all ‘one’ and the masculine is there, i.e., all ‘One Man in Christ Jesus’, all ‘One New Man’, and that is the Loaf. 

We may go from here to so many places, we may have come from many places, we may be different by Birth, by Nationalities; but wherever we go this basic fact remains with every ‘born-from-above Child of God’ to whom ‘Christ’ is the very basis of Existence, we are ‘One’, we are ‘One’!  
 
O' do believe that!  
 
Whatever our differences may be, and however much we may have to give up, leave behind, and so on, we are 'One in Christ,' - that is the Loaf.

And the ‘Cup’, ‘the one Life’, ‘the one Live’ in every ‘born-from-above Child of God’.  
 
This is ‘our testimony’ today, this is what we are saying in effect, in action, ‘Christ is our Life’, ‘Christ is our Oneness’, ‘Christ is our All’.  
 
And so, as we have seen, "It is God Himself who called you to share in the Life of His Son Jesus Christ, our Lord;..." (1.Cor.1:9 NEB).  
 
Well, that is enough for now!