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the Lord’s notice; He will take account of you, and He will help

you with all the help you need. We begin our Christian way by

becoming interested, as these persons were. “Jesus having

turned, and seeing them following, says to them, What seek

ye?” What a question that is! What a question for each one of

us here! What is your object, your purpose in life? What seek

ye? The remarkable answer is, “Rabbi where abidest thou?”

They become interested in where the Lord is. Jesus says to

them, “Come and see”. To anyone who has this desire, how

helpful He will be. “Come and see”, He said. “They went

therefore, and saw where he abode”, and not only saw where

He abode, but, “they abode with him that day”. “Where I am,

there also shall be my servant”; these two had the privilege of

being with the Lord in His own home. What a privilege to be

where the Lord is! May it become more and more attractive to

every one of us.

Here we have two followers who have just set out on the

pathway, and they have the privilege of spending some hours

where the Lord is. What impressions they would receive!

Andrew was one of the two; John does not tell us who the

other is; I have no doubt it was John himself. Andrew is set in

movement immediately. It says, “Andrew, the brother of Simon

Peter, was one of the two who heard this from John and

followed him. He first finds his own brother Simon”; Andrew is

immediately in movement, commendable movement, seeking

his brother and saying, “We have found the Messias”. That

was experience; that was not just knowledge, it was

experience; “We have found the Messias”. What a satisfied

man Andrew was! He was one of the two; the other one was

John I suppose. We do not hear again of John until chapter

13.

I desire now to speak about chapter 9 where we have the man

who was born blind. “Jesus answered, Neither has this man

sinned nor his parents, but that the works of God should be

manifested in him”, (John 9: 3). It is remarkable how the works