we
put ourselves out of fellowship with God--for God loves him, even if
we don't.

But more than that, the effect of such sins is always to make us
"walk in darkness"--that is, to cover it up and hide what we really
are or what we are really feeling. That is always the meaning of
"darkness" in Scripture, for while the light reveals, the darkness
hides. The first effect of sin in us is always to make us hide; with
the result that we are pretending, we are wearing a mask, we are not
real with either God or man. And, of course, neither God nor man can
fellowship with an unreal person.

The way back into fellowship with the Lord Jesus will bring us again
into fellowship with our brother, too. All unlove must be recognised
as sin and given to the Lord Jesus for His Blood to cover--and then
it can be put right with our brother also. As we come back to the
Lord Jesus like this, we shall find His love for our brother filling
our hearts and wanting to express itself in our actions toward him
and we shall walk in fellowship together again.

So this is the Highway life. It is no new astounding doctrine. It is
not something new for us to preach. It is quite unspectacular. It is
just a life to live day by day in whatever circumstances the Lord has
put us. It does not contradict what we may have read or heard about
the Christian life. It just puts into simple pictorial language the
great truths of sanctification. To start to live this life now will
mean revival in our lives. To continue to live it will be revival
continued. Revival is just you and I walking along the Highway in
complete oneness with the Lord Jesus and with one another, with cups
continually cleansed and overflowing with the life and love of God.

CHAPTER 5
THE DOVE AND THE LAMB

Victorious living and effective soul-winning service are not the
product of our better selves and hard endeavours, but are simply the
fruit of the Holy Spirit. We are not called upon to produce the
fruit, but simply to bear it. It is all the time to be His fruit.
Nothing is more important then, than that we should be continuously
filled with the Holy Spirit, or to keep to the metaphor, that the
"trees of the Lord should be continuously full of sap"--His sap.

How this may be so for us is graphically illustrated by the record,
in the first chapter of John, of how the Holy Spirit came upon the
Lord Jesus at His baptism. John the Baptist had seen Jesus coming to
Him and had sai