11月29日 耶穌基督的絕對性

他要榮耀我。（約十六14）

今日的宗教敬虔運動，完全沒有新約的艱苦實況，不需要耶穌基督的死，要的只是虔誠的氣氛、禱告和熱心。這一類經驗不是超然的，也並不神奇，不需要神的愛情，沒有羔羊鮮紅的血，沒有聖靈的印記，也沒有任何記號，叫人看見了驚異說：“這是神大能的作為。”惟有“神大能的作為”才是新約的要義。

新約的信徒經歷，是個人對主耶穌基督熱切的愛慕。至於其他所謂信徒經歷，都與耶穌本身脫節，並不是新生命的活出，只是一個以耶穌為模範的意念而已。今日他被當作一個有名無實的宗教首領，被視作一個楷模罷了。當然他是楷模，但他遠超乎此。他是救恩，他就是神的福音。

耶穌說：“真理的聖靈來了……他要榮耀我。”當我接受了新約的啟示，就是接受了神所賜的聖靈；聖靈會向我解明耶穌的作為，把耶穌基督為我所作的客觀事實，變作我的主觀經歷。

祈禱◆噢，主啊，喚醒我、激勵我，以致我那必死的身體，能真正順服禰的靈。

November 29 The Absoluteness Of Jesus Christ

“He shall glorify Me.” John 16:14

The pietistic movements of to-day have none of the rugged reality of the New Testament about them; there is nothing about them that needs the Death of Jesus Christ; all that is required is a pious atmosphere, and prayer and devotion. This type of experience is not supernatural nor miraculous, it did not cost the passion of God, it is not dyed in the blood of the Lamb, not stamped with the hall-mark of the Holy Ghost; it has not that mark on it which makes men say, as they look with awe and wonder – “That is the work of God Almighty.” That and nothing else is what the New Testament talks about.

The type of Christian experience in the New Testament is that of personal passionate devotion to the Person of Jesus Christ. Every other type of Christian experience, so called, is detached from the Person of Jesus. There is no regeneration, no being born again into the Kingdom in which Christ lives, but only the idea that He is our Pattern. In the New Testament Jesus Christ is Saviour long before He is Pattern. To-day He is being despatched as the Figurehead of a Religion, a mere Example. He is that, but He is infinitely more; He is salvation itself, He is the Gospel of God.

Jesus said, “When He the Spirit of truth is come . . . He shall glorify Me.” When I commit myself to the revelation made in the New Testament, I receive from God the gift of the Holy Spirit Who begins to interpret to me what Jesus did and does in me subjectively all that Jesus Christ did for me objectively.