新視域的力量
自然思想與屬靈思想
經文
哥林多前書二6-16
6然而，在完全的人中，我們也講智慧。但不是這世上的智慧，也不是這世上有權有位、將要敗亡之人的智慧。
7我們講的，乃是從前所隱藏、神奧祕的智慧，就是神在萬世以前預定使我們得榮耀的。
8這智慧世上有權有位的人沒有一個知道的、他們若知道，就不把榮耀的主釘在十字架上了。
9如經上所記：神為愛他的人所預備的是眼睛未曾看見，耳朵未曾聽見，人心也未曾想到的。
10只有神藉著聖靈向我們顯明了，因為聖靈參透萬事，就是神深奧的事也參透了。
11除了在人裡頭的靈，誰知道人的事；像這樣，除了神的靈，也沒有人知道神的事。
12我們所領受的，並不是世上的靈，乃是從神來的靈，叫我們能知道神開恩賜給我們的事。
13並且我們講說這些事，不是用人智慧所指教的言語，乃是用聖靈所指教的言語，將屬靈的話解釋屬靈的事。（或作：將屬靈的事講與屬靈的人）
14然而，屬血氣的人不領會神聖靈的事，反倒以為愚拙，並且不能知道，因為這些事惟有屬靈的人才能看透。
15屬靈的人能看透萬事，卻沒有一人能看透了他。
16誰曾知道主的心去教導他呢？但我們是有基督的心了。
信息分享
我們繼續思想詩篇七十三篇，詩人藉著「進入聖所」（這是神與祂百姓見面的地方），改變了自己的觀點。詩篇的這一段可能是最重要的部分，因為在這裡，詩人的思想開始由自然的思想改變為屬靈方面思想。他一直以來都好像一般人那樣只從一個角度出發去考慮生命，但來到聖所他開始懂得從神的角度看生命。
自然思想和屬靈思想之間有甚麼分別？自然思想是從地上的層面──人的層面來思考；屬靈思想是從更高的層面──神的層面來思考。令人驚訝的是，許多基督徒都是以自然而不是屬靈的角度來思考自己的問題。詩人本是善良和敬虔的人，但在環境的壓力下，他也改用了自然的思想方式來處理個人的問題。
除非我們明白整個生命都是屬靈的，而不僅是其中一部分，否則我們永遠都不可能學會有效地生活。今天的經文告訴我們，使徒問為甚麼主耶穌基督在世時，世界的統治者都不認識祂。那是因為他們從自然的角度看祂──他們所看到的只不過是一個普通的木匠。沒有聖靈在他們的心中動工，他們就是不能明白真理。我們必須理解生命的問題和困難基本上全都是屬靈的，因此我們越快學會以屬靈的角度去思考問題，對我們的成長就會越有幫助。
「我們越快學會以屬靈的角度思考越好」
進深研究
賽五十五1-13；羅十二2；耶二十九11
1. 神向以色列宣告甚麼？
2. 我們如何能夠被神改變？
祈禱
慈愛的天父，我明白如果要以屬靈的角度來思考問題，我心中必須有您，因此我要把心交給您，求您幫助我將思想也一起獻上。親愛的主，請您教我思考。阿們。
The Power of a New Perspective
Natural versus spiritual thinking
Bible reading:
1 Corinthians 2:6-16
6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
7 No, we declare God's wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began.
8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 However, as it is written: "What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived"[a]—the things God has prepared for those who love him—
10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
11 For who knows a person's thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.
13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.[b]
14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments,
16 for, "Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?"[c] But we have the mind of Christ.
Message
Te have been seeing that by going "into the sanctuary" - the place where God had made provision to meet with His people - the psalmist has put himself in a position where his perspectives can be changed. This section of the psalm is probably the most vital part, for it is here that his thinking begins to change from natural thinking to spiritual thinking. He had been thinking like a natural man, considering life from just one perspective, but in the sanctuary he begins to see life from God's point of view.
What is the difference between natural thinking and spiritual thinking? Natural thinking is on the level of the earth - the level of man; spiritual thinking is on a higher level altogether - the level of God. It is surprising that so many Christians think naturally about their problems rather than spiritually. The psalmist was a good and godly man but under the pressure of circumstances he had reverted to thinking naturally about his problem.
We will never learn to live effectively until we understand that the whole of life is spiritual, not just parts of it. In the chapter before us today the apostle asks, in effect, why it was that none of the rulers of this world recognised the Lord Jesus Christ when He was here. It was because they looked at Him from a natural perspective - they saw only a carpenter. Without the Holy Spirit operating upon their minds, they just could not understand. Ultimately, the problems and difficulties of life are all spiritual; so the sooner we learn to think spiritually, the better we will be.
"The sooner we learn to think spiritually the better"
Prayer
Gracious and loving heavenly Father, I realise that if I am to become a spiritual thinker I must allow You to think in me. I have given You my heart, help me now to give You my mind. Think in me, dear Lord. Amen.
Further study
Isaiah 55:1-13
Romans 12:2
Jeremiah 29:11
1. What did God declare to Israel?
2. How can we be transformed?
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