從天上賜下的復興
理性與神聖

經文
腓立比書二1-11
1所以,在基督裡若有甚麼勸勉,愛心有甚麼安慰,聖靈有甚麼交通,心中有甚麼慈悲憐憫,
2你們就要意念相同,愛心相同,有一樣的心思,有一樣的意念,使我的喜樂可以滿足。
3凡事不可結黨,不可貪圖虛浮的榮耀;只要存心謙卑,各人看別人比自己強。
4各人不要單顧自己的事,也要顧別人的事。
5你們當以基督耶穌的心為心:
6他本有神的形像,不以自己與神同等為強奪的;
7反倒虛己,取了奴僕的形像,成為人的樣式;
8既有人的樣子,就自己卑微,存心順服,以至於死,且死在十字架上。
9所以,神將他升為至高,又賜給他那超乎萬名之上的名,
10叫一切在天上的、地上的,和地底下的,因耶穌的名無不屈膝,
11無不口稱耶穌基督為主,使榮耀歸與父神。
信息分享
昨天我們看到,唯有當耶穌基督來到糾正了聖靈的內涵,並讓世人清楚知道祂是怎樣的靈後,神才把聖靈賜下給我們。耶穌基督不單展現了天父的本質,同時也顯示了聖靈的本質。如果神是基督樣式的神,那麼聖靈也同樣是基督樣式的聖靈。
一般人對聖靈以及祂在人的生命中的工作,總有一些特別的想法。過去多年來,我在教會遇到一些執迷的人,他們聲稱是被聖靈促使去做一些顯然是荒謬,甚至是荒誕無稽的事情。我記得數年前有一個男人告訴我說聖靈指示他離開妻子,去和另一個女人一起生活。可見他對聖靈本質的理解,很需要得到正確的糾正。
聖靈的本質是在於我們在耶穌基督裡的領悟,而這是十分重要的。有些教會把聖靈塑造成奇突的靈。為甚麼會有那麼多基督徒害怕降服於聖靈呢?他們認為如果這樣做會令他們變得感情用事,或者失去平衡。事實上,耶穌已糾正了聖靈的內容和本質,確保我們降服於聖靈的時候,會變得更像基督;否則的話,我們便不是處於聖靈的引導下,而是在被其他的靈所誤導。
基督不僅神聖,祂也是理性的。
「聖靈是有基督樣式的靈」
進深研究
徒二1-47;賽四十31;亞四6
1. 列出聖靈降臨的七個結果。
2. 這些與復興有何關係?
祈禱
主耶穌,感謝您給我們闡釋了聖靈的本質和特性,求您幫助我永不忘記聖靈具有您的樣式。當聖靈降臨的時候,祂的目的是要令我更像您,擁有您的平衡、理智,以及和諧。阿們。
Heaven-Sent Revival
Sanity as well as sanctity

Bible reading:
Philippians 2:1-11
1 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion,
2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.
3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,
4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in very nature[a] God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature[b] of a servant, being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!
9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Message
We saw yesterday that the Holy Spirit could not be given until Christ had come to fix the content of the Spirit and make clear to people just what kind of Spirit He is. Jesus reveals not only the nature of the Father but also the nature of the Spirit. If God is a Christlike God, then the Spirit is also a Christlike Spirit.
Men and women have some strange ideas about the Holy Spirit and the way He works in human lives. Over the years I have met some fanatical people in the Church who have claimed that the Holy Spirit has been prompting them to do things which quite clearly were downright absurd, even bizarre. I remember talking to a man some years ago who told me the Holy Spirit had instructed him to leave his wife and go and live with another woman. Clearly his understanding of the nature of the Spirit needed correction.
The nature of the Spirit is determined by what we see in Jesus Christ. This is very important, for in some parts of the Church people have made the Spirit into someone who appears to be peculiar. Why are so many Christians afraid to surrender to the Holy Spirit? They think that to do so will expose them to emotionalism or make them off-balance. The fact that Jesus has fixed the content and nature of the Spirit guarantees that when we surrender to the Holy Spirit we will be made like Christ. If this is not the case then we are not under the guidance of Holy Spirit but some other spirit. Christ is not only sanctity - He is also sanity.
"The Spirit is a Christlike Spirit"
Prayer
Lord Jesus, I am so grateful that You have clarified once and for all the nature and character of the Holy Spirit. Help me never forget that He is like You, and when He comes, He comes to make me like You - balanced and sane and poised. Amen.
Further study
Acts 2:1-47
Isaiah 40:31
Zechariah 4:6
1. List 7 results of the Spirit's outpouring.
2. How do these relate to revival?
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