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。

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.