新视域的力量
自然思想与属灵思想
经文
哥林多前书二6-16
6然而，在完全的人中，我们也讲智慧。但不是这世上的智慧，也不是这世上有权有位、将要败亡之人的智慧。
7我们讲的，乃是从前所隐藏、神奥秘的智慧，就是神在万世以前预定使我们得荣耀的。
8这智慧世上有权有位的人没有一个知道的、他们若知道，就不把荣耀的主钉在十字架上了。
9如经上所记：神为爱他的人所预备的是眼睛未曾看见，耳朵未曾听见，人心也未曾想到的。
10只有神借着圣灵向我们显明了，因为圣灵参透万事，就是神深奥的事也参透了。
11除了在人里头的灵，谁知道人的事；像这样，除了神的灵，也没有人知道神的事。
12我们所领受的，并不是世上的灵，乃是从神来的灵，叫我们能知道神开恩赐给我们的事。
13并且我们讲说这些事，不是用人智慧所指教的言语，乃是用圣灵所指教的言语，将属灵的话解释属灵的事。（或作：将属灵的事讲与属灵的人）
14然而，属血气的人不领会神圣灵的事，反倒以为愚拙，并且不能知道，因为这些事惟有属灵的人才能看透。
15属灵的人能看透万事，却没有一人能看透了他。
16谁曾知道主的心去教导他呢？但我们是有基督的心了。
信息分享
我们继续思想诗篇七十三篇，诗人借着「进入圣所」（这是神与祂百姓见面的地方），改变了自己的观点。诗篇的这一段可能是最重要的部分，因为在这里，诗人的思想开始由自然的思想改变为属灵方面思想。他一直以来都好像一般人那样只从一个角度出发去考虑生命，但来到圣所他开始懂得从神的角度看生命。
自然思想和属灵思想之间有甚么分别？自然思想是从地上的层面──人的层面来思考；属灵思想是从更高的层面──神的层面来思考。令人惊讶的是，许多基督徒都是以自然而不是属灵的角度来思考自己的问题。诗人本是善良和敬虔的人，但在环境的压力下，他也改用了自然的思想方式来处理个人的问题。
除非我们明白整个生命都是属灵的，而不仅是其中一部分，否则我们永远都不可能学会有效地生活。今天的经文告诉我们，使徒问为甚么主耶稣基督在世时，世界的统治者都不认识祂。那是因为他们从自然的角度看祂──他们所看到的只不过是一个普通的木匠。没有圣灵在他们的心中动工，他们就是不能明白真理。我们必须理解生命的问题和困难基本上全都是属灵的，因此我们越快学会以属灵的角度去思考问题，对我们的成长就会越有帮助。
「我们越快学会以属灵的角度思考越好」
进深研究
赛五十五1-13；罗十二2；耶二十九11
1. 神向以色列宣告甚么？
2. 我们如何能够被神改变？
祈祷
慈爱的天父，我明白如果要以属灵的角度来思考问题，我心中必须有您，因此我要把心交给您，求您帮助我将思想也一起献上。亲爱的主，请您教我思考。阿们。
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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