从天上赐下的复兴
理性与神圣

经文
腓立比书二1-11
1所以,在基督里若有甚么劝勉,爱心有甚么安慰,圣灵有甚么交通,心中有甚么慈悲怜悯,
2你们就要意念相同,爱心相同,有一样的心思,有一样的意念,使我的喜乐可以满足。
3凡事不可结党,不可贪图虚浮的荣耀;只要存心谦卑,各人看别人比自己强。
4各人不要单顾自己的事,也要顾别人的事。
5你们当以基督耶稣的心为心:
6他本有神的形像,不以自己与神同等为强夺的;
7反倒虚己,取了奴仆的形像,成为人的样式;
8既有人的样子,就自己卑微,存心顺服,以至于死,且死在十字架上。
9所以,神将他升为至高,又赐给他那超乎万名之上的名,
10叫一切在天上的、地上的,和地底下的,因耶稣的名无不屈膝,
11无不口称耶稣基督为主,使荣耀归与父神。
信息分享
昨天我们看到,唯有当耶稣基督来到纠正了圣灵的内涵,并让世人清楚知道祂是怎样的灵后,神才把圣灵赐下给我们。耶稣基督不单展现了天父的本质,同时也显示了圣灵的本质。如果神是基督样式的神,那么圣灵也同样是基督样式的圣灵。
一般人对圣灵以及祂在人的生命中的工作,总有一些特别的想法。过去多年来,我在教会遇到一些执迷的人,他们声称是被圣灵促使去做一些显然是荒谬,甚至是荒诞无稽的事情。我记得数年前有一个男人告诉我说圣灵指示他离开妻子,去和另一个女人一起生活。可见他对圣灵本质的理解,很需要得到正确的纠正。
圣灵的本质是在于我们在耶稣基督里的领悟,而这是十分重要的。有些教会把圣灵塑造成奇突的灵。为甚么会有那么多基督徒害怕降服于圣灵呢?他们认为如果这样做会令他们变得感情用事,或者失去平衡。事实上,耶稣已纠正了圣灵的内容和本质,确保我们降服于圣灵的时候,会变得更像基督;否则的话,我们便不是处于圣灵的引导下,而是在被其他的灵所误导。
基督不仅神圣,祂也是理性的。
「圣灵是有基督样式的灵」
进深研究
徒二1-47;赛四十31;亚四6
1. 列出圣灵降临的七个结果。
2. 这些与复兴有何关系?
祈祷
主耶稣,感谢您给我们阐释了圣灵的本质和特性,求您帮助我永不忘记圣灵具有您的样式。当圣灵降临的时候,祂的目的是要令我更像您,拥有您的平衡、理智,以及和谐。阿们。
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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