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。

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.