10月14日
宣教士之鑰
耶穌進前來，對他們說：“天上地下所有的權柄都賜給我了。所以你們要去使萬民作我的門徒，……。”（馬太福音28：18-19）
差傳的基礎是主耶穌的主權，而不是外邦人的需要。我們很容易視主耶穌為我們事奉神的助手，而主其實是門徒絕對、至高無上的主人。祂不是說，我們若不去，外邦人就失喪了。祂只是說：“所以你們要去，使萬民作我的門徒。 ”依從我至高的權柄，去吧；因著在我裡面活生生的經歷，去教導並傳揚。
“十一個門徒往加利利去，到了耶穌約定的山上。（馬太福音28:16）”我若要認識基督普世的主權，就必須親自認識祂，知道怎樣獨自與祂相處。我必須用時間去敬拜我所佩戴的名，就是基督。“到我這裡來。（馬太福音11：28）”——那就是見主耶穌的地方。你勞苦擔重擔嗎？多少傳道人正是如此。主宣告祂對整個世界的主權，我們卻看為次要，但這是主對門徒親口說的話。
“所以你們要去…… ”“去”的意思是“活出來”。使徒行傳1：8“但聖靈降臨在你們身上，你們就必得著能力，並要在耶路撒冷，猶太全地，和撒瑪利亞，直到地極，作我的見證。”是描寫怎樣去。耶穌沒有說去耶路撒冷、猶太、撒馬利亞；但祂說：“作我的見證。”至於“去”的地方，祂會負責安排。
“你們若常在我裡面，我的話也常在你們裡面，……（約翰福音15:7）”這是保持我們個人生命活潑的途徑。神放我們在什麼地方都無關重要，因為祂自會安排。
“我卻不以性命為念，也不看為寶貴，只要行完我的路程，成就我從主耶穌所領受的職事，證明 神恩惠的福音。(使徒行傳20：24)”這就是我們工作的態度，直到死那一天。
October
14 The Key To The Missionary
“All
power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all
nations.” Matthew 28:18-20
The basis of
missionary appeals is the authority of Jesus Christ, not the needs of the
heathen. We are apt to look upon Our Lord as One Who assists us in our
enterprises for God. Our Lord puts Himself as the absolute sovereign supreme
Lord over His disciples. He does not say the heathen will be lost if we do not
go; He simply says – “Go ye therefore and teach all nations.” Go on the
revelation of My sovereignty; teach and preach out of a living experience of
Me.
“Then the
eleven disciples went . . unto a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.” v.
16. If I want to know the universal sovereignty of Christ, I must know Him for
myself, and how to get alone with Him; I must take time to worship the Being
Whose Name I bear. “Come unto Me” – that is the place to meet Jesus. Are you
weary and heavy laden? How many missionaries are! We banish those marvellous
words of the universal Sovereign of the world to the threshold of an
after-meeting; they are the words of Jesus to His disciples.
“Go ye
therefore. . . .” Go simply means live. Acts 1:8 is the description of how to
go. Jesus did not say – Go into Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, but, “Ye shall
be witnesses unto Me” in all these places. He undertakes to establish the
goings.
“If ye abide
in Me, and My words abide in you. . . ” – that is the way to keep going in our
personal lives. Where we are placed is a matter of indifference; God engineers
the goings.
“None of
these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself . . .” That is
how to keep going till we’re gone.
