10月14日
宣教士之钥
耶稣进前来，对他们说：“天上地下所有的权柄都赐给我了。所以你们要去使万民作我的门徒，……。”（马太福音28：18-19）
差传的基础是主耶稣的主权，而不是外邦人的需要。我们很容易视主耶稣为我们事奉神的助手，而主其实是门徒绝对、至高无上的主人。祂不是说，我们若不去，外邦人就失丧了。祂只是说：“所以你们要去，使万民作我的门徒。 ”依从我至高的权柄，去吧；因着在我里面活生生的经历，去教导并传扬。
“十一个门徒往加利利去，到了耶稣约定的山上。（马太福音28:16）”我若要认识基督普世的主权，就必须亲自认识祂，知道怎样独自与祂相处。我必须用时间去敬拜我所佩戴的名，就是基督。“到我这里来。（马太福音11：28）”——那就是见主耶稣的地方。你劳苦担重担吗？多少传道人正是如此。主宣告祂对整个世界的主权，我们却看为次要，但这是主对门徒亲口说的话。
“所以你们要去…… ”“去”的意思是“活出来”。使徒行传1：8“但圣灵降临在你们身上，你们就必得着能力，并要在耶路撒冷，犹太全地，和撒玛利亚，直到地极，作我的见证。”是描写怎样去。耶稣没有说去耶路撒冷、犹太、撒马利亚；但祂说：“作我的见证。”至于“去”的地方，祂会负责安排。
“你们若常在我里面，我的话也常在你们里面，……（约翰福音15:7）”这是保持我们个人生命活泼的途径。神放我们在什么地方都无关重要，因为祂自会安排。
“我却不以性命为念，也不看为宝贵，只要行完我的路程，成就我从主耶稣所领受的职事，证明 神恩惠的福音。(使徒行传20：24)”这就是我们工作的态度，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.
