10月15日
宣教信息之鑰
祂為我們的罪作了挽回祭，不是單為我們的罪，也是為普天下人的罪。（約翰一書2：2）
宣道信息的中心，就是耶穌基督作了挽回祭。試拿基督任何其他方面的工作看——醫治、拯救、成聖；這些都不是無限的。“神的羔羊，除去世人罪孽的。（約翰福音1：29）”才是無限的。宣道的信息就是耶穌基督為普天下人的罪作了挽回祭，宣道士也就是被這一個啟示充滿的。
宣道信心的中心，不是耶穌基督的仁慈和良善，也不是祂彰顯了父神；而是基督把我們從罪中釋放，那是最無限的重點，就是祂為我們的罪作了挽回祭。宣道信息不是愛國主義，不是單為某國或某人，乃是為整個世界的。聖靈進到我裡面，並不投我的喜好，祂來是要帶我與主耶穌聯合。
宣道士是與他的主聯合，他傳揚的不是自己的觀點，而是神的羔羊。要歸屬於一個宣傳“主為我們作過什麼”的集團、要成為一個熱衷於神跡治病或成聖或靈洗的份子較容易。可是，保羅並不是說：“我若不傳主為我所作的，我就有禍了。”他乃是說：“若不傳福音，我便有禍了。（哥林多前書9：16）”，“神的羔羊，除去世人罪孽的。（約翰福音1：29）”這就是福音。
October
15 The Key To The Missionary Message
“And
He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the
sins of the whole world.” 1 John 2:2
The key to
the missionary message is the propitiation of Christ Jesus. Take any phase of
Christ’s work – the healing phase, the saving and sanctifying phase; there is
nothing limitless about those. “The Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of
the world! ” – that is limitless. The missionary message is the limitless
significance of Jesus Christ as the propitiation for our sins, and a missionary
is one who is soaked in that revelation.
The key to
the missionary message is the remissionary aspect of Christ’s life, not His
kindness and His goodness, and His revealing of the Fatherhood of God; the
great limitless significance is that He is the propitiation for our sins. The
missionary message is not patriotic, it is irrespective of nations and of
individuals, it is for the whole world. When the Holy Ghost comes in He does
not consider my predilections, He brings me into union with the Lord Jesus.
A missionary
is one who is wedded to the charter of his Lord and Master, he has not to
proclaim his own point of view, but to proclaim the Lamb of God. It is easier
to belong to a coterie which tells what Jesus Christ has done for me, easier to
become a devotee to Divine healing, or to a special type of sanctification, or
to the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Paul did not say – “Woe is unto me, if I do
not preach what Christ has done for me,” but – “Woe is unto me, if I preach not
the gospel.” This is the Gospel – “The Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin
of the world!”
