Cong Fang

很多人说相信耶稣，但不知道什么是相信耶稣。相信耶稣就是相信耶稣是基督、是神的儿子。但这又是什么意思呢？意思就是相信耶稣是神。然而，只是有知识是完全没有用的，人需要在心里相信。人需要重生。

重生不是在你对别人说你相信耶稣的那一刻，而是在你终于发现耶稣是神的那一刻。这才是真正的相信。

当一个人读圣经的时候，神会借着祂的话语使人看到神在旧约做的事情，耶稣在新约也做；看到神在旧约说的话，耶稣也说；看到当门徒称耶稣是神、并要敬拜他的时候，耶稣并不拒绝；… 当人有这些看见的时候，才是重生。这是神的拣选和工作。

人读圣经是为了看见神，就是看见耶稣，就是看见 “神在耶稣里的荣耀在经文中显现出来”，看见圣经如何见证耶稣是神。这才是读经的乐趣。

‘The Bible is not about you. It is about Jesus. But it is written for you.’ So you may read and “believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name” (John 20:31b).

“The question is not even what does God want, but what has God commanded in the Bible.” — Paul Washer

— R. A. Torrey, The Word of God has power to make wise.

This has been illustrated over and over again in the history of the church. The men who have greatly affected the spiritual history of this world, the men who have brought about great reformations in morals and doctrine, the men whom others have flocked to hear and upon whose words people have hung, have been Bible men in every instance, and in many cases they knew little besides the Bible.

I have seen men and women without culture, who have had almost no advantages in school, but who knew their Bibles; and I would rather sit at their feet and learn the wisdom that falls from their lips, than listen to the man who knows much about philosophy and science and theology even, and does not know anything about the Word of God.

There is wonderful force in the words of Paul to Timothy, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly (the revised version says “completely”) furnished unto all good works” (2 Timothy 3: 16, 17) Through what? Through the study of the Book.