Q. 如何 “順着聖靈而行”?
——John MacArthur
“Being filled by the Spirit, being controlled by the Spirit, dominated by the Spirit, is the same as letting the word of Christ dominate you, the word and the Spirit being the same. The word reflects the will of the Spirit, so if you want to walk by the Spirit, then you walk according to Scripture, according to what the Word of God teaches. You ask yourself why there’s so little interest in sanctification today? It’s directly parallel to little interest in the Scripture.
“Why there are so many people who fall in ugly and gross sin at all levels of the life of the church? It is because they do not know what they need to know to follow the mind of the Holy Spirit; they’re untaught. It is no favor done to people to preach nothing but simplistic evangelistic sermons, culturally based to try to attract non-believers week after week, year after year, and leave everybody sitting in there who’s come to Christ starving for spiritual truth and not knowing enough to win the battle that’s going on inside.”
“被聖靈充滿、被聖靈掌管、被聖靈支配,都等於讓基督的道來主導你,道與靈是合一;這道表明了聖靈的心意。因此,如果你想順着聖靈而行,那你就按照聖經、按照神話語所教導的而行。你問自己為什麼今天人們對成聖如此不感興趣?這與對聖經缺乏興趣直接相關。
“為什麼有這麼多人在教會生活的各個層面都陷入醜陋和嚴重的罪中?這是因為他們不知道他們需要知道什麼來隨從聖靈的心意——他們沒有受過教導。只傳講簡單化的福音佈道對人們沒有任何好處,以文化為中心去吸引非信徒,周復一周、年復一年,卻讓那些來到基督面前、渴望屬靈真理,卻不知如何贏得內心爭戰的人坐在那裡。”
參:加拉太書 5:16-25; 羅馬書 8:5-11