經文: 「因為我曾定了主意，在你們中間不知道別的，只知道耶穌基督，並祂釘十字架。我說的話講的道，不是用智慧委婉的言語，乃是用聖靈和大能的明證。」— [聖經·哥林多前書 2章2,4節]
這段經文顯而易見講到保羅講道的中心-釘十字架的耶穌。這兒還有一層深意，就是十字架的耶穌不僅是講道的中心，也是保羅用他的生命，來證明他一生所追求的，就是效法耶穌的榜樣，所以他寫到「祂因軟弱被釘在十字架上，卻因上帝的大能，仍然活著；我們也是這樣同祂軟弱，但因上帝向你們所顯的大能，也必與祂同活。」(哥林多後書 13章4節)；的確，保羅的生活與服事都透露一個信息：他因軟弱被釘十架，卻藉著上帝復活的大能而活。
之前，保羅也曾這樣說：「因為十字架的道理，在那滅亡的人為愚拙；在我們得救的人，卻為上帝的大能。」(哥林多前書 1章18節)，這不僅是保羅講道的信息，更是他人格的氣質，他就是想用實際的生活，見證他軟弱的自己是與耶穌同釘十字架，他是如此專注投入於這項工作，以致他要求自己在每一件事上，都能效法耶穌的榜樣，所以他再說：「我在你們那裡，又弱、又懼怕、又甚戰兢。」(哥林多前書 2章3節)
因此，他敢大膽地宣告：「我說的話講的道，不是用智慧委婉的言語，乃是用聖靈和大能的明證。」(哥林多前書 2章4節)，現今教會的講壇為何如此軟弱和缺乏上帝的能力彰顯？原因之一在於傳道人太重視人的知識與口才，以致忽略了將上帝放在首位，所講的信息就傳遞不出來上帝超自然的大能。
求上帝幫助我們了解，無論是傳道人或平信徒，在生活中都要帶有耶穌的印記：分別為聖的記號，就是常披戴耶穌與祂的被釘十字架。阿們。
—《 神 的 心 意 》
[每日靈修 6月24日]
作者：慕安德烈
編輯：榮華興
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『 Jesus Christ and Him Crucified 』
Scripture: “I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. And my preaching was in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.” — [1 Corinthians 2:2,4]
This text is very often understood of Paul’s purpose in his preaching to know nothing but Jesus Christ and Him crucified. But it contains a far deeper thought. He speaks of his purpose, not only in the matter of his preaching, but in his whole spirit and life to prove how he in everything seeks to act in conformity to the crucified Christ. Thus he writes (2 Corinthians xiii. 4, 5) : “Christ was crucified through weakness, yet He liveth through the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him through the power of God toward you.” His whole ministry and conversation bore the mark of Christ’s likeness-crucified through weakness, yet living by the power of God.
Just before the words of our text Paul had written (1:17-24): “The word of the cross is to them that are perishing foolishness ; but unto us which are being saved it is the power of God.” It was not only in his preaching, but in his whole disposition and deportment that he sought to act in harmony with that weakness in which Christ was crucified. He had so identified himself with the weakness of the cross, and its shame, that in his whole life and conduct he would prove that in everything he sought to show forth the likeness and the spirit of the crucified Jesus. Hence he says(2:3) : “I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.”
It is on this account that he spoke so strongly: (1:17), “Christ sent me to preach the gospel, not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made void”; (2:4), “My preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.” Have we not here the great reason why the power of God is so little manifested in the preaching of the Gospel? Christ the crucified may be the subject of the preaching and yet there may be such confidence in human learning and eloquence, that there is nothing to be seen of that likeness of the crucified Jesus which alone gives preaching its supernatural, its divine power.
God help us to understand how the life of every minister and of every believer must bear the hall-mark, the stamp of the sanctuary-Nothing but Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.
— God’s Best Secrets by Andrew Murray
「 24 June 」
