神所赐的福音和你的经历[9月29日专题信息]

专题信息｜神所赐的福音和你的经历

9月29日

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朱志山牧师

经文: 提后2:8-10，4:16-18

课题: 人的心灵, 蒙恩的属灵体质, 情感与意志, 情绪, 属灵医治,

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我们人与生俱来都注重经历，因为经历带给我们体感、肯定我们的心意，且给我们力量前进、使我们能作出适当的决定与见解。其实，我们都无形中被我们的经历左右。这好比说你看了一位医生，长久以来生的病被治好了，之后你只要有病，自然会找同样的医生看病。或是当我们有一个负面的经历，那经历可能就成为我们之后的一种障碍。经历的确带给我们很多的体验与感触，所以，人都因经历被吸引到教会里，甚至被说服要信神。今天，教会里遍满了各种个人的见证，像他们做了什么梦或是听到了什么，之后看见实现。或者身上有肿瘤，原本要动手术，祷告之后发现肿瘤不见了。确实，得到这样的经历的人很真实，或者有病的人听到这样的见证时马上有共鸣。所以，经历有他自然的吸引力。他能吸引一个人信一样东西，或是信一个人的话。所以，当我与你有一样的经历时，你马上能感受到我能为你设身处地。因此，有共同经历的人自然就会吸引彼此。他们一般会说一样的话，有一样的共鸣，对事情有一样的见解。确实，只要我们还活着，我们不能与经历脱节，但我们也要认识一个最终的事实，就是：「我们的经历不是福音」。即便我们的经历在真实，我们的经历是有限的，而且也会改变，或是淡化。例如：当做父母的将孩子生到世界的这一刻，感触非常深。但孩子长大了，那这只是一个回忆了，而现在可能还有其他的经历更加真实。所以，即便我们需要经历，我们不能将正面的经历当做提升我们信心的管道。教会不能单以人的见证来喂养信徒的灵命。因为我们的个人见证不是福音，也不是真理。那只是将我们指向福音真理的一个渠道。确实，神知道堕落的人没有办法靠自己的经历认识神，所以主耶稣道成肉身，为的就是让我们能经历到他。但他是谁？是先知吗？是神医吗？是伟大的人吗？我们需要真认识他，生命才会真正改变。因此，经历本身不能改变我们，只有福音的大能能改变我们的生命，能使我们真信，且信了再信。有时我们到一个教会去，感觉很好。可能看起来你的孩子到了这教会很能够融入其中，你的配偶也似乎有显著的改变，但这一切是源自他们越来越认识神所赐的福音吗？他们与神关系（看见神的同在、帮助、引导）的经历是因借着他们对福音的认识而来，还是因其他相对的经历呢？其实，唯有当他们那正面与理想的经历拿走了，他才知道他心中是否真认识了福音。当一个人真认识了福音，他的经历就从属肉和情感层面进到了属灵层面。例如：他开始能够感受到神国的荣耀，且神国与他的关系；他开始能感受到世界真正的危机（不单是恐怖分子与战争的危机，乃是那不属血气的仇敌）；他开始经历神在患难中的扶持，以至仍然能够欢欢喜喜的；他在行善中开始经历神称许他的喜乐，不是单单做好事的开心。这些种种反知觉的经历都是符合他所认识的福音而来的。今天在谈到“经历”的事上，我们要察觉教会有两个危机。一是教会越来越缺少这样的属灵经历。信徒在一起讲的经历与作的见证多半是符合人性的需求。大多数的见证都是满足我们的肉体与促动我们的情感而已。试问保罗的见证多半是这样的吗？难道保罗的见证不是在患难中怎么经历荣上加荣，力上加力吗？《腓1:12；2:27；4:10-13》《林后12:8-10》。另外，因为正面与积极的见证大受欢迎，且叫人稀奇，所以现今有很多教导开始将人的经历绝对化，将他成为一个神学或属灵原则，宣称说：我们只要信病痛就得医治、我们在脑海中看到的图画都会实现出来、当我们讲方言时魔鬼就离开、等。有很多信徒经历了这些之后，就片面的乱解圣经，抽出某些经文来符合自己的经历，不然就是发明有些是似而非的道理来承托自己的经历与感受。这可能是当今教会其中一个最严重的问题，且叫对真理无知的人得着各种经历，但其实无形中使他们对神的话语越来越没有根基。久而久之，我们就会看见教会有一种“经历取代神的话”的趋势出现，即便拿着神的话教导也是符合人的经历来教导，不是将神“启示性的真理”说明。这就是我们今天要为自己和教会多祷告之处。

We are born to place emphasis on experience, because experience brings us to our senses, affirms our minds, gives us strength to advance and enables us to make appropriate decisions and insights. Actually, we are all indirectly influenced by our experiences. This is like after seeing a doctor, you are healed from an illness that u have been suffering for a long time. After that, if you are sick again, you will naturally find the same doctor. Or when we have a negative experience, that experience may become a hindrance to us later on. Indeed, experience brings us a lot of encounters and feelings, so people are attracted to the church because of experience, and are also convinced of the need to believe in God. Today, the church is full of personal testimonies, like what dreams people have or what they heard and then saw the realization. Or there was a tumor in the body, and an operation was planned to remove it, but after prayer, the tumor was no longer found. Indeed, it is real that people do have such an experience, or a sick person may resonate immediately with such an experience. Therefore, experience has its natural attractive power. It can attract a person to believe in one thing, or to trust what another person says. So, when I have the same experience as you, you can immediately feel that I can put myself in the same position as you. Hence, those with similar experience will naturally attract one another. They generally say the same thing, have the same resonance, and have the same opinion on things. Indeed, as long as we are living, we cannot be out of touch with experience, but we also need to recognize the ultimate truth, that is, “Our experience is not the gospel." Even if our experience is real, it is limited, it will also change or fade. For example, when parents give birth and bring their children into this world, their experience was very vivid. But as the child grows up, it becomes just a memory, and there may be other experiences that are more real now. So, even if we need experience, we cannot use our positive experiences as a channel to raise our level of faith. The church cannot feed the spiritual lives of believers with a single person’s testimony. Because our personal testimony is not the gospel, neither is it the truth. That is just a channel that leads us to the gospel truth. Indeed, God knows that fallen men have no way of relying on our own experiences to know God, so Lord Jesus was incarnated, in order for us to experience Him. But who is He? Is He a prophet? A divine physician? A noble man? We need to truly know Him, then our lives can truly change. Therefore, experience itself cannot change us, only the great power of the gospel can change our lives, so that we can truly believe, and believe again and again. Sometimes we go to a church, it feels very good. Perhaps it seems as if your child can fit in very well, or your spouse seems to have changed dramatically, but are all these a result of their growing understanding of the gospel of God? Is their relationship with God (seeing God’s presence, help and guidance) formed from their understanding of the gospel, or is it due to other relative experiences? Actually, only when their positive and ideal experiences are taken away will they know in their heart if they have truly understood the gospel. When a person truly understands the gospel, his experience goes from the flesh and emotional level to a spiritual level. For example, he begins to experience the glory of the kingdom of God, and the relationship between the kingdom of God and him; he begins to feel the real crisis of the world (not just the crisis of terrorist attacks and wars, but the enemy who is not of flesh and blood); he begins to experience God's support in adversity, and still be able to rejoice; he begins to experience joy through praises from God in doing good, which is not the happiness derived from doing good deeds. These various counter-intuitive experiences are all in line with the gospel he knows. Today, when we talk about "experience," we must be aware that the church has two crises. First, the church is increasingly lacking of such spiritual experiences. Most of the experiences shared and testimonies of believers are in line with the needs of human nature. Most of the testimonies are to satisfy our flesh and to motivate us. Think about it, is it true that most of Paul’s testimonies were like this? Weren’t Paul’s testimonies about how in suffering, he experienced glory upon glory and strength upon strength?  <Phil 1:12; 2:27; 4:10-13> <2 Co 12:8-10>. In addition, because such active and positive testimonies are very popular and they make people amazed, so nowadays there are many teachings which start to over-emphasize human experience and turn them into a theological or spiritual principle, proclaiming that we can be healed of our illnesses if we believe. The images we see in our minds will be fulfilled, and when we speak in tongues, the devil will flee, etc. After many believers have experienced this, they started to explain the Bible lopsidedly by extracting some verses to suit their own experiences. If not, they invent false teachings that are seemingly true to verify their experiences and feelings. This may be one of the most serious problems in the church today, which cause people who are ignorant of the truth to receive various experiences, but unconsciously result in them having a weaker and weaker foundation in the Word of God. Over time, we will see that the church has a trend to use “experience to replace the Word of God”. Even if the teachings are according to God’s Word, they are taught in line with human experience, and not to clearly explain God’s “revelatory truth”. This is what we need to pray for ourselves and for the church today.

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