0310 是祂信息的榜样
务要传道！《提摩太后书 4:2》
我们得救不仅是要成为神的器皿，也是要成为祂的儿女。祂不是把我们变成属灵代理人，而是属灵的使者，而这信息必须成为我们的一部分。神的儿子就是祂自己的信息——「我对你们所说的话就是灵，就是生命。」（约翰福音 6:63）。作为祂的门徒，我们的生命必须是我们信息的真实之圣洁榜样。如果被要求这样做，即使是未得救之人天然之心也会这样做，但只有一颗知罪悔罪而破碎的心，受圣灵的洗礼，并被压碎而顺服神的旨意，才能使一个人的生命成为神信息的圣洁榜样。
作见证和传道是有区别的，传道人是接受神的呼召，下定决心用自己全部精力宣扬神的真理的人。神带领我们超越我们自己对生活的渴望和想法之外，并为祂的目的铸造雕塑我们，就像祂在五旬节后在门徒的生命中工作那样。五旬节的目的不是要教导门徒什么，而是使他们成为他们所传讲的道成肉身，以至于他们真正成为神在肉身中的信息：「作我的见证」（使徒行传 1:8）。
当你说话时，让神在你的生命中拥有完全的自由；在神的信息能够释放他人之前，祂的释放必须首先在你身上真实存在。要小心仔细收集你的材料，然后让神「点燃你的言语」来荣耀祂。
来自章伯斯的智慧
我们永远不能通过头脑中的问题得到解答而进入神的国，只能通过献身。《至善—你伟大的救赎》
0310 Being an Example of His Message
Preach the word! —2 Timothy 4:2
We are not saved only to be instruments for God, but to be His sons and daughters. He does not turn us into spiritual agents but into spiritual messengers, and the message must be a part of us. The Son of God was His own message— “The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63). As His disciples, our lives must be a holy example of the reality of our message. Even the natural heart of the unsaved will serve if called upon to do so, but it takes a heart broken by conviction of sin, baptized by the Holy Spirit, and crushed into submission to God’s purpose to make a person’s life a holy example of God’s message.
There is a difference between giving a testimony and preaching. A preacher is someone who has received the call of God and is determined to use all his energy to proclaim God’s truth. God takes us beyond our own aspirations and ideas for our lives, and molds and shapes us for His purpose, just as He worked in the disciples’ lives after Pentecost. The purpose of Pentecost was not to teach the disciples something, but to make them the incarnation of what they preached so that they would literally become God’s message in the flesh. “…you shall be witnesses to Me…” (Acts 1:8).
Allow God to have complete liberty in your life when you speak. Before God’s message can liberate other people, His liberation must first be real in you. Gather your material carefully, and then allow God to “set your words on fire” for His glory.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
We never enter into the Kingdom of God by having our head questions answered, but only by commitment. –The Highest Good—Thy Great Redemption