0908 自己要做（1）
…将各样的计谋，各样拦阻人认识神的那些自高之事，一概攻破了…《哥林多后书 10:5》
决心攻破某事物。从罪中得拯救并不等于从人性中得拯救。人性中有些东西，比如偏见，圣徒只能通过纯粹的忽视来摧毁它。但还有其他一些东西必须通过猛力来摧毁，即通过神的灵所赋予的神圣力量来摧毁。有些东西我们不必要去争战，而单单需要「…静默站住，看耶和华…所要施行的救恩。」（见出埃及记 14:13）。但是，每个自高「拦阻人认识神」的坚固营垒的理论或思想，都必须下定决心依靠神的能力，而不是通过人为努力或妥协来摧毁。（见哥林多后书10:4）
只有当神转化了我们的本性，并且我们进入了成圣的经历，争战才开始。这场争战不是对抗罪恶；我们永远无法与罪斗争——耶稣基督在救赎我们中已经战胜了罪。这冲突是在于将我们的天然生命转变为属灵生命；这从来就不容易，神也无意让它如此轻易，它只能通过一连串的道德选择来完成。神不是以使我们品格圣洁的意思来使我们圣洁；祂是以使我们在祂面前成为无罪的意思来使我们圣洁。然后，我们必须通过我们做出的道德选择，将那个无罪转变为圣洁的品格。这些选择不断地反对和敌视我们天然生命中已经变得如此根深蒂固的事物——这些事物正是提高本身到「拦阻人认识神」的坚固营垒。我们可以要么回头，让自己对神国毫无价值，要么我们可以坚决摧毁这些东西，让耶稣领另一个儿子进荣耀里去（见希伯来书2:10）。
来自章伯斯的智慧
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0908 Do It Yourself (1)
…casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God… —2 Corinthians 10:5
Determinedly Demolish Some Things. Deliverance from sin is not the same as deliverance from human nature. There are things in human nature, such as prejudices, that the saint can only destroy through sheer neglect. But there are other things that have to be destroyed through violence, that is, through God’s divine strength imparted by His Spirit. There are some things over which we are not to fight, but only to “stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord…” (see Exodus 14:13). But every theory or thought that raises itself up as a fortified barrier “against the knowledge of God” is to be determinedly demolished by drawing on God’s power, not through human effort or by compromise (see 2 Corinthians 10:4).
It is only when God has transformed our nature and we have entered into the experience of sanctification that the fight begins. The warfare is not against sin; we can never fight against sin— Jesus Christ conquered that in His redemption of us. The conflict is waged over turning our natural life into a spiritual life. This is never done easily, nor does God intend that it be so. It is accomplished only through a series of moral choices. God does not make us holy in the sense that He makes our character holy. He makes us holy in the sense that He has made us innocent before Him. And then we have to turn that innocence into holy character through the moral choices we make. These choices are continually opposed and hostile to the things of our natural life which have become so deeply entrenched— the very things that raise themselves up as fortified barriers “against the knowledge of God.” We can either turn back, making ourselves of no value to the kingdom of God, or we can determinedly demolish these things, allowing Jesus to bring another son to glory (see Hebrews 2:10).
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Beware of pronouncing any verdict on the life of faith if you are not living it. –Not Knowing Whither, 900 R