1014 服事者工作的关键
耶稣进前来，对他们说：「天上地下所有的权柄都赐给我了。所以，你们要去，使万民作我的门徒…」《马太福音 28:18-19》
服事者工作的关键是耶稣基督的权柄，而不是失丧者的需要。我们倾向于视我们的主为我们服事神的协助者。然而，我们的主将自己置于在门徒之上的绝对主权和最高的主。祂并没有说，如果我们不去，失丧的人就永远不得救——祂只是说：「所以，你们要去，使万民作我的门徒…。」祂说：「在我全权揭示出的真理基础之上，去，出自你们对我的活泼体验而教导和传道。」
「所以，你们要去…」，「去」，就意味着活；使徒行传 1:8 描述了如何去。耶稣在这节经文中并没有说：「你们往耶路撒冷、犹太全地和撒玛利亚去…」而是说：「…你们要在 [所有这些地方]作我的见证。」祂亲自承担了差遣我们的工作。
「你们若常在我里面，我的话也常在你们里面。」（约翰福音 15:7）——这是继续前进的方式。然后我们被安置在哪里，对我们是无关重要，因为神的全权策划我们的前行。
「我却不以性命为念，也不看为宝贵，只要行完我的路程，成就我从主耶稣所领受的职事，证明神恩惠的福音…」（使徒行传20:24）。这就是如何继续前行，直到我们离开此生。
来自章伯斯的智慧
人类的选择是在两者中间做出的；开始和结束都在神手中。神的命定是生与死，在生死之间，人类制造了自己的痛苦或欢乐。《神手之荫》
1014 The Key to the Missionary’s Work
Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations…” —Matthew 28:18-19
The key to the missionary’s work is the authority of Jesus Christ, not the needs of the lost. We are inclined to look on our Lord as one who assists us in our endeavors for God. Yet our Lord places Himself as the absolute sovereign and supreme Lord over His disciples. He does not say that the lost will never be saved if we don’t go— He simply says, “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations….” He says, “Go on the basis of the revealed truth of My sovereignty, teaching and preaching out of your living experience of Me.”
“Go therefore….” To “go” simply means to live. Acts 1:8 is the description of how to go. Jesus did not say in this verse, “Go into Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria,” but, “…you shall be witnesses to Me in [all these places].” He takes upon Himself the work of sending us.
“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you…” (John 15:7)— that is the way to keep going. Where we are placed is then a matter of indifference to us, because God sovereignly engineers our goings.
“None of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus…” (Acts 20:24). That is how to keep going until we are gone from this life.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the
end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between
those limits man makes his own distress or joy.– Shade of His Hand, 1223 L