1014 服事者工作的關鍵
耶穌進前來，對他們說：「天上地下所有的權柄都賜給我了。所以，你們要去，使萬民作我的門徒…」《馬太福音 28:18-19》
服事者工作的關鍵是耶穌基督的權柄，而不是失喪者的需要。我們傾向於視我們的主為我們服事神的協助者。然而，我們的主將自己置於在門徒之上的絕對主權和最高的主。祂並沒有說，如果我們不去，失喪的人就永遠不得救——祂只是說：「所以，你們要去，使萬民作我的門徒…。」祂說：「在我全權揭示出的真理基礎之上，去，出自你們對我的活潑體驗而教導和傳道。」
「所以，你們要去…」，「去」，就意味着活；使徒行傳 1:8 描述了如何去。耶穌在這節經文中並沒有說：「你們往耶路撒冷、猶太全地和撒瑪利亞去…」而是說：「…你們要在 [所有這些地方]作我的見證。」祂親自承擔了差遣我們的工作。
「你們若常在我裡面，我的話也常在你們裡面。」（約翰福音 15:7）——這是繼續前進的方式。然後我們被安置在哪裡，對我們是無關重要，因為神的全權策劃我們的前行。
「我卻不以性命為念，也不看為寶貴，只要行完我的路程，成就我從主耶穌所領受的職事，證明神恩惠的福音…」（使徒行傳20:24）。這就是如何繼續前行，直到我們離開此生。
來自章伯斯的智慧
人類的選擇是在兩者中間做出的；開始和結束都在神手中。神的命定是生與死，在生死之間，人類製造了自己的痛苦或歡樂。《神手之蔭》
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