1104 真理的权威
你们亲近神，神就必亲近你们。有罪的人哪，要洁净你们的手！心怀二意的人哪，要清洁你们的心！《雅各书4:8》
你给人们机会按神的真理而行，那是完全必要的。那责任必须留给个人——你不能替他做；那必须是他自己有意的行为，而福音信息应该是引导他采取行动。拒绝行动会使人瘫痪，一如他既往所是；然一旦他采取行动，他就不再一样了。正是真理明显的愚昧，阻碍了数百名被神的灵判定有罪的人。一旦我强迫自己采取行动，我立即开始活了。任何不及于此的，都仅仅是存在而已。我真正活着的时刻，就是我整个意志采取行动的时刻。
当神的真理深入你的灵魂时，绝不可让它过去而未在你意志内部采取行动，不必然是在你外在肉身生活付诸行动。用墨水和鲜血记录下来——把它做进你的生活里。最软弱的圣徒与耶稣基督打交道，在他行动的那一秒钟，就得着释放，神的大能就因为他而可获得。我们来到神的真理面前，承认我们错了，但又再度回去。然后我们再接近它，又转身回去，直到我们最终学习我们不应回头。当我们被救赎主真理之言面质时，我们必须直接与祂打交道。「到我这里来」（马太福音 11:28），祂的话的意思就是「采取行动」然而，我们最后想要做的事才是来。但每一个来的人都知道，就在那一刻，神生命超自然的能力就进入他里面。世界、肉体和魔鬼的支配力量现在被瘫痪了，不是被你的行动瘫痪，而是因为你的行动已经把你与神连接，使你进入祂的救赎大能中。
来自章伯斯的智慧
新约根本不容许那些声称他是靠着恩典得救却未生出恩典的好果子的人。耶稣基督以祂的救赎可以使我们的实际生活与我们的宗教信仰相符合。《登山宝训研读》
1104 The Authority of Truth
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. —James 4:8
It is essential that you give people the opportunity to act on the truth of God. The responsibility must be left with the individual— you cannot act for him. It must be his own deliberate act, but the evangelical message should always lead him to action. Refusing to act leaves a person paralyzed, exactly where he was previously. But once he acts, he is never the same. It is the apparent folly of the truth that stands in the way of hundreds who have been convicted by the Spirit of God. Once I press myself into action, I immediately begin to live. Anything less is merely existing. The moments I truly live are the moments when I act with my entire will.
When a truth of God is brought home to your soul, never allow it to pass without acting on it internally in your will, not necessarily externally in your physical life. Record it with ink and with blood— work it into your life. The weakest saint who transacts business with Jesus Christ is liberated the second he acts and God’s almighty power is available on his behalf. We come up to the truth of God, confess we are wrong, but go back again. Then we approach it again and turn back, until we finally learn we have no business going back. When we are confronted with such a word of truth from our redeeming Lord, we must move directly to transact business with Him. “Come to Me…” (Matthew 11:28). His word come means “to act.” Yet the last thing we want to do is come. But everyone who does come knows that, at that very moment, the supernatural power of the life of God invades him. The dominating power of the world, the flesh, and the devil is now paralyzed; not by your act, but because your act has joined you to God and tapped you in to His redemptive power.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
There is no allowance whatever in the New Testament for the man who says he is saved by grace but who does not produce the graceful goods. Jesus Christ by His Redemption can make our actual life in keeping with our religious profession. —Studies in the Sermon on the Mount