1104 真理的權威
你們親近神，神就必親近你們。有罪的人哪，要潔凈你們的手！心懷二意的人哪，要清潔你們的心！《雅各書4:8》
你給人們機會按神的真理而行，那是完全必要的。那責任必須留給個人——你不能替他做；那必須是他自己有意的行為，而福音信息應該是引導他採取行動。拒絕行動會使人癱瘓，一如他既往所是；然一旦他採取行動，他就不再一樣了。正是真理明顯的愚昧，阻礙了數百名被神的靈判定有罪的人。一旦我強迫自己採取行動，我立即開始活了。任何不及於此的，都僅僅是存在而已。我真正活着的時刻，就是我整個意志採取行動的時刻。
當神的真理深入你的靈魂時，絕不可讓它過去而未在你意志內部採取行動，不必然是在你外在肉身生活付諸行動。用墨水和鮮血記錄下來——把它做進你的生活里。最軟弱的聖徒與耶穌基督打交道，在他行動的那一秒鐘，就得着釋放，神的大能就因為他而可獲得。我們來到神的真理面前，承認我們錯了，但又再度回去。然後我們再接近它，又轉身回去，直到我們最終學習我們不應回頭。當我們被救贖主真理之言面質時，我們必須直接與祂打交道。「到我這裡來」（馬太福音 11:28），祂的話的意思就是「採取行動」然而，我們最後想要做的事才是來。但每一個來的人都知道，就在那一刻，神生命超自然的能力就進入他裡面。世界、肉體和魔鬼的支配力量現在被癱瘓了，不是被你的行動癱瘓，而是因為你的行動已經把你與神連接，使你進入祂的救贖大能中。
來自章伯斯的智慧
新約根本不容許那些聲稱他是靠着恩典得救卻未生出恩典的好果子的人。耶穌基督以祂的救贖可以使我們的實際生活與我們的宗教信仰相符合。《登山寶訓研讀》
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