9/25 司布真每日靈修(夜) Evening by Evening

九月二十五日

經文: 上帝又使祂成為我們的智慧。（哥林多前書一：30）

人憑著聰明要探求安息，但是按照本性，人所探索的是偏離主耶穌基督的。即使已經信主的知識分子也常常缺乏尊崇和摯愛的心，小看基督的十字架。有精密思想並受高等教育的人常被誘惑以致偏離基督受死的簡單真理，去創造一套更理智的教義。這種作法導致早期的基督教會走上諾斯底主義（該主義自誇可以獲得一種特別的內在知識，遠於單純的「信靠」。──譯者註，參閱天道「大眾聖經百科全書」），以各種異端邪說混淆信徒。這也是萌生許多新哲學思想之根源，這些新哲學思想廣傳流行，迷惑了大群信徒。無論你是誰，無論你所受的教育為何，你若真正屬主，將無法哲學化的神學中尋得安息。你可能從一位偉人的思想家得到一些教條，從另外一位深奧的推理學者得到一些夢想。但是他們的思想言論與上帝的真純語話相比，不過是糠粃之於麥子。基督耶穌裏面蘊藏了一切智慧和知識（參閱西二：3），基督徒滿足於接受假教義的宗教體系所作的一切企圖必將失敗，因為那些假教義的宗教體系所作一切企圖必將失敗，因為那些假教義否認了耶穌基督的神性。天國的真正繼承者必須回到完全、簡單的真理，就是「基督耶穌降世為要拯救罪人」（提前一：15）。耶穌能滿足最高階層的知識份子，倘若他以信心接受祂；反之，偏離了耶穌，哲學家無法得到安息。「敬畏耶和華是知識的開端」（箴一：7）。「凡遵行祂命令的，是聰明人」（詩一一一：10）

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Evening, September 25

Scripture: “Who of God is made unto us wisdom.”(1 Corinthians 1:30)

Man's intellect seeks after rest, and by nature seeks it apart from the Lord Jesus Christ. Men of education are apt, even when converted, to look upon the simplicities of the cross of Christ with an eye too little reverent and loving. They are snared in the old net in which the Grecians were taken, and have a hankering to mix philosophy with revelation. The temptation with a man of refined thought and high education is to depart from the simple truth of Christ crucified, and to invent, as the term is, a more intellectual doctrine. This led the early Christian churches into Gnosticism, and bewitched them with all sorts of heresies. This is the root of Neology, and the other fine things which in days gone by were so fashionable in Germany, and are now so ensnaring to certain classes of divines. Whoever you are, good reader, and whatever your education may be, if you be the Lord's, be assured you will find no rest in philosophizing divinity. You may receive this dogma of one great thinker, or that dream of another profound reasoner, but what the chaff is to the wheat, that will these be to the pure word of God. All that reason, when best guided, can find out is but the A B C of truth, and even that lacks certainty, while in Christ Jesus there is treasured up all the fulness of wisdom and knowledge. All attempts on the part of Christians to be content with systems such as Unitarian and Broad-church thinkers would approve of, must fail; true heirs of heaven must come back to the grandly simple reality which makes the ploughboy's eye flash with joy, and gladens the pious pauper's heart—“Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.” Jesus satisfies the most elevated intellect when he is believingly received, but apart from him the mind of the regenerate discovers no rest. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.” “A good understanding have all they that do his commandments.”