約翰福音16:1-15

 

16:1 「我已將這些事告訴你們，使你們不至於跌倒。
16:2 人要把你們趕出會堂，並且時候將到，凡殺你們的就以為是事奉上帝。
16:3 他們這樣行，是因未曾認識父，也未曾認識我。
16:4 我將這事告訴你們，是叫你們到了時候可以想起我對你們說過了。」「我起先沒有將這事告訴你們，因為我與你們同在。
16:5 現今我往差我來的父那裡去，你們中間並沒有人問我：『你往哪裡去？』
16:6 只因我將這事告訴你們，你們就滿心憂愁。
16:7 然而，我將真情告訴你們，我去是與你們有益的；我若不去，保惠師就不到你們這裡來；我若去，就差他來。
16:8 他既來了，就要叫世人為罪、為義、為審判，自己責備自己。
16:9 為罪，是因他們不信我；
16:10 為義，是因我往父那裡去，你們就不再見我；
16:11 為審判，是因這世界的王受了審判。
16:12 「我還有好些事要告訴你們，但你們現在擔當不了（或譯：不能領會）。
16:13 只等真理的聖靈來了，他要引導你們明白（原文是進入）一切的真理；因為他不是憑自己說的，乃是把他所聽見的都說出來，並要把將來的事告訴你們。
16:14 他要榮耀我，因為他要將受於我的告訴你們。
16:15 凡父所有的，都是我的；所以我說，他要將受於我的告訴你們。」

 

 “All this I have told you so that you will not fall away. ² They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. ³ They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. ⁴ I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you, ⁵ but now I am going to him who sent me. None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ ⁶ Rather, you are filled with grief because I have said these things. ⁷ But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. ⁸ When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: ⁹ about sin, because people do not believe in me; ¹⁰ about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; ¹¹ and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.

¹² “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. ¹³ But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. ¹⁴ He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. ¹⁵ All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”

 

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    主耶穌要將保惠師聖靈差遣來到門徒中間，這是非常重要的，因為主耶穌必須回到天父上帝那裏去。然而主耶穌回到天家以後，差派來的聖靈是與門徒永遠在一起，讓人經歷上帝的救贖大功，過新的生命，並且明白真理。

 

    這也就是告訴我們信仰的建立，不是在於我們用自己的意志和方法來努力追求。而是聖靈來引導與啟示，使上帝的話語在我們的身上發生功效。沒有聖靈的工作，我們就沒有上帝兒子的生命。

 

    想想猶太人花了多少精神和歲月，靠著猶太的遺傳和自己的努力，結果竟然與主耶穌基督的救恩無關，這是多麼可惜！因為他們沒有認識主耶穌就是彌賽亞，還一直排斥祂，與祂衝突，最後一切都失落了！

 

    保羅說到聖靈的做為就是讓人認識耶穌基督就是主，如哥林多前書12章3節說：「所以我告訴你們，被上帝的靈感動的，沒有說『耶穌是可咒詛』的；若不是被聖靈感動的，也沒有能說『耶穌是主』的。」

 

    因此，能認「耶穌是主」成為上帝的兒女，是聖靈工作之結果，這是我們判定真假基督徒的試金石。而使徒約翰也告訴我們：「凡靈認耶穌基督是成了肉身來的，就是出於上帝的；從此你們可以認出上帝的靈來。凡靈不認耶穌，就不是出於上帝，這是那敵基督者的靈。你們從前聽見他要來，現在已經在世上了。」(約翰一書4:2-3)