【读圣经学英语】怎能信我呢？

【读圣经学英语】怎能信我呢？

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约翰福音-John 5 章 41~47节

5:41 我不接受从人来的荣耀。
I do not receive glory from men.
5:42 但我认识你们，知道你们里面没有神的爱。
But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.
5:43 我在我父的名里来，你们并不接受我；若有别人在自己的名里来，你们倒要接受他。
I have come in the name of My Father, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
5:44 你们互相受荣耀，却不寻求从独一之神来的荣耀，怎能信我呢？
How can you believe when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that is from the only God?
5:45 不要以为我要向父控告你们；有一位控告你们的，就是你们所仰赖的摩西。
Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; there is one who accuses you: Moses, in whom you have set your hope.
5:46 你们若信摩西，也必信我，因为他曾写过关于我的事。
For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote concerning Me.
5:47 你们若不信他所写的，怎能信我的话？
But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?

亮光

在五章三十一至四十七节，我们看见子的四重见证：施浸者约翰的见证；（约五32～35；）子工作的见证；（约五36；）父的见证；（约五37～38；）和圣经的见证。（约五39～47。）有了这四重见证，人仍可能没有得到基督自己。

所有的神迹、奇事和恩赐，都不过是我们藉以接触基督的见证。今天的问题是人虽然有了见证，却未接触主自己。人可能见到了神迹奇事，有了恩赐和圣经知识，却没有来接触主自己。只有主自己赐你生命。点活你并赐你生命的，不是神迹、恩赐、甚至圣经，乃是主自己。

我要再次强调：使徒约翰记录了这些事例，指明人真正的光景，并启示主是我们生命的供应。在第一个事例中，我们是好人；在第二个事例中，我们是罪人；在第三个事例中，我们是垂死的人；在第四个事例中，我们是软弱的人。在第一个事例中，主是我们重生的生命；在第二个事例中，祂是我们满足的生命；在第三个事例中，祂是我们医治的生命；在第四个事例中，祂是点活我们的生命。藉着对这四个事例的领会，我们就能领悟我们的所在和我们的所是；我们也能晓得主的所在和所是。然后我们就知道，我们需要什么，以及主能供应我们什么。
 

Enlightenment:

In 5:31-47 we see the Son’s fourfold testimony: the testimony of John the Baptist (vv. 32-35); the testimony of the Son’s work (v. 36); the testimony of the Father (vv. 37-38); and the testimony of the Scriptures (vv. 39-47). It is possible to have these four witnesses and yet not have Christ Himself. 

All of the signs, manifestations, and gifts are merely witnesses by which we may contact Christ. The problem is that people today have the testimonies, but fail to contact the Lord Himself. It is possible to have the signs, the manifestations, the gifts, and the knowledge of the Scriptures, but not come to contact the Lord Himself. It is only the Lord Himself who will give you life. It is not the signs, the gifts, or even the Scriptures, but it is the Lord Himself who will enliven you and impart life into you.

Once more I want to stress the point that the Apostle John shows all of these cases to indicate man’s real condition and to reveal Christ as our life supply. In the first case, we were good persons; in the second, sinful persons; in the third, dying persons; and in the fourth, impotent persons. In the first case, the Lord is our regenerating life; in the second, our satisfying life; in the third, our healing life; and in the fourth, our enlivening life. By understanding these four cases, we can realize where we are and who we are, and we can know where the Lord is and who He is. Then we shall know what we need and what the Lord will supply to us.