人因你可以信 (劉志信牧師)
有很多時候別人看不到我們生命有所改變,不能因我們而信耶穌,這是許多基督徒做見證傳福音效果不佳的原因之一。有一位工程師在信主之後,在公司裡面想要傳福音給他的好朋友,但是他的朋友不斷地拒絕,幾個月後他非常沮喪,後來他便邀請這位朋友來教會,他的朋友看到牧師之後就信了。今天的信息重點是我們也要讓別人因為你而信。在今天的經文中談到耶穌是光,所以人信耶穌後,就有從耶穌來的新生命,也就是人的光。我們在傳福音時,對方常說自己甚麼都好,都不缺,不需要信耶穌。今天的經文告訴我們,耶穌來是要叫人得生命,並且得的更豐盛。
不要問是否信主,而是問是否有接受耶穌到心中,這就是我們與其他信仰不同的地方,當我們信耶穌的時候,祂就給我們權柄,成為祂的兒女。在神面前,我們人人平等。所以在領人信主時可以問,
- 是否願意接受光,不在黑暗中行走?
- 是否願意得到豐盛的生命?
- 是否願意成為神的兒女?
約翰福音 1:4-12 (和合本)
- 生命在他裡頭,這生命就是人的光。
- 光照在黑暗裡,黑暗卻不接受光。
- 有一個人,是從神那裡差來的,名叫約翰。
- 這人來,為要作見證,就是為光作見證,叫眾人因他可以信。
- 他不是那光,乃是要為光作見證。
- 那光是真光,照亮一切生在世上的人。
- 他在世界,世界也是藉著他造的,世界卻不認識他。
- 他到自己的地方來,自己的人倒不接待他。
- 凡接待他的,就是信他名的人,他就賜他們權柄,作神的兒女。
John 1:4-12 (NIV)
- In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.
- The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
- There was a man sent from God whose name was John.
- He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe.
- He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.
- The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.
- He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.
- He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.
- Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—