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.

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真實的權威

你們親近神，神就必親近你們。 （雅四8）

我們必須讓人有機會行神的真理，這責任是個人的，別人無法代行。他必須蓄意去行，但福音的資訊也該引導他的行動。不肯行動叫人癱瘓，使人依然故我；一有行動，就不同了。多少被神的靈感動的人，都因不肯行動而受阻擋。行動的那一刻，我就活了；其馀的時候，我不過是存在的個體。以整個意志投入行動，就是我存在的個體。以整個意志投入行動，就是我真正活著的時候。

不要讓神放在你心裡的某一真理成為過去，無所行動。不單是肉身的行動，更是意誌上的。不管用筆墨或用血，要把它記錄下來。最柔弱的信徒若與耶穌基督相交，在他行動的那一刻，就得著釋放，神的大能就屬於他了。我們明白神的真理，承認自己的錯，又重蹈覆轍；以後又再達到真理，但不久又故態復萌；這情況要到我們學會不應回頭，才停止下來。對救主的話要全無保留地接納，與他來一次交易。他說[來]，就是交易的意思。 [到我這裡來。 ]我們往往非到最後也不肯[來]。其實過來人就知道，一[來]，神超然的生命就立刻進到他裡面。世界、肉體、魔鬼對他的控制就立刻癱瘓，不是因為你的行動，而是因你的行動把你連接到神救贖的大能去。

祈禱◆主啊，我只有一件事情- 就是有聲和無聲的需要你。 [靈性貧乏]這詞，正描述了我對自己的一點認識。我來到你面前，全然地需要你。