大使命 3

最偉大的探險

大使命的第一句話是所有其他命令的根基：

『天上地下所有的權柄都賜給我了』(參考馬太福音28:18)。

這是主行在地上所有信息的核心，亦是神國度的基本信息。君王的權柄是在他的王國中彰顯出來；神的國度則是主的權柄彰顯之處。

領會主對祂國度教導與宣揚的深度，在於瞭解祂目的的本質，藉此也會瞭解我們的目的。為此緣故，以弗所書三章16-19節告訴我們：

求祂按著祂豐盛的榮耀，藉著祂的靈，叫你們心裡的力量剛強起來， 
使基督因你們的信，住在你們心裡，叫你們的愛心有根有基， 
能以和眾聖徒一同明白基督的愛是何等長闊高深， 
並知道這愛是過於人所能測度的，便叫神一切所充滿的，充滿了你們。 

我們要尋求明白神的愛是何等長闊高深，好叫神一切所充滿的，充滿了我們的終極目的。此概念太過奇妙可畏，使我們無法自我領會，所以我們才要按著16節告訴我們的，求主讓我們明白。我們也需要藉著祂的靈，叫我們心裡的力量剛強起來，好讓基督住在我們心中，使我們在愛中紮根。 

此可能是我們門訓目的的總結，它遠超過地上的門訓，地上的門徒有可能從一位偉大師父學習，變得像他一樣，但這裡說我們會被我們的夫子充滿到一個地步，祂會住在我們裡面！這是何等可畏的呼召，甚至連天使都感到驚奇。我們越明白此，越會竭盡所能的來尋求。

沒有任何人想像出來如童話故事般的國度，能像神真實的國度一樣美好。沒有任何地上的王或任何小說所想像出來的王，能像我們的王一樣美好或大有能力。這即是何以真實的基督徒生活是人類所能擁有的最偉大探險，沒有任何事可以比神更讓人興奮，也沒有任何事可以比宗教更令人無聊！

當然，在聖經中『真實的宗教』是基於愛和愛的行動，凡是投入『真實宗教』的人會發現那是他們這一生所能做最美好的事情。沒有任何毒品、人類經驗或幸福可以和愛一樣美好，這正是真實基督徒生命的根基。此外，為著神國的緣故，基督徒生活充滿著探險、驚奇、敬畏與最崇高的爭戰。

真實的國度生活比任何人心中所能編織的故事更加偉大，我們所尋求的不單是瞭解，乃是活出來。大使命便是在呼召人們進入最偉大的探險與委任，凡聽到此呼召的，歡迎加入我們。

(摘自喬納 word for the week, Week 3, 2013)



The Greatest Adventure - The Great Commission, Part 3
Week 3, 2013 
Rick Joyner 

The first sentence in The Great Commission is the foundation upon which the rest of the mandate is based:

“All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth” (see Matthew 28:18).

This was the core of the Lord’s entire message when He walked the earth and is the basic message of the kingdom. A kingdom is where a king’s authority is recognized. The kingdom of God is where the Lord’s authority is recognized.

Grasping the depth of the Lord’s teaching and proclamations about His kingdom is the essence of understanding His purposes and thereby our purpose. For this reason, we are told in Ephesians 3:16-19:

that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man; 
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 
may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 
and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

We are going to seek to comprehend the breadth and length and height and depth of the love of God with the ultimate purpose of being filled with the fullness of God. This is a concept too awesome to comprehend on our own, so it is something that the Lord must “grant” to us as we are told in verse 16. It also requires that we are strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man so that Christ dwells in our hearts, and we are rooted and grounded in love.

This might sum up the purpose of our discipleship. It is more than any earthly discipleship where we might be devoted to learning from a great master and becoming like the master, but here we are told that we are to be filled with our Master so that He dwells in us! This is such an awesome calling that even the angels marvel at it. The more we comprehend this, the more we must be compelled to seek it with all that is within us.

There is no fairytale kingdom conceived in the imagination of any person as wonderful as the true kingdom is. There is no king ever to have reigned on the earth or imagined in any fiction as wonderful or as powerful as our King is. This is why the true Christian life is the greatest adventure any human being could ever live. There will never be anything more exciting than God or as boring as religion!

Of course, there is a “true religion” declared in Scripture that is based on love and acts of love. Those who engage in this “true religion” find it to be one of the most wonderful things they can do in this life. There is no drug, no human experience, nor euphoria as wonderful as love, and this is the foundation of the true Christian life. There is also adventure, wonder, awe, and the most noble warfare to be waged for the sake of the kingdom.

The true kingdom life is greater than any tale that has ever been woven by the mind of any man. This is what we are seeking not to just understand but to live. The Great Commission is the call to that greatest of adventures and the mandate to everyone who will hear the call to join