DAY 86
大使命
雷克-喬納
耶穌進前來，對他們說：天上地下所有的權柄都賜給我了。
所以，你們要去，使萬民作我的門徒，奉父、子、聖靈的名給他們施洗（或作：給他們施洗，歸於父、子、聖靈的名）。
凡我所吩咐你們的，都教訓他們遵守，我就常與你們同在，直到世界的末了。（馬太福音28:18-20）
我們常常把我們通過十字架得救的好消息與大使命的信息混淆起來。當然，這也包括在福音中，但福音遠不止個人救贖。大使命的基礎是所有的權柄都交給了耶穌，無論是在天上還是地上。大使命不僅是對我們救贖的宣揚，也是對祂權柄的宣揚。
當然，我們的救贖是如此美妙，由此確立的神的愛的信息也是如此深刻，所以很容易理解為什麼許多人很難看透它。然而，如果我們要完成大使命，就必須超越它。我們沒有被命令帶著救贖的福音進入全世界，而是帶著國度的福音，正如我們在馬太福音24:14中所讀到的那樣：
"這天國的福音要傳遍天下，對萬民作見證，然後末期才來到。"
天國的福音是一個好消息，即耶穌是坐在所有統治、權柄和能力之上的國王。祂可以在任何時候通過剝開天堂向全世界揭示祂是國王。然而，在祂再來的時候，祂正在尋求呼召那些如此熱愛上帝和祂的真理的人，使他們現在就生活在祂的國度裡，儘管他們受到整個世界的敵擋，而這個世界仍然躺在惡者的權下。
我們首先宣告祂是我們自己的王，將我們的生活置於祂的帶領和支配之下。然後，我們宣揚好消息，說明生活在祂的統治下比生活在這個邪惡時代的領域中要美妙得多。然而，除非我們事實上生活在祂的統治之下，否則我們的信息將是空洞無物的。
這就是為什麼大使命不只是讓人信主，而是讓人做門徒，教導他們遵守祂所吩咐的 "一切"。任何旅程中最重要的一步通常是第一步，但我們必須承認，第一步只是一個開始。重生雖然美妙，但當一個人重生時，他們離最終的目的就像一個嬰兒離美國總統一樣遙遠。我用總統這個例子是因為基督徒被呼召去做比這更高的事情--那就是與基督一起統治和執政。
希伯來書的作者感歎他不能給他的讀者提供固體食物，而只能給他們牛奶，因為他們還不成熟。希伯來書是聖經中最深奧的神學書籍之一，很少有基督徒甚至能理解其中的許多教義，比如關於麥基洗德祭司的教義，但作者卻說這本書只是牛奶！（見希伯來書5:11-14）這讓我們何去何從？我們如何才能走向成熟，以便在靈性上吃到固體食物？
近二十年前，主對我說了一些話，使我感到非常震驚，以至於我一直在尋求理解它。主說的是，許多傳銷的行銷人員比現在的教會領袖更瞭解王國的原則。最近，我的朋友給了我關於這句話的重要啟示，他是最成功的傳銷行銷人員之一。我問他，他認為自己成功的秘訣是什麼。他很快回答說，那就是當有人進入他們的業務時，他們會立即看到他們能走多遠，而且朝向目標的每一步都有明確的定義，這樣他們總是知道自己與目標的關係，以及接下來他們需要做什麼才能走得更高。
對於他們在基督裡的目標，有多少基督徒能這樣說？有多少人甚至知道下一步如何邁向成熟？在我在會議中進行的民意調查中，似乎只有不到5%的基督徒知道他們自己在基督裡的目的是什麼。這一定是現代教會偉大而悲慘的失敗之一。
當我有了我在《末日決戰》中寫到的預言經歷時，我不得不爬上一座山。那座山的每一層都代表著聖經中的真理。當我爬得更高時，我得到了更多的權柄來打敗攻擊我們的敵人，我也開始看到了更多主的榮耀。從那時起，我一直在尋求主的智慧，以瞭解如何將攀登那座山的經驗最好地落實到我們的事工和信息中。
我寫這本書的原因是想傳授這種系統的屬靈進展。儘管它是一本每日靈修書，但我認為你可以在其中看到一個系統的進展。我已經在寫下一本，我相信它能幫助你在主的山上指明通往更高境界的道路。正如箴言4:18所宣稱的，"但義人的路好像黎明的光，越照越明，直到日午。"我們所走的光應該是不斷地變亮的。
DAY 86
The Great Commission
Rick Joyner
And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.
"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age" (Matthew 28:18-20).
We have often confused the good news of our salvation through the cross with the message of the Great Commission. Of course this is included in the gospel, but the gospel is much more than personal salvation. The foundation of The Great Commission is that all authority has been given to Jesus, in both heaven and earth. The Great Commission is not just a proclamation of our salvation, but of His authority.
Of course, our redemption is so wonderful, and the message of the love of God that is established by it is so profound, that it is easy to understand why many have a difficult time seeing beyond it. However, if we are to fulfill The Great Commission we must see beyond it. We were not commanded to go into all of the world with the gospel of salvation, but with the gospel of the kingdom, as we read in Matthew 24:14:
"And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a witness to all the nations, and then the end shall come."
The gospel of the kingdom is the good news that Jesus is the King who sits above all rule and authority and power. He can at anytime reveal to the whole world that He is the King by peeling back the heavens. However, until the time of His return, He is seeking to call those who so love God and His truth that they will live in His kingdom now, even though they are opposed by the whole world that still lies in the power of the evil one.
We first proclaim Him as our own King by submitting our lives to His leadership and dominion. Then we seek to proclaim the good news of how much more wonderful it is to live under His dominion rather than under the domain of this present evil age. However, our message will be hollow and empty unless we are in fact living under His dominion.
That is why the Great Commission was not just to make converts, but to make disciples, teaching them to observe "all" that He has commanded. The most important step in any journey is usually the first, but we must acknowledge that the first step is just the beginning. As wonderful as it is to be born again, when one is born again they are as far from their ultimate purpose as an infant is from being the President of the United States. I use this example of the President because a Christian is called to something much higher than that—which is ruling and reigning with Christ.
The author of the Book of Hebrews laments that he cannot give his readers solid food, but can only give them milk because of their immaturity. Hebrews is one of the deepest theological books in the Bible, with few Christians even comprehending many of its teachings such as that about the Melchezedek priesthood, yet the author says that this book is only milk! (see Hebrews 5:11-14) Where does this leave us? How do we go on to maturity so that we can partake of solid food spiritually?
The Lord spoke something to me nearly twenty years ago that so jolted me that I have since been on a quest trying to understand it. What the Lord said was that many multi-level marketers understand kingdom principles better than the present leaders of the church. An important insight about this statement came to me recently from a friend of mine, who has been one of the most successful multi-level marketers. I asked him what he considered to be the secret of his success. He replied quickly that it was the fact that when someone entered their business they were immediately shown how far they could go, and that each step toward their goal was clearly defined so that they always knew where they were in relation to their goal, and what they needed to do next to go higher.
How many Christians can say that in relation to their purposes in Christ? How many even know the next step toward pressing on to maturity? In polls I have taken in our conferences it seems that less than 5 percent of Christians even know what their own purpose in Christ is. This must be one of the great and tragic failures of the modern church.
When I had the prophetic experience that I wrote about in The Final Quest, I had to climb a mountain. Each level on that mountain represented a biblical truth. As I climbed higher, I received more authority to defeat the enemies who were attacking us, and I also began to see more of the glory of the Lord. Since that time I have sought the wisdom of the Lord as to how to best implement the climbing of that mountain into our ministry and our message.
It is for the reason of trying to impart this systematic spiritual progression that I am writing this kind of book. Even though it is a daily devotional, I think that you can see a systematic progression in it. I am already writing the next one, which I believe can help show the way to an even higher realm on the mountain of the Lord. As Proverbs 4:18 declares, "But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, that shines brighter and brighter until the full day." The light that we walk in should be getting continually brighter.
