591 中翻英(291) Depend upon the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. 憑著聖靈, 字句叫人死, 聖靈叫人活. 11/24/2023

591 中翻英(291)           Depend upon the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.                                                                             憑著聖靈,   字句叫人死,   聖靈叫人活.                             11/24/2023                                                                                                      

十一月二十四日

「新約不是憑著字句，乃是憑著精意，因為那字句是叫人死，精意是叫人活。」（林后3:6）

与那些只注重外表的絕對准确，而忽略屬靈生命的人交談，我即使未到十分嫌惡的程度，最少也會覺得厭倦得很。像「布道的方法」這類公式化的名詞，一點也引不起我的興趣。有一件真正令人深感傷痛的事，就是當我們遇見有些神的儿女，他們毫不認識那种憑天然力量而行的生活是可憎的，也很少有在生命上以基督為元首的重要經歷，然而他們卻終日吹毛求疵地要求在事奉神的方法上，達到絕對的正确性和合理化。神自己為著祂的酒，已預備了那最适宜保有酒味的皮袋。若有了酒，卻沒有裝酒的皮袋，那的确是一种屬靈的損失，但有了皮袋，里面卻沒有酒，這就比損失更糟，因那是屬靈的死亡。

November 24

"The new covenant is not by the letter but by the Spirit, for the letter kills but the spirit gives life." (2 Corinthians 3:6)

As I am conversing with only caring about the absolute accuracy of appearance and neglect spiritual life people, even I will not with my downright disgustat, but at least not interesting.  Formulaic terms in  "preaching methods" don't make interesting in me at all. One thing is really deeply sad which is meeting some of God’s children who  have no idea about the  abominable of natural power living , and a few have knowledge Christ as the head of their bodies as in life this portant experience, however,  they are always criticizeing and asking absolute correctness and reasonable in their methods of serving God. God Himself has prepared for His wine the wineskins which are most suitable for retaining the flavor of the wine.  If you have wine but without the wineskins to hold it, it is real indeed a spiritual loss. But if you have the wineskins but do not have the wine in it, this is the worse than Spiritual loss case, because it is Spiritual death.