经文:祂就回答说,那撒好种的就是人子,田地就是世界,好种就是国度之子,稗子就是恶者之子,撒稗子的仇敌就是魔鬼,收割的时候就是这世代的终结,收割的人就是天使。(太十三37-39,另译)
我们需要看见,今天的基督教是在黑暗里。我们处在复杂的时代。基督已经来了,并且撒了种;但仇敌也来了,并且作了事,造成复杂的情形。所以在今世有世人;有麦子,国度之子,神的儿女;也有在神儿女中间的稗子,假信徒,挂名的基督徒,恶者之子。许多国度之子堕落了,并且落在标准之下。
在此有四等人:正常的信徒、不正常的信徒、假信徒、世人。一天过一天,我们夹在这四类人中间。我们需要以对今日世代的清楚眼光面对这种情形。我们不愿和世界站在一起,也不愿成为基督教国的一部分。此外,我们也不愿作不正常的真信徒。反之,我们要作正常的真信徒,真国度之子,照着诸天之国的宪法而活。我们要照着宪法过生活,好生长基督。凡我们所生长的,都将是一种繁增,这繁增就是诸天之国的构成成分。所以,今天我们不仅在实际里-我们就是实际。然后主耶稣这位王再来时,我们就要在诸天之国的实现里,与基督一同作王掌权。
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True Believers and False Believers – Matt. 13:37-39
We need to see that today’s Christianity is in darkness, and we are in an age of complications. Christ has come and has sown the seed, but the enemy has also come in and has done things to cause complications. Therefore, in this age we have the worldly people; the wheat, the sons of the kingdom, the children of God; and the tares, the false believers, the nominal Christians, the sons of the Devil, who are among the children of God. Many of the sons of the kingdom have become degraded and have fallen below the standard.
Thus, there are four classes of people: the normal believers, the abnormal believers, the false believers and the worldly people. Day after day, we are involved with all four categories. In the very place where you work, all four types may be represented. We need to face this situation with a clear view of today’s age. We would not stand with the world nor be a part of Christendom. Furthermore, we would not be real yet abnormal believers. Rather, we want to be real and normal believers, real sons of the kingdom who live according to the constitution of the kingdom of the heavens. We would grow Christ by living a life according to the constitution. Whatever we grow will be the multiplication which is the constituent of the kingdom of the heavens. Therefore, today we are not only in the reality – we are the reality. Then when the Lord Jesus, the King, comes again, we shall be in the manifestation of the kingdom of the heavens to reign as Christ’s co-kings.