11月8日 使徒关于耶稣的教导
11月8日，周六
使徒关于耶稣的教导
……耶稣基督是成了肉身来的……（约翰壹书4:2）
那么，使徒关于基督的教导是什么？在这节经文中，约翰一句话就给出了完美的答案。约翰从不随意用词。让我们留意他的表达：“你们可以这样认出神的灵：凡是承认耶稣基督是成了肉身来的，那灵就是出于神。”（约壹4:2）这里的陈述是：“耶稣基督是成了肉身来的。”耶稣基督“成了肉身”来到世界。这是什么意思呢？让我试着向你解释，约翰这样说是在反驳并回答那些甚至在他那个时代、第一世纪结束之前就已经在教会中兴起的严重异端。
“耶稣基督”这个称呼非常关键。为何约翰说“耶稣基督是成了肉身来的”，而不是单说“耶稣”或“基督”成了肉身来的呢？因为这是他要强调：在这位蒙福之人的位格中，有完全的合一。主耶稣基督具有两种本性——神性与人性——却只有一个位格。
在约翰壹书较早的章节中清楚地表明，早期教会中已经有假先知、敌基督者。他们说：“拿撒勒人耶稣只是普通人；当祂在约旦河接受施洗约翰的洗礼时，永恒的‘基督’临到祂并使用祂；基督与祂同在直到十字架，但在受难时‘基督’离开祂回到天上，所以死在十架上的只是人耶稣。”他们把耶稣基督分成了两个位格——“人耶稣”和“永恒的基督”。约翰说：不！是“耶稣基督”——一个位格，具有两个本性：神性与人性，在一个位格中联合。
默想主题：
主耶稣基督有两种本性——神性与人性——但祂只有一个位格。
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November 8, Saturday
THE APOSTOLIC TEACHING ABOUT JESUS
. . . Jesus Christ is come in the flesh . . . (1 JOHN 4:2)
What is the apostolic teaching concerning Christ? Now in a phrase in our text John gives us the perfect answer. John does not use words like this haphazardly. Listen to the way in which he puts it: “Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God” (1 John 4:2). Now here is the statement: “Jesus Christ is come in the flesh.” Jesus Christ arrived in the world “in the flesh.” What does this mean? Let me try to show you how John in putting it like this was countering and answering some of those grievous heresies that had already arisen even in his day in the church, before the end of the first century.
Take the expression “Jesus Christ.” Why does John say, “Jesus Christ is come in the flesh”? Why did he not say that Jesus or Christ has come in the flesh? Ah, that is most important; that is his way of emphasizing the unity of the blessed person. The Lord Jesus Christ has two natures—the divine and the human—and yet there is only one person. The earlier chapters of 1 John make it plain that there were false prophets, antichrists, in the early church, and some of them said something like this: “Jesus of Nazareth was just a man like every other man; but when He was baptized by John in the Jordan, the eternal Christ came upon Him and began to use Him; and the eternal Christ continued with the man Jesus until He came to the cross. But on the cross the eternal Christ went away, back to heaven, and it was only the man Jesus who died. There were two persons— the man Jesus and the eternal Christ.” No! says John; “Jesus Christ,” one person but two natures—the two natures in one person.
A Thought to Ponder: The Lord Jesus Christ has two natures—the divine and the human— and yet there is only one person.