16多年前,我听到一些信息说,我们敬拜神需要真诚,这真诚就是主耶稣在约翰四章二十三至二十四节里所说的真实。比方说,有人可能对会众说,“你们来敬拜神,但是你们的心不在这里。……你敬拜神需要真诚的心。”……然而,将这两节里的真实一辞解释为真诚,乃是以天然、宗教的方式解释神的话。……这里神圣启示的真理乃是说,我们需要在真实里敬拜神,这真实就是我们享受神作实际的结果。我们若天天经历基督,就会享受三一神作我们的实际。这享受要产生美德,这美德要成为我们属人的实际,这实际乃是神圣实际的结果。……这美德一点不差就是我们所经历的基督,这基督乃是一切的祭物。我们所经历的基督是我们的赎罪祭、赎愆祭、燔祭、素祭以及平安祭(约翰一书生命读经,一○三至一○六页)。
16Years ago, I heard messages saying that we need to be sincere in our worship of God and that this sincerity is what the Lord Jesus meant by truthfulness in John 4:23 and 24. For example, one may say to the members of a congregation,” You have come to worship God, but your heart is not here…For the worship of God, you need a sincere heart.” To interpret the word truthfulness in John 4:23 and 24 as sincerity is to expound the Word of God in a way that is natural and religious…The truth of the divine revelation here is that we need to worship God in truthfulness, which is the issue of our enjoyment of the Triune God as reality. If we experience Christ daily, we will enjoy the Triune God as our reality. This enjoyment will result in a virtue, and this virtue will become our human truthfulness, a reality that is the outcome of the divine reality…This virtue is nothing less than Christ experienced by us, and this Christ is all the offerings. The Christ we have experienced is our sin offering, trespass offering, burnt offering, meal offering, and peace offering. (Life-study of 1 John, second edition, pp. 83-85)