15耶稣不仅是救主，祂自己也是我们的救恩。不要求祂给你救恩。反而你该说，“主耶稣，来作我的救恩。”耶稣绝不会给你救恩，祂要来作你的救恩。我们信徒不领悟我们多么需要蒙拯救。每天、每时甚至每刻，我们都需要从一些事物中蒙拯救。……在生命里长大是什么意思？在积极方面，在生命里长大就是进入基督所是的丰富。在消极方面，就是蒙拯救脱离某些事物，或弃绝某些事物。虽然我们是微小的人，但我们已积存了许多消极的事物。也许你不领悟你已积存了多少消极的事物。无论我们去哪里，我们都搜集东西。我们拾起许多消极的事物，养成许多需要蒙拯救脱离的习惯。当你读到这里，你也许不觉得需要蒙拯救脱离什么事物。然而，假定你忽然被提到诸天之上。你若现在被提到诸天之上，你会立刻觉得需要许多的拯救。在生命里长大，就是蒙拯救脱离一切不需要的事物，脱离我们生活所不需要的一切。你若有光，有第四天光的暴露，你会说，“主，拯救我！”在这样的时候，我们领悟耶稣真是耶和华作我们的救主，和我们的救恩（马太福音生命读经，七八至八○页）。
15Jesus is not only the Savior; He Himself is also our salvation. Do not ask Him to give you salvation. Instead, you should say, “Lord Jesus, come to me and be my salvation.” Jesus will never give you salvation. He will come to you as salvation. We believers do not realize how much we need to be saved. Every day, every hour, and even every moment we have something from which we need to be saved…What does it mean to grow in life? On the positive side, to grow in life is to enter into the riches of what Christ is. On the negative side, it is to be delivered from certain things, or to forsake certain things. Although we are small men, we have accumulated many negative things. Probably you do not realize how many negative things you have accumulated. Wherever we go, we collect things. We pick up a great many negative things, and we acquire a number of habits from which we need to be saved. As you are reading this, you may not sense that you need salvation from anything. Suppose, however, you were suddenly raptured to the heavens. If you were taken to the heavens right now, you would immediately sense that you need a great deal of saving. To grow in life is simply to be saved from all unnecessary things, from all that is not needed for our living. If you have the light, the exposure of the fourth-day lights, you will say, “Lord, save me!” At such times we realize that Jesus is truly Jehovah as our Savior and our salvation. (Life-study of Matthew, pp. 60-61)