双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：9月27日 圣灵

九月二十七日

圣灵

“岂不知你们的身子就是圣灵的殿吗？……”

—-林前6:19

圣灵是谁？祂是神，正如圣父是神、圣子也是神一样。我们称之为三位一体。你让我解释三位一体。我们的头脑只能模糊的掌握这些伟大的属灵真理。因为我们是有限的，而上帝是无限的。

我们记住圣父上帝、圣子上帝、圣灵上帝都是存在于永恒之中的，这也许会有所帮助。创造的工作交给了圣子，我们知道，“万物是藉着祂造的；凡被造的，没有一样不是藉着祂造的。”但当你读《创世记》第一章第二节时，你会发现圣灵也在那里，在创造的水面上运行。最后，上帝的儿子以人的形象来到世界，来拯救祂所创造的世界。祂在十字架上受死并复活之后，就回到了天上圣父那里。

在地上的事奉期间，祂的工作和生活是在巴勒斯坦有限的地区之内度过的。当祂回到天上时，祂差遣圣灵来开展一个全世界范围的事工。今天圣灵照亮人的心灵，使我们渴慕上帝，接受属灵真理并且明白真理。在全世界，圣灵都在吸引人归向基督，祂就住在信徒的心里并每天都帮助我们。成为一个被圣灵充满的基督徒就是成为上帝想让我们成为的那种基督徒。

今日祷告

主耶稣，我知道祢的圣灵住在我心里，这给了我安慰和力量！奉主耶稣基督的圣名，阿们！

September 27

The Holy Spirit

Your body is the home of the Holy Spirit . . .

—1 Corinthians 6:19 (TLB)

Who is the Holy Spirit? He is God, just as God the Father and God the Son are also God. We speak of them as the Trinity. You ask me to explain the Trinity. Our minds can but dimly grasp these great spiritual facts, because we are finite and God is infinite.

It may help to remember that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit have all existed from eternity. The work of creation was given to the Son and we are told that, “All things were made by Him and without Him was not anything made that was made.” But when you read the second verse of the first chapter of Genesis, you will find that the Holy Spirit was also there, moving upon the face of His creation. In time, the Son of God came into the world as a man, to redeem the world which He had created. After His death on the cross, and His resurrection, He went back to the Father in heaven.

During His earthly ministry His work and life were spent within a circumscribed area in Palestine. When He went back to heaven, He sent the Holy Spirit to exercise a worldwide ministry. Today the Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us. All over the world the Holy Spirit is wooing men to Christ, and He lives in the hearts of believers and helps us each day. To be Spirit-filled Christians is to be the kind of Christians that God wants us to be.

Prayer for the day

The knowledge of Your Holy Spirit living in my heart gives me comfort and strength, Lord Jesus.