15整本约翰福音也启示主是话和灵。这样一个思想贯穿整卷约翰福音。你一旦在这卷福音书里看见了主奇妙的身位,你就会问说,『祂在那里?我怎样才能接触祂?』赞美主,祂在话里,也在灵里;因为祂是话,祂也是灵。现在你既有了话,也有了灵。你若接触那灵,又接受那话,你就有了主自己。藉著住留在主的话里,你就有了一切。(约八。)你若一直与主的话接触,你就住在主自己里面。藉著接触话,你就接触了永远生命的源头。结果,因著你一直与主自己接触,你就可以永远不尝死味。(约八51。)这已经由历史得到证实。有些圣徒临死的时候,即使濒临死亡,也没有尝到死味。例如,慕迪(D.L.Moody)临死的时候,死得十分勇敢。他死而未尝死味,因为他是住在主里面,并接触生命的源头。照样,我们若不断住留在主的话里,我们也要一直接触生命的源头,那么我们就绝不会尝到死味。我们要经过死而不尝死味。约翰福音是一卷生命的书。在这卷福音书里人多次问主问题,想要得到是或否的答覆。然而,主绝不说是或否。譬如,在四章撒玛利亚妇人说,『我们的祖宗在这山上敬拜,你们倒说,敬拜的地方必须在耶路撒冷。』(约四。)换句话说,她在问祂那里是敬拜的正确地方。主耶稣没有说那里是正确的地方。祂说,神是灵,我们必须在灵里敬拜祂。(约四24。)不是这里那里的问题,乃是在灵里的问题;我们在灵里,就能接触神这生命树。主没有答覆她是或不是,乃是把她转到她人的灵里,接触神这生命树。在八章原则也是一样,当法利赛人带来一个有罪的妇人,问主该不该用石头将她打死,主也不给他们是或否的答覆。祂说,『你们中间谁是没有罪的,谁就先拿石头打她。』(约八7。)主的答覆将他们转向主,就是生命树。后来到九章,门徒问主一个问题,那个生来瞎眼的人,到底是因谁犯了罪,是这人,还是他父母?主回答他们说,『不是这人犯了罪,也不是他父母犯了罪,乃是要在他身上显明神的作为。』(约九3。)主再次将他们引向神,就是生命树。约翰福音是一卷生命的书,从来不按照善恶知识树给人答覆,乃是一直把人转向生命树。没有对或错、善或恶、是或否的答覆,只有一件事-生命。你无须对,正如你无须错一样。你只需要顾到生命。当你有了生命,一切就都好了。
15The whole Gospel of John also reveals that the Lord is the Word and the Spirit. There is such a thought throughout the whole Gospel. Once you see the wonderful person of the Lord in this Gospel, you will ask, “Where is He and how can I contact Him?” Praise the Lord that He is in the Word and in the Spirit, for He is the Word and He is the Spirit. You now have both the Word and the Spirit. If you contact the Spirit and receive the Word, you then have the Lord Himself. You have everything by abiding and continuing in the Word of the Lord (8:31). If you keep yourself in contact with the Word of the Lord, it means that you are abiding 31 in the Lord Himself. By contacting the Word, you are contacting the source of the eternal and everlasting life. Consequently, because you are always in contact with the Lord Himself, you will never taste death (8:51). This has been proved by history. When some of the saints were about to die, they did not taste death even though they were dying. For example, wh enD. L. Moody was dying, he died bravely. He died without tasting death, because he was abiding in the Lord and contacting the source of life. Likewise, if we will abide and continue in the Word of the Lord, we will also contact the source of life all of the time. Then we will never taste death. We will pass through death without tasting it. The Gospel of John is a book of life. Many times in this Gospel people asked the Lord questions with the intention of receiving a yes or no answer. However, the Lord never answered yes or no. For example, in chapter four the Samaritan woman said, “Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men must worship” (4:20). In other words, she was asking Him which 20 place was the right place in which to worship. The Lord Jesus did not say which place was right. He said that God is Spirit and that we must worship Him in spirit (4:24). It is not a matter of here or there; it is a matter in the spirit in which we can contact God, the tree of life. The Lord Jesus did not answer her with a yes or a no, but turned her to the human spirit to contact God, the tree of life. The principle is the same in chapter eight when the Pharisees brought a sinful woman and asked the Lord whether or not she should be stoned. Again, the Lord did not give a yes or no answer. He said, “He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her” (8:7). The Lord’s answer turned them to the Lord, the tree of life. Later, when we come to chapter nine, we shall see that the disciples asked the Lord a question about the man who was blind from birth, inquiring whose sin, his or his parents, had caused him to be born blind. The Lord answered them by saying, “Neither has this man sinned nor his parents, but that the works of God might be manifested in him” (9:3). Once again, the Lord answered by pointing them to God, the tree of life. The Gospel of John is a book of life and it never gives answers that are according to the tree of knowledge of good and evil, but always turns people to the tree of life. There are no answers of right or wrong, good or bad, yes or no. There is only one thing—life. You do not need to be right, just like you do not need to be wrong. You need only to care for life. When you have life, everything is fine.