極大的奧秘 - 基督與教會

Core Meaning & Nature

• Active choice to submit to God's will

• Emphasis on personal willingness (2 Cor 8:5)

• Daily life choice (1 Cor 15:31)

• Continuous process (2 Cor 4:16)

• Willing offering of oneself

• Marks the beginning of action (John 13:1)

• Concrete act of dedication (Rom 12:1)

• Critical turning point (Phil 3:7)

• Suffering and sacrifice, either forced or willing

• Complete self-denial (Phil 3:8)

• Experience of union with Christ (Rom 6:5)

• Breaking of self-life (2 Cor 4:8-9)

• Continuously living in the dealing with self

• Ongoing spiritual exercise (2 Cor 1:9)

• Being conformed to Christ's image (Rom 8:29)

• Living in God's will (2 Cor 5:15)

Practical Application & Basis

• Denying self-will (Matt 26:39)

• Submitting to God's leading (1 Pet 5:6)

• Willing to pay the price (Phil 1:29)

• Practicing obedience

• Accepting suffering

• Offering oneself (Rom 6:13

• Not loving one's life (Rev 12:11)

• Choosing God's way (Prov 3:5-6)

• Active dedication

• Seeking God's will

• Accepting God's working (James 1:2-4

• Experiencing breaking (John 12:24-25)

• Letting God build (Eph 2:22)

• Acknowledging God in suffering

• Experiencing deeper breaking

• Maintaining attitude of death to self (1 Cor 15:31)

• Living under dealing (2 Cor 4:16-17)

• Continuously turning to spirit (Rom 8:6)

• Recognizing God's sovereignty

• Practicing turning to spirit

Marriage Application

• Giving up personal preferences

• Following God's leading

• Imitating Christ's love (Eph 5:25)

• Actively serving spouse

• Not seeking self-benefit

• Living out sacrificial love (Col 3:19)

• Accepting God's working

• Experiencing self-breaking

• Building testimony of oneness

• Not complaining about spouse

• Seeing God's hand

• Maintaining loving service (1 Pet 3:7)

Environmental Practice

• Accepting God's arrangements

• Not complaining

• Recognizing God's will (Rom 8:28)

• Actively facing difficulties

• Seeking God's purpose

• Choosing to trust God

• Acknowledging God in suffering

• Experiencing deeper breaking

• Manifesting Christ (2 Cor 12:9)

• Knowing God's sovereignty

• Experiencing God in disturbances

• Maintaining faith (1 Pet 4:12-13)

Spiritual Results

• Deeper knowledge of God

• Gradual life growth

• Strengthened faith (2 Cor 3:18)

• Closer intimacy with Lord

• Life renewal

• Christ glorified (Phil 1:20)

• Self-life broken

• Christ-life manifested

• Becoming living sacrifice (Rom 12:1)

• Resurrection life increasing

• Spiritual measure enlarged

• Growing to maturity (Gal 4:19)

Key Principles

• Continuity (Luke 9:23)

• Initiative (2 Cor 8:5)

• Obedience (Heb 5:8)

• Willingness (John 10:18)

• Thoroughness (Phil 3:8)

• Positivity (Heb 12:2)

• Union (Rom 6:5)

• Breaking (John 12:24)

• Building (Eph 2:22)

• Perseverance (Heb 10:36)

• Transformation (Rom 8:13)

• Perfecting (James 1:4)

Key Scripture

• Mark 8:34 "If anyone wishes to come after Me... take up his cross"

• Matt 10:38 "He who does not take his cross... is not worthy of Me"

• Luke 14:27 "Whoever does not carry his own cross... cannot be My disciple"

• Phil 2:8 "Being obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross"

• Heb 12:2 "For the joy set before Him endured the cross"

• John 12:24 "Unless a grain of wheat falls... and dies"

• John 12:32 "If I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself"

• Gal 2:20 "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live"

• Rom 6:6 "Our old self was crucified with Him"

• Gal 6:14 "Through which the world has been crucified to me"

• Phil 3:10 "Being conformed to His death"

• John 19:30 "It is finished... He gave up His spirit"

• Col 1:23 "Continue in the faith firmly established"

• Heb 10:36 "You have need of endurance"

• Heb 12:3 "So that you will not grow weary"

• 2 Cor 4:10-11 "Always carrying about... the dying of Jesus"