士六12　　耶和华的使者向基甸显现，对他说，大能的勇士，耶和华与你同在。

　　启二7　　那灵向众召会所说的话，凡有耳的，就应当听。…

　　士师记六章一节至八章三十二节…这一段（的）内在意义，…（第一，）乃是…基甸成功的秘诀，然后…（是）他失败的关键（士师记生命读经，二九页）。

　　虽然我们所在的角度和地位都是对的，我们仍可能没有适当能听的耳朵。启示录一章着重看，二、三章着重听。在属灵的事上，看见是在于听见。本书作者首先是听见声音（一10），然后才看见异象（12）。如果我们的耳朵发沉听不见，我们就看不见（赛六9~10）。犹太人不肯听主的话，所以看不见主照着新约所行的事（太十三15，徒二八27）。主总是愿意开通我们的耳朵，好听见祂的声音（伯三三14~16，赛五十4~5，出二一6），使我们能照着祂的经纶看事物。发沉的耳朵需要受割礼（耶六10，徒七51）；罪人的耳朵需要用救赎的血洁净，并用那灵膏抹（利十四14、17、28）。我们要作祭司事奉主，耳朵也需要用救赎的血洁净（出二九20，利八23~24）。在启示录中，那灵向众召会说话时，我们的耳朵都必须被开通、受割礼、得洁净、且被膏抹，好听见那灵说话（圣经恢复本，启二7注3）。

　　Judg. 6:12 And the Angel of Jehovah appeared to him and said to him, Jehovah is with you, valiant warrior.

　　Rev. 2:7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches…

　　The intrinsic significance of…Judges [6:1—8:32] is…first, the secret of Gideon’s success and then the secret of his failure. Gideon, a marvelous judge who was called by Jehovah in a very particular way, was successful because of four things. First, he listened carefully to the word of God, something that was rare among the children of Israel at that time. Second, Gideon obeyed God’s word and acted on it. (Life-study of Judges, p. 23)

　　Although our angle and position may be right, we still may not have the proper ear to hear. Revelation 1 emphasizes seeing and chapters 2 and 3 emphasize hearing. In spiritual things, seeing depends on hearing. The writer of Revelation first heard the voice (1:10) and then saw the vision (1:12). If our ears are dull and cannot hear, then we cannot see (Isa. 6:9-10). The Jews would not hear the word of the Lord, so they could not see what the Lord was doing according to the new testament (Matt. 13:15; Acts 28:27). The Lord always wants to open our ears to hear His voice (Job 33:14-16; Isa. 50:4-5; Exo. 21:6) that we may see things according to His economy. The dull ears need to be circumcised (Jer. 6:10; Acts 7:51). The sinners’ ears need to be cleansed with the redeeming blood and anointed with the Spirit (Lev. 14:14,17,28). To serve the Lord as priests, we must have our ears cleansed with the redeeming blood (Exo. 29:20; Lev. 8:23-24). According to Revelation, as the Spirit is speaking to the churches, we all need an opened, circumcised, cleansed, and anointed ear to hear the Spirit’s speaking. (Rev. 2:7, footnote 1)

　　希伯来五章八节告诉我们，主顺从是从苦难中得到的。…遇到苦难还能顺从才是真顺从。人的用处不在有无苦难，乃在因苦难学得了顺从。顺从神的人才有用处。心不软下来，苦难总不离开你。多有苦难是我们的路，贪安逸爱享受的人没有用处。总要学习在苦难中能顺从。因主到地上来，不是带了顺从来，乃是因苦难而学了顺从（权柄与顺服，四三至四四页）。

　　（律法义的要求）不是有意识的，靠我们外面的努力来遵守，乃是自然且不知不觉的，靠生命之灵内里的运行而成就。生命的灵，就是基督的灵，基督是与神的律法一致的。当我们照着这灵而行，我们里面的这灵，自然就借着我们成就律法一切义的要求（圣经恢复本，罗八4注1）。

　　律法有两面—字句的一面和那灵的一面。“那字句杀死人，那灵却叫人活”（林后三6）。我们来就近律法的态度，若只是关切字句的诫命，我们所有的就是律法在杀死人的字句这一面。然而，我们若将律法的每一部分—所有的诫命、典章、律例、训辞和判语，当作我们所爱之神呼出的话，我们就会有律法赐生命之灵的这一面。…律法的功用也有两面。消极一面，律法暴露人的罪（罗三20下，七7下），叫罪人服在神面前（三19）。律法也将神所拣选的人看守在其监管之下，好带他们归于基督（加三23~24）。积极一面，律法的功用是神活的见证，将活神供应给寻求祂的人（诗一一九2、88）；律法也是神活的话，其功用是将神自己作为生命和光，分赐到那些爱律法的人里面（25、116、130）（诗一一九50注1）。

　　参读：士师记生命读经，第五篇；权柄与顺服，第五篇；实行主当前行动之路，第二、六章。

　　Hebrews 5:8 tells us that the Lord’s obedience was learned through suffering….True submission is found when there is still obedience in spite of suffering. A man’s usefulness is not in whether he has suffered, but in whether he has learned obedience in suffering. Only those who are obedient to God are useful. If the heart is not softened, the suffering will not go away. Our way is the way of manifold sufferings. A man who yearns after ease and enjoyment is of no use. We must all learn to be obedient in sufferings. When the Lord came to the earth, He did not bring obedience with Him; rather, He learned it through sufferings. (CWWN, vol. 47, “Authority and Submission,” p. 146)

　　[The law’s righteous requirement is] not consciously kept by us through our outward endeavoring but spontaneously and unconsciously fulfilled in us by the inward working of the Spirit of life. The Spirit of life is the Spirit of Christ, and Christ corresponds with the law of God. This Spirit within us spontaneously fulfills all the righteous requirements of the law through us when we walk according to Him. (Rom. 8:4, footnote 1)

　　There are two aspects of the law—the aspect of the letter and the aspect of the Spirit. “The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life” (2 Cor. 3:6). If our attitude in coming to the law is to care only for the commandments in letters, we will have the law in the aspect of the killing letter. However, if we take every part of the law—all the commandments, ordinances, statutes, precepts, and judgments—as the word breathed out by the God whom we love, we will have the law in the aspect of the life-giving Spirit. The function of the law also has two aspects. On the negative side, the law exposes man’s sin (Rom. 3:20b; 7:7b) and subdues sinners before God (Rom. 3:19). It also guards God’s chosen people in its custody that they might be conducted to Christ (Gal. 3:23-24). On the positive side, as God’s living testimony, the law functions to minister the living God to His seekers (Psa. 119:2, 88), and as God’s living word, the law functions to dispense God Himself as life and light into those who love the law (vv. 25, 116, 130). (Psa. 119:50, footnote 1)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Judges, msg. 5; CWWN, vol. 47, “Authority and Submission,” ch. 5; CWWL, 1985, vol. 5, “The Way to Practice the Lord’s Present Move,” chs. 2, 6