接受祂的神性Accepting His Deity
[每日靈修] 12/25/2018, 駱鴻銘編譯
耶穌在約翰福音十七章中的大祭司禱告中說道：「父啊，現在求你使我同你享榮耀，就是未有世界以先，我同你所有的榮耀。」（第5節）。耶穌在這裏提到了祂在創世之前所擁有的地位。這是對祂參與上帝永恆榮耀的默認。
在第四世紀，教會在基督的神性方面面臨嚴重的危機。亞流派異教徒否認基督的神性，聲稱耶穌是一個被上帝收養，而與上帝建立特殊關係的受造物。在他們與正統基督徒的爭論中，他們使用了粗俗和貶義的歌曲作為宣傳方法。
為了回應亞流派的攻擊，正統基督徒製作了他們自己的歌曲，其中一首是榮耀頌（Gloria Patri）。請注意這首著名歌曲的歌詞：
榮耀都歸於聖父、聖子、聖靈，三一全能真神。
正如太初直到現今，榮耀萬古而常新。永無窮盡，阿們，阿們。
Gloria
Patri在被教會接納之初就起到了一種戰鬥歌曲的作用，是對正統基督教的號召。這個原始功能已經隨著時間而丟失了，因此它現在是用來作為崇拜禮儀中的回應。我們不再意識到那種將榮耀歸於基督的非凡意義。
活在神的面光中（在神面前禱告）：
嘗試在本此的閱讀中使用Gloria Patri作為屬靈爭戰的歌曲。引用或大聲唱出來。
進一步研讀：
約十七5 父啊，現在求你使我同你享榮耀，就是未有世界以先，我同你所有的榮耀。
約十七22 你所賜給我的榮耀，我已賜給他們，使他們合而為一，像我們合而為一。
約十七24 父啊，我在哪裡，願你所賜給我的人也同我在那裡，叫他們看見你所賜給我的榮耀；因為創立世界以前，你已經愛我了。
Accepting
His Deity
In
Jesus’ high priestly prayer in John 17, He says: “And now, Father, glorify Me
together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world
was” (v. 5). Here Jesus alludes to a position He held before creation. It is a
tacit claim to His participation in the eternal glory of God.
In
the fourth century, the church faced a serious crisis with respect to the deity
of Christ. The Arian heretics denied the deity of Christ, claiming that Jesus
was a creature who was adopted into a special relationship with God. In their
controversy with orthodox Christians, they used ribald and derogatory songs as
a method of propaganda.
In
response to the Arian attacks, the orthodox Christians composed their own
songs, one of which was the Gloria Patri. Note the words of this well-known
song:
Glory
be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
As it
was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen, amen.
In
its inception, the Gloria Patri functioned as a type of fight song, a rallying
cry for orthodox Christianity. That original function has been lost through the
passing of time so that it is now used as a liturgical response. We no longer
sense the extraordinary significance of ascribing glory to Christ.
Coram
Deo
Try
using the Gloria Patri in this reading as a spiritual warfare song. Quote or
sing it out loud.
Passages
for Further Study
John
17:5
John
17:22
John
17:24