问题37：圣灵怎样帮助我们？
答：圣灵使我们知罪，安慰我们，引导我们，赐给我们属灵的恩赐和顺服神的愿望；祂使我们能够祷告，并理解神的话语。
儿童版：圣灵使我们知罪，祂使我们能够祷告，并明白神的话语。

Question 37: How Does the Holy Spirit Help Us?
Answer: The Holy Spirit convicts us of our sin, comforts us, guides us, gives us spiritual gifts and the desire to obey God; and he enables us to pray and to understand God’s Word.
For Kids: The Holy Spirit convicts us of our sin, and he enables us to pray and to understand God’s Word.


歌谱 Lead Sheet

经文

《以弗所书》6 章17 节至18 节：

　　并戴上救恩的头盔，拿着圣灵的宝剑，就是神的道。靠着圣灵，随时多方祷告祈求，并要在此警醒不倦，为众圣徒祈求。

注解

约翰·欧文

　　圣灵住在我们里面，为我们指引方向。从根本和习惯上来说，祂教导我们，给我们灵里的看见和亮光，祂光照我们，使我们出黑暗入奇妙光明，看清和知道自己的道路，并且晓得神的事……祂给予我们新的亮光和理解，因此，我们也能够「分辨、明白和领受属灵的事。」……圣灵浇灌在我们身上，力量和光明就来了；使我们能够领受祂施恩启示我们的一切，并且有能力行出来……内住的圣灵会扶持我们。我们的心极容易在试炼面前败下阵来。事实上，只要遭遇一个小小的试炼，我们的肉体和心肠，和一切在我们里面的都立刻会失败……圣灵扶持、担当我们的软弱，帮助我们努力前行。

默想

里奥·舒斯特

　　我总是震撼于耶稣所说的：「离了我，你们就不能做什么。」（约15:5）这提醒使我们自卑，同时也激励我们，自始至终，并非部分，而是全部借着赐予我们圣灵，从生命的起初到最后，耶稣赐给我们的过于我们的所需。圣灵赐给我们生命，充满我们的生命，把我们指向那位真正的生命之主。祂赐给我们生命，不单是因为我们属灵上缺乏，而是因为我们死在了罪中。属灵生命的起点是圣灵重生了我们，祂将我们的石心变为肉心，赐给我们新生命，祂使神的话语在我们身上成为真实，也使我们听了福音之后得以接受基督。这提醒我们，成为基督徒不是成为一个更好的人，而是唯独靠着神的恩典，唯独借着信心成为一个新造的人。

　　祂不只赐给我们生命，祂使我们的生命变得更丰富。当我们成为基督徒，天父使我们成为祂名下的儿女，并且给予我们祂的灵，作为祂儿女的凭证。祂与我们同住，充满我们。祂像保惠师一样指引我们，支持我们，使我们知罪，在基督里增添我们力量，引导我们应当如何生活；圣灵会帮助我们祷告，甚至当我们软弱不祷告时为我们祷告。在这一切上，祂使我们越来越有基督的形像，使我们能行神预定要我们所行的善。祂赐给我们特定属灵的恩赐，建造基督的身体，使我们能爱主，服侍并顺服神。

　　所以，祂赐给我们生命，祂充满我们的生命。祂指示我们谁才是真正的生命之主。耶稣说：「圣灵要荣耀我，因为祂要将受于我的告诉你们。」（约16:14）圣灵是基督的灵，祂不吸引人注意祂自己，而是荣耀耶稣，并且赐给我们恩典做一样的事，使祂——生命的本体——成为我们的生命和爱。因此，是阿拉法也是俄梅嘎，是起始也是末了的那一位，赐给我们祂的灵，供应我们一切的所需，从起初直到末了。祂赐给我们生命，充满我们的生命，并且指出谁才是生命的本身。

祷告

　　圣灵神，使我们行在祢的道中，照亮我们心中隐秘的罪，在我们力所不能及的事上成全我们。求祢让我们做祢所喜悦的事。为我们代求，开我们的眼，让我们正确认识真理的道。阿们。

Scripture

EPHESIANS 6:17–18

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints.

Commentary

JOHN OWEN

The Holy Spirit dwelling in us gives guidance and direction. Fundamentally, habitually, he enlightens our minds, give us eyes, understandings, shines into us, translates us from darkness into marvelous light, whereby we are able to see our way, to know our paths, and to discern the things of God. . . . He gives a new light and understanding, whereby, in general, we are enabled to “discern, comprehend, and receive spiritual things.” . . . Strength comes as well as light, by the pouring out of the Spirit on us; strength for the receiving and practice of all his gracious discoveries to us. . . . From this indwelling of the Spirit we have supportment. Our hearts are very ready to sink and fail under our trials; indeed, a little thing will cause us so to do: flesh, and heart, and all that is within us, are soon ready to fail. . . . The Spirit helpeth, bears up that infirmity which is ready to make us go double.

Devotional

LEO SCHUSTER

I’ve always been struck by Jesus’s words: “Apart from me you can do nothing.” They are a humbling and refreshing reminder that our need, from first to last, isn’t partial, but total. By giving us the Holy Spirit, Christ has given us all we need and more, from first to last. The Holy Spirit gives us life. He fills our life and points us to the One who is life. He gives us life in that our starting point is not simply that we’re spiritually needy, but that we are dead in sin. Our spiritual life begins when the Holy Spirit regenerates us, giving us new life. When he turns our heart of stone into a heart of flesh, he makes the truth of God’s Word real to us, and we freely embrace Christ as he’s offered to us in the gospel. This reminds us that being a Christian isn’t about being a better person but about being a new person, by God’s grace alone, through faith alone.

Not only does he give us life, but he also fills our life. When we become Christians, God the Father adopts us as his children and gives to us his Spirit of adoption. He comes to live in us and fill us, and in doing so he guides us as a counselor would—supporting, convicting us of our sin, strengthening us in Christ, encouraging us in the way we should live, helping us to pray, and even praying for us when we’re too weak to do so ourselves. In all this, he grows us in Christlikeness, enabling us to do good works, which God has prepared in advance for us to do. And he gives us specific gifts to use to contribute to the building up of the body of Christ, and to love, serve, and obey God.

So he gives us life. He fills our life. And finally, he points us to the One who is life. Jesus said, “[The Spirit] will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you” (John 16:14). The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Christ. He doesn’t draw attention to himself but glorifies Jesus and gives us the grace to do the same, making him who is life our life and love. So the One who is the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, has given us his Spirit to supply all we need from first to last. He gives us life, fills our life, and points us to the One who is life.

Prayer

God the Spirit, have your way in us. Shine your light on the secret sins of our hearts. Equip us for tasks that are too large for us. Make us glad in what delights you. Intercede for us and open our eyes to rightly understand the Word of truth. Amen.