「且願和平的神,親自全然聖別你們,又願你們的靈、與魂、與身子得蒙保守,在我們主耶穌基督來臨的時候,得以完全,無可指摘。那召你們的是信實的,祂也必作成這事。」-帖撒羅尼迦前書5:23-24多年前,我從主的話裡清楚領受了「非聖別沒有人能見主」(希伯來書12:14)這個真理;於是,我開始實際在生活中身體力行,並且鼓勵身邊一切的人也如此去行。
十年過後,神開啟了我一條明確實行聖別的道路,就是藉著信入神的兒子基督耶穌。
自此之後,我向眾人宣報這個寶貴的真理:「因信,我們得蒙赦罪;因信,我們成為聖別。」
不論在私下接觸,或在公眾面前,或是藉著印刷的流傳,我都盡所能地見證傳揚。
到如今,已經有上千位信徒能證實這個真理的寶貴。
三十年過去了,我依舊沒有改變地持續宣揚,而神也沒有改變地持續印證我的工作。
-約翰.衛斯理
我,是一位認識耶穌的人;對我而言,祂的珍貴價值無可比擬。
但是我發現在我內心卻有一些不甘甜、不忍耐、不慈愛的事物;我雖盡其所能的壓抑他們,他們卻仍在那裡。
此時,我只好尋求耶穌的幫助,將我的意志降服於祂;於是祂進入我的心坎,除去了一切不甘甜、不忍耐、不慈愛的事物,並且親自斷了他們的後路。
-喬治.福克斯
如今,我的心已經不再尋求別人的稱許了。
我感受到主與我單獨的相會,祂填補了我心內的破口;除祂以外,我別無期望、意志與愛慕。
我驚奇的發現,祂已使我的腳站立在寬闊之處,祂也用祂的大愛征服了我心中的一切。
-杭丁頓伯爵夫人
"And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you who also will do it" (1 Thess. 5:23, 24).Many years since I saw that "without holiness no man shall see the Lord." I began by following after it and inciting all with whom I had intercourse to do the same. Ten years after, God gave me a clearer view than I ever had before of the way to obtain it; namely, by faith in the Son of God. And immediately I declared to all, "We are saved from sin, we are made holy by faith." This I testified in private, in public, and in print, and God confirmed it by a thousand witnesses. I have continued to declare this for above thirty years, and God has continued to confirm my work.
--John Wesley in 1771
"I knew Jesus, and He was very precious to my soul; but I found something in me that would not keep sweet and patient and kind. I did what I could to keep it down, but it was there. I besought Jesus to do something for me, and, when I gave Him my will, He came to my heart, and took out all that would not be sweet, all that would not be kind, all that would not be patient, and then HE shut the door." --George Fox
My whole heart has not one single grain, this moment, of thirst after approbation. I feel alone with God; He fills the void; I have not one wish, one will, one desire, but in Him; He hath set my feet in a large room. I have wondered and stood amazed that God should make a conquest of all within me by love. --Lady Huntington
"All at once I felt as though a hand--not feeble, but omnipotent; not of wrath, but of love--was laid on my brow. I felt it not outwardly but inwardly. It seemed to press upon my whole being, and to diffuse all through me a holy, sin-consuming energy. As it passed downward, my heart as well as my head was conscious of the presence of this soul-cleansing energy, under the influence of which I fell to the floor, and in the joyful surprise of the moment, cried out in a loud voice. Still the hand of power wrought without and within; and wherever it moved, it seemed to leave the glorious influence of the Saviour's image. For a few minutes the deep ocean of God's love swallowed me up; all its waves and billows rolled over me." --Bishop Hamline
Holiness--as I then wrote down some of my contemplations on it--appeared to me to be of a sweet, calm, pleasant, charming, serene nature, which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness, ravishment to the soul; in other words, that it made the soul like a field or garden of God, with all manner of pleasant fruits and flowers, all delightful and undisturbed, enjoying a sweet calm and the gentle vivifying beams of the sun. --Jonathan Edwards