2024 All-Sand Youth Conference @ Sibu
Theme: The Life of a Christian
This conference, led by brothers, delves into the message from the 2024 National Memorial Day conference, exploring the life of a Christian. Instead of focusing on outward actions, the brothers help us understand the inner meaning of a Christian life.
What is the life of a Christian? It is living the life of Christ. Our life should be Christ, and the path to living Christ is through loving Christ. We can live Christ to the utmost through love for Christ. Loving Him is the best way to focus our whole being on Him. This means surrendering our spirit, soul, and body – our heart, soul, mind, and strength (Mark 12:30) – to Him. In essence, we allow Him to possess us fully, dissolving into Him, until He becomes our everything. In our daily lives, we become one with Him.
1 John 4:19: “We love because He first loved us.” God loved us first, pouring His love into us, and generating love within us. This allows us to love God back with the same love.
2 Corinthians 5:14: “For the love of Christ compels us…” The original meaning of “compels” is “to press from all sides, to push aside, to impose a limit, to confine within a boundary, to limit to a goal, a line, and a purpose (like a narrow path with walls).” We are compelled by God’s love to a point of no return, to a specific path where we cannot turn left or right, cannot retreat. We can only move forward in God’s direction, using His love as our own to love Him and love one another. This is the life of a Christian.
To live the Christian life, we must not only love God, but also do everything in the person of Christ, meaning living in His presence. Living in the person of Christ means living face-to-face with Him. “Face” refers to the area around the eyes. Our life needs to look at the face of the Lord, at His eyes. The brothers helped us to understand that we need:
1. A life of confession: We must be constantly illuminated by His light, dealing with our sins, removing the veil that covers us. In fact, our wayward hearts are the veil. Someone who loves the Lord will see themselves as a sinner. Lord, I am a sinner, but by Your grace…
2. A life of singing and prayer: Even though we are fragile earthen vessels, our spirits hold an invaluable treasure, the very face of Christ. Nothing in the universe is as precious as beholding the face of Jesus.
The life of a Christian requires our actions to align with our calling. Alignment implies suitability. Aligning our actions with God’s calling means:
1. Striving to maintain the unity of the Spirit: “Unity” refers to the Spirit Himself.
2. Growing into Christ, the Head, in all things: The burden here is to grow in life. We must listen to Him and see only Jesus.
3. Learning Christ according to what is real in Him: This means emulating Christ.
4. Living in love and light: We must live in the light of Christ.
5. Living Christ by being filled with the Spirit and overflowing with Christ.
The Christian life is also a life of grafting. Grafting signifies the need to continuously cleanse our old life. This cleansing is not a one-time event but an ongoing process. The more we cleanse, the more the life-giving stream within us flows. This stream needs to be measured by God, flowing from our ankles to our knees, our waist, until it becomes a river that cannot be crossed. To experience this cleansing, we need constant dealing with sin on the cross, complete surrender, and the measurement of the Lord, the “man of bronze.” Jesus yearns for and demands absoluteness, for it is through absoluteness that we flow. Enjoying Christ as the flowing life makes us sowers, planters, waterers, fruit-bearers, feeders, and builders. This enables us to engage in the ministry of supplying life, building for the divine life, for God’s magnificent temple.
2024全砂青少年相调特会 @ 诗巫
总题：基督徒的生活
本次特会，弟兄们带我们进入已过2024国殇节特会的信息，说到基督徒的生活。本次特会，还不是重在外在的说到基督徒该如何行事为人，弟兄们帮助我们从内在一面来看什么是基督徒的生活。
什么是基督徒的生活？基督徒的生活乃是活基督的生活；我们活着应当就是基督，而活基督的路就是爱基督。我们可以凭着爱基督到极点而活基督；爱主是将我们全人专注于祂最好的路，就是将我们的灵、魂、体，连同我们的心、魂、心思、力量（可十二30），都摆在祂身上。这就是说，我们全人都让祂占有，消失在祂里面，以致祂成了我们的一切，我们在日常生活里，实际的与祂是一。
约壹四19：”我们爱，因为神先爱我们。“神先爱我们，将祂的爱注入我们里面，并且在我们里面产生出爱来，使我们能用这爱爱神。林后五14上：“原来基督的爱困迫我们…”，困迫，原文意，从各面压逼，逼到一边，强加限制，在某种界限内限于一个目标，限于一条线和一个目的（如同在有墙的窄路上）。我们乃是因着被神的爱困迫到一个地步，逼到一条路上，无法往左往右，无法后退，只有想着神的方向往前，以神自己作为我们的爱来爱神并彼此相爱，这就是基督徒的生活。
要过基督徒的生活，不仅需要爱神，还要凡事都在基督的人位里行，也就是在基督的面前行。在基督的人位里行，意思就是与主面对面的生活。「面」，指眼睛周围的部分，我们的生活需要看主的面，主的眼睛。弟兄在信息里，帮助我们，第一，需要过认罪的生活，常常在主的面前蒙光照，对付罪，使我们的帕子被除去。事实上，我们偏离的心就是帕子。一个爱主的人就会看见自己是个罪人。主，我是个罪人蒙主恩。第二，我们还需要划分时间，过唱诗祷告的生活。我们虽是无价且脆弱的瓦器，但我们灵里盛装着无价之宝，就是基督自己的面。在宇宙中，没有什么像观看耶稣的面那么宝贵。
基督徒的生活，我们的行事为人要与我们所蒙的呼召相配。相配就是相称。行事为人与神的呼召相配的第一项，就是要竭力保守那灵的一；一就是那灵。第二项，我们要在一切事上长到元首基督里面。这里的负担就是需要们有生命的长大。我们必须听祂，并且只见耶稣。第三项，我们需要照着那在耶稣身上是实际者而学基督。第四项，我们需要活着爱和光中。第五项，我们需要凭着在灵里被充满并满溢基督而活基督。
基督徒的生活，也是一个接枝的生活。接枝的生活，说出我们需要一直过清理旧生活的生活。这个清理，不是一次永远的，乃是不断的的有清理。越清理，我们里面就越有生命的水流，这水流要经过神的量度，从踝子骨，一直到膝盖，到腰，至终成了可洑的水，不可蹚的河。要有这样的清理，我们就需要常有十字架的对付与完全的奉献，也需要主这位铜人来量度。主耶稣渴望并要求绝对；因着绝对，我们就会在流中。我们享受基督作生命的流，就使我们成为撒种者、栽种者、浇灌者、生育者、喂养者和建造者，有供应生命的职事，为着神奇妙的生机建造，就是神宏伟的殿。
