“我还有好些事要告诉你们，但你们现在担当不了。只等真理的圣灵来了，他要引导你们进入一切的真理”(约16:12,13)。{FH.106.1}
主耶稣本有宝贵的真理要告诉祂的门徒，但祂不能在他们面前展示，除非他们有了能领会祂教训之意义的条件。……{FH.106.2}
祂虽已向门徒们揭示了许多伟大奇妙的事，但祂还有许多事没有说，因为他们理解不了。在祂离世前最后一次与他们相聚时，祂说：“我还有好些事要告诉你们，但你们现在担当不了。”……属世的观念，地上的事物，在他们心中占据了很大的位置，以致他们当时无法明白祂国度高尚圣洁的性质，尽管祂已对他们说得十分清楚了。他们以前对预言的错误理解，祭司们所强加于他们的习俗和遗传，造成了他们思想混乱，对真理麻木不仁。{FH.106.3}
耶稣因他们领会不了而没有说的是什么呢?是关于救赎计划更属灵、更荣耀的真理。基督的话，就是保惠师在祂升天后使他们想起来的话，会引导他们更加认真地思考，更加恳切地祈祷，以便领会祂的话并传给世人。只有圣灵能使他们赏识救赎计划的重要意义。基督的教训借着门徒们的灵感证言传到世界，具有一种意义和价值，远过于漫不经心的读者在读圣经时所得到的。基督设法借着例证和比喻说明祂的教训。祂说圣经的真理就象埋藏在地里的财宝，一个人发现了，就去变卖他一切所有的，买了那块地。祂说真理的宝石并非陈列在地表，而是深埋在地里;就象隐藏的珍宝一样必须予以寻找。我们必须挖掘真理的珍宝，就象人挖矿一样。{FH.106.4}
我们在向别人介绍真理时，应该效法耶稣的榜样。——《评论与通讯》，1890年10月14日。{FH.106.5}
I Have Many Things to Say Unto You, April 4
I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth.?John 16:12, 13.?{FH 106.1}[1]
The Lord Jesus had precious truth to open before His disciples, but He could not unfold it to their minds until they were in a condition to comprehend the significance of what He desired to teach....?{FH 106.2}[2]
Though He unfolded great and wonderful things to the minds of His disciples, He left many things unsaid that could not be comprehended by them. At His last meeting with them before His death, He said, “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.” ... Earthly ideas, temporal things, occupied so large a place in their minds, that they could not then understand the exalted nature, the holy character, of His kingdom, though He laid it out in clear lines before them. It was because of their former erroneous interpretation of the prophecies, because of human customs and traditions, presented and urged upon them by the priests, that their minds had become confused and were hardened to truth.?{FH 106.3}[3]
What was it that Jesus withheld because they could not comprehend it? It was the more spiritual, glorious truths concerning the plan of redemption. The words of Christ, which the Comforter would recall to their minds after His ascension, led them to more careful thought and earnest prayer that they might comprehend His words and give them to the world. Only the Holy Spirit could enable them to appreciate the significance of the plan of redemption. The lessons of Christ, coming to the world through the inspired testimony of the disciples, have a significance and value far beyond that which the casual reader of the Scriptures gives them. Christ sought to make plain His lessons by means of illustrations and parables. He spoke of the truths of the Bible as a treasure hid in a field, which, when a man had found, he went and sold all that he had, and bought the field. He represents the gems of truth, not as lying directly upon the surface, but as buried deep in the ground; as hidden treasures that must be searched for. We must dig for the precious jewels of truth, as a man would dig in a mine.?{FH 106.4}[4]
In presenting the truth to others, we should follow the example of Jesus.—The Review and Herald, October 14, 1890.?{FH 106.5}[5]
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