十四問那些想要跟隨耶穌者

十四問那些想要跟隨耶穌者

在這末日世代，許多人自認為是耶穌的跟隨；那麼人應該如何確認自己是耶穌所認識的跟隨者呢？

在末後的世代，真假信仰、真假門徒常被人的傳統、文化、宗教觀念與神學理論所混淆。

然而，主耶穌早已在聖經中清楚啟示：真正屬於祂的人，不是憑口裡承認，也不是憑宗教身份，而是憑是否遵行祂的話語。

本篇藉著十四個問題，引導每一位讀者在神的話語前誠實省察自己，確認是否真正認識耶穌、被耶穌認識，並成為祂所悅納的跟隨者。

以賽亞書5:8-9

耶和華說：「我的意念非同你們的意念，我的道路非同你們的道路。天怎樣高過地，照樣，我的道路高過你們的道路，我的意念高過你們的意念。

從這經文可知，神的意念與道路高過人的意念與道路。那麼神的意念與道路同人的意念與道路差距多大呢？

神創造了宇宙，宇宙的可觀測範圍約是 930億光年；那麼「神的話語」比「人的認知極限能力」，其差距遠大於此距離。神的話語是命令，不是人的觀點延伸，人因此怎麼可以隨意用人的文化、宗教、思想、哲學、神學、觀點、經驗等來詮釋神的話語？

1，你認識耶穌嗎？

約翰一書 2:3-4

如果我們遵守基督的命令，從這一點我們就知道我們已經認識他。那說「我已經認識他」，卻不遵守他命令的，就是說謊者，真理也不在這個人裡面。

從這經文可知，唯有「遵守耶穌命令者」，他才是認識耶穌者；很明顯地，這定義完全不同於世界文化與屬世界的人的定義。

2，你被耶穌認識嗎？

約翰一書 2:5

但如果有人遵守他的話語，屬神的愛就確實在這個人裡面得以完全了；從這一點我們就知道我們是在他裡面。

從這經文可知，唯有「遵守耶穌話語者」，他才能得著耶穌內住，他才是在耶穌裡，他才是被耶穌認識者。

3，你愛神嗎？

約翰福音14:23

耶穌回答說：「如果有人愛我，他就會遵守我的話語，我父也會愛他，而且我們將要來到他那裡，並且在他那裡安置我們的住處。

從這經文可知，唯有「遵守耶穌話語者」，他才是耶穌所認識的愛神的人。

4，神愛你嗎？

約翰福音 14:21

那持續地有了我的命令又持續地遵守的，這人就是持續地愛我的；持續地愛我的必蒙我父愛他，我也要愛他，並且要向他顯現。

從這經文可知，唯有「遵守耶穌話語者」，他才會被神所愛。

5，你是耶穌的跟隨者嗎？

馬太福音 16:24

於是，耶穌對他的門徒們說：「如果有人想要來跟從我，他就當否定自己(deny himself)，背起自己的十字架，然後跟從我。

從這經文可知，唯有「遵耶穌命令的人」，他才是耶穌所認識的跟隨者。

6，你是耶穌的門徒嗎？

路加福音 14:26 

「如果有人到我這裡來，而不恨自己的父親、母親、妻子、兒女、兄弟、姐妹，甚至自己的生命，他就不能做我的門徒。凡是不背著自己的十字架來跟從我的，也不能做我的門徒。

馬太福音 10:37

「那愛父親或母親過於愛我的，不配屬於我；那愛兒子或女兒過於愛我的，不配屬於我；不背起自己的十字架來跟從我的，也不配屬於我。

從這些經文可知，唯有「遵耶穌命令的人」，他才能「愛耶穌大於愛家人與自己生命者」，他才是耶穌所認識的門徒。

7，你相信耶穌嗎？

哥林多後書 13:5

「你們總要自己省察有信心沒有，也要自己試驗。豈不知你們若不是可棄絕的，就有耶穌基督在你們心裡嗎？」

約翰福音14:23

耶穌回答說：「如果有人愛我，他就會遵守我的話語，我父也會愛他，而且我們將要來到他那裡，並且在他那裡安置我們的住處。

從這些經文可知，唯有「遵耶穌命令的人」，他才有耶穌在他的心裡；唯有耶穌在他心裡的人，他才是對神有信心的人。

8，你重生了嗎？

約翰福音 1:12–13

「凡接待他的，就是信他名的人，他就賜他們權柄，作神的兒女。這等人不是從血氣生的，不是從情慾生的，也不是從人意生的，乃是從神生的。」

約翰福音14:23

耶穌回答說：「如果有人愛我，他就會遵守我的話語，我父也會愛他，而且我們將要來到他那裡，並且在他那裡安置我們的住處。

從這些經文可知，唯有「遵耶穌命令的人」，他才是從神生的人；唯有從神生的人，他才是重生者。

9，你是新造的人嗎？

哥林多後書 5:17

「若有人在基督裡，他就是新造的人，舊事已過，都變成新的了。」

約翰福音14:23

耶穌回答說：「如果有人愛我，他就會遵守我的話語，我父也會愛他，而且我們將要來到他那裡，並且在他那裡安置我們的住處。

從這些經文可知，唯有「遵耶穌命令的人」，他才是在基督裏的人；唯有在基督裏的人，他才是新造的人。

10，你聖潔嗎？

希伯來書 12:14 

你們要追求與眾人和睦，要追求聖潔。任何不聖潔的人，都不能見到主。

約翰福音 14:21

那持續地有了我的命令又持續地遵守的，這人就是持續地愛我的；持續地愛我的必蒙我父愛他，我也要愛他，並且要向他顯現。

從這些經文可知，唯有「持續地有了耶穌的命令又持續地遵守的人」，他才是耶穌所愛的人；唯有耶穌所愛的人，他才是聖潔者，他才能看見耶穌的顯現。

11，你是耶穌的朋友與家人嗎？

約翰福音 15:14 

你們如果遵行我所命令的事，你們就是我的朋友了。

馬太福音 12:50

凡遵行我天父旨意的人，就是我的弟兄、姊妹和母親了。

從這些經文可知，凡是「遵行耶穌命令的人」，他就是耶穌的朋友；凡是「遵行天父旨意的人」，他就是耶穌的家人。

12，你能進入天國嗎？

馬太福音 7:21 

不是每一個稱呼我『主啊，主啊』的人，都能進入天國；唯獨持續地遵行我天父旨意的人，才能進去。

從這經文可知，唯有「持續地遵行天父旨意的人」，他才能進入天國。

13，你能獲著永生嗎？

約翰福音 5:24

「我實實在在地告訴你們，那聽我話、又信差我來者的，就有永生；不至於定罪，是已經出死入生了。」

從這經文可知，唯有「遵耶穌命令的人」，他才能獲著永生。

14，你獲得神的救恩了嗎？

以弗所書 2:7-10

為了在將來的各世代中，在基督耶穌裡，藉著對我們的仁慈，可以顯出他那無限恩典的豐盛。你們得救是本乎恩，也因著信；這並不是出於自己，乃是神所賜的；也不是出於行為，免得有人自誇。實際上，我們是神的創作，是為了美善的工作在基督耶穌裡被造成的；神早已預備好了美善工作，要我們在其中行事。

約翰福音14:23

耶穌回答說：「如果有人愛我，他就會遵守我的話語，我父也會愛他，而且我們將要來到他那裡，並且在他那裡安置我們的住處。

從這經文可知，唯有「遵耶穌話語的人」，他才能在基督裡；唯有「在基督裡的人」，他才能獲得神的救恩。因此，唯有「遵耶穌話語的人」，他才能獲得神的救恩。

結論

主耶穌不是呼召人停留在知識、宗教儀式或口頭信仰之中，而是呼召人以真實的信心遵行祂的話語。

這十四個問題不是讓人論斷他人，而是讓每一位願意跟隨主的人，在神的真理面前認真地省察自己。

願我們不再以人的標準衡量屬靈生命，而是以耶穌的教導作為唯一準則，時刻地背起十字架跟從主，住在基督裡，活出敬畏神、愛神、聖潔、遵神旨意、約神同行、事奉神與榮耀神的生命。如此，我們必蒙主認識，得著神的喜悅，承受永生與神國永遠榮耀的應許。

Fourteen Questions for the Followers of Jesus

Fourteen Questions for the Followers of Jesus

In these last days, many people consider themselves followers of Jesus. But how can anyone know whether they are truly followers whom Jesus Himself recognizes?

In the end times, genuine faith is often confused with false faith, and true disciples are frequently mixed with false disciples through human traditions, culture, religious concepts, and theological theories.

Yet the Lord Jesus has already revealed the truth clearly in the Scriptures: those who truly belong to Him are not identified merely by verbal confession or religious affiliation, but by whether they obey His words.

Through the following fourteen questions, this study invites every reader to honestly examine himself before God’s Word, to determine whether he truly knows Jesus, is known by Jesus, and is living as a follower whom the Lord accepts.

God’s Thoughts Are Higher Than Human Thoughts

Isaiah 55:8–9

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.”

These verses reveal that God’s thoughts and His ways are infinitely higher than those of mankind. But how great is that difference?

God created the universe, whose observable diameter is estimated to be about 93 billion light-years. Yet the distance between God’s Word and the limits of human understanding is immeasurably greater still.

God’s Word is His divine command—not an extension of human opinion. Therefore, no one has the authority to reinterpret God’s Word according to human culture, religion, philosophy, theology, personal opinions, traditions, or experiences.

1. Do You Know Jesus?

1 John 2:3–4

“By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. Whoever says, ‘I know Him,’ but does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.”

According to Scripture, only those who obey Jesus’ commandments truly know Him. This biblical definition is entirely different from the world’s understanding of what it means to know Christ.

2. Are You Known by Jesus?

1 John 2:5

“But whoever keeps His word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we know that we are in Him.”

Only those who keep Jesus’ Word have Christ dwelling within them. Only those who are in Christ are truly known by Him.

3. Do You Love God?

John 14:23

“If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.”

According to Jesus, only those who obey His Word truly love God.

4. Does God Love You?

John 14:21

“Whoever has My commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”

Only those who continually obey the words of Jesus receive this promised expression of the Father’s love.

5. Are You a Follower of Jesus?

Matthew 16:24

“If anyone would come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.”

Only those who obey Jesus’ commands are recognized by Him as His followers.

6. Are You a Disciple of Jesus?

Luke 14:26–27

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, even his own life, he cannot be My disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.”

Matthew 10:37–38

“Whoever loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me… Whoever does not take his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me.”

According to Jesus, only those who love Him above family and even above their own lives are His true disciples.

7. Do You Truly Believe in Jesus?

2 Corinthians 13:5

“Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test?”

John 14:23

“If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word…”

Only those who obey Jesus’ Word have Christ dwelling within them. Those in whom Christ dwells demonstrate genuine faith.

8. Have You Been Born Again?

John 1:12–13

“To all who received Him… He gave the right to become children of God… who were born… of God.”

John 14:23

Only those who obey Jesus’ Word demonstrate that they have been born of God and have experienced the new birth.

9. Are You a New Creation?

2 Corinthians 5:17

“If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.”

John 14:23

Only those who abide in Christ are truly new creations.

10. Are You Holy?

Hebrews 12:14

“Strive… for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.”

John 14:21

Only those who continually obey Christ’s commandments demonstrate a life loved by the Lord and pursue the holiness required to see Him.

11. Are You Jesus’ Friend and Family?

John 15:14

“You are My friends if you do what I command you.”

Matthew 12:50

“Whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”

Those who obey Jesus’ commands are His friends, and those who do the Father’s will are members of His spiritual family.

12. Will You Enter the Kingdom of Heaven?

Matthew 7:21

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father.”

Only those who continually do the Father’s will will enter His kingdom.

13. Will You Receive Eternal Life?

John 5:24

“Whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life… He has passed from death to life.”

Only those who truly hear, believe, and obey Christ receive eternal life.

14. Have You Received God’s Salvation?

Ephesians 2:7–10

“For by grace you have been saved through faith… For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”

John 14:23

Only those who obey Jesus’ Word abide in Christ. Only those who are in Christ receive God’s salvation. Therefore, those who obey the Word of Christ demonstrate the reality of the salvation they have received through God’s grace.

Conclusion

The Lord Jesus did not call people merely to possess religious knowledge, participate in religious rituals, or profess faith with their lips. Rather, He calls His followers to demonstrate genuine faith by obeying His Word.

These fourteen questions are not intended to judge others, but to encourage every sincere follower of Christ to examine himself honestly in the light of God’s truth.

May we no longer measure our spiritual lives by human standards, but by the teachings of Jesus Christ alone. 

May we daily deny ourselves, take up our cross, follow Him faithfully, abide in Christ, and live lives marked by reverence for God, love for God, holiness, obedience to His will, fellowship with Him, faithful service, and the glory of His name. 

In doing so, we will be known by the Lord, receive the Father’s approval, inherit eternal life, and share forever in the everlasting glory of God’s Kingdom.