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经文: 并作膏油。（出埃及记三十五：8）
根据律法，此膏油有许多用途，而所代表的也是极重要的。我们若要事奉主并蒙悦纳，圣灵于我们是不可缺少的，祂膏我们去作一切圣工。缺少祂的帮助，我们的事奉只是虚浮的形式，我们内在的经验也不过是死的哲理。我们的事奉没有被膏是可悲的！圣膏是基督徒经历中的灵魂和生命，少了它是最大不幸。走在被主圣膏之前就如同一般的利未人投入祭司的工作，他的事奉不是服事，乃是犯罪。但愿我们没有受圣膏之前不要企图事奉。经过选择仔细混合的香料才能制成膏油。这一点向我们指明圣灵的丰富影响力。在圣洁的保惠师之内有一切美善。在圣灵的圣洁膏油中有无比的安慰、绝对正确的教导、属灵的能力和圣洁，并其它一切卓越的恩惠。它被浇灌在人身上，或男或女，并赋与他们可悦的、馨香的性格和人格。在一切财富或智慧的奥秘中，没有一样能比得上这膏油。这膏油只从上帝而来，通过耶稣基督白白赐给每颗等待的心灵。
Evening, November 29
Scripture: “Spices for anointing oil.”(Exodus 35:8)
Much use was made of this anointing oil under the law, and that which it represents is of primary importance under the gospel. The Holy Spirit, who anoints us for all holy service, is indispensable to us if we would serve the Lord acceptably. Without his aid our religious services are but a vain oblation, and our inward experience is a dead thing. Whenever our ministry is without unction, what miserable stuff it becomes! nor are the prayers, praises, meditations, and efforts of private Christians one jot superior. A holy anointing is the soul and life of piety, its absence the most grievous of all calamities. To go before the Lord without anointing is as though some common Levite had thrust himself into the priest’s office－his ministrations would rather have been sins than services. May we never venture upon hallowed exercises without sacred anointings. They drop upon us from our glorious Head; from his anointing we who are as the skirts of his garments partake of a plenteous unction. Choice spices were compounded with rarest art of the apothecary to form the anointing oil, to show forth to us how rich are all the influences of the Holy Spirit. All good things are found in the divine Comforter. Matchless consolation, infallible instruction, immortal quickening, spiritual energy, and divine sanctification all lie compounded with other excellencies in that sacred eye-salve, the heavenly anointing oil of the Holy Spirit. It imparts a delightful fragrance to the character and person of the man upon whom it is poured. Nothing like it can be found in all the treasuries of the rich, or the secrets of the wise. It is not to be imitated. It comes alone from God, and it is freely given, through Jesus Christ, to every waiting soul. Let us seek it, for we may have it, may have it this very evening. O Lord, anoint thy servants.