得胜的基督-第154章
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得胜的基督-第154章
Prosperity Sometimes Causes Spiritual Downfall, June 1
得胜的基督-第154章
“后来,我察看我手所经营的一切事和我劳碌所成的功。谁知都是虚空,都是捕风;在日光之下毫无益处”(传2:11)。{CTr 159.1}[1]
得胜的基督-第154章
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.Ecclesiastes 2:11.{CTr 159.1}[1]
得胜的基督-第154章
所罗门写了《箴言》,但过了一段时间,他的智慧搀杂了糠秕。糠秕是从哪里来的?经过一段充满前景光荣的盛况之后,所罗门的人生发生了变化。他没有继续保持他的纯洁和对上帝的忠诚。他拆毁了上帝所砌防止祂子民拜偶像的墙垣。耶和华曾把以色列民族拣选出来,让他们保管真理,以便传给世人。但所罗门心怀政治权势骄傲,鼓励与异教国家结盟。……{CTr 159.2}[2]
得胜的基督-第154章
Solomon wrote the book of Proverbs, but after a time his wisdom became mingled with chaff. Whence came the chaff? After a manhood of such glorious promise, a change came in Solomon’s history. He did not continue true to his purity and allegiance to God. He broke through the barriers that God had erected to preserve His people from idolatry. The Lord had singled out Israel as a nation, making them the depositories of sacred truth to be given to the world. But Solomon cherished pride of political powers. He encouraged alliances with pagan kingdoms....{CTr 159.2}[2]
得胜的基督-第154章
所罗门在位的初期,示巴女王曾来见他。她来观看和听闻他的智慧,听了之说,人所告诉她的,只是事实的一半。然而他的智慧和绝对公平的统治改变了。这位曾认识上帝和真理的国王,竟然不惜耗费臣资,来取悦他不敬神的妻子们,为她们建设奢侈的花园。上帝的金钱本来是神圣的,并应按上帝的指示,用来帮助国内的贫民,却被这位君王挪用在野心勃勃的工程中,违背了金钱原来的用途。……受苦的人得不到上帝规定让他们得到的住所、食物和衣服。所罗门穷奢极侈,取悦他的妻子们和荣耀自己。他就是这样滥用了丰富的资源,以苛捐杂税加重穷人的负担。……{CTr 159.3}[3]
得胜的基督-第154章
In the early part of his reign, Solomon was visited by the queen of Sheba. She came to see and hear his wisdom, and after she had heard him she said that the half had not been told her. But his wise and strictly just reign changed. He who had known God and the truth made a great outlay of means to please his godless wives. He made expensive gardens. God’s money, which should have been held sacred to help the poor among the people, as God directed, was absorbed by the king’s ambitious projects. It was diverted from its original channel.... The suffering ones were not given houses and food and clothing as God had specified they should be given. By his extravagant outlay of means Solomon sought to please his wives and glorify himself. Thus he used the means that had been abundant and brought a heavy taxation upon the poor....{CTr 159.3}[3]
得胜的基督-第154章
他的道德能力消失了,如同一位瘫痪的人失去了体力。他竭力调和光明与黑暗,既侍奉上帝也侍奉玛门。他任性地感受疯狂的放纵。但彼列和纯洁是不能混淆的。这位国王的行径给自己带来了惩罚。他离开上帝,上帝的知识也离开了他。……{CTr 159.4}[4]
得胜的基督-第154章
His moral efficiency was gone, as the power is gone from a paralytic. He made an effort to incorporate light with darkness, to serve God and mammon. He felt at liberty to experiment in wild license. But Belial and purity could not mingle, and the course the king pursued brought its own penalty. He separated from God, and the knowledge of God departed from him....{CTr 159.4}[4]
得胜的基督-第154章
凡使用金钱的人应当从所罗门的历史中学到一个教训。拥有资产的人时常遇到的危险是以为金钱和地位会确保他们获得尊重,他们不必这么讲究。但自高只不过是泡沫而已。所罗门滥用了上帝所赐的才干,就是背叛上帝。在上帝使人兴盛时,他们必须时时防止自己随从心中的幻想,免得离弃他们单纯的信仰,在宗教经验上堕落。(Manuscript 1898.40) {CTr 159.5}[5]
得胜的基督-第154章
People who have the use of money are to learn a lesson from the history of Solomon. Those who have a competence are in continual danger of thinking that money and position will ensure them respect and they need not be so particular. But self-exaltation is but a bubble. By misusing the talents given him, Solomon apostatized from God. When God gives people prosperity, they are to beware of following the imaginations of their own hearts, lest they endanger the simplicity of their faith and deteriorate in religious experience.—Manuscript 40, 1898.{CTr 159.5}[5]
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