上帝的儿女-第68章
3月7日 要学习防备虚空的妄言和谄媚..
上帝的儿女-第68章
We Learn to Beware of Vain Deceit and Flattery, March 7
上帝的儿女-第68章
「你们要谨慎,恐怕有人用他的理学和虚空的妄言,不照着基督,乃照人间的遗传和世上的小学,就把你们掳去」(西2:8)。{SD73.1}[1]
上帝的儿女-第68章
Sitting at the Feet of the Mater Teacher
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.Colossians 2:8.{SD 73.1}[1]
上帝的儿女-第68章
阿谀谄媚是撒但迷惑和吹捧世人的狡计,使他们自视甚高。……我们的许多青年人也经常受人吹捧。赞美奉承的人自以为做得对,其实是错的。吹捧,奉承和放纵使许多宝贵的生灵走上歧途,比撒但的其它诡计更加有效。奉承谄谀是世人所用的策略,基督却绝不采用。因为奉承使软弱有错的世人自以为了不起,于是就生出骄傲的心。他们痴迷地以为自己拥有他们实际上并没有的才干,以致他们的宗教经验失衡了。若不是上帝天意的安排使他们摆脱这些骗局而悔改,在基督的学校里学习宗教的基础知识,他们就会灭亡。许多青年人受到奉承,说他们的才能是天生的。其实他们自以为所拥有的才干,只有借着勤奋的训练和培养,学习基督的柔和谦卑才能获得。……上帝容许他受敌人的攻讦,是为了使他能知道自己的软弱。上帝允许他犯一些明显的错误,陷入痛苦的屈辱之中。当他在软弱的感觉下挣扎的时候,决不可苛刻地指责他。……这时他需要一位朋友耐心忠实地纠正他的错误,……不要阿谀奉承他。……要向他指出最低的一级阶梯,使他蹒跚的步履从这里开始上行。……借着聪明的指导,他能转败为胜。{SD73.2}[2]
上帝的儿女-第68章
Flattery is an art by which Satan lieth in wait to deceive and to puff up the human agent with high thoughts of himself.... Flattery has been the food upon which many of our youth have been nourished; and those who have praised and flattered have supposed that they were doing right; but they have been doing wrong. Praise, flattery, and indulgence have done more toward leading precious souls into false paths, than any other art that Satan has devised. Flattery is a part of the world’s policy, but it is no part of Christ’s policy. Through flattery poor human beings, full of frailty and infirmities, come to think that they are efficient and worthy, and become puffed up in their fleshly mind. They become intoxicated with the idea that they possess ability beyond what they do have, and their religious experience becomes unbalanced. Unless in the providence of God they shall be turned from these deceptions, and become converted, and learn the a-b-c of religion in the school of Christ, they will lose their souls. Many a youth has been flattered that he has ability as a natural gift; when the ability he thinks he has, can be attained only through diligent training and culture, learning the meekness and lowliness of Christ.... God permits him to be attacked by the enemy, in order that he may understand his own weakness. He is permitted to make some decided blunder, and is plunged into painful humiliation. But when he is writhing under a sense of his own weakness, he is not to be judged harshly.... This is the time when he needs a friend who ... will deal patiently and faithfully with the erring.... He is not to be lifted up by the aid of flattery.... Rather he is to be pointed to the first rounds of the ladder, and his stumbling feet are to be placed on the lowest round of the ladder of progress.... Through the aid of wise counselors, his defeat will be turned into victory.18{SD 73.2}[2]
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