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4月27日 上帝有祂的选民
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God Has His Chosen People, April 27
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“惟有你们是被拣选的族类,是有君尊的祭司,是圣洁的国度,是属上帝的子民,要叫你们宣扬那召你们出黑暗、入奇妙光明者的美德”(彼前2:9)。{UL 131.1}[1]
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But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.1 Peter 2:9.{UL 131.1}[1]
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上帝赐给人们亮光,然而许多人却充满一种极为自负的、控制的精神;他们藉着实行自己的想法,力求达到他们会像上帝的高度。他们以自己的意见为首,好像上帝必须服事他们似的。这种状态的危险乃在于此:上帝若不以某种方式使这些人明白祂是上帝,他们应当事奉祂,人的发明就会被引进来,使人离开圣经的真理,尽管已经赐下一切的警告。{UL 131.2}[2]
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God gives men the light, but many are filled with a self-sufficient, masterly spirit; and they strive by carrying out their own ideas to reach a height where they will be as God. They place their mind first, as if God must serve with them. Herein lies the danger in this: Unless God shall in some way make these men understand that He is God, and that they are to serve Him, human inventions will be brought in that will lead away from Bible truth, notwithstanding all the cautions that have been given.{UL 131.2}[2]
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主耶稣总有一班选民侍奉祂。当犹太人拒绝了生命之君基督时,祂就把上帝的国从他们夺走,给了外邦人。上帝的各部门圣工,都要继续按这此原则进行。当一个教会表显出不忠于主的道时,无论他们处在什么地位,无论他们的恩召是多么崇高和神圣,主也不能再与他们同工。于是其他人被拣选担负重要的职务。但是,如果这些人依然没有在生活上清除每一错行,没有在他们的四境建立纯洁和神圣的原则,那么主就要忧伤地使他们受苦和降卑,除非他们悔改,否则就要把他们从其地位上移开,使他们蒙羞。{UL 131.3}[3]
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The Lord Jesus will always have a chosen people to serve Him. When the Jewish people rejected Christ, the Prince of life, He took from them the kingdom of God and gave it unto the Gentiles. God will continue to work on this principle with every branch of His work. When a church proves unfaithful to the word of the Lord, whatever their position may be, however high and sacred their calling, the Lord can no longer work with them. Others are then chosen to bear important responsibilities. But, if these in turn do not purify their lives from every wrong action, if they do not establish pure and holy principles in all their borders, then the Lord will grievously afflict and humble them and, unless they repent, will remove them from their place and make them a reproach....{UL 131.3}[3]
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上帝“不用人手服事,好象缺少什么”(徒17:25)。当内心在服事偶像,双手被罪孽玷污时,外表的炫耀无论怎样富丽堂皇,都不能取悦上帝。圣灵必与教会中那些以内心的痛悔谦卑地与上帝同行的人联合。对于凡指望祂并且跟随基督的脚踪而行的人,祂都使他们成圣、得安慰并胜过世界。帝的子民,祂所拣选的国度,并不像一个死水塘。他们像一条河,不断流淌,而当它前进时,变得越来越深广,直到它赐生命的水遍布全地。每当上帝的福音得到接受,它的恩典就医治罪所造成的疾病。公义的日头升起,其光线有医治之能。亮光、力量和安舒从主而来,所结的好果子证明公义的行为。(《文稿》1903年第33号。4月27日,“上帝对于祂教会的旨意”){UL 131.4}[4]
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God is not “worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing” (Acts 17:25). No magnificence of outward display can please God, when the heart is serving idols and the hands are polluted with iniquity. The Holy Spirit will unite with those in the church who, with contrition of heart, will walk humbly with God. To all who look to Him and walk in the footsteps of Christ, He gives sanctification, comfort, and victory over the world. The people of God, His chosen kingdom, are not as a stagnant pool. They are as a river, constantly flowing, and as it advances becoming deeper and wider, until its life-giving waters are spread over all the earth. Whenever the gospel of God is received, its grace heals the maladies that sin has produced. The Sun of Righteousness arises with healing in His beams. Light, strength, and refreshing come from the Lord, and the good fruit borne bears witness to a work of righteousness.—Manuscript 33, April 27, 1903, “God’s Purpose for His Church.”{UL 131.4}[4]
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