信仰的基础_4月20日成圣是毕生的工作

4月20日成圣是毕生的工作

Sanctification the Work of a Lifetime, April 20

“我为他们的缘故，自己分别为圣，叫他们也因真理成圣”（约17:19）。{FLB 116.1}[1]

Sanctified by His Life
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.John 17:19.{FLB 116.1}[1]

使我们称义的义，是主归于我们的；使我们成圣的义，是主授予我们的。前者是我们进入天国的权利，后者是我们进入天国的资格。（MYP 35）{FLB 116.2}[2]

The righteousness by which we are justified is imputed; the righteousness by which we are sanctified is imparted. The first is our title to heaven, the second is our fitness for heaven.73{FLB 116.2}[2]

许多人所犯的错误，就是试图非常详尽地弄清称义和成圣之间的区别。他们在给这两个术语下定义的时候加入了自己的见解和推测。为什么要去追求圣经关于因信称义重大问题的论述以外的细节呢？（6BC.1072）{FLB 116.3}[3]

Many commit the error of trying to define minutely the fine points of distinction between justification and sanctification. Into the definitions of these two terms they often bring their own ideas and speculations. Why try to be more minute than is Inspiration on the vital question of righteousness by faith??74{FLB 116.3}[3]

当罪人在上帝面前痛悔，看到基督为他所作的赎罪工作，接受祂的赎罪为他今生和来生唯一的盼望时，他的罪就得到了赦免，这就是因信称义。（6BC.1070）{FLB 116.4}[4]

As the penitent sinner, contrite before God, discerns Christ’s atonement in his behalf, and accepts this atonement as his only hope in this life and the future life, his sins are pardoned. This is justification by faith.75{FLB 116.4}[4]

成圣并不是一时、一刻、一天的工作，而是一生的工作。这也不是出于一时的兴奋，而是经常向罪死、经常为基督而活的结果。微薄而间断的努力决不能纠正过错，改变品格。我们惟有藉着恒切的努力，痛楚的锻炼和剧烈的斗争才能得胜。（AA 560）{FLB 116.5}[5]

Sanctification is not the work of a moment, an hour, a day, but of a lifetime. It is not gained by a happy flight of feeling, but is the result of constantly dying to sin, and constantly living for Christ. Wrongs cannot be righted nor reformations wrought in the character by feeble, intermittent efforts. It is only by long, persevering effort, sore discipline, and stern conflict, that we shall overcome.76{FLB 116.5}[5]

成圣不只是一套理论，一种情绪或一组辞令，而是一种积极活泼的原则，深入每日的生活之中。它要求我们饮食与着装的习惯，能保障身体、精神和道德的健康，使我们可以将自己的身体献给主，不是被错误的习惯败坏了的祭物，而是一种“活祭，是圣洁的，是上帝所喜悦的”（罗12:1）。（CD 164）{FLB 116.6}[6]

It [sanctification] is not merely a theory, an emotion, or a form of words, but a living, active principle, entering into the everyday life. It requires that our habits of eating, drinking, and dressing be such as to secure the preservation of physical, mental, and moral health, that we may present to the Lord our bodies—not an offering corrupted by wrong habits but—“a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God.”77{FLB 116.6}[6]

圣经是改变品格的强大媒介。……人如果研究和顺服上帝的道，这道就会在他心中起作用，制服一切不圣洁的性情。（COL 100）{FLB 116.7}[7]

The Scriptures are the great agency in the transformation of character.... If studied and obeyed, the Word of God works in the heart, subduing every unholy attribute.78{FLB 116.7}[7]

成圣不是一时一刻的事。真正的成圣乃是每天的工作，要延续到生命的结束。（SL 10）{FLB 116.8}[8]

There is no such thing as instantaneous sanctification. True sanctification is a daily work, continuing as long as life shall last.79{FLB 116.8}[8]