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第146章 青年人的放荡
告青年书-第161章
Chapter 146—Sowing Wild Oats
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亲爱的青年朋友，你们虽然只放荡了很短的一段时间，却会给你带来终生的痛苦。一时的轻率而屈从于试探，会使你整个的人生转入错误的方向。你只有一次青春，应当使之有用。你走过了这段时期之后，就不可能再回来纠正自己的错误了。凡拒绝与上帝联络，置身于试探之下的人，一定会跌倒。{MYP 429.1}[1]
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A little time spent in sowing your wild oats, dear young friends, will produce a crop that will embitter your whole life; an hour of thoughtlessness—once yielding to temptation—may turn the whole current of your life in the wrong direction. You can have but one youth; make that useful. When once you have passed over the ground, you can never return to rectify your mistakes. He who refuses to connect with God, and puts himself in the way of temptation, will surely fall.{MYP 429.1}[1]
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上帝正在考验每一位青年人。许多人因阅历较深的信徒所留下的错误榜样，而原谅自己疏忽和不敬虔。但是这不应妨碍人行义。在最后交账的日子，你不可能再提出现在这样的理由了。你将受到公正的裁决，因为你明知正路，而却不选择行在其中。{MYP 429.2}[2]
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God is testing every youth. Many have excused their carelessness and irreverence, because of the wrong example given them by more experienced professors. But this should not deter any from right-doing. In the day of final accounts you will plead no such excuses as you plead now. You will be justly condemned, because you knew the way, but did not choose to walk in it.{MYP 429.2}[2]
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【试探】
大骗子撒但把自己装扮成光明的天使，带着似是而非的试探来到青年身旁，一步一步地引诱他们离开责任的道路。圣经说撒但是控告者，欺骗者，说谎的，迫害人的和杀人的。“犯罪的就是属魔鬼”。每一件罪行都会使人被定罪，并招惹上帝的忿怒。上帝鉴察人的心思意念。人如果怀有不洁的念头，他不需要用言行把罪恶表达出来，就会被定罪。心灵既遭到了污损，试探者就获得胜利了。{MYP 429.3}[3]
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【Temptation】
Satan, that arch-deceiver, transforms himself into an angel of light, and comes to the youth with his specious temptations, and succeeds in winning them, step by step, from the path of duty. He is described as an accuser, a deceiver, a liar, a tormentor, and a murderer. “He that committeth sin is of the devil.” Every transgression brings the soul into condemnation, and provokes the divine displeasure. The thoughts of the heart are discerned of God. When impure thoughts are cherished, they need not be expressed by word or act to consummate the sin and bring the soul into condemnation. Its purity is defiled, and the tempter has triumphed.{MYP 429.3}[3]
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一个人遭遇试探，是在他被自己的私欲诱惑之时。他因随从自己的癖性而偏离了道德和正义。青年若具有正直的品德，即使是最强烈的试探也对他无效。撒但只能试探你，而屈从试探却是你自己的事。撒但全军的力量都无法强迫受试探的人犯罪。所以犯罪是没有理由原谅的。{MYP 430.1}[4]
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Every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lusts and enticed. He is turned away from the course of virtue and real good by following his own inclinations. If the youth possessed moral integrity, the strongest temptations might be presented in vain. It is Satan’s act to tempt you, but your own act to yield. It is not in the power of all the host of Satan to force the tempted to transgress. There is no excuse for sin.{MYP 430.1}[4]
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有些青年人把精力浪费在荒唐的事上。还有一些青年人则培养自己的心智，积累知识，披上盔甲投入人生的战斗，并决心获取胜利。他们若不将自己的爱集中于上帝，就不能成功地攀登任何的高峰。但他们如果愿意全心全意地归向上帝，并拒绝那些企图削弱他们行义意志之人的任何引诱，就必获得出于上帝的能力和信心。{MYP 430.2}[5]
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While some of the youth are wasting their powers in vanity and folly, others are disciplining their minds, storing up knowledge, girding on the armor to engage in life’s warfare, determined to make it a success. But they cannot make life a success, however high they may attempt to climb, unless they center their affections upon God. If they will turn to the Lord with all the heart, rejecting the flatteries of those who would in the slightest degree weaken their purpose to do right, they will have strength and confidence in God.{MYP 430.2}[5]
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【荒唐的娱乐不是真幸福】
爱好社交的人，往往放纵这种癖性，直到完全被它所控制。他们人生的目的就是打扮，去娱乐场所，嬉笑闲聊一些最荒唐的话题。他们不耐烦阅读圣经和默想天上的事物，如果没有足够的刺激，就非常难过。他们本身没有快乐的动力，所以必须求欢于结交同他们一样放荡愚妄的青年人。那原可用于高尚宗旨的能力，却用在愚妄是事上。……{MYP 430.3}[6]
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【Vain Amusement Not True Happiness】
Those who love society frequently indulge this trait until it becomes an overruling passion. To dress, to visit places of amusement, to laugh and chat upon subjects altogether lighter than vanity—this is the object of their lives. They cannot endure to read the Bible and contemplate heavenly things. They are miserable unless there is something?to excite. They have not within them the power to be happy; but they depend for happiness upon the company of other youth as thoughtless and reckless as themselves. The powers which might be turned to noble purposes, they give to folly....{MYP 430.3}[6]
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凡从读经和祷告中得到幸福快乐的青年人，必因吸取生命的泉水而不断获得振奋。他们必达到别人所无法想象的道德境界和思想深度。与上帝交通能激发人善良的意念和高尚的愿望，使人对真理有清楚的认识，并产生崇高的动机。凡如此与上帝联络的人，必蒙祂承认为自己的儿女。他们要越攀越高，对上帝和永生有更清楚地认识，直到上帝使他们成为向世人传递亮光与智慧的通道。……{MYP 431.1}[7]
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The youth who finds joy and happiness in reading the Word of God and in the hour of prayer is constantly refreshed by draughts from the Fountain of life. He will attain a height of moral excellence and a breadth of thought of which others cannot conceive. Communion with God encourages good thoughts, noble aspirations, clear perceptions of truth, and lofty purposes of action. Those who thus connect their souls with God are acknowledged by Him as His sons and daughters. They are constantly reaching higher and still higher, obtaining clearer views of God and of eternity, until the Lord makes them channels of light and wisdom to the world....{MYP 431.1}[7]
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凡住在耶稣里的人，必在上帝里面得到幸福快乐。他们会谈吐温和，在行动上表现出对属灵与永生事物的敬重，并从口中发出来自上帝宝座的快乐声音。这是敬虔的奥秘，是不容易解释的，却是能够体验和享受的。一个顽固叛逆的心会向上帝恩惠的一切美妙影响和在圣灵里的喜乐关闭门户。但智慧的道路乃是欢乐的道路；路上全是平安。我们越与基督紧密联络，我们的言行就越显出祂恩典感化和改变人心的能力。——《教会证言》卷四622—626页{MYP 431.2}[8]
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Those who abide in Jesus will be happy, cheerful, and joyful in God. A subdued gentleness will mark the voice, reverence for spiritual and eternal things will be expressed in the actions, and music, joyful music, will echo from the lips; for it is wafted from the throne of God. This is the mystery of godliness, not easily explained, but none the less felt and enjoyed. A stubborn and rebellious heart can close its doors to all the sweet influences of the grace of God, and all the joy in the Holy Ghost; but the ways of wisdom are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. The more closely we are connected with Christ, the more will our words and actions show the subduing, transforming power of His grace.—Testimonies for the Church 4:622-626.{MYP 431.2}[8]
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