教会证言-卷一-第91章
第91章 正确遵守安息日
教会证言-卷一-第91章
Chap.91 - Proper Observance of the Sabbath
教会证言-卷一-第91章
1865年12月25日，我蒙指示，看到人对于遵守安息日太马虎了。在上帝给人作工的六天之内，人没有积极进行其世俗之本分，也没有留心谨守安息日，不侵犯上帝已保留归己的神圣时间之一时一刻。人的无论什么业务，都不能算是那样重要，足以使人干犯耶和华的第四条诫命。基督曾许可人在某些情形之下，可以在安息日作救人或牲畜性命之工。但我们若从金钱着眼为自身的利益起见而干犯了第四诫的明文，我们就算是破坏安息日者，并有干犯全部诫命的罪，因为我们只在一条上跌倒，就是犯了众条。如果我们为保全产业，而可破坏耶和华的皇皇诫命，那么这种破坏有何止境？我们要将范围定在哪里呢？我们若在小事上犯罪，视为在自己这方面并非什么特别大罪，结果就使良心刚硬，感觉迟钝，终至于能离开更远，并作大量的工作，而仍自夸是守安息日者，但在实际上按基督的标准来说，我们却在破坏上帝神圣诫命的每一条呢。守安息日的人，在这一方面是有过失的；但上帝却是非常认真的，凡以为自己是节省一些光阴，或微微干犯主的时间给自己占了一点便宜的人，早晚总免不了要遭到损失的。上帝不能象祂素来所乐意行的赐福与他们，这是因为他们羞辱了祂的圣名，轻视了祂的诫命之故。上帝的咒诅要临到他们，他们要受到损失，十倍或二十倍于他们所得的。“人岂可夺取上帝之物呢？你们竟夺取我的供物，……因为你们通国的人，都夺取我的供物”（玛3:8,9）。{1T 531.2}[1]
教会证言-卷一-第91章
December 25, 1865, I was shown that there has been too much slackness in regard to the observance of the Sabbath. There has not been promptness to fulfill the secular duties within the six working days which God has given to man and carefulness not to infringe upon one hour of the holy, sacred time which He has reserved to Himself. There is no business of man's that should be considered of sufficient importance to cause him to transgress the fourth precept of Jehovah. There are cases in which Christ has given permission to labor even on the Sabbath in saving the life of men or of animals. But if we violate the letter of the fourth commandment for our own advantage from a pecuniary point of view we become Sabbathbreakers and are guilty of transgressing all the commandments, for if we offend in one point we are guilty of all. If in order to save property we break over the express command of Jehovah, where is the stopping place? Where shall we set the bounds? Transgress in a small matter, and look upon it as no particular sin on our part, and the conscience becomes hardened, the sensibilities blunted, until we can go still further and perform quite an amount of labor and still flatter ourselves that we are Sabbathkeepers, when, according to Christ's standard, we are breaking every one of God's holy precepts. There is a fault with Sabbathkeepers in this respect; but God is very particular, and all who think that they are saving a little time, or advantaging themselves by infringing a little on the Lord's time, will meet with loss sooner or later. He cannot bless them as it would be His pleasure to do, for His name is dishonored by them, His precepts lightly esteemed. God's curse will rest upon them, and they will lose ten or twentyfold more than they gain. "Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed Me, . . . even this whole nation."{1T 531.2}[1]
教会证言-卷一-第91章
上帝已赐人六天的光阴，可以为自己作工，但祂却留下一天，使自己可以特受尊敬。祂应当得荣耀，祂的威权也应当被尊重。然而人却偷窃了创造主留给祂自己的光阴之小部分，而夺取了属于上帝的。上帝保留第七日作为给人安息的时期，一面是为自己的荣耀，一面也是与人有益。祂看到人劳苦操作，需要一天休息；若是六日操劳忧虑，而无一时间休息松散，对于人的生命及健康是有害的。{1T 532.1}[2]
教会证言-卷一-第91章
God has given man six days in which to work for himself, but He has reserved one day in which He is to be specially honored. He is to be glorified, His authority respected. And yet man will rob God by stealing a little of the time which the Creator has reserved for Himself. God reserved the seventh day as a period of rest for man, for the good of man as well as for His own glory. He saw that the wants of man required a day of rest from toil and care, that his health and life would be endangered without a period of relaxation from the labor and anxiety of the six days.{1T 532.1}[2]
教会证言-卷一-第91章
安息日的设立是为人的益处，人若明知故犯这条禁人在第七日操作的神圣诫命，在上天看来乃是一种犯法，其罪之大，从摩西的律法规定对犯者处以死刑上，可以想见之。然而犯罪的人所要受的，却不止是此生一死而已，上帝是不愿一个干犯祂律法的人进入天国，因此那犯法者必须遭第二次的死亡，也就是干犯上帝律法者的最后满贯之刑罚。{1T 533.1}[3]
教会证言-卷一-第91章
The Sabbath was made for the benefit of man; and to knowingly transgress the holy commandment forbidding labor upon the seventh day is a crime in the sight of heaven which was of such magnitude under the Mosaic law as to require the death of the offender. But this was not all that the offender was to suffer, for God would not take a transgressor of His law to heaven. He must suffer the second death, which is the full and final penalty for the transgressor of the law of God. {1T 533.1}[3]
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