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MR No. 676 - Now Is the Time to Prepare for the Hereafter
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永恒就在我们前面。我们今世藉着与上天密切联络而在智力方面做出的一切改进,在使我们自己文雅高尚方面达到的一切高深的造诣,都将与我们一起变化升天,然而我们若是因无所作为而弱化我们的能力,败坏我们容易受到最高培养的才干,就不能在更好的世界中挽回以往所忽略的自修,所造成的大损失。{9MR21.1}[1]
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Eternity is before us. All improvements we make here of our mental powers, all the high attainments we make in refining and elevating ourselves by connecting closely with heaven, will be translated with us, while if we dwarf our capabilities by inaction, if we deteriorate our talents, which are susceptible of the highest cultivation, we cannot in the better world redeem that past neglect of self-culture, that great loss. {9MR 21.1}[1]
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有些人可能会好像从火里救出来一样。他们无价值的一生已给他们带来无限的损失。我们应该在今生做出能靠着上帝的帮助和恩典做出的一切改进,知道我们能将这些改进与我们一起带进天国。我们荣耀我们天父的程度必与我们在今世净化和完善我们品格的程度相称。我们能对同胞行的最大的善事,就是克服我们自己的缺点,改善我们的品格,使之尽量优秀匀称。于是我们对同胞的影响力才会更有效,甚至强过最有学问却没有追求改善品格和净化生活的传道人们在讲台上的努力。要让你的光照在人前,叫他们看见你的好行为,就归荣耀给我们在天上的父。……{9MR21.2}[2]
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Some may be saved as by fire. Their useless life has brought to them infinite loss. We should make improvement in this life, all that we can by the help and grace of God, knowing we can take these improvements with us into heaven. We will glorify our Father in heaven in proportion as we purify and perfect our characters here. The greatest possible good we can do to our fellow men is to overcome our own faults and improve our characters, making them as excellent and symmetrical as possible. Then our influence upon our fellow men will be more effectual than even the pulpit labor of the most learned ministers without their seeking to improve the character and purify the life. Let your light so shine before men that they, in seeing your good works, may glorify our Father which is in heaven. . . . {9MR 21.2}[2]
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甚愿上帝的子民能把这话听到心里去!甚愿他们会想一想,耶稣来了之后,将不会有一个错误得到纠正!当基督降临的时候,将不会有一个品格的残缺会被消除。现在正是我们预备的时候。现在正是我们在羔羊的血中洗净自己衣服的时候。我们若是继续为自己的错误辩解,设法使自己相信我们大体上是对的,我们就在欺骗自己的灵魂,将会发现自己被称在天平里,显出亏欠。许多人自称相信真理,却没有因真理成圣。(《文稿》1874年5号第4-7页,〈关于斯托金斯弟兄的证言〉,约于1874年)怀爱伦著作托管委员会1978年12月29日发表于美国首都华盛顿{9MR21.3}[3]
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Oh, that the people of God would take this to heart! That they would consider that not one wrong will be righted after Jesus comes! Not one error of character will be removed when Christ shall come. Now is our time of preparation. Now is our time of washing our robes of character in the blood of the Lamb. If we go on excusing our errors and trying to make ourselves believe we are about right we deceive our own souls and will find ourselves weighed in the balance and found wanting. Many profess the truth but are not sanctified through the truth.--Manuscript 5, 1874, pp. 4-7. ("Testimony Concerning Brother Stockings," circa 1874.) White Estate Washington, D. C. December 29, 1978 {9MR 21.3}[3]
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