奇妙的神恩-第45章

  2月13日 进入天国的资格

奇妙的神恩-第45章

  Qualifying for the Kingdom, February 13

奇妙的神恩-第45章

  “我实在告诉你们，凡要承受上帝国的，若不象小孩子，断不能进去”（可10:15）。{AG 52.1}[1]

奇妙的神恩-第45章

  Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.Mark 10:15.{AG 52.1}[1]

奇妙的神恩-第45章

  基督不承认任何社会地位、肤色或阶级，作为衪国度公民的资格。进入衪的国度不是靠财富或优越的遗传。凡是由圣灵所生的，都是衪国度的公民。基督所承认的，乃是属灵的品德。衪的国不属于这个世界。衪的子民乃是那些与上帝的性情有分，已经脱离世上从情欲而来之败坏的人。这种恩典是上帝赐给他们的。基督并不认为衪的子民配进衪的国。衪是用自己的神能使他们获得这样的资格。死在罪恶过犯之中的人，竟得以复苏获得属灵的生命。上帝所赋予他们成就圣善目的的才能，得到了精炼、净化和提高，形成了符合神圣样式的品格。……{AG 52.2}[2]

奇妙的神恩-第45章

  Christ does not acknowledge any caste, color, or grade as necessary to become a subject of His kingdom. Admittance to His kingdom does not depend upon wealth or a superior heredity. But those who are born of the Spirit are the subjects of His kingdom. Spiritual character is that which will be recognized by Christ. His kingdom is not of this world. His subjects are those who are partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And this grace is given them of God. Christ does not find His subjects fitted for His kingdom, but He qualifies them by His divine power. Those who have been dead in trespasses and sins are quickened to spiritual life. The faculties which God has given them for holy purposes are refined, purified, and exalted, and they are led to form characters after the divine similitude....{AG 52.2}[2]

奇妙的神恩-第45章

  基督藉着一种看不见的能力把他们吸引到衪身边。衪是生命的光。衪用自己的灵浇灌他们。他们既被带进属灵的氛围，就看出自己已成为撒但试探的掠物，处在他的权下。然而他们挣脱了肉体情欲的轭，拒绝作罪的奴仆。……他们意识到自己已经更换了主人，从耶稣口中接受指示。仆人怎样仰仗主人，使女怎样仰仗主妇，基督慈绳爱索所维系的人也必时常仰仗那为他们的信心创始成终的主。他们藉着仰望耶稣和顺从衪的要求，增进了对上帝和衪所差来之耶稣基督的认识。他们就这样变成他的样式，德上加德，与世人迥然有别，以致可以论到他们说：“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。你们从前算不得子民，现在却作了上帝的子民；从前未曾蒙怜恤，现在却蒙了怜恤”（彼前2:9-10）。（RH.1895，3.26）{AG 52.3}[3]

奇妙的神恩-第45章

  Christ draws them to Himself by an unseen power. He is the light of life, and He imbues them with His own Spirit. As they are drawn into the spiritual atmosphere, they see that they have been made the sport of Satan’s temptations, and that they have been under his dominion; but they break the yoke of fleshly lusts, and refuse to be the servants of sin.... They realize that they have exchanged captains, and they take their directions from the lips of Jesus. As a servant looks to his master, and as a maid looks to her mistress, so these souls, drawn by the cords of love to Christ, constantly look unto Him who is the Author and Finisher of their faith. By beholding Jesus, by obeying His requirements, they increase in the knowledge of God and of Jesus Christ whom He hath sent. Thus they become changed into His image from character to character until they are distinguished from the world, and it can be written of them: “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: which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy” (1 Peter 2:9, 10).25{AG 52.3}[3]

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