上帝的儿女-第256章
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上帝的儿女-第256章
Persecution Helps Spread the Gospel, September 11
上帝的儿女-第256章
「我为基督的缘故,就以软弱、凌辱、急难、逼迫、困苦为可喜乐的」(林后12:10)。{SD261.1}[1]
上帝的儿女-第256章
Laborers Together With God in the Church
I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake.2 Corinthians 12:10.{SD 261.1}[1]
上帝的儿女-第256章
在各世代中,上帝所拣选的使者都曾遭受凌辱与逼迫;然而认识上帝的知识却借着他们的苦难传播开来了。基督的每一个门徒都应加入这个行列,推进这项工作。要知道仇敌所作的一切都不能阻挡真理,反而会促进真理的发展。上帝定意要使真理发扬光大,引人关注。即使在它受人所蔑视,也是如此。要启发百姓的心。每一场斗争,每一番凌辱,和每一次限制良心自由的企图,都是上帝的手段,用来唤醒一些本来会沉睡不醒的人。{SD261.2}[2]
上帝的儿女-第256章
In every age God’s chosen messengers have been reviled and persecuted; yet through their affliction, the knowledge of God has been spread abroad. Every disciple of Christ is to step into the ranks, and carry forward the same work, knowing that its foes can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. God means that truth shall be brought to the front, and become the subject of examination and discussion, even through the contempt placed upon it. The minds of the people must be agitated; every controversy, every reproach, every effort to restrict liberty of conscience, is God’s means of awakening minds that otherwise might slumber.{SD 261.2}[2]
上帝的儿女-第256章
在上帝使者的历史中,这样的效果是屡见不鲜的。那位品格高尚,能言善辩的司提反,因犹太公会的唆使而被人用石头打死的时候,福音的工作并没有受到损失。显在他面上的天国荣光,以及他临终的祈祷所流露出来的神圣怜悯,犹如一支定罪的利箭,刺入站在旁边执迷不悟的议员心中。那逼迫人的法利赛人扫罗,竟成了上帝所拣选的器皿,在外邦人、君王和以色列人面前宣扬基督的名。多年以后,这位年迈的保罗在罗马的监狱中写道:「有的传基督,是出于嫉妒纷争,……并不诚实,意思要加增我捆锁的苦楚。这有何妨呢?或是假意,或是真心,无论怎样,基督究竟被传开了」。由于保罗的被囚,福音传开了。连在西泽的王宫里,也有人得救归向基督。撒但为消灭上帝「活泼常存的道」所作的种种努力,反而使这「不能坏的种子」播撒在世人的心田中(彼前1:23)。借着祂儿女所受的凌辱与逼迫,基督的名得到高举,许多人得救了。{SD261.3}[3]
上帝的儿女-第256章
How often this result has been seen in the history of God’s messengers! When the noble and eloquent Stephen was stoned to death at the instigation of the Sanhedrin council, there was no loss to the cause of the gospel. The light of heaven that glorified his face, the divine compassion breathed in his dying prayer, were as a sharp arrow of conviction to the bigoted Sanhedrist who stood by, and Saul, the persecuting Pharisee, became a chosen vessel, to bear the name of Christ before Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel. And long afterward Paul the aged wrote from his prison-house at Rome: “Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife, ... not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds.... Notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached.” Through Paul’s imprisonment the gospel was spread abroad, and souls were won for Christ in the very palace of the Caesars. By the efforts of Satan to destroy it, “the incorruptible seed” of the Word of God, “which liveth and abideth forever,” is sown in the hearts of men; through the reproach and persecution of His children, the name of Christ is magnified, and souls are saved.29{SD 261.3}[3]
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