主必快来-第74章
三月十四日 身体的健康和高尚的思想
主必快来-第74章
Physical Health and Noble Thinking, March 14
主必快来-第74章
“亲爱的弟兄啊,你们是客旅,是寄居的;我劝你们要禁戒肉体的私欲,这私欲是与灵魂争战的“(彼前2:11)。
主必快来-第74章
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. 1 Peter 2:11. {Mar 81.1}
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许多人以为这节圣经只是警告人不要淫乱而已。其实它有更广泛的意义。它禁止人有害地满足食欲和情欲。各种扭曲的食欲都会变成与我们敌对的情欲。我们有食欲是为了正确的目的,不应扭曲而成为死亡的使者,堕落到“与灵魂争战”。彼得的警告几乎直接而且有力地禁戒人服用一切兴奋剂和麻醉剂。这些嗜好完全可以归入对道德品格产生有害影响的私欲。(CTBH 53){Mar 81.1}
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Many regard this text as a warning against licentiousness only; but it has a broader meaning. It forbids every injurious gratification of appetite or passion. Every perverted appetite becomes a warring lust. Appetite was given us for a good purpose, not to become the minister of death by being perverted, and thus degenerating into “lusts, which war against the soul.” Peter’s admonition is a most direct and forcible warning against the use of all stimulants and narcotics. These indulgences may well be classed among the lusts that exert a pernicious influence upon moral character.24 {Mar 81.2}
主必快来-第74章
但愿凡自称虔诚的人不要对身体的健康满不在乎,以为不节制不算罪,不会影响他们的属灵生命。人类的身体与道德是密切相关的。道德的标准是随着身体的习惯提高或降低的。最好的食物若吃得过度也会产生一种病态的道德情绪。所吃的食物若不是十分有益健康的,结果就更有害了。任何习惯若不促进身体系统进行健康的活动,都会使更高的机能退化。……放纵食欲会加强人的兽性倾向,使兽性凌驾于智力和灵力之上。(CH 67){Mar 81.2}
主必快来-第74章
Let none who profess godliness regard with indifference the health of the body, and flatter themselves that intemperance is no sin and will not affect their spirituality. A close sympathy exists between the physical and the moral nature. The standard of virtue is elevated or degraded by the physical habits. Excessive eating of the best of food will produce a morbid condition of the moral feelings. And if the food is not the most healthful, the effects will be still more injurious. Any habit which does not promote healthful action in the human system degrades the higher and nobler faculties.... Indulgence of appetite strengthens the animal propensities, giving them the ascendancy over the mental and spiritual powers.25 {Mar 81.3}
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放纵食欲之试探的力量,只能用我们的救赎主在旷野长期禁食时所受无法形容的痛苦来衡量。祂知道放纵扭曲的食欲,会使人的悟性麻木,不能辨识神圣的事物。……放纵的食欲对人类有强大的影响。为了打破它的控制,上帝的圣子为人禁食几达六周之久。既然这样,摆在基督徒面前的,是何等艰巨的任务!然而这场斗争不论多么惨烈,他都可以得胜。靠着那曾挡住撒但所发明最强烈试探的上帝大能,人可以在这场与罪恶所作的斗争中取得完全的胜利,并最终在上帝的国中戴上胜利者的冠冕。(CD. 167){Mar 81.3}
主必快来-第74章
The strength of the temptation to indulge appetite can be measured only by the inexpressible anguish of our Redeemer in that long fast in the wilderness. He knew that the indulgence of perverted appetite would so deaden man’s perceptions that sacred things could not be discerned.... If the power of indulged appetite was so strong upon the race, that, in order to break its hold, the divine Son of God, in man’s behalf, had to endure a fast of nearly six weeks, what a work is before the Christian! Yet, however great the struggle, he may overcome. By the help of that divine power which withstood the fiercest temptations that Satan could invent, he, too, may be entirely successful in his warfare with evil, and at last may wear the victor’s crown in the kingdom of God.26 {Mar 81.4}
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