健康勉言-第248章
第247章 所罗门堕落的教训
健康勉言-第248章
A Lesson From Solomon’s Fall
健康勉言-第248章
(《教会证言》卷二第305-307页,1868年)
如果所罗门始终保持了德行,他的人生原可一直卓越直到最后。但他使这种特殊的恩赐屈从于私欲。他在幼年时仰望上帝,寻求上帝的引导并信赖他,而上帝也拣选他,将震烁古今的智慧赐给他。他的能力和智慧在全地得到赞扬。但好色乃是他的罪。他在成年后没有控制这种情欲,它便成了他的网罗。他的妃嫔引诱他去敬拜偶像,当他开始在生活上走下坡路时,上帝便收回了赐给他的智慧。他失去了品格上的坚定,变得幼稚轻浮,在对与错之间摇摆。他既放弃了原则,便置身于邪恶的洪流中,因而使自己与上帝隔绝,远离了他力量的基础和源头。他偏离了原则。智慧对于他曾比俄斐的精金更为宝贵。但可悲的是,私欲竟得了胜。他被女色所欺骗所毁灭。这是多么令人警醒的一个教训啊!这个见证表明,我们是何等地需要上帝的力量以坚持到底啊!{CH582.1}[1]
健康勉言-第248章
[Testimonies for the Church 2:305-307 (1868).]
The life of Solomon might have been remarkable until its close, if virtue had been preserved. But he surrendered this special grace to lustful passion. In his youth he looked to God for guidance and trusted in Him, and God chose for him and gave him wisdom that astonished the world. His power and wisdom were extolled throughout the land. But his love of women was his sin. This passion he did not control in his manhood, and it proved a snare to him. His wives led him into idolatry, and when he began to descend the declivity of life, the wisdom that God had given him was removed; he lost his firmness of character and became more like the giddy youth, wavering between right and wrong. Yielding his principles, he placed himself in the current of evil, and thus separated himself from God, the foundation and source of his strength. He had moved from principle. Wisdom had been more precious to him than the gold of Ophir. But, alas! lustful passions gained the victory. He was deceived and ruined by women. What a lesson for watchfulness! What a testimony as to the need of strength from God to the very last!{CH 582.1}[1]
健康勉言-第248章
在与内在的败坏和外来的引诱作战时,连大有智慧和能力的所罗门都被打败了。人即便最轻微地偏离最严格的正直都是不安全的。“各样的恶事要禁戒不作”(帖前5:22)。当一个妇女把她家中的烦恼,或她对丈夫的怨尤,向别的男子吐诉时,她便是违背了婚姻的誓约;她也是羞辱了自己的丈夫,拆毁了为保持婚姻关系的神圣性而树立的墙垣;她也就大大地敞开了门户,邀请撒但带着他阴毒的试探进来。这正合乎撒但的心意。假如一位妇女来到一个基督徒弟兄的跟前诉说她的忧患,失意的事和考验,他总要劝她说:要是她必须向人吐诉自己的苦衷,就要从姐妹中选择几位作为心腹之交,这样便能免除一切足以使上帝的圣工遭受羞辱的恶事了。{CH582.2}[2]
健康勉言-第248章
In the battle with inward corruptions and outward temptations, even the wise and powerful Solomon was vanquished. It is not safe to permit the least departure from the strictest integrity. “Abstain from all appearance of evil.”1 Thessalonians 5:22. When a woman relates her family troubles, or complains of her husband, to another man, she violates her marriage vows; she dishonors her husband and breaks down the wall erected to preserve the sanctity of the marriage relation; she throws wide open the door and invites Satan to enter?with his insidious temptations. This is just as Satan would have it. If a woman comes to a Christian brother with a tale of her woes, her disappointments and trials, he should ever advise her, if she must confide her troubles to someone, to select sisters for her confidants, and then there will be no appearance of evil, whereby the cause of God may suffer reproach.{CH 582.2}[2]
健康勉言-第248章
请记住所罗门的教训。列国中没有哪个君王像他那样蒙上帝眷爱。但他却跌倒了。他受诱离开上帝,并因放纵私欲而败坏了。这是现今的时代所盛行的罪恶,其进展是可怕的。自称守安息日的人并不洁净。有些自称相信真理的人内心是腐败的。上帝要试验他们,他们的愚妄和罪恶便要显露出来。只有纯洁谦卑的人才能住在上帝的面前。“谁能登耶和华的山?谁能站在祂的圣所?就是手洁心清,不向虚妄,起誓不怀诡诈的人。”(诗24:3-4)。“耶和华啊,谁能寄居祢的帐幕?谁能住在祢的圣山?就是行为正直,作事公义,心里说实话的人。他不以舌头谗谤人,不恶待朋友,也不随伙毁谤邻里;他眼中藐视匪类,却尊重那敬畏耶和华的人。他发了誓,虽然自己吃亏,也不更改。他不放债取利,不受贿赂以害无辜。行这些事的人必永不动摇”(诗15:1-5)。{CH583.1}[3]
健康勉言-第248章
Remember Solomon. Among many nations there was no king like him, beloved of his God. But he fell. He was led from God and became corrupt, through the indulgence of lustful passions. This is the prevailing sin of this age, and its progress is fearful. Professed Sabbathkeepers are not clean. There are those who profess to believe the truth who are corrupt at heart. God will prove them, and their folly and sin shall be made manifest. None but the pure and lowly can dwell in His presence. “Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in His holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.”Psalm 24:3, 4. “Lord, who shall abide in Thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in Thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor. In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoreth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not. He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.”Psalm 15.{CH 583.1}[3]
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