传道良助-第86章
第85章 为犹太人作工
传道良助-第86章
Chap. 85 Work for the Jews
传道良助-第86章
在耶路撒冷遭受毁灭而圣殿陷于荒废的时候,曾有成千上万的犹太人被卖到外邦去作奴隶。他们象海边的破船一样,分散到世界各国。他们经过了一千八百多年,从这地飘流到那地,一直未能恢复他们古时国家的光荣。他们处处被人辱骂,被人憎恨,被人逼迫,从一世纪到另一世纪,颠沛流离,备尝忧患。{GW 397.1}[1]
传道良助-第86章
At the time when Jerusalem was destroyed and the temple laid in ruins, many thousands of the Jews were sold to serve as bondmen in heathen lands. Like wrecks on a desert shore, they were scattered among the nations. For eighteen hundred years the Jews have wandered from land to land throughout the world, and in no place have they been given the privilege of regaining their ancient prestige as a nation. Maligned, hated, persecuted, from century to century theirs has been a heritage of suffering. {GW 397.1}[1]
传道良助-第86章
犹太人作为一个国家,在他们拒绝拿撒勒人耶稣的时候虽然早已有可怕的厄运宣布在他们头上,但各世代都有敬畏上帝的男女犹太人受尽痛苦,忍气吞声。只有上帝在他们受难的时候安慰他们的心,凭怜悯顾念他们悲惨的境遇。祂已经垂听那些全心全意寻求祂,而要明白祂圣言之人的呼求。其中有一些人终于看出他们祖先所拒绝所钉死的那位卑微的拿撒勒人就是以色列的真弥赛亚。当他们的思想领会到那长久因遗传和谬解而致模糊的预言时,他们就充满了感谢上帝之心,因为祂把说不出来的恩赐,赐给每一个接受基督为个人救主的人。{GW 397.2}[2]
传道良助-第86章
Notwithstanding the awful doom pronounced upon the Jews as a nation at the time of their rejection of Jesus of Nazareth, there have lived from age to age many noble, God-fearing Jewish men and women who have suffered in silence. God has comforted their hearts in affliction, and has beheld with pity their terrible situation. He has heard the agonizing prayers of those who have sought Him with all the heart for a right understanding of His word. Some have learned to see in the lowly Nazarene whom their forefathers rejected and crucified, the true Messiah of Israel. As their minds have grasped the significance of the familiar prophecies so long obscured by tradition and misinterpretation, their hearts have been filled with gratitude to God for the unspeakable gift He bestows upon every human being who chooses to accept Christ as a personal Saviour. {GW 397.2}[2]
传道良助-第86章
以赛亚所说“得救的……余数”就是这一等人。从保罗的日子直到如今,上帝常藉着祂的圣灵呼唤犹太人,像祂呼唤外邦人一样。保罗说:“上帝是不偏待人。”他说:“无论是希腊人,化外人,聪明人,愚拙人,我都欠他们的债,”而犹太人当然也在其内;但保罗看到犹太人所享有特别有利的条件,“第一是上帝的圣言交托他们。”他说:“这福音本是上帝的大能,要救一切相信的,先是犹太人,后是希腊人。因为上帝的义,正在这福音上显明出来;这义是本于信;如经上所记:‘义人必因信得生。’”这福音对于犹太人和外邦人是一样有效验的。保罗在《罗马书》中所说“不以为耻”的,就是这个福音。{GW 397.3}[3]
传道良助-第86章
It is to this class that Isaiah referred in his prophecy, "A remnant shall be saved." [See Isaiah 10:20-22.] From Paul's day to the present time, God by His Holy Spirit has been calling after the Jew as well as the Gentile. "There is no respect of persons with God," [Romans 2:11] declared Paul. The apostle regarded himself as "debtor both to the Greeks, and to the barbarians," [Romans 1:14] as well as to the Jews; but he never lost sight of the decided advantages possessed by the Jews over others, "chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God." [Romans 3:2.] "The gospel," he declared, "is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith." [Romans 1:16, 17.] It is of this gospel of Christ, equally efficacious for Jew and Gentile, that Paul in his epistle to the Romans declared he was not ashamed. {GW 397.3}[3]
传道良助-第86章
这福音何时能丰丰满满地传给犹太人,何时就有许多人接受基督为弥赛亚。在今日基督教的传道人中,只有少数人感觉自己有责任去向犹太人传道;但那使人靠基督得到怜悯和指望的信息,必须传给那些常被疏忽的一等人,象传给其他一切人一样。{GW 398.1}[4]
传道良助-第86章
When this gospel shall be presented in its fulness to the Jews, many will accept Christ as the Messiah. Among Christian ministers there are only a few who feel called upon to labor for the Jewish people; but to those who have been often passed by, as well as to all others, the message of mercy and hope in Christ is to come. {GW 398.1}[4]
传道良助-第86章
在传福音的工作行将结束时,必要进行一番特别的工作,就是向那些过去被人疏忽的人传道。上帝要祂的福音使者特别注意那些散布在世界各国的犹太人。当旧约圣经能配合新约圣经来解释耶和华永恒旨意的时候,这必要成为犹太人新生的曙光和心灵的复苏。当他们在旧约圣经中看到新约的基督,并看出新约圣经多么清楚地解释旧约圣经时,他们沉迷的意识便要觉醒起来,他们就必认明基督是世界的救主了。许多人就要因信而接受基督为他们的救赎主了。以下的经文将要应验在他们身上:“凡接待祂的,就是信祂名的人,祂就赐他们权柄,作上帝的儿女”(约1:12)。{GW 398.2}[5]
传道良助-第86章
In the closing proclamation of the gospel, when special work is to be done for classes of people hitherto neglected, God expects His messengers to take particular interest in the Jewish people whom they find in all parts of the earth. As the Old Testament Scriptures are blended with the New in an explanation of Jehovah's eternal purpose, this will be to many of the Jews as the dawn of a new creation, the resurrection of the soul. As they see the Christ of the gospel dispensation portrayed in the pages of the Old Testament Scriptures, and perceive how clearly the New Testament explains the Old, their slumbering faculties will be aroused, and they will recognize Christ as the Saviour of the world. Many will by faith receive Him as their Redeemer. To them will be fulfilled the words, "As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name." [John 1:12.] {GW 398.2}[5]
传道良助-第86章
在犹太人中有一些是象古时大数的扫罗一样熟悉圣经的,而且这一等人将要以奇妙的能力宣讲上帝律法的不变性。以色列的上帝必能在我们这一个时代实现这一件事。祂的膀臂“并非缩短不能拯救。”当祂的仆人们凭信心为那些长久被人疏忽,被人轻视的犹太人工作时,祂的救恩必要彰显出来。{GW 399.1}[6]
传道良助-第86章
Among the Jews are some who, like Saul of Tarsus, are mighty in the Scriptures, and these will proclaim with wonderful power the immutability of the law of God. The God of Israel will bring this to pass in our day. His arm is not shortened that it cannot save. As His servants labor in faith for those who have long been neglected and despised, His salvation will be revealed. {GW 399.1}[6]
传道良助-第86章
“所以,救赎亚伯拉罕的耶和华论雅各家如此说:雅各必不再羞愧,面容也不至变色。但他看见他的众子,就是我手中的工作,在他那里,他们必尊我的名为圣,必尊雅各的圣者为圣,必敬畏以色列的上帝。心中迷糊的必得明白,发怨言的必受训诲”(赛29:22-24)。——《使徒行述》第379-382页{GW 399.2}[7]
传道良助-第86章
Thus saith the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale. But when he seeth his children, the work of Mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify My name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel. They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine. [Isaiah 29:22-24.]-- "The Acts of the Apostles," pages 379-382. {GW 399.2}[7]
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