【【坦然无惧地来到施恩宝座前】】

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坦然无惧地来到施恩宝座前

所以我们只管坦然无惧地来到施恩的宝座前，为要得怜恤、蒙恩惠作随时的帮助（希伯来4:16 ）

亲爱的弟兄姊妹们，当你将主耶稣作为你生命的主、热爱祂并服从祂的命令，那么你将获得一个特权，就是在你想要的时候，能够有权柄随时来到上帝的殿前。想想看，这是多么地荣耀！你能坦然无惧地来到上帝的跟前，按照祂的旨意得到你所需要的一切，而且上帝的旨意永远都是把最好的赐给你。

虽然圣经已经对此讲得很清楚，但是有很多基督徒还是不敢进到上帝的殿前，反而他们认为：“我决对无法进到上帝的殿，所以我只站在外面大声地祈求，希望上帝能够垂听我的祷告。”我多年前就犯过这个错。

记得有一天，我在为教会的复兴祷告，恳切地乞求、不停地在天国的门外大声喊求。过了一会，上帝对我说：“你在做什么？”

我说：“我为教会的复兴，在天国的门外奋力祷告。”

“维德，你知道我的城有多大吗？”上帝问我。

我回答说：“据圣经里记载：城是四方的，长宽高都是四千里，城墙共有一百四十四肘。”

上帝对我说：“既然如此，假如我的宝座在城中央，离你有二千里，这么远的距离，你在城门外喊得再大声又有何用呢？”又说：“天国的门根本没有锁，你为何不放弃在门外大喊，选择直接进前来呢？”

我为自己没有首先用心思考就去效仿传统的祷告而忏悔，然后我记起上帝的话语曾说：“要坦然无惧地来到施恩的宝座前”。从那以后，我就怀着坦然无惧的心进到上帝的殿前。

今天你有什么所需而要向上帝祈求吗？不要再浪费时间站在天国的门外了，透过主耶稣并服从上帝的话语，你就是上帝殿里的子民，所以你能够直接进到上帝的殿，上帝的大门永远都会为你敞开。

研经：希伯来4:14-16，5:1-9

愿上帝祝福你们，我的弟兄姊妹们---自上帝最卑微的仆人

Let us come boldly unto the throne of grace

"Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain  mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." (Hebrews 4:16)

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

When you made JESUS the LORD of your life, love HIM and obey HIS commandments, one of the privileges you received was the right to come to the throne room of GOD any time you want to. Think about that! You have the right to go boldly before GOD and obtain whatever you need according to HIS will. And HIS will is always the best for you.

Even though that's clearly what the Bible says, many people don't go boldly into the throne room. Instead they think, "I could never go in to where GOD is. I'll just stand out here and yell and hope HE hears me." I used to be guilty of that myself years ago.

I remember one day I was in prayer, begging and pleading, bombarding the gates of heaven for revival. After I'd been at it a little while, the LORD spoke to me. "What are you doing?" HE said.

"I'm bombarding the gates of heaven with prayer for revival," I answered.

"Victor, how big is MY city?" HE asked me.

"As far as I can tell from what the Bible says, it's about 1200 cubits or somewhere around 1500 miles square and 1500 miles high."

"Then why are you bombarding the gates? Assuming that MY throne is in the middle of the city that leaves you about 750 miles short! And, by the way," He added, "those gates aren't locked. Why don't you quit bombarding them and just come on in?"

After I repented for mimicking old traditional prayers without thinking, I remembered that the WORD says, "Come boldly to the throne" and I've been coming boldly ever since.

Do you need to receive something from GOD today? Don't waste time standing around outside heaven's gates. Through JESUS and your obedience to the WORD of GOD, you belong in the very throne room of GOD. So come right on in. The door is always open for you.

Scripture Study: "Hebrews 4:14-16, Hebrews 5:1-9"

GOD bless you my Brothers and Sister,

from the least of GOD’s servants.

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今日就可选择你们所要侍奉的

“今日就可选择你们所要侍奉的”（约书亚24:15）

亲爱的弟兄姊妹们，选择上帝的话语是一个持续性的挑战，你只做一次是不够的。无论面对什么样的境况，每一次你都能坚定地选择相信上帝的话语、坚确地按照上帝的话语而行，这需要你持久不变地这样去做。

而这也正是每一个基督徒都应当做的。记得多年前，我决定从此以后永远都选择服从主耶稣，在后来的每一天，无论遇到什么样的境况，我都会持续坚定地选择主耶稣---我选择主耶稣作我的救主、我选择主耶稣作我的医治者、我选择主耶稣作我的主人、我选择主耶稣作我的资产掌管者、我选择主耶稣作我的一家之主、我选择服从主耶稣所有的命令、我选择主耶稣作为我的侍奉之首，总之，每时每刻我所选择的都必定是主耶稣。

有时我们陷入了困境，所以仍然选择信靠上帝而不随从世俗，作出这样的抉择变得艰难起来。然而上帝曾经承诺，祂永远都不会让艰难过于我们所能承受的，在哥林多前书10:13里上帝说：“你们所遇见的试探无非是人所能受的， 神是信实的，必不叫你们受试探过于所能受的。”上帝在这里明确地说，祂决不会允许让试探超越我们所能承受的，祂会为每一个困境开出一条路，确保我们永远都有选择祂的机会。

有的人认为，魔鬼试探我是因为上帝不在我身边，祂不知道我发生了什么事情。事实上，上帝的灵从未离开过我们，圣灵一直都在供应我们战胜困境和试探的一切所需。换句话说，上帝会装备你战胜最难困境所需的武器和力量，祂永远都会给你选择活在祂里面的机会，而这个选择权握在你手里，上帝决不会逼迫你选择祂。

所以选择以爱心而行、选择以有行动的信心而行、选择信靠并服从上帝的话语而活，主耶稣就是通往天国的惟一道路，让我们永远都选择跟从主耶稣！

研经：约书亚24:14-24

愿上帝祝福你们，我的弟兄姊妹们---自上帝最卑微的仆人

Choose you this day whom ye will serve

"Choose you this day whom ye will serve." (Joshua 24:15)

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Choosing to side with GOD's WORD is a continual challenge. It's not something you do just once. It's a process of choosing to believe and act upon the WORD of GOD over and over in every circumstance.

That's what everyone has to do. Years ago I decided I was going to choose JESUS. Since then I've had to choose HIM again and again in situations every day. I've chosen HIM as my LORD and SAVOR. I've chosen HIM as my HEALER. I've chosen HIM as my MASTER. I've chosen HIM as my FINANCIER. I've chosen HIM as HEAD of my household. I’ve chosen to obey all HIS WORD.  I've chosen HIM as HEAD of my ministry. And I still have to choose HIM moment by moment.

Sometimes that choice gets tough, but GOD has promised it will never get too tough. In 1 Corinthians 10:13, HE says, "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but GOD is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able." What the LORD is saying is that HE will not allow you to be subjected to a temptation you're unable to overcome. With every temptation, HE will make a way of escape. HE will ALWAYS make sure you have a choice.

The devil doesn't come tempt you while GOD is off somewhere, unaware of what is happening to you! The SPIRIT of GOD is constantly there with you, providing you with the way to overcome difficulties and temptations. In other words, GOD matches even the toughest temptations with the weapons and power you need to conquer them. HE always makes it possible for you to choose life in HIM. But you will have to make the choice yourself, HE will never force you.

So choose to walk in love. Choose to walk by faith. Choose to live by HIS WORD. JESUS is the Way! Choose HIM!

Scripture Study: Joshua 24:14-24

GOD bless you my Brothers and Sister,

from the least of GOD’s servants.

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我得救了吗？

我得救了吗？我该怎么来确定？

很多人都会问出这个问题：如何确切地知道自己得救了？

自由意志或人的本能。虽然人类本性因为亚当夏娃的堕落而受到了严重地影响，但是人类从未被遗弃至一个灵命无助的境地，上帝的恩慈使每一个罪人都有悔改并信靠祂的机会，可是上帝决不会干涉人的自由选择。每个罪人都有一个自由意志，而他怎样使用这个自由意志又决定着他是否能够得到永恒的生命。人的自由意志主要在于人有选择的能力，在灵命上能选择以善胜恶，也能选择不沉溺于罪恶的本性中。罪人有能力选择顺从上帝的灵而得以重生，或选择抵挡上帝的恩典而致灭亡。迷失的罪人需要圣灵的扶持，但是在他选择相信主耶稣的救恩之前，他无法靠着圣灵重生，因为信心是人信靠上帝的实据，必要在重生之先。有行动的信心是罪人献给上帝的礼物，也是人类对救恩的致献。

当有人问主耶稣，有多少人能得救时，主耶稣没有直接回答，而是说：“你们要努力进窄门”（路加福音13:24你们要努力进窄门，我告诉你们，将来有许多人想要进去却是不能）。由此我们得知，得救的人必是进窄门的人。那么怎样才是进窄门？简言之，就是放弃世俗的事，恨恶自己属世的生命（约翰福音12:25 爱惜自己生命的，就失丧生命；在这世上恨恶自己生命的，就要保守生命到永生 ）。

假先知和宽门

主耶稣在马太福音7:13-14里也说到窄门：“你们要进窄门，因为引到灭亡，那门是宽的，路是大的，进去的人也多；引到永生，那门是窄的，路是小的，找着的人也少。”主耶稣在这里说到两种门和两条路：窄门和小路，是引向永生；宽门和大路，是通往灭亡。很多人认为“大路”指的是世界，而行在其上的是那些非信徒，然而这里清楚地表明：是基督徒在向主耶稣寻求进入天国的路，然后主说：“你们要进窄门”；并且在本章15节，主耶稣警告我们（基督徒）要防备假先知（假牧师和假传道人）。那些假先知（披着羊皮的假牧师和假传道人）邀请人们进入宽门，宽门里不需要为得救放弃任何事情。他们会让你相信：你可以既侍奉上帝，又侍奉玛门。但是，主耶稣说得非常明白：人不能侍奉两个主【马太福音6:24 一个人不能事奉两个主，不是恶这个爱那个，就是重这个轻那个。你们不能又事奉　神，又事奉玛门（玛门是财利的意思）】  ，你们会因此灭亡的。

我要将主耶稣对假先知的警告刻在心里，因为现实中总是有很多假先知（假传道人、假牧师），而真先知（真传道人、真牧师）只是少数：当约沙法求问上帝是否可以上去攻城的时候，那里有四百个假先知，却只有一个真先知（历代志下18:5……以色列王招聚先知四百人……，11节……所有的先知也都这样预言说：“可以上基列的拉末去，必然得胜，因为耶和华必将那城交在王的手中。”……13节米该雅说：“我指着永生的耶和华起誓，我的 神说什么，我就说什么”），并且保罗也作见证：“我们不像那许多人，为利混乱　神的道”（哥林多后书2:17 我们不像那许多人，为利混乱　神的道。乃是由于诚实、由于　神，在　神面前凭着基督讲道）。那些混乱 神道的人是图己利，所以对他们来说，重要的是门要宽、路要大，因为这样他们才能领更多的人进去。

进窄门以致得救

我必须竭力进入那窄门，因为按照我的本性，我希望能在世存留生命，做一个好基督徒；而要做一个好基督徒，我就必须尽心竭力地谨守遵行主耶稣的命令，正因为如此，使我真正认识到自己的生命有何等的败坏，所以我开始恨恶我属世败坏的生命。

当我进了窄门之后，我惟一所求的，就是凡事都按照上帝的旨意行、都能被上帝悦纳。我恨恶我属世的生命，我要彻底与我属世的恶念断绝，因为恶念不能带给我什么，我也不想从它得到什么。然后，我就可以在窄路上奋勇向前，与保罗同说：“我只有一件事，就是忘记背后努力面前的，向着标竿直跑，要得　神在基督耶稣里从上面召我来得的奖赏”（腓立比3:13-14）。当我有这样的心志意念时，那么我就能够确定我得救了。

愿上帝祝福你们，我的弟兄姊妹们---自上帝最卑微的仆人

Am I saved

Am I saved? How can I know for sure?

This can be a question for many—how can I be sure that I am saved?

Free-will or human ability. Although human nature was seriously affected by the fall of Adam and Eve, man has not been left in a state of total spiritual helplessness. God graciously enables every sinner to repent and believe but does not interfere with man’s freedom. Each sinner possesses a free will, and his eternal destiny depends on how he uses it. Man’s freedom consists in his ability to choose good over evil in spiritual matters; his will is not enslaved to his sinful nature. The sinner has the power to either cooperate with GOD’s SPIRIT and be regenerated or resist GOD’s grace and perish. The lost sinner needs the SPIRIT’s assistance but he does not have to be regenerated by the SPIRIT before he can believe, for faith is man’s act and precedes the new birth. Faith is the sinner’s gift to GOD; it is man’s contribution to salvation.

When someone asked Jesus if there would be many who are saved He did not answer the question directly, but said: “Strive to enter through the narrow gate.” (Luke 13:24 “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to). From this we understand that those who are saved are the ones who have entered through the narrow gate. What is then this narrow gate? Simply put, it is to give up everything of this world and to hate my own life in this world (see also John 12:25 Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life).

False prophets and the wide gate

JESUS also speaks about this narrow gate in Matthew 7:13-14 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. There HE speaks of two gates and two ways: The narrow gate and the difficult way that leads to life, and the wide gate and broad way that leads to destruction. Many believe the broad way to be the world and those who walk upon it to be unbelievers. But it is clear that Jesus is addressing Christians who are seeking to enter the kingdom of Heaven: “Enter by the narrow gate,” HE says. And in verse 15 HE warns us (Christians) to beware of false prophets (Pastors and Preachers). The false prophets (pastors and preachers in sheep skin) invite people to enter by the wide gate, where it is not necessary to give up everything in order to be saved. They would have you believe that it is possible to serve both God and mammon, but JESUS makes it very clear that this is not possible (Matthew 6:24 - “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both GOD and money.), and so the end is destruction.

I need to take JESUS’ warning about false prophets seriously to heart, for the fact is there have always been many false prophets, and few true. When Jehoshaphat wanted to inquire of the LORD whether they should go to battle or not, there were 400 false prophets and only one true prophet (2 Chronicles 18: 5 . . . king of Israel brought together the prophets—four hundred men . . . V 11 . . . . all were prophesying the same thing. “Attack Ramoth Gilead and be victorious,” they said, “for the LORD will give it into the king’s hand.” . . . .V 13 But Micaiah said, “As surely as the LORD lives, I can tell him (the king of Israel) only what my GOD says.”). And Paul testified “We are not, as so many, peddling the WORD of GOD.”  2 Corinthians 2:17 - Unlike so many, we do not peddle the WORD of GOD for profit. On the contrary, in CHRIST we speak before GOD with sincerity, as those sent from GOD. These peddlers are seeking their own gain, so it is important for them to make the gate wide and the way broad so they can get as many people as possible into their assemblies.

Be saved by entering the narrow gate

I must strive to enter the narrow gate, because according to my nature I would like to preserve my life in this world and still be a Christian. I must strive to keep JESUS’ commandments, because that will bring me to a true acknowledgement of how corrupt my life is, so I begin to hate it (my life).

When I have gone through the narrow gate, there is only one thing I desire, that it is do GOD’s will and to please HIM. I hate my own life in this world and I am finished with this world. It has nothing to offer me anymore and I want nothing of it. Then I can press forward on the narrow way, and say together with Paul: “One thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal of the upward call of GOD in CHRIST JESUS.” Philippians 3:13-14. When I have this attitude of mind then I can be sure that I am saved.

GOD bless you my Brothers and Sister,

from the least of GOD’s servants.

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纷争

在何处有嫉妒分争，就在何处有扰乱和各样的坏事（ 雅各书 3:16）

亲爱的弟兄姊妹们，你是否注意到在家里最容易变得以自我为中心。对其他任何一个人都会有尊重和宽容，但是当面对家人时，却忍不住要让自己享有更自我的特权，好像家人根本是无足轻重的。

在我成为基督徒之前，我会对朋友表现出更多的谦和友善，而对自己最亲的人就会更加苛刻和少宽容。

但是，在耶稣基督成为我生命的主之后，我深深地认识到自己必须彻底地改变。

通过学习上帝的话语，我们夫妻认识到同心合意对一个家庭来说是多么的重要。我们学习到，如果我们想让同心的大能（马太福音18:19 我又告诉你们：“若是你们中间有两个人在地上同心合意的求什么事，我在天上的父必为他们成全 ）在我们的生命中运作起来，那么我们就决不能允许纷争存在家庭中。

纷争不仅会摧毁我们信心的盾牌、停止我们祷告的果效，而且还会邀请撒旦和他的同党进入我们中间。不和是致命性的，它使上帝的大能无法在你们的生命中运作。

不要允许纷争进入你们的家庭，不要允许敌人撒旦停留在你家门前，如果你这么做，那么你将对撒旦构不成任何威胁。

让同心合意的力量在你的家庭中运作起来。

立定心志去做吧！

愿上帝祝福你们，我的弟兄姊妹们---自上帝最卑微的仆人

研经：腓立比2:1-13

2:1 所以在基督里若有甚么劝勉、爱心，有甚么安慰、圣灵有甚么交通、心中有甚么慈悲怜悯，

2:2 你们就要意念相同、爱心相同、有一样的心思、有一样的意念，使我的喜乐可以满足。  

2:3 凡事不可结党、不可贪图虚浮的荣耀。只要存心谦卑，各人看别人比自己强。  

2:4 各人不要单顾自己的事，也要顾别人的事。  

2:5 你们当以基督耶稣的心为心。  

2:6 祂本有　神的形像，不以自己与　神同等为强夺的。

2:7 反倒虚己，取了奴仆的形像，成为人的样式。

2:8 既有人的样子，就自己卑微，存心顺服，以至于死，且死在十字架上。  

2:9 所以　神将祂升为至高，又赐给祂那超乎万名之上的名，

2:10 叫一切在天上的、地上的和地底下的，因耶稣的名，无不屈膝，  

2:11 无不口称耶稣基督为主，使荣耀归与父　神。  

2:12 这样看来，我亲爱的弟兄，你们既是常顺服的，不但我在你们那里，就是我如今不在你们那里，更是顺服的，就当恐惧战兢，作成你们得救的工夫。  

2:13 因为你们立志行事都是　神在你们心里运行，为要成就祂的美意。  

Strife

"For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work."

(James 3:16)

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Have you ever noticed that the easiest place to remain self-centered is at home? There's an incentive to be lovely with others, but with your family you are tempted to allow yourself more selfish privileges as if it didn't count there.

Before I was a Christian, I was more courteous and nicer to friends than to my own family. I was more demanding and less forgiving with those dearest to me than with anyone else.

But after I made JESUS LORD of my life, I realized all that had to change.

Esther and I began to learn through the WORD how important harmony is within our family. We learned that if we wanted the power of agreement (Matthews18:19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of MY FATHER which is in heaven.) to work in our lives, we could not allow strife in our home.

Strife drops the shield of faith, stops prayer results, and invites Satan and his cohorts into your midst. Discord is deadly. It paralyzes the power of GOD in your life.

Don't allow the enemy to stop at your own front door by allowing strife in your home. If you do, you'll be no threat to him (Satan) anywhere else.

Put the power of harmony to work in your family.

Determine that.

GOD bless you my Brothers and Sister,

from the least of GOD’s servants.

Scripture Study: Philippians 2:1-13

1 If there be therefore any consolation in CHRIST, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the SPIRIT, if any bowels and mercies,

2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in CHRIST JESUS:

6 Who, being in the form of GOD, thought it not robbery to be equal with GOD:

7 But made HIMSELF of no reputation, and took upon HIM the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled HIMSELF, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

9 Wherefore GOD also hath highly exalted HIM, and given HIM a name which is above every name:

10 That at the name of JESUS every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

11 And that every tongue should confess that JESUS CHRIST is LORD, to the glory of GOD the FATHER.

12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

13 For it is GOD which worketh in you both to will and to do of HIS good pleasure.