*** 不要让信心流失 ***

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不要让信心流失

所以我们当越发郑重所听见的道理，恐怕我们随流失去（希伯来2:1）

亲爱的弟兄姊妹们，在基督的肢体中存在非常危急的事情，就是我们虽然听见上帝的话语，却经常使这些信心和公义的信息随流失去。

我在这里所指的不是那些被宗教包围的基督徒，他们从未在宗教中听到自己能够拥有基督耶稣所释放的大能，我所指的是那些听见了上帝的话语，并且知道靠信心生活会有一个震撼的生命的基督徒。

比如，在我的生命中，当我为痊愈祷告时，我嘴上说的都是正确的话：“感谢上帝，我相信，我获得了治愈”等等，然而我心里却想：“我想知道上帝为什么还没有治好我的病？”

你看，尽管我说我相信我痊愈了，但事实上我没有相信。对上帝的承诺，我的信心摇摆了，我相信身体给我的讯息，却没有相信上帝的话语。

不管你是多少年的基督徒或参加了多久规定的信心活动，对上帝的承诺，你会很容易陷入不信的境地，并且当你这样做时，你会付出惨重代价。

可能你会问：“如果这么容易就会陷入不信，那么我们怎样才能避免呢？”

希伯来4:11告诉我们：“所以我们务必竭力进入那安息，免得有人学那不信从的样子跌倒了。”

我们务必竭力进入安息，这不是说用你手脚的劳作或是相竞获得上帝为你做事，而是把时间多多用在上帝的话语上，就是日复一日，以一个有行动的信心坚守上帝的承诺。我们务必竭力进入安息，是通过听从上帝的话语，不让上帝的话语从我们的生命中随流失去。

不要怠慢上帝的话语，不要犯思想的错误，认为“我知道所谓的信心，我知道怎么使我的病康复”。不要懈怠，否则总有一天魔鬼会趁你没有准备时抓住你的信心，使你在灵命上失明。

你却要更深入地研究上帝的话语，要尽心竭力！你要竭力保守你有行动的信心，不让它随流失去，那么你就决不会跌倒！

研经：希伯来10:23-39

10:23 也要坚守我们所承认的指望，不至摇动，因为那应许我们的是信实的。  

10:24 又要彼此相顾，激发爱心，勉励行善。  

10:25 你们不可停止聚会，好像那些停止惯了的人，倒要彼此劝勉。既知道那日子临近，就更当如此。  

10:26 因为我们得知真道以后，若故意犯罪，赎罪的祭就再没有了，  

10:27 惟有战惧等候审判和那烧灭众敌人的烈火。  

10:28 人干犯摩西的律法，凭两三个见证人，尚且不得怜恤而死，  

10:29 何况人践踏 神的儿子，将那使他成圣之约的血当作平常，又亵慢施恩的圣灵。你们想，他要受的刑罚该怎样加重呢？

10:30 因为我们知道谁说“伸冤在我，我必报应”，又说“主要审判祂的百姓”，

10:31 落在永生 神的手里真是可怕的。  

10:32 你们要追念往日，蒙了光照以后所忍受大争战的各样苦难。  

10:33 一面被毁谤、遭患难、成了戏景、叫众人观看，一面陪伴那些受这样苦难的人。  

10:34 因为你们体恤了那些被捆锁的人，并且你们的家业被人抢去也甘心忍受，知道自己有更美长存的家业。  

10:35 所以你们不可丢弃勇敢的心，存这样的心必得大赏赐。  

10:36 你们必须忍耐，使你们行完了 神的旨意，就可以得着所应许的。  

10:37 “因为还有一点点时候，那要来的就来，并不迟延。  

10:38 只是义人必因信得生，他若退后，我心里就不喜欢他。”  

10:39 我们却不是退后入沉沦的那等人，乃是有信心以致灵魂得救的人。  

在此，我们夫妻感谢上帝，我们主耶稣基督的父，赐给我们美好的一天，也赐给我们你们这些忠心于主的弟兄姊妹们。

（以上所写的，你们可以用来建造耶稣基督的国度）

Do not let faith slip

"Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip." (Hebrews 2:1)

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Something very serious has been happening to the Body of CHRIST. We've often let the WORD of GOD which we have heard, the message of faith and righteousness, slip.

I'm not just talking about those believers who've been so surrounded by religion that they've never heard about the power that's theirs in CHRIST JESUS. I'm talking about those of us who have heard the WORD and have known the thrill of living by faith.

In my own life, for example, there were times when I'd pray for healing. I'd say all the right words, "Thank GOD, I believe, I receive..." and all that. But inside I'd be thinking, "I wonder why GOD isn't healing me?"

You see, even though I'd said that I believed I was healed, I hadn't really. I'd staggered at the promise of GOD, believing what my body told me instead of the WORD of GOD.

I don't care how long you've been a believer or how long you've been practicing the principles of faith. You can easily slip into unbelief about the promises of GOD. And, when you do, it will cost you dearly.

"But if slipping into unbelief is so easy," you may say, "how can we avoid it?"

Hebrews 4:11 tells us: "Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief."

We must labour! Not by working with our hands and feet or struggling to get GOD to do something, but by spending time in GOD's WORD--hanging onto the promises of GOD by active faith day after day. We must labour by hearkening to the WORD and refusing to let it slip.

Don't get casual about the WORD. Don't make the mistake of thinking, "Oh I know all that faith stuff. I know how to receive my healing." Don't slack off or one of these days the devil will catch you unprepared and steal you blind.

Instead, dig more deeply in the WORD than ever. Labour! Be diligent to keep your active faith from slipping--and you won't have to fall!

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Scripture Study:

Hebrews 10:23-39

New International Version (NIV)

23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for HE who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the DAY approaching.

26 If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of GOD. 28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the SON of GOD underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the SPIRIT of grace? 30 For we know HIM who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” and again, “The LORD will judge HIS people.” 31 It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living GOD.

32 Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering. 33 Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated. 34 You suffered along with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions. 35 So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.

36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of GOD, you will receive what HE has promised. 37 For,“In just a little while, HE who is coming will come and will not delay.”

38 And,“But MY righteous one will live by faith. And I take no pleasure in the one who shrinks back.”

39 But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.

We give thanks to GOD, the FATHER of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, for this day and for you, faithful brothers and sisters.

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敬拜上帝

艳丽是虚假的，美容是虚浮的，惟敬畏耶和华的妇女必得称赞（箴言31:30）

平安弟兄姊妹们！箴言书从开头到结尾，都将重点集中在敬畏上帝（箴言1:7）。当我们的生命倚靠上帝的真理，就是以祂的圣洁、公义、大能、仁爱、智慧、良善和信实而生活时，我们就是建立在一个永恒不变的真理上，作为我们生命的坚实根基。那些懂得圣洁与真美善的上帝，并因此而敬拜祂（靠耶和华口里所出的一切话而活着---申命记8:3）的人，就是得到了生命中的成功和称赞。

Worship the LORD

Pro. 31:30 - Charm is deceitful and beauty is passimg, but a woman who fear the LORD, she shall be praised.

Shalom Brothers n Sisters,

The Book of Proverbs ends where it began, with a focus on the fear of the LORD (Pro. 1:7). When we live by the truth of GOD - HIS holiness, righteousness, power, love, wisdom, goodness, faithfulness - we build on an unchanging reality that provides us with a firm fundation for life. And those who know and worship (living by the WORD of the LORD - Deut. 8:3) GOD for who HE really is find both success in life and praise after it.

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敬虔的商议

不先商议，所谋无效；谋士众多，所谋乃成（箴言15:22）

平安弟兄姊妹们，我们中没有一个人看问题能够拥有无限的角度，所以我们需要谦卑邀请其他人（基督的真信徒）的多重观点，来指点我们最重要的决定和计划。因为，上帝常常透过其他人（基督的真信徒）的观点向我们显明祂的旨意。

Godly counsel

Pro. 15:22 – Without counsel, plans go awry, but in the multitude of counselors they are established.

Shalom Brothers and Sisters,

Since none of us has an unlimited perspective, we need to invite multiple viewpoints outside of our own to inform our most important decisions and plans. GOD often uses the perspective of others (true follower of CHRIST) to show us HIS will.

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将事隐秘乃  神的荣耀

将事隐秘乃  神的荣耀，将事察清乃君王的荣耀（箴言25:2）

平安弟兄姊妹们！上帝不仅显明给我们知道我们所不知道的事情，祂还会将事隐秘，那我们就不可能知道。对此，以利沙发现道：“耶和华向我隐瞒，没有指示我”（列王记下4:27）；又如摩西所说：“隐秘的事是属耶和华---我们 神的，惟有明显的事是永远属我们和我们子孙的，好叫我们遵行这律法上的一切话”（申命记29:29）；以赛亚也说：“救主---以色列的 神啊，你实在是自隐的 神”（以赛亚45:15）

It is the glory of GOD to conceal

Pro. 25:2 - It is the glory of GOD to conceal a matter, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

Shalom Brothers n Sisters,

GOD not only reveals things we didn't know, HE also hides things so that we can't know them. Elisha found this out " . . . but the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me why" (2 King 4:27), as did Moses, "The secret things belong to the LORD our GOD, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law" (Deut. 29:29). And Isaiah says, "Truly YOU are a GOD who has been hiding HIMSELF, the GOD and SAVIOR of Israel" (Isa. 45:15).

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让圣灵控制你的舌头

你若行事愚顽，自高自傲，或是怀了恶念，就当用手捂口（箴言30:32）

平安弟兄姊妹们！当上帝显现在旋风中，为约伯的鲁莽诉求而告诫他时，约伯立即用手捂住了嘴（约伯记40:4-5“我是卑贱的，我用什么回答你呢？只好用手捂口。我说了一次，再不回答；说了两次，就不再说。”「圣经在这里告诉我们，约伯放弃了辩明自己的无辜。事实上已经轮到他讲话，但是他无话可说，因为他降卑在我们全能上帝的面前」）。我们必须靠着圣灵控制自己的舌头，否则我们就会反被舌头控制（雅各书3:8惟独舌头没有人能制服，是不止息的恶物，满了害死人的毒气）

Let the HOLY SPIRIT control your tongue

Pro. 30:32 - If you have been foolish in exalting yourself, or if you have devised evil, put your hand on your mouth.

Shalom Brothers n Sisters,

Job literally put his hand over his mouth when GOD appeared to him in a whirlwind to admonish him for his rash demands (Job 40:4-5 "I am unworthy - how can I reply YOU? I put my hand over my mouth. I spoke once, but I have no answer - twice, but I will say no more." [Here the Scripture is telling us that Job abandons his obsession with being vindicated. It is actually his turn to speak, but he has nothing to say, because he was brought low before our ALMIGHTY GOD] ). We must control our tongues by the HOLY SPIRIT or else our tongues will control us (James 3.8 - but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.)

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虚空

已有的事，后必再有；已行的事，后必再行，日光之下并无新事。我（所罗门王）见日光之下所做的一切事都是虚空，都是捕风（传道书1:9、14）

平安弟兄姊妹们！传道书的主题是“虚空”，寻求没有上帝的快乐，只能是虚空。在以色列的历史上，所罗门王是最聪明、最富有的王，他纯粹以人的角度看待“日光之下”的生命（传道书1:9），得出的结论是：一切都是虚空。权力、名望、地位、快乐……没有任何事能够填满上帝预留在人心里的空洞，除了上帝自己。然而，当生命从上帝的角度来看，就赋有了极大的意义和目的，这就是为何所罗门会高呼：“吃、喝、喜乐、行善、快活度日、敬畏上帝，并要谨守遵行上帝的命令！”（传道书3:12-14）当我们视每一天的生命为上帝的恩赐时，所有的怀疑和绝望都会消失。

上帝“厚赐给我们享受一切的富足”，但祂也警告我们不要“倚靠无定的钱财，要倚靠上帝而活”，并劝告我们要“行善，在善行上富足，甘心施舍”（提摩太前书6:17-18）

Vanity

Eccl. 1:9, 14; 9 - That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun. 14 - I (King Solomon) have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and grasping for the wind.

Shalom Brothers n Sisters,

The key word in Ecclesiates is "vanity," the emptiness of trying to be happy apart from GOD. King Solomon, the wisest, richest king in Israel's history, looks at life "under the sun" (Eccl. 1:9), and from a purely human perspective he declares it all to be empty. Power, popularity, prestige, pleasure - nothing can fill the GOD-shaped vacuum in man's life but GOD HIMSELF. But once seen from GOD's perspective, however, life takes on great meaning and purpose, causing Solomon to exclaim, "eat . . . drink . . . rejoice . . . do good . . . live joyfully . . . fear GOD . . . and keep HIS commandments!" Skepticism and despair will melt away when we view life as a daily gift from GOD.

GOD "give us richly all things to enjoy," but HE warns us not "to trust in uncertain riches but in the living GOD" and urges us to "be rich in good works, ready to give" (1 Tim. 6:17, 18).