“不是你们拣选了我，是我拣选了你们，并且分派你们去结果子，叫你们的果子常存”（约15:16）。{FH.97.1}
基督经常斥责法利赛人的自以为义。……就机会，拥有圣经和认识真神而言，他们已升到了天上，但他们的心没有因上帝待他们的大慈爱而充满感恩，反而满怀属灵的骄傲，以自我为主题——“我自己，我的感觉，我的知识，我的道路。”他们自己的学识成了他们衡量别人的标准。……{FH.97.2}
基督的每一个门徒都要存心谦卑地扪心自问：我必须做什么才可以得救？我们若诚心想要明白，就会知道。耶稣之所以爱我们，赐福给我们，并不是因为我们的财富、知识和优越的地位，而是因为我们相信祂是我们个人的救主。我们还作罪人的时候，耶稣就爱了我们。祂既拣选了我们，就分派我们结果子。每一个人都有事要做吗？当然有。每一个负基督的轭的人都必须担祂的担子，按祂的方针作工。……基督赦罪之爱的生活要在心灵中成为泉源，直涌到永生。心中若有了这个泉源，整个生活就会展示这个事实，上帝振奋人心的恩典也必彰显出来。{FH.97.3}
宗教不仅仅是拥有喜乐的感觉，意识到拥有特权和亮光，有喜出望外的情绪，用全副精力保持基督徒生活的平衡，同时却不为救灵做什么事。宗教乃是遵行基督的话；象忠心的哨兵那样站立，不是为赚得救恩而遵行，而是因为你虽全然不配，却领受了天国的恩赐。宗教是实行上帝的计划，与天上的生灵合作。……{FH.97.4}
我们若不断追求认识主，我们的见识就会拓宽，不受自我所约束。我们应该祈求主扩大我们的悟性，好明白耶稣基督不仅是我们的替身和中保，而且我们属于基督，是祂买来的产业。保罗说：“你们是重价买来的”，并下结论说：“所以要在你们的身子上荣耀上帝”（林前6:20）。——《时兆》，1894年12月17日。{FH.97.5}
What Must I Do to Be Saved? March 26
You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain.?John 15:16.?{FH 97.1}[1]
Christ ever rebuked the Pharisees for their self-righteousness.... They were exalted to heaven in point of opportunity, in having the Scriptures, in knowing the true God, but their hearts were not filled with thankfulness to God for His great goodness toward them. They came forth filled with spiritual pride, and their theme was self—“myself, my feelings, my knowledge, my ways.” Their own attainments became the standard by which they measured others....?{FH 97.2}[2]
Let every disciple of Christ inquire in all humility of mind, What must I do to be saved? If we sincerely desire to understand, we shall know. It is not because of our riches, our knowledge, our superiority of position, that Jesus loves us and blesses us, but because we believe in Him as our personal Savior. Jesus loved us while we were yet sinners, but having chosen us He says He has ordained us to go and bring forth fruit. Has each one something to do? Certainly, everyone that is yoked up with Christ must bear His burden, work in His lines.... The life of Christ’s pardoning love in the soul is as a well of water springing up unto eternal life. If the well of water is in the heart, then the entire life will reveal the fact, and the refreshing grace of God will be made manifest.?{FH 97.3}[3]
Religion is not simply to have joyous feelings, to be conscious of having privileges and light, to have rapturous emotions, while expending all the energies to keep a balance in the Christian life, while doing nothing for the salvation of souls. Religion is doing the words of Christ; it is standing as faithful sentinels, not doing to earn salvation, but doing because, all undeserving, you have received the heavenly gift. Religion is to work out God’s plans, to cooperate with the intelligences of heaven....?{FH 97.4}[4]
If we will follow on to know the Lord, our views will broaden. They will not be bound about by self. We should pray the Lord to enlarge our understanding, so that we may not only understand that Jesus Christ is our substitute and surety, but that we belong to Christ as His purchased possession. Paul says, “Ye are bought with a price,” and draws this conclusion, “Therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.”—Signs of the Times, December 17, 1894.?{FH 97.5}[5]
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