“王进来观看宾客，见那里有一个没有穿礼服的”(太22:11;阅太22:1-14)。{FH.123.1}
靠着圣灵的帮助，男男女女就能超凡脱俗，过圣洁的生活。凡自称为信徒却不如此行的人，乃是对真理作假见证。……他们没有在言行举止上显示真理改变人心的能力。主怎能喜悦那些不做任何努力以达到高尚标准的人呢?他们岂不是自称接受了高尚的真理吗?{FH.123.2}
上帝没有叫人交出有益于身心健康的东西，而是叫人放弃低级的、使人软弱的恶习。人若依恋这些恶习，就会被拒于天国门外。祂给他们机会享受所有可以享受而不会遭受良心谴责、想起来也不会懊悔的乐事。为了他们现在和永恒的利益，祂叫他们培养使身心强健的美德。纯洁的思想和正确的习惯对我们作为人和作为基督徒的幸福来说都是必要的。我们如果愿意见到王的荣美，就必须克服一切降低品格的事。……{FH.123.3}
主能够也愿意帮助每一个寻求祂帮助努力变得圣洁的人。……你有没有作出认真的努力，克服与生俱来的犯罪倾向，战胜在接受真理之前就已成为生活一部分的习性与行为呢?那些自称相信真理的人在家中不整洁无秩序，日常生活不象基督，与他们自称接受基督之前一样吗?如果是这样，他们就没有宣扬那召他们出黑暗入奇妙光明者的美德。他们没有披戴基督的义。{FH.123.4}
要努力坚决作出改进。要洁净自己脱离肉体灵魂一切的污秽，敬畏上帝，得以成圣。着装要干净整洁，态度要仁慈有礼。要纯洁文雅，因为天国是非常纯正高雅的。上帝在祂的范围内是圣洁的，照样，我们要在自己的范围内圣洁。{FH.123.5}
要仔细研读婚筵礼服的比喻，并将其教训应用到自己身上。……那个来赴婚筵却没有穿礼服的人所代表的，乃是一切自称有信仰，却没有改变习性行为的人。——《评论与通讯》，1901年2月26日。{FH.123.6}
The Wedding Garment, April 21
When the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man there who did not have on a wedding garment.?Matthew 22:11. (Read?Matthew 22:1-14.)?{FH 123.1}[1]
By the help of the Holy Spirit, men and women can rise from commonness and live pure, holy lives. Those professed believers who do not do this lie against the truth.... They do not show forth in word and deportment the transforming power that attends the truth. How can the Lord be pleased with those who make no effort to rise to a high standard? Do they not claim to have received a high, noble truth? ...?{FH 123.2}[2]
God does not ask men and women to surrender anything that is for the health of soul or body, but He does ask them to surrender debasing, enfeebling vices which, if cherished, will exclude them from heaven. He leaves them room for every pleasure that can be enjoyed without compunction of conscience, and remembered without remorse. He asks them, for their present and eternal good, to cultivate those virtues that bring health to the body and strength to the soul. Pure thoughts and correct habits are necessary to our happiness as human beings and as Christians. Everything of a debasing character must be overcome if we would see the King in His beauty....?{FH 123.3}[3]
The Lord can and will help everyone who seeks His help in the effort to become pure and holy.... Have earnest efforts been made to overcome natural inclinations to wrong, to conquer the habits and practices that were a part of the life before the acceptance of the truth? Are those who claim to believe the truth as untidy and disorderly in the home and as un-Christlike in the daily life as before they professed to accept Christ? If so, they are not showing forth the praises of Him who hath called them out of darkness. They have not put on Christ’s righteousness.?{FH 123.4}[4]
Strive to make decided improvement. Cleanse yourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of the Lord. Be neat and tidy in your dress, and kind and courteous in your manner. Be pure and refined, for heaven is the very essence of purity and refinement. As God is pure and holy in His sphere, so we are to be in our sphere.?{FH 123.5}[5]
Read carefully and critically the parable of the wedding garment, and make a personal application of the lessons it teaches.... Those who make a profession of faith, and yet remain unchanged in habit and practice, are represented ... by the man who came to the feast without a wedding garment.—The Review and Herald, February 26, 1901.?{FH 123.6}[6]
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