休闲
第一章 作世上的光
上帝的旨意是要通过祂的子民来显明祂国度的原则。祂希望他们在品格和生活上显示这些原则，与世上的风俗、习惯和行为有分别。祂设法使他们与祂更加亲近，以便向他们显明祂的旨意。祂今日对于祂子民的旨意与祂古时领以色列人出埃及时对于他们的旨意是一样的。世上的人要从上帝的教会中看到祂的恩慈、怜悯、公正和慈爱，看到祂品格的见证。当上帝的律法在生活中这样有了见证时，连世人也会认识到那些挚爱、敬畏并事奉上帝的人远比世人其他任何团体优越。{PH145 3.1}
安息日会复临信徒比其他的人更应在内心和言行上成为虔敬圣洁的模范。主把最严肃的真理交付给了他们，并厚赐给他们各种恩赐和能力。他们等候基督驾天云速速归来。如果他们给世人留下的印象是他们的信仰并不在他们生活中占主导地位，他们就是大大地羞辱了上帝。{PH145 3.2}
由于撒但试探的能力日益加强，我们所处的时代对上帝儿女来说是充满许多危险的。我们需要不断地向大教师基督学习，使我们能步步行在安全和公义的路上。奇妙的景象正在我们面前展现，现在自称上帝子民的人应当在生活上作出活的见证，使世人看出：当今世代虽然邪恶处处得势，仍有一班人将自己的意愿放在一边而寻求遵行上帝的旨意，——有上帝的律法写在他们的心灵和生活中。{PH145 3.3}
基督的代表
上帝希望归入基督名下的人作祂的代表。他们的思想要纯洁、言语要高尚。他们所做所说的都应贯彻基督的宗教。他们应当是一班被圣化、净化了的圣洁的人，将亮光传给凡与他们交往的人。{PH145 4.1}
上帝的旨意是要他们因在生活上为真理作见证而成为地上的赞美。基督的恩典足以使这一点实现。但上帝的子民应当记住，他们只有相信并实行福音的原则，才能成全上帝的旨意。只有当他们献上上帝所赐的才能来为祂服务时，他们才能享受上帝所应许的丰富和权柄。教会蒙召要信靠的正是这个应许。{PH145 4.2}
在基督行将与黑暗势力作最后斗争的时候，祂举目望天，为祂的门徒祷告。祂说：“我不求祢叫他们离开世界，只求祢保守他们脱离那恶者，他们不属世界，正如我不属世界一样。求祢用真理使他们成圣，祢的道就是真理”(约17:15-17)。{PH145 4.3}
基督的门徒在生活原则和旨趣上必须与世人分别，但他们不可与世隔绝。救主曾不断与人们来往，不是为了赞助他们做什么不合上帝旨意的事，而是要提高和超拔他们。祂宣称：“我自己分别为圣，叫他们也因真理成圣”(约17:19)。因此基督徒也当居住在世人中间，使上帝爱的香气像盐一样，保守世界不遭败坏。{PH145 5.1}
祈祷的力量
基督每日被试探所困，被民众的首领所攻击，祂深知自己必须祷告来加强自己的人性。为了造福于人类，祂必须与上帝交通，向祂求能量、毅力和坚定。祂就是这样向祂的门徒显示祂的能力的所在。{PH145 5.2}
人若不天天这样与上帝交通，就不可能获得服务的力量。只有基督能正确地指导人的思想，只有祂能给我们高尚的志向，按着上帝的形像塑造我们的品格。只要我们在诚恳的祷告中亲近祂，祂就会使我们心中充满高尚圣洁的宗旨，使我们切切渴慕纯洁和公义。我们的周围危难云集。凡在属上帝的事上有经验的人需要百倍警惕。那些谦卑地行在上帝面前，不敢信靠自己智慧的人，必会觉察自己的危险，并看清上帝的保护。{PH145 5.3}
我们最大的需要就是度更崇高、更纯洁、现高贵之生活的力量。世人正在观望着，看看那些自称是基督徒的人结出什么样的果子。他们理应在那些相信现代真理的人身上看出舍己和牺牲的精神。他们正在观望，随时准备尖锐而严厉地批评我们的言行。每个参加上帝圣工的人都要被世人掂掂份量。我们正不断地在我们所接触的人心中留下有利于或不利于圣经信仰的印象。{PH145 6.1}
上帝和众天使也正在观望。上帝希望祂的子民通过自己的生活，证明基督化比世俗化优越，并表明他们是在高尚圣洁的水平上工作。祂渴望看到他们显明他们所接受的真理已经使他们成为天上君王的儿女。祂渴望使他们成为祂能藉以倾下丰盛的慈爱与怜悯的通道。{PH145 6.2}
基督正以迫切的愿望等待着自己的形像在祂的教会中表现出来。当救主的品格在祂百姓的身上完全再现时，祂就要来接凡属祂的人。每个基督徒都有权利不仅等候而且催促我们主耶稣基督的来临。如果那些承认祂名的人都已结出果子荣耀祂，福音的种子原会多么迅速地撒遍全球啊!最后的大庄稼原会很快就成熟了，而主也很快就会来了。{PH145 6.3}
“亲爱的啊，你们……当殷勤，使自己没有玷污，无可指摘，安然见主”(彼后3:14)。{PH145 7.1}
PH145 - Recreation
《Chapter 1—Recreation As Lights in the World》
It is God’s purpose to manifest through His people the principles of His kingdom. That in life and character they may reveal these principles, He desires to separate them from the customs, habits, and practises of the world. He seeks to bring them nearer to Himself that He may make known to them His will. His purpose for His people today is the same that He had for Israel when He brought them forth from Egypt. By beholding the goodness, the mercy, the justice, and the love of God revealed in His church, the world is to have a representation of His character. And when the law of God is thus exemplified in the life, even the world will recognize the superiority of those who love and fear and serve God above every other people in the world.?{PH145 3.1}[1]
Seventh-day Adventists, above all people, should be patterns of piety, holy in heart and in conversation. To them have been entrusted the most solemn truths ever committed to mortals. Every endowment of grace and power and efficiency has been liberally provided. They look for the soon return of Christ in the clouds of heaven. For them to give to the world the impression that their faith is not a dominating power in their lives, is greatly to dishonor God.?{PH145 3.2}[2]
Because of the increasing power of Satan’s temptations, the times in which we live are full of peril for?the children of God, and we need to learn constantly of the great Teacher, that we may take every step in surety and righteousness. Wonderful scenes are opening before us, and at this time a living testimony is to be borne in the lives of God’s professed people, so that the world may see that in this age, when evil reigns on every side, there is yet a people who are laying aside their will and are seeking to do God’s will,—a people in whose hearts and lives God’s law is written.?{PH145 3.3}[3]
【Representatives of Christ】
God expects those who bear the name of Christ to represent Him. Their thoughts are to be pure, their words noble and uplifting. The religion of Christ is to be interwoven with all that they do and say. They are to be a sanctified, purified, holy people, communicating light to all with whom they come in contact.?{PH145 4.1}[4]
It is His purpose that by exemplifying the truth in their lives, they shall be a praise in the earth. The grace of Christ is sufficient to bring this about. But let God’s people remember that only as they believe and work out the principles of the gospel can they fulfil His purpose. Only as they yield their God-given capabilities to His service, will they enjoy the fulness and the power of the promise whereon the church has been called to stand.?{PH145 4.2}[5]
Before Christ went to His final conflict with the powers of darkness, He lifted up His eyes to heaven, and prayed for His disciples. He said: “I pray not that Thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldst keep them from the evil. They?are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy word is truth.”?{PH145 4.3}[6]
The followers of Christ are to be separate from the world in principles and interests: but they are not to isolate themselves from the world. The Saviour mingled constantly with men, not to encourage them in anything that was not in accordance with God’s will, but to uplift and ennoble them. “I sanctify Myself,” He declared, “that they also might be sanctified.” So the Christian is to abide among men, that the savor of divine love may be as salt to preserve the world from corruption.?{PH145 5.1}[7]
【Strength in Prayer】
Daily beset by temptation, constantly opposed by the leaders of the people, Christ knew that He must strengthen His humanity by prayer. In order to be a blessing to men, He must commune with God, pleading for energy, perseverance, and steadfastness. Thus He showed His disciples where His strength lay.?{PH145 5.2}[8]
Without this daily communion with God, no human being can gain power for service. Christ alone can direct the thoughts aright. He alone can give us noble aspirations, and fashion our characters after the divine similitude. If we draw near to Him in earnest prayer, He will fill our hearts with high and holy purposes, and with deep longings for purity and righteousness. The dangers thickening around us demand from those who have an experience in the things of God a watchful supervision. Those who?walk humbly before God, distrustful of their own wisdom, will realize their danger, and will know God’s keeping care.?{PH145 5.3}[9]
The power of a higher, purer, nobler life is our great need. The world is watching to see what fruit is borne by professed Christians. It has a right to look for self-denial and self-sacrifice from those who believe advanced truth. It is watching, ready to criticize with keenness and severity our words and acts. Every one who acts a part in the work of God is weighed in the scales of human discernment. Impressions favorable or unfavorable to Bible religion are constantly being made on the minds of all with whom we have to do.?{PH145 6.1}[10]
And God and the angels are watching. God desires His people to show by their lives the advantage of Christianity over worldliness; to show that they are working on a high, holy plane. He longs to see them showing that the truth they have received has made them children of the heavenly King. He longs to make them channels through which He can pour His boundless love and mercy.?{PH145 6.2}[11]
Christ is waiting with longing desire for the manifestation of Himself in His church. When the character of the Saviour shall be perfectly reproduced in His people, then He will come to claim His own. It is the privilege of every Christian, not only to look for, but to hasten, the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Were all who profess His name bearing fruit to His glory, how quickly the whole world would be sown with the seed of the gospel! Quickly the last great harvest would be ripened, and Christ would come.?{PH145 6.3}[12]
“Wherefore, beloved, ... be diligent that ye may be found of Him in peace, without spot, and blameless.”?{PH145 7.1}[13]
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