危险增加直到主来
一个严肃的警告
有些人曾在上帝的工作中起过显著的作用，现在却不知悔改了。他们安顿下来，内心有了一种致命的刚硬，一种对圣灵的恳求的坚定的抵抗。要是死亡趁他们现在的样子突然来袭，他们就会听到那句可怕的话：“你被称在天平里，显出你的亏欠”(但5:27)。{PH058 1.1}
人们可能在外表上尊敬救主，自命为基督徒，有敬虔的外貌，心却与主疏远。主看内心的忠诚极为宝贵。这等人名义上是活的，其实却是死的。{PH058 1.2}
我感到非常悲痛苦恼，因为看到一些经常受到警告的人多么坚定地拒绝听从恳劝之言。他们已经与那欺骗人的臂挽臂，被他任意掳去了。我听到有话说：“他们已经那么久沉浸在仇敌的生活和习俗中，以致不想摆脱他的陪伴了。”{PH058 1.3}
许多人不穿婚筵的礼服就要来赴羔羊的婚筵——这礼服是基督用祂的宝血为他们买来的。从永不出错之主的口中发出这样的话：“朋友，你到这里来，怎么不穿礼服呢”(太22:12)?听见的人无言可答。他们晓得辩词全无用处。带着使人成圣之能力的真理未曾进入他们的心灵。那曾流利地讲述真理的舌头，现在却沉默无声。主说：“将他们从我面前赶走，他们不配品尝我的筵席。”{PH058 1.4}
当他们从那忠诚的人中被分别出来时，基督带着深切的忧伤看着他们。他们在上帝的圣工上曾肩负重任，却没有那能保证他们享受永生的人寿保险单。从基督颤抖的嘴唇中有悲哀遗憾的话说：“我爱他们，为他们舍了我的命;但他们坚持拒绝我的劝告，继续犯罪。巴不得你在这日子，知道关系你平安的事，无奈这事现在是隐藏的，叫你的眼看不出来。”{PH058 2.1}
今日基督悲伤地看着那些祂最后必须否定其品格的人。他们存自满的心，希望自己的心灵会得到安宁。但到那最后的大日，检测的镜子必显露他们心中惯行的邪恶，同时显明他们再没有改善的可能性。原来曾经有百般的努力催促他们悔改。但他们拒绝自卑己心，现在就要听见那惨痛的哀鸣：“麦秋已过，夏令已完，我们还未得救”(耶8:20)!{PH058 2.2}
撒但和他的使者会以人的样式出现在这个地球上，且会与一些人混在一起，上帝的圣言论到那些人说：“必有人离弃真道，听从那引诱人的邪灵和鬼魔的道理”(提前4:1)。世上充满了撒但用作他爪牙的男人和女人。基督已用重价买了他们，——就是祂的生命之血。但他们却把自己交给撒但支配。他们是盲目的，忘了自己旧日的罪已得洁净。{PH058 2.3}
在登山宝训中，上帝的儿子哀悼失丧的灵魂。在祂眼前经过的千百万尚未出生的灵魂，他们会加倍作恶，拒绝祂的恳求，使祂丧失要是他们允许祂将上帝的性情传授给他们，祂就本来能够得到的荣耀。{PH058 3.1}
基督告诉我们，在最后的大日，传道人、长老、福音传道士、医生、教师们将如何用他们的要求来与祂对质。他们必争辩说，他们怎样引导歌唱的人唱赞美之歌，怎样挥动棕树枝，怎样在成千上万的人面前谈论祂。他们说：“主啊，主啊，我们不是奉祢的名传道，……奉祢的名行许多异能吗”(太7:22)?{PH058 3.2}
但基督却说：“我就明明的告诉他们说：我从来不认识你们，你们这些作恶的人，离开我去吧!当仁慈怜悯的声音像最美妙的音乐一样落在你们耳中的时候，巴不得你们在眷顾你们的日子知道关系你们平安的事。但你们却没有准备好。你们若是忠心听从了圣经的警告;你们若是摒弃了撒但，而不是挽着他的手臂;你们若是保持了正义的原则不被玷污;你们若是听从了我的诫命，与不敬虔的顾问断绝了关系，蔑视他们的不虔诚的贿赂，这些贿赂诱惑你们去获得世俗的荣誉;你们若是背起十字架，舍己跟从了耶稣，我本可以欢迎你们到我面前来的。但你们却没有在意我的交谊，而今你们就没有能力摆脱网罗了。{PH058 3.3}
“我将我的救恩赐给你们，你们却拒绝接受，竟站在仇敌的一边，像祭司和官长们所做过的一样。你们不肯被我在十字架上垂死的痛苦所感动，并且嘲笑我的屈辱。所以我拒绝承认你们。我为你们的未来哭泣，但你们却不愿意为自己哭泣。我曾起誓要生养你们，如同父亲生养疼爱服事他的儿子一样。但你们却不愿与我和谐一致。{PH058 3.4}
“主常常发出这个宝贵的邀请：‘让他持住我的能力，使他与我和好，愿他与我和好’(赛27:5)。但你们却不愿听我的劝告。你们已经使许多人随从你们的恶行，现在你们的刑罚来到了。你们必照着你们一直以来的行为受报。你们必须失去永生。你们选择了自己的道路，有了这样的道路，这样的情感，这样的品格，你们就不能进入圣城的大门。”{PH058 4.1}
这是何等的场面啊!我一再回忆这个情景，看着许多拒绝接受他们救主之人的结局，便身陷言语无法形容的痛苦中。公平要坐在宝座上，那具有拯救大能的膀臂要显示其大能大力，击打毁灭上帝国度的众仇敌。基督要将各人的动机与行为显露出来，每项隐秘的行为要在施行者的眼前揭示，好像在宇宙之前宣告一般。{PH058 4.2}
怀爱伦
1903年10月1日写于加州疗养院(《文稿》1903年121号，10月14日)
PH058 - Perils Increase Till Jesus Comes
【A Solemn Warning】
Impenitence has taken hold upon some who once acted a prominent part in the work of God. There is on their part a settling down to a fatal hardness of heart, a confirmed resistance of the Spirit’s pleading. Should death overtake them as they are now, the dreadful words would be spoken, “Weighed in the balance, and found wanting.”?{PH058 1.1}[1]
It is possible for men to offer the Saviour outward homage, to be Christians in profession, to have a form of godliness, while the heart whose loyalty he prizes above all else, is estranged from him. Such ones have a name to live, but they are dead.?{PH058 1.2}[2]
I am in great distress and agony as I see how determined are some who have often been warned in their refusal to hear the words of entreaty. They have linked their arms in the arm of the deceiver, and are led captive by him at his will. I heard the words spoken, “So long have they been impregnated with the life and customs of the enemy that they have no desire to break away from his companionship.”?{PH058 1.3}[3]
To the marriage supper of the Lamb will come many who have not on the wedding garment,—the robe purchased for them with His life-blood. From lips that never make a mistake come the words, “Friend, how camest thou in hither not having on the wedding garment?” Those addressed are speechless. They know that words would be useless. The truth, with its sanctifying power, has not been?brought into the soul, and the tongue that once spoke so readily of the truth is now silent. The words are spoken, “Take them out of My presence. They are not worthy to taste of My supper.”?{PH058 1.4}[4]
As they are separated from the loyal ones, Christ looks upon them with deep sorrow. They occupied high positions of trust in God’s work, but they have not the life insurance policy that would have entitled them to eternal life. From the quivering lips of Christ come the mournful words of regret, “I loved them; I gave My life for them; but they persisted in rejecting My pleadings, and continued in sin. O that thou hadst known, even thou, in this thy day, the things which belong to thy peace! But now they are hid from thine eyes.”?{PH058 2.1}[5]
Today Christ is looking with sadness upon those whose characters He must at last refuse to acknowledge. Inflated with self-sufficiency, they hope that it will be well with their souls. But at the last great day the mirror of detection reveals to them the evil that their hearts have practised, and shows to them at the same time the impossibility of reform. Every effort was made to bring them to repentance. But they refused to humble their hearts. Now the bitter lamentation is heard, “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and my soul is not saved.”?{PH058 2.2}[6]
Satan and his angels will appear on this earth as men, and will mingle with those of whom God’s word declares, “Some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.” The world is full of men and women whom Satan uses as his agencies. Christ has bought them with a price,—even His life-blood. But they have given themselves into Satan’s control. They are blind, and have forgotten that they were purged from their sins.?{PH058 2.3}[7]
In his sermon on the mount, the Son of God mourns over lost souls. Before His eyes pass the millions of souls yet unborn who would multiply their evil works, reject His pleadings, and rob Him of the glory that He would have received had they allowed Him to impart to them the divine nature.?{PH058 3.1}[8]
Christ tells us how in the last great day ministers, elders, evangelists, physicians, teachers, will confront Him with their claims. They will plead how they have led the singers in their songs of praise, how they have waved the palm branches, how they have spoken of Him before thousands. “Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy name,” they say, “and in Thy name done many wonderful works?”?{PH058 3.2}[9]
But Christ says, “Then will I profess unto them, I never knew you; depart from Me, ye that work iniquity. O that you had known, even in the day of your visitation, when like sweetest music, mercy’s voice fell upon your ears, the things that belonged unto your peace. But you were not ready. If you had been faithful to the warnings of the word; if you had dismissed Satan, instead of linking your arm in his; if you had preserved untarnished the principles of right; if you had obeyed My commandments, broken with ungodly advisers, scorned their impious bribes, which tempted you to worldly honor; if you had lifted the cross, and followed Jesus in self-denial, I could have welcomed you into My presence. But you have not cared for My society, and now you have no power to go from the snare.?{PH058 3.3}[10]
“I offered you My saving grace, but you refused it, and chose the side of the enemy, even as the priests and rulers did. You refused to be touched by My dying agony on the cross, and mocked at My humiliation. So will I refuse to acknowledge you. I weep for your future, but you have not cared to?weep for yourselves. I was pledged to bear you and care for you, even as a father beareth and loveth his own son that serveth him. But you would not harmonize with Me.?{PH058 3.4}[11]
“The precious invitation was often given, ‘Let him take hold of My strength, that he may make peace with Me, and he shall make peace with Me.’ But you would none of My counsel. You have caused many to follow your sinful ways, and now your punishment has come. You will receive as your works have been. You must lose everlasting life. You have chosen your own ways, and with such ways, such sentiments, such characters, you could not enter the gates of the Holy city.”?{PH058 4.1}[12]
What a scene is this! I pass over the ground again and again, bowed down in an agony that no tongue can express, as I see the end of the many, many who have refused to receive their Saviour. Justice will take the throne, and the arm strong to save will show itself strong to smite and destroy the enemies of the kingdom of God. Christ will lay bare the motives and deeds of every one. Every hidden action will stand out as clearly before the doer as if proclaimed before the universe.?{PH058 4.2}[13]
Ellen G. White?Sanitarium, Cal.,October 1, 1903.(Manuscript 121, October 14, 1903.)[14]
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