(1905年6月2日)
我有一道信息要传给我们的医生。你们中有些人在影响你们心思的错觉下迷失了方向。你们自诩是在圣灵的感动下行动，其实一些人所随从的是曾在天庭欺骗了天使的错误灵感。那些受到明确的警告、陶醉在迷惑性情绪之中的人，以为自己处在真理与公义的灵感之下。他们在其所站的立场与他们所沉迷的自负上大受欺骗了。这些人曾得到警告，但他们不相信警告。曾有话传给他们说：“不要自欺，上帝是轻慢不得的”(加6:7)，但他们仍沉醉在撒但所发明的诡辩中。{SpTA12 1.1}
如果上帝对待人像一些拥有大光的人对待他们弟兄那样的话，他们早就处在绝望的境地了。{SpTA12 1.2}
好好想一想以下的话：一些福音使者感受到明显的敌意。他们被人讽刺，被人荒唐地歪曲，因为他们不愿受劝去做他们身边的上帝使者吩咐他们不要去做的事。对他们所表现出的敌意记录在天上的册子中，呈现在上帝面前，而不是呈现在人面前，因为上帝借祂的圣灵感动祂的仆人不要屈从强加于他们的计划。{SpTA12 1.3}
上帝呼召祂所有的牧者和医疗工作者保持警惕。那些随从一意孤行之人的发明、计划和诡计的人，是在误表他们的天父，因为上帝并没有指教那个人。恶天使正在引导他做类似于在天庭开始的工作。{SpTA12 2.1}
我在夜间醒来，蒙指示曾赐给以赛亚的信息：“你要大声喊叫，不可止息;扬起声来，好像吹角。向我百姓说明他们的过犯;向雅各家说明他们的罪恶”(赛58:1)。愿所有人都听从上帝的劝导，而不是听从那些接受了诱人科学诡辩之人的劝导。那些人近来试图在我们工作中获得显著的地位。{SpTA12 2.2}
我提出主的话语：愿每个人在各行各业中都追求完美的品格。这会让我们付出可能意想不到的代价，或许会清空我们的钱囊，但却会使我们的心灵因纯净的原则而得以坚固;我们的经济来源或许会受到严重的影响，但却会拓展我们基督徒的经验，并把我们放在历代忠心之人的有利地位上。我们将与上帝相交，并与那些在灵与魂与身子上都侍奉祂的人相交。为此我们不值得付出一切吗?{SpTA12 2.3}
有能力分辨义与不义、真理与谬误，难道不是最有价值的吗?愿所有宣称服侍上帝的人都能意识到自己的责任，藉着蒙拣选在这个邪恶自私的世代做上帝的代表，来维护所给予我们的神圣尊严。{SpTA12 3.1}
上天恩典的洪流会丰丰富富地涌向所有以真理和圣洁服侍主的人。我们要把这恩典传递给别人。我们要把旗帜举得高而又高。我们有没有认识到这意味着要实行真理与公义的原则，意味着要拒绝所有导致专横且不公地对待上帝仆人的情绪呢?人可能误称这些情绪为正义，但实行仇敌的意志绝无正义可言。主耶稣难道没有呼召我们要完善基督化的品格，要完全像我们的天父完全一样吗?这意味着什么呢?这意味着尽心尽意尽性尽力符合上帝的旨意;这意味着在此生遵守公义的原则，遵守上帝的诫命。{SpTA12 3.2}
我奉命对教会和全世界说：不道德的计划正在实施。人犯了偷窃罪，却说，我有权利做这事。是谁给了你这个权利呢?是谁怂恿你多年以来一直这样行呢?——是叛逆之父。上帝的事业应屹立在被不道德的阴谋行动所影响和侵吞的世界面前。{SpTA12 3.3}
时候已到，一切事情都要真相大白。罪就是罪。主耶稣基督呼召祂曾为之舍命的人以谦卑痛悔的心来到祂面前。祂的宝血必洗净他们所有的罪孽和每一隐藏的过犯。有些人的眼睛要被打开。但是我不再像以前那样私下劝导那些已经获得警告和劝戒，却依然悖逆，我行我素，声称遵行上天旨意，实际上却远离圣经所彰显天国明确原则的人。他们的眼睛倘若能被打开，就必看到他们的脚正站在毁灭的边缘。但愿每个人都能在西奈山所宣布的律法真理面前谦卑自己。{SpTA12 4.1}
那些在遭到上帝责备时停下来推测认罪悔改可能带来之屈辱的人，决不会走窄路或进窄门。这些话是上帝的使者说的。每一个人，包括男人、女人和孩童都必须处于能让自己完全毫无保留地承认上帝圣言真理之能力和权威的属灵状态中。凡要得永生的人都必须以上帝的圣言为饮食。上帝的道是天上的粮。我们若要得救，就必须以上帝的道为我们日常生活的一部分。{SpTA12 4.2}
那些与教会中的弟兄打官司而为自己的行径而辩护的人，正在表现那造成天上背叛的精神。上帝呼召拥有亮光和跟随耶稣的人要表现造就各人应有之品格的完美典范。但是人们却误表了上帝的品格。在他们生活中的做法对真理产生了不利的影响，同时却声称自己是忠心的。有些人在忠于公义的仇敌，而非真理的上帝。{SpTA12 5.1}
我见过对在圣工中担负责任、作福音工人和医疗布道士之人的冷嘲热讽。我见过对上帝仆人的邪恶嘲笑。做这种事的人表明自己是控告和反对上帝仆人的人，然而在场的人却没有指责或制止他，却以沉默来认可对上帝工人和信从上帝、被祂承认为祂儿女之人的邪恶嘲笑。这种亵渎的误表是得罪上帝的，若不悔改，就会被排除在天庭赎民的行列之外，因为他们歪曲了主的道。{SpTA12 5.2}
自称为上帝儿女的人要置身于圣灵的管理之下。只有这样，他们才会成为祂的代表，成为祂属灵重生的儿女。他们要符合和效法祂的品格。祂真理的话语要成为他们的话语。祂的道路要成为他们的道路。他们要与上帝的性情有分，脱离世上从情欲来的败坏。{SpTA12 5.3}
我们需要学习给撒狄教会的信息：“我知道你的行为，按名你是活的，其实是死的。你要警醒，坚固那剩下将要衰微的;因我见你的行为，在我上帝面前，没有一样是完全的。所以要回想你是怎样领受、怎样听见的，又要遵守，并要悔改。若不警醒，我必临到你那里，如同贼一样。我几时临到，你也决不能知道”(启3:1-3)。按名是活的，其实是死的——这是多么可怕的状态啊!{SpTA12 6.1}
上帝对竭尽全力维护名分的人说：“我知道你的行为，按名你是活的，其实是死的。”他一直致力于保持名分，却忽略了最严肃的责任。就正确的影响而言，上帝视这个名字是死的。凡那样做的人必要死亡，毁于错误的表现。对于自称为基督徒的人而言，没有什么比只拥有一个“名分”更危险的了。{SpTA12 6.2}
侍奉上帝的人若全力以赴追名逐利，仇敌就会乘虚而入，引诱他骄傲自大，以致在上帝的圣工中毫无用处。他或许是一位出色的布道家，有才华的教师，有魅力的作家，或善于祈祷的人，但仇敌必利用他高抬自我的欲望，使他的信仰丧失。{SpTA12 6.3}
凡支持那些一直在追名逐利，从未被上帝任命为福音工作者或医疗布道士之人的人，需要在生活上彻底改变。{SpTA12 7.1}
一个位于领袖高位、却树立错行的榜样、促进上帝所否定之原则的人，必陷入撒但的网罗。他或许能说会道。他可能会去探望病人，帮助穷人，参加名目繁多的活动，但却决不会给上帝带来荣耀。{SpTA12 7.2}
当野心勃勃的领袖倒空荣耀自我的心，悔改和承认自己的罪，降服自我时，他就会有希望。他若没有获得这种经验，主就不会用他。自我必须死亡。多年以来所形成的品格必须改变，因为他自己的宗旨一直在实行，为求实现。{SpTA12 7.3}
徒有其名，却与上帝没有联系、没有属灵的生命、没有基督，心里没有感受上帝的同在，乃是可悲的欺骗。“按名你是活的，其实是死的”(启3:1)。{SpTA12 7.4}
我要对那野心登峰造极，行动为野心所驱使，拥有许多企业的人说。我要对多年以来一直走上帝所禁止之道路的人说：现在你要在上帝面前悔改。你若不悔改，你不论从事什么职业，都决不会见到上帝的国。“所以，你们要警醒;因为你们不知道家主什么时候来”(太24:35)。{SpTA12 8.1}
“谁是忠心有见识的仆人，为主人所派、管理家里的人，按时分粮给他们呢?主人来到，看见他这样行，那仆人就有福了。我实在告诉你们，主人要派他管理一切所有的。倘若那恶仆心里说：‘我的主人必来得迟’，就动手打他的同伴，又和醉酒的人一同吃喝。在想不到的日子，不知道的时辰，那仆人的主人要来”(太24:45-50)。{SpTA12 8.2}
怀爱伦
【June 2, 1905】
I have a message to our physicians. Some of you have lost your bearings under the influence of the false impressions made upon your minds. You flatter yourselves that you are moving under the inspiration of divine advancement, but some are following the false inspiration that deceived the angels in the heavenly courts. Men who have been plainly warned are drinking in delusive sentiments, supposing that they are under the inspiration of truth and righteousness. They are greatly deceived in regard to the ground on which they are standing, and the self-confidence that they are imbibing. These men have been warned, but they do not believe the warning. The word has been sent them, “Be not deceived; God is not mocked,” but they are drinking in the sophistry of satanic devising.{SpTA12 1.1}[1]
Should God deal with men as some who have had great light are dealing with their brethren, they would long since have been in that place where hope is unknown.{SpTA12 1.2}[2]
Ponder well this statement. The hatred of some of the ministers of the gospel is very manifest. They have been caricatured and placed in a ridiculous light, because they would not be persuaded to do the things that the angel of God by their side impressed them not to do. The hatred manifested to them is recorded in the books of heaven as shown to God, not to man; for God by his Holy Spirit was influencing his servants not to be led to yield to the plans urged upon them.{SpTA12 1.3}[3]
God calls upon all his ministers and all his medical workers to be on guard. Those who are following the devising and the plans and the subterfuges of the one so determined to have his own way are misrepresenting their Heavenly Father; for God is not instructing him. Evil angels are leading him on to do a work similar to that which was begun in heaven.{SpTA12 2.1}[4]
I am awakened in the night season, and am given the message that was given to Isaiah: “Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins.” Let every man stand in the counsel of God, and not in the counsel of those who have received the seducing sophistry of the science that of late has sought such a prominent place in our work.{SpTA12 2.2}[5]
I present the word of the Lord: Let every soul aim at perfection of character in all the works and walks of life. This will cost us something that we may not have anticipated. It may empty our purse, but it will keep the soul fortified with clean principles. Our financial resources may be seriously affected, but it will enlarge our Christian experience, and place us on vantage-ground with the faithful of all ages. We shall be in fellowship with God, and with those who in body, soul, and spirit are serving him. Is not this worth everything to us?{SpTA12 2.3}[6]
Is it not of the highest value to have the power to discern between righteousness and unrighteousness, between truth and error? Would that every man who claims to be doing God service would now realize his responsibility, and maintain that sanctified dignity conferred upon us, by our being chosen as God’s representatives in this evil, selfish generation.{SpTA12 3.1}[7]
To all who serve the Lord in truth and holiness, the heavenly current of grace comes in rich profusion. This grace we are to impart to others. Ever are we to keep the standard uplifted higher and still higher. Do we realize what it means to carry out the principles of truth and righteousness, what it means to repudiate every sentiment leading to high-handed injustice in dealing with God’s servants? Men may mistakenly call these sentiments justice, but there is no justice in carrying out the purposes of the adversary. Does the Lord Jesus call upon us to perfect Christlike character, to be perfect, as our Father in heaven is perfect? What does this mean? It means keeping the heart and soul and mind and strength in conformity to the will of God. It means obeying the principles of righteousness in this life, keeping the commandments of God.{SpTA12 3.2}[8]
I am bidden to say to the church and to the whole world that unprincipled devising is being carried on. Robbery is being committed,and men say, I was given authority to do this thing. Who gave you this authority? and who urged you on in the course that for years you have been pursuing?—It was the father of rebellion, that the cause of God should stand before the world imposed upon and plundered by unprincipled, designing actions.{SpTA12 3.3}[9]
The time has come when things are to be called by their right name. Sin is sin. The Lord Jesus Christ calls upon the human agencies for whom he has given his life to come to him in humility and contrition. His blood will cleanse them from all sin and every glossed-over iniquity. Some eyes will be opened. But I no longer appeal privately as heretofore to the individuals who have been cautioned and warned, and yet, though disobeying, stand forth in their apparent power and dignity, and claim to be doing the will of heaven, when they are departing from the plain principles of heaven, as given in the Word of God. Could their eyes be opened, they would see that their feet are standing on the very brink of ruin. Let every soul bow himself under the weight of the truth of the law proclaimed from Sinai’s mount.{SpTA12 4.1}[10]
Those who, when reproved by God, stop to reason in regard to the possible humiliation to result from confession and repentance, will never, never travel the narrow path or enter the strait gate. These words were spoken by the messenger of God. Every human agency, man, woman, and child, must be in that spiritual condition that will enable him fully and unreservedly to acknowledge the power and authority of the truth of the words of God, which all must eat and drink in order to have eternal life. The words of God are the bread of heaven. If we would be saved, we must make them a part of the daily life.{SpTA12 4.2}[11]
Those who justify their course of action in going to law, and that with their brethren in the church, are acting out the spirit that developed the rebellion in heaven. God calls upon those who have light and are followers of Jesus to represent the perfect model upon which every character should be formed. But men have misrepresented God’s character by adopting in their life practise a course of action militating against the truth, while at the same time claiming to be loyal. Some are loyal to the enemy of righteousness, but not to the God of truth.{SpTA12 5.1}[12]
I have seen the caricaturing of men bearing burdens in the cause of God, and that before ministers of the gospel and those who pass under the name of medical missionaries. I have seen the satanic mimicking of God’s servants. The actions of the one who did this showed him to be an accuser and an opposer of the servants of God, and yet those present did not reprove nor rebuke him, but by their silence justified the wicked ridiculing of the ministers of God, men who believe in God, and are acknowledged by him as his sons. This sacrilegious misrepresentation is an offense to God, which, if not repented of, will exclude the actors in it from the society of the redeemed in the heavenly courts; for they have perverted the way of the Lord.{SpTA12 5.2}[13]
Those who claim to be children of God are to place themselves under the discipline of the Holy Spirit. Thus only can they become his representatives, his children by spiritual regeneration. They are required to be conformed and assimilated to his character. His utterances of truth are to be their utterances, and his ways their ways. They are to be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.{SpTA12 5.3}[14]
We need to study the message given to the church at Sardis. “I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.” Dead, and having the name of being alive—what a terrible condition!{SpTA12 6.1}[15]
Of the one who has been working with intensity of effort to keep up a name, God says, “I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.” He has been so occupied with keeping up a name that he has neglected responsibilities of a most solemn character. God looks upon the name as dead, so far as correct influence is concerned. Those who follow in his tread will be dead, destroyed by false representations. There is nothing more dangerous to a professing Christian than to have merely a “name.”{SpTA12 6.2}[16]
If any man in the service of God is devoting brain, bone, and muscle to the getting of a name, the enemy will step in, and will lead him to swell to such proportions that he is useless in the service of God. He may be an excellent evangelist, a gifted teacher, an attractive writer, a man of eloquent prayer, but the enemy takes advantage of his desire for self-exaltation, and leads him to make shipwreck of faith.{SpTA12 6.3}[17]
An entire transformation is needed in the lives of those who have been in sympathy with the ones who have been and are still striving for a name, and to do those things that God has never appointed them as ministers of the gospel or medical missionary workers to do.{SpTA12 7.1}[18]
A man standing in the high position of a leader, and yet setting an example of wrong-doing, advancing principles that God repudiates, will be taken in the snare of Satan. He may say wonderful things. He may visit the sick, help the poor, and go through the entire list of activities, and yet never bring honor to God.{SpTA12 7.2}[19]
When the ambitious leader empties himself of self-glory, when he repents and confesses his sins, when he brings himself into subordination, then there will be hope of him. Until he gains this experience, the Lord has no use for him. Self must die. The character that he has been forming for years must be changed; for his own purpose has been to gain his own way and carry out his own purposes.{SpTA12 7.3}[20]
It is a miserable delusion to have a name, and yet be without a connection with God, without spiritual life, without Christ, without a sense of God’s presence in the soul. “Thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.”{SpTA12 7.4}[21]
To him whose ambitions have reached to the ends of the earth, whose activities have followed these ambitions, whose commercial enterprises have been so numerous, I must speak. To those who have for years sustained a course of action that God forbids, I would say. It is time for you to repent before God. Unless you do repent, whatever may be your calling, you will never see the kingdom of heaven. “Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.”{SpTA12 8.1}[22]
“Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My Lord delayeth his coming and shall begin to smite his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of.”---Ellen G. White---{SpTA12 8.2}[23]
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