《威斯康星州记者》
1909年8月25日
怀姐妹8月16日星期一早上
1、特别针对疗养院家庭的讲话
我们每天的经历对我们来说是最有价值的。我们必须天天与主同住。有一个引诱人的魔鬼会试探我们到底。当有人说什么话惹你生气时，要闭上嘴，在心里说：“沉默就是雄辩”。不要把杂志放在桌子上。别管杂志了。这就像吃垃圾。我们若承认自己是上帝的儿女，就必照祂的话所教训的去行。我们不会去读杂志，也不会去看轻浮的书籍。我们只会从字里行间找到正确的东西，并把它牢记于心。我们就会发现，当敌人向我们进攻时，我们能够抵抗他。{WR August 25, 1909, par. 1}
仇敌来到基督面前的时候，是一个面目可憎的人吗?不，他来时打扮成光明的天使，对饥饿中的基督说：“你若是上帝的儿子，可以吩咐这些石头变成食物。”基督有听祂的话吗?”祂一句话也没说，只是引了圣经的话：“经上记着说，人活着不是单靠食物，乃是靠上帝口里所出的一切话”(太4：3、4)。想想看。要被圣经充满，而不是被这些旧杂志充满。你要牢记经文。{WR August 25, 1909, par. 2}
在这一点上，撒但占不了与基督的便宜。于是他领耶稣上了殿顶，对祂说：“你若是上帝的儿子，可以跳下去。因为经上记着说：祂要为你吩咐祂的使者，在你所行的一切道路上保护你。”上帝不希望基督与撒但争论。撒但继续说:“跳下去吧!因为经上记着说;祂的使者用手托着你”。于是基督引用圣经说:“经上记着说，不可试探主你的上帝”(太4：5、6)。祂不愿为了显示祂更大的力量而把自己置于危险之中。祂很饿。祂已经禁食40天。撒但想要趁着祂软弱时占祂的便宜，但是他失望了。 {WR August 25, 1909, par. 3}
“祂必在你所行的一切道路上保护你”——不是撒但的道路。试探会临到我们。我们现在必须把圣经的教训储存在心中。上帝的福气会降临到这个机构的每一个人。这里会有生病的人。你可以适时对他们说话。没有什么比同情、善良和仁爱的话更能帮助人的了。让它进入疗养院吧，它对你的好处和对他们的好处一样多，也许还会更多。{WR August 25, 1909, par. 4}
魔鬼知道自己不能这样试探基督，就领祂上了高山，把世上的荣华都指给祂看，说：“这是我的。我有权柄赐给你。你若俯伏拜我，我就把这一切都要赐给你。”耶稣的时候到了。祂说:“撒但退去吧!经上记着说，当拜主你的上帝，单要侍奉祂”(太8-10)。现在我们必须温习这些教训。我们每个人都必须过真正敬虔的简朴生活。它带来了如此大的力量，因为上帝的天使就在我们周围。上帝没有让我们孤军奋战。不论我们走到哪里，上帝的天使都会鼓励每一个在祷告中呈到祂面前的思想。我们的上帝理解我们所做的每一件事。这些疗养院是按照上帝的旨意建立起来的，为使我们与耶稣基督同工。祂在天上和在地上是一样仁慈的，只要我们凭着信心拉住祂，祂同样会伸手帮助我们。,你决不要因为祂在天上就觉得你是在独自与各种困难作斗争。感谢上帝，你可以对周围的人说适时的话。你可以那样与魔鬼作斗争。“经上记着说”。你可以用圣经的话去对付敌人。你会变得强大起来;你的生活经验会一天一天地增长;你会发现你正在完善自己的品格，使你能转移到不朽的来生，那里没有被魔鬼颠覆的危险。每一个人无论老少，都应完全相信圣言，好让全天庭都看到你明白永生上帝的道;你研究过这道，会用魔鬼无力抗争的力量到他的地盘去对付他。为什么?因为你把握着无穷之主。凭着活泼的信心，你获得一种能力。只要你心里、灵里、口里有这种能力，撒但就无法引诱你离开圣道。你对那些来到这个机构、几乎不认识上帝的人说适时的话，能给他们带来多大的帮助啊!愿上帝帮助你们每一个人。{WR August 25, 1909, par. 5}
我很感恩，看到这里有如此多的人，觉得我们每一个人都会参加奋斗，因为我们必须奉得胜者的名，靠得胜者的力量奋斗。我们可以说：“我得胜是因羔羊的血，和自己所见证的道。”基督赐下见证，使我们努力看清在这个有福的疗养院里我们能做多少传道工作。我们如果作了，就把光带到了这里。我们要把上帝的同在带到这里。我们的心将得到加强以抵制诱惑。好，现在让我们在信心的道路上，按“经上记着说“出发吧。上帝的福气必丰丰富富地临到我们。{WR August 25, 1909, par. 6}
THE WISCONSIN REPORTER
25-Aug-09
Talk by Sister White, at Morning Worship, Monday, August Sixteenth Especially Addressed to the Sanitarium Family
Our experiences every day are of the highest value to us. We must have a daily experience in living with the Lord. We have a tempting devil. He will be tempting us to the end. When one says something to provoke you, shut your lips and say in your mind, “Silence is Eloquence.” Don’t put magazines on your table. Let the magazines alone. It is like eating trash. Now, if we profess to be children of God, we will do just as He teaches us in His word. We will not go to magazines and such light trifling things and feed on these but get something right from the word and commit it to memory and we will find that when the enemy combats us, we can resist him.?{WR August 25, 1909, par. 1}
When he came to Christ did he come as a very offensive looking man? No, he came as an angel of glory and said in regard to Christ’s hunger, “If thou be the son of God, command that these stones be made bread.” Did Christ take him right up? Not a word did He say. He only took the scripture, “It is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” Think of that. Be full of scripture, not these old magazines. You want to commit to memory scripture.?{WR August 25, 1909, par. 2}
Satan could not do anything with Christ on that point. Then he took him up onto a pinnacle of the temple and said to him. “If thou be the son of God cast thyself down, for it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways.” God did not want Christ to take up an argument with Satan. Satan continued, “Throw thyself down; It is written that His angels shall have charge over thee.” And so Christ quoted the scriptures, “It is written that thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.” He would not place himself in peril to show his greater power. He was hungry. He had fasted forty days. Satan came to him in his weakness thinking to get the better of him, but was disappointed.?{WR August 25, 1909, par. 3}
“He will keep thee in all thy ways,”—not Satan’s ways. Temptations will come to us and we have got to be storing our minds now with scripture lessons and the blessing of God will come to every one in this institution and there will be sick ones here to whom you can speak a word in season. Nothing helps so much as a word of sympathy, kindness and love and let that come into the Sanitarium and it will do you just as much good as it would do them and perhaps a good deal more.?{WR August 25, 1909, par. 4}
Well, the devil found out that he could not tempt Christ in that way so he took him up onto a high mountain and showed him the glory of the world and said, “This is mine. I have the right to give it and if thou wilt fall down and worship me, I will give it to thee.” Then Christ’s time came. He said, “Get thee hence Satan. It is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.” Now, these are the very lessons we have got to go over. We must live, every one of us, by the simplicity of true Godliness. It brings such a power, for the angels of God are right around us. We are not left to our own dispositions and to have no help. There are angels of God that will encourage every thought that is sent up to God in prayer even when walking wherever we are. We have a God who understands every move that we make and these Sanitariums are established in the order of God, that we might be co-laborers with Jesus Christ. He is just as merciful in heaven as he was here upon earth, just as glad to take hold and help if we will take hold of him by faith, and because he is in the heavens, it is not at all for you to feel that you are left alone to struggle and struggle and struggle with difficulties. Thank God you can speak a word in season to some one around you. You can fight the devil in that very way. “It is written.” You can thus meet the enemy with words out of the scripture and you will become strengthened; your living experience will grow day by day and you will find that you are perfecting such a character that you can be transferred to the future immortal life, and there is no danger of your being overthrown by the devil there. Then let every one, young and old, put entire trust in the word and let all heaven see that you understand the word of the living God, that you have studied it and that you will meet the devil on his own ground by a power that he has no influence to oppose. He can’t do it. Why? Your hand has a hold on the Infinite; by living faith you grasp a power and Satan cannot come in to lead you away from that word while you have it in your mind and heart and your lips. How much you can help those who come to this institution who know nothing hardly about God, by dropping a word in season. God help every one of you.?{WR August 25, 1909, par. 5}
I am thankful to see so many here and feel that every one of us will struggle on, for we must, in the name of the overcomer, with the strength of the overcomer, and we can say, “I overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of His testimony,”—that testimony that Christ has given and let us strive to see how much missionary work we can do right here in this blessed Sanitarium, and if we do we shall bring light here. We shall bring the presence of God here and our own hearts will be strengthened to resist temptations. Well, now let us launch right out upon the path of faith, “It is written,” and the blessing of God will abide upon us abundantly.?{WR August 25, 1909, par. 6}
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