2023-03-29 “Divine Love: Necessity for the Church on Earth”(Revelation 3:21-22)

Divine Love: Necessity for the Church on Earth 神的愛:教會在地上的必需品“(Revelation 啓示錄 3:21-22)

To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne. Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

得勝的,我必定賜他和我一同坐在我的寶座上,正像我得了勝和我父一同坐在他的寶座上一樣。聖靈向眾教會所說的話,有耳的就應當聽。

The church of Jesus Christ is the redeemed Body of which Christ is the Head, a heavenly institution having God’s divine power. Its teachers and members must strive earnestly and sacrificially with constant prayer to do a number of things. To be really a Christ’s church, we must strive to make our beliefs and practices New Testament in their content. Teaching and believing New Testament truths, with nothing dragged in from the outside, i.e. keeping true to the Word of God, is the only way to keep our little field of God’s planting healthy. We must live to gear ourselves into things eternal and to live the life of heaven here upon the earth, empowered by the Holy Spirit with that same power that came on the earliest believers. We must put loyalty to Christ first at any cost!

耶穌基督的教會是以基督為首的、蒙救贖的身體,一個屬天的團體,擁有神屬天的能力。她的教師與會友必須熱切努力,甘願犧牲,不斷禱告去成就許多的事。要真正成為基督的教會,我們必須竭力使信念與行為合乎新約聖經,相信並教導新約聖經的真理,不從外面吸納別的教訓,就是忠於神的道,是唯一的途徑去保守神在我們當中栽種的小小園地,使它健康茁壯。我們必須使自己的生活與永恆的事物協調,在地如同在天,被聖靈的能力充滿,正如降臨在早期信徒身上的能力一樣。我們必須不惜任何代價地效忠基督,以他居首位!

Prayer: Oh Lord Jesus, thank you for encouraging us that we do not have to be Christians who are compromising and lukewarm. If we are, may we be changed and become one of those who overcome, by your grace and power, the battle against indifference, compromise, and self-reliance, thus enjoying a place with the enthroned you. Amen.

禱告:主耶穌啊!感謝你鼓勵我們,我們不必要成為妥協又不冷不熱的基督徒。若我們確實如此,願我們被改變,成為那些以你的恩典和能力,戰勝漠不關心、妥協和自我依靠等等的人之中的一員,因此享有與坐著為王的你一起的位置。阿們。

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