第138章 指导原则
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第138章 指导原则
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Chapter 138—Guiding Principles
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人心是属于耶稣的。祂曾为人付出无限的重价。祂在天父面前作我们的中保，为我们代求。祂不是以一个请愿者的身份，而是以一个得胜者的身份，要求得到属于自己的东西。祂能够拯救我们到底，因祂长远活着为我们代求。青年的心乃是宝贵的祭物，是奉献给上帝的最贵重的礼物。你的身心和你的一切才能都是上帝的神圣托付，应当作为乐意而圣洁的祭物归还上帝。你所给予上帝的，无非是上帝先给你的。因此你把心献给上帝，也就是把祂所买来而属于祂的礼物献给了祂。{MYP 407.1}[1]
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The heart belongs to Jesus. He has paid an infinite price for the soul; and He intercedes before the Father as our Mediator, pleading not as a petitioner, but as conqueror who would claim that which is His own. He is able to save to the uttermost, for He ever lives to make intercession for us. A young heart is a precious offering, the most valuable gift that can be presented to God. All that you are, all the ability you possess, comes from God a sacred trust, to be rendered back to Him again in a willing, holy offering. You cannot give to God anything that He has not first given you. Therefore when the heart is given to God, it is giving to Him a gift which He has purchased and is His own.?{MYP 407.1}[1]
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青年的光阴，爱情和力量有许多索要者。撒但说青年是属于他的。许多人真的把自己的能力和才干都献给他。世界也要青年的心。但这颗心的属于救赎它之主的。如果把心献给世界，它便充满忧愁，痛苦和失望，变得不洁而败坏了；如果把心中的爱情与服务献给世界，便是一种最卑劣的掠夺行为，因为这些原是属于上帝的。你用心来寻欢作乐，是得不到好处的。{MYP 407.2}[2]
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There are many claimants to the time, the affections, and the strength of youth. Satan claims the youth as his property, and a vast number render to him all the ability, all the talent, they possess. The world claims the heart; but that heart belongs to the One who redeemed it. If given to the world, it will be filled with care, sorrow, and disappointed hopes; it will become impure and corrupted. It would be the worst kind of robbery to give to the world your heart’s affections and service, for they belong to God. You cannot with profit give your heart to pleasure-seeking.?{MYP 407.2}[2]
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公义的仇敌为各种身分的青年人预备了各种娱乐。这些娱乐不仅提供给拥挤的城市，也提供给有人居住的每一个角落。撒但乐于勾引青年加入自己的队伍。那狡猾的仇敌十分了解自己所要对付的人。他施展自己穷凶极恶的计谋，为青年人发明了种种娱乐与爱好，使他们的感情从耶稣基督身上转移。{MYP 407.3}[3]
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The enemy of righteousness has every kind of pleasure prepared for youth in all conditions of life;?and they are not presented alone in crowded cities, but in every spot inhabited by human beings. Satan loves to secure the youth in his ranks as soldiers. The arch fiend well knows with what material he has to deal; and he has displayed his infernal wisdom in devising customs and pleasures for the youth which will separate their affections from Jesus Christ....?{MYP 407.3}[3]
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浪子的教训值得青年人学习。他贪爱享乐，放纵罪恶，在荒唐的生活中耗尽了自己所继承的财产。他孤单一人，流落他乡，衣不遮体，食不果腹，甚至垂涎于猪吃的饲料。他最后的希望，便是悔罪、自卑，回到自己的父家。在那里，他得蒙接纳，饶恕并重归慈父的怀抱。现在有许多青年人也与他一样，过着着轻浮、爱宴乐，滥用钱财的生活。他们离弃了活水的泉源，就是那真正喜乐的泉源，而为自己挖凿破裂而不能存水的池子。{MYP 408.1}[4]
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【The Prodigal】
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The lesson of the prodigal is given for the instruction of youth. In his life of pleasure and sinful indulgence, he expends his portion of the inheritance in riotous living. He is friendless, and in a strange country; clad in rags, hungry, longing even for the refuse fed to the swine. His last hope is to return, penitent and humbled, to his father’s house, where he is welcomed, forgiven, and taken back to a father’s heart. Many youth are doing as he did, living a careless, pleasure-loving, spendthrift life, forsaking the fountain of living waters, the fountain of true pleasure, and hewing out to themselves broken cisterns, which can hold no water.?{MYP 408.1}[4]
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【上帝恩惠的邀请】
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上帝邀请每一位青年人说：“我儿，要将你的心归我，我必保守它纯洁，并以真正的快乐来满足它的一切愿望。”上帝希望使青年人快乐，所以祂要他们把心交给祂保守，使上帝所赐的一切机能都保持在旺盛健康的状态。这些机能维系着上帝生命的恩赐。祂使人心脏跳动，赐力量给人的各个机能。纯洁的快乐决不会贬损上帝的任何恩赐。我们去寻求享乐，使自己的爱情从上帝身上转移，就是得罪自己的身体并得罪上帝。青年人应当想到自己生活在世上是在经受着试炼。他们应当看看自己是否有配与天使同居的品格。{MYP 408.2}[5]
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【God’s Gracious Invitation】
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God’s invitation comes to each youth, “My son, give Me thine heart; I will keep it pure; I will satisfy its longings with true happiness.” God loves to make the youth happy, and that is why He would have them give their hearts into His keeping, that all the God-given faculties of the being may be kept in a vigorous, healthful condition. They are holding God’s gift of life. He makes the heart beat; He gives strength to every faculty. Pure?enjoyment will not debase one of God’s gifts. We sin against our own bodies, and sin against God, when seeking pleasures which separate our affections from God. The youth are to consider that they are placed in the world on trial, to see whether they have characters that will fit them to live with angels.?{MYP 408.2}[5]
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当你的朋友劝你行走邪恶愚妄的道路，你周围的人都引诱你忘记上帝，败坏上帝所委托给你的才能，贬损你天性中一切高贵的成分时，你当拒绝他们。要记住你是耶和华的产业，是用上帝的儿子用重价，就是患难和痛苦所买来的。……{MYP 409.1}[6]
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When your associates urge you into paths of vice and folly, and all around you are tempting you to forget God, to destroy the capabilities God has intrusted to you, and to debase all that is noble in your nature,?resist them. Remember that you are the Lord’s property, bought with a price, the suffering and agony of the Son of God....?{MYP 409.1}[6]
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主耶稣需要你的服务。祂爱你。你如果怀疑祂的爱，就当瞻仰髑髅地。从十字架上反射出来的光辉必向你显示莫可言喻之爱的伟大。“有了我的命令，又遵守的，这人就是爱我的”（约14：27）。我们应当藉着殷勤学习而熟悉上帝的诫命，然后再表明我们是祂顺命的儿女。{MYP 409.2}[7]
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The Lord Jesus claims your service. He loves you. If you doubt His love, look to Calvary. The light reflected from the cross shows you the magnitude of that love which no tongue can tell. “He that keepeth My commandments, he it is that loveth Me.” We are to become acquainted by diligent study with the commandments of God; and then show that we are His obedient sons and daughters.?{MYP 409.2}[7]
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【被上帝的慈爱所环绕】
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上帝的慈爱时刻环绕着你。你应当思考自己每日的福气是如何而来，从何而来的。这对你大有好处。唯愿上帝宝贵的福气会引起的感恩之心。你无法数算上帝的福惠和祂向你显示的不变之爱，因为祂的爱如同雨滴连绵不断。慈爱的云彩向你沉沉下垂，随时准备降雨在你身上。如果你鉴赏救恩的珍贵礼物，就必每日重新感受耶稣的保护和慈爱。你就会被引到平安的路上。{MYP 409.3}[8]
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【Surrounded by God’s Mercies】
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The mercies of God surround you every moment; and it would be profitable for you to consider how and whence your blessings come every day. Let the precious blessings of God awaken gratitude in you. You cannot number the blessings of God, the constant loving-kindness expressed to you, for they are as numerous as the refreshing drops of rain. Clouds of mercy are hanging over you, and?ready to drop upon you. If you will appreciate the valuable gift of salvation, you will be sensible of daily refreshment, of the protection and love of Jesus; you will be guided in the way of peace.?{MYP 409.3}[8]
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请看自然界中上帝荣耀的事物。你应当对那位施给者发出感恩之心。大自然的课本值得你学习研究。你不可忘恩负义，漠不关心。要睁开你悟性的眼睛，看看上帝的定律在大自然中的美丽和谐。要对你的创造主，天地的至高主宰肃然起敬。要凭着信心的眼睛看见祂以爱心俯就你，并慈悲地说，“我的儿子，我的女儿，当将你的心归我”。要顺服耶稣，怀着感恩的心说：“我知道我的救赎主活着”（伯19：25）。你对耶稣的信心必加强你的每一意愿，并巩固你的品格。{MYP 410.1}[9]
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Look upon the glorious things of God in nature, and let your heart go out in gratitude to the Giver. There is in nature’s book profitable study for the mind. Be not thankless and reckless. Open the eyes of your understanding; see the beautiful harmony in the laws of God in nature, and be awed, and reverence your Creator, the supreme Ruler of heaven and earth. See Him, by the eye of faith, bending over you in love, saying with compassion, “My son, my daughter, give Me thy heart.” Make the surrender to Jesus, and then with grateful hearts you can say, “I know that my Redeemer liveth.” Your faith in Jesus will give strength to every purpose, consistency to the character.?{MYP 410.1}[9]
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你今生的一切幸福、平安、喜乐和成功都有赖于你真诚地信靠上帝。这个信心必要使你忠实地顺从上帝的诫命。你对上帝的认识和信心能最有力地约束自己脱离每一恶行，并发动一切善行。{MYP 410.2}[10]
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All your happiness, peace, joy, and success in this life are dependent upon genuine, trusting faith in God. This faith will prompt true obedience to the commandments of God. Your knowledge and faith in God is the strongest restraint from every evil practice, and the motive to all good.?{MYP 410.2}[10]
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要相信耶稣能赦免你一切的罪，并希望你到祂所预备的地方得享快乐。祂要你活在祂面前，承受永生和荣耀的冠冕。——《青年导报》1887年1月15日{MYP 410.3}[11]
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Believe in Jesus as one who pardons your sins, one who wants you to be happy in the mansions He has gone to prepare for you. He wants you to live in His presence; to have eternal life and a crown of glory.—The Youth’s Instructor, January 5, 1887.?{MYP 410.3}[11]