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 | 信心的试验 |
| | 信心的试验 | 彼前 1章7节 | | 1:7 | 叫你们信心所受的1试验，2比那经过火的试验仍会毁坏之金子的试验，更为3宝贵，可以在耶稣基督4显现的时候，显为5可得称赞、荣耀和尊贵的； | | 1章7节 注1 | | 即蒙称许的试验。显为可得称赞、荣耀、尊贵的，不是信心的本身，乃是信心所受的试炼、试验。（正如学校对学生的功课举行考试，显为可称许的是考试，不是学生功课的本身。）当然，信心得称许是来自正确的信心。这里所强调的不是你们的信心，乃是借着苦难在试炼之下对你们信心的试验。 | | 请我们先祷告 | | 主，感谢你，我们一直倚靠你的怜悯、你的赐福、你的供备、话与灵、并你的同在。主，没有这些，我们就像死狗一样。我们什么都不能作，什么都不是！ | | | 哦，让我们在主里面常喜乐， | 虽然四周充满了凶恶， | | | 虽然患难如同波涛在冲击， | 但是歌唱总胜似叹息。 | | | 应当时常喜乐，当时常喜乐， | 无论如何，歌唱总胜叹息， | | | 无论如何，生存总胜死寂， | 所以应当时常喜乐！ | | 今日经节及注解： 彼前一6～12 | | 重点经节 | | | 知道你们信心所受的试验，产生忍耐。 但忍耐也当成功，好使你们齐备完整，毫无缺欠。 叫你们信心所受的试验，比那经过火的试验仍会毁坏之金子的试验，更为宝贵，可以在耶稣基督显现的时候，显为可得称赞、荣耀和尊贵的。 | | 生命供应 | | 雅各在一章二节说，“我的弟兄们，无论何时你们落在诸般的试炼中，都要以为大喜乐。”在此我们看见，头一个与雅各所论到基督徒实行的完全有关的美德，就是借信忍受试炼。 逼迫是一种受苦。然而试炼不仅仅是受苦，更是一种为着要试验、察验我们而临到我们的苦难。我们可以用学校的期末考来说明。作学生的都知道，期末考实在是一种苦难、试炼，但是这种试炼实际上对学生是有帮助的。学校若没有期末考，那么学生在课业方面可能会掉以轻心。但是当他们知道期末考将到，就会极其殷勤、聚精会神来读书。因此，期末考会帮助学生学习必要的课业。基于这个原因，学生的父母应当为着期末考而感谢，因为晓得这能让他们的儿女得益处。 神乃是使用试炼来成全我们。我们若看见这点，就会感谢神借着试炼来成全我们。试炼不仅对我们属灵的教育与生命的经历有所帮助，对我们的性格和日常生活的行为也有帮助。你在信主以前，可能像狮子一样凶猛，但是经过一段时间的试炼后，“狮子”就被驯服了。我能见证，神用试炼“驯服”我，因而在我的基督徒生活中，实际的成全我。 雅各甚至在雅各书一章二节鼓励我们，落在诸般的试炼中，都要“以为大喜乐”。我们落在试炼中，还能以为大喜乐，原因在于这等试炼成全我们。请注意，雅各在二节不仅题到试炼，更是说“诸般的试炼”。这指明我们应当以各种试炼为大喜乐，而不只是当作某种试炼而已。一方面，我们不喜欢试炼、反对和逼迫；但是另一方面，我们经历这些事时，应当以为大喜乐，因为神乃是使用诸般的试炼来成全我们。（雅各书生命读经，第八至一○页。） | | 问答: | 1、 基督徒如何有实行的完全？（参读 雅一3，4与注1。） 2、 神如何来成全我们？（参读 雅一12注1，13注1。） 3、 请说明宝贵的信心与宝贵的试验？（参读 彼前一7注1，注2。） |
| Let's Pray: | | Lord, thank You that all the time we depend upon Your mercy, Your provisions. Lord, without these we are just like a dead dog. We can do nothing, and we can be nothing. | | | O let us rejoice in the Lord evermore,
Though all things around us be trying,
Though floods of affliction like sea billows roar,
It's better to sing than be sighing.
Then rejoice evermore, rejoice evermore,
It is better to sing than be sighing:
It is better to live then be dying;
So let us rejoice evermore. | | Today's Verses and Footnotes: 1 Pet. 1:6-12 | | Key Verses: | | | Knowing that the proving of your faith works out endurance. | | | And let endurance have its perfect work that you may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing. | | | So that the proving of your faith, much more precious than of gold which perishes though it is proved by fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ; | | Life Supply: | | In [James] 1:2 James says, “Count it all joy, my brothers, whenever you fall into various trials.” Here we see that the first virtue related to practical Christian perfection covered by James is that of enduring trials by faith. Persecution is a suffering. However, trials are not merely a suffering, for trials are a suffering that serves the purpose of trying or proving us. We may use final examinations in school as an illustration. Students know that final examinations can be a real suffering and trial. But such a trial is actually a help to the students. If there were no final examinations in school, the students would probably be careless concerning their studies. But when they know that a final examination is coming, they concentrate on their studies with much diligence. Therefore, a final examination helps a student learn the necessary material. For this reason, the parents of those who are students should be grateful for the final examinations, knowing that this helps their children to profit from their education. God uses trials to perfect us. If we see this, we shall thank God for perfecting us through trials. Trials not only help us in the matters of our spiritual education and the experience of life, but also help us with our character and our behavior in our daily living. Before you believed in the Lord, you may have been like a wild lion. But after a period of time of trial, the “lion” has been tamed. I can testify that God has used trials to “tame” me and thereby to perfect me in a practical way in my Christian life. In 1:2 James even encourages us to “count it all joy” whenever we fall into various trials. The reason we can count it a joy when we fall into trials is that these trials perfect us. Notice that in 1:2 James speaks not only of trials but of “various trials.” This indicates that we should count all trials a joy, not just certain trials. On the one hand, we do not like trials, opposition, and persecution. But on the other hand we should count it all joy when we experience such things because God uses them to perfect us. (Life-Study of James, Msg. 1,) | Tomorrow: Be Holy in All Your Manner of Life | | Welcome to Our Recovery Version Bible Study Group This Week: | | Time: | | Place: | | Person to Contact: | | Telephone: | 重生了我们，使我们有活的盼望 |
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