八月三十一日 早课
恩赐乃是由许多过犯而称义(罗5:16)。
你们的罪虽像朱红,必变成雪白;虽红如丹颜,必白如羊毛(赛1:18)。惟有我为自己的缘故涂抹你的过犯,我也不记念你的罪恶。你要提醒我,你我可以一同辨论,你可以将你的理陈明,自显为义(赛43:25,26)。我涂抹了你的过犯,像厚云消散;我涂抹了你的罪恶,如薄云灭没。你当归向我,因我救赎了你(赛44:22)。 神爱世人,甚至将他的独生子赐给他们,叫一切信他的,不至灭亡,反得永生(约3:16)。过犯不如恩赐。若因一人的过犯,众人都死了,何况 神的恩典,与那因耶稣基督一人恩典中的赏赐,岂不更加倍的临到众人吗(罗5:15)?你们中间也有人从前是这样;但如今你们奉主耶稣基督的名,并藉着我们 神的灵,已经洗净、成圣、称义了(林前6:11)。
The free gift is of many offences unto justification. ROM. 5:16.
Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. — I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified. — I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — Not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. — And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
Isa. 1:18. -Isa. 43:25,26. -Isa. 44:22. John 3:16. -Rom. 5:15. -I Cor. 6:11.
八月三十一日 晚课
你们去作生意,直等我回来(路19:13)。
正如一个人离开本家,寄居外邦,把权柄交给仆人,分派各人当作的工,又吩咐看门的警醒(可13:34)。按着各人的才干,给他们银子,一个给了五千,一个给了二千,一个给了一千,就往外国去了(太25:15)。趁着白日,我们必须作那差我来者的工;黑夜将到,就没有人能作工了(约9:4)。岂不知我应当以我父的事为念吗(路2:49)?基督给你们留下榜样,叫你们跟随他的脚踪行(彼前2:21)。务要传道,无论得时不得时。用百般的忍耐,各样的教训,责备人,警戒人,劝勉人(提后4:2)。各人的工程必然显露,因为那日子要将它表明出来(林前3:13)。
所以,我亲爱的弟兄们,你们务要坚固,不可摇动,常常竭力多作主工,因为知道你们的劳苦,在主里面不是徒然的(林前15:58)。
Occupy till I come. LUKE 19:13.
The Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. — Unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey. I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. — Wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business? — Leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps. Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. — Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it. — Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Mark 13:34. -Matt. 25:15. John 9:4. -Luke 2:49. -I Pet. 2:21. II Tim. 4:2. -I Cor. 3:13. -I Cor. 15:58.