双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：6月6日 背起十架

6月6日

背起十架

“因为从里面，就是从人心里，发出恶念、苟合、偷盗、凶杀、奸淫、贪婪、邪恶、诡诈、淫荡、嫉妒、谤讟、骄傲、狂妄。这一切的恶都是从里面出来，且能污秽人。”

马可福音7:21-23

耶稣指出，我们的问题都是从心里发出来的。我们的大城市最需要的，是福音广传。使徒保罗在外邦的、世俗的、沦丧的、充满暴力的大城市哥林多，大声疾呼：“我们却是传钉在十字架的基督，在犹太人为绊脚石，在外邦人为愚拙；但在那蒙召的，无论是犹太人、希腊人，基督总为神的能力，神的智慧。”（林前1:23-24）

今天，福音的广传仍然是人们迫切需要的。如果没有属灵的觉醒，道德沦丧的状态和趋势就永远不可能被扭转；如果我们不以耶稣基督的十字架作为我们教导、宣讲和实践的中心，我们就永远也不会实现属灵的觉醒。

大卫·布莱纳（David Brainerd）从事美洲印第安人事工。他写道：“我从来没有离开耶稣和十字架的主题。我发现人们只要抓住了耶稣并祂钉十字架的伟大真理，我就不需要再教他们什么伦理道德。我发现，这一个是另一个的必然结果。

多萝西·塞耶斯（Dorothy Sayers）说，几个世纪以来，我们一直试图维护一个特定的伦理道德标准和价值观，但同时，我们却逐渐放弃了基督教教义，殊不知这些标准和价值观其实都源自于基督教教义，基督教教义正是这些道德价值观的唯一基础。如果我们希望这个世界有基督徒的行为，就必须认识到，基督徒行为都根植于基督信仰。

司布真说：“在地上不曾背过十字架的，到天上也不会有冠冕等着他。”

今日祷告：

天父，我们一定要除去心中的邪恶。求祢带领我们走义路，荣耀祢的名。奉耶稣基督的圣名，阿们。

June 6

THE CROSS FOR CHRISTIANS

For from with,out of the heart…come evil thoughts,fornication,theft,murder,adultery,coveting,wickedness,deceit,licentiousness,envy,slander,pride,foolishness.All these evil things come from within,and they defile a man.Mark 7:21-23 RSV

Jesus indicated that our problem is heart trouble.The greatest need of our great cities at this moment is evangelism.The apostle Paul stood in the heart of pagan,secular,immoral,and violent Corinth and said,“We preach Christ crucified,unto the Jews a stumbling block,and unto the Greeks[Gentiles]foolishness;but unto them which are called,both Jews and Greeks,Christ the power of God,and the wisdom of God”(1 Corinthians 1:23-24).

The proclamation of the Gospel is still the desperate need of men today.We are never going to reverse the moral trends without a spiritual awakening,and we are never going to have a spiritual awakening until the Cross of Jesus Christ is central in all our teaching,preaching,and practice.

David Brainerd,in the journal of his life and work among the American Indians,said,“I never got away from Jesus and Him crucified.And I found that when my people were gripped by this great evangelical doctrine of Christ and Him crucified,I had no need to give them instructions about morality.I found that one followed as the sure and inevitable fruit of the other.”

Dorothy Sayers says,“We have been trying for several centuries to uphold a particular standard of ethical values which derives from Christian dogma,while gradually dispensing with the very dogma which is the sole foundation for those values.If we want Christian behavior,then we must realize that Christian behavior is rooted in Christian belief.”

As Spurgeon points out,“There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.”

Pray for the Day:

Father,we commit ourselves to purge ourselves from the evil that is within our hearts.Lead us in Your righteousness so we can glorify Your Name;in Jesus’Name.