双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：10月4日 人将复活？

10月4日

人将复活？

因我活着就是基督，我死了就有益处。

腓立比书1:21

古往今来最大的问题是：“人如果死了，还能复活吗？”我们知道，这句话的前半部分每天都在实现，没有“如果”可言。“按着定命，人人都有一死”（希伯来书9:27）。问题是“人还能复活吗？”

有些人认为人不过就是骨头、血肉而已。他们说当你死了，当你离世时，什么都不会发生；你不会去任何地方。只是尘归尘，土归土。

问一问科学家，他也无法作答。我问过许多科学家关于死后生命的问题，他们中大多数人说：“我们真的不知道。”科学研究只涉及公式和试管，而科学对灵魂世界却一无所知。

因为许多人不相信死后有生命，所以他们的作品充满了悲剧和悲观。威廉·福克纳、詹姆斯·乔伊斯、欧内斯特·海明威、尤金·奥尼尔和其他许多人的作品都充满了悲观、黑暗和悲剧。

这与耶稣基督所说的截然不同，耶稣说：“复活在我，生命也在我。信我的人，虽然死了，也必复活。凡活着信我的人，必永远不死”（约翰福音11:25-26）。又说：“因为我活着，你们也要活着”（约翰福音14:19）。我们对永生的盼望只在于基督——而不在于任何欲望、渴望、争论或任何对永生的直觉。然而，基督所揭示的永生盼望与所有这些远大的愿望和本能是一致的。

今日祷告：

天父，我们对耶稣再来持有多么大的信心和盼望！知道我们将与祂同在。感谢天父！奉耶稣的名，阿们。

October 4

SHALL MAN LIVE AGAIN?

For me to live is Christ,and to die is gain.Philippians 1:21

The great question of the ages has been,“If a man dies,shall he live again?”We know that the first part of that sentence is fulfilled every day.There is no“if”about it.“It is appointed unto men once to die”(Hebrews 9:27).The question is“Shall man live again?”

There are those who say that all there is to man is just bone,flesh,and blood.They say that when you are dead,when you die,nothing happens;you don’t go anywhere.It is dust to dust and ashes to ashes.

Ask the scientist and he cannot give an answer.I have asked a number of scientists questions concerning life after death,and most of them say,“We just do not know.”Science deals in formulas and test tubes.There is a spiritual world that science knows nothing about.

Because many do not believe in life after death,their writings are filled with tragedy and pessimism.The writings of William Faulkner,James Joyce,Ernest Hemingway,Eugene O’Neill,and many others are filled with pessimism,darkness,and tragedy.

How different from Jesus Christ who said,“I am the resurrection,and the life:he that believeth in me,though he were dead,yet shall he live:and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die”(John 11:25-26).Again he said,“Because I live,ye shall live also”(John 14:19).Our hope of immortality is based on Christ alone-not on any desires,longings,arguments,or any instincts of immortality.Yet the hope of immortality that is revealed in Christ agrees with all those great desires and instincts.

Pray for the Day:

Father,how rich is the hope and certainty that we have that Jesus will come!And we know that we will be with Him.Thank You,Father,in Jesus’Name,Amen.