我要征战！我不要过舒服的生活！我不要在锡安中享安乐！因为神的国度不是被那些轻易就安息在锡安之中的人所建立的，而是被那些出去征战的人！我们争战的武器不是属肉体的，它们是所向披靡的——代祷，福音的传扬和自我牺牲的爱。
保罗·华许 – 这是争战
最大的一条是要尽心，
尽性，尽意，尽力爱主我们的神。这是我们
每一天都要操练的。我们在申命记第六章看到，这是要
写在我们房屋的门框上。当我们回家的时候，我们每刻
都要被这最重要的事所提醒：去爱主我们的神。
当来到一切事物的根源时，我要爱主我的神，而我必须要被提醒。
我必须提醒我自己这么去做。我要有一个至爱，
而且我要有一个伟大的激情。我们来听马太福音六章33节，
总结来说：“你们要先求他的国和他的义。这些东西
都要加给你们了。” 如果我们只是认真对待这两节经文，我们会有多么的不同？
如果我们在一天之中单单记起这两节经文两三次，（我们会有多么的不同？）
就像我今早讲的，你我不可能好几个星期不被提醒
在基督徒的生命中最重要的事，而继续生活下去。道成肉身的神亲自吩咐我们去做的事
却在我们所有的活动，所有的业务和我们一切所做的事情之中被忘记了。
我们要这么去做，因为这是神的旨意，因为这会给神带来荣耀。
哪怕是在最琐碎的事物中。我经常这么问自己：你上一次是什么时候
为神的荣耀喝了一杯水？你上一次是什么时候为神的荣耀品尝了一杯水？
当你喝的时候，要知道这是来自于神的恩赐。这是本于他，
并要在赞美之中归还于他。从某方面来说，每当我们思索的时候，
每当我们低头看我们的手和脚时，每当我们尝试要去做任何的事情时，
我们要铭记在心：都要为荣耀神而行。在保罗·华许的一生中，我从来没有
已神所配得的爱来爱他；在保罗·华许的一生中，
我从来没有已神所配得的荣耀来荣耀他。当你这么来看时，
一切都不同了，不是吗？这不是一个吹毛求疵的律法体系，
认为你打了个勾，就可以说，“我是一个义人了”。你看，圣洁来自于
为了专心归向神，我们与神所不喜悦的事分离隔绝。
要看神为至上，（看神）无限地高于一切事物，看神的价值（为宝贵），
并照这来生活。所以作为人，我们的目标是要在这真理中学习并成长，
好让我们所做的一切都为荣耀神而行。我遇见过有人在这世上
不仅被激情所燃烧，并被其所控制。人被独一无二的激情所控制。
我来给你一个完美的例子，就是那马上要发生的
奥林匹克运动会。我完全不想负面来谈这个话题，
但我想用这作为一个例子。有些人自从六岁以来，唯一做的就是
去跑一百米的跑道。自从六岁以来，他们每一天都是如此，
他们为此不睡觉，他们没有别的爱好，他们牺牲了生活，
他们没有谈过恋爱，他们为此全然舍弃了一切。
他们的生命只有一个目标，就是去跑一百米赛跑，然后拿金牌。这难道不是真的吗？
看那些体操运动员，他们十分杰出，他们的身体（很完美）。很多人自从
他们还是三四岁的时候，他们吃喝都是为了这个激情。
然后看看我们，这不是能挂在脖子上的金牌，或某种
放在我们头上的只能持续一天的礁。而你和我，
你我被呼召去为一个独一无二的激情所控制：去遵行神的旨意，
为了得到一个不能朽坏的冠冕，我们务必要竭力活在神旨意的中心。
现在还有另一件神给予我们的事。不仅是一个至爱，不仅是一个伟大的激情，
神还给予了我们一个伟大的使命。我们被创造不是为了和大多数人一样地活，
我们是为征战而造，我们是为竭力奋斗而造，我们是为做工而造，我们是为取胜而造，
我们被造是为了把自己献给永恒的事物。亚当被命令
去做什么？去治理这地，去让一切受造之物与神的旨意相和谐，
在神的旨意之下来治理这一切。
我们现在活在一个充满黑暗和死亡的堕落世界之中。罪恶之子的国度
遍满了全地。我们没有被呼召来玩电子游戏，
我们没有被呼召来坐在电视机前，我们没有被呼召为琐事缠身。
我们被呼召去推进一个国度，去为一个激情而活，去为神而征战！
只有片刻我们放下剑来，往上看神的一个微笑。我要征战！
我不要过舒服的生活！我不要在锡安中享安乐！因为神的国度不是
被那些轻易就安息在锡安之中的人所建立的，而是被那些出去征战的人！
我们争战的武器不是属肉体的，它们是所向披靡的————代祷，
福音的传扬和自我牺牲的爱。男人，起来！属神的年长的人，
去做你被呼召去做的事。要英勇强悍，并要知道你会为此付出代价。
你站立在耶稣基督的旁边，而由于他的原故，你会看到魔鬼来追着你
里里外外的攻击，但这就是所谓的征战。
所以神给了我们一个伟大的使命。晚上要在房子里踱步着说，“还有一个地方
耶和华没有被敬拜，耶和华没有被敬拜。还有一个地方
耶和华没有被敬拜。”我无法入睡，因为还有一个地方耶和华没有被敬拜。
还有一个地方锡安之旗没有在上飘扬。这就是我们被创造来做的事。
为了把自己献给这一场伟大的征战，我们要放下不值一提的世俗事物。
如果我们搁置这些基本的原则和艰难的事置之不顾，要跳到外面做些什么
公开的，伟大的事情，那我们就是个伪君子。人最重要的品质是什么？
是恩赐吗？当然不是！有些世界上最有恩赐的人
都是自我毁灭并毁灭他人的人。你的妻子需要什么？你的孩子需要什么？
你的孩子需要什么？这个世界需要你什么？基督的样式。
这就是我们务必竭力追求的目标，而这另我伤心。你知道我有时不喜欢
去参加（基督徒的）会议，我不喜欢其中的讲道。
在这所有总是被讲到的东西之中，有时我就想站起来说，“足够了！”
我已经拥有了过于我所能遵守的真理。我不只是想要知道！
我想要改变！而且我不想在所谓的「属灵」层面有改变，更确切地说，
在「公开的」层面有改变。我想在我心灵的最深处有所改变！
哪怕是他（耶稣）的思想，在他所表达出来的最深层的本性之中，这是他的意愿
去行全能神的旨意。世界上最自由的人是那属于
一个完美主人的一个奴仆。神什么时候做错事了？神什么时候错待了你？
当你顺服了神的时候，当你遵循了神的时候，
当你寻求了他的旨意时，他曾否误导了你？“从来没有过！”
你曾否跟随了自己的道路，又被你自己的谋略所欺骗？向来如此。
这是极端的，这是经过深思熟虑的。
提摩太前书 4:7-8：只是要弃绝那世俗的言语，
和老妇荒渺的话，在敬虔上操练自己。
现在这里有一个极其重要的问题。
当我走向一位奥林匹克的运动员时，我观察他是如何吃，他是如何喝。
他很早就起床，他去训练，他去上学，他（上学）回来，
他做更多的训练，他吃了该吃的食物，他去睡觉，他起来，他读了某种运动杂志，
他为了提高总在努力，而且我们敬佩他们这样做。
但看这节经文对你说，“在敬虔上操练自己。”
我想讲解这节经文能让我们通俗易懂。那些最能观察你生命的人，
他们能否看见你为了在敬虔上有长进迈出了积极的，真正的步伐？
我无法告诉你在我身边有多少人告诉了我关于他们的父亲，
说到这些，“我父亲有很多美好的品德，但对我影响最大的
就是每一天早晨，在我父亲去耕地之前，
或在去做这做那之前，我会看见他在学习神的话语，
我会看见他在祷告。”我听过很多这样的见证，他们看他们的父亲，
尽管他们的父亲有过错和缺点，但他们知道这位父亲很认真地在
敬虔上操练自己。我们要如此相信，就像我们的生命与此息息相关一样，
因为我可以向你保证，不仅我们的生命与这息息相关，在很大的一个层面上，
我们家人（的生命）也与这息息相关。要去学习圣经。请听我说，你有多少次
向神呼求让圣灵的能力在你的生命中有越来越多的彰显？关于圣灵有两件事。
我们务要寻求圣灵在我们的生命中有更多的彰显，
而且我们必须小心，要步履薄冰，好让我们不叫圣灵担忧。
这是一个何等宝贵的宝藏，让我们不叫他担忧。这就是一些基本的原则，
我想可能会对你有帮助，因为这些对我有过伤害，也有过帮助。让我们来祷告。
Paul Washer – This is War
First of all, one great love.
To love the Lord our God
with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength.
And that should be something
that is set before us daily.
As we see in Deuteronomy chapter 6,
it’s something that should be written
on the doorpost of our house.
That when we leave, when we come in,
we are constantly reminded
that the great thing we are about
is to love the Lord our God.
That when it all comes down
to the basic root of everything,
I’m to love the Lord my God,
and I must be reminded
that this is the thing I’m to do.
I’m to have one great love,
and then again, I’m to have one great passion.
We listen to Matthew 6:33,
that kind of sums it all up:
“But seek first His kingdom
and His righteousness
and all these things will be added to you.”
Men.
How different would we be
if only these two verses were taken seriously?
If only these two verses
were brought before our eyes
two or three times a day?
And as I said this morning,
is it not true,
that you and I can go weeks
without being reminded
of the most important things in the Christian life?
The things that God Himself incarnate
set out for us
are forgotten.
In all our activity
and all our busyness.
And everything we do
we are to do because it is the will of God,
and because it brings glory to God.
Even the most menial tasks.
Something that I often ask myself:
‘When was the last time
you drank a glass of water
to the glory of God?’
‘That you relished a glass of water
to the glory of God?’
‘When you drank it knowing
it is a gift
from God?’
It comes from Him
and is to return to Him in praise.
In a sense we are to be reminded of Him
every time we think,
every time we look down at our hands and feet,
every time we attempt any endeavor
we are to do it to the glory of God.
There has never been a time
in the life of Paul Washer
that I have loved God
as He ought to be loved.
And there has never been a time
in the life of Paul Washer
that I have glorified God
as He ought to be glorified.
You see it changes everything doesn’t it.
Now it’s not just a knit picky little legalistic system
that you can check off and say,
‘I’m a righteous man.’
You see holiness,
when it comes down to it,
is separation from the things that displease God,
in order to be separated unto the person of God.
To esteem God above all things,
infinitely above all things His value,
and to live in accordance with that estimation.
So as men
our goal
is to learn,
is to grow in this truth
that everything we do
we’re to do for the glory of God.
I have met men in the world
that were not only consumed by passions,
but were controlled by them.
Men who are controlled by singular passion.
I’ll give you a perfect example, it’s about to come upon us here
and it’s the Olympics.
I in no way want to speak on this in a negative light,
but I want to use it as an example.
There are men
who since they were six years old
have done nothing
but run down a 100 meter track.
Every day of their life
since they were six years old.
They have gone without sleep.
They have gone without hobbies.
They have gone without lives.
They have gone without dating.
They have gone with absolutely everything in their life,
for one purpose;
to run down a 100 meter track and get a medal.
Is that not true?
Look at the gymnasts,
they’re absolutely amazing,
their bodies.
Many of them since they were three
and four years old,
all they have ever done
is eat and sleep
this passion.
And then there’s us.
It’s not some gold medal
to be hung around the neck
or some wreath that will be put on our heads
that will last only for a day.
But you and I.
You and I are called
to be controlled
by one singular passion;
the doing of the will of God
and for a crown, that does not perish.
We must strive
to be in the center of God’s will.
Now, another thing that He has given us,
not just one great love,
not just one great passion,
but He’s also given us a great commission.
Men,
we were not made
to live like most men.
We were made to fight.
We were made to strive.
We were made to work.
We were made to conquer.
We were made to give ourselves for something that is eternal.
Adam was given the command to do what?
To go out and subdue.
To bring everything in creation
in harmony with the will of God.
To do all his governing,
all his things
within the context of God’s will.
Now we live in a fallen world
that lives in darkness
and death.
The kingdom of the evil one
spread abroad throughout the land.
You and I were not called to play video games.
We were not called
to sit in front of a television set.
We were not called to give ourselves to trifles.
We were called to advance a kingdom!
To live with a passion,
to fight for Him!
And to only every once in a while
drop our swords and look up for a smile.
I want to fight!
I don’t want comfort!
I don’t want ease in Zion!
Because the kingdom of God
is built
not by those who rest easily in Zion,
but by those who go out into the streets and fight.
And the weapons of our warfare are not carnal.
They are mighty.
Intercessory prayer,
the proclamation of the Gospel,
and sacrificial love.
Men.
Rise up O men of God.
Do what you were called to do!
Be valiant and strong!
And know
that it’s going to cost you.
You take your stand beside Jesus Christ and His cause,
and you watch the devil come after you
buffeting you from the outside and from the inside.
But that’s what war is about.
And so He has given us
a great commission.
To pace a room at night saying,
“There Is a place, there is a place
where He is not worshiped,
where He is not worshiped.
There is a place where He is not worshiped.”
“I can not sleep.”
“There is a place where He is not worshiped.”
“There is a place where the flag of Zion does not fly.”
That’s what we were made for,
to set aside
our little temporal causes,
and to give ourselves
to this one great battle.
And so if we set aside
these basic principle difficult things,
in order to jump out there
and do something public
and something great.
Then we prove ourselves to be hypocrites.
What is the most important trait in a man,
is it giftedness?
Absolutely not!
Some of the most gifted men in the world
are self destructive,
and destroy others.
What does your wife need?
What do your children need?
What do your children need?
What does the world need from you?
Christ-likeness.
This is what were are to strive toward
and it breaks my heart.
Sometimes you know,
I don’t like to go to conferences,
I don’t like to preach in them.
Sometimes in the middle
of all the stuff being said
all the time,
I just want to stand up and say,
“Enough!”
“I’ve already got more truth
than I know how to obey.”
I don’t just want to ‘know!’
I want to ‘change!’
And I don’t want to change on the so called ‘spiritual level.’
That at ‘public’ level, (maybe is a better word.)
I want to change
in the inner chambers of my heart.
That even His thoughts,
-the deepest expression of who He is-
it was His desire that they be according
to the will of almighty God.
The freest man on the face of the earth
is the one who makes himself
a slave to a perfect master.
Where has God been wrong,
and where has He wronged you?
Has there ever been a time when you’ve listened to Him,
when you’ve obeyed Him,
when you’ve sought out His will,
that He has misled you somehow?
Never!
But have you ever followed your own ways
and been misled by your own devices?
Always.
It is extreme.
It is deliberate.
1st Timothy 4:7-8
“But have nothing to do with worldly fables fit only for old women,
on the other hand discipline yourself
for the purpose of godliness.”
Now here’s an extremely important question.
When I go to an Olympic athlete
and I watch him,
it is obvious
what he eats,
what he drinks.
He gets up early in the morning, he trains.
He goes to school, he comes back,
he trains some more.
He eats right, he goes to bed, he gets up.
He reads journals on his particular sport.
He is constantly working to be better.
And we admire them for that.
But look what he says here to you,
“Discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness.”
And again I want to just put this
where we can understand it.
The people who most observe your life.
Would they see you
taking positive,
real steps in your life
to grow in godliness?
I can’t tell you how many men
that I have been around
that would tell me about their fathers, and say things,
“You know, my father was a lot of good things,
but the thing that had the biggest impact on me was:
Every morning,
before my dad would get up to plow,
or do this or do that,
I’d see him there before the word of God,
studying the word.
And I’d see him praying.”
I’ve heard so many testimonies.
That they can look at their dad
and in spite of all his failures and faults,
they knew this:
Dad was serious
about disciplining himself to godliness.
Men.
We have to believe this
as though our life depended upon it,
because I can assure you it does.
And not only does our life depend upon it,
in a great way the life of our family depends upon it.
To study the Word.
Listen to me.
How often do you cry out to God
for greater and greater manifestations
of the Spirit’s power in your life?
Two things about the Holy Spirit:
One is, that we must be asking
for greater manifestation
of the Spirits power in our life.
And we must be careful,
walk on eggshells,
that we not grieve the Holy Spirit.
What a precious treasure.
That we not grieve Him.
Well these are just some principles
that I thought might help you
because they both hurt,
and helped me.
So let’s pray.
Paul Washer’s Bio
保罗-大卫-华许（Paul David Washer，1961年出生），美国新教基督教传道人，加尔文主义神学，隶属于南方浸信会。
保罗华许在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校学习成为一名石油和天然气律师时皈依了基督教。他搬到秘鲁，在那里当了10年传教士。 1988年，在秘鲁期间，Washer 成立了 HeartCry 传教协会，以支持土著传教士向本民族文化的人作见证。Washer 后来回到美国，自2010年起居住在弗吉尼亚州的拉德福德，继续担任 HeartCry 的传教主任。
