说「我好软弱」真的很容易,但你的问题不是你太软弱,而是你很自我。而我只要看看你的虔诚生活,就可以证明这一点。我们的问题不是我们太软弱,而是我们没有认识到自己的软弱。

保罗·华许 – 软弱促使你归向神

我很厌烦基督徒对我说,
“保罗弟兄,我很软弱。
保罗弟兄,你一开始讲道就说你很软弱。
为什么我们不可以这么说?”
我想让你来理解这个词的涵义,以及它的背景。
第一,
你不软弱,我可以向你证明。
上一周,
你花了多少时间
竭力追求去认识神和他的道,
并祷告?知道离开了神和他替你所做的工,你不能做什么。
看哪,真的很容里说“我很软弱”,
但你的问题不是你很软弱,你的问题是你认为你很刚强。
我可以向你证明:去看看你的灵修生活。
你看到了吗?我们的问题不是我们很软弱。
我们的问题是我们没有意识到自己的软弱。
你明白了吗?
这就是为什么在基督徒的历史中,
那些被神重用的最伟大的男人和女人
似乎只有一个共同之处:他们意识到了自己的软弱。
现在,我想让你明白这点,这点十分重要。
软弱不是一个阻碍;软弱是属灵力量的催化剂。
问题是错误的回应。
第一,你需要意识到:每个人都软弱。
自然人绝对无法达到新约里对你一切的要求。
你要这么来看,每个人都在同一个级别。
我,你,司布真,约翰·派珀,我们所有人,每个人都软弱。
现在你不能再用软弱做为一个借口了,因为人人都软弱。
没有人能做这些事。没有人。
所以你看,我们都软弱。
问题是:我们该做什么?
现在有很多人只是嘴巴说“软弱”,
因为基督徒都这么说,“我很软弱。”
其他人发现用这个词很方便。为什么?
因为这可以做为他们犯罪的借口。“我很软弱。人人都软弱。”
但认识到自己的软弱要驱使你到神的面前。
要立刻来到神那里!
靠信心相信神是他所说的那个泉源。
神是他所说的那个泉源和帮助。
他是那位拥有无限资源的神。
他赏给孩子的不吝啬。他充充足足赏给我们。
所以你的问题是你没有真正意识到你很软弱。
或者你意识到了你的软弱,却继续活在你的软弱中。
你的软弱每一次都要驱使你到神的面前!
但问题在这里。
你的心在责备你,撒旦在帮助你的心去责备你。
我昨晚看到了某人,跟她谈了很长的时间,是个可爱的小女孩。
她意识到了她的软弱。
她意识到了她很虚弱。她意识到了她的罪。
她意识到了她无法战胜她生命中的某些事。
但这是她的问题:
她会看到她的罪,
由于魔鬼在做工,有时我们自己的心会责备我们,
每次她一犯罪,她会去自己惩罚自己。
“你现在不能去神那里。你不能这么继续跑回去。
你昨天犯了罪,求了赦免;你今天犯了同样的罪。
你若跑回神那里,你很虚伪。
你不感激神。你对神的认识不高。
你认为神单单赦免一切人吗?”
难道我们不这么做吗?难道我们不这么想吗?
我们犯了同样的一个罪,
已经悔改过的罪,因为我们认为我们该去惩罚自己,
要有一阵子,至少要有几天才行。
你想在去神那里前能赢得神的青睐。
因为我们真的认为我若每次这样立刻
回去求神的赦免,期待被赦免,这难道不是虚伪吗?
这不是把神看得很低吗?这不是把神当作
一个“赦免机”吗?不,这是合乎圣经的!
虚心会使我们如此行。
现在再次强调,我希望我不是在对没有归信的宗教人士讲这点,
那些人会说,“神若那么好,我会天天犯罪,
然后再回去求神赦免就行了。”
我希望我不是在对这种人讲道。我希望我是在对真基督徒讲道,
那些人真的渴望去成为他们盼望成的样子;
但当他们发现自己虚弱时,他们发现自己软弱时,
他们发现自己在犯同样一个罪时,
他们就躲在那里等。
也许他们会读几天圣经,去花更多的时间祷告,
为了在去神那里真正得赦免之前,向神显示出他们的真诚。不!
我生命中最大的喜乐之一就是当我发现在我犯同样一个罪时,
我第一个回应是要去竭力追求基督。
不是像乞丐一样,不是心想:我来了,愿神重重地降罚与我。不!
我要竭力追求基督,说:我相信你的应许!
我属于另一个世界。我是自由的。
我是一个圣徒;我不在亚当,定罪和律法之下。
在耶稣死在那棵树上的时候,他已经还清了这一切!他知道这一切!
他赦免了这一切!我是自由的!
这点是绝对的重要。

Paul Washer – Your Weakness Should Drive You to God

I am so tired of hearing Christians telling me: Brother Paul, “I’m just so weak.” You say; “brother Paul, you started off your sermon saying you were weak.” So why can’t we say it? Well I want you to understand the phrase, and the context of it.

First of all, you’re not weak, and I can prove it to you. In the last week, how much time did you spend grasping, and striving to know God and His word, and in prayer; knowing that apart from God and His work on your behalf you aren’t going to be able to make it? See it’s real easy to say: “I’m so weak.” Your problem is not that you’re so weak, your problem is; you think you’re strong. I can prove it by just looking at your devotional life. You see? Our problem is not that we are too weak. Our problem is that we do not recognize our weakness. Do you see that? That’s why the greatest men and women that have been most used of God throughout Christian history seem to have only one thing in common, a recognition of their weakness.

Now, here’s what I want to show you, and it’s so, so important. Weakness is not a hindrance to power; weakness is the catalyst, to spiritual power. The problem is wrong response. So first of all you need to recognize something. Everybody is weak. Everything that is demanded of you in the New Testament is absolutely impossible for the natural man. There you go; so now everybody is on the same level. Me, You, Spurgeon, John Piper, all of us; everyone’s weak, that’s it. Now you can’t use weakness as an excuse anymore, because everybody is just as weak. No one can do this stuff. No one. So there you go, we’re weak. The question is what do we do?

Now, many people just mouth “weakness”, because it’s the Christian thing to say. “I’m weak”. Other people find it very convenient to use that phraseology, why? Because they can use it as an excuse for they’re sin. “Well I’m weak, everybody’s weak.” But the right mindset here, is in recognizing your weakness. It drives you to God, immediately to God. Believing in faith, that He is the fountain He claims to be. That He is the source and the helper he claims to be. That He is one of unlimited resources. That He does not greedily hand out to children, but He lavishes upon us. So see, your problem is that you’re really not recognizing you’re weak. Or, you recognize you’re weak, but you just stay there in your weakness. The thing is your weakness ought to drive you to God, every time. But here’s the problem. Let’s enter in with your heart condemning you, and Satan helping your heart condemn you.

I saw someone last night. I dealt along time with them, a precious little girl. She recognized her weakness, she recognized her frailty; she recognized her sin. She recognized that there were some things in her life she couldn’t overcome right now. But here was her problem, she would see her sin, and because of the work of the Devil, and sometimes our own heart condemning us. She would put herself in the penalty box, every time that she sinned. “Well, you can’t go to God right now. You can’t just keep running back to Him. You sinned yesterday; you repented and asked for forgiveness, now you’ve done the same exact thing today. I mean you run back to Him you’re just a hypocrite. You don’t appreciate God. You don’t have a high view of God. What do you think, that God just hands out pardons to everyone?”

Isn’t that what we do, and isn’t that what we think? We sin a sin, that we have already sinned, and already repented of, and because of it we think we ought to put ourselves in a penalty box; for a little while at least. A couple of days, and try to work our way back into favor before we come to God. Because we think actually: “If I go back every time I do this, immediately. Not only going back, and asking for forgiveness, but expecting forgiveness. Isn’t that hypocrisy? Isn’t that a low view of God? Isn’t that treating God as a forgiveness machine?” No, it’s being biblical!

It’s what poverty of spirit is supposed to do to us. Now again, I’m not preaching this hopefully to unconverted church people who are going to say, “Wow, if God’s that good, I’ll sin all the time, and just go back and ask for forgiveness.” Hopefully I’m not talking to people like that. Hopefully I’m talking to genuine Christians. Who really want to be something they are not yet. But when they find themselves frail, when they find themselves weak, when they find themselves sinning the same sin. They kind of huddle here and wait. Maybe read their Bible for a few days, pray some more, show God they’re really sincere, before they get over there, and actually try to get some forgiveness. No!

One of the great joys in my life is when I discovered. The moment I sinned the sin I always sin. My first response ought to be to latch ahold of Christ. Not beggarly, not thinking. “Here I am, you ought to strike me down,” but No! I latch ahold of Christ saying, “I believe your promises! I am in a different realm, I am free, I am a saint; I been moved out of Adam and condemnation and law. All of it was paid for on that tree when He died. He knew all of it! He forgave all of it! I’M FREE!”

It’s absolutely spectacular.

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。

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