不可為罪惡留餘地
2012-06-05

（轉貼：理念相同，代為傳布，千祈海涵）

    按：你知道魔鬼引誘你犯罪會有什麼結果嗎？第一、你會遠離神，會失去許
    多祝福；第二、罪的工價乃是死，包括肉體的死和靈命的死；第三，你會被
    魔鬼踏在腳底下，受魔鬼的欺凌、控制，你會失去基督徒應有的喜樂和平安
    。

    不過，我要告訴你：你憑著自己，絕對無法勝過魔鬼的引誘和試探，你唯一
    得勝的方法，就是投靠救主耶穌基督徒，讓祂作你的力量，仗著祂誇勝，那
    你就能把魔鬼踩在腳底下，勝過罪惡的引誘！

求檷攔阻僕人不犯任意妄為的罪。—詩篇19篇13節
Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins. —Psalm 19:13

    在我童年時，我喜歡騎著一輛由繩子操縱的推車。有一次，我從家門口滑向
馬路時，我記起父母的警告：「一定要先左右查看街上有無車輛。」但我自以為
，就這一次不查看車輛也沒有關係。忽然，我聽到刺耳的緊急剎車聲，車子差點
就撞到我。就這一次違反父母的規定，差點就讓我付出了生命的代價。

    聖經有許多對上帝的命令明知故犯的例子。當大衛還是個少年，他在牧羊時
就經常默想上帝的律法。他清楚知道十誡的第七條就是不可姦淫。然而，當他看
見烏利亞的妻子在沐浴的時候，他卻利用自己的王權搶奪了這位美麗的女人。他
犯下的罪導致了嚴重的後果（撒母耳記下 11-12 章）。

    詩人寫道：「求檷攔阻僕人不犯任意妄為的罪」（詩篇 19 篇 13 節）。你
是否也面臨類似的誘惑？即使你知道那是錯的，你還是想要做某件「就這一次」
的事。例如：瀏覽色情網站，從公司帳戶「借」錢，或是歪曲事實。這些事件看
起來似乎都只是「就這一次」的行為，但是卻會導致嚴重的後果。讓我們靠著上
帝的幫助，脫離罪惡，得著從上帝而來的出路（哥林多前書 10 章 13 節）。
HDF

我深知道心易放蕩，
遠離父家慕虛華，
今獻身心求加印記，
永作主民在父家。Robinson

試探會來敲門；千萬不要留它吃晚餐！
Temptations will knock at your door; don』t ask them to stay for
dinner!

Just This Once
June 5, 2012 — by Dennis Fisher

    As a boy, I used to ride a go-cart that was steered with a rope.
On one occasion, as I propelled my way down the driveway, my parents
』 warning came to mind: 「 Always look up and down the street for
cars. 」 But I rationalized: It 』 s okay not to do that just this
once. Then I heard the sound of screeching tires as a car came to an
abrupt stop to avoid hitting me. Thinking I could break my parents 』
rule nearly cost me my life.

    The Bible has many examples of those who knew better but who chose
to break God 』 s rules. From boyhood, David had meditated on the law
of God while he tended his sheep. He knew that the seventh commandment
condemned adultery, yet when he saw a beautiful woman bathing he used
his royal power to take the wife of Uriah for his own. This sin
resulted in terrible consequences (2 Sam. 11 – 12).

    The psalmist wrote: 「 Keep back Your servant also from
presumptuous sins 」 (Ps. 19:13). Have you felt tempted to do
something 「 just this once 」 even though you knew it was wrong?
Glancing at Internet pornography, 「 borrowing 」 money from an
account at work, or stretching the truth may each seem like an
isolated activity but can lead to terrible consequences. With God 』 s
help, turn from sin and find His way of escape (1 Cor. 10:13).

Prone to wander—Lord, I feel it;
Prone to leave the God I love; Here』s my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above. —Robinson