Aug 22 【每日活水】苦难是信心成长的途径

帖撒罗尼迦后书 1:1~12

问候

1 保罗、西拉、提摩太写信给帖撒罗尼迦、在　神－我们的父与主耶稣基督里的教会。

2 愿恩惠、平安从父　神和主耶稣基督归与你们！

基督再来时的审判

3 弟兄们，我们该为你们常常感谢　神，这本是合宜的；因你们的信心格外增长，并且你们众人彼此相爱的心也都充足。

4 甚至我们在　神的各教会里为你们夸口，都因你们在所受的一切逼迫患难中，仍旧存忍耐和信心。

5 这正是　神公义判断的明证，叫你们可算配得　神的国；你们就是为这国受苦。

6 　神既是公义的，就必将患难报应那加患难给你们的人，

7 也必使你们这受患难的人与我们同得平安。那时，主耶稣同他有能力的天使从天上在火焰中显现，

8 要报应那不认识　神和那不听从我主耶稣福音的人。

9 他们要受刑罚，就是永远沉沦，离开主的面和他权能的荣光。

10 这正是主降临、要在他圣徒的身上得荣耀、又在一切信的人身上显为希奇的那日子。我们对你们作的见证，你们也信了。

11 因此，我们常为你们祷告，愿我们的　神看你们配得过所蒙的召，又用大能成就你们一切所羡慕的良善和一切因信心所做的工夫，

12 叫我们主耶稣的名在你们身上得荣耀，你们也在他身上得荣耀，都照着我们的　神并主耶稣基督的恩。

1 Paul, Silas and Timothy,

To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

2 Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Thanksgiving and Prayer

3 We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.

4 Therefore, among God’s churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.

5 All this is evidence that God’s judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering.

6 God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you

7 and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels.

8 He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

9 They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might

10 on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.

11 With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith.

12 We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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内容观察

1.保罗在别的教会夸耀帖撒罗尼迦教会的原因是什么?(3~4节)

2.保罗说,信徒所受的苦难将带来怎样的结果?(5节)

思考与默想

3.为什么苦难能够使信徒配得上神的国?

个人感受

4.苦难能够使信徒更加完全,也能使信心增长,对此我有什么感想?

决心与应用

5.我如何应对自己此刻所面临的苦难?

6.为了积极看待苦难,借着苦难使自己信心增长,我决定要怎么做?

报复(6节)：神的公义审判既让信徒成为完全,也让恶人照着自己的行为受报。

灵修指南

帖撒罗尼迦后书是保罗为要纠正信徒，对于基督再来的错误认知而写的。首先，保罗为着帖撒罗尼迦教会信徒的信心格外增长、彼此相爱的心也都增加而感谢神(3节)：又为着他们在所受的一切压迫、患难中持守耐心和信心、成为其他教会的夸耀而喜乐(4节)。接着，保罗鼓励帖撒罗尼迦教会的信徒，说他们为神国所受的苦，是他们在审判时配得上神国的明证(5节)。而他们之所以能够在苦难中忍耐，是因为他们拥有盼望，以致相信并等候主再来时必将以公义判断(6~8节)。因此，我们也应当正面看待苦难，把苦难当成使自己成为完全、信心增长的过程和途径。作为耶稣的门徒，盼望我们不回避苦难，而是借此接受锻炼和陶造，使信心更加成长。

内室祷告

愿我积极看待苦难,使信心增长,好能成为配得上神国的人。

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