Daily Devotion - Dec 4 - ¥q¥¬¯u¨C¤éÆF­×(¤é) Morning by Morning

司布真每日靈修(日) Morning by Morning

十二月四日

經文: 「在這城裡我有許多的百姓。」（使徒行傳十八：10）

耶穌說，在這城裡我有許多的百姓，這句話是作善工者極大的安慰與鼓勵。我們熱心撒種傳福音，常不知效果如何，但耶穌命定我們向人傳講這關乎生命的好信息，因為祂預定要拯救一些人。

這些人像其他信徒一樣，是要被寶血洗淨得贖，他們是耶穌的產業。雖然他們現在仍迷戀世界、不喜歡聽上帝的道，但耶穌若拯救他們，他們必要得救。上帝不會忘記祂兒子所付慘重壯烈的代價，祂的寶血不會白流，上帝願萬人得救不願一人沈淪，還有許多未得之地與待收的莊稼，等著我們去搶救收割。

我們出去傳福音時，想到這句經文就深感鼓舞與安慰，耶穌說：「我不但為這些人祈求，也為那些因他們的話信我的人祈求。」（約十七：20）可憐無知的人哪，雖然他們對禱告一無所知，但耶穌仍然為他們禱告，他們的名字在耶穌的心版上，過不多久，這些人也將屈膝在施恩寶座前，求告耶穌的名。當聖靈以無比的大能降臨運行，許多人將為罪、為義、為審判，自己責備自己，認罪悔改。如經上所記：「祂必看見自己勞苦的功效，便心滿意足。有許多人，因認識我的義僕得稱為義。並且祂要擔當他們的罪孽。」（賽五十三：11）


Morning, December 4

Scripture: "I have much people in this city."(Acts 18:10)

This should be a great encouragement to try to do good, since God has among the vilest of the vile, the most reprobate, the most debauched and drunken, an elect people who must be saved. When you take the Word to them, you do so because God has ordained you to be the messenger of life to their souls, and they must receive it, for so the decree of predestination runs. They are as much redeemed by blood as the saints before the eternal throne. They are Christ's property, and yet perhaps they are lovers of the ale-house, and haters of holiness; but if Jesus Christ purchased them he will have them. God is not unfaithful to forget the price which his Son has paid. He will not suffer his substitution to be in any case an ineffectual, dead thing. Tens of thousands of redeemed ones are not regenerated yet, but regenerated they must be; and this is our comfort when we go forth to them with the quickening Word of God.

Nay, more, these ungodly ones are prayed for by Christ before the throne. "Neither pray I for these alone," saith the great Intercessor, "but for them also which shall believe on me through their word." Poor, ignorant souls, they know nothing about prayer for themselves, but Jesus prays for them. Their names are on his breastplate, and ere long they must bow their stubborn knee, breathing the penitential sigh before the throne of grace. "The time of figs is not yet." The predestinated moment has not struck; but, when it comes, they shall obey, for God will have his own; they must, for the Spirit is not to be withstood when he cometh forth with fulness of power—they must become the willing servants of the living God. "My people shall be willing in the day of my power." "He shall justify many." "He shall see of the travail of his soul." "I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong."


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