Friend Or Foe? – 是敌是友？

John 15
约翰福音十五章

13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
13人为朋友舍命，人的爱心没有比这个大的。

14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
14你们若遵行我所吩咐的，就是我的朋友了。

15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
15以后我不再称你们为仆人，因仆人不知道主人所作的事；我乃称你们为朋友，因我从我父所听见的，已经都告诉你们了。

Friend or Foe?
是敌是友？

I must confess that I don’t have many close friends. I do have some and I thank God for those of you, who either having met me on here or in person. I thank God for all of you. I am so glad that my best friend and precious Savior is Jesus, and my second is my beautiful wife Helen and daughter Ming.
我必须承认，我没有很多亲密的朋友。我确实有一些。我感谢上帝，感谢你们当中的那些人，无论是在这里遇见我，还是亲自与我见过面。我为你们所有人感谢上帝。我很高兴我最好的朋友和宝贵的救主是耶稣，我的第二个朋友是我美丽的妻子海伦和女儿明。

Jesus in His closing address in the upper room, says these beautiful words to His disciples – His friends. What a wonderful privilege to be called Friends of God like Moses and Abraham were!
耶稣在逾越节晚餐的闭幕致辞中，对他的门徒-他的朋友们说了这些美好的话。 能够像摩西和亚伯拉罕一样被称为上帝的朋友是多么荣幸啊！

These are precious verses to any believer; it is the most amazing privilege to be called a friend of God. Amen.
这些经文对任何信徒来说都是宝贵的经文；被称为神的朋友是最令人惊异的特权。阿们。

What kind of friend is Jesus to us? Well, He laid down His life for us, now that is real love? I heard of a story of two friends in World War I, one was wounded and the other went and carried his friend back to the trenches, and he was mortally wounded doing it, but he did for his friend, because he loved his friend. How much more has Jesus loved us, that He laid down His life to redeem us. That is the evidence of His love for us. This truly is a picture of what Christ has done for us, we were wounded and alone, but Jesus saved us.
耶稣对我们来说是一个什么样的朋友呢？他为我们献出了自己的生命，这就是真正的爱吗？我听说过一个关于第一次世界大战中两个朋友的故事，一个受伤了，另一个把他的朋友背回战壕，他因此受了致命伤，但他是为了他的朋友，因为他爱他的朋友。耶稣更爱我们，甚至舍命来救赎我们。这就是他爱我们的证据。 这确实是基督为我们所做的事情的写照：我们受伤且孤独，但耶稣拯救了我们。

In the light of that sacrifice, and if we call ourselves the friends of Jesus, we will do what He tells us. His commandments are not grievous, they are there to be obeyed.
鉴于这种牺牲，如果我们称自己是耶稣的朋友，我们就会按照他告诉我们的去做。他的诫命并不严厉，是我们要遵守的。

Just imagine if you had a friend, you told everyone he was your good friend and then you didn’t talk to him/her or listen to them, this is how some Christians are to Jesus.
想象一下，如果你有一个朋友，你告诉每个人他是你的好朋友，然后你不和他/她说话或听他们说话，这就是一些基督徒对耶稣的态度。

They say they love Him, but they don’t obey Him or they pick and choose what commands they obey.
他们说他们爱他，但他们不服从他，或者他们挑选并选择他们服从的命令。

The final privilege of being a friend of Jesus is that He reveals all the deep things of God to us, the Holy Spirit opens up God’s word and He opens up God’s will to us.
成为耶稣朋友的最后一个特权是，他向我们揭示神一切深奥的事，圣灵向我们揭示神的话语，他向我们揭示神的旨意。

What a privilege we have to be called a friend of God, once we were His enemies. Now we are His friends. His precious blood-bought children.
我们有多么荣幸能够被称为上帝的朋友，曾经我们是他的敌人。现在我们是他的朋友。（我们是他）宝血买来的孩子们。

Let us obey Him and give Him our lives. After all He laid His life down for us, let us do the same for Him with a thankful heart!
让我们服从他，把我们的生命交给他。毕竟他为我们献出了自己的生命。让我们怀着一颗感恩的心为他做同样的事！

God bless you!
上帝祝福你！

Keith
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