Holding Fast To The Truth (Chinese/English)

Holding Fast To The Truth

Jude 3-4
犹大书3~4节

3 Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. 4 For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
3亲爱的，尽管我曾经迫切的想写信给你们，论到我们共享的救恩，现在我更觉得必须写信劝勉，你们要竭力维护从前一次就全交给了圣徒的信仰。4因为有人已经混进你们中间，他们就是早被判定，受刑的不敬虔的人，这些人把我们神的恩典当作放纵情欲的借口，并且否认独一的主宰我们的主耶稣基督

Philippians 2:16
菲利比书2章16节

16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
把生命的道显扬出来，使我在基督的日子可以夸耀我没有空跑，也没有徒劳

Truth matters. Amen.
真正的问题。阿门

We live in days that are very dangerous, scripture is being undermined at every turn, the authority and sufficiency of scripture is being taken lightly.
我们生活在危险的时代，圣经在许多关键时刻被破坏，圣经的权威和充足性轻易就被取代

Jude says that false teachers and I want you to take notice of this word, unnoticed.
犹大书提到了错误的教师，我要你留意这个词汇：未被察觉

That is an interesting word, how people creep into your house.
这是个有趣的词汇，表示人们如何偷偷的溜进你的家

You can leave your door ajar; many churches have left their doors a little bit ajar and now many false teachers are hiding in the church. One compromise has led to another, one small sin has led to another. Look at the five churches in Revelation 2-3, they started off well, but they left their doors ajar.
你可以让你的门半开，一点许多教会就让他们的门放开一点，如今许多假教师就藏在教会里。一个妥协引来另一个妥协，一个小的罪恶会导致另一个罪恶。看一看启示录2~3节中提到的5家教会，他们开始很好，但他们让自己的门半开着

The second way, they crept in, was because they were asleep. Jesus says how does the thief robs the house, he binds the strong man of the house, in the following verses we see this:
第2种方式他们悄悄溜进来，是因为他们都睡着了，耶稣提到贼如何抢劫房子，他绑住了房子里的壮汉，在之后的一节中我们看到如下的经文

Matthew 12
29 Or else how can one enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
马太福音12章
如果不先把壮汉绑起来，怎能进到他的家里抢夺财物呢？如果绑起来了，就可以抢劫他的家了

Mark 3:27
马可福音三章27节

27 No man can enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.
谁都不能进入壮汉的家，抢夺他的财物，除非先把壮汉捆绑起来，才可以抢劫他的家

Many churches are unaware of the danger, they are asleep. The strongman of the house has been bound, and the thief who is Satan, who comes to steal, kill and destroy. Who is the strongman? – it’s the pastor-the pastor has departed from the truth and is engaging in error and false teachers have crept in and now the church is in uproar.
许多教会并没有意识到危险，他们睡着了，家里的壮汉已经被绑起来，小偷就是撒旦，试图来偷盗，杀死并破坏。谁是壮汉呢？就是牧师，牧师已经与真理隔绝，在从事错误的事情，假教师已经偷偷溜进来，如今教会处于骚动中

The church needs to do things with the truth:
教会需要做与真理相关的事情

Firstly, it must not hold fast to the truths of scripture, in this contemporary culture, this is seen as outdated, we must hold fast to the truths of God’s word, despite the surrounding culture saying otherwise. We must be led astray for the latest church growth fad, we are told how to build an effective church in the book of Acts and how to rebuild the broken down walls in Nehemiah, why do we need to resort to the books of today’s so called Church experts and their Purpose driven books, when we need to hod fast to God’s word and not Man’s. When it comes to God’s truth, we should be sy no compromise, even if that sets us at odds with society.
首先教会并没有在当代文化中持守圣经的真理。这看起来是过时的，我们必须持守神话语的真理，尽管周围的文化并不与此相同。我们一定被最近的教会成长潮流引入歧途了，我们在使徒行传中被告知如何建立有影响力的教会，在尼希米记中被告知如何重建被拆毁的城墙，当我们需要持守神的话语而非人的话语时，为什么我们需要求助于如今被称为教会专家以及以他们的目的为导向的书呢？当涉及到神的真理时，我们应该毫不妥协，即使那在当今社会中，让我们看起来格格不入

We need to be fully awake, some are sleeping, indeed many churches are sleepwalking, the enemy sees them as easy pickings and they are now no use to God at all, they are neither hot nor cold, and we know what the Lord does to that church. Revelation 3:14-21
我们需要全然清醒，一些人在熟睡，事实上许多教会在熟睡中行走，而敌人看到他们就很容易下手，他们如今对神毫无用处，他们既不热也不冷，而我们知道神对教会所做的。启示录三章14~21节

We cannot share the gospel, we cannot tell the world of the gospel, if we don’t hold fast to its truth. Over 50% of American evangelicals don’t believe the word of God, they don’t hold fast to the truth.
假如我们不持守他的真理，我们就不能分享福音，就不能讲述福音的世界。有超过50%以上的美国福音派基督徒并不相信神的话语，他们并没有持守真理

How can they share something they don’t believe?
他们怎么能分享一些他们自己都不相信的事情呢？

Before we can hold some forth, we have to hold it fast. To hold fast, means that we are not shaken, nothing shakes our belief in the word of God, we know that it is the power of God unto salvation, we know it is quick, powerful and sharper than any two-edged    sword Hebrews 4:12-13
在我们能够向前推进之前，我们必须牢牢抓住他。要紧紧抓住，就意味着我们不能够动摇。没有什么能够动摇我们对于神话语的信仰，我们知道它是神在救恩中的力量，我们知道它是快速有力的，而且比两刃的剑更加锋利。希伯来书4章12~13节

Let us hold fast to the truths of God’s word, so that we can hold it forth to a needy world.
The world wants to see a church that believes what God says, if we don’t believe it, how can we expect the world to, maybe this is the reason, so many Christians don’t witness.
让我们紧紧抓住神话语的真理，以便我们能将他推进到有需要的世界。这世界需要看到相信神所讲之话的教会，假如我们不相信他，我们如何能够期待这世界相信他，也许这就是许多基督徒并没有做见证的原因。

How can you share in something you don’t truly believe in?
你如何能够分享一些你不真正信任的东西呢？

Time to awaken out of sleep- and time to close the door, it is time to hold firmly, and steadfastly to the truth and then and only then, can we share it with clarity and power.
是时候从睡梦中醒来，是时候关上门，是时候坚定持守真理，到那时也只有到那时，我们才能够带着清明和力量分享他

May God help us
愿神帮助我们

God bless you
愿神祝福你