What Will You Give Up To Win The Prize?- 你会放弃什么来赢得奖赏？

1 Corinthians 9 哥林多前书 9

24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
你们岂不知在赛场上跑的都跑，但只有一人得奖？所以要这样跑，好叫你们得着奖赏。

25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
凡努力争胜的，都在各方面节制自己。他们这样做，是为得那会朽坏的冠冕；但我们却是为得那不朽坏的冠冕。

26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
因此，我这样跑，不是没有目标；我这样争战，不是打空气：

27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
我乃是严加管束我的身体，使它顺服，免得我传道给别人，自己反被弃绝。

What will You Give Up To Win The Prize?
你会放弃什么来赢得奖赏？

There was a big boxing match in the UK, you may have seen it, the Ukrainian fighter beat the British fighter by knockout, he has beaten three British fighters, all who are taller and are heavier than him.
在英国有一场大型拳击比赛，你可能看到了，乌克兰拳手以击倒的方式击败了英国拳手，他已经击败了三位比他更高、更重的英国拳手。

Yesterday, I saw his training, now some of you like to go to the gym and exercise, but some of the things, he did, took my breath away.
昨天，我看到了他的训练，你们有些人喜欢去健身房锻炼，但他做的某些事情让我叹为观止。

He lifted weights that would kill me if I tried, he took all his time to train for the fight.
他举起的重量如果我尝试的话会要了我的命，他把所有时间都用来训练这场比赛。

He sought and won the prize, which was the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, he is now the best of the best.
他追求并赢得了奖赏，那就是无可争议的世界重量级冠军，他现在是最好的中的最好。

But it comes at a cost, this training takes him away from his family, his wife and three young children, in training for one of his last fights, his daughter was born, he never saw her birth, what dedication to his sport.
但这有代价，这种训练让他远离家人、妻子和三个年幼的孩子，在他为上一场比赛训练时，他的女儿出生了，他却未能亲眼见证，这是对运动多么大的奉献。

As Christians, we seek not earthly glory but a divine prize, this man is seeking a corruptible crown, we are seeking a crown that is incorruptible, but we won’t give up any comfort to win it.
作为基督徒，我们追求的不是地上的荣耀，而是神圣的奖赏，这个人追求的是会朽坏的冠冕，我们追求的是不朽坏的冠冕，但我们不愿放弃任何舒适来赢得它。

Will we go to church if its raining?
如果下雨，我们还会去教会吗？

Will we get up early to seek God?
我们会早起寻求神吗？

Will we read and study our bibles, instead of sitting for hours watching TV or browsing social media?
我们会读经、研究圣经，而不是花几个小时看电视或浏览社交媒体吗？

You say that you want to win the prize, but a bit like me, we don’t want to pay the price.
你说你想赢得奖赏，但有点像我，我们不想付出代价。

Paul in Philippians 3, gave us this great insight:
保罗在腓立比书第3章给了我们这个伟大的洞见：

8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
是的，我确实认为一切都如损失，为了认识我主基督耶稣的卓越，我已遭受一切的损失，并视之为粪土，为要得着基督，

Later this year, my friend David is going to Everest base camp at 21,000, this is high altitude, so he is training for this, sacrificing for it.
今年晚些时候，我的朋友大卫将要去海拔21,000英尺的珠穆朗玛峰大本营，这是高海拔，所以他在为此训练，为此牺牲。

He walks the south coast path, twenty miles each day, last year I followed his example, I walked ten miles one day and was completely exhausted, maybe because I won’t sacrifice like he does.
他每天走南岸小径20英里，去年我效法他的榜样，有一天走了10英里，筋疲力尽，也许因为我不像他那样牺牲。

Unbelievers really do put us to shame, they sacrifice everything for worldly pleasure and pursuit, but Christians think that going to one service on Sunday is enough, FORGET IT!
非信徒真的让我们感到羞愧，他们为世俗的享乐和追求牺牲一切，但基督徒认为每周日去一次礼拜就够了，忘了它吧！

Jesus said these words in Luke 14, “lets keep them in mind my dear brothers and sisters.”
耶稣在路加福音14章说了这些话，亲爱的弟兄姐妹们，让我们铭记在心。

26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
若有人到我这里来，若不恨他的父母、妻子、儿女、弟兄、姐妹，甚至自己的性命，就不能作我的门徒。

27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
凡不背着自己的十字架跟从我的，也不能作我的门徒。

28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
你们哪一个要盖一座楼，不先坐下计算费用，看自己是否足够完成呢？

29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,
免得他立了根基，却不能完成，所有看见的人都嘲笑他，

30 Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
说，这个人开始建造，却不能完工。

31 Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?
或者哪一个王要去与另一个王打仗，不先坐下商议，自己是否能用一万兵去迎战那领两万兵来攻的呢？

32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.
不然，当对方还远的时候，他就派使者去求和。

33 So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
照样，凡你们不撇下一切所有的，就不能作我的门徒。

What Will You Give Up To Win The Prize?
你会放弃什么来赢得奖赏？

God Bless You
愿神祝福你