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2005年2月13日来崇文门堂美国橄榄山教会周林南牧师证道提纲 经文：约翰福音6：37 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 　1. 当你带着悔改之心来 2. 当你带着信心来 亲爱的朋友们， 我认识一个名叫戈登的人，他干了一辈子的推销员，销售的是一种制造混凝土的产品。他走访一个又一个的混凝土制造商去推销和展示他公司的商品再签下订单。虽然他在职业生涯中取得了巨大的成功，但是一些奇怪的事情却在他身上相继发生。他在三次不同的时间里被分别授予了最佳销售员的殊荣，可是在得奖之后等待他的却不那么美好，那就是被公司解雇。还有一次他得到了年度最佳销售员的大奖，并且公司给了他和夫人到夏威夷的免费假期。可就在他度假回来不久他又被公司开除了。这只是其中一次。如果他是一个优秀的销售员那为什么世界上的公司都要解雇他呢？甚至这样奇怪又相似的事情还在三次不同的时间发生，经历的虽多可他每次都很难接受。 没有人会希望被别人拒绝，可这样的事情一直都在发生。更令人悲伤的是这样的事甚至还会发生在教会中。我今天想要告诉你们的是：这个世界上谁都可能拒绝你，可是在我主耶稣基督面前，只要你带着悔改和信念来到他的面前，他总是等待着接受你。 这些来自耶稣的话语出现在他为神做工的十字路口。当他的名声达到了最高点时，无数的会众到他那里去看他所创造的奇迹并且聆听他饱含力量的讲道。他们异常震惊，不知道他如何将仅供一个人食用的小小午餐变成可以让 5000 多人食用的丰盛食物。他们希望耶稣基督做他们的王，这样他们就永远不用再去工作，这被称为是最终的退休。 在耶稣基督喂养了 5000 人之后，他从众人之前消失，因为他发现那些狂热的人们要用武力逼迫他为王。这之后众人又将耶稣团团围住，他用很坦白的语言和他们交流。告诉他们他王国中需要纯净自然的精神力量，他还告诉他们要去寻找这种精神物质，而不是世俗的物质。就因为这个很多人纷纷拒绝跟随耶稣，他们想要的仅仅是免费的面包，而不是免费的荣耀。 面对众多跟随者的离去，耶稣仍然充满信心。虽然很多人离去了，可耶稣说不论是谁只要来到我的面前我就不会抛弃你。对于耶稣来说诅咒那些离去的用背对着他的人是一件多么轻而易举的事啊，可他没有这么做，代替诅咒的是召唤他们回来的是轻柔的话语，那话语中富含着恩惠原谅和无尽的爱。 APL-- 亲爱的朋友们，不论你的生活中发生了什么事情，耶稣总会敞开他宽大的臂膀去邀请你归到他的名下。 曾经有一个年轻人到明尼苏达大学去读书。在他的童年时，他很少有机会去接触基督教。但是到了大学，他被邀请参加一个圣经学习小组。接下来，在学习中他被生灵充满，恢复了人与生俱来的神性并且接受了洗礼。可一天夜晚一些不好的习惯又重新支配了他，他到酒吧喝得烂醉，遇到一个女孩并和她有了不轨的行为。第二天他对自己所做的可怕的事万分惊悸，他觉得自己拒绝了为拯救他而死的救世主，整个人充满了内疚和自责。他到圣经学习小组后知道如果做了错事犯了罪就要在主面前忏悔，于是他尝试着在没有任何隐藏的情况下向主诉说了他的整个罪行，最后向主求取宽恕。圣经小组的成员安静地听完他讲述的故事之后突然说，“滚出去！”他们说：“一个基督徒怎么能做出那样的事情！别再回到这里了！” 这个年轻人被他们这些人的言语毁坏了，此后他还尝试去自杀，后来事情如何发展下去我就不得而知了，我只知道那些他所在教会里的人抛弃了他，如此轻易地就将主拣选的人丢弃在教会生活之外。可是我们都该知道即时他们做了这样可怕的事情和我主耶稣基督无关，他绝对不会做同样的事情。教会和牧师都会犯错误可耶稣不会，他会接受所有在他面前忏悔自己罪恶并请求宽恕的人。如果那个年轻人真心忏悔那耶稣就会原谅他。 我想你们中很多人都会承受着旧日之事给自己带来的一些内疚的感觉。这些事情使你们难堪甚至都不愿去想起，并且你确信除了自己没人会知道。即使别人知道了也无法去做什么来弥补来旧日的内疚和遗憾，可主耶稣知道发生在我们每个人身上的每件事情，他知道我们的心是黑还是白。就这样他还是一如既往的爱我们，他张开手臂欢迎你，邀请你进入到他的国度，永远不会拒绝你。 • 现阶段美国大约有 200 万人在监狱中服刑。也就意味着 200 万人被社会拒之门外，我们总会用“被拒之人”来谈论他们。可是实际上这样的人在监狱里还有很多，他们因为各自的原因住在监狱中，为自己所行的罪接受惩罚。他们不知道还有另外一种生活方式，可就算这样只要这些人用信心来在耶稣面前，就能得到自由。 你曾经被拒绝过么？我确信一定有过。我回想起在我还是个男孩的时候，一个新的家庭搬到了街的对面。我很高兴我的邻居中有了可以和我一起玩的小孩子。那个夏日的夜晚我们很兴奋地一直玩到天黑，我们计划着明早和以后的日子都能在外面一起玩。但是隔天早上他们却没有按约出来，就这样我孤零零地等了一整天。后来他们其中的一个从窗户中向我大喊，告诉我他们被禁止出门。令人不解的是之后我再也没有和那些孩子玩过。出于一些原因，他们开始恨我和我的家庭并且做出了这样卑鄙的行为在我身上。 上面这些事虽然已过去四十余年，可是至今我还能清晰地记起，被拒绝的痛楚依然萦绕心头。 我想，那些曾经被解雇的人，婚姻破裂的人，失去好朋友的人，在学校排名不好的人，或者是在工作中的申请被拒绝的人都会深切地体会到我说的东西。被拒绝总是难以被接受。 但是还有一个拒绝远远比我提到的所有拒绝都要坏的多 ---- 那就是被我们唯一的真神拒绝。想象一下你要用你瘦弱的肩膀去承受整个世界的罪恶和上帝无情的背影。我无法忍受这样的拒绝，我想你们也不能，可耶稣可以。他独自承受了来自上帝的拒绝使我们不用再承受被上帝拒绝的痛苦，只有耶稣才知道被拒绝的真正感受。他大声疾呼，“我的神，我的神啊，为什么你要抛弃我？”耶稣被上帝抛弃要他一人去为了整个世界的罪去接受惩罚，你们所有人的还有我的罪。他虽被抛弃可他解放了我们，让我们不用忍受被抛弃的痛苦。 亲爱的朋友们，来在主耶稣的面前，用你的信念来到他的面前，相信他所做的一切。把自己看成一个被拒绝的人，你就不会真正体验到被拒绝的感觉。 最关键的是要有信念。你必须相信耶稣不会拒绝你，你必须来在他的面前信任他为爱所做的承诺。耶稣逐渐地温柔地用他无限的宽恕接纳我们。你们得到了上帝的诺言，他不会赶走任何一个来在他面前的人。 将你坚定的信念和信心放在主里面，从今日直到永永远远。那么你就永远不会感到孤单，耶稣会一直在你左右陪伴。他不会拒绝你，也永远不会遗弃你。 阿门。 Jesus will not reject you! John 6:37 • When you come in repentance • When you come in faith Dear Friends, A man I know named Gordon has been a salesman all his life. He sells products that are used to make concrete. He goes around from one concrete maker to another presenting his company's products and taking orders. He has been very successful in his career. But some strange things have happened to him. Three different times, he was given an award for being a good salesman, then the next thing he knew he was fired from the job. One time he won the award for salesman of the year. The company gave him and his wife a free vacation to Hawaii . But a few days after he came back he was told to get out. This is odd. If he is such a good salesman why in the world would the company fire him? And even more strange similar things happened three different times. Each time it was difficult for him. No one wants to be rejected by anyone. Yet it happens all the time. Sadly, it can happen even in church. But the message I want to leave you today is this: no matter who may reject you, Jesus Christ is always willing to accept you when you come to him in repentance and faith. These words of Jesus come at a crossroad in his ministry. His popularity was at the top. Huge crowds of people came to see his miracles and hear his powerful preaching. They were really impressed when he turned a small lunch for one person into enough food for more than 5,000 people to eat. They wanted Jesus to become their king so they would never need to work again. This would be the ultimate retirement. After Jesus fed the 5,000, he fled from the crowds, because he saw that they wanted to make him a king by force. Later when the crowds caught up with Jesus, he spoke plainly with them. He told them about the spiritual nature of his kingdom. He told them to seek spiritual things, not the things of this world. From that point many refused to follow Jesus any more. They wanted free bread, not free grace. Yet, in the face of many followers turning away, Jesus still offered hope. Though many were leaving, Jesus said that anyone who came to him would never be turned away. It would have been easy for Jesus to call down curses upon those who turned their backs on him. Instead he gently called them back with a tender offer of grace, forgiveness and love. APL – Dear friends, know that whatever happens in your lives, Jesus still holds his arms open and invites you to come to him. Once there was a young man who came to the University of Minnesota . In his childhood, he had very little contact with Christianity. But when he came to the University, he was invited to a Bible study. One thing led to another and he was brought to faith by the Holy Spirit and was baptized. But one night some bad old habits got the best of him. He went out to the bars and got drunk. He met a girl and committed adultery with her. The next day he was horrified at his terrible deeds. He was filled with guilt and remorse. He had denied the Savior who died for him. He went to his Bible study knowing he had to confess his sin. He told the whole story. He did not try to hide or cover up his misdeeds. He asked for their forgiveness. The others in the Bible study listened quietly to his story and then responded, “Get out!” They said. “A Christian would never do anything like that! Don't ever come back!” The young man was devastated. He later attempted suicide. Whatever happened to him after that I do not know. The people of his church rejected him. They basically threw him out. But even though these people threw him out, that does not mean Jesus did. Churches and pastors may make a mistake. But Jesus does not. He welcomes all those who repent of their sins and come to him for forgiveness. If this young truly repented, then Jesus forgave him. Some of you out there are also bearing guilt from things in the past. There are things you are so ashamed of you cannot bear to think about them. You are pretty sure no one knows about them. If someone did know that person would have nothing to do with you ever again. But Jesus does know about those things. He can see how black your heart is. Yet he still loves you. He opens his arms to you. He invites you into his kingdom. He will not reject you! II. In the United States there are about two million people in jail right now. Two million people who have been rejected by society. Sometimes we refer to them as “rejects.” But in reality there are many more people than that in prison. They live in the prisons of their own minds. They live in a prison called sin. They do not know there is another way. But Jesus offers freedom for all who come to him in faith. Have you ever been rejected? I am sure you have. I recall when I was a small boy a new family moved across the street. I finally had some kids in my neighborhood to play with. I was so excited as we played until dark one summer evening. We planned to get out the next morning and continue. But the next morning they did not come out. I waited all day but no one came out. Late in the day one yelled out the window that they were not allowed to go out. Here is the strange part: I never played with those kids ever again. For some reason, they began hating me and my family and would play dirty tricks on us. All of that happened over 40 years ago. Yet I still remember it. The pain of rejection does not easily go away. Anyone who has ever been fired from a job, had a marriage break up, lost a good friend, gotten a bad grade in school, or had an application for a job turned down knows what I mean. Rejection is hard. But there is a rejection far worse than any I just mentioned. I am talking about being rejected by God. I am talking about having the sins of the entire world placed upon your shoulders and having God turn his back on you. I could not bear that rejection. Neither could you. But Jesus did. He bore the rejection of God so that we would not have to. Jesus knows what rejection is really like. He cried out, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Jesus was forsaken by God to pay the full penalty for the sins of the world, yours and mine. He was forsaken to spare you from being forsaken. APL Dear friends, come to the Lord Jesus, come to him in faith, believing all that he has done. Put your faith in The Rejected One and you will never truly experience rejection. But the key here is faith. You must believe that Jesus will not reject you. You must come to him trusting in his promise of love. Jesus gently and tenderly reaches out to us with an offer of forgiveness. No one who comes to him will be turned away. You have God's promise. Put your firm faith and trust in Jesus Christ, today and every day. And you will never be alone. Jesus will stand by you. He will not reject you. He will never drive you away. Amen.

乐萍

很有启发,谢谢姐妹.

Samuel63

amen!