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标题: 天天考查圣经 1119 [打印本页]

作者: qquchn    时间: 2008-11-25 21:21     标题: 天天考查圣经 1119

11月19日星期三

监督……要好客,喜爱良善,思想健全,正义,忠贞,自制。——多1:7,8

人有自制力这种特质,就能约束思想、谨言慎行。耶和华“一再克制自己”,对摧毁耶路撒冷的巴比伦人表现忍耐。(赛42:14)他的儿子在受苦时表现自制,给我们“留下榜样”。使徒彼得劝勉基督徒时也说:“知识要加上自制”。(彼前2:21-23;彼后1:5-8)基督徒长老理应自制。事实上,所有受圣灵引导的人都能表现自制,避免不道德的行为,不说粗鄙的言谈,不做任何令耶和华不悦的事。要是我们靠着上帝的圣灵养成自制力,别人就会看出我们与众不同,因为我们在言谈和行为方面都显出敬虔的态度。《守》07/7/15刊2篇23,24段
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身为上帝特殊的仆人,监督身上的担子更重一些,他们不但要成为其他基督徒的表率,更要照顾好自己的家人。所以他们必须具备很多的美好品格。例如自制,正义,忠贞。这些都是上帝悦纳,而又不容易常年坚持的,需要许多的努力才能获得。具有这些品格不但可以在信徒中间能够应付日常的事物,在其他地方如工作,居住的地方也可以赢得别的好感。尽管不适每个人都能成为监督,但是这些美好的品格都是我们应当具有的。
作者: qquchn    时间: 2008-11-25 21:48

Wednesday, November 19

An overseer must be . . . hospitable, a lover of goodness, sound in mind, righteous, loyal, self-controlled.—Titus 1:7, 8.

Self-control enables us to keep our thoughts, speech, and actions in check. Jehovah “kept exercising self-control” in dealing with the Babylonian desolaters of Jerusalem. (Isa. 42:14) His Son ‘left us a model’ by exercising self-control during his sufferings. And the apostle Peter counseled fellow Christians to ‘supply to their knowledge self-control.’ (1 Pet. 2:21-23; 2 Pet. 1:5-8) Christian elders are expected to be self-controlled. Actually, all who are led by holy spirit can exercise self-control and can thus avoid immorality, vulgar speech, or anything else that could result in Jehovah’s disapproval. If we allow God’s spirit to produce self-control within us, this will be apparent to others because of our godly speech and conduct. w07 7/15 2:23, 24




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