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2022年10月7日 Warning people everywhere to repent and get right with Jesus before it is forever too late.
今天我们赞美耶稣。今天早上我心里有几件事要和你们简单地分享。其中之一是关于极具安全感和毫无安全感的基督徒之间的区别我的意思是，有人对自己的信仰过于自信，感觉十分安全，而有人又完全没有安全感，认为无论自己做什么，耶稣都会拒绝他，无论他是什么情况，对上帝来说都不够好。无论你站在这条界限的哪一侧都是不好的。有的人站在超有安全感的一侧，相信一旦得救就永远得救。他们从来不怀疑自己的救恩。他们是非常自满的基督徒。他们认为他们完全不需要为上帝动一根手指或做任何事情。但如果你问起他们的信心，他们会告诉你，他们非常安全，超有保障。他们知道他们一定会去天堂。他们丝毫不怀疑自己是否已经得救。而这却极有危险性。因为撒旦也宣扬一旦得救就永远得救的轻松恩典福音，超级恩典福音。他让人有满满的安全感，让人继续犯罪，从没有真正悔改。这些人凭自己的信心感觉很安全，所以他们从不会自我评估下，看看自己是否真的需要为什么事情悔改。
但是，在这个界限的另一侧，是那些非常没有安全感的基督徒。他们确实悔改了，但因为他们没有安全感，他们听信撒旦在一切事上控告他们，他们就是那种吃东西后会觉得我吃得有些多了、因此上帝会送我下地狱的基督徒。他们开车超过了限定的速度一英里，就会认为上帝会送我下地狱的，因为我开车超过限速一英里。或者我在路上的停车标志那里没有完全停下，或者昨晚的梦中我有了情欲的念头，我虽然把这些带到了上帝面前，但我一定会去地狱，因为我犯了罪。因此，他们在自己所行的每一件事上都没有安全感。他们总是想象上帝会从天上劈下一道闪电，因为什么事定他们的罪，把他们送入地狱。他们总是认为他们亵渎了圣灵，总是认为他们无法回到上帝身边，他们在方方面面都没有安全感。他们任由撒旦如潮汐一般反复冲刷自己，从而离上帝越来越远。
无论你站在界限的哪一侧，无论你感觉安全还是不安全都非常糟糕。而这并不是说要在中间的某个地方才对。而真实的情况是要认识耶稣的声音，当我们与他在一起时，我们的安全感或自信就不再出于我们自己。我们感觉安全是因为我们在耶稣手中，知道他会照顾我们。如果我也在错误区域，我会倾向哪一侧？我会尽量避免自己倾向于认为我在耶稣面前是安全无虞的，因为大多数下地狱的是知道自己在作恶的基督徒，但他们是基督徒，他们在自己的信心中认为自己很安全。所以我想向你们建议，可能一些人会认为我这样想很可怕，但我想告诉你们，最好是没有安全感，认为自己会下地狱，而不断努力建立你与耶稣的正确关系，常常明白有些事情你必须在你的生活中做得更好，一直担心你做得不够，一直担心你自己行得不够，因为耶稣会看到你为他努力工作，即使撒旦在指责你，即使你被他击倒。你仍然可能有机会进入耶稣的国度，不过这是在如果你完全站在不安全的一侧的情况下。我不是说没有安全感是好事。但我是说如果你倾向于在这一边，可能会更好。
如果你处在没有安全感的一边，也许你会说："上帝，请帮助我。我知道我没有得救。我知道我是个罪人。我知道我需要悔改。" 你会像耶稣讲的比喻中的那个税吏一样，法利赛人和一个税吏都到上帝面前祷告，税吏对上帝说，"开恩赦免我这个罪人。" 你要更像他一样没有安全感，知道你已经搞砸了一切。但法利赛人或基督徒们非常自满和极具安全感，他们说，"我不需要做任何事情"。他们觉得最终只有他们有权且注定上天堂。他们从来没有像经文中所说的那样，就当恐惧战兢地做成他们得救的工夫。他们不觉得有必要真正地祷告或真正地省察自己。他们觉得他们不需要请求赦免。不管什么时候他们冤枉了人，他们都认为自己是对的，他们从来没有自我评价过自己的生活。他们对自己和上帝都不诚实，这就是罪，它所带来的就是骄傲，傲慢。然后当你死后，上帝会拒绝你。他会把你送入地狱。
因此，如果从这两边中选更好的一边，朋友们，那就是自觉毫无安全感的一面，希望上帝与你的关系是正确的，因为这可能让你得到来自上帝的启示，然后有真正的安全感。我不是说你应该没有安全感，因为耶稣想用他的灵来祝福我们。而圣灵被称为安慰者，如果你真的接受了圣灵，他就会安慰你，但问题是大多数基督徒都过着罪恶的生活，却呼求耶稣，请求他的祝福，但他们并没有得到这种安慰。
他们感到不安全的原因是圣灵——安慰者没有安慰他们。圣灵并不会在你的罪中安慰你，朋友们，他会让你知罪，但是这很容易和撒旦的定罪混为一谈。那些沉迷于宗教十分骄傲的人就会认为这就是靠行为得救，他们可能说：“我才不会让魔鬼控告我，说我会去地狱。我知道我很多年前就已经得救了，我绝不会让魔鬼激起我的不安。”但也许并不是魔鬼在激起你的不安，也许是圣灵在提醒你认罪，为你看色情片、邪恶的念头、仇恨、情欲的想法、追逐金钱，或是追逐个人肉体的享乐认罪。你在把圣灵的提醒归因于撒旦，说：“魔鬼想夺走我的安全感。”许多基督徒正在走向灭亡。他们篡改了福音，并将圣灵的提醒称之为来自撒旦。但那些真正属于撒旦的东西：骄傲、傲慢、依靠自己血肉之躯所得的安全感，自己的金钱，他们却把这些称之为上帝的祝福。所以他们彻底的把耶稣基督真正的福音篡改成了撒旦的假福音，以至于他们与真理完全背道而驰。
如果你真的想认识真理，得到真正的安全感，你需要领受圣灵悔改罪，接受圣灵的安慰。他是安慰者，他会安慰你，但他绝不会在你的罪中安慰你。这就是为什么当我还属于这个世界的时候，我不能一边吸烟边祷告的同时，感受到上帝会祝福我，我不能在晚上带着情欲的念头美美的睡一觉后，还认为上帝会称赞我。我知道有什么东西是不对的，尽管我安慰自己说：“我知道我已经得救了，我知道我是一名牧师，我知道我已经做过认罪的祷告了，我知道我已经受洗了，我知道我在做十一奉献。” 尽管我知道所有这一切，并且这些事情本应该让我感到平静，让我感受到安全，可是在我心里的深处，我仍然知道我并没有得到圣灵的安慰。出于这个原因，我想要知道为什么我仍然感到不安全。”为什么我不能从你那里听到更多的声音呢，主啊。为什么我的祷告不是按照我想要的方式得到的应答呢？为什么我仍然感到不认识你，没有安全感呢?尽管教会和每一个人都告诉我说，弟兄你已经得救了，弟兄你做的非常好，你知道你许多年前就已经得救了，你是我们的教会的领袖之一，上帝会接纳你的。
我可能需要结束这个视频去工作。不过我仍然想要给你们一个例子，当时我是怎样被欺骗的。但是我还是教会的牧师，我在寻求人的认可和人的赞美。如果我要讲道的话，我就会以一种我认为人们会接受我的方式来讲。所以我会插入一个玩笑，插入一些能调动人情绪的内容。我还记得一次周日讲完道后，教会的秘书走了过来，称赞我说：” Andy, 你举的这些例子真的很棒，你真是全心为上帝啊！“我假模假样的装作谦卑的样子接受了这些赞美说：”是的，我想我能感受到教会的心跳，作为你的牧师，我真的想做好。“我沉醉于人的赞美中。如果我们只是在人的赞美中找到安全感，我们只是在人前行的正，我们处在一个非常危险的位置，我在一个非常危险的位置，因为我相信上帝一定会接纳我，因为我的教会接纳了我。然而那时的我是在不同的场合就会有不同表现的人，我是一个假冒伪善的人，我仍然生活在罪中，我追逐着肉体的情欲，追逐着女人。但我生活中还有一面充满了不安和抑郁。但在教会里，我会感受到上帝真的给了我通往天国的钥匙，因为人们不断的称赞我。对自己的信仰感到非常安全和自满、认为一次得救，永远得救了是非常危险的。
但是我传递的这个信息并不是告诉你，你需要感到极度不安全，我想告诉你的是，你需要从耶稣基督那里得到启示。耶稣爱你，他是活着的。他希望你能够努力去建立你与他的关系。他绝不会强迫你顺服他或向他祷告或寻求听他的声音，他绝不会强迫你开始一个真正祷告的生活，他绝不会强迫你进到你的内屋跪下来祷告，他绝不会强迫你穿上上帝所赐的全副军装，或强迫你去悔改，他绝不会强迫你承认你的罪。所有这一切都需要你出于自愿的选择，是出于你心里对他的爱。
要知道耶稣早就为你开辟了认罪悔改与他和好的道路，但是你需要走上去，选择去爱他。我们都知道约翰福音三章16节里面记录了：“神爱世人，甚至将他的独生子赐给他们，叫一切信他的，不至灭亡，反得永生。 ”我们知道上帝是爱，他如此爱世人，他已经为我每个人开辟了悔改的道路。耶稣100%的为我们铺好了路，但我们仍然可以拒绝，我们仍然可以去相信魔鬼的福音，领受假的真理。如果我们想进入上帝的国，我们必须要完成我们应该做的部分。我们必须要认罪，悔改，在水中受洗，我们必须要领受圣灵，然后我们也必须行走在真理中，紧握耶稣的手，忍耐到底。
我希望这个信息能够鼓励你们真正的去接受圣灵，去寻求来自圣灵的更好的恩赐，而不是接受来自人的赞美或人给你的安全感变得自满，认为你没必要放弃旧的生活模式。有趣的是人间的婚姻和上帝儿子的婚姻，就是在天堂里的新娘和新郎的婚姻有很多相似之处，那就是我们结婚的时候都会在举行婚礼的时候说结婚誓言，我们都会为了自己的配偶抛弃所有其他的爱人。当你说出这些誓言时，你是正在告诉你的妻子，和你们的见证人牧师或是任何在你前面的人你会放弃所有其他的关系，你绝不会再和其他女人任意上床，也不会爱上其他的女人，为了你所爱的这一位，你的新配偶，你会选择抛弃所有其他的人，这个世界上的另外80亿人。
现在我们都会明白这些事，可是在这些宣告过结婚誓言，明白这些事的人中，大部分人却不愿意选择耶稣做他们唯一的老师。他们认为自己可以同时选择耶稣和受薪传道人，他们可以同时选择耶稣和他们的享乐，选择耶稣和娼妓教会，选择耶稣和他们那些不跟从上帝的朋友和家人，耶稣和那些假神，耶稣和玛门，我可以列举出数不尽的人们选择的这些完全不同的东西。不管你将什么放在第一位，置于上帝之前，这就是罪，这就是拜偶像。
当你真的与耶稣结婚之后，你就会被分别出来成为圣洁的器皿预备被他使用。你会选择为了耶稣而抛弃其他所有的爱人，你不再爱你的工作，你不再爱你的家庭，而是全心全意全情全力爱主你的上帝。所有的事情都排在了第二位，你甚至会撇下自己的生命，你必须撇下所有的一切，除非你愿意撇下所有的一切，接受耶稣基督这位新的主宰，作为你唯一的真爱，否则你不配扶着犁去犁平你的田。你总是回头去望其他的爱，总在想是不是还有其他的路可走，你就不会手扶着犁，坚定地跟着耶稣一起向前走。因为你总是向后看，所以你无法犁平你的地。
我想鼓励你们，朋友们，如果你要跟从耶稣，要计算好代价，选择撇下一切，不要自满，而是要领受从圣灵来的安全感，他会安慰你，让你知道你是他的儿女，要在祷告中寻找他，寻求从上帝来的启示，耶稣应许会向那些爱他的人显现，愿耶稣的恩典与你同在。
Well, praise Jesus today everyone. I had a few things on my heart that I wanted to share with you just briefly this morning. And one of them is about the difference between secure and insecure Christians. And what I mean by that is either feeling overly confident and secure in your own faith or just feeling that you are insecure that Jesus will reject you no matter what you do and no matter what you're, you're not good enough for god. Both sides of this spectrum are not good. You have people that are on the side of security that believe in once saved always saved. They never would doubt their salvation. They are very complacent Christians. They don't think they have to lift a finger or do anything for God. But if you ask them about their faith, they will tell you that they're very safe and secure. They know they're going to heaven. They would never doubt that they're saved. And there's a big danger in that. Because Satan also preaches the once saved always saved the easy grace, hyper grace.
And he tells people that just feel secure and he gets people to continue to sin to never really repent. But because they feel so secure in their faith, they never self-evaluate to see if they actually have to repent of anything.
But on the opposite end of the spectrum of this, are Christians who are very insecure. They do repent but because they are insecure, they let Satan accuse them for everything, you know, they're the sorts of Christians that will eat something and then they'll feel like I over ate, therefore God is going to send me to hell. They drive one mile over the speed limit, god's gonna send me to hell, because I drove a mile over the speed limit. Or I didn't stop completely at the stop sign, or in my dream last night I had a lustful thought, I gave it to the lord, but I'm going to hell, because I sinned.
So they're insecure about everything every aspect of their walk. They're always imagining God is going to throw down a lightning bolt from heaven and condemn them and send them to hell for something. They're always believing that they blaspheme the Holy Spirit, always thinking that they can't get back to God and they're insecure in all their ways. They, you know, and Satan because he's constantly ebbing away at them, they fall farther and farther away away from God.
So both sides of the spectrum, whether it's security or insecurity are really bad. And it's not about being somewhere right in the middle. But it's actually about knowing Jesus's voice and when we're right with him, we're not just secure or self-confident in ourselves. But we're secure in the hands of Jesus, knowing that He will take care of us. Now if i was going to err on one side or the other, i would be very leery of airing on this on the side of just thinking I'm secure and comfortable with Jesus, because the majority of people going to hell aren't Christians that know they're doing evil, but they're Christians, that are secure in their faith. So I would submit to you, and some of you will think that this is horrible that i think this but I want to submit to you that it would be better to be insecure thinking that you're going to hell, but constantly trying to work out your relationship with Jesus, constantly knowing that you have things, you have to better in your life, I'm constantly being concerned that you're not doing enough, constantly concerned that you're not working enough, because Jesus will see that you're working hard from Him for him, and even though Satan is accusing you, even though you're getting beaten down. You may have a chance to enter Jesus's kingdom, but that's if you're totally on the side of insecure. I'm not saying it's good to be insecure. But I'm saying if you fell on one side of these, which might be better.
If you fell on the side of insecurity, maybe you would be saying, "God, please help me. I know that I'm not just saved. I know that I'm a sinner. I know that I need repentance." You'd be like that guy in the parable that Jesus told about the pharisee and then the other the poor man or whatever, he was pleading with God saying, "Forgive me a sinner." You'd be more like Him and your insecurity knowing that you've messed up. But the pharisee or the Christian that is complacent and secure, they say, "I don't have to do anything." And they end up just feeling like they're entitled to go to heaven. They don't ever work out their salvation with fear and trembling like it says in the scripture. They don't feel the need to really pray or genuinely look at themselves. They don't feel that they have to ask for forgiveness.
Whenever they wrong someone, they constantly think they're right, they never self-evaluate their life. They're not honest with themselves or with God and that is a sin. That brings in pride, arrogance. And then when you die God will reject you. He will send you to hell.
So if there is a better side to err on, guys, it would be the side of feeling insecure about yourself and hoping that God is right with you and because that may lead you to having revelation from God and then having true security. I'm not saying you should just be insecure because Jesus wants to bless us with his spirit. And the the Holy Spirit is called the comforter and if you really receive the Holy Spirit, He will comfort you but the thing is most Christians are living a life of sin, calling on Jesus asking him for his blessing but they don't fill that comfort. The reason why they are feeling insecure is because the Holy Spirit, the comforter is not comforting them.
The Holy Spirit will not comfort you in your sin, guys, he will convict you and that can be easy to mix up with condemnation from Satan. Someone that is stuck up in religion and prideful may thinkthat's just working, working for their faith, they may say, "Well I don't want to let the devil accuse me that I'm going to hell now. I know I was saved many years ago. I'm not going to let the devil get under my skin." But maybe it's not the devil getting under your skin but the Holy Spirit convicting you to repent of pornography or evil thoughts, hatred, lustful thoughts, chasing after just money, or you know the pleasures of your own flesh, and you're attributing the the conviction of the Holy Spirit to Satan, saying that "The devil is trying to make me feel insecure" Well, a lot of Christians to their own demise. They start twisting the gospel and the conviction of the Holy Spirit they call Satan. But the things that are of are truly of Satan, pride, arrogance, security in their own arm of their flesh, their own money, they call that the blessing of God, so they totally get the true gospel of Jesus Christ in the false gospel of Satan twisted around so much that they're a hundred percent backwards to the truth. If you want to know the truth and and genuinely be secure, you need to receive the Holy Spirit, repent of your sins and receive the comfort of the Holy Spirit.
He is the comforter. He will comfort you. But He will never comfort you in your sins. That's why you know when I was in the world, i couldn't go and be smoking and be praying at the same time, and feel that God was going to bless me. I couldn't have lustful thoughts in my heart and at night sleep well thinking that I had done good for god. I just knew that something was wrong, even though I was trying to appease myself, saying that “i know I'm saved, I know I'm a pastor, I know I've prayed the prayer, i know I've been baptized, I know I tithe.” Even though I knew all those things and those things should have calmed me down and given me security, in the bottom of my heart I knew I was still not being comforted by the Holy Spirit. And for that reason I sought out why I was insecure. Why don't I hear more from you, lord, why are my prayers not answered the way I want them to be answered, why do i still want more of you and have this insecurity, if the church and everyone around me is telling me, “brother, you're saved. Brother, you're good. You know you were saved many years ago. You're one of our leaders. God would accept you.”
I remember one day and I'm gonna need to end this short to get to work here. But I want to give this one example of how deceived I was. I was still a pastor in church and I was seeking after the approval of people and the praise of men. And when I would preach a sermon, I would preach in such a way that I wanted people to accept me. So i would throw in a joke, I would put in things that were emotionally drawing. And I remember after one of my sermons on Sunday, the secretary of the church came up and she sung my praises and said, “Andy, man you really gave some good examples and you really man you really have a heart for god.” And in false humility, I just lapped up those praises and was saying, “yeah I just I really can just feel the heartbeat of the church, and I just really want to do a good job as your pastor.” Her and i was just eating that praise of men. And when we're just eating the praise of men and feeling secure, because we've done right before men we're in a very dangerous spot, I was in a dangerous spot. Because I believed that God would accept me, because my church accepted me.
Yet in a different setting, I was a different person, I was a hypocrite, I was living in sin, I was chasing the lusts of my own flesh, chasing women. And also in a different area I was very upset and depressed with my life, but in church when I would leave there, i would feel like God is really given me the keys to the kingdom, because the people there sing my praises. It's very dangerous to feel just secure and be complacent in your faith, thinking that you're once saved always saved. So if you get anything out of this message, I'm not telling you to just feel insecure in your faith, but I'm telling you you need to have a revelation from Jesus Christ.
Jesus loves you, He is alive, but He expects that you do the work to work out your relationship with Him. He will never force you to obey Him or to pray to him or to seek out his voice. He will not force you to have a real prayer life. He will not force you to go into your inner room and to get on your knees and pray. He will not force you to put on the full armor of God or to repent. He won't force you to confess your sins.
All of those things are things you have to out of your own will and choice do for Him out of the love of your heart. So you know Jesus has made the way for you to confess to repent and to be reconciled with him. But you have to step it up and choose to love Him back. You know all of us know john 3: 16 for God so loved the world that He gave his one and only begotten son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. We know that God is love and He loved this world so much, that He made the way for each and every one of us to repent. Jesus has already made the way for us a hundred percent, but we can still turn our back on that way. We can still buy the devil's gospel and receive a false truth, if we want to enter God's kingdom.
We have to do our part, we have to confess our sins, repent, be baptized in water, we have to receive the Holy Spirit and then we have to walk in truth, holding Jesus's hand to the very end. I hope this encourages someone to really receive the Holy Spirit, to seek after the better gift and not the praises of men or the security of men or just thinking that you can be complacent and you don't have to forsake your old life. You know it's interesting how many parallels there are between marriage and the marriage of god's children with, you know the bride with the groom in heaven and when we choose to get married and we have our wedding vows. And it's our wedding day, we choose to forsake all other lovers for the sake of our spouse. So when you say your ideas, you are telling your wife and the witness of that pastor or whoever's in front of you that you forsake all other relationships, you're not going to be sleeping around with other women or giving your love to other women, you're choosing to forsake all those other people, all other 8 billion people in the world for this one that you have chosen to love, which is your new spouse. Now that makes sense to us. But a lot of these same people that have had successful wedding valves, they are unwilling to choose Jesus as their one and only teacher. They think they can choose Jesus and the money preacher, Jesus and their own pleasure, Jesus and a harlot church, Jesus and friends and family that don't follow god, Jesus and false gods, Jesus and mammon. And I could keep on naming different things that people choose. But it's whatever your pet sin is whatever you are idolizing above god. But when you truly come into that marriage with Jesus and you're set apart as a holy vessel to do his work. You choose to reject and forsake all other loves for the love of Jesus Christ. You don't love your work more, you don't love your family more, you love the lord your god with all your heart soul mind and strength. And everything else comes second you have to forsake even your own life, you have to forsake everything and unless you're willing to forsake all and accept the one true love of your new master Jesus Christ. Then you're not worthy to push the plow straight.
You'll always be looking back at other lovers, always be wondering what other other ways will do for you, but you won't be I'm able to just plow and go forward steadily with Jesus. Because you're always looking back and plowing crooked. So I just want to encourage you guys to. If you're going to follow Jesus, count the cost, choose to forsake all and choose not to be complacent, but receive the security that comes from the Holy Spirit when He comforts you and lets you know that you are his child. Seek Him in prayer, seek a revelation from god. Jesus promises to manifest to those that love him. May the grace of Jesus be with you
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