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What is faith?  I have studied about it and thought I had an adequate understanding. I have experienced it and thought I have been granted a fairly assured footing.  And I have been even tested for it and felt I have not totally failed.

Last night, however, in my searchingly prayerful moments, I received a special gift that made me richer.

It was a gift of faith.

It’s a precious jewel.  It’s the kind of a jewel that is worth more than what I have ever saved in my own spiritual “piggy bank”.  But someone else has saved enough to purchase it, and gave it to me as a gift.[……]

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“竭力追求。。。努力面前的，向着标杆直跑。。。”  腓立比书 3:12-14。

“你们要安息，要知道我是 神。”  诗篇 46:10。

我们如何能够即竭力往前，又安息呢？有弟兄说的好，我们是“手忙心不忙“。

但同时，我们读 神的话，要小心不被字句所捆绑。神的话在灵意里，不在字句里。死抠字眼抠不[……]

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叫了这个标题，心里踌躇，因为 “大” 这个词，是一个含糊的词，甚至有点被俗气化（不是这个词本身的问题，而是风气的问题）。

然而我们认识基督后，发现我们一生都在发现基督之大，不仅是基督身位的尊大，也有基督里生命和知识的广大，既丰富又广阔。

认识基督之大，是我们信心的内涵。这地上唯有认识基督的人，才[……]

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我们与主的关系，是一种实际的亲情关系。

我们平常喊主啊，主啊，但并不总能感到或记得他是我们至亲的亲属。

他是我们的约瑟。他真的爱我们，不是因为我们好，而是因为我们是他的弟兄。

地上最好的亲情，也只是天上关系的某一部分的一个影子而已 （并不是本体，甚至不是全部整体的影子，只是某一侧面的影子）。[……]

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One of the most paradoxical and troubling experiences I have had in my Christian life is the existence of spiritual pride.

Pride as a human behavior is common, and is a very basic aspect of sinful human nature.  But spiritual pride is much harder to understand, and even harder to deal with.

It’s easy to categorically say that any spiritual revelation that leads to pride is not true spiritual revelation. The real life experience, however, tells you that it’s far more complicated than that.

Often, you see terrible and hurtful pride in some men and women who have such profound spiritual knowledge.  The spiritual knowledge demonstrated by such individuals are so profound and admirable, yet the person is so evidently and hurtfully prideful, condescending, and self-important, it challenges a normal definition of “pride”.
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I.  箴言与普通智慧的区别

(1) 箴言教我们如何生活，但箴言主要的目的并非为了帮助我们在地上的生存。如果箴言只是为了帮助我们属地的生存的话，亚伯（创世纪 4:8）的经历就足以证明智慧是软弱无力的。就人的经历来讲，亚伯是信心生活的开始，是智慧首次显现。但亚伯很快就被他哥哥该隐杀了。如果单从生[……]

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I. Proverbs is not common wisdom:

(1) Proverbs teaches us how to live, but this book is not primarily about practical social skills for survival in t[……]

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“Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His ow[……]

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数年前，为一个弟兄的低落光景忧伤也困惑。这是一个原来清楚得救并且有心爱主的弟兄。但他后来搬到一个新的地方，被那里的负责弟兄绊倒了。不是因着一个具体的事情或误解（要是那样也就好办），而是由于那个负责弟兄的整个人品为人。他是一个颇有名气的弟兄，写过相当有影响的属灵书籍，有很属灵的讲论。但在被绊倒的弟兄眼[……]

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聚会中，心被主的爱所夺。那首 “每当我细看那神奇十架 When I Survey the Wondrous Cross“ （通常译为“我每靜念那十字架”）最能说出这个爱的感动。 Isaac Watts 这首著名的诗歌，曾在英国的属灵复兴中成为信仰的一面旗帜。歌词直译（不考虑音律）：

“每当我细[……]

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