信心的工夫/The Work Produced By Faith
當我們真心相信主耶穌基督的時候，
我們就有行為會表現出來，
這信心不是依靠自己，乃是倚靠主而成的。
因為我們明白神就是愛，
不是我們先愛，乃是神先愛了我們，
所以我們為了神對我們的愛去愛，
這愛是自動自發，心甘情願地付出。
即使有勞苦，因為相信主必再來的盼望，
所以這盼望的確據堅定了我們的信心與愛心，
此生為主而活，憑信心與愛心為主服事，
僅以哥林多前書十五章五十八節互勉之：
「所以，我親愛的弟兄們，
你們務要堅固，不可搖動，常常竭力多做主工；
因為知道，你們的勞苦在主裏面不是徒然的。」
「在神－我們的父面前，不住地記念你們因信心所做的工夫，
因愛心所受的勞苦，
因盼望我們主耶穌基督所存的忍耐。」
帖撒羅尼迦前書 1:3 CUNP-神
「因聽見你們在基督耶穌裏的信心，並向眾聖徒的愛心，
是為那給你們存在天上的盼望；
這盼望就是你們從前在福音真理的道上所聽見的。」
歌羅西書 1:4-5 CUNP-神
「只是你們要行道，不要單單聽道，自己欺哄自己。
惟有詳細察看那全備、 使人 自由之律法的，並且時常如此，
這人既不是聽了就忘，乃是實在行出來，
就在他所行的事上必然得福。」
雅各書 1:22, 25 CUNP-神
「這樣，信心若沒有行為就是死的。」
雅各書 2:17 CUNP-神
「如今常存的有信，有望，有愛這三樣，其中最大的是愛。」
哥林多前書 13:13 CUNP-神
When we truly believe in the Lord Jesus Christ,
we will have work produced by faith in our life.
This faith is not depending on ourselves,
but it is relying on the Lord.
Because, we understand that God is love.
It’s not that we love first, but that God loved us first.
So we love due to God’s love for us.
This love is voluntarily and we must be willing to give it.
Even if there is labor, we believe that
the Lord will come again,
and this assurance of hope strengthens our faith and love.
Live for the Lord in this life on earth.
And, serve the Lord with faith and love.
Let’s encourage each other
with this verse of 1 Corinthians 15:58:
“Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm.
Let nothing move you.
Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord,
because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.”
“We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith,
your labor prompted by love,
and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.”
1 Thessalonians 1:3 NIV
“because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus
and of the love you have for all God’s people—
the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven
and about which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel.”
Colossians 1:4-5 NIV
“But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says.
Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves.
But if you look carefully into the perfect law that sets you free,
and if you do what it says and don’t forget what you heard,
then God will bless you for doing it.”
James 1:22, 25 NLT
“In the same way, faith by itself,
if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.”
James 2:17 NIV
“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.
But the greatest of these is love.”
1 Corinthians 13:13 NIV
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