The Alphabet The Introduction (Chinese/English)

The Alphabet

字母表

2 Timothy 3

提摩太后书3

16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

16 圣经都是神所默示的，于教训、督责、使人归正、教导人学义，都是有益的。

17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

17 叫属神的人得以完全，得以完全，预备行各样的善事。

2 Peter 1

彼得后书 1

21 But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation,

因为预言从来没有出于人意的，乃是人被圣灵感动，说出　神的话来。 (彼得后书 1:21 和合本)

The word of God is so precious, it is not just another book, it is the very breath of God, breathed through human authors.

上帝的话语是如此珍贵，它不仅仅是一本书，它是上帝通过人类作者呼吸出的气息。

Some of these human authors were highly educated, some were not, some were kings and some came from the lowest rungs of society and yet God breathed his word through them, as verse 21 says, they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

这些人类作者有些受过高等教育，有些没有，有些是国王，有些来自社会的最底层，但上帝通过他们说出了他祂的话，正如第21节所说，他们被圣灵感动。

We are going to start on a series of twenty-six devotions, using every letter of our English alphabet, to focus on various aspects of the Christian life.

我们将开始一系列的26次灵修，使用英语字母表中的每一个字母，聚焦在基督徒生活的各个方面。

One of my heroes, is a man called William Tyndale, he was the man, who translated the bible from the Greek and Hebrew to English and he lived in the 1400’s. He was able to speak seven languages, and he had degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge, if you read the KJV as I do, much of what you read was translated by Tyndale. We owe this man a great debt.

我心目中的英雄之一是生活在15世纪的威廉·廷代尔。他把《圣经》从希腊文和希伯来文翻译成英文并且会说7种语言，拥有牛津和剑桥的学位，如果你像我一样阅读《圣经》，那么所读到的大部分都是廷代尔翻译的。我们欠这个人很多。

Every word of the bible has deep meaning, every verse, every sentence, speaks of or points to Christ.

圣经中的每一个字都有深刻的含义，每一节，每一句，都提到或指向基督。

It is the only book that can make you wise unto salvation, others book are self help, but this book is God help, it tells how God and Him alone can save a person from the power, penalty and finally the presence of sin.

这是唯一能使你明智地得救的书，其他的书是自救的，但这本书是上帝的帮助，它告诉我们只有上帝才能把一个人从权力、惩罚和罪恶中拯救出来。

It is like having our own gold mine, full of gold nuggets, which person who has such a mine, doesn’t spend all their time, mining and digging each precious nugget out of that mine and know this, that mine is inexhaustible.

这就像我们有自己的金矿，到处都是金块，哪个拥有这样一座金矿的人，不花费他们所有的时间，从那座金矿中挖掘出每一块珍贵的金块，并且知道这一点，那座金矿是取之不尽的。

What person leaves that mine and doesn’t go into it or only takes a few minutes to go in, scratching the surface and comes out again, with nothing?

什么人离开矿井后不进去，或者只花几分钟进去，摸了摸表面又出来，什么都没有？

What person doesn’t go in at all, but wastes his/her time on trifles and worldly things, instead of drinking deeply of the pure water of God’s word?

什么人根本不进去，却把他/她的时间浪费在琐事和世俗的事情上，而不是深深地喝下神的话语的纯净之水？

At home, we have two full bottles of clean and pure drinking water, what would you think if I started to drink water from the toilet, you would think I was mad and you would be right, so why Christian, do you drink in the filth of the world, instead of the pure sincere milk of the word. Jeremiah 2 and 1 Peter 2.

在家里，我们有满满两瓶干净纯净的饮用水，如果我开始喝厕所里的水，你会怎么想，你会认为我疯了，你会是对的，所以为什么基督徒，你喝的是世界的污秽，而不是世界的纯净真诚的牛奶。耶利米书2和彼得前书2。

Drink deeply, dig deeply, delve deeper than ever before believer.

深深地喝，深深地挖掘，比以往任何时候都更深入地钻研。

Ezra and Josiah said Bring the book, will you today:

Bring The Book

以斯拉和约西亚说，你今日将书拿来，将书拿来。

God Bless You

神祝福你