3:7 「你要寫信給非拉鐵非教會的使者,說:『那聖潔、真實、拿著大衛的鑰匙、開了就沒有人能關、關了就沒有人能開的,說:
3:8 我知道你的行為,你略有一點力量,也曾遵守我的道,沒有棄絕我的名。看哪,我在你面前給你一個敞開的門,是無人能關的。
3:9 那撒但一會的,自稱是猶太人,其實不是猶太人,乃是說謊話的,我要使他們來,在你腳前下拜,也使他們知道我是已經愛你了。
3:10 你既遵守我忍耐的道,我必在普天下人受試煉的時候,保守你免去你的試煉。
3:11 我必快來,你要持守你所有的,免得人奪去你的冠冕。
3:12 得勝的,我要叫他在我上帝殿中作柱子,他也必不再從那裡出去。我又要將我上帝的名和我上帝城的名(這城就是從天上、從我上帝那裡降下來的新耶路撒冷),並我的新名,都寫在他上面。
3:13 聖靈向眾教會所說的話,凡有耳的,就應當聽!』」
“And to the angel of the church in
Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key
of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.
“‘I
know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is
able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my
word and have not denied my name.
Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they
are Jews and are not, but lie—behold, I will make them come and bow down before
your feet, and they will learn that I have loved you. Because you have kept my word about patient
endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole
world, to try those who dwell on the earth.
I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your
crown. The one who conquers, I will make
him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will
write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new
Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new
name. He who has an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit says to the churches.’
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非拉鐵非教會是主所愛的教會,看見主為她做了大事:「看哪,我在你面前給你一個敞開的門,是無人能關的。那撒但一會的,自稱是猶太人,其實不是猶太人,乃是說謊話的,我要使他們來,在你腳前下拜,也使他們知道我是已經愛你了。你既遵守我忍耐的道,我必在普天下人受試煉的時候,保守你免去你的試煉。我必快來,你要持守你所有的,免得人奪去你的冠冕。得勝的,我要叫他在我上帝殿中作柱子,他也必不再從那裡出去。我又要將我上帝的名和我上帝城的名(這城就是從天上、從我上帝那裡降下來的新耶路撒冷),並我的新名,都寫在他上面。」
然而他們之所以如此得主喜愛,是因為「遵守我的道,沒有棄絕我的名」、「遵守我忍耐的道」。這也就是說,非拉鐵非教會是「聖徒恆忍」的見證。當然「聖徒恆忍」之能力來自「上帝恆保守」!
求主幫我們不忘記:「上帝恆保守」。正如保羅說:「為這緣故,我也受這些苦難。然而我不以為恥;因為知道我所信的是誰,也深信他能保全我所交付他的(或譯:他所交託我的),直到那日。」(提後1:12)
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