路加福音13:22-30

 

13:22 耶穌往耶路撒冷去，在所經過的各城各鄉教訓人。
13:23 有一個人問他說：「主啊，得救的人少嗎？」
13:24 耶穌對眾人說：「你們要努力進窄門。我告訴你們，將來有許多人想要進去，卻是不能。
13:25 及至家主起來關了門，你們站在外面叩門，說：『主啊，給我們開門！』他就回答說：『我不認識你們，不曉得你們是哪裡來的！』
13:26 那時，你們要說：『我們在你面前吃過喝過，你也在我們的街上教訓過人。』
13:27 他要說：『我告訴你們，我不曉得你們是哪裡來的。你們這一切作惡的人，離開我去吧！』
13:28 你們要看見亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各，和眾先知都在上帝的國裡，你們卻被趕到外面，在那裡必要哀哭切齒了。
13:29 從東、從西、從南、從北將有人來，在上帝的國裡坐席。
13:30 只是有在後的，將要在前；有在前的，將要在後。」

 

²² Then Jesus went through the towns and villages, teaching as he made his way to Jerusalem. ²³ Someone asked him, “Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?”

He said to them, ²⁴ “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. ²⁵ Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, ‘Sir, open the door for us.’

“But he will answer, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’

²⁶ “Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’

²⁷ “But he will reply, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!’

²⁸ “There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out. ²⁹ People will come from east and west and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God. ³⁰ Indeed there are those who are last who will be first, and first who will be last.”

 

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    主耶穌在這裡提醒我們：「你們要努力進窄門。我告訴你們，將來有許多人想要進去，卻是不能。」

 

    因此，心中被聖靈光照，知道唯有靠耶穌基督才能得上帝的拯救，就要快快歸向上帝，加入教會不要再遲疑，時間是不等人的，要把握時間來悔改信主，進入窄門！

 

    這樣的積極不是「自私」，是聖靈工作的結果，我們要為此感謝上帝！