来自上帝的智慧（我们如何拥有上帝的智慧）——魏泰德牧师

你是否曾陷入不知该如何做决定的处境中？可能是关于工作、家庭、关系等等，而且你的生活正需要一个明确的方向。

你知道随时随地聪明地行事的秘诀吗？在这个视频中，魏泰德牧师会与你分享。

在《教会证言》卷五43页写到：“那些研究圣经，求问上帝，依赖基督的人，必能随时随地聪明行事。”

多么美好的应许啊，难道不是吗？但是得有条件才能实现。

第一，研究圣经。这可不是说“读圣经”而是要“研究”。我们能借着研究真理，找到上帝的知识，这是非常重要的，所以我们必须得去研究圣经。

上帝在箴言书2:1-6，“我儿，你若领受我的言语，存记我的命令，侧耳听智慧，专心求聪明，呼求明哲，扬声求聪明，寻找它，如寻找银子；搜求它，如搜求隐藏的珍宝，你就明白敬畏耶和华，得以认识 神。因为耶和华赐人智慧，知识和聪明都由他口而出。”

抽出时间来聆听上帝的话语。打开心门和思想接受它。从《箴言》开始着手是明智的，因为它是一个装满了实用的智慧宝石的宝库。此外，它的31个章节适合每月31天的每日阅读。

想要了解更多如何研究圣经的信息，泰德牧师鼓励你阅读基督复临安息日会的“研究圣经方法”的资料，网址是https://adventistbiblicalresearch.org….

第二，通过祷告的特权求问上帝。“求问”意味不仅是说，还要听。就像我们不能匆忙地研究圣经一样，也不能匆忙地祷告。

在《喜乐泉源》97页劝诫我们：“缺乏信心，陷于疑惑恐惧之中，或者试图解决自己所未能看清的问题……但我们在感到自己软弱无奈的时候，如果能怀着信靠的心来到上帝面前，向无所不知的主阐明我们的需要……主必乐意垂听我们的呼求，让真光照入我们的心。藉着诚恳的祈求，我们得以与无穷上帝的心联结在一起。”

藉着诚恳的祈求，我们得以与无穷上帝的心联结在一起。马可福音1:35“次日早晨，天未亮的时候，耶稣起来，到旷野地方去，在那里祷告。”

第三，依赖基督。这包括要承认我们自己什么也做不了。在以赛亚书53:6写到：“我们都如羊走迷，各人偏行己路……”但是赞美上帝，借着基督我们能“靠着爱我们的主，在这一切的事上已经得胜有余了。”使徒保罗写给罗马教友的书信中，在罗马书8:37写到：“因为我深信无论是死，是生，是天使，是掌权的，是有能的，是现在的事，是将来的事，是高处的，是低处的，是别的受造之物，都不能叫我们与神的爱隔绝；这爱是在我们的主基督耶稣里的。”

要达到绝对的信靠，我们必须停止依靠自己，将我们的意志降服给上帝说：“主啊，‘不要成就我的意思，只要成就你的意思。’”（路加福音22:42）

如此去做，上帝就会行奇事。“当我们凭着谦卑的信心，依靠基督为我们的满足、我们的力量和我们的所有一切时，上帝的能力就会临到我们的工作上。”（《福音通讯》 1901年3月1日）

再次，“那些研究圣经，求问上帝，依赖基督的人，必能随时随地聪明行事。” （《教会证言》卷五43页）

当你宣称这是你个人的承诺时，愿上帝鼓励你，坚固你。

Thank you again for connecting with us. You know, by God’s grace, I hope you are doing well. During this coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic, it has been a tough situation for everyone, but be encouraged, Jesus is coming soon!

You know, our General Conference Session, which has been delayed now for approximately a year, has as its theme: “Jesus is coming! Get Involved!” Total Member Involvement. I’m going to ask each of you to ask the Lord for revealing to you, ways in which you can be connected with other people, in Total Member Involvement, helping them to know about this marvelous aspect, this prophetic understanding that Jesus is coming soon.

Yes, this COVID pandemic has created an amazing situation where people are worried— is this the last crisis of the world? Are we in the last days? Yes, we are in the last days. This is not the final crisis, but it is leading up to the very end of time.

Last week we reviewed very briefly, Daniel 2, and we are in the tips of the toes of that statue of Daniel 2, but I want to tell you, Jesus is coming soon. This is a wake-up call—this pandemic—to all of us. Jesus is coming. The prophetic messages from God are clear to us. I’d like to just spend a few moments in Matthew 24. In fact, for the next two or three weekly visits with you, we’re going to be focusing on that particular chapter.

To begin with, I would like to look at the beginning part, verse three and on through verse 14.

It says that Jesus sat on the Mount of Olives and the disciples came to him: “Tell us, when will these things be, the end of time and all of this, and what will be the sign of Your coming and of the end of the age?”

And so, Jesus begins to develop things, saying that “Many will come in my name,” verse five,

“saying, ‘I am the Christ’ and will deceive many. . .” My brothers and sisters, don’t be deceived. Stay close to God’s Word. Take time in God’s Word to understand that the signs that are so specific will tell us, Jesus is coming, and He is the real one. Don’t be deceived by false christs and prophets.

And then it talks about “wars and rumors of wars” and “nations will rise against nation.”

Of course, we’ve had that for centuries, but it will increase as time comes to an end, where things become so intense. And there are going to be famines and pestilences—and this is a pestilence—this terrible pandemic. And earthquakes in various places. All kinds of natural disasters have been happening recently in increased fervor, and it’s just a challenge for all of us to understand this.

All these are the beginning of sorrows. And then they’re going to deliver us up to tribulation, “kill you, and you will be hated by all nations, for My name’s sake,” verse nine, “and then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. Many false prophets will rise up and because there is lawlessness, the love of many will grow cold,” in verse 12. “But he who endures to the end shall be saved.”

My brother, my sister, be faithful to God. Let the Lord guide you in a special way, because He will preserve you through His righteousness, and we will be saved through the precious mercy and grace and blood of Jesus Christ. And then the final verse that I want to share with you, verse 14, “And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.”

God is going to use you to spread this precious Three Angels’ Messages of Revelation 14, and the fourth angel of Revelation 18, to help people to understand the full message.

Let me just share with you a brief citation from The Great Controversy, a beautiful book. I hope you are reading it. My wife and I are reading it right now. Page 636: “It is at midnight that God manifests His power for the deliverance of His people. The sun appears shining in its strength. Signs and wonders follow in quick succession. The wicked look with terror and amazement upon the scene, while the righteous behold with solemn joy, the tokens of their deliverance. Everything in nature seems turned out of its course. The streams ceased to flow. Dark, heavy clouds come up and clash against each other. In the midst of the angry heavens is one clear space of indescribable glory, whence comes the voice of God, like the sound of many waters saying, ‘It is done.’”

Next week we’ll talk a little more about this magnificent Second Coming of Jesus Christ, and our opportunity to prepare ourselves and others for that great event, all through the righteousness of Jesus Christ.