2月9日 撒但夸大圣徒的罪
撒但夸大圣徒的罪
撒但是个狡诈的侦探，牠密切窥测你与神之间的关系。
撒但的目的不是要对付“罪”，而是要败坏“圣徒”。牠在这一行的主打战术，就是将牠的控告包装成圣灵的工作。牠深知从神的公义大炮中发出的炮弹伤人最深，因此，当牠控告一个良心敏锐的基督徒时，牠会先为炮弹伪造神的名义。正如一个孩子知道自己严重得罪了父亲，此时有个恶徒为了折磨他，便伪造了一封充满严厉恐吓的信，并模仿父亲的签名；这个可怜的孩子正因罪疚感而痛苦，又不知是计，就会被忧伤彻底压垮。在这种情况下，真实的心痛竟然建立在虚假的前提之上——这正是撒但最乐见的。
撒但是个狡诈的侦探，牠密切窥测你与神之间的关系。 迟早，牠会抓住你在某项本分上的懈怠，或在某次服事中的缺失。牠知道你对自己的不足非常敏感，也知道圣灵会对这些亏欠表达担忧，于是牠就拟出一份冗长的起诉书，搜罗所有牠能想到的情节并加以夸大加重，然后将这份“传票”呈递给你，仿佛这是从神的法庭发出的。约伯的朋友就是这样对待约伯的：他们搜罗出约伯软弱的一切“证据”来攻击他，暗示他们是奉神差遣来宣告约伯是假冒为善的，并因此定他的罪。
然而，虽然撒但是审讯高手，我们也当知道，并非所有的责备都来自于撒但。神的话清楚地告诉我们：“因为主所爱的，祂必管教。”（来12:6）那么，我们要如何分辨撒但恶毒的控告与天父慈爱的管教呢？
你可以用这个标准来试验：如果这些责备与圣灵先前在你心里所作的工作（如得救的确据）相矛盾，那它们就是撒但的谎言，而非圣灵的提醒。 撒但死死揪住你的罪不放，其目的不是叫你成圣，而是要剥夺你圣徒的身分，说服你不过是个假冒为善的人。
麦琴（麦克谦）读经计划进度
家庭敬拜：创42章，可12章，
个人灵修：伯8章，罗12章
FEBRUARY 9, MONDAY
SATAN EXAGGERATES THE SAINT’S SINS
Satan is a clever investigator. He closely observes the relationship between you and God.
His aim is to discredit not the sins but the saints. Here his chief tactic is to deliver his accusations as if they are an act of the Holy Spirit. He knows a charge from God’s cannon wounds deeply; therefore, when he accuses a conscientious Christian, he forges God’s name on the missile before he fires it. Suppose a child were conscious of gravely displeasing his father, and some spiteful person, to harass him, wrote and sent him a counterfeit letter full of harsh and threatening accusations, copying the father’s name at the bottom. The poor child, already painfully aware of his sins and not knowing the scheme, would be overcome with grief. Here is real heartache stemming from a false premise—just the kind of thing Satan relishes.
Satan is a clever investigator. He closely observes the relationship between you and God. Sooner or later he will catch you tardy in some duty or faulty in a service. He knows you are conscious of your shortcomings and that the Spirit of God will also show distaste for them. So he draws up a lengthy indictment, raking up all the aggravations he can think of, then serves his warrant on you as though sent from God. This is how Job’s friends reacted to his trouble. They gathered up all the evidence of his infirmities to use against him, implying they had been sent by God to declare him a hypocrite and denounce him for it.
While Satan is a master inquisitor, we know that not all our rebukes come from him. God’s Word clearly states that “whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth” (Hebrews 12:6). How, then, can we discern the spiteful accusations of Satan from the loving reprimands of God and His Spirit?
Try this test: If such rebukes contradict any prior work of the Spirit in your soul, they are Satan’s and not the Spirit’s. Satan’s purpose in emphasizing your sin is to try to unsaint you and persuade you that you are only a hypocrite.