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你若不肯殷勤查考神全备的话语，就不要假装自己渴望被引向真理。
基督徒啊，你若能彻底断绝与属肉体之事的纠葛，在基督里得享自由，真理就必成为你坚定不移的朋友。
你也当忠信地研读神的话。撒但有一贯的伎俩：在牠开启人的耳朵听受败坏的道理之前，必先塞住人的耳朵，使之不听纯正的教义。牠会竭力将圣徒从神的话语旁拉开，诱使他拒绝某项真理。然而，一个人若拒绝了教义中的某项真理，便会失去全备真理所应许的福分。保罗早已预言了这种光景：“并且掩耳不听真道，偏向荒渺的言语”（提后4:4）。
你若不肯殷勤查考神全备的话语，就不要假装自己渴望被引向真理。你与那些口称想上学、却整天逃课的孩子无异。这样的孩子必受管教。你的天父既爱你，就必借着羞愧与忧伤将你领回祂的话语中，而不会任凭你被困在撒但的谎言里。
在你学习与成长的过程中，要警惕新奇的教训。不要匆忙接受你所听见的一切，哪怕是出于讲台。我承认，若仅因某个教训闻所未闻就直接排斥，是愚昧的；但在接纳之前，先持守审慎、查明虚实，这是我们的权利与本分。当你听到某种关于真理的新说法时，当在祷告中寻求神的指引，并查考圣经，亦要与你的牧者以及那些行事老练、大有智慧的基督徒交通研讨。
真理经得起反复的察验。它如同果实，无论怎样触摸也不会变质毁坏；但谬误却像鲜鱼，放上几日便会发臭。因此，面对新的观念，先让它“放一放”，再决定是否吞下。你断不可在能享用天上吗哪的时候，反倒拿腐烂的鱼类来毒害自己的灵魂！
麦琴（麦克谦）读经计划进度
家庭敬拜：利21章，诗26-27章，
个人灵修：传5章，提后1章
APRIL 17, FRIDAY
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Do not pretend you want to be led into truth if you will not bother to study the whole Word of God.
Christian, if you can once and for all break your engagement to the flesh and become a free man in Christ, truth will be your steadfast friend.
Study God’s Word faithfully as well. Satan has a habit of stopping the ears from hearing sound doctrine before he opens them to listen to corrupt. He will, as often as he can, pull a saint away from God’s Word and talk him into rejecting some point of truth. But he who rejects the truth of one doctrine, loses the blessing of them all. Paul predicted how this would happen: “They shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables’’ (2 Timothy 4:3–4).
Do not pretend you want to be led into truth if you will not bother to study the whole Word of God. You are no different from a child who says he wants to learn, yet plays the truant. Such a child must be disciplined. Because your heavenly Father loves you, He will bring you back to the Word with shame and sorrow, rather than leave you trapped in Satan’s lies.
As you study and grow, be wary of new doctrine. Do not hastily accept everything you hear, even from the pulpit. Now I admit that to reject a doctrine simply because we have never heard it before is foolish. But we have every right to wait and inquire before embracing it. When you hear a new notion about the truth, go to God in prayer and seek His counsel. Search the Scriptures. Discuss it with your pastor and with other Christians whose wisdom and maturity you trust.
The truth will stand up under scrutiny. It is a fruit that never bruises or spoils from handling. But error, like fish, begins to stink after a few days. Therefore, let new ideas sit before you make a meal of them. You do not want to poison your soul with rotting mackerel when you could be feasting on manna from heaven!