8月6日 许多人讥诮公义
许多人讥诮公义
只要稍微提及圣洁，就会在这种人心中激起强烈的敌意，以至于他要把自己灵里的苦胆与毒根全都向圣洁呕吐出来。
有些人不但自己离圣洁相去甚远，甚至还肆意嘲讽那些追求圣洁的人。他们认定公义的护心镜愚不可及，因此每当看见一位在日常生活中穿戴它的圣徒时，便讥笑指点说：“看哪！走过来一位圣洁的弟兄，一个自命清高的人！”然而，他们嘲弄的话语不仅是在轻蔑圣徒的圣洁，更是暴露了他们自己刚硬内心的极度邪恶。
与仅仅在自己心里怀藏不洁相比，嘲笑他人的圣洁显明了更深一层的不敬虔。一个人若不仅自己拒绝有分于神的性情，甚至还无法容忍别人选择效法基督的圣洁，他的邪恶是何等无可救药！只要稍微提及圣洁，就会在这种人心中激起强烈的敌意，以至于他要把自己灵里的苦胆与毒根全都向圣洁呕吐出来。
神的灵为这类罪人保留了专座，使他高高坐在其他作恶之人的上首。“不从恶人的计谋，不站罪人的道路，不坐亵慢人的座位。”（诗1:1）在此，亵慢人仿佛被安排在罪人的议事桌前，坐上了主席之位。
有些人将“亵慢人”译为“巧言讥诮者”，因为某些嘲笑圣徒的人确实带有一种属魔鬼的狡黠。这些亵慢人以打磨自己射向圣徒的毒箭为乐，并以此夸耀。《七十士译本》将这个词组译为“瘟疫之人的座位”。瘟疫是各种疾病中最致命的，照样，讥诮的灵也是诸般罪恶中最致命的一种。极少有人能从这种罪中恢复过来，因为圣经在论及这类罪人时，几乎将他们与死人相提并论。神警告我们，不要徒然浪费那带来医治的责备膏油：“不要责备亵慢人，恐怕他恨你。”（箴9:8）对于这样的人，我们所能做的，唯有在他的门上写下“主啊，求祢怜悯”，即在暗中为他祷告，却绝不要试图与他争辩。
麦琴（麦克谦）读经计划进度
家庭敬拜：士20章，徒24章，
个人灵修：耶34章，路3章
AUGUST 6, THURSDAY
MANY MOCK RIGHTEOUSNESS
The very hint of holiness works up such a strong opposition inside the person that is causes him to vomit out the gall and bitterness of his spirit.
Some men are so far from being holy themselves that they ridicule those who are. These think the breastplate of righteousness is so foolish that they laughingly point to the saint who wears it in his daily behavior: “Look! There goes a holy brother, one of the pure ones!” But their mocking language does more than scorn the saint’s holiness—it betrays the wickedness of their own hard hearts.
A further degree of ungodliness appears in mocking the holiness of another person rather than only harboring unholiness in oneself. How desperately wicked is that man who not only refuses to partake in the divine nature himself but cannot bear the sight of others choosing to follow the holiness of Christ. The very hint of holiness works up such a strong opposition inside the person that is causes him to vomit out the gall and bitterness of his spirit against it.
God’s Spirit reserves the chair for this kind of sinner and seats him above all his brethren in iniquity. “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful” (Psalm 1:1). In this case the scorner is set as chairman at the counseltable of sinners.
Some read the word scornful as “rhetorical mockers,” for there is indeed a devilish cleverness in some of these jeerers. Such scorners take pride in polishing the darts they shoot against saints. The Septuagint translates the phrase as “the chair of the pestilent ones.” As the plague is the most deadly of diseases, so is the spirit of scorning among sins. Very few recover from this sin, for the Bible speaks of sinners almost synonymously with the dead. God warns us not to waste our healing balm of reproof—“reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee” (Proverbs 9:8). All we can do is write “Lord, have mercy” on his door—pray for him, but do not try to reason with him.