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They are all head, but no feet!
他们都是头脑，但没有脚！
(Thomas Watson, “The Good Practitioner”) LISTEN to Audio! Download Audio
(托马斯·沃森，”好行为者”) 听音频！ 下载音频
A sermon is never rightly heard, until it is practiced.
一篇讲道从未被正确听取，直到它被付诸实践。
“If you know these things, happy are you if you do them.” John 13:17
“你们既知道这些事，若是去行就有福了。” 约翰福音13:17
Christ does not put happiness upon knowing, but upon doing. It is not knowledge of the points of religion, but practice which renders a man truly happy and blessed.
基督不将幸福建立在知道上，而是建立在行动上。不是宗教要点的知识，而是实践使人真正幸福和蒙福。
Luke 6:46, “Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things I say?” It is not the mere knowledge and acceptance of the most glorious Gospel truths, which will bring a man to Heaven. If a man could fluently discourse on all Scriptural truths, if his head were a treasury of wisdom, an ocean of learning—yet this could not entitle him to happiness. His knowledge might make him admired by men, but not blessed by God. If a man knew and believed all the doctrines of Scripture, this would not crown him with happiness.
路加福音6:46，”你们为什么称呼我’主啊，主啊’，却不遵我的话行呢？”仅仅知道和接受最荣耀的福音真理，并不能使人进入天堂。如果一个人能流利地讲述所有圣经真理，如果他的头脑是智慧的宝库，学问的海洋——但这也不能使他获得幸福的资格。他的知识可能使他受到人的赞赏，但不会得到上帝的祝福。如果一个人知道并相信圣经的所有教义，这也不会使他获得幸福的冠冕。
Knowledge is a fair garland to look upon; but it is like Rachael. Though she was beautiful, yet being barren she said, “Give me children or I die!” Just so, if knowledge does not bring forth the child of obedience, it will die and come to nothing.
知识是一个漂亮的花环可以观赏；但它就像拉结。虽然她很美丽，但因为不育她说：”给我孩子，否则我就死了！”同样，如果知识不能生出顺服的孩子，它就会死亡并归于无有。
I would by no means disparage knowledge. Knowledge is the pilot to guide us in our obedience. Yet knowledge must usher in obedience. Knowledge may put us into the way of happiness, but it is only practice which brings us there!
我绝不会贬低知识。知识是引导我们顺服的领航员。然而，知识必须引导顺服。知识可能把我们带入幸福的道路，但只有实践才能使我们到达那里！
Knowledge alone, does not make a man better; therefore, it cannot make him happy and blessed. Bare knowledge has no influence—it does not leave a spiritual tincture of holiness behind. Knowledge informs, not transforms.
仅有知识，并不能使人变得更好；因此，它不能使人幸福和蒙福。单纯的知识没有影响力——它不会留下圣洁的属灵印记。知识只是告知，而不是改变。
Knowledge, of itself, has no power upon the heart to make it more holy. Bare knowledge is like weak medicine, which does not work. It does not warm the affections nor purge the conscience. It does not fetch virtue from Christ to dry up the bloody issue of sin.
知识本身对心灵没有力量使其更加圣洁。单纯的知识就像无效的药物，不起作用。它既不能温暖情感，也不能洁净良心。它不能从基督那里获取美德来止住罪的血流。
A man may receive the light of the truth, yet not love the truth, “They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.” 2 Thessalonians 2:10. The Apostle calls it “a form of knowledge,” Romans 2:20. Knowledge alone is but a dead form, having nothing to animate it. He who has knowledge alone, is a spiritual stillborn! He looks like a Christian, but has neither appetite nor motion.
一个人可能接受真理之光，却不爱真理，”他们灭亡是因为他们不爱真理，不能得救。”帖撒罗尼迦后书2:10。使徒称之为”知识的模样”，罗马书2:20。单有知识只是一个死的形式，没有任何能使之活跃的东西。只有知识的人，在属灵上是个死胎！他看起来像个基督徒，却既无渴慕也无行动。
Knowledge alone, makes men monsters in religion! They are all head, but no feet! They do not walk in Christ, Colossians 2:6. A man may have Scriptural knowledge, and still be profane! He may have a clear head, and a foul heart! The understanding may be illumined, when the foot treads in unholy paths. If knowledge is divorced from practice, and does not make a man better葉hen it cannot make a man eternally happy and blessed.
单有知识，使人在宗教上成为怪物！他们全是头脑，却没有脚！他们不在基督里行走，歌罗西书2:6。一个人可能有圣经知识，却仍然亵渎神！他可能头脑清晰，心却污秽！理解力可能被照亮，脚却踏在不圣洁的道路上。如果知识与实践分离，不能使人变得更好，那么它就不能使人永远幸福和蒙福。
If bare knowledge will save, then all who have knowledge shall be saved. But that is not true, for then Judas would be saved, for he had knowledge enough. Then the devil would be saved! A man may have right knowledge, and be no better than a devil! Hell is full of learned heads!
如果仅有知识就能得救，那么所有有知识的人都应该得救。但这并不是真的，因为那样的话，犹大就会得救，因为他有足够的知识。那么魔鬼也会得救！一个人可能有正确的知识，却并不比魔鬼好！地狱里满是有学问的头脑！
Knowledge alone, makes a man’s case worse! Knowledge takes away all excuse. Knowledge adds to a man’s torment. “Woe to you! I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you!” It will be better with heathen, than with professing Christians living in a contradiction to their knowledge. Luke 12:47, “The servant will be severely punished, for though he knew his duty, he refused to do it!”
单有知识，使人的处境更糟！知识剥夺了一切借口。知识加重了人的痛苦。”你们有祸了！我告诉你们，在审判的日子，所多玛所受的，比你们还容易受呢！”异教徒的处境会比那些生活与知识相矛盾的自称基督徒的人更好。路加福音12:47，”仆人知道主人的意思，却不预备，又不顺他的意思行，那仆人必多受责打。”
Knowledge without practice, serves only as a torch to light men to Hell! The brighter the light, the hotter the fire!
没有实践的知识，只能作为照亮人通往地狱的火把！光越亮，火越热！