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Consider carefully how you listen!
仔细考虑你如何聆听！
(J.C. Ryle)
（J.C. 赖尔）
“Consider carefully how you listen!” Luke 8:18
“你们要仔细听！”路加福音8:18
We learn from this verse, the great importance of right hearing. The words of our Lord Jesus Christ ought to impress that lesson deeply on our hearts. He says, “Consider carefully how you listen!”
我们从这节经文中学到了正确聆听的重要性。我们主耶稣基督的话语应当深深地将这一教训印在我们心中。祂说：”你们要仔细听！”
The degree of benefit which men receive from all the means of grace – depends entirely on the way in which they use them.
人们从所有恩典途径中获得的益处程度，完全取决于他们使用这些途径的方式。
Private PRAYER lies at the very foundation of religion – yet the mere formal repetition of a set of words, when “the heart is far away” – does good to no man’s soul.
私下祷告是宗教的根本基础，然而，当”心灵远离”时，仅仅形式化地重复一组词语，对任何人的灵魂都无益处。
Reading the BIBLE is essential to the attainment of sound Christian knowledge – yet the mere formal reading of so many chapters as a task and duty, with out a humble desire to be taught of God, is little better than a waste of time.
阅读圣经对获得正确的基督教知识至关重要，然而，仅仅将阅读许多章节作为一项任务和义务来完成，而没有谦卑地渴望受教于上帝，这几乎与浪费时间无异。
Just as it is with praying and Bible reading – so it is with LISTENING. It is not enough that we go to Church and hear sermons. We may do so for fifty years, and be nothing bettered, but rather worse! “Consider carefully,” says our Lord, “how you listen!”
正如祷告和读经一样，聆听也是如此。仅仅去教会听讲道是不够的。我们可能这样做五十年，却毫无进步，反而更糟！我们的主说：”你们要仔细听！”
Would anyone know how to listen aright? Then let him lay to heart three simple rules:
有谁想知道如何正确地聆听吗？那么让他牢记三个简单的规则：
For one thing, we must listen with FAITH, believing implicitly that every Word of God is true, and shall stand. The Word in old time did not profit the Jews, “not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.” Hebrews 4:2
首先，我们必须以信心聆听，隐含地相信上帝的每一句话都是真实的，并且将永远长存。昔日的话语对犹太人没有益处，”因为他们没有信心与所听见的道调和。”希伯来书4:2
For another thing, we must listen with REVERENCE – remembering constantly that the Bible is the book of God. This was the habit of the Thessalonians. They received Paul’s message, “not as the word of men – but the Word of God.” 1 Thessalonians 2:13
其次，我们必须怀着敬畏之心聆听，时刻记住圣经是上帝的书。这是帖撒罗尼迦人的习惯。他们接受保罗的信息，”不以为是人的道，乃以为是神的道。”帖撒罗尼迦前书2:13
Above all, we must listen with PRAYER – praying for God’s blessing before the sermon is preached, and praying for God’s blessing again when the sermon is over. Here lies the grand defect of the hearing of many. They ask no blessing – and so they receive none. The sermon passes through their minds like water through a leaky vessel, and leaves nothing behind.
最重要的是，我们必须带着祷告聆听——在讲道前祈求上帝的祝福，讲道结束后再次祈求上帝的祝福。这正是许多人在聆听时的重大缺陷。他们不求祝福，因此也得不到祝福。讲道从他们的头脑中流过，如同水从漏壶中流过，什么也没留下。
Let us bear these rules in mind every Sunday morning, before we go to hear the Word of God preached. Let us not rush into God’s presence careless, reckless, and unprepared – as if it did not matter how we listened. Let us carry with us faith, reverence, and prayer. If these three are our companions – then we shall listen with profit, and return with praise!
让我们每个星期天早晨在去听讲道之前都牢记这些规则。让我们不要漫不经心、鲁莽、毫无准备地冲到上帝面前——仿佛我们如何聆听并不重要。让我们带着信心、敬畏和祷告。如果这三者成为我们的伴侣，那么我们就能获益地聆听，并带着赞美回返！