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Our God!
我们的神！
(Charles Spurgeon)
（查尔斯·斯宾格）
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Romans 9:13-16, “Just as it is written: ‘Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated!’
罗马书 9:13-16：“正如经上所记：‘雅各我爱，但以扫我恨！’
What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all!
那么我们该说什么呢？上帝是不公正的吗？绝对不是！
For He says to Moses, ‘I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
因为他对摩西说：‘我怜悯谁，就怜悯谁，
and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion!’
我恩待谁，就恩待谁！’
It does not, therefore, depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.”
因此，这并不取决于人的想望或努力，而是取决于上帝的怜悯。”
God may, if He wills, save the entire human race.
如果上帝愿意，他可以拯救整个人类。
Or if it pleases Him, He may save none.
或者如果他愿意，他可以一个人都不救。
If He so wills, He may make one man a monument of mercy,
如果他如此愿望，他可以使一个人成为恩典的丰碑，
and leave his neighbor to reap his due punishment.
而把他的邻居留给应得的惩罚。
This is what God has a right to do, and He claims His sovereign prerogative.
这就是上帝有权这样做的理由，并且他主张他的主权特权。
No doctrine in the whole Word of God has more excited the hatred of mankind
在整个上帝的圣言中，没有任何教义比上帝绝对主权的真理更激起人类的仇恨！
than the truth of the absolute sovereignty of God!
对上帝绝对主权的真理本身，
Men have no objection to a god who is really no God.
人们对一个根本不算神的神没有异议。
I mean, by this:
我的意思是：
a god who shall be the subject of their caprice,
一个将成为他们任性玩物的神，
a god who shall be a lackey to their will,
一个将服从他们意志的神，
a god who shall be under their control-
一个将处于他们控制之下的神-
they have no objection to such a being as that.
他们对此类存在没有任何异议。
But a God who speaks, and it is done;
但是，一个说话就能成事的神；
a God who commands, and it stands fast;
一个发号施令且坚定不移的神；
a God who does as He wills among the armies of Heaven
一个在天上的军队和这片下层世界随心所欲行事的神-
and among the inhabitants of this lower world-such a God as this they cannot endure!
和在这片下层世界的居民中，像这样的神是他们所无法忍受的！
Psalm 115:3, “But our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases!”
诗篇 115:3：“但我们的神在天上；他所愿意的都做成！”
Psalm 135:5-6, “For I know that the Lord is great; our Lord is above all gods.
诗篇 135:5-6：“因为我知道耶和华是伟大的；我们的主在所有神之上。
Whatever the Lord pleases, He does-in heaven and on earth,
耶和华所愿意的，必定行成——在天上，在地上，
in the seas and all their depths!”
在海中和深渊里！”