五月廿九日
你……恨恶罪恶…（诗45:7）
“生气却不要犯罪。”若是一个人不疾恶，见了罪而不生气的话，他就不是一个善良人；凡爱真理的人必定恨恶一切虚假和伪善的事。你看我们的主耶稣是多么地痛恨试探呢！魔鬼三次用不同的方式来陷害他，但他每一次都严厉地拒绝了：“撒但，退我后边去吧！“他也极其根恶别人的罪，他因恨罪常流出怜悯的眼泪而少用责备的话语。他曾说：“你们这假冒为善的文士和法利赛人有祸了！因为你们侵吞寡妇的家产，假意作很长的祷告，所以要受更重的刑罚。”有什么话能比这责备更历害、更像以利亚的话呢？他因恨恶罪恶甚至他的心因之受伤流血，他死为的是使罪死，他埋葬为的是使罪和他一同埋葬在坟墓里，他复活为的是要把罪踏在他的脚下。基督在福音之中，因此福音与任何形式的罪恶是对立的。罪恶常以华丽的服装为掩护，并且募仿圣洁的话语，但耶稣的话必像鞭子把罪恶赶出圣殿一样，也必不容许它在教会中立足。因此，耶稣所治理的心中，基督和巴力常常争战！当救赎主来审判我们的时候，他的话必像雷霆一样：“你们这被咒诅的人离开我！”这不过是他一向对罪的态度和教训罢了！这时却显出他对罪的憎恶。他对罪人的爱心多么火热，对罪的恨恶也同一样的火热；他的义有多么完全彻底，灭绝各样的罪恶也必完全彻底。你这荣耀的正义的斗士，除恶德豪侠呀！为此神“就是你的神，用喜乐油膏你，胜过膏你的同伴”。
May 29
“Thou hatest wickedness.” — Psalm 45:7
“Be ye angry, and sin not.” There can hardly be goodness in a man if he be not angry at sin; he who loves truth must hate every false way. How our Lord Jesus hated it when the temptation came! Thrice it assailed Him in different forms, but ever He met it with, “Get thee behind me, Satan.” He hated it in others; none the less fervently because He showed His hate oftener in tears of pity than in words of rebuke; yet what language could be more stern, more Elijah-like, than the words, “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer.” He hated wickedness, so much that He bled to wound it to the heart; He died that it might die; He was buried that He might bury it in His tomb; and He rose that He might for ever trample it beneath His feet. Christ is in the Gospel, and that Gospel is opposed to wickedness in every shape. Wickedness arrays itself in fair garments, and imitates the language of holiness; but the precepts of Jesus, like His famous scourge of small cords, chase it out of the temple, and will not tolerate it in the Church. So, too, in the heart where Jesus reigns, what war there is between Christ and Belial! And when our Redeemer shall come to be our Judge, those thundering words, “Depart, ye cursed” which are, indeed, but a prolongation of His life-teaching concerning sin, shall manifest His abhorrence of iniquity. As warm as is His love to sinners, so hot is His hatred of sin; as perfect as is His righteousness, so complete shall be the destruction of every form of wickedness. O thou glorious champion of right, and destroyer of wrong, for this cause hath God, even Thy God, anointed thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows.
