今日真道圣言/2013年12月19日

威斯敏斯特大要理问答

问191: 在第二祈求中，我们所祷告的是甚么?

答: 在第二祈求「愿祢的国降临」中，我们承认: 我们自己与全人类的本性，都是臣服在罪与恶者统治之下。所以我们祷告:

(1) 罪和恶者的国度被摧毁，福音传遍全世界，犹太人蒙召得救，外邦人的数目添满了；

(2) 教会里有足够的福音圣职人员，与圣道事工，除去一切腐败得洁净，得到政府官员的鼓励与支持；

(3) 祈求基督的圣道事工得以纯净的执行，有效的使那些仍在罪中的人悔改归正，使那些已经悔改归正的人得到坚固、安慰、建立；

(4) 祈求基督此时此地在我们心中掌权治理，并且祈求祂快快再来，使我们与祂一同作王，直到永远

(5) 祈求祂乐意在全世界施行祂大能的国度，以最佳方式促成这些目的。

Q 191. What do we pray for in the second petition?

A In the second petition, (which is, Thy kingdom come,1 acknow-ledging ourselves and all mankind to be by nature under the dominion of sin and Satan,2 we pray, that the kingdom of sin and Satan may be destroyed,3 the gospel propagated throughout the world,4 the Jews called,5 the fullness of the Gentiles brought in;6 the church furnished with all gospel officers and ordinances,7 purged from corruption,8 countenanced and maintained by the civil magistrate:9 that the ordinances of Christ may be purely dispensed, and made effectual to the converting of those that are yet in their sins, and the confirming, comforting, and building up of those that are already converted:10 that Christ would rule in our hearts here,11 and hasten the time of his second coming, and our reigning with him forever:12 and that he would be pleased so to exercise the kingdom of his power in all the world, as may best conduce to these ends.13 1. Matt. 6:10; Luke 11:2. 2. Eph. 2:2–3. 3. Ps. 68:1, 18; Rev. 12:10–11. 4. Ps. 67:1–2; 2 Thess. 3:1. 5. Rom. 10:1. 6. John 17:9, 20; Rom. 11:25–26; Ps. 67. 7. Matt. 9:38; 2 Thess. 3:1. 8. Mal. 1:11; Zeph. 3:9. 9. 1 Tim. 2:1–2; Isa. 49:23. 10. Acts 4:29–30; Eph. 6:18–20; Rom. 15:29–30, 32; 2 Thess. 1:11; 2 Thess. 2:16–17. 11. Eph. 3:14–20; Col. 3:15. 12. Rev. 22:20; 2 Tim. 2:12; 2 Pet. 3:12. 13. Isa. 64:1–2; Rev. 4:8–11.

小要理问答

小要理问答102 在「主祷文」第二祈求，我们祷告什么？ 答：在第二祈求「愿祢的国降临」中，我们祷告：撒但国度被消灭；恩典的国度扩张，我们与他人被带入并蒙保守在其中；荣耀的国度快快来临