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这段讲道探讨了基督徒生活中个人努力与上帝作为之间的平衡问题。牧师指出，一些基督教传统过分强调个人努力或上帝的作为，而忽略了圣经中强调两者之间平衡的教导。他以罗马士兵的装备为例证，说明基督徒拥有上帝所赐的属灵装备，但需要主动穿上并使用这些装备，才能胜过属灵争战。这需要个人努力，同时也要依靠上帝的恩典和能力。 牧师进一步解释了“福音的平安”所带来的预备（etoimesia），这是一种灵性的品质，包括确信、坚韧和喜乐。这种预备并非来自个人的努力，而是来自对福音的理解和应用。他强调，真正的平安不是来自主观的平静，而是来自与上帝的和好。只有当人们意识到自己与上帝为敌，并接受耶稣基督的救赎，才能获得与上帝的和好，从而体验到真正的平安和属灵的预备。 讲道中还探讨了人们对上帝的愤怒和敌对情绪，以及这种情绪如何扭曲人们的生活。牧师指出，人们对上帝的不感恩、不信任和内疚感，都反映了他们内心深处对上帝的愤怒。这种愤怒阻碍了理性思考，使人们无法真正领悟福音的真谛。他鼓励听众认识到自己内心的愤怒，并寻求上帝的帮助，从而获得与上帝的和好，并体验到真正的平安和属灵的预备。 最后，牧师强调，真正的基督徒不是仅仅试图取悦上帝，而是知道自己不配得任何恩典，却因着基督的救赎而充满信心和喜乐。他们拥有与上帝的和好，并因此拥有在生活中面对挑战的坚韧和预备。

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Dr. Timothy Keller discusses the significance of the shoes in a Roman soldier's armor, representing the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace, and the balance between personal exertion and God's working in the Christian life.

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Some of you may be surprised that when Paul thinks about armor, he lists the shoes. 

Paul goes through the pieces of equipment that a Roman soldier would wear. It’s an illustration on how to live the Christian life, and it gets at a balance that is critical to understand: the balance of how much of the Christian life is your exertion and how much is God’s working in you.

To understand this particular piece of armor, we have to ask ourselves a couple of questions about the footwear of a Roman soldier: 1) what role did shoes have? 2) what do the shoes represent? and 3) what’s the gospel of peace?

This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on February 23, 1992. Series: Spiritual Warfare – The Armor of God. Scripture: Ephesians 6:10-20.

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