Transcript Do We Need God? 我们需要神吗？ • Does it really matter if God is real or not? Many people feel no need of God. 神存在与否真的重要吗？很多人觉得不需要神。

Do We Need God?
我们需要神吗？
• Does it really matter if God is real or not? Many
people feel no need of God.
神存在与否真的重要吗？很多人觉得不需要神。
Do We Need God?
我们需要神吗？
• Yet we are obviously lacking something vitally
important--as a world, as nations, and as individuals.
但是，无论是世界，国家，还是个人，都很清楚地
缺失了什么东西，而且这个东西是至关重要的。
Do We Need God?
我们需要神吗？
• The Bible says God designed us to live in harmony
with himself. The reason our world and lives are
so messed up is that we are disconnected from him.
圣经上说神创造了我们与他和谐相处。我们的
世界和生活一团糟的原因是：我们与神隔绝了。
Do We Need God?
我们需要神吗？
• Why think this is true?
为什么这样说呢？
• Why think what we are lacking is God?
为什么说我们缺失的是神呢？
I. Without God, Some Deep Human Desires Cannot
Be Met
如果没有神，许多人内心最深处的渴望没有办法被满足
A) Examples of some deep desires that cannot be fulfilled
apart from God:
以下列举了几个只有神才能满足的人内心的渴望：
1) A desire for purpose for life / a lasting significance
渴望生命有目的/有永恒的意义
Designed = Purpose
被创造=有目的
Accident = No Purpose
偶然=没有目的
My story 我的个人故事
I. Without God, Some Deep Human Desires Cannot
Be Met
如果没有神，许多人内心最深处的渴望没有办法被满足
2) A desire for love and justice to win out ultimately
渴望爱与公正能最终获胜
I. Without God, Some Deep Human Desires Cannot
Be Met
如果没有神，许多人内心最深处的渴望没有办法被满足
3) A desire for eternal life and heaven
渴望永生与天堂
I. Without God, Some Deep Human Desires Cannot
Be Met
如果没有神，许多人内心最深处的渴望没有办法被满足
B) Freud explained belief in God as a longing to have an ideal
father who can fulfil these types of desires.
弗洛伊德认为对神的信仰等同于人渴望有个完美的父
亲来填补人心的需求。
Even though he thinks belief in God is
mistaken, he recognizes that this is a
persistent, universal longing of people
that cannot be fulfilled in this world.
尽管弗洛伊德认为相信神是一个错误，
但是他认识到人心有一种普世的，持续
的渴望，并且是这个世界不能填补的。
I. Without God, Some Deep Human Desires Cannot
Be Met
如果没有神，许多人内心最深处的渴望没有办法被满足
C) Having unfulfilled desires is not unusual.
有渴望无法被满足是件常事。
What is unusual are universal desires for things that
don’t exist!
但如果人渴望一些不存在的东西就不是常事了！
- thirst without water existing? 如果水不存在人们会渴？
- hunger without food existing? 如果食物不存在人们会饿？
- wanting purpose when none exists? 如果人生是没有目的
的人们会想要人生有意义？
I. Without God, Some Deep Human Desires Cannot
Be Met
如果没有神，许多人内心最深处的渴望没有办法被满足
We can deny and ignore these unfulfilled desires, but
can they be whispering to us that deep down, we
need God?
我们可以否认和忽视这些无法被满足的渴望，但
是这些埋藏在内心深处的渴望总会时不时地提
醒我们：我们需要神。
II. Without God, There‘s No Universal
Morality that Brings Peace
如果没有神，就没有统一的道德标准来维护和平
A) If God is not real, there‘s no standard of morality that
applies to all nations and people. Morality is just a
convention people adopt according to their own ideas
and/or culture.
如果神不存在，就没有适用于任何国家任何民族
的统一道德标准。道德就成了人们根据自己的意
见和文化所约定的习俗。
II. Without God, There‘s No Universal
Morality that Brings Peace
如果没有神，就没有统一的道德标准来维护和平
B) In this “pragmatic” view of morality, if people make the
rules, they can change the rules too as they see fit.
如果以“实用主义”的观点来看道德，如果道德是人为规
定的话，人们也可以随意改变道德标准。
When people accept this view, what results individually?
Nationally?
当人们接受这个观点后，对个人还有国家会造成什么影响？
III. Without God‘s Empowering, We Often Don’t
Live As We Know We Should 如果没有神赐予力
量，我们常常知道该如何行，但行出来就由不得自己
A) Even when people accept a universal moral standard, they
often don‘t live up to it consistently and experience peace
with others and themselves.
即使所有人类接受统一的道德标准，但是没有办法始终
如一地遵守这个标准，与他人与自己的冲突在所难免。
“You then who teach others,
do you not teach yourself?
While you preach against
stealing, do you steal?”
Romans 2:21
“你既是教导别人，还不教导自
己吗？你讲说人不可偷窃，自
己还偷窃吗？”罗马书 2：21
III. Without God‘s Empowering, We Often Don’t
Live As We Know We Should 如果没有神赐予力
量，我们常常知道该如何行，但行出来就由不得自己
B) The Bible says that God made us to know innately there is
real right and wrong.
圣经上说神创造我们让我们天生就知道有善恶。
Speaking about people who don’t know God’s laws from the Bible,
the Apostle Paul says: “They show that the work of the law is
written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness,
and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them . . .”
Romans 2:15
圣经记载使徒保罗对那些没有读过圣经，没有读过神的律法的人说：
“这是显出律法的功用刻在他们心里，他们是非之心同作见证，并且
他们的思念互相较量，或以为是，或以为非。”罗马书 2：15
III. Without God‘s Empowering, We Often Don’t
Live As We Know We Should 如果没有神赐予力
量，我们常常知道该如何行，但行出来就由不得自己
C) The Bible also says we really cannot live up to what we know
is right and wrong when we are out of harmony with God.
圣经上说如果我们和神不和解，就没有办法行出我们知道
应当行的。
Paul says even he cannot do as he knows he should when he is
not letting God‘s spirit work within him: “For I have the desire to do
what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the
good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.”
Romans 7:18
使徒保罗说，如果他不顺从神的灵在他里面做工，他也没有办法行出
他知道当行的事 ：“ 我也知道在我里头，就是我肉体之中，没有良善；
因为立志为善由得我，只是行出来由不得我。” 罗马书 7：18
IV. Without God's Empowering, We Cannot Find
Fulfilment in All Circumstances
如果没有神赐予力量，我们无论做什么事都不会真正满足
A) Human satisfaction often does not last long, and is easily
frustrated by circumstances outside our control.
以人为基础的满足感通常不会持续很久，而且很容易
被我们无法控制的外在环境所影响。
IV. Without God's Empowering, We Cannot Find
Fulfilment in All Circumstances
如果没有神赐予力量，我们无论做什么事都不会真正满足
B) Christians who yield to God and live in harmony with Him
experience life differently--even in extreme hardships they
say they can experience satisfaction.
选择放下自己顺服神的基督徒们有着不一样的人生经历
--- 即使在极其困苦的情况中，他们也能有满足有平安。
“To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the
Spirit is life and peace.” Romans 8:6
“体贴肉体的，就是死；体贴圣灵的，乃是生命，平安。” 罗马书 8：6
IV. Without God's Empowering, We Cannot Find
Fulfilment in All Circumstances
如果没有神赐予力量，我们无论做什么事都不会真正满足
C) To be in harmony with God takes “Believe in”, which is
more than “Believe that”.
与神和解和谐相处需要我们真正地相信，而非简单地认
可。
IV. Without God's Empowering, We Cannot Find
Fulfilment in All Circumstances
如果没有神赐予力量，我们无论做什么事都不会真正满足
D) Christians who live in harmony with God and find
fulfilment support what Pascal said.
基督徒与神和谐并常有满足，这也印证了法国数学家，
物理学家布莱兹·帕斯卡所说的：
“There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every
person which cannot be filled by any thing but only
by God the creator made known through Jesus
Christ.”
“人内心里的真空只有借着耶稣基督显明的造物
主才能填补。”
Summary 总结
Why do we need God? 为什么我们需要神？
A. To Fulfil Some Deep Human Desires
来满足人类内心深处的渴望
E.g. Purpose for Life, Ultimate Justice, Eternal Life
例如： 人生意义，终极的公正，永生
B. To Have Universal Morality
有普世的道德标准
Summary 总结
Why do we need God? 为什么我们需要神？
C. To Live As We Know We Should
行的出我们知道当行的
D. To Experience Fulfilment in All Circumstances
无论境况如何都能有满足
Concluding Thoughts
结束寄语
• It does matter if God is real or not.
神存在与否至关重要
• We need (a) God‘s empowering and (b) God’s forgiveness.
我们需要神赐能量，需要神的赦免
• To have these, we need to trust our lives with Jesus and
then daily walk with him.
我们当将生命交托给耶稣，
每天与他同行脚前的路。
Discussion Questions 讨论问题
1. What do most people see as their main needs in
life? 对于大部分人来说，什么是生命的主要
需要？
2. Why do you think people can get these things and
not find satisfaction? 为什么人们获得了这些
东西后却没有真正满足？
3. What do you think about what was said about
why we need God? 你觉得我们为什么需要神?