约一17　　因为律法是借着摩西赐的，恩典和实际都是借着耶稣基督来的。

　　启二二21　　愿主耶稣的恩与众圣徒同在。阿们。

　　挪亚生活在一个弯曲、悖谬并邪恶的世代中。虽然如此，他的父母和祖父母教导他有关神的事，他也领悟到需要神的恩典。

　　〔创世记六章〕三节指出，神是预备好要施恩给堕落的人，因为祂的灵与人相争，预备将恩典给需要的人。然而，这恩典需要人的合作。挪亚给了那必要的合作，就得了恩典。

　　恩典不仅是神所给我们客观的东西，恩典乃是神自己临到我们，为我们作事。你软弱么？神要来作你的力量，神那个来就是恩典。你不能面对你的处境么？那不该是个问题，因为神要与你站在一起，为着你并在你里面来面对这处境。这是恩典。你若细读创世记六章，会看见这里的恩典不是指神给挪亚许多东西，乃是指神临到挪亚，并与挪亚同在。神的同在乃是挪亚的力量和动力。挪亚不但在客观方面享受神给他的事物，他更享受神自己。在一个弯曲、悖谬和淫乱的世代，这世代的试诱没有人能抗拒，但挪亚在耶和华眼前蒙恩。神来加强挪亚，与挪亚站在一起并支持挪亚。那就是挪亚所得的恩典，也是我们今天所需要的恩典（创世记生命读经，四五七至四五八页）。

　　John 1:17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and reality came through Jesus Christ.

　　Rev. 22:21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen.

　　Noah lived in a crooked, perverse, and evil generation. Nevertheless, his parents and grandparents taught him the things of God, and he realized that he needed God’s grace.

　　[Genesis 6:3] indicates that God was prepared to give grace to fallen man, because His Spirit was striving with man, ready to give grace to the needy ones. However, this grace needed human cooperation. Noah gave the necessary cooperation and he found grace.

　　Grace is not merely something objective that is given to us by God. Grace is God Himself coming to us and doing things for us. Are you weak? God will come to be your strength, and that coming of God is grace. Are you unable to face your situation? That need not be a problem, because God will come to stand with you and face that situation for and in you. This is grace. If you read Genesis 6 carefully, you will see that grace here does not mean that God gave Noah many things. It means that God came to Noah and was with Noah. God’s presence was Noah’s strength and power. Noah not only enjoyed something given to him by God objectively, but he enjoyed God Himself. In the midst of a crooked, perverse, and adulterous generation, a generation whose temptations no one could withstand, Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. God came to strengthen Noah that He might stand with him and uphold him. That was the grace that Noah found, and that is the grace that we need today. (Life-study of Genesis, p. 376)

　　想想看现代社会的情形。我甚至不敢看报纸，它含有太多的试诱。……你在收音机中、工作中并学校里所听到的谈话，都是邪恶、败坏并属鬼的。要任何一个堕落的人在这样的环境中站住，都是困难的。这个时代真是弯曲、悖谬并淫乱，满了奸淫和邪荡。人们毫无羞耻地谈论不道德的事。谁能在这样一个世代站住呢？……我们里面都有堕落的性情，所有的人都有同样的邪恶性情。我们需要恩典。我们必须坦然无惧地来到施恩的宝座前，说，“主，我在这里，我需要你的恩典。我来不是求你给我好东西，我来是要得恩典以应付我的需要。主，没有你的同在，我不能去工作或上学……〔或〕去百货公司。主，我需要你与我站在一起。请你来，作我的力量。主，托住我，支持我。”

　　离婚这件事，对今天的年轻人是极大的试诱。试诱是在外面，情欲是在里面。……因为我们没有一个人能站立得住，我们就需要恩典作今天的挪亚。只有恩典能使你与你的妻子或丈夫成为一。只有恩典能帮助我们爱我们的妻子或丈夫，始终不变。没有恩典我们谁也不能这样作，因为试诱太多了。这时代的潮流和趋向太强了。人们似乎认为，你若不离婚，就不时髦。……我们何等需要恩典！我们需要神来作我们的力量和一切。这是恩典。这是挪亚所需要的，也是我们今天所需要的。挪亚得到了这恩典，我们也必须得到。因为挪亚得了恩典，所以他容易与神同行。

　　父母关心他们在学校的子女。今天在学校中，孩子们面临最大的试诱是吸毒问题。即使在小学里也有吸食海洛因的。真是可怜！年幼的孩子们不能抗拒这种试诱。他们需要恩典。没有一种瘾癖是你靠自己能胜过的。你需要来到施恩的宝座前得恩典。挪亚得了恩典，他就与神同行。恩典帮助他与神同行（创世记生命读经，四五八至四五九页）。

　　参读：李文集一九七三至一九七四年第一册，新约中的恩典，第一至二章。

　　Consider the situation in modern society. I do not even dare to look at a newspaper. It contains too many temptations… The talk you hear on the radio, at work, and at school is evil, corrupt, and devilish. It is hard for anyone as a fallen person to stand in such a situation. This age is truly crooked, perverse, and adulterous; it is full of fornication and immorality. People talk about immorality without one bit of shame. Who can stand in such a generation?… We all have a fallen nature within us, the same evil nature that all men have. We need grace. We must come to the throne of grace boldly and say, “Lord, I am here. I need Your grace. I am not coming to ask You to give me good things. I am coming to find grace to meet my need. Lord, I cannot go to work or to school… [or] to a department store without Your presence. Lord, I need You to stand with me. Come to be my strength. Lord, uphold me and sustain me.”

　　The matter of divorce is a great temptation to the young people today. The temptations are without and the lusts are within …Because none of us is able to stand, we need the grace to be today’s Noah. Only grace can enable you to be one with your wife or husband. Only grace can help us to love our husbands or wives without change. None of us can do it without grace, for there is too much temptation. The tide, current, and trend of the age are too strong. People seem to think that if you are not divorced, you are not modern…How we need grace! We need God to come to us to be our strength and everything we need. This is grace. This is what Noah needed and what we also need today. Noah found it, and we also must find it. Because Noah found grace, it was easy for him to walk with God.

　　Parents are concerned about their children in school. The biggest temptation that the children face in the schools today is the matter of drugs. Even in the elementary schools there are heroin addicts. This is pitiful! The young children cannot stand against this kind of temptation. They need grace. There is no addiction that you can overcome by yourself. You need to come to the throne of grace and find grace. Noah found grace and he walked with God. Grace helped him to walk with God. (Life-study of Genesis, pp. 376-378)

　　Further Reading: The Stream Magazine, Book 2, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 1233-1236, 1240-1247