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To properly evaluate the place of good works in the Christian life, we must understand that grace maintains the value of God’s children apart from any merit of their own; but we must also understand that God uses our obedience to promote our good and His glory. By our accomplishments, God works His holy purposes in our lives, provides us with many temporal blessings and, most of all, fulfills our Spirit-instilled longing to honor God with all our heart, soul, mind, and might (cf. Deut. 6:5; Matt. 22:37). While we must be careful not to define blessing only in terms of material possessions or earthly ease, we must also embrace the promise that God “rewards those who earnestly seek Him” (Heb. 11:6).
Bryan Chapell

[Quietism] asserts that the Christian is to be passive (quiet) in the process of spiritual growth and let God do everything. According to quietist teaching, the Christian must exert no energy or effort in the process whatsoever, for feeble human effort only hinders the working of God’s power. Quietists believe Christians must simply surrender fully to the Holy Spirit (also called “yielding,” “dying to self,” “crucifying oneself,” “mortifying the flesh,” or “placing one’s life on the altar”). The Spirit then moves in and lives a life of victory through us, and Christ literally replaces us (“it is no longer I who lives, but Christ lives in me” – Gal. 2:20). In its extreme variety, quietism is a spiritual passivism in which God becomes wholly responsible for the believer’s behavior, and the believer feels he must never exert personal effort to pursue righteous living. Quietists have popularized the phrases, “Let go and let God,” and “I can’t; He can.”
John MacArthur

Bible – chinese – 新标点和合本 何西阿书 7

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我想医治以色列的时候,
以法莲的罪孽和撒马利亚的罪恶就显露出来。
他们行事虚谎,
内有贼人入室偷窃
外有强盗成群骚扰。
他们心里并不思想我记念他们的一切恶;
他们所行的现在缠绕他们,都在我面前。
宫廷内乱
他们行恶使君王欢喜,
说谎使首领喜乐。
他们都是行淫的,
像火炉被烤饼的烧热,
从抟面到发面的时候,
暂不使着旺。
在我们王宴乐的日子,
首领因酒的烈性成病;
王与亵慢人拉手。
首领埋伏的时候,心中热如火炉,
就如烤饼的整夜睡卧,
到了早晨火气炎炎。
众民也热如火炉,
烧灭他们的官长。
他们的君王都仆倒而死;
他们中间无一人求告我。
以色列和列邦
以法莲与列邦人搀杂;
以法莲是没有翻过的饼。
外邦人吞吃他劳力得来的,他却不知道;
头发斑白,他也不觉得。
10  以色列的骄傲当面见证自己,
虽遭遇这一切,
他们仍不归向耶和华—他们的 神,
也不寻求他。
11  以法莲好像鸽子愚蠢无知;
他们求告埃及,投奔亚述
12 他们去的时候,我必将我的网撒在他们身上;
我要打下他们,如同空中的鸟。
我必按他们会众所听见的惩罚他们。
13 他们因离弃我,必定有祸;
因违背我,必被毁灭。
我虽要救赎他们,他们却向我说谎。
 
14 他们并不诚心哀求我,
乃在床上呼号;
他们为求五谷新酒聚集,
仍然悖逆我。
15 我虽教导他们,坚固他们的膀臂,
他们竟图谋抗拒我。
16 他们归向,却不归向至上者;
他们如同翻背的弓。
他们的首领必因舌头的狂傲倒在刀下;
这在埃及地必作人的讥笑。