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这可能是所有经文中最可怕的一段了。人死以后，包括你和我，都将根据我们所做的事受审判。

我们所做的事很重要。我们的行为反映出我们现在，以及影响我们将来成为怎样的人。我们要么变得更像在基督里被呼召要成为的人，要么就跟随我们的罪性，远离神，走向毁灭。即使我们说自己爱基督，但我们的行为若显示出相反的情形，我们便是在否认我们内心的基督之爱。我们的行为证明了我们真正是谁。正如雅各书第二章十七节所说：“信心若没有行为就是死的。”

我小时候学过的一首儿歌唱出了这一点。“哦，小小双手要注意／哦，小小双手要注意／因为天上的父在爱中俯视／小小双手要注意”。其他段落则提醒小小嘴唇要注意，小小双脚要注意。

神对我们言行的记录使我们负有极大的责任。我们需要问：“我们行事是顺从的、有爱心的信徒，还是破坏性的违法者呢？”

但因着神在基督里的爱，我们不必绝望。我们可以为做错的事悔改，请求赦免，并确信耶稣的牺牲代赎了我们所有的罪债。

This may be the scariest passage in all of Scripture. The dead, including you and me, will be judged according to what we have done.

What we do matters. Our actions reflect and have an influence on the person we will be. We are either becoming more like the person we are called to be in Christ, or we are following our sinful nature and wandering away from God toward certain destruction. Even if we say we love Christ but our actions show the opposite, we are denying the love of Christ within us. What we do is proof of who we are. As James 2:17 puts it, “Faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.”

A song I learned as a child talks about this: “Oh, be careful little hands what you do./ Oh, be careful little hands what you do./ For the Father up above is looking down in love,/ so be careful little hands what you do.” Other verses remind little mouths to be careful what they say, and little feet to be careful where they go.

God’s record of our words and deeds places great responsibility on us. We need to ask, “Are we acting as obedient, loving believers, or as destructive lawbreakers?”

But because of God’s love in Christ, we need not despair. We can repent of our wrongdoing, ask forgiveness, and be assured that Jesus’ sacrifice pays the debt of all our sin.