以賽亞書48:17-22

48:17 耶和華─你的救贖主，以色列的聖者如此說：我是耶和華─你的上帝，教訓你，使你得益處，引導你所當行的路。
48:18 甚願你素來聽從我的命令！你的平安就如河水；你的公義就如海浪。
48:19 你的後裔也必多如海沙；你腹中所生的也必多如沙粒。他的名在我面前必不剪除，也不滅絕。
48:20 你們要從巴比倫出來，從迦勒底人中逃脫，以歡呼的聲音傳揚說：耶和華救贖了他的僕人雅各！你們要將這事宣揚到地極。
48:21 耶和華引導他們經過沙漠。他們並不乾渴；他為他們使水從磐石而流，分裂磐石，水就湧出。
48:22 耶和華說：惡人必不得平安！

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Thus says the Lord,

your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:

I am the Lord your God,

who teaches you for your own good,

who leads you in the way you should go.

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O that you had paid attention to my commandments!

Then your prosperity would have been like a river,

and your success like the waves of the sea;

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your offspring would have been like the sand,

and your descendants like its grains;

their name would never be cut off

or destroyed from before me.

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Go out from Babylon, flee from Chaldea,

declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it,

send it forth to the end of the earth;

say, “The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!”

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They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts;

he made water flow for them from the rock;

he split open the rock and the water gushed out.

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“There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.” 

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    上帝藉由先知以賽亞宣告：「耶和華─你的救贖主，以色列的聖者如此說：我是耶和華─你的上帝，教訓你，使你得益處，引導你所當行的路。甚願你素來聽從我的命令！你的平安就如河水；你的公義就如海浪。」

    是的，我們的信仰中最重要的事就是：聽從上帝的命令！這是我們信仰的核心！就像我們的禮拜中有：恭候上帝的話、領受上帝的話、回應上帝的話，最後受差遣去實行上帝的話！也因此，上帝的話，在基督徒的信仰是非常重要的！

    就是因為有上帝的話語的引導，我們才能行在天路上永不偏離。所以，我們要聽從與遵行上帝的命令，使上帝的旨意成就在我們身上。而信仰上最重要得就是信而順服！