2017年5月16日 星期二

耶利米書11:18-23



11:18 耶和華指示我,我就知道;你將他們所行的給我指明。
11:19 我卻像柔順的羊羔被牽到宰殺之地;我並不知道他們設計謀害我,說:我們把樹連果子都滅了吧!將他從活人之地剪除,使他的名不再被紀念。
11:20 按公義判斷、察驗人肺腑心腸的萬軍之耶和華啊,我卻要見你在他們身上報仇,因我將我的案件向你稟明了。
11:21 所以,耶和華論到尋索你命的亞拿突人如此說:「他們說:你不要奉耶和華的名說預言,免得你死在我們手中。
11:22 所以萬軍之耶和華如此說:看哪,我必刑罰他們;他們的少年人必被刀劍殺死,他們的兒女必因饑荒滅亡,
11:23 並且沒有餘剩的人留給他們;因為在追討之年,我必使災禍臨到亞拿突人。」

18 The Lord made it known to me and I knew;
then you showed me their deeds.
19 But I was like a gentle lamb
led to the slaughter.
I did not know it was against me
they devised schemes, saying,
"Let us destroy the tree with its fruit,
 let us cut him off from the land of the living,
that his name be remembered no more."
20 But, O Lord of hosts, who judges righteously,
who tests the heart and the mind,
 let me see your vengeance upon them,
for to you have I committed my cause.
21 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, and say, "Do not prophesy in the name of the Lord, or you will die by our hand"— 22 therefore thus says the Lord of hosts:"Behold, I will punish them. The young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their daughters shall die by famine, 23 and none of them shall be left. For I will bring disaster upon the men of Anathoth, the year of their punishment."

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    亞拿突人就是直接威脅耶利米不可以說預言。他們大概以為耶利米是職業先知,可以控制自己的言論。或者他們以為只要耶利米不發言,上帝就不會刑罰猶大了。但這是因果錯置的,耶利米發言就是因為上帝非要刑罰猶大不可。

    同樣今日牧者的講道是不是由會眾來控制呢是要迎合會眾的需要但是不要迎合會眾的喜歡需要和喜歡有很大的差別人人需要耶穌的拯救但是人不喜歡由耶穌顯明人有罪並且會滅亡的事實身為傳講上帝話語的人難道不能宣告人有最需要耶穌基督之拯救的事實嗎?

    所以,身為上帝的牧者,要將會眾的需要標明出來,就會說到會眾不喜歡聽的,這樣就不能說嗎?當然要說,才能讓會眾的需要清楚,才會渴望上帝的救恩,才會對上帝感恩。也因此,我們要像先知一樣勇敢傳講上帝要我們說的

耶利米書11:14-17



11:14 「所以你不要為這百姓祈禱,不要為他們呼求禱告;因為他們遭難向我哀求的時候,我必不應允。
11:15 我所親愛的,既行許多淫亂,聖肉也離了你,你在我殿中做甚麼呢?你作惡就喜樂。
11:16 從前耶和華給你起名叫青橄欖樹,又華美又結好果子;如今他用鬨嚷之聲,點火在其上,枝子也被折斷。
11:17 原來栽培你的萬軍之耶和華已經說,要降禍攻擊你,是因以色列家和猶大家行惡,向巴力燒香,惹我發怒,是自作自受。」

14 "Therefore do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer on their behalf, for I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their trouble. 15 What right has my beloved in my house, when she has done many vile deeds? Can even sacrificial flesh avert your doom? Can you then exult? 16 The Lord once called you 'a green olive tree, beautiful with good fruit. ' But with the roar of a great tempest he will set fire to it, and its branches will be consumed. 17 The Lord of hosts, who planted you, has decreed disaster against you, because of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done, provoking me to anger by making offerings to Baal."

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    上帝在此要先知不要為自己的百姓禱告,告訴祂不聽他們的哀求,是因為祂們作惡不肯悔改,所以上帝也鐵了心腸不拯救!這不是上帝的問題,是人的問題,除非人肯在災禍尚未臨到之時快快悔改,歸向上帝,上帝才會施行拯救!

    當然,在許多時候災害發生之時,敬畏上帝和不敬畏上帝的人都同遭受害,甚至喪命。但是在死後的結果可不同,因為當人的靈回到上帝面前有審判,正如希伯來書927節說:「按著定命,人人都有一死,死後且有審判。」

    然而這死後有審判,是指有耶穌基督為救主的人,就蒙上帝的拯救享受永生;沒有耶穌基督為救主的,就落入上帝的憤怒遭受滅亡然而這樣的分別,是趁著有生命氣息時,接受耶穌基督為救主,就決定好永恆的結局了你要選擇什麼呢

耶利米書11:9-13



11:9 耶和華對我說:「在猶大人和耶路撒冷居民中有同謀背叛的事。
11:10 他們轉去效法他們的先祖,不肯聽我的話,犯罪作孽,又隨從別神,事奉它。以色列家和猶大家背了我與他們列祖所立的約。」
11:11 所以耶和華如此說:「我必使災禍臨到他們,是他們不能逃脫的。他們必向我哀求,我卻不聽。
11:12 那時,猶大城邑的人和耶路撒冷的居民要去哀求他們燒香所供奉的神;只是遭難的時候,這些神毫不拯救他們。
11:13 猶大啊,你神的數目與你城的數目相等;你為那可恥的巴力所築燒香的壇也與耶路撒冷街道的數目相等。

9 Again the Lord said to me, "A conspiracy exists among the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 10 They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words. They have gone after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant that I made with their fathers. 11 Therefore, thus says the Lord, Behold, I am bringing disaster upon them that they cannot escape. Though they cry to me, I will not listen to them. 12 Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they make offerings, but they cannot save them in the time of their trouble. 13 For your gods have become as many as your cities, O Judah, and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to shame, altars to make offerings to Baal.

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    相信耶利米先知在宣告這些信息的時候,心情是多麼沉重與難過。因為,自己的同胞竟然去敬拜偶像,得罪了上帝!而上帝對罪是恨惡的,更是會嚴嚴懲罰自己百姓的罪行,除非他們願意認罪悔改

    這也是教會中需要學習的功課尤其是信主之後我們要有行動與決心破除偶像的邱壇轉向上帝的祭壇偶像的邱壇就是企圖用自已為義的方式來敬拜而真正的祭壇是靠著耶穌得著與上帝和好的義然後來敬拜上帝以耶和華為我們的喜樂和倚靠

    也因為如此,我們樣靠著耶穌基督,坦然無懼來到上帝面前,離棄一切的偶像,單單尋求上帝,在祂的面前享受祂因為耶穌基督的寶血,已經洗淨我們一切的罪了也透過十字架赦免我們一切的罪行,雖然我們時常犯罪,時常跌倒,但是祂的愛永不止息,祂一步一步透過聖靈的大能,使我們有一天可以真實的脫離罪的綑綁

2017年5月15日 星期一

耶利米書11:6-8



11:6 耶和華對我說:「你要在猶大城邑中和耶路撒冷街市上,宣告這一切話說:你們當聽從遵行這約的話。
11:7 因為我將你們列祖從埃及地領出來的那日,直到今日,都是從早起來,切切誥誡他們說:『你們當聽從我的話。』
11:8 他們卻不聽從,不側耳而聽,竟隨從自己頑梗的惡心去行。所以我使這約中一切咒詛的話臨到他們身上;這約是我吩咐他們行的,他們卻不去行。」

6 And the Lord said to me, "Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: Hear the words of this covenant and do them. 7 For I solemnly warned your fathers when I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, warning them persistently, even to this day, saying, Obey my voice. 8 Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of his evil heart. Therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not."

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    耶利米先知在這裡告訴讀者關於猶大之所以滅亡的原因就是:「他們卻不聽從,不側耳而聽,竟隨從自己頑梗的惡心去行。所以我使這約中一切咒詛的話臨到他們身上;這約是我吩咐他們行的,他們卻不去行。」

    同樣今日我們要與上帝建立和好的關係的基礎是信靠耶穌基督,但是在實踐上,我們要回到上帝的話語的遵行。我們要靠著主耶穌的救恩宣告自己是蒙上帝所拯救,要感謝上帝的救恩的方式,就是遵行上帝的話語,來討上帝的喜悅。也因為如此,上帝話語的認識與遵行,成為教會生活的中心。

    也因為這樣,主日崇拜的時候的講道,就是上帝話語的宣告,是十分重要的!透過講道,讓弟兄姊妹清楚如何實踐上帝的話語,所以聖經意義的解釋與應用,都是講道中非常重要的部分!讓弟兄姊妹明白真理,並且實踐真理。