創世記7:6-24

7:6 當洪水氾濫在地上的時候，挪亞整六百歲。
7:7 挪亞就同他的妻和兒子兒婦都進入方舟，躲避洪水。
7:8 潔淨的畜類和不潔淨的畜類，飛鳥並地上一切的昆蟲，
7:9 都是一對一對地，有公有母，到挪亞那裡進入方舟，正如上帝所吩咐挪亞的。
7:10 過了那七天，洪水氾濫在地上。
7:11 當挪亞六百歲，二月十七日那一天，大淵的泉源都裂開了，天上的窗戶也敞開了，
7:12 四十晝夜降大雨在地上。
7:13 正當那日，挪亞和他三個兒子閃、含、雅弗，並挪亞的妻子和三個兒婦，都進入方舟。
7:14 他們和百獸，各從其類，一切牲畜，各從其類，爬在地上的昆蟲，各從其類，一切禽鳥，各從其類，都進入方舟。
7:15 凡有血肉、有氣息的活物，都一對一對地到挪亞那裡，進入方舟。
7:16 凡有血肉進入方舟的，都是有公有母，正如上帝所吩咐挪亞的。耶和華就把他關在方舟裡頭。
7:17 洪水氾濫在地上四十天，水往上長，把方舟從地上漂起。
7:18 水勢浩大，在地上大大地往上長，方舟在水面上漂來漂去。
7:19 水勢在地上極其浩大，天下的高山都淹沒了。
7:20 水勢比山高過十五肘，山嶺都淹沒了。
7:21 凡在地上有血肉的動物，就是飛鳥、牲畜、走獸，和爬在地上的昆蟲，以及所有的人，都死了。
7:22 凡在旱地上、鼻孔有氣息的生靈都死了。
7:23 凡地上各類的活物，連人帶牲畜、昆蟲，以及空中的飛鳥，都從地上除滅了，只留下挪亞和那些與他同在方舟裡的。
7:24 水勢浩大，在地上共一百五十天。

⁶ Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. ⁷ And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. ⁸ Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, ⁹ male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah. ¹⁰ And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.
¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. ¹² And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
¹³ On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark. ¹⁴ They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings. ¹⁵ Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark. ¹⁶ The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.
¹⁷ For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. ¹⁸ The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. ¹⁹ They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. ²⁰ The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits. 21 Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. ²² Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. ²³ Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.
²⁴ The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.

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    洪水對陸地的生物是具有毀滅性，由其是動物類，正如經文所說：「凡在地上有血肉的動物，就是飛鳥、牲畜、走獸，和爬在地上的昆蟲，以及所有的人，都死了。凡在旱地上、鼻孔有氣息的生靈都死了。凡地上各類的活物，連人帶牲畜、昆蟲，以及空中的飛鳥，都從地上除滅了！」

    這讓我們看見上帝的決心，但是在這毀滅之行動，上帝仍有拯救，正如經文所說：「只留下挪亞和那些與他同在方舟裡的」！這些能夠存留是來自上帝的意志，不是這群動物願不願意！然而挪亞翰祂的家人的得救，也是因為他們用自由意志來選擇順服上帝的引導。也因此，自由意志不是用來拒絕上帝！

    人真正的自由就是不要讓自己落入滅亡，當然就是要來跟隨聖靈的引導而得上帝得拯救。雖然有人強調，自由意志可以選擇不順服，但是那是不可能的事情！因為，自由意志是要人得拯救，不是要人滅亡！

創世記7章

            創世記7:1-5   ,

            創世記7:6-24  ,

創世記7:1-5

7:1 耶和華對挪亞說：「你和你的全家都要進入方舟；因為在這世代中，我見你在我面前是義人。
7:2 凡潔淨的畜類，你要帶七公七母；不潔淨的畜類，你要帶一公一母；
7:3 空中的飛鳥也要帶七公七母，可以留種，活在全地上；
7:4 因為再過七天，我要降雨在地上四十晝夜，把我所造的各種活物都從地上除滅。」
7:5 挪亞就遵著耶和華所吩咐的行了。

The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. ² Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, ³ and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. ⁴ Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”

⁵ And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.

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          聖經常常會在一段經文之後，又有另一段的補述，有時感覺好像有衝突，其實是為了帶出另一個角度的觀點，讓然感覺信仰的多面觀，使我們廣納各樣的觀點。正如這一段和創世記6章19-20節記載稍不同。

          但是，在這敘述之後，仍然宣告：「挪亞就遵著耶和華所吩咐的行了」。這也表是挪亞對上帝的敬畏與信靠，不是任意妄為的人。同樣，我們既然認定上帝主權，又賦予我們遵行上帝旨意的自由意志，我們就當有挪亞「遵著耶和華所吩咐的行了」的行動。

         基督耶穌的拯救就讓我們透過自由意志來遵行上帝的旨意，不是以自由意志之名來抗拒上帝的拯救，那是自取滅亡，正如希伯來書10章26-27節說：「因為我們得知真道以後，若故意犯罪，贖罪的祭就再沒有了；惟有戰懼等候審判和那燒滅眾敵人的烈火。」

         不要自以為有參加教會的活動，在教會擔任長執就是已經得救的人，要看你有沒有藉受耶穌基督為救主，成為上帝的兒女，並像挪亞一樣「遵著耶和華所吩咐的行了」；而不是憑己意任意妄為，以自由意志知名抗拒上帝的拯救！

箴言22:17-21

22:17 你須側耳聽受智慧人的言語，留心領會我的知識。
22:18 你若心中存記，嘴上咬定，這便為美。
22:19 我今日以此特特指教你，為要使你倚靠耶和華。
22:20 謀略和知識的美事，我豈沒有寫給你嗎？
22:21 要使你知道真言的實理，你好將真言回覆那打發你來的人。

Pay attention and turn your ear to the sayings of the wise;
    apply your heart to what I teach,
¹⁸ for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart
    and have all of them ready on your lips.
¹⁹ So that your trust may be in the Lord,
    I teach you today, even you.
²⁰ Have I not written thirty sayings for you,
    sayings of counsel and knowledge,
²¹ teaching you to be honest and to speak the truth,
    so that you bring back truthful reports
    to those you serve?

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    被上帝拯救的人，要繼續傳揚上帝的真理給尚未得救的人，因為在這些人當中有上帝揀選的人。雖然尚未明顯，但是聖靈要讓得救的人得著智慧，知道如何倚靠上帝，將這樣的真言傳講出去，就會呼召出屬乎上帝的人來倚靠耶和華，讓上帝的救贖顯明！

    《箴言》的作者雖然是將智慧的話語教導人，更是將智慧的根本傳授於人，而智慧的根本就是敬畏耶和華，而敬畏耶和華的行動就是倚靠耶和華不倚靠自己，倚靠自己是一切惡事的源頭！

    讓我們也是以倚靠耶和華為我們生命的中心，求主保守與帶領，讓我們倚靠耶和華，才能成為「榮耀上帝，以上帝為永遠福樂」的人！如此，才能為成人生的目的！

創世記6:11-22

6:11 世界在上帝面前敗壞，地上滿了強暴。
6:12 上帝觀看世界，見是敗壞了；凡有血氣的人在地上都敗壞了行為。
6:13 上帝就對挪亞說：「凡有血氣的人，他的盡頭已經來到我面前；因為地上滿了他們的強暴，我要把他們和地一併毀滅。
6:14 你要用歌斐木造一隻方舟，分一間一間地造，裡外抹上松香。
6:15 方舟的造法乃是這樣：要長三百肘，寬五十肘，高三十肘。
6:16 方舟上邊要留透光處，高一肘。方舟的門要開在旁邊。方舟要分上、中、下三層。
6:17 看哪，我要使洪水氾濫在地上，毀滅天下；凡地上有血肉、有氣息的活物，無一不死。
6:18 我卻要與你立約；你同你的妻，與兒子兒婦，都要進入方舟。
6:19 凡有血肉的活物，每樣兩個，一公一母，你要帶進方舟，好在你那裡保全生命。
6:20 飛鳥各從其類，牲畜各從其類，地上的昆蟲各從其類，每樣兩個，要到你那裡，好保全生命。
6:21 你要拿各樣食物積蓄起來，好作你和牠們的食物。」
6:22 挪亞就這樣行。凡上帝所吩咐的，他都照樣行了。

¹¹ Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. ¹² God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. ¹³ So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. ¹⁴ So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. ¹⁵ This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high. ¹⁶ Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. ¹⁷ I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. ¹⁸ But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. ¹⁹ You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. ²⁰ Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. ²¹ You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”
²² Noah did everything just as God commanded him.

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    上帝向挪亞宣告自己的心意和將來的計劃，並且要挪亞造方舟來做拯救的工作。而挪亞的反應是什麼呢？聖經告訴我們：「挪亞就這樣行。凡上帝所吩咐的，他都照樣行了。」

    對基督徒而言，我們也要像挪亞一樣，上帝所吩咐、所命令的每一件事都要努力遵行，不可以東挑西挑，只挑自己想做的，自己不想做得就不去做。這樣就不是遵行上帝旨意了！

    而上帝在這裡的作為，讓我們再一次感受到，上帝得拯救就是留下餘種。也因為有餘種，生命才能延續下去，完成上帝拯救的計劃。