2020年5月5日 星期二

申命記30:11-20


30:11 「我今日所吩咐你的誡命不是你難行的,也不是離你遠的;
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不是在天上,使你說:『誰替我們上天取下來,使我們聽見可以遵行呢?』
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也不是在海外,使你說:『誰替我們過海取了來,使我們聽見可以遵行呢?』
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這話卻離你甚近,就在你口中,在你心裡,使你可以遵行。
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「看哪,我今日將生與福,死與禍,陳明在你面前。
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吩咐你愛耶和華你的上帝,遵行他的道,謹守他的誡命、律例、典章,使你可以存活,人數增多,耶和華你上帝就必在你所要進去得為業的地上賜福與你。
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倘若你心裡偏離,不肯聽從,卻被勾引去敬拜事奉別神,
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我今日明明告訴你們,你們必要滅亡;在你過約旦河、進去得為業的地上,你的日子必不長久。
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我今日呼天喚地向你作見證;我將生死禍福陳明在你面前,所以你要揀選生命,使你和你的後裔都得存活;
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且愛耶和華你的上帝,聽從他的話,專靠他;因為他是你的生命,你的日子長久也在乎他。這樣,你就可以在耶和華向你列祖亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各起誓應許所賜的地上居住。」

11 Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. 12 It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, “Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” 13 Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, “Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” 14 No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.
15 See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. 16 For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
17 But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, 18 I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.
19 This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live 20 and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

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    摩西在這裡諄諄教誨以色列人:「吩咐你愛耶和華─你的上帝,遵行他的道,謹守他的誡命、律例、典章,使你可以存活,人數增多,耶和華─你上帝就必在你所要進去得為業的地上賜福與你。我今日呼天喚地向你作見證;我將生死禍福陳明在你面前,所以你要揀選生命,使你和你的後裔都得存活;且愛耶和華─你的上帝,聽從他的話,專靠他;因為他是你的生命,你的日子長久也在乎他。這樣,你就可以在耶和華向你列祖亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各起誓應許所賜的地上居住。」

    然而我們知道這樣的勸戒要在基督裡才能實現,正如主耶穌所宣告的:「我實實在在地告訴你們,那聽我話、又信差我來者的,就有永生;不至於定罪,是已經出死入生了。我實實在在地告訴你們,時候將到,現在就是了,死人要聽見上帝兒子的聲音,聽見的人就要活了。」(約翰福音5:24-25)

    這裡所說的永生,就是上帝的生命,只有上帝有永生!然而我們照主耶穌所說的,要聽從主的話、並且信靠上帝,就可以享受永生!也就是說,我們在聖靈的引導下,接受耶穌基督成為我們的救主就有永生!就可以得上帝國為地土,永遠與上帝同在!

    也因為這樣,我們要相信上帝是恆保守的,如此我們才能堅忍等候主耶穌的再來!因此,我們是蒙恩的人,更要為所得的恩來讚美上帝,宣告祂奇妙的作為!




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