2020年8月29日 星期六

詩篇137篇

       詩篇137:1-9   ,

詩篇137:1-9

137:1 我們曾在巴比倫的河邊坐下,一追想錫安就哭了。
137:2
我們把琴掛在那裡的柳樹上;
137:3
因為在那裡,擄掠我們的要我們唱歌,搶奪我們的要我們作樂,說:給我們唱一首錫安歌吧!
137:4
我們怎能在外邦唱耶和華的歌呢?
137:5
耶路撒冷啊,我若忘記你,情願我的右手忘記技巧!
137:6
我若不記念你,若不看耶路撒冷過於我所最喜樂的,情願我的舌頭貼於上膛!
137:7
耶路撒冷遭難的日子,以東人說:拆毀!拆毀!直拆到根基!耶和華啊,求你記念這仇!
137:8
將要被滅的巴比倫城啊(城:原文是女子),報復你像你待我們的,那人便為有福!
137:9
拿你的嬰孩摔在磐石上的,那人便為有福!

 

By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept
    when we remembered Zion.
There on the poplars
    we hung our harps,
for there our captors asked us for songs,
    our tormentors demanded songs of joy;
    they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

How can we sing the songs of the Lord
    while in a foreign land?
If I forget you, Jerusalem,
    may my right hand forget its skill.
May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
    if I do not remember you,
if I do not consider Jerusalem
    my highest joy.

Remember, Lord, what the Edomites did
    on the day Jerusalem fell.
“Tear it down,” they cried,
    “tear it down to its foundations!”
Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
    happy is the one who repays you
    according to what you have done to us.
Happy is the one who seizes your infants
    and dashes them against the rocks.

 

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    當亡國奴的心聲,詩人很深刻的表達出來:「我們曾在巴比倫的河邊坐下,一追想錫安就哭了。」

 

    但是很無奈的是:「我們把琴掛在那裡的柳樹上;因為在那裡,擄掠我們的要我們唱歌,搶奪我們的要我們作樂,說:給我們唱一首錫安歌吧!我們怎能在外邦唱耶和華的歌呢?」

 

    這好像是一個歌手在外演唱時,隨意人點歌,卻被點到一首讓歌手非常不願意唱的歌,這首歌讓歌者有椎心刺骨的痛!也因為這樣詩人說:「耶路撒冷啊,我若忘記你,情願我的右手忘記技巧!我若不記念你,若不看耶路撒冷過於我所最喜樂的,情願我的舌頭貼於上膛!」

 

    詩人一想起錫安心中就非常不平,因為上帝的殿和上帝的城被毀壞了!心中好像失去了一個倚靠,讓詩人馬上湧起心中的仇恨!想到以東人的惡行惡狀:他們雖是兄弟之邦,卻助紂為虐,還對巴比倫人喊:「拆毀!拆毀!直拆到根基!」

 

    當源冤有頭、債有主!最痛恨的還是巴比倫人!所以詩人說:「將要被滅的巴比倫城啊(城:原文是女子),報復你像你待我們的,那人便為有福!拿你的嬰孩摔在磐石上的,那人便為有福!」

 

    然而從這首詩歌,我們感受到信仰不是建立在城市或是敬拜的地方,更不是建立在象徵物上,而是要建立在上帝本身。當然這是在新約的時代,聖靈降下後,我們得著完全的啟示後所得著的理念!這也就是說我們的信仰對象是三一上帝,不在人事物上面!

 

    馬丁路德時代的教會的信仰放在聖物上面,以為收集了許多主耶穌和聖徒的遺物或骨骸就會有更多的福氣,所以他勇敢的提出宗教改革高舉五個唯獨:「唯獨聖經(Sola scriptura)、唯獨信心(Sola fide唯獨恩典(Sola gratia唯獨基督(Solus Christus or Solo Christo唯獨上帝的榮耀(Soli Deo gloria」!

 

    今天許多基督徒已經忘卻這樣的精神學習天主教徒還在看重聖徒的功績推崇人的功德看重人的感覺所作所為以人為中心而不是以基督為中心求主保守讓教會恢復宗教改革的精神將信仰建立在基督是主,一生為主而活,這才是真正的背十字架跟隨主。

 

 

2020年8月28日 星期五

撒母耳記上5章

      撒母耳記上5:1-12 ,

撒母耳記上5:1-12

5:1 非利士人將上帝的約櫃從以便以謝抬到亞實突。
5:2
非利士人將上帝的約櫃抬進大袞廟,放在大袞的旁邊。
5:3
次日清早,亞實突人起來,見大袞仆倒在耶和華的約櫃前,臉伏於地,就把大袞仍立在原處。
5:4
又次日清早起來,見大袞仆倒在耶和華的約櫃前,臉伏於地,並且大袞的頭和兩手都在門檻上折斷,只剩下大袞的殘體。
5:5
(因此,大袞的祭司和一切進亞實突、大袞廟的人都不踏大袞廟的門檻,直到今日。)
5:6
耶和華的手重重加在亞實突人身上,敗壞他們,使他們生痔瘡。亞實突和亞實突的四境都是如此。
5:7
亞實突人見這光景,就說:「以色列上帝的約櫃不可留在我們這裡,因為他的手重重加在我們和我們神大袞的身上」;
5:8
就打發人去請非利士的眾首領來聚集,問他們說:「我們向以色列上帝的約櫃應當怎樣行呢?」他們回答說:「可以將以色列上帝的約櫃運到迦特去。」於是將以色列上帝的約櫃運到那裡去。
5:9
運到之後,耶和華的手攻擊那城,使那城的人大大驚慌,無論大小都生痔瘡。
5:10
他們就把上帝的約櫃送到以革倫。上帝的約櫃到了,以革倫人就喊嚷起來說:「他們將以色列上帝的約櫃運到我們這裡,要害我們和我們的眾民!」
5:11
於是打發人去請非利士的眾首領來,說:「願你們將以色列上帝的約櫃送回原處,免得害了我們和我們的眾民!」原來上帝的手重重攻擊那城,城中的人有因驚慌而死的;
5:12
未曾死的人都生了痔瘡。合城呼號,聲音上達於天。

 After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. Then they carried the ark into Dagon’s temple and set it beside Dagon. When the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, there was Dagon, fallen on his face on the ground before the ark of the Lord! They took Dagon and put him back in his place. But the following morning when they rose, there was Dagon, fallen on his face on the ground before the ark of the Lord! His head and hands had been broken off and were lying on the threshold; only his body remained. That is why to this day neither the priests of Dagon nor any others who enter Dagon’s temple at Ashdod step on the threshold.

The Lord’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity; he brought devastation on them and afflicted them with tumors.[a] When the people of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, “The ark of the god of Israel must not stay here with us, because his hand is heavy on us and on Dagon our god.” So they called together all the rulers of the Philistines and asked them, “What shall we do with the ark of the god of Israel?”

They answered, “Have the ark of the god of Israel moved to Gath.” So they moved the ark of the God of Israel.

But after they had moved it, the Lord’s hand was against that city, throwing it into a great panic. He afflicted the people of the city, both young and old, with an outbreak of tumors.[b] 10 So they sent the ark of God to Ekron.

As the ark of God was entering Ekron, the people of Ekron cried out, “They have brought the ark of the god of Israel around to us to kill us and our people.” 11 So they called together all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send the ark of the god of Israel away; let it go back to its own place, or it[c] will kill us and our people.” For death had filled the city with panic; God’s hand was very heavy on it. 12 Those who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.

 

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    上帝的約櫃雖然不是上帝本身但是上帝仍然要彰顯祂的威嚴讓非利士人看見上帝不像他們的神明,也不像那些偶像,祂是有能力的,祂可以賜福也可以降禍,是沒有任何能力可以阻擋的,即使是非利士人戰勝以色列人,上帝仍然是勝過個邦國的神明!

 

    上帝是大有能力,並且是獨行奇事上帝!卻是不受人限制的上帝,人也無法限制上帝要做什麼!所以,非常不贊同有些說法說到:「不要讓你的想法限制上帝的作為!」這樣說起來好像上帝很小,受人的思想來限制!還有教導人說:「你想要上帝賜給你什麼,就要心中一值想像,讓它具體浮現在你的心中,上帝要你明確的禱告才會賜給你!」仔細想想這樣的教導並非聖經來的,聖經教導的是:「你們不可效法他們;因為你們沒有祈求以先,你們所需用的,你們的父早已知道了。」(馬太福音6:8

 

    所以,要再次強調,我們不要讓一些無意義不合聖經的說法充斥在我們的頭腦,要好好思考上帝在聖經所啟示的是甚麼,不要人云亦云,隨著世俗之風飄東飄西,毫無定向!我們要像保羅所說的:「豈不知在場上賽跑的都跑,但得獎賞的只有一人?你們也當這樣跑,好叫你們得著獎賞。凡較力爭勝的,諸事都有節制,他們不過是要得能壞的冠冕;我們卻是要得不能壞的冠冕。所以,我奔跑不像無定向的;我鬥拳不像打空氣的。」(哥林多前書9:24-26

 

 

2020年8月27日 星期四

詩篇135篇

      詩篇135:1-21  ,

      詩篇135:3 , 詩篇135:6  ,

詩篇135:1-21

135:1 你們要讚美耶和華!你們要讚美耶和華的名!耶和華的僕人站在耶和華殿中;站在我們上帝殿院中的,你們要讚美他!
135:2
【併於上節】
135:3
你們要讚美耶和華!耶和華本為善;要歌頌他的名,因為這是美好的。
135:4
耶和華揀選雅各歸自己,揀選以色列特作自己的子民。
135:5
原來我知道耶和華為大,也知道我們的主超乎萬神之上。
135:6
耶和華在天上,在地下,在海中,在一切的深處,都隨自己的意旨而行。
135:7
他使雲霧從地極上騰,造電隨雨而閃,從府庫中帶出風來。
135:8
他將埃及頭生的,連人帶牲畜都擊殺了。
135:9
埃及啊,他施行神蹟奇事,在你當中,在法老和他一切臣僕身上。
135:10
他擊殺許多的民,又殺戮大能的王,
135:11
就是亞摩利王西宏和巴珊王噩,並迦南一切的國王,
135:12
將他們的地賞賜他的百姓以色列為業。
135:13
耶和華啊,你的名存到永遠!耶和華啊,你可記念的名存到萬代!
135:14
耶和華要為他的百姓伸冤,為他的僕人後悔。
135:15
外邦的偶像是金的,銀的,是人手所造的;
135:16
有口卻不能言,有眼卻不能看,
135:17
有耳卻不能聽,口中也沒有氣息。
135:18
造他的要和他一樣,凡靠他的也要如此。
135:19
以色列家啊,你們要稱頌耶和華!亞倫家啊,你們要稱頌耶和華!
135:20
利未家啊,你們要稱頌耶和華!你們敬畏耶和華的,要稱頌耶和華!
135:21
住在耶路撒冷的耶和華該從錫安受稱頌。你們要讚美耶和華!

 

Praise the Lord.[a]

Praise the name of the Lord;
    praise him, you servants of the Lord,
you who minister in the house of the Lord,
    in the courts of the house of our God.

Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good;
    sing praise to his name, for that is pleasant.
For the Lord has chosen Jacob to be his own,
    Israel to be his treasured possession.

I know that the Lord is great,
    that our Lord is greater than all gods.
The Lord does whatever pleases him,
    in the heavens and on the earth,
    in the seas and all their depths.
He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth;
    he sends lightning with the rain
    and brings out the wind from his storehouses.

He struck down the firstborn of Egypt,
    the firstborn of people and animals.
He sent his signs and wonders into your midst, Egypt,
    against Pharaoh and all his servants.
10 He struck down many nations
    and killed mighty kings—
11 Sihon king of the Amorites,
    Og king of Bashan,
    and all the kings of Canaan—
12 and he gave their land as an inheritance,
    an inheritance to his people Israel.

13 Your name, Lord, endures forever,
    your renown, Lord, through all generations.
14 For the Lord will vindicate his people
    and have compassion on his servants.

15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold,
    made by human hands.
16 They have mouths, but cannot speak,
    eyes, but cannot see.
17 They have ears, but cannot hear,
    nor is there breath in their mouths.
18 Those who make them will be like them,
    and so will all who trust in them.

19 All you Israelites, praise the Lord;
    house of Aaron, praise the Lord;
20 house of Levi, praise the Lord;
    you who fear him, praise the Lord.
21 Praise be to the Lord from Zion,
    to him who dwells in Jerusalem.

Praise the Lord.

 

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    在詩歌的開頭與結尾,都是「哈利路亞」(你們要讚美耶和華)!

 

    而這首詩敘述了上帝拯救以色列人出埃及,又帶領以色列人勝過在曠野地的亞摩利王西宏和巴珊王噩,不只如此還帶領以色列人進入迦南地,勝過迦南一切的國王,將他們的地賞賜給以色列人,祂的百姓為業。

 

    詩人回想到這一切之後,就開始將榮耀歸給上帝;「耶和華啊,你的名存到永遠!耶和華啊,你可記念的名存到萬代!」因為耶和華上帝真的為祂的百姓申冤,讓他們不再受到欺壓;不僅如此,上帝還讓最深的憐憫臨到自己的僕人們!也就是說上帝真的眷顧以色列人,滿足他們的需要!

 

    詩人這樣說,更是要凸顯上帝是勝過迦南人所拜的神明,因為這些神明「是人手所造的;有口卻不能言,有眼卻不能看,有耳卻不能聽,口中也沒有氣息」。然而這些造神明的和拜這些神明的,最後的下場也和這些神明一樣,只有外表的形體,沒有真正的生命,下場就是滅亡!但是,被上帝拯救的人不是如此,上帝會賜下永生,保守直到永遠!正如今日,上帝拯救我們歸入主耶穌的名下,就和主耶穌一樣領受上帝兒女的名分,並且在將來上帝國完全實現的時候,與主耶穌一同做王到永遠!

 

    詩人最後吩咐:「以色列家啊,你們要稱頌耶和華!亞倫家啊,你們要稱頌耶和華!利未家啊,你們要稱頌耶和華!你們敬畏耶和華的,要稱頌耶和華!住在耶路撒冷的耶和華該從錫安受稱頌。你們要讚美耶和華!」

 

    而我們在基督裡被揀選與拯救的,也要像這樣讚美上帝,歡呼:「哈利路亞!」