1:67 他父親撒迦利亞被聖靈充滿了,就預言說:
1:68 主─以色列的上帝是應當稱頌的!因他眷顧他的百姓,為他們施行救贖,
1:69 在他僕人大衛家中,為我們興起了拯救的角,
1:70 正如主藉著從創世以來聖先知的口所說的話,
1:71 拯救我們脫離仇敵和一切恨我們之人的手,
1:72 向我們列祖施憐憫,記念他的聖約─
1:73 就是他對我們祖宗亞伯拉罕所起的誓─
1:74 叫我們既從仇敵手中被救出來,
1:75 就可以終身在他面前,坦然無懼地用聖潔、公義事奉他。
1:76 孩子啊!你要稱為至高者的先知;因為你要行在主的前面,預備他的道路,
1:77 叫他的百姓因罪得赦,就知道救恩。
1:78 因我們上帝憐憫的心腸,叫清晨的日光從高天臨到我們,
1:79 要照亮坐在黑暗中死蔭裡的人,把我們的腳引到平安的路上。
1:80 那孩子漸漸長大,心靈強健,住在曠野,直到他顯明在以色列人面前的日子。
67 His father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied:
68 “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel,
because
he has come to his people and redeemed them.
69 He has raised up a
horn[c] of salvation for us
in
the house of his servant David
70 (as he said through
his holy prophets of long ago),
71 salvation from our
enemies
and
from the hand of all who hate us—
72 to show mercy to our
ancestors
and
to remember his holy covenant,
73 the oath
he swore to our father Abraham:
74 to rescue us from the
hand of our enemies,
and
to enable us to serve him without fear
75 in
holiness and righteousness before him all our days.
76 And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High;
for
you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him,
77 to give his people
the knowledge of salvation
through
the forgiveness of their sins,
78 because of the tender
mercy of our God,
by
which the rising sun will come to us from heaven
79 to shine on those
living in darkness
and
in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the path of peace.”
80 And the child grew and became strong in spirit[d]; and he lived in the wilderness until he appeared publicly to Israel.
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在《路加福音》和《使徒行傳》,路加很喜歡用「聖靈充滿」一詞,這個詞在中文翻譯應該用完整的說法是「被聖靈充滿了」!這個意思是「被聖靈成全了」,也就是在聖靈的引導之下;而不是說一個容器被某一種液體或粉末填滿的意思。所以,在理解上要弄清楚,就不會誤解!
撒迦利亞在這裡說「預言」,其實就是講道的意思,將上帝的話宣講出來,不是在預測將來的事,而是要人聽見上帝的旨意!所以,他是追朔到啟示的源頭:「正如主藉著從創世以來聖先知的口所說的話,拯救我們脫離仇敵和一切恨我們之人的手,向我們列祖施憐憫,記念他的聖約─就是他對我們祖宗亞伯拉罕所起的誓─叫我們既從仇敵手中被救出來,就可以終身在他面前,坦然無懼地用聖潔、公義事奉他。」
我們講道也是追朔到啟示的源頭,也就是上帝的話語――聖經。我們不可能發明聖經以外的道理,那不是說「預言」,那是隨私意講話,是上帝所不喜悅的!甚至可以說,舊約時代的假先知也可以說得慷慨激昂,非常激勵人敬虔的心,但是那不是上帝的心意!
因此,說「預言」或說講道,是要以聖經為基礎,不是光激勵人就好,也不是說「正面思想」或「積極思想」,而是要人明白如何親近上帝,依靠上帝的恩典!正如撒迦利亞在這裡說:「因我們上帝憐憫的心腸,叫清晨的日光從高天臨到我們,要照亮坐在黑暗中死蔭裡的人,把我們的腳引到平安的路上。」
是的,上帝要將我們的腳引到平安的路上,享受祂同在的福樂!
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