使徒行傳4:23-31

 

4:23 二人既被釋放，就到會友那裡去，把祭司長和長老所說的話都告訴他們。
4:24 他們聽見了，就同心合意地高聲向上帝說：「主啊！你是造天、地、海，和其中萬物的，
4:25 你曾藉著聖靈，託你僕人─我們祖宗大衛的口，說：外邦為甚麼爭鬧？萬民為甚麼謀算虛妄的事？
4:26 世上的君王一齊起來，臣宰也聚集，要敵擋主，並主的受膏者（或譯：基督）。
4:27 希律和本丟•彼拉多，外邦人和以色列民，果然在這城裡聚集，要攻打你所膏的聖僕（僕：或譯子）耶穌，
4:28 成就你手和你意旨所預定必有的事。
4:29 他們恐嚇我們，現在求主鑒察，一面叫你僕人大放膽量講你的道，一面伸出你的手來醫治疾病，並且使神蹟奇事因著你聖僕（僕：或譯子）耶穌的名行出來。」
4:30 【併於上節】
4:31 禱告完了，聚會的地方震動，他們就都被聖靈充滿，放膽講論上帝的道。

 

²³ On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them. ²⁴ When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them. ²⁵ You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David:

“‘Why do the nations rage
    and the peoples plot in vain?
²⁶ The kings of the earth rise up
    and the rulers band together
against the Lord
    and against his anointed one.^[b]’^[c]

²⁷ Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed. ²⁸ They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen. ²⁹ Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. ³⁰ Stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”

³¹ After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.

 

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    彼得勇敢在會堂做見證，讓那些人無法對他們做甚麼！這樣的事蹟，彼得也分享給教會的弟兄姊妹知道，大家就同心禱告感謝上帝！甚至「禱告完了，聚會的地方震動，他們就都被聖靈充滿，放膽講論上帝的道。」

 

    其實今日的基督徒也要效法彼得和約翰，靠著聖靈來向世界宣告耶穌基督的名，讓世人清楚唯有靠耶穌基督的名，人才可以享受上帝所賜的永生！正如保羅所說：「我不以福音為恥；這福音本是上帝的大能，要救一切相信的，先是猶太人，後是希臘人。」（羅馬書1:16）

 

    因此，我們不要害怕自己沒有學問，也不要擔心自己社會地位低，更不用害怕自己的經濟沒有別人好，…。我們只要靠著聖靈，就會超越人的限制，將上帝的話語，也就是福音傳講得使人願意悔改歸向上帝！