約書亞記23:14-16

23:14 「我現在要走世人必走的路。你們是一心一意地知道，耶和華─你們上帝所應許賜福與你們的話沒有一句落空，都應驗在你們身上了。
23:15 耶和華─你們上帝所應許的一切福氣怎樣臨到你們身上，耶和華也必照樣使各樣禍患臨到你們身上，直到把你們從耶和華─你們上帝所賜的這美地上除滅。
23:16 你們若違背耶和華─你們上帝吩咐你們所守的約，去事奉別神，叩拜他，耶和華的怒氣必向你們發作，使你們在他所賜的美地上速速滅亡。」

 

¹⁴ “Now I am about to go the way of all the earth. You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the Lord your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed. ¹⁵ But just as all the good things the Lord your God has promised you have come to you, so he will bring on you all the evil things he has threatened, until the Lord your God has destroyed you from this good land he has given you. ¹⁶ If you violate the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from the good land he has given you.”

 

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    「上帝的憤怒」常常被基督徒忽略，總是以為上帝必須賜福於我們，不可以憤怒對待我們！

 

    可是約書亞在臨終的時候，也嚴嚴警告以色列人，若是盼望上帝賜福，也是要謹記上帝也會憤怒，也會死下災禍！

 

    然而上帝何時賜下災禍使人感受祂的憤怒呢？就是人偏離真理回到罪惡的狀況！也因為如此，要禁戒自己不可以再犯罪，雖然不容易，更是要努力！這也讓我們想到律法的功能，告訴我們什麼是犯罪！

 

    今天我們有主耶穌的恩典，更是不可以認為犯罪沒有關係，犯罪習慣了的下場就是離棄主耶穌，因為一直拒絕聖靈，就是褻瀆聖靈，終必招惹上帝的憤怒，不可輕忽上帝的憤怒！