以西結書15:1-8

15:1 耶和華的話臨到我說：

15:2 「人子啊，葡萄樹比別樣樹有甚麼強處？葡萄枝比眾樹枝有甚麼好處？

15:3 其上可以取木料做甚麼工用，可以取來做釘子掛甚麼器皿麼？

15:4 看哪，已經拋在火中當作柴燒，火既燒了兩頭，中間也被燒了，還有益於工用嗎？

15:5 完全的時候尚且不合乎甚麼工用，何況被火燒壞，還能合乎甚麼工用麼？」

15:6 所以，主耶和華如此說：眾樹以內的葡萄樹，我怎樣使它在火中當柴，也必照樣待耶路撒冷的居民。

15:7 我必向他們變臉；他們雖從火中出來，火卻要燒滅他們。我向他們變臉的時候，你們就知道我是耶和華。

15:8 我必使地土荒涼，因為他們行事干犯我。這是主耶和華說的。」

​ And the word of the Lord came to me:  “Son of man, how does the wood of the vine surpass any wood, the vine branch that is among the trees of the forest?  Is wood taken from it to make anything? Do people take a peg from it to hang any vessel on it?  Behold, it is given to the fire for fuel. When the fire has consumed both ends of it, and the middle of it is charred, is it useful for anything?  Behold, when it was whole, it was used for nothing. How much less, when the fire has consumed it and it is charred, can it ever be used for anything!  Therefore thus says the Lord God: Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.  And I will set my face against them. Though they escape from the fire, the fire shall yet consume them, and you will know that I am the Lord, when I set my face against them.  And I will make the land desolate, because they have acted faithlessly, declares the Lord God.”

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    先知以西結這段話提醒我們，我們既是上帝所揀選的，就更應當遵行上帝的命令，不可以繼續悖逆上帝，做上帝順命的兒女，才能發揮上帝賦予我們的使命，讓上帝透過我們來榮耀祂。

    當然照我們未領受聖靈時的本性，我們是無法順服與跟隨主耶穌，所以上帝要我們時刻思考耶穌基督在十字架上所完成的大功，相信祂已敗壞罪與死的權勢，我們不必受到惡者的約束，已經自由了，當存感恩的心來宣告，我已經與基督同死了，也必定與基督同復活！

    因此，我們當以基督的救贖大功來提醒自己，使自己不要再用自以為是的方式來討主喜悅，單單相信只有靠耶穌基督才能與上帝和好，討上帝喜悅。我們一切所作所為，要本於基督已經救贖了我的信心來行上帝喜悅的事：就是尊主為大，以聖經的教導來行，不要自創任何儀式。

馬太福音28章

        馬太福音28:1-10  ,  馬 太 福 音 28:2-7  ,

        馬太福音28:11-15 ,

        馬太福音28:16-20   ,  馬太福音28:19  ,   馬太福音28:20   , 馬太福音28:20  ,

馬太福音28:20

凡我所吩咐你們的，都教訓他們遵守，我就常與你們同在，直到世界的末了。

teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.

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    我在教會主日崇拜後的祝福中，常常喜歡用：「上帝與你們同在，直到世界的末了。」

    剛開始覺得很奇怪，我怎麼會用這種說法，因為大部分的牧者會說：「上帝與與你們同在，直到永遠」。可是我讀了這段經文之後，才明白為何會這麼順地說：「直到世界的末了」。因為主耶穌給門徒的祝福，就是如此。

    然而就希臘文的意思翻譯應該是：「看哪！所有日子中我與你們在一起直到世代的結束」。這表示耶穌基督確確實實的與我們同在，無論在哪個時間或空間！說得更貼切是，主是在每一個「此時」、「此地」與我們同在！就是現在、就是這裡！主沒有一刻、沒有一處離開我們！讓我們珍惜此時此地，不要把希望放在遠處和將來。

以西結書14:12-23

14:12 耶和華的話臨到我說：

14:13 「人子啊，若有一國犯罪干犯我，我也向他伸手折斷他們的杖，就是斷絕他們的糧，使饑荒臨到那地，將人與牲畜從其中剪除；

14:14 其中雖有挪亞、但以理、約伯這三人，他們只能因他們的義救自己的性命。這是主耶和華說的。

14:15 我若使惡獸經過糟踐那地，使地荒涼，以致因這些獸，人都不得經過；

14:16 雖有這三人在其中，主耶和華說：我指著我的永生起誓，他們連兒帶女都不能得救，只能自己得救，那地仍然荒涼。

14:17 或者我使刀劍臨到那地，說：刀劍哪，要經過那地，以致我將人與牲畜從其中剪除；

14:18 雖有這三人在其中，主耶和華說：我指著我的永生起誓，他們連兒帶女都不能得救，只能自己得救。

14:19 或者我叫瘟疫流行那地，使我滅命（原文是帶血）的忿怒傾在其上，好將人與牲畜從其中剪除；

14:20 雖有挪亞、但以理、約伯在其中，主耶和華說：我指著我的永生起誓，他們連兒帶女都不能救，只能因他們的義救自己的性命。」

14:21 主耶和華如此說：「我將這四樣大災─就是刀劍、饑荒、惡獸、瘟疫降在耶路撒冷，將人與牲畜從其中剪除，豈不更重嗎？

14:22 然而其中必有剩下的人，他們連兒帶女必帶到你們這裡來，你們看見他們所行所為的，要因我降給耶路撒冷的一切災禍，便得了安慰。

14:23 你們看見他們所行所為的，得了安慰，就知道我在耶路撒冷中所行的並非無故。這是主耶和華說的。」

And the word of the Lord came to me:  “Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and break its supply of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast,  even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord God.

  “If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no one may pass through because of the beasts,  even if these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.

“Or if I bring a sword upon that land and say, Let a sword pass through the land, and I cut off from it man and beast,  though these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they alone would be delivered.

  “Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast,  even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.

  “For thus says the Lord God: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild beasts, and pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast! But behold, some survivors will be left in it, sons and daughters who will be brought out; behold, when they come out to you, and you see their ways and their deeds, you will be consoled for the disaster that I have brought upon Jerusalem, for all that I have brought upon it.  They will console you, when you see their ways and their deeds, and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, declares the Lord God.”

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    饑荒、刀劍、惡獸、瘟疫一定降臨，不能因為少數義人扭轉結局，就如經文中說到：「其中雖有挪亞、但以理、約伯這三人，他們只能因他們的義救自己的性命。」「雖有這三人在其中，主耶和華說：我指著我的永生起誓，他們連兒帶女都不能得救，只能自己得救，…」

    這一段經文主要是說「義人自己的行為也不能救敗壞的國家」，自己必須為自己的行為負責。被擄到巴比倫的人行為依然敗壞，所以看到的人會說這樣敗壞的一羣人，還可以剩下不少人到巴比倫來，上帝真是憐憫以色列人了。而且也會知道上帝讓四樣災禍臨到耶路撒冷，實在是合情合理的（耶路撒冷是罪有應得）。

    而這樣的說法，就是要告訴我們，人不要為自己臨到的災難感到吃驚，會有這些災難發生，是要提醒人不要再繼續遠離上帝，悖逆創造我們的主，要悔改歸向祂，靠耶穌基督修復與上帝重新有合宜和正確的關係。

以西結書14章

     以西結書14:1-11    , 

     以西結書14:12-23  ,

     以西結書14章12-23節  ,

以西結書14:1-11

14:1 有幾個以色列長老到我這裡來，坐在我面前。

14:2 耶和華的話就臨到我說：

14:3 「人子啊，這些人已將他們的假神接到心裡，把陷於罪的絆腳石放在面前，我豈能絲毫被他們求問嗎？

14:4 所以你要告訴他們：『主耶和華如此說：以色列家的人中，凡將他的假神接到心裡，把陷於罪的絆腳石放在面前，又就了先知來的，我─耶和華在他所求的事上，必按他眾多的假神回答他（或譯：必按他拜許多假神的罪報應他），

14:5 好在以色列家的心事上捉住他們，因為他們都藉著假神與我生疏。』

14:6 「所以你要告訴以色列家說：『主耶和華如此說：回頭吧！離開你們的偶像，轉臉莫從你們一切可憎的事。』

14:7 因為以色列家的人，或在以色列中寄居的外人，凡與我隔絕，將他的假神接到心裡，把陷於罪的絆腳石放在面前，又就了先知來要為自己的事求問我的，我─耶和華必親自回答他。

14:8 我必向那人變臉，使他作了警戒，笑談，令人驚駭，並且我要將他從我民中剪除；你們就知道我是耶和華。

14:9 先知若被迷惑說一句預言，是我─耶和華任那先知受迷惑，我也必向他伸手，將他從我民以色列中除滅。

14:10 他們必擔當自己的罪孽。先知的罪孽和求問之人的罪孽都是一樣，

14:11 好使以色列家不再走迷離開我，不再因各樣的罪過玷污自己，只要作我的子民，我作他們的上帝。這是主耶和華說的。」

1 Then certain of the elders of Israel came to me and sat before me. 2 And the word of the Lord came to me:3 "Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. Should I indeed let myself be consulted by them? 4 Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the Lord God:Any one of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to the prophet, I the Lord will answer him as he comes with the multitude of his idols, 5 that I may lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel, who are all estranged from me through their idols.

6 "Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: Repent and turn away from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations. 7 For any one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, taking his idols into his heart and putting the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to a prophet to consult me through him, I the Lord will answer him myself. 8 And I will set my face against that man; I will make him a sign and a byword and cut him off from the midst of my people, and you shall know that I am the Lord. 9 And if the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, the Lord, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. 10 And they shall bear their punishment —the punishment of the prophet and the punishment of the inquirer shall be alike— 11 that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, nor defile themselves anymore with all their transgressions, but that they may be my people and I may be their God, declares the Lord God."

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    這些長老以及不少多神崇拜者來說，上帝也是諸神之一，多拜多保佑。因此他們還是會來尋求上帝的幫助。但這對耶和華信仰的神（造物者）而言，是一種侮辱。上帝要報應這些多神主義（對耶和華信仰不忠心）的長老，目的是奪回以色列的心，因為這些以色列人已經不認識上帝了。

    上帝一向是這樣的上帝，與上帝立約過的以色列人（包含其中的外國人），崇敬假神又來求問上帝（這樣等於是侮辱造物者），上帝的審判就是「將他們由應許團體中剪除」。以色列的領袖們可能來問先知某些他們想知道的事，但是上帝卻回答他們應該知道的事：「要回頭離開偶像，以免遭災禍」。上帝嚴厲懲罰的背後動機：希望整個信仰羣體不要走迷離開上帝。

    問題是人不喜歡聽上帝嚴厲的話，喜歡聽假先知迎合的話，所以離上帝越來越遠。然而聖經說明上帝容許假先知出現，但祂並不喜悅假先知，上帝要「除滅」假先知與追隨假先知的人們。

    這也提醒我們講道、分享時，是講會衆想聽的還是會衆應該聽的？所謂該聽的就是照聖經的話，忠心與誠實的傳講，求上帝心意清楚傳講而非討好人心，使人真正歸向上帝，而非自己的想像。