2016年10月28日 星期五

以西結書16:53-58



16:53 「我必叫她們被擄的歸回,就是叫所多瑪和她的眾女,撒馬利亞和她的眾女,並你們中間被擄的,都要歸回,
16:54 好使你擔當自己的羞辱,並因你一切所行的使她們得安慰,你就抱愧。
16:55 你的妹妹所多瑪和她的眾女必歸回原位;撒馬利亞和她的眾女,你和你的眾女,也必歸回原位。
16:56 在你驕傲的日子,你的惡行沒有顯露以先,你的口就不提你的妹妹所多瑪。那受了凌辱的亞蘭眾女和亞蘭四圍非利士的眾女都恨惡你,藐視你。
16:57 【併於上節】
16:58 耶和華說:你貪淫和可憎的事,你已經擔當了。」

53 "I will restore their fortunes, both the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and I will restore your own fortunes in their midst, 54 that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all that you have done, becoming a consolation to them. 55 As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, and you and your daughters shall return to your former state. 56 Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouth in the day of your pride, 57 before your wickedness was uncovered? Now you have become an object of reproach for the daughters of Syria and all those around her, and for the daughters of the Philistines, those all around who despise you. 58 You bear the penalty of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the Lord.

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    耶路撒冷曾經是上帝保守的城邑,讓附近的城市感到傷心,因為它們被亞述帝國的軍隊所踐踏。如今這城被巴比倫所滅,它們就覺得安慰。而耶路撒冷遭滅就是不專一敬拜上帝,敬拜別神,導致今天的下場。

    耶路撒冷的下場更是教會的借鏡基督徒不單單敬拜上帝還敬拜許多有形與無形的偶像也會被上帝厭棄

    但是教會不要忘記我們是耶穌基督撒了寶血所拯救的我們更是要透過耶穌基督專一來敬拜天父才不致讓基督在十字架上白白的釘死耶穌無法再為我們釘一次十字架若是讓基督重釘十架我們就有禍了

2016年10月27日 星期四

以西結書16:44-52



16:44 「凡說俗語的必用俗語攻擊你,說:『母親怎樣,女兒也怎樣。』
16:45 你正是你母親的女兒,厭棄丈夫和兒女;你正是你姊妹的姊妹,厭棄丈夫和兒女。你母親是赫人,你父親是亞摩利人。
16:46 你的姊姊是撒馬利亞,她和她的眾女住在你左邊;你的妹妹是所多瑪,她和她的眾女住在你右邊。
16:47 你沒有效法她們的行為,也沒有照她們可憎的事去做,你以那為小事,你一切所行的倒比她們更壞。
16:48 主耶和華說:我指著我的永生起誓,你妹妹所多瑪與她的眾女尚未行你和你眾女所行的事。
16:49 看哪,你妹妹所多瑪的罪孽是這樣:她和她的眾女都心驕氣傲,糧食飽足,大享安逸,並沒有扶助困苦和窮乏人的手。
16:50 她們狂傲,在我面前行可憎的事,我看見便將她們除掉。
16:51 撒馬利亞沒有犯你一半的罪,你行可憎的事比她更多,使你的姊妹因你所行一切可憎的事,倒顯為義。
16:52 你既斷定你姊妹為義(為義:或譯當受羞辱),就要擔當自己的羞辱;因你所犯的罪比她們更為可憎,她們就比你更顯為義;你既使你的姊妹顯為義,你就要抱愧擔當自己的羞辱。」

Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’  You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.  And your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.  Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.  As I live, declares the Lord God, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.  Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.  They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it.  Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed.  Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.

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    先知在此說的話是要耶路撒冷清楚自己犯罪受到上帝憎惡而這城市的罪惡比所多瑪還嚴重雖然口氣很重但是上帝的用意是要他們悔改

    其實教會若有犯罪的事最難過的是上帝責備最重的也是上帝!正如上帝則被耶路撒冷一樣,重要的是教會要常常在上帝面前認罪、悔改!

    今天我們還自以為義嗎?當求基督的寶血洗淨!我們自以為教會興旺是我們關心人結果,非也!若不是上帝自己透過基督吸引人,沒有人會到上帝面前,不要將榮耀歸給自己。

箴言22:4



敬畏耶和華心存謙卑,就得富有、尊榮、生命為賞賜。


 

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    關於這樣的經文我們要小心,聖經要我們行的是「敬畏耶和華心存謙卑」,不是鼓勵我們追求後面的應許,因為後面的應許是指在上帝國實現時,上帝要讓我們完全享受到的,是永恆的獎賞。

    也因此,基督徒在世要存「忍耐」的心來實行上帝的旨意。因為我們遵行上帝旨意必定有所付出,甚至是要與我們的罪性相抵抗,正如主耶穌在客西馬尼園說的:「總要警醒禱告,免得入了迷惑。你們心靈固然願意,肉體卻軟弱了。」(馬太福音26:41

    但是,我們這一路並不是我們一個人傻傻地忍耐,而是有主耶穌隨時地同在與扶持,有主的同在就如同這裡所說,「得富有、尊榮、生命為賞賜」!

2016年10月26日 星期三

以西結書16:30-43



16:30 主耶和華說:你行這一切事,都是不知羞恥妓女所行的,可見你的心是何等懦弱!
16:31 因你在一切市口上建造圓頂花樓,在各街上做了高臺,你卻藐視賞賜,不像妓女。
16:32 哎!你這行淫的妻啊,寧肯接外人,不接丈夫。
16:33 凡妓女是得人贈送,你反倒贈送你所愛的人,賄賂他們從四圍來與你行淫。
16:34 你行淫與別的婦女相反,因為不是人從你行淫;你既贈送人,人並不贈送你;所以你與別的婦女相反。
16:35 你這妓女啊,要聽耶和華的話。
16:36 主耶和華如此說:因你的污穢傾洩了,你與你所愛的行淫露出下體,又因你拜一切可憎的偶像,流兒女的血獻給他,
16:37 我就要將你一切相歡、相愛的,和你一切所恨的都聚集來,從四圍攻擊你;又將你的下體露出,使他們看盡了。
16:38 我也要審判你,好像官長審判淫婦和流人血的婦女一樣。我因忿怒忌恨,使流血的罪歸到你身上。
16:39 我又要將你交在他們手中;他們必拆毀你的圓頂花樓,毀壞你的高臺,剝去你的衣服,奪取你的華美寶器,留下你赤身露體。
16:40 他們也必帶多人來攻擊你,用石頭打死你,用刀劍刺透你,
16:41 用火焚燒你的房屋,在許多婦人眼前向你施行審判。我必使你不再行淫,也不再贈送與人。
16:42 這樣,我就止息向你發的忿怒,我的忌恨也要離開你,我要安靜不再惱怒。
16:43 因你不追念你幼年的日子,在這一切的事上向我發烈怒,所以我必照你所行的報應在你頭上,你就不再貪淫,行那一切可憎的事。這是主耶和華說的。

30 "How sick is your heart, declares the Lord God, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute, 31 building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, because you scorned payment. 32 Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband! 33 Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings. 34 So you were different from other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore, and you gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you were different.
35 "Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the Lord:36 Thus says the Lord God, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them, 37 therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from every side and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness. 38 And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy. 39 And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places. They shall strip you of your clothes and take your beautiful jewels and leave you naked and bare. 40 They shall bring up a crowd against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords. 41 And they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. I will make you stop playing the whore, and you shall also give payment no more. 42 So will I satisfy my wrath on you, and my jealousy shall depart from you. I will be calm and will no more be angry. 43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord God. Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?

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    先知在此描述耶路撒冷比妓女還不如,所以上帝要懲罰她!因為猶大國的變態狀況,花錢找人來與自己行淫,卻拒絕丈夫。上帝就是要毀滅耶路撒冷,讓祂的忌恨可以平息,所以宗教上淫亂的耶路撒冷是一定要被擄、被毀滅的。但整個毀滅的動機卻是來自「丈夫的愛」。

    而在此讓我們認識到信仰是人心靈中最私密的事情,但是這私密如同婚姻一般是要忠貞的。而忠貞的原因是因為我們是被上帝拯救,被上帝所命定、所揀選,是與上帝有一種不可抗拒的關係選擇了其他對象,是否定上帝的愛,藐視上帝的地位,也因此會遭上帝的懲罰

    以色列人蒙上帝拯救脫離埃及為奴之地!而基督徒不僅蒙拯救脫離「埃及」,更是蒙拯救脫離「罪與死」的權勢,就是魔鬼的權勢!而上帝為我們的拯救,是一種犧牲的愛,就是透過愛子耶穌基督為我們的罪死在十字架上!使我們不能再悖離這樣的愛,因為祂已徹底敗壞魔鬼在我們身上的權勢了得勝是屬乎上帝和祂的子民