提摩太前書1:8-11

1:8 我們知道律法原是好的，只要人用得合宜；

1:9 因為律法不是為義人設立的，乃是為不法和不服的，不虔誠和犯罪的，不聖潔和戀世俗的，弒父母和殺人的，

1:10 行淫和親男色的，搶人口和說謊話的，並起假誓的，或是為別樣敵正道的事設立的。

1:11 這是照著可稱頌之上帝交託我榮耀福音說的。

​​8 We know that the law is good if one uses it properly.

9 We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,

10 for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine

11 that conforms to the gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.

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    「福音」和「律法」是不衝突的，人明白了「福音」之後，更是覺得「律法」有好的一面，正如保羅在這裡說：「我們知道律法原是好的，只要人用得合宜；因為律法不是為義人設立的，乃是為不法和不服的，不虔誠和犯罪的，不聖潔和戀世俗的，弒父母和殺人的，行淫和親男色的，搶人口和說謊話的，並起假誓的，或是為別樣敵正道的事設立的。」

    這表示人悖逆上帝的話，只好設立律法來使他們知罪，使他們知道自己是怎樣違背上帝，是怎樣不行在上帝的旨意當中。也因此保羅在此說到律法的功能，就是要使人知罪而認罪。

    人認罪之後，才會認識到自己與上帝的關係是破裂的，而這樣的破裂是需要耶穌基督在十字架上的代贖受死才能修復。因為罪的工價乃是死，耶穌基督的死，滿足了上帝公義的要求，使人可以透過耶穌基督與上帝修復關係，成為上帝的兒女，享受上帝一切的恩典，這就是福音了！

耶利米書19:10-15

19:10 「你要在同去的人眼前打碎那瓶，

19:11 對他們說：『萬軍之耶和華如此說：我要照樣打碎這民和這城，正如人打碎窯匠的瓦器，以致不能再囫圇。並且人要在陀斐特葬埋屍首，甚至無處可葬。

19:12 耶和華說：我必向這地方和其中的居民如此行，使這城與陀斐特一樣。

19:13 耶路撒冷的房屋和猶大君王的宮殿是已經被玷污的，就是他們在其上向天上的萬象燒香、向別神澆奠祭的宮殿房屋，都必與陀斐特一樣。』」

19:14 耶利米從陀斐特─就是耶和華差他去說預言的地方─回來，站在耶和華殿的院中，對眾人說：

19:15 「萬軍之耶和華─以色列的上帝如此說：我必使我所說的一切災禍臨到這城和屬城的一切城邑，因為他們硬著頸項不聽我的話。」

​​“Then you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who go with you,  and shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, so that it can never be mended. Men shall bury in Topheth because there will be no place else to bury.  Thus will I do to this place, declares the Lord, and to its inhabitants, making this city like Topheth.  The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah—all the houses on whose roofs offerings have been offered to all the host of heaven, and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods—shall be defiled like the place of Topheth.’”

  Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of the Lord's house and said to all the people:  “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I am bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their neck, refusing to hear my words.”

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    上帝要耶利米用瓦器的破碎，來宣告上帝不可能和犯罪滿滿的猶大國修復關係，不再保護他們，會讓四圍的仇敵來攻擊他們。使他們徹底認識到，離開上帝敬拜別神是多麼可怕的事！他們一失去上帝的保護，就會面臨到極大的災難！

    或許您會說上帝是慈悲憐憫的，不會這麼狠心吧？但是，上帝不願意祂所摯愛的子民離棄祂，失去活水源泉的供應，每天就像一個有體無魂的人！這樣，人只有歸向滅亡！也因此，上帝透過聖靈啟示，使我們認出耶穌基督是誰！

    也因此，我們一定要好好把握聖靈所啟示的耶穌基督的拯救，在基督裡享受上帝一切的豐盛，然後歸榮耀給上帝！如此，上帝的心意才會得著滿足，因為上帝拯救我們，是為了自己的榮耀！我們接受耶穌基督為救主，成為上帝的兒女，就是榮耀上帝！

耶利米書19章

     耶利米書19:1-9  , 耶利米書19:10-15   ,

耶利米書19:1-9

19:1 耶和華如此說：「你去買窯匠的瓦瓶，又帶百姓中的長老和祭司中的長老，

19:2 出去到欣嫩子谷、哈珥西（就是瓦片的意思）的門口那裡，宣告我所吩咐你的話，

19:3 說：『猶大君王和耶路撒冷的居民哪，當聽耶和華的話。萬軍之耶和華─以色列的上帝如此說：我必使災禍臨到這地方，凡聽見的人都必耳鳴；

19:4 因為他們和他們列祖，並猶大君王離棄我，將這地方看為平常，在這裡向素不認識的別神燒香，又使這地方滿了無辜人的血，

19:5 又建築巴力的邱壇，好在火中焚燒自己的兒子，作為燔祭獻給巴力。這不是我所吩咐的，不是我所提說的，也不是我心所起的意。

19:6 耶和華說：因此，日子將到，這地方不再稱為陀斐特和欣嫩子谷，反倒稱為殺戮谷。

19:7 我必在這地方使猶大和耶路撒冷的計謀落空，也必使他們在仇敵面前倒於刀下，並尋索其命的人手下。他們的屍首，我必給空中的飛鳥和地上的野獸作食物。

19:8 我必使這城令人驚駭嗤笑；凡經過的人，必因這城所遭的災驚駭嗤笑。

19:9 我必使他們在圍困窘迫之中，就是仇敵和尋索其命的人窘迫他們的時候，各人吃自己兒女的肉和朋友的肉。』

​​ Thus says the Lord, “Go, buy a potter's earthenware flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests,  and go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you.  You shall say, Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing such disaster upon this place that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.  Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents,  and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind—  therefore, behold, days are coming, declares the Lord, when this place shall no more be called Topheth, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.  And in this place I will make void the plans of Judah and Jerusalem, and will cause their people to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth.  And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its wounds.  And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.’

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    「欣嫩子谷」是起初猶太人們以嬰孩為祭獻給迦南神摩洛的地方。獻的方法是把嬰孩放在摩洛神像燒紅的雙臂中。約西亞王（ 王下 23:10 ）廢除這種可憎的儀式後，這山谷就成為焚燒垃圾的地方。後來此處常常被當作地獄代名詞，因為在地獄裡－火是不滅、蟲是不死的！

    上帝透過先知耶利米在此宣告上帝對以色列的審判，使他們知道，上帝是憎惡猶大人竟拜別的神，這是信仰上的姦淫！更何況敬拜是要焚燒自己的兒子，這更是上帝所憤怒的事！人如此糟蹋兒女，倒不如用戰爭來使他們發生飢荒，各人吃自己兒女的肉和朋友的肉。

    我們不要以為信任何宗教都一樣，都是勸人為善。非也！許多宗教都是讓人離開創造我們的主，使人沒有得到上帝活水源泉的供應。如何才能的上帝活水泉源的供應呢？不是倚靠宗教大師，不是倚靠自己的修行，要在聖靈的帶領下，倚靠耶穌基督，與上帝建立正確合宜的關係，才可以享受得到的！