以賽亞書4:1-6

4:1 在那日，七個女人必拉住一個男人，說：「我們吃自己的食物，穿自己的衣服，但求你許我們歸你名下；求你除掉我們的羞恥。」
4:2 到那日，耶和華發生的苗必華美尊榮，地的出產必為以色列逃脫的人顯為榮華茂盛。
4:3 主以公義的靈和焚燒的靈，將錫安女子的污穢洗去，又將耶路撒冷中殺人的血除淨。那時，剩在錫安、留在耶路撒冷的，就是一切住耶路撒冷、在生命冊上記名的，必稱為聖。
4:4 【併於上節】
4:5 耶和華也必在錫安全山，並各會眾以上，使白日有煙雲，黑夜有火焰的光。因為在全榮耀之上必有遮蔽。
4:6 必有亭子，白日可以得蔭避暑，也可以作為藏身之處，躲避狂風暴雨。

Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying,

“We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes;

just let us be called by your name;

take away our disgrace.”

² On that day the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be the pride and glory of the survivors of Israel. ³Whoever is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy, everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem, ⁴once the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning. ⁵Then the Lord will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over its places of assembly a cloud by day and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night. Indeed over all the glory there will be a canopy. ⁶It will serve as a pavilion, a shade by day from the heat, and a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.

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    上帝要使自己的榮光重新充滿耶路撒冷，使得上帝的榮光在此在人間，因為上帝要將祂真正的拯救臨到祂所愛的人當中，這就是我們今日可以在基督裡享受到的恩典與慈愛！

    也因為如此，上帝在舊約當中的預言，就成全在新約的時代。基督裡是上帝實現他承諾和應許的所在，使得屬基督人真正感受到透過耶穌基督的拯救，真真成為上帝的兒女！

    這是何等的美事！有沒有享受到呢？快快來到基督裡，透過聖靈的引導，使我們真真享受上帝奇妙的救恩，並且以歡喜快樂的心來盼望，盼望上帝的國快快實現，上帝的榮光充滿全地！

以賽亞書3:16-26

3:16 耶和華又說：因為錫安的女子狂傲，行走挺項，賣弄眼目，俏步徐行，腳下玎璫，
3:17 所以，主必使錫安的女子頭長禿瘡；耶和華又使她們赤露下體。
3:18 到那日，主必除掉她們華美的腳釧、髮網、月牙圈、
3:19 耳環、手鐲、蒙臉的帕子、
3:20 華冠、足鍊、華帶、香盒、符囊、
3:21 戒指、鼻環、
3:22 吉服、外套、雲肩、荷包、
3:23 手鏡、細麻衣、裹頭巾、蒙身的帕子。
3:24 必有臭爛代替馨香，繩子代替腰帶，光禿代替美髮，麻衣繫腰代替華服，烙傷代替美容。
3:25 你的男丁必倒在刀下；你的勇士必死在陣上。
3:26 錫安（原文是她）的城門必悲傷、哀號；她必荒涼坐在地上。

The Lord said:

Because the daughters of Zion are haughty

and walk with outstretched necks,

glancing wantonly with their eyes,

mincing along as they go,

tinkling with their feet;

17

the Lord will afflict with scabs

the heads of the daughters of Zion,

and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts.

¹⁸ In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents; ¹⁹the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarfs; ²⁰the headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets; ²¹the signet rings and nose rings; ²²the festal robes, the mantles, the cloaks, and the handbags; ²³the garments of gauze, the linen garments, the turbans, and the veils.

24

Instead of perfume there will be a stench;

and instead of a sash, a rope;

and instead of well-set hair, baldness;

and instead of a rich robe, a binding of sackcloth;

instead of beauty, shame.

25

Your men shall fall by the sword

and your warriors in battle.

26

And her gates shall lament and mourn;

ravaged, she shall sit upon the ground.

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    先知以賽亞藉由女子的狀況，來說明耶路撒冷的敗落。這是很鮮活的筆法，因為女性的流行服飾，是都會中奢華的表現，許多的生意都是從女子的需要來的。而女子的穿著，常常是城市繁榮的指標，越繁榮的城市女子的穿著越是花俏，這是古今中外不變的道理。

    然而這些奢華常常是需要有安定的社會，而安定的社會通常需要有政治、軍事與經濟力量的維持。這些力量正是世界勢力的展現，這樣的勢力通常是與上帝為敵的。但是，許多的基督徒看不清楚，常常去倚靠與追求這些力量。

    也因為如此，許多的基督徒能可去追求政治、軍事與經濟的力量，以為如此可以鞏固教會與個人。其實，這是與上帝為敵的力量，上帝要人臣服於基督，尊崇基督的王權，不是倚靠基督以外的勢力！

以賽亞書3章

    以賽亞書3:1-15  ,   以賽亞書3:16-26 ,

以賽亞書3:1-15

3:1 主─萬軍之耶和華從耶路撒冷和猶大，除掉眾人所倚靠的，所仗賴的，就是所倚靠的糧，所仗賴的水；
3:2 除掉勇士和戰士，審判官和先知，占卜的和長老，
3:3 五十夫長和尊貴人，謀士和有巧藝的，以及妙行法術的。
3:4 主說：我必使孩童作他們的首領，使嬰孩轄管他們。
3:5 百姓要彼此欺壓；各人受鄰舍的欺壓。少年人必侮慢老年人；卑賤人必侮慢尊貴人。
3:6 人在父家拉住弟兄，說：你有衣服，可以作我們的官長。這敗落的事歸在你手下吧！
3:7 那時，他必揚聲說：我不作醫治你們的人；因我家中沒有糧食，也沒有衣服，你們不可立我作百姓的官長。
3:8 耶路撒冷敗落，猶大傾倒；因為他們的舌頭和行為與耶和華反對，惹了他榮光的眼目。
3:9 他們的面色證明自己的不正；他們述說自己的罪惡，並不隱瞞，好像所多瑪一樣。他們有禍了！因為作惡自害。
3:10 你們要論義人說：他必享福樂，因為要吃自己行為所結的果子。
3:11 惡人有禍了！他必遭災難！因為要照自己手所行的受報應。
3:12 至於我的百姓，孩童欺壓他們，婦女轄管他們。我的百姓啊，引導你的使你走錯，並毀壞你所行的道路。
3:13 耶和華起來辯論，站著審判眾民。
3:14 耶和華必審問他民中的長老和首領，說：吃盡葡萄園果子的就是你們；向貧窮人所奪的都在你們家中。
3:15 主─萬軍之耶和華說：你們為何壓制我的百姓，搓磨貧窮人的臉呢？

For now the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts,

is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah

support and staff—

all support of bread,

and all support of water—

2

warrior and soldier,

judge and prophet,

diviner and elder,

3

captain of fifty

and dignitary,

counselor and skillful magician

and expert enchanter.

4

And I will make boys their princes,

and babes shall rule over them.

5

The people will be oppressed,

everyone by another

and everyone by a neighbor;

the youth will be insolent to the elder,

and the base to the honorable.

6

Someone will even seize a relative,

a member of the clan, saying,

“You have a cloak;

you shall be our leader,

and this heap of ruins

shall be under your rule.”

7

But the other will cry out on that day, saying,

“I will not be a healer;

in my house there is neither bread nor cloak;

you shall not make me

leader of the people.”

8

For Jerusalem has stumbled

and Judah has fallen,

because their speech and their deeds are against the Lord,

defying his glorious presence.

9

The look on their faces bears witness against them;

they proclaim their sin like Sodom,

they do not hide it.

Woe to them!

For they have brought evil on themselves.

10

Tell the innocent how fortunate they are,

for they shall eat the fruit of their labors.

11

Woe to the guilty! How unfortunate they are,

for what their hands have done shall be done to them.

12

My people—children are their oppressors,

and women rule over them.

O my people, your leaders mislead you,

and confuse the course of your paths.

13

The Lord rises to argue his case;

he stands to judge the peoples.

14

The Lord enters into judgment

with the elders and princes of his people:

It is you who have devoured the vineyard;

the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

15

What do you mean by crushing my people,

by grinding the face of the poor? says the Lord God of hosts.

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    先知書當中的動力是來自上帝的智慧，正如這段經文所說的，上帝將一切人所倚靠的全部推翻，讓人知道除了倚靠上帝之外，沒有別的好倚靠的。這是一種革命性的論述，也只有在先知書中可以看到。

    其實基督徒本身也要有革命性的看見，不要受到常規的限制，要以上帝為我們的倚靠和動力的來源，勇敢打破任何企圖在上帝之外建立權威的勢力，包括任何的政權、任何的權勢！因為，任何的權柄是來自上帝，若不是上帝的旨意，誰也無法建立權柄！

    也因此，我們確定將來只有基督是王，屬基督的也要同基督做王，享受基督的榮耀與王權到永遠！這就是基督賜給人的獎賞，我們所追求的，也就是得著基督、與基督聯合到永遠！

撒母耳記下5章

       撒母耳記下5:1-25   ,

       撒母耳記下5:17-25   ,

撒母耳記下5:17-25

5:17 非利士人聽見人膏大衛作以色列王，非利士眾人就上來尋索大衛；大衛聽見，就下到保障。
5:18 非利士人來了，布散在利乏音谷。
5:19 大衛求問耶和華說：「我可以上去攻打非利士人嗎？你將他們交在我手裡嗎？」耶和華說：「你可以上去，我必將非利士人交在你手裡。」
5:20 大衛來到巴力‧毘拉心，在那裡擊殺非利士人，說：「耶和華在我面前沖破敵人，如同水沖去一般。」因此稱那地方為巴力‧毘拉心。
5:21 非利士人將偶像撇在那裡，大衛和跟隨他的人拿去了。
5:22 非利士人又上來，布散在利乏音谷。
5:23 大衛求問耶和華；耶和華說：「不要一直地上去，要轉到他們後頭，從桑林對面攻打他們。
5:24 你聽見桑樹梢上有腳步的聲音，就要急速前去，因為那時耶和華已經在你前頭去攻打非利士人的軍隊。」
5:25 大衛就遵著耶和華所吩咐的去行，攻打非利士人，從迦巴直到基色。

17 When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king of Israel, they mobilized all their forces to capture him. But David was told they were coming, so he went into the stronghold.18 The Philistines arrived and spread out across the valley of Rephaim.19 So David asked the LORD, "Should I go out to fight the Philistines? Will you hand them over to me?"
  The LORD replied to David, "Yes, go ahead. I will certainly hand them over to you."
  20 So David went to Baal-perazim and defeated the Philistines there. "The LORD did it!" David exclaimed. "He burst through my enemies like a raging flood!" So he named that place Baal-perazim (which means "the Lord who bursts through").21 The Philistines had abandoned their idols there, so David and his men confiscated them.
  22 But after a while the Philistines returned and again spread out across the valley of Rephaim.23 And again David asked the LORD what to do. "Do not attack them straight on," the LORD replied. "Instead, circle around behind and attack them near the poplar* trees.24 When you hear a sound like marching feet in the tops of the poplar trees, be on the alert! That will be the signal that the LORD is moving ahead of you to strike down the Philistine army."25 So David did what the LORD commanded, and he struck down the Philistines all the way from Gibeon* to Gezer.

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     非力士人對以色列人來說是強大的敵人，因為掃羅是死於非利士人的攻擊之中。而對於以色列人立大衛為王，非力士人更是不願意。也因此他們就要攻擊和攪擾。

    然而上帝卻與大衛同在，也趁這樣的機會來鞏固大衛的機會。所以，上帝讓大衛與非力士人交戰時大得勝利！

    我們的生命常常也會有「非力士的攪擾」，但是在上帝的手中，這些是反倒成了我們的助益之事！也因此，要為此感謝上帝！

    正如每次講道前，魔鬼會用各種方式來攪擾，而這樣的攪擾反使得我更倚靠主，使我更親近主！

歷代志上13章

       歷代志上13:1-14  ,