2017年10月11日 星期三

以賽亞書6:4-7



6:4 因呼喊者的聲音,門檻的根基震動,殿充滿了煙雲。
6:5
那時我說:「禍哉!我滅亡了!因為我是嘴唇不潔的人,又住在嘴唇不潔的民中,又因我眼見大君王萬軍之耶和華。」
6:6
有一撒拉弗飛到我跟前,手裡拿著紅炭,是用火剪從壇上取下來的,
6:7
將炭沾我的口,說:「看哪,這炭沾了你的嘴,你的罪孽便除掉,你的罪惡就赦免了。」

4 The pivots on the thresholds shook at the voices of those who called, and the house filled with smoke. 5And I said: “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”
6 Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding a live coal that had been taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. 7The seraph touched my mouth with it and said: “Now that this has touched your lips, your guilt has departed and your sin is blotted out.”

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    面對上帝的榮光,是會讓人自覺自己是渺小與有罪的,所以先知以賽亞會說:「禍哉!我滅亡了!因為我是嘴唇不潔的人,又住在嘴唇不潔的民中,又因我眼見大君王萬軍之耶和華。

    所以上帝要藉著撒拉弗手裡拿著紅炭來沾在以賽亞的口,並且宣告:看哪,這炭沾了你的嘴,你的罪孽便除掉,你的罪惡就赦免了。

    這個炭火之所以有潔淨的功效是因為是用火剪從壇上取下來的,表示是上帝藉由祭物完成了除罪的恩典!然而是怎樣的祭物這樣有效呢?只要一次就有這樣的功能呢?這當然是羔羊耶穌基督的祭壇,也唯有這個祭壇能真正為人除罪!

    許多人以為靠遵行律法或是守禮儀就能除罪,非也!只有耶穌基督才可以除罪,也只有被除罪才能遵行律法或是守禮儀。所以,遵行律法或是守禮儀是得拯救的結果,不是原因,請不要本末倒置!

2017年10月10日 星期二

以賽亞書5:8-30



5:8 禍哉!那些以房接房,以地連地,以致不留餘地的,只顧自己獨居境內。
5:9 我耳聞萬軍之耶和華說:必有許多又大又美的房屋成為荒涼,無人居住。
5:10 三十畝葡萄園只出一罷特酒;一賀梅珥穀種只結一伊法糧食。
5:11 禍哉!那些清早起來追求濃酒,留連到夜深,甚至因酒發燒的人。
5:12 他們在筵席上彈琴,鼓瑟,擊鼓,吹笛,飲酒,卻不顧念耶和華的作為,也不留心他手所做的。
5:13 所以,我的百姓因無知就被擄去;他們的尊貴人甚是飢餓,群眾極其乾渴。
5:14 故此,陰間擴張其欲,開了無限量的口;他們的榮耀、群眾、繁華,並快樂的人都落在其中。
5:15 卑賤人被壓服;尊貴人降為卑;眼目高傲的人也降為卑。
5:16 惟有萬軍之耶和華因公平而崇高;聖者上帝因公義顯為聖。
5:17 那時,羊羔必來吃草,如同在自己的草場;豐肥人的荒場被遊行的人吃盡。
5:18 禍哉!那些以虛假之細繩牽罪孽的人!他們又像以套繩拉罪惡,
5:19 說:任他急速行,趕快成就他的作為,使我們看看;任以色列聖者所謀劃的臨近成就,使我們知道。
5:20 禍哉!那些稱惡為善,稱善為惡,以暗為光,以光為暗,以苦為甜,以甜為苦的人。
5:21 禍哉!那些自以為有智慧,自看為通達的人。
5:22 禍哉!那些勇於飲酒,以能力調濃酒的人。
5:23 他們因受賄賂,就稱惡人為義,將義人的義奪去。
5:24 火苗怎樣吞滅碎秸,乾草怎樣落在火焰之中,照樣,他們的根必像朽物,他們的花必像灰塵飛騰;因為他們厭棄萬軍之耶和華的訓誨,藐視以色列聖者的言語。
5:25 所以,耶和華的怒氣向他的百姓發作。他的手伸出攻擊他們,山嶺就震動;他們的屍首在街市上好像糞土。雖然如此,他的怒氣還未轉消;他的手仍伸不縮。
5:26 他必豎立大旗,招遠方的國民,發嘶聲叫他們從地極而來;看哪,他們必急速奔來。
5:27 其中沒有疲倦的,絆跌的;沒有打盹的,睡覺的;腰帶並不放鬆,鞋帶也不折斷。
5:28 他們的箭快利,弓也上了弦。馬蹄算如堅石,車輪好像旋風。
5:29 他們要吼叫,像母獅子,咆哮,像少壯獅子;他們要咆哮抓食,坦然叼去,無人救回。
5:30 那日,他們要向以色列人吼叫,像海浪匉訇;人若望地,只見黑暗艱難,光明在雲中變為昏暗。

8
Woe to you who add house to house
    and join field to field
till no space is left
    and you live alone in the land.

9 The Lord Almighty has declared in my hearing:

Surely the great houses will become desolate,
    the fine mansions left without occupants.
10
A ten-acre vineyard will produce only a bath[a] of wine;
    a homer[b] of seed will yield only an ephah[c] of grain.”

11
Woe to those who rise early in the morning
    to run after their drinks,
who stay up late at night
    till they are inflamed with wine.
12
They have harps and lyres at their banquets,
    pipes and timbrels and wine,
but they have no regard for the deeds of the Lord,
    no respect for the work of his hands.
13
Therefore my people will go into exile
    for lack of understanding;
those of high rank will die of hunger
    and the common people will be parched with thirst.
14
Therefore Death expands its jaws,
    opening wide its mouth;
into it will descend their nobles and masses
    with all their brawlers and revelers.
15
So people will be brought low
    and everyone humbled,
    the eyes of the arrogant humbled.
16
But the Lord Almighty will be exalted by his justice,
    and the holy God will be proved holy by his righteous acts.
17
Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture;
    lambs will feed[d] among the ruins of the rich.

18
Woe to those who draw sin along with cords of deceit,
    and wickedness as with cart ropes,
19
to those who say, “Let God hurry;
    let him hasten his work
    so we may see it.
The plan of the Holy One of Israel—
    let it approach, let it come into view,
    so we may know it.”

20
Woe to those who call evil good
    and good evil,
who put darkness for light
    and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
    and sweet for bitter.

21
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
    and clever in their own sight.

22
Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine
    and champions at mixing drinks,
23
who acquit the guilty for a bribe,
    but deny justice to the innocent.
24
Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw
    and as dry grass sinks down in the flames,
so their roots will decay
    and their flowers blow away like dust;
for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty
    and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25
Therefore the Lord’s anger burns against his people;
    his hand is raised and he strikes them down.
The mountains shake,
    and the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets.

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,
    his hand is still upraised.

26
He lifts up a banner for the distant nations,
    he whistles for those at the ends of the earth.
Here they come,
    swiftly and speedily!
27
Not one of them grows tired or stumbles,
    not one slumbers or sleeps;
not a belt is loosened at the waist,
    not a sandal strap is broken.
28
Their arrows are sharp,
    all their bows are strung;
their horses’ hooves seem like flint,
    their chariot wheels like a whirlwind.
29
Their roar is like that of the lion,
    they roar like young lions;
they growl as they seize their prey
    and carry it off with no one to rescue.
30
In that day they will roar over it
    like the roaring of the sea.
And if one looks at the land,
    there is only darkness and distress;
    even the sun will be darkened by clouds.

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    先知在這裡說出人的軟弱與無知就是單顧物質上的享受與享樂沒有來尋求耶和華上帝來認識祂的教訓遵行祂所教導的所頒布的誡命以至於人心所思考的都是自我都是利益而不是如何來榮耀上帝為上帝而活

    人常常忘記上帝造人的目的是為了榮耀上帝並且以上帝為我們的滿足為我們永遠的福樂所在!人若不思考,不努力來活出這樣的生命,必定遭受上帝的憤怒,與上帝越來越遠!

    今天上帝透過耶穌基督拯救我們就是除去罪在我們身上的影響力使我們可以過榮耀上帝並以上帝為我們永遠福樂的生活你願不願意接受耶穌基督成為救主來過這樣的生活嗎

以賽亞書5章

      以賽亞書5:1-7  ,

      以賽亞書5:8-30  ,

      以賽亞書5:8-10  , 

      以賽亞書5:11-17 ,

      以賽亞書5:18-19  ,

      以賽亞書5:20  ,

     以賽亞書5:21-30   ,

以賽亞書5:1-7



5:1 我要為我所親愛的唱歌,是我所愛者的歌,論他葡萄園的事:我所親愛的有葡萄園在肥美的山岡上。
5:2 他刨挖園子,撿去石頭,栽種上等的葡萄樹,在園中蓋了一座樓,又鑿出壓酒池;指望結好葡萄,反倒結了野葡萄。
5:3 耶路撒冷的居民和猶大人哪,請你們現今在我與我的葡萄園中,斷定是非。
5:4 我為我葡萄園所做之外,還有甚麼可做的呢?我指望結好葡萄,怎麼倒結了野葡萄呢?
5:5 現在我告訴你們,我要向我葡萄園怎樣行:我必撤去籬笆,使它被吞滅,拆毀牆垣,使它被踐踏。
5:6 我必使它荒廢,不再修理,不再鋤刨,荊棘蒺藜倒要生長。我也必命雲不降雨在其上。
5:7 萬軍之耶和華的葡萄園就是以色列家;他所喜愛的樹就是猶大人。他指望的是公平,誰知倒有暴虐(或譯:倒流人血);指望的是公義,誰知倒有冤聲。

I will sing for the one I love
    a song about his vineyard:
My loved one had a vineyard
    on a fertile hillside.
2
He dug it up and cleared it of stones
    and planted it with the choicest vines.
He built a watchtower in it
    and cut out a winepress as well.
Then he looked for a crop of good grapes,
    but it yielded only bad fruit.

3
Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and people of Judah,
    judge between me and my vineyard.
4
What more could have been done for my vineyard
    than I have done for it?
When I looked for good grapes,
    why did it yield only bad?
5
Now I will tell you
    what I am going to do to my vineyard:
I will take away its hedge,
    and it will be destroyed;
I will break down its wall,
    and it will be trampled.
6
I will make it a wasteland,
    neither pruned nor cultivated,
    and briers and thorns will grow there.
I will command the clouds
    not to rain on it.”

7
The vineyard of the Lord Almighty
    is the nation of Israel,
and the people of Judah
    are the vines he delighted in.
And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed;
    for righteousness, but heard cries of distress.

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    上帝原本對以色列的期盼是好葡萄」,但是結果是野葡萄」。雖然在結葡萄之前上帝下了許多的苦工:「他刨挖園子,撿去石頭,栽種上等的葡萄樹,在園中蓋了一座樓,又鑿出壓酒池。」

    這不是說上帝不知道後果會如此,因為這是比喻性的說法,我們不可以過度的猜想,就會失去先知所要表達的意義。這裡說的是上帝多麼愛以色列人,上帝的心意是期盼以色列人行祂所喜悅的事,結果事與願違,以色列反倒行惡,使上帝不喜悅!但是,上帝仍然不放棄以色列人的!

    其實這與上帝造人原是要彰顯上帝的榮耀人反倒虧缺上帝的榮耀的意義相同所以我們不可以用上帝會預先知道人會犯罪的角度來思考這會讓人覺得上帝好像故意創造會犯罪的人這是不好的說法

    也因為上帝沒有用祂的預知來對待人祂在揀選人成為他的兒女是沒有條件的祂是按照自己的慈愛來拯救人脫離罪惡不管這人是悖逆或順從雖然皆是悖逆但是祂卻將救恩賜給悖逆的人不因為他們悖逆而放棄祂的拯救!這也就是無條件揀選的教義。

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