以賽亞書49:1-7

49:1 眾海島啊，當聽我言！遠方的眾民哪，留心而聽！自我出胎，耶和華就選召我；自出母腹，他就提我的名。
49:2 他使我的口如快刀，將我藏在他手蔭之下；又使我成為磨亮的箭，將我藏在他箭袋之中；
49:3 對我說：你是我的僕人以色列；我必因你得榮耀。
49:4 我卻說：我勞碌是徒然；我盡力是虛無虛空。然而，我當得的理必在耶和華那裡；我的賞賜必在我上帝那裡。
49:5 耶和華從我出胎，造就我作他的僕人，要使雅各歸向他，使以色列到他那裡聚集。原來耶和華看我為尊貴；我的上帝也成為我的力量。
49:6 現在他說：你作我的僕人，使雅各眾支派復興，使以色列中得保全的歸回尚為小事，我還要使你作外邦人的光，叫你施行我的救恩，直到地極。
49:7 救贖主─以色列的聖者耶和華對那被人所藐視、本國所憎惡、官長所虐待的如此說：君王要看見就站起，首領也要下拜；都因信實的耶和華，就是揀選你─以色列的聖者。

Listen to me, O coastlands,

pay attention, you peoples from far away!

The Lord called me before I was born,

while I was in my mother’s womb he named me.

2

He made my mouth like a sharp sword,

in the shadow of his hand he hid me;

he made me a polished arrow,

in his quiver he hid me away.

3

And he said to me, “You are my servant,

Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”

4

But I said, “I have labored in vain,

I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity;

yet surely my cause is with the Lord,

and my reward with my God.”

5

And now the Lord says,

who formed me in the womb to be his servant,

to bring Jacob back to him,

and that Israel might be gathered to him,

for I am honored in the sight of the Lord,

and my God has become my strength—

6

he says,

“It is too light a thing that you should be my servant

to raise up the tribes of Jacob

and to restore the survivors of Israel;

I will give you as a light to the nations,

that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”

7

Thus says the Lord,

the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One,

to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nations,

the slave of rulers,

“Kings shall see and stand up,

princes, and they shall prostrate themselves,

because of the Lord, who is faithful,

the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

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    先知以賽亞在此說出了上帝僕人的心聲：「我勞碌是徒然；我盡力是虛無虛空。然而，我當得的理必在耶和華那裡；我的賞賜必在我上帝那裡。」

    這樣的情形正如保羅所說：「反倒在各樣的事上表明自己是上帝的用人，就如在許多的忍耐、患難、窮乏、困苦、鞭打、監禁、擾亂、勤勞、警醒、不食、廉潔、知識、恆忍、恩慈、聖靈的感化、無偽的愛心、真實的道理、上帝的大能；仁義的兵器在左在右；榮耀、羞辱，惡名、美名；似乎是誘惑人的，卻是誠實的；似乎不為人所知，卻是人所共知的；似乎要死，卻是活著的；似乎受責罰，卻是不至喪命的；似乎憂愁，卻是常常快樂的；似乎貧窮，卻是叫許多人富足的；似乎一無所有，卻是樣樣都有的。」（哥林多後書6:4-10）

 

    所以，既然蒙上帝揀選成為祂的僕人，就要將盼望和滿足放在上帝本身，不要求是上的財富與權力，這是世人所看為滿足的，看為重要的！但是上帝的僕人，要以基督為我們的滿足，為我們的至寶！再次借用保羅的話：「只是我先前以為與我有益的，我現在因基督都當作有損的。不但如此，我也將萬事當作有損的，因我以認識我主基督耶穌為至寶。我為他已經丟棄萬事，看作糞土，為要得著基督。」（腓立比書3:7-8）

以賽亞書48:17-22

48:17 耶和華─你的救贖主，以色列的聖者如此說：我是耶和華─你的上帝，教訓你，使你得益處，引導你所當行的路。
48:18 甚願你素來聽從我的命令！你的平安就如河水；你的公義就如海浪。
48:19 你的後裔也必多如海沙；你腹中所生的也必多如沙粒。他的名在我面前必不剪除，也不滅絕。
48:20 你們要從巴比倫出來，從迦勒底人中逃脫，以歡呼的聲音傳揚說：耶和華救贖了他的僕人雅各！你們要將這事宣揚到地極。
48:21 耶和華引導他們經過沙漠。他們並不乾渴；他為他們使水從磐石而流，分裂磐石，水就湧出。
48:22 耶和華說：惡人必不得平安！

17

Thus says the Lord,

your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:

I am the Lord your God,

who teaches you for your own good,

who leads you in the way you should go.

18

O that you had paid attention to my commandments!

Then your prosperity would have been like a river,

and your success like the waves of the sea;

19

your offspring would have been like the sand,

and your descendants like its grains;

their name would never be cut off

or destroyed from before me.

20

Go out from Babylon, flee from Chaldea,

declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it,

send it forth to the end of the earth;

say, “The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!”

21

They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts;

he made water flow for them from the rock;

he split open the rock and the water gushed out.

22

“There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.” 

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    上帝藉由先知以賽亞宣告：「耶和華─你的救贖主，以色列的聖者如此說：我是耶和華─你的上帝，教訓你，使你得益處，引導你所當行的路。甚願你素來聽從我的命令！你的平安就如河水；你的公義就如海浪。」

    是的，我們的信仰中最重要的事就是：聽從上帝的命令！這是我們信仰的核心！就像我們的禮拜中有：恭候上帝的話、領受上帝的話、回應上帝的話，最後受差遣去實行上帝的話！也因此，上帝的話，在基督徒的信仰是非常重要的！

    就是因為有上帝的話語的引導，我們才能行在天路上永不偏離。所以，我們要聽從與遵行上帝的命令，使上帝的旨意成就在我們身上。而信仰上最重要得就是信而順服！

以賽亞書48:12-16

48:12 雅各─我所選召的以色列啊，當聽我言：我是耶和華，我是首先的，也是末後的。

48:13 我手立了地的根基；我右手鋪張諸天；我一招呼便都立住。

48:14 你們都當聚集而聽，他們（或譯：偶像）內中誰說過這些事？耶和華所愛的人必向巴比倫行他所喜悅的事；他的膀臂也要加在迦勒底人身上。

48:15 惟有我曾說過，我又選召他，領他來，他的道路就必亨通。

48:16 你們要就近我來聽這話：我從起頭並未曾在隱密處說話；自從有這事，我就在那裡。現在，主耶和華差遣我和他的靈來（或譯：耶和華和他的靈差遣我來）。

12

Listen to me,
O Jacob,

and Israel,
whom I called:

I am He; I am
the first,

and I am the
last.

13

My hand laid
the foundation of the earth,

and my right
hand spread out the heavens;

when I summon
them,

they stand at
attention.

14

Assemble, all
of you, and hear!

Who among them
has declared these things?

The Lord loves him;

he shall
perform his purpose on Babylon,

and his arm
shall be against the Chaldeans.

15

I, even I, have
spoken and called him,

I have brought
him, and he will prosper in his way.

16

Draw near to
me, hear this!

From the
beginning I have not spoken in secret,

from the time
it came to be I have been there.

And now the
Lord God has sent me and his spirit.

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    現在要錄下一段與經文意思相接近的文字：『十六世紀的宗教改革是「福音」被奇妙地重新展現的時刻。人們往往將宗教改革對福音的總結歸納成「宗教改革的五個唯獨」（拉丁文的solus/sola意思是「唯獨」）：唯獨聖經、唯獨恩典、唯獨信心、唯獨基督、唯獨神得榮耀。但是，這裡有第六個「唯獨」。沒有這個，其他五個唯獨也無法存在，這就是：「唯獨聖靈」。因此，蘇格蘭的改教家—約翰諾克斯解釋，當福音被重新恢復時，乃是透過一種非比尋常的方式，他寫道：「上帝將祂的聖靈豐豐富富地賜給尋常之人。」』（引自: RTV Taiwan 基督教台灣改革宗電視台之《宗教改革裡被遺忘的第六個唯獨─唯獨聖靈》）

    聖靈是上帝，祂的作為就是將耶穌基督的救恩實現在我們身上！而祂在教會中最常做的事就是禮拜時，祂充滿在講道的人心中，讓講道人說出上帝的話語，來造就弟兄姐妹。所以，我們聽道的時候，是我們在聖靈裡與基督相會的時候，雖然講道的人不是耶穌。

  

    願你在基督裡，因著聖靈的引導，使你感受到主耶穌的同在，天天與主耶穌同行天路，在地上雖然有許多艱難，但是上帝沒有丟棄我們，祂拯救我們，就必拯救到底！

以賽亞書48:1-11

48:1 雅各家，稱為以色列名下，從猶大水源出來的，當聽我言！你們指著耶和華的名起誓，提說以色列的上帝，卻不憑誠實，不憑公義。
48:2 他們自稱為聖城的人，所倚靠的是名為萬軍之耶和華─以色列的上帝。
48:3 主說：早先的事，我從古時說明，已經出了我的口，也是我所指示的；我忽然行做，事便成就。
48:4 因為我素來知道你是頑梗的─你的頸項是鐵的；你的額是銅的。
48:5 所以，我從古時將這事給你說明，在未成以先指示你，免得你說：這些事是我的偶像所行的，是我雕刻的偶像和我鑄造的偶像所命定的。
48:6 你已經聽見，現在要看見這一切；你不說明嗎？從今以後，我將新事，就是你所不知道的隱密事指示你。
48:7 這事是現今造的，並非從古就有；在今日以先，你也未曾聽見，免得你說：這事我早已知道了。
48:8 你未曾聽見，未曾知道；你的耳朵從來未曾開通。我原知道你行事極其詭詐，你自從出胎以來，便稱為悖逆的。
48:9 我為我的名暫且忍怒，為我的頌讚向你容忍，不將你剪除。
48:10 我熬煉你，卻不像熬煉銀子；你在苦難的爐中，我揀選你。
48:11 我為自己的緣故必行這事，我焉能使我的名被褻瀆？我必不將我的榮耀歸給假神。

Hear this, O house of Jacob,

who are called by the name of Israel,

and who came forth from the loins of Judah;

who swear by the name of the Lord,

and invoke the God of Israel,

but not in truth or right.

2

For they call themselves after the holy city,

and lean on the God of Israel;

the Lord of hosts is his name.

3

The former things I declared long ago,

they went out from my mouth and I made them known;

then suddenly I did them and they came to pass.

4

Because I know that you are obstinate,

and your neck is an iron sinew

and your forehead brass,

5

I declared them to you from long ago,

before they came to pass I announced them to you,

so that you would not say, “My idol did them,

my carved image and my cast image commanded them.”

6

You have heard; now see all this;

and will you not declare it?

From this time forward I make you hear new things,

hidden things that you have not known.

7

They are created now, not long ago;

before today you have never heard of them,

so that you could not say, “I already knew them.”

8

You have never heard, you have never known,

from of old your ear has not been opened.

For I knew that you would deal very treacherously,

and that from birth you were called a rebel.

9

For my name’s sake I defer my anger,

for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you,

so that I may not cut you off.

10

See, I have refined you, but not like silver;

I have tested you in the furnace of adversity.

11

For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it,

for why should my name be profaned?

My glory I will not give to another.

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    上帝是行事的上帝，祂之所以如此，是因為「我為自己的緣故必行這事，我焉能使我的名被褻瀆？我必不將我的榮耀歸給假神。」

    這也就是告訴我們：上帝是看重祂的榮耀的，祂不僅將祂的榮耀在我們生命中張顯，更是要我們將榮耀歸給祂、敬拜祂、尊榮祂！祂最恨惡的事，就是竊取祂的榮耀和將榮耀歸給假神！

    也因為這樣，我們在基督裡要尊上帝為大！因為要不是上帝的旨意，我們的命運只有沉淪，怎能得著永生，怎能進入上帝的家中，成為上帝的兒女，並承受上帝永遠的國，與基督一同做王！

以賽亞書47章

       以賽亞書47:1-15 ,