3:12 弟兄們,你們要謹慎,免得你們中間或有人存著不信的惡心,把永生上帝離棄了。
3:13 總要趁著還有今日,天天彼此相勸,免得你們中間有人被罪迷惑,心裡就剛硬了。
3:14 我們若將起初確實的信心堅持到底,就在基督裡有分了。
3:15 經上說:「你們今日若聽他的話,就不可硬著心,像惹他發怒的日子一樣。」
3:16 那時,聽見他話惹他發怒的是誰呢?豈不是跟著摩西從埃及出來的眾人嗎?
3:17 上帝四十年之久,又厭煩誰呢?豈不是那些犯罪、屍首倒在曠野的人嗎?
3:18 又向誰起誓,不容他們進入他的安息呢?豈不是向那些不信從的人嗎?
3:19 這樣看來,他們不能進入安息是因為不信的緣故了。
3:13 總要趁著還有今日,天天彼此相勸,免得你們中間有人被罪迷惑,心裡就剛硬了。
3:14 我們若將起初確實的信心堅持到底,就在基督裡有分了。
3:15 經上說:「你們今日若聽他的話,就不可硬著心,像惹他發怒的日子一樣。」
3:16 那時,聽見他話惹他發怒的是誰呢?豈不是跟著摩西從埃及出來的眾人嗎?
3:17 上帝四十年之久,又厭煩誰呢?豈不是那些犯罪、屍首倒在曠野的人嗎?
3:18 又向誰起誓,不容他們進入他的安息呢?豈不是向那些不信從的人嗎?
3:19 這樣看來,他們不能進入安息是因為不信的緣故了。
12 See to it, brothers and
sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from
the living God. 13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is
called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
14 We have come to share
in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end.
15 As has just been said:
16 Who were
they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? 17 And
with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose
bodies perished in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did God swear that they would never
enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? 19 So we see that they were not able to enter,
because of their unbelief.
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《希伯來書》之段教訓是來自《詩篇》95篇7-11節,《詩篇》在這當中引用了兩個地名:「米利巴」(原意是「紛爭」)和「瑪撒」(原意是「試驗」)。這正是當年以色列在曠野的寫照。
然而為什麼會「紛爭」和「試驗」是出於「不信」,也就是悖逆上帝,必以上帝為心中的首位,而是以自己做心中的首位。自以為是、自以為義、自意為有,而不知其實是:一無所是、一無所有、一無可誇!
也因此,人要信靠與敬畏上帝;並且承認意一切的財富和才能,都是上帝所賜的,都是從上帝而來的!要接受聖靈的光照,知道自己是有罪的,是不義的,永遠需要靠耶穌基督的寶血,不是靠自己或聖徒有什麼善行,那些是無法讓自己得救的!