希伯來書4:1-7

4:1 我們既蒙留下，有進入他安息的應許，就當畏懼，免得我們（原文是你們）中間或有人似乎是趕不上了。
4:2 因為有福音傳給我們，像傳給他們一樣；只是所聽見的道與他們無益，因為他們沒有信心與所聽見的道調和。
4:3 但我們已經相信的人得以進入那安息，正如上帝所說：「我在怒中起誓說：『他們斷不可進入我的安息！』」其實造物之工，從創世以來已經成全了。
4:4 論到第七日，有一處說：「到第七日，上帝就歇了他一切的工。」
4:5 又有一處說：「他們斷不可進入我的安息！」
4:6 既有必進安息的人，那先前聽見福音的，因為不信從，不得進去。
4:7 所以過了多年，就在大衛的書上，又限定一日，如以上所引的說：「你們今日若聽他的話，就不可硬著心。」

Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. ² For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed. ³ Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said,

“So I declared on oath in my anger,
    ‘They shall never enter my rest.’”

And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world. ⁴ For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: “On the seventh day God rested from all his works.” ⁵ And again in the passage above he says, “They shall never enter my rest.”

⁶ Therefore since it still remains for some to enter that rest, and since those who formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not go in because of their disobedience, ⁷ God again set a certain day, calling it “Today.” This he did when a long time later he spoke through David, as in the passage already quoted:

“Today, if you hear his voice,
    do not harden your hearts.”

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    要得上帝的安息，就必須是聽從上帝話語的人，不可以心存悖逆！正如作者引用詩篇95篇大衛的詩句：「你們今日若聽他的話，就不可硬著心」。這裡的「硬著心」就是悖逆的「石心」，就是永遠不承認自己是罪人，以為靠自己的行為會蒙上帝喜悅的人！而人必須要在聖靈的工作下，才會有一顆順服的「肉心」，是柔軟常常願意在上帝認罪的心，總覺得自己一無可誇、一無所有、一無所是，只能靠耶穌基督！

    有許多自稱為基督徒的，一信主就認為自己已經完全，不用常常認罪，不用常常悔改！更用自己已經信靠主耶穌，就認為自己不再會犯罪了，不需要再承認自己是罪人，反正耶穌已經讓我永遠為義了！這樣的想法是違背一次得救永遠得救的教義，這是自我欺騙！我們在世界，就是會犯罪，就是需要一次再一次讓耶穌基督的寶血來塗抹，需要一次再一次得認罪，直到離開世界或主耶穌在來的時候！

    也唯有一次再一次認罪的人，才能永遠感受到基督的恩典是新鮮的，祂的寶血是永遠有功效的！因為不管什麼時刻，我們都需要在主面前求寶血遮蓋，好可以站立在父上帝的面前，得享安息！

箴言21:23

謹守口與舌的，就保守自己免受災難。

Those who guard their mouths and their tongues

    keep themselves from calamity.

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    在這個年代不僅要謹守口舌，更是要小心自己在網路上發表的文字！因為，書寫如同說話一般方便時，通常也會不經大腦，隨一時的興起東寫西寫，寫出超乎自己想像的文字，然後就發表出去，就收不回來了！

    古時有一句名言：「有三樣東西收不回來，說出去的話、射出去的劍、潑出去的水！」現再加上一件，PO出去的文字、圖片！

    也因為如此，我們要謹慎免的招惹爭競的心，引起不必要的麻煩！更可怕的事情，就是因為PO文使人對信仰誤解，不來親近上帝，不參加教會，不讀聖經，遠離救恩的門和道路，就是使人跌倒，這更是不得上帝的喜悅！

希伯來書3:12-19

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。

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:

“Today, if you hear his voice,
    do not harden your hearts
    as you did in the rebellion.”^[c]

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！