出埃及記12: 1-30

12:1 耶和華在埃及地曉諭摩西、亞倫說：
12:2 「你們要以本月為正月，為一年之首。
12:3 你們吩咐以色列全會眾說：本月初十日，各人要按著父家取羊羔，一家一隻。
12:4 若是一家的人太少，吃不了一隻羊羔，本人就要和他隔壁的鄰舍共取一隻。你們預備羊羔，要按著人數和飯量計算。
12:5 要無殘疾、一歲的公羊羔，你們或從綿羊裡取，或從山羊裡取，都可以。
12:6 要留到本月十四日，在黃昏的時候，以色列全會眾把羊羔宰了。
12:7 各家要取點血，塗在吃羊羔的房屋左右的門框上和門楣上。
12:8 當夜要吃羊羔的肉；用火烤了，與無酵餅和苦菜同吃。
12:9 不可吃生的，斷不可吃水煮的，要帶著頭、腿、五臟，用火烤了吃。
12:10 不可剩下一點留到早晨；若留到早晨，要用火燒了。
12:11 你們吃羊羔當腰間束帶，腳上穿鞋，手中拿杖，趕緊地吃；這是耶和華的逾越節。
12:12 因為那夜我要巡行埃及地，把埃及地一切頭生的，無論是人是牲畜，都擊殺了，又要敗壞埃及一切的神。我是耶和華。
12:13 這血要在你們所住的房屋上作記號；我一見這血，就越過你們去。我擊殺埃及地頭生的時候，災殃必不臨到你們身上滅你們。」
12:14 「你們要記念這日，守為耶和華的節，作為你們世世代代永遠的定例。
12:15 你們要吃無酵餅七日。頭一日要把酵從你們各家中除去；因為從頭一日起，到第七日為止，凡吃有酵之餅的，必從以色列中剪除。
12:16 頭一日你們當有聖會，第七日也當有聖會。這兩日之內，除了預備各人所要吃的以外，無論何工都不可做。
12:17 你們要守無酵節，因為我正當這日把你們的軍隊從埃及地領出來。所以，你們要守這日，作為世世代代永遠的定例。
12:18 從正月十四日晚上，直到二十一日晚上，你們要吃無酵餅。
12:19 在你們各家中，七日之內不可有酵；因為凡吃有酵之物的，無論是寄居的，是本地的，必從以色列的會中剪除。
12:20 有酵的物，你們都不可吃；在你們一切住處要吃無酵餅。」
12:21 於是，摩西召了以色列的眾長老來，對他們說：「你們要按著家口取出羊羔，把這逾越節的羊羔宰了。
12:22 拿一把牛膝草，蘸盆裡的血，打在門楣上和左右的門框上。你們誰也不可出自己的房門，直到早晨。
12:23 因為耶和華要巡行擊殺埃及人，他看見血在門楣上和左右的門框上，就必越過那門，不容滅命的進你們的房屋，擊殺你們。
12:24 這例，你們要守著，作為你們和你們子孫永遠的定例。
12:25 日後，你們到了耶和華按著所應許賜給你們的那地，就要守這禮。
12:26 你們的兒女問你們說：『行這禮是甚麼意思？』
12:27 你們就說：『這是獻給耶和華逾越節的祭。當以色列人在埃及的時候，他擊殺埃及人，越過以色列人的房屋，救了我們各家。』」於是百姓低頭下拜。
12:28 耶和華怎樣吩咐摩西、亞倫，以色列人就怎樣行。
12:29 到了半夜，耶和華把埃及地所有的長子，就是從坐寶座的法老，直到被擄囚在監裡之人的長子，以及一切頭生的牲畜，盡都殺了。
12:30 法老和一切臣僕，並埃及眾人，夜間都起來了。在埃及有大哀號，無一家不死一個人的。

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, ² “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year. ³ Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb^[a] for his family, one for each household. ⁴ If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. ⁵ The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. ⁶ Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. ⁷ Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. ⁸ That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. ⁹ Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head, legs and internal organs. ¹⁰ Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it. ¹¹ This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover.

¹² “On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. ¹³ The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.
¹⁴ “This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—a lasting ordinance. ¹⁵ For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel. ¹⁶ On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do.
¹⁷ “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. ¹⁸ In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day. ¹⁹ For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And anyone, whether foreigner or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel. ²⁰ Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread.”
²¹ Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb. ²² Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning. ²³ When the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
²⁴ “Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants. ²⁵ When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony. ²⁶ And when your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ ²⁷ then tell them, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped. ²⁸ The Israelites did just what the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron.
²⁹ At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well. ³⁰ Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.

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    上帝將逾越節的規矩啟示給摩西，摩西告訴以色列民，讓以色列民來遵守。而在逾越節，以色人要做兩件事情，一是烤羔羊，另一是吃無酵餅。這兩件事情預表基督得拯救，祂為我們犧牲，如同羔羊一般為我們而死；另一個無酵餅的意義，就是要將罪除去！也通過這兩件事，我們才能成為上帝的子民，離開罪惡的埃及，像上帝應許之地邁進！

    然而上帝讓以色列人過節之際，卻在埃及人中間殺滅長子，這是埃及從來沒有發生過的事。但是，上帝為了彰顯祂的權能，就行了這極大的事，好讓以色列人可以名正言順得離開埃及！

    上帝會用各樣的方式來使祂的子民召顯出來，正如祂會有出人意外的平安賜給祂的兒女，讓人看見就歸榮耀給上帝！

腓立比書1:6

 

我深信那在你們心裡動了善工的，必成全這工，直到耶穌基督的日子。

Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

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    「耶穌基督的日子」是只耶穌基督再來的時候，在那時候基督完完全全做王，得著祂應得的榮耀，祂掌握有一切的主權，勝過撒旦的勢力，由其是罪惡和死亡的勢力。

    這有什麼不一樣呢﹖當然是不一樣，罪惡不再轄制人，使人不會敵對上帝，並且樂意來事奉與讚美上帝，上帝也以祂的慈愛來善待人，供應人一切所需，甚至與基督一同做王，只有福樂、沒有苦難！

    然而在耶穌基督再來之前，上帝會在教會當中動善工，使人可以在地上活出將來上帝國的樣式。所以，教會是上帝國的預表，但是教會不是如上帝國一般完美，仍然有需多問題要面對、要治理。然而這一切，都在基督的掌理之中。不僅如此，還有聖靈內重在其中，讓人感受「基督是主」!

箴言27:11

我兒，你要作智慧人，好叫我的心歡喜，使我可以回答那譏誚我的人。。

Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart;
    then I can answer anyone who treats me with contempt.

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    作者用長輩的角色來勸導讀者：「我兒，你要作智慧人！」

    其實這裡的「作智慧人」在原來的意思，「是有智慧的人」！這也告訴我們：智慧是一種屬性，是上帝所賜下的，使人本質要先更新，才能夠行出來。沒有更新本質，再怎樣努力都無法成就的！

    然而怎樣更新本質呢？就是必須要被上帝的聖靈所改變，正如羅馬書12章2 節所說：「不要效法這個世界，只要心意更新而變化，叫你們察驗何為上帝的善良、純全、可喜悅的旨意。」

    這也告訴我們：「作智慧人」就是要「心意更新而變化」！打從我們的心裡要尊主為大，正如馬利亞的頌歌：「我心尊主為大；我靈以上帝我的救主為樂！」（路加福音1:46-47）

    求聖靈深深作工在我們裡面，讓我們「我心尊主為大；我靈以上帝我的救主為樂！」

出埃及記11章

            出埃及記11:1-10  ,

            出埃及記11章1-3節  , 

           出埃及記11章9-10節  ,

出埃及記11:1-10

11:1 耶和華對摩西說：「我再使一樣的災殃臨到法老和埃及，然後他必容你們離開這地。他容你們去的時候，總要催逼你們都從這地出去。
11:2 你要傳於百姓的耳中，叫他們男女各人向鄰舍要金器銀器。」
11:3 耶和華叫百姓在埃及人眼前蒙恩，並且摩西在埃及地、法老臣僕，和百姓的眼中看為極大。
11:4 摩西說：「耶和華這樣說：『約到半夜，我必出去巡行埃及遍地。
11:5 凡在埃及地，從坐寶座的法老直到磨子後的婢女所有的長子，以及一切頭生的牲畜，都必死。
11:6 埃及遍地必有大哀號；從前沒有這樣的，後來也必沒有。
11:7 至於以色列中，無論是人是牲畜，連狗也不敢向他們搖舌，好叫你們知道耶和華是將埃及人和以色列人分別出來。』
11:8 你這一切臣僕都要俯伏來見我，說：『求你和跟從你的百姓都出去』，然後我要出去。」於是，摩西氣忿忿地離開法老，出去了。
11:9 耶和華對摩西說：「法老必不聽你們，使我的奇事在埃及地多起來。」
11:10 摩西、亞倫在法老面前行了這一切奇事；耶和華使法老的心剛硬，不容以色列人出離他的地。

Now the Lord had said to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here, and when he does, he will drive you out completely. ² Tell the people that men and women alike are to ask their neighbors for articles of silver and gold.” ³ (The Lord made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and Moses himself was highly regarded in Egypt by Pharaoh’s officials and by the people.)

⁴ So Moses said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt. ⁵ Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the female slave, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well. ⁶ There will be loud wailing throughout Egypt—worse than there has ever been or ever will be again. ⁷ But among the Israelites not a dog will bark at any person or animal.’ Then you will know that the Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel. ⁸ All these officials of yours will come to me, bowing down before me and saying, ‘Go, you and all the people who follow you!’ After that I will leave.” Then Moses, hot with anger, left Pharaoh.
⁹ The Lord had said to Moses, “Pharaoh will refuse to listen to you—so that my wonders may be multiplied in Egypt.” ¹⁰ Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go out of his country.

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    法老一再的抵擋上帝，也讓我們感受到人心的悖逆事十分可怕，而且把人引到滅亡的路上。可是人的無知卻使人一直抵擋下去，讓人無法在上帝面前否認自己的罪！

    而人要能從這樣悖逆的狀態出來，除非聖靈將人喚醒，讓人清楚自己做的事什麼，知道這是多麼危險的事！除非人透過耶穌基督的救恩，人沒有真正的平安可言！而這一切都是上帝主動來拯救，不然我們是不會悔改的！

    因此，我們要為自己能悔改信主來感謝上帝，因為這一切都是上帝的恩典，上帝得拯救！也因此，我們要誇要主耶穌和祂釘十字架！要不是上帝透過主耶穌所賜的平安，我們怎能回到上帝的懷中呢！