路加福音24:44

耶穌對他們說：「這就是我從前與你們同在之時所告訴你們的話說：摩西的律法、先知的書，和詩篇上所記的，凡指著我的話都必須應驗。」

He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”

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    有些基督徒以為新約和舊約是沒有關係的，並且以此為理由，認為只要讀新約不需要讀舊約。但是，我們的聖經為什麼有舊約呢﹖在裡拜時的講道，也常常提到舊約，這是為什麼﹖

    主耶穌在這裡說：「這就是我從前與你們同在之時所告訴你們的話說：摩西的律法、先知的書，和詩篇上所記的，凡指著我的話都必須應驗。」

    這也是說，我們要認識主耶穌，不能脫離舊約，也不可光靠新約就可以！要去舊約中尋找關於耶穌基督的啟示，也惟有如此，我們才能真正與完整的認是耶穌基督。

    我們帶領人信靠主耶穌，更是需要以舊約來教導使人可以明白耶穌為何是基督﹖為何世上帝的兒子﹖為何一定要透過耶穌基督才能得上帝的拯救！

詩篇115篇

      詩篇115:1-18 ,

      詩篇115:15 ,

詩篇115:1-18

115:1 耶和華啊，榮耀不要歸與我們，不要歸與我們；要因你的慈愛和誠實歸在你的名下！
115:2 為何容外邦人說：他們的上帝在哪裡呢？
115:3 然而，我們的上帝在天上，都隨自己的意旨行事。
115:4 他們的偶像是金的，銀的，是人手所造的，
115:5 有口卻不能言，有眼卻不能看，
115:6 有耳卻不能聽，有鼻卻不能聞，
115:7 有手卻不能摸，有腳卻不能走，有喉嚨也不能出聲。
115:8 造他的要和他一樣；凡靠他的也要如此。
115:9 以色列啊，你要倚靠耶和華！他是你的幫助和你的盾牌。
115:10 亞倫家啊，你們要倚靠耶和華！他是你們的幫助和你們的盾牌。
115:11 你們敬畏耶和華的，要倚靠耶和華！他是你們的幫助和你們的盾牌。
115:12 耶和華向來眷念我們；他還要賜福給我們：要賜福給以色列的家，賜福給亞倫的家。
115:13 凡敬畏耶和華的，無論大小，主必賜福給他。
115:14 願耶和華叫你們和你們的子孫日見加增。
115:15 你們蒙了造天地之耶和華的福！
115:16 天，是耶和華的天；地，他卻給了世人。
115:17 死人不能讚美耶和華；下到寂靜中的也都不能。
115:18 但我們要稱頌耶和華，從今時直到永遠。你們要讚美耶和華！

¹ Not to us, Lord, not to us
    but to your name be the glory,
    because of your love and faithfulness.

² Why do the nations say,
    “Where is their God?”
³ Our God is in heaven;
    he does whatever pleases him.
⁴ But their idols are silver and gold,
    made by human hands.
⁵ They have mouths, but cannot speak,
    eyes, but cannot see.
⁶ They have ears, but cannot hear,
    noses, but cannot smell.
⁷ They have hands, but cannot feel,
    feet, but cannot walk,
    nor can they utter a sound with their throats.
⁸ Those who make them will be like them,
    and so will all who trust in them.

⁹ All you Israelites, trust in the Lord—
    he is their help and shield.
¹⁰ House of Aaron, trust in the Lord—
    he is their help and shield.
¹¹ You who fear him, trust in the Lord—
    he is their help and shield.

¹² The Lord remembers us and will bless us:
    He will bless his people Israel,
    he will bless the house of Aaron,
¹³ he will bless those who fear the Lord—
    small and great alike.

¹⁴ May the Lord cause you to flourish,
    both you and your children.
¹⁵ May you be blessed by the Lord,
    the Maker of heaven and earth.

¹⁶ The highest heavens belong to the Lord,
    but the earth he has given to mankind.
¹⁷ It is not the dead who praise the Lord,
    those who go down to the place of silence;
¹⁸ it is we who extol the Lord,
    both now and forevermore.

Praise the Lord.

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    詩人在此宣告上帝勝過外邦的偶像，因為一般的宗教人造神，不僅神本身是由人來的，神像也是人手所造的，完全是人的傑作，而且是沒有作用的：「他們的偶像是金的，銀的，是人手所造的，有口卻不能言，有眼卻不能看，有耳卻不能聽，有鼻卻不能聞，有手卻不能摸，有腳卻不能走，有喉嚨也不能出聲。造他的要和他一樣；凡靠他的也要如此。」

    人為何要以靠這些無能的東西，造成自己也是無能呢﹖為何不倚靠有能的上帝呢﹖因為「我們的上帝在天上，都隨自己的意旨行事」！因此，詩人說：「耶和華啊，榮耀不要歸與我們，不要歸與我們；要因你的慈愛和誠實歸在你的名下！」

    也因為如此「以色列啊，你要倚靠耶和華！他是你的幫助和你的盾牌。亞倫家啊，你們要倚靠耶和華！他是你們的幫助和你們的盾牌。你們敬畏耶和華的，要倚靠耶和華！他是你們的幫助和你們的盾牌。」

    詩人甚至在此見證：「凡敬畏耶和華的，無論大小，主必賜福給他」。也因此詩人呼籲大家要讚美上帝，「死人不能讚美耶和華；下到寂靜中的也都不能。但我們要稱頌耶和華，從今時直到永遠。你們要讚美耶和華！」

申命記22:13-30

22:13 「人若娶妻，與她同房之後恨惡她，
22:14 信口說她，將醜名加在她身上，說：『我娶了這女子，與她同房，見她沒有貞潔的憑據』；
22:15 女子的父母就要把女子貞潔的憑據拿出來，帶到本城門長老那裡。
22:16 女子的父親要對長老說：『我將我的女兒給這人為妻，他恨惡她，
22:17 信口說她，說：我見你的女兒沒有貞潔的憑據；其實這就是我女兒貞潔的憑據。』父母就把那布鋪在本城的長老面前。
22:18 本城的長老要拿住那人，懲治他，
22:19 並要罰他一百舍客勒銀子，給女子的父親，因為他將醜名加在以色列的一個處女身上。女子仍作他的妻，終身不可休她。
22:20 但這事若是真的，女子沒有貞潔的憑據，
22:21 就要將女子帶到她父家的門口，本城的人要用石頭將她打死；因為她在父家行了淫亂，在以色列中做了醜事。這樣，就把那惡從你們中間除掉。
22:22 「若遇見人與有丈夫的婦人行淫，就要將姦夫淫婦一併治死。這樣，就把那惡從以色列中除掉。
22:23 「若有處女已經許配丈夫，有人在城裡遇見她，與她行淫，
22:24 你們就要把這二人帶到本城門，用石頭打死─女子是因為雖在城裡卻沒有喊叫；男子是因為玷污別人的妻。這樣，就把那惡從你們中間除掉。
22:25 「若有男子在田野遇見已經許配人的女子，強與她行淫，只要將那男子治死。
22:26 但不可辦女子；她本沒有該死的罪，這事就類乎人起來攻擊鄰舍，將他殺了一樣。
22:27 因為男子是在田野遇見那已經許配人的女子，女子喊叫，並無人救她。
22:28 「若有男子遇見沒有許配人的處女，抓住她，與她行淫，被人看見，
22:29 這男子就要拿五十舍客勒銀子給女子的父親；因他玷污了這女子，就要娶她為妻，終身不可休她。
22:30 「人不可娶繼母為妻；不可掀開他父親的衣襟。」

¹³ If a man takes a wife and, after sleeping with her, dislikes her ¹⁴ and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,” ¹⁵ then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate proof that she was a virgin. ¹⁶ Her father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her. ¹⁷ Now he has slandered her and said, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ But here is the proof of my daughter’s virginity.” Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town, ¹⁸ and the elders shall take the man and punish him. ¹⁹ They shall fine him a hundred shekels^[b] of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.

²⁰ If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found, ²¹ she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.

²² If a man is found sleeping with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

²³ If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, ²⁴ you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you.

²⁵ But if out in the country a man happens to meet a young woman pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. ²⁶ Do nothing to the woman; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbor, ²⁷ for the man found the young woman out in the country, and though the betrothed woman screamed, there was no one to rescue her.

²⁸ If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, ²⁹ he shall pay her father fifty shekels^[c] of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

³⁰ A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not dishonor his father’s bed.^[d]

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    「性」本是為了傳宗接代，但是人卻常常誤用，以至於傷害自己和別人，尤其是今日許多人倡議「性解放」，認為「性」不要限制在婚姻之中，於是造成世界許多的混亂，就像希臘神話中的「潘朵拉的盒子」！

    加上網路的推波助瀾，「性」不好的影響力充滿了這個世界！使得原本是上帝給人的「禮物」，卻成了毀滅人的凶器！

    其實上帝知道其殺傷力，所以在聖經中不斷的提醒我們，不可以濫用這美好的禮物，好使人蒙其利而不受其害！