路加福音20:9-19

 

20:9 耶穌就設比喻對百姓說：「有人栽了一個葡萄園，租給園戶，就往外國去住了許久。
20:10 到了時候，打發一個僕人到園戶那裡去，叫他們把園中當納的果子交給他；園戶竟打了他，叫他空手回去。
20:11 又打發一個僕人去，他們也打了他，並且凌辱他，叫他空手回去。
20:12 又打發第三個僕人去，他們也打傷了他，把他推出去了。
20:13 園主說：『我怎麼辦呢？我要打發我的愛子去，或者他們尊敬他。』
20:14 不料，園戶看見他，就彼此商量說：『這是承受產業的，我們殺他吧，使產業歸於我們！』
20:15 於是把他推出葡萄園外，殺了。這樣，葡萄園的主人要怎樣處治他們呢？
20:16 他要來除滅這些園戶，將葡萄園轉給別人。」聽見的人說：「這是萬不可的！」
20:17 耶穌看著他們說：「經上記著：匠人所棄的石頭已作了房角的頭塊石頭。這是甚麼意思呢？
20:18 凡掉在那石頭上的，必要跌碎；那石頭掉在誰的身上，就要把誰砸得稀爛。」
20:19 文士和祭司長看出這比喻是指著他們說的，當時就想要下手拿他，只是懼怕百姓。

 

⁹ He went on to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, rented it to some farmers and went away for a long time. ¹⁰ At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants so they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed. ¹¹ He sent another servant, but that one also they beat and treated shamefully and sent away empty-handed. ¹² He sent still a third, and they wounded him and threw him out.

¹³ “Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my son, whom I love; perhaps they will respect him.’

¹⁴ “But when the tenants saw him, they talked the matter over. ‘This is the heir,’ they said. ‘Let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ ¹⁵ So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

“What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? ¹⁶ He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.”

When the people heard this, they said, “God forbid!”

¹⁷ Jesus looked directly at them and asked, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written:

“‘The stone the builders rejected
    has become the cornerstone’^[a]?

¹⁸ Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.”

¹⁹ The teachers of the law and the chief priests looked for a way to arrest him immediately, because they knew he had spoken this parable against them. But they were afraid of the people.

 

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    主耶穌這個比喻實在很貼切，因為葡萄園的園戶只是租用者，真正的擁有者是園主。但這些園戶卻像取代園主將葡萄園據為己有，竟然不尊重園主！當園主派僕人去收租時，竟然不給房租還羞辱他們。

 

    主人派兒子去，這一群人更囂張，還要將園主的兒子殺死！

 

    主耶穌這個比喻讓人一看，就知道是指猶太人！因為猶太人一路以來就是逼迫主的先知，軟硬兼施，就是不希望先知宣告上帝的話語。因為他們是悖逆之民，以自我為中心。

 

    而這樣的悖逆之下場，就是被上帝所消滅，因為凡是違背上帝旨意的結局就是和撒但一樣滅亡！

 

    這也是給我們屬主耶穌的人的提醒，要我們不要走猶太人的路，要承認上帝的主權，讓上帝的主權彰顯，如此我們才可以享受永遠的福樂！

 

 

路加福音20章

       路加福音20:1-8 ,

       路加福音20:9-19  , 

       路加福音20:20-26  ,

       路加福音20:27-40 ,  路加福音 20:38  ,

       路加福音20:41-44 , 

       路加福音20:45-47 ,

路加福音20:1-8

 

20:1 有一天，耶穌在殿裡教訓百姓，講福音的時候，祭司長和文士並長老上前來，
20:2 問他說：「你告訴我們，你仗著甚麼權柄做這些事？給你這權柄的是誰呢？」
20:3 耶穌回答說：「我也要問你們一句話，你們且告訴我。
20:4 約翰的洗禮是從天上來的？是從人間來的呢？」
20:5 他們彼此商議說：「我們若說『從天上來』，他必說：『你們為甚麼不信他呢？』
20:6 若說『從人間來』，百姓都要用石頭打死我們，因為他們信約翰是先知。」
20:7 於是回答說：「不知道是從哪裡來的。」
20:8 耶穌說：「我也不告訴你們，我仗著甚麼權柄做這些事。」

 

One day as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple courts and proclaiming the good news, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, together with the elders, came up to him. ² “Tell us by what authority you are doing these things,” they said. “Who gave you this authority?”

³ He replied, “I will also ask you a question. Tell me: ⁴ John’s baptism—was it from heaven, or of human origin?”

⁵ They discussed it among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask, ‘Why didn’t you believe him?’ ⁶ But if we say, ‘Of human origin,’ all the people will stone us, because they are persuaded that John was a prophet.”

⁷ So they answered, “We don’t know where it was from.”

⁸ Jesus said, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”

 

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    主耶穌是上帝的獨生子的身分若不顯明，在人的眼中只是木匠的兒子。以至於當權的祭司長和文士並長老上前來，問他說：「你告訴我們，你仗著甚麼權柄做這些事？給你這權柄的是誰呢？」

 

    然而主耶穌並不和他們爭辯自己的身分，祂只是要讓這些自以為有權柄的人清楚：若不是上帝給人權柄，人是無法自立權柄！若是自立權柄的，又不明白上帝的心意，表面是祭司長和文士並長老，也是與上帝的權柄相衝突的，是上帝的敵對者，也就是撒但的僕役！

 

    主耶穌故意指出當時真正有上帝權柄的人就是施洗約翰，就問他們：「我也要問你們一句話，你們且告訴我。約翰的洗禮是從天上來的？是從人間來的呢？」

 

    這是對當時的宗教勢力很大的挑戰，因為他們忌妒施洗約翰，為了鞏固自己的勢力千方百計打壓施洗約翰，主耶穌這樣一問真的讓他們陷入困境！

 

    正如他們所議論的：「我們若說『從天上來』，他必說：『你們為甚麼不信他呢？』若說『從人間來』，百姓都要用石頭打死我們，因為他們信約翰是先知。」

 

    為了保護自己，他們只好回主耶穌：「不知道是從哪裡來的。」

 

    主耶穌當然清楚自己的權柄和身分，沒有必要回答他們說：「我也不告訴你們，我仗著甚麼權柄做這些事。」

 

    當然對我們而言，主耶穌是上帝的兒子，是有真正權柄的上帝，而教會的存在也是要靠耶穌基督的權柄，不是靠人的權柄！這也是教會的拓展時要思考的問題，我們是在建立基督的教會，不是在發展自己的勢力！

 

 

歷代志下4章

   歷代志下4:1-22  ,

   歷代志下4:1-6    ,

歷代志下4:1-22

 

4:1 他又製造一座銅壇，長二十肘，寬二十肘，高十肘；
4:2 又鑄一個銅海，樣式是圓的，高五肘，徑十肘，圍三十肘；
4:3 海周圍有野瓜（野瓜：原文是牛）的樣式，每肘十瓜，共有兩行，是鑄海的時候鑄上的；
4:4 有十二隻銅牛馱海：三隻向北，三隻向西，三隻向南，三隻向東；海在牛上，牛尾向內；
4:5 海厚一掌，邊如杯邊，又如百合花，可容三千罷特；
4:6 又製造十個盆：五個放在右邊，五個放在左邊，獻燔祭所用之物都洗在其內；但海是為祭司沐浴的。
4:7 他又照所定的樣式造十個金燈臺，放在殿裡：五個在右邊，五個在左邊；
4:8 又造十張桌子放在殿裡：五張在右邊，五張在左邊；又造一百個金碗；
4:9 又建立祭司院和大院，並院門，用銅包裹門扇；
4:10 將海安在殿門的右邊，就是南邊。
4:11 戶蘭又造了盆、鏟、碗。這樣，他為所羅門王做完了上帝殿的工。
4:12 所造的就是：兩根柱子和柱上兩個如球的頂，並兩個蓋柱頂的網子
4:13 和四百石榴，安在兩個網子上〈每網兩行蓋著兩個柱上如球的頂〉。
4:14 盆座和其上的盆，
4:15 海和海下的十二隻牛，
4:16 盆、鏟子、肉鍤子，與耶和華殿裡的一切器皿，都是巧匠戶蘭用光亮的銅為所羅門王造成的，
4:17 是在約旦平原疏割和撒利但中間藉膠泥鑄成的。
4:18 所羅門製造的這一切甚多，銅的輕重無法可查。
4:19 所羅門又造上帝殿裡的金壇和陳設餅的桌子，
4:20 並精金的燈臺和燈盞，可以照例點在內殿前。
4:21 燈臺上的花和燈盞，並蠟剪都是金的，且是純金的；
4:22 又用精金製造鑷子、盤子、調羹、火鼎。至於殿門和至聖所的門扇，並殿的門扇，都是金子妝飾的。

 

 He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.^{[a] 2} He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits^[b] high. It took a line of thirty cubits^[c] to measure around it. ³ Below the rim, figures of bulls encircled it—ten to a cubit.^[d] The bulls were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea.

⁴ The Sea stood on twelve bulls, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south and three facing east. The Sea rested on top of them, and their hindquarters were toward the center. ⁵ It was a handbreadth^[e] in thickness, and its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held three thousand baths.^[f]

⁶ He then made ten basins for washing and placed five on the south side and five on the north. In them the things to be used for the burnt offerings were rinsed, but the Sea was to be used by the priests for washing.

⁷ He made ten gold lampstands according to the specifications for them and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.

⁸ He made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. He also made a hundred gold sprinkling bowls.

⁹ He made the courtyard of the priests, and the large court and the doors for the court, and overlaid the doors with bronze. ¹⁰ He placed the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner.

¹¹ And Huram also made the pots and shovels and sprinkling bowls.

So Huram finished the work he had undertaken for King Solomon in the temple of God:

¹² the two pillars;

the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;

the two sets of network decorating the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;

¹³ the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network, decorating the bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars);

¹⁴ the stands with their basins;

¹⁵ the Sea and the twelve bulls under it;

¹⁶ the pots, shovels, meat forks and all related articles.

All the objects that Huram-Abi made for King Solomon for the temple of the Lord were of polished bronze. ¹⁷ The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Sukkoth and Zarethan.^{[g] 18} All these things that Solomon made amounted to so much that the weight of the bronze could not be calculated.

¹⁹ Solomon also made all the furnishings that were in God’s temple:

the golden altar;

the tables on which was the bread of the Presence;

²⁰ the lampstands of pure gold with their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed;

²¹ the gold floral work and lamps and tongs (they were solid gold);

²² the pure gold wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes and censers; and the gold doors of the temple: the inner doors to the Most Holy Place and the doors of the main hall.

 

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    金和銅的色澤相似，但是銅會生鏽產生銅綠，金子則不會。不過兩個金屬若勤擦拭，則都會有光亮的輝澤，十分華麗！聖殿佣金和銅做為陳設的目的也是如此，讓人因眼前的榮華，思想上帝在天上殿宇的榮美，而產生敬畏的心！

 

    基督徒的生命是要彰顯上帝的榮華在世上，使人因此看見上帝的榮華！也因為這樣，基督徒的形體被稱為上帝的殿，要藉所言所行來榮耀上帝！也因此，我們也要常常來親近上帝，如同金和銅的器皿需要勤擦拭，來顯現光輝！

 

    求主幫助我們能承擔此生命的使命，好讓我們在地上短暫的生命，能彰顯上帝永遠榮耀的光輝！也因此，我們要活出基督榮美形象，天天效法主耶穌而生活！而上帝也在天上為我們備安宅，讓我們在走完人生路途，有永恆的居所繼續讚美上帝、敬拜祂！