約翰福音4:1-26

 

4:1 主知道法利賽人聽見他收門徒，施洗，比約翰還多，
4:2 （其實不是耶穌親自施洗，乃是他的門徒施洗，）
4:3 他就離了猶太，又往加利利去。
4:4 必須經過撒馬利亞，
4:5 於是到了撒馬利亞的一座城，名叫敘加，靠近雅各給他兒子約瑟的那塊地。
4:6 在那裡有雅各井；耶穌因走路困乏，就坐在井旁。那時約有午正。
4:7 有一個撒馬利亞的婦人來打水。耶穌對她說：「請你給我水喝。」
4:8 （那時門徒進城買食物去了。）
4:9 撒馬利亞的婦人對他說：「你既是猶太人，怎麼向我一個撒馬利亞婦人要水喝呢？」原來猶太人和撒馬利亞人沒有來往。
4:10 耶穌回答說：「你若知道上帝的恩賜，和對你說『給我水喝』的是誰，你必早求他，他也必早給了你活水。」
4:11 婦人說：「先生，沒有打水的器具，井又深，你從哪裡得活水呢？
4:12 我們的祖宗雅各將這井留給我們，他自己和兒子並牲畜也都喝這井裡的水，難道你比他還大嗎？」
4:13 耶穌回答說：「凡喝這水的還要再渴；
4:14 人若喝我所賜的水就永遠不渴。我所賜的水要在他裡頭成為泉源，直湧到永生。」
4:15 婦人說：「先生，請把這水賜給我，叫我不渴，也不用來這麼遠打水。」
4:16 耶穌說：「你去叫你丈夫也到這裡來。」
4:17 婦人說：「我沒有丈夫。」耶穌說：「你說沒有丈夫是不錯的。
4:18 你已經有五個丈夫，你現在有的並不是你的丈夫。你這話是真的。」
4:19 婦人說：「先生，我看出你是先知。
4:20 我們的祖宗在這山上禮拜，你們倒說，應當禮拜的地方是在耶路撒冷。」
4:21 耶穌說：「婦人，你當信我。時候將到，你們拜父，也不在這山上，也不在耶路撒冷。
4:22 你們所拜的，你們不知道；我們所拜的，我們知道，因為救恩是從猶太人出來的。
4:23 時候將到，如今就是了，那真正拜父的，要用心靈和誠實拜他，因為父要這樣的人拜他。
4:24 上帝是個靈（或無個字），所以拜他的必須用心靈和誠實拜他。」
4:25 婦人說：「我知道彌賽亞（就是那稱為基督的）要來；他來了，必將一切的事都告訴我們。」
4:26 耶穌說：「這和你說話的就是他！」

 

Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John— ² although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. ³ So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.

⁴ Now he had to go through Samaria. ⁵ So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ⁶ Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

⁷ When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” ⁸ (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

⁹ The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.^[a])

¹⁰ Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

¹¹ “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? ¹² Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

¹³ Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴ but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

¹⁵ The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

¹⁶ He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”

¹⁷ “I have no husband,” she replied.

Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. ¹⁸ The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”

¹⁹ “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. ²⁰ Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”

²¹ “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. ²² You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. ²³ Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. ²⁴ God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

²⁵ The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”

²⁶ Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”

 

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    我們的信仰中心是主耶穌，你認為「祂是誰」，就可以判定我們的信仰是不是正確！

 

    在主耶穌與撒馬利亞婦人的對話中，主耶穌是一步一步的引導婦人來思考「祂是誰」。從請婦人打水給她喝開始，就要婦人注意祂是誰。雖然婦人抱怨祂是猶太人怎能向她要水喝，耶穌回答說：「你若知道上帝的恩賜，和對你說『給我水喝』的是誰，你必早求他，他也必早給了你活水。」

 

    然後從水談到宗教的問題，當婦人說：「我知道彌賽亞（就是那稱為基督的）要來；他來了，必將一切的事都告訴我們。」

 

    主耶穌就直接了當說：「這和你說話的就是他！」

 

    同樣，今日我們要清楚主耶穌是誰？答案就是：「主耶穌就是彌賽亞，也就是基督！」

 

    也因此，我們除了要認主耶穌是基督之外，更要有正確的「基督論」，歡迎來閱讀「基督論」(https://kk1591.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_8491.html )！

 

 

腓立比書2:29-30

 

2:29 故此，你們要在主裡歡歡樂樂地接待他，而且要尊重這樣的人；
2:30 因他為做基督的工夫，幾乎至死，不顧性命，要補足你們供給我的不及之處。

 

²⁹ So then, welcome him in the Lord with great joy, and honor people like him, ³⁰ because he almost died for the work of Christ. He risked his life to make up for the help you yourselves could not give me.

 

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    保羅請腓立比教會要善待以巴弗提，因為他是怎樣愛護保羅，為了基督的緣故，費盡千辛萬苦來幫助保羅，甚至連生命都可以不顧，表現出多麼的愛主，讓保羅十分感動！

 

    從保羅稱讚以巴弗提的事來看教會的管理，讓我們知道：教會在公開的場合可以稱讚同工，或是感謝同工對教會的付出，這是應該的，這不是將榮耀歸人，反而是將榮耀歸給基督！我們在教會裡，要互相鼓勵、彼此讚美，對教會的合一是很有幫助的

 

    這樣稱讚獲感謝，並請大家善待這樣盡心盡力服事的同工，使大家學習彼此尊榮，這樣大家才會同心合意的榮耀主名，確實彼此相愛，活出基督徒的生命，是件美好的見證，讓我們多多如此行吧！

 

歷代志下12章

    歷代志下12:1-16 ,

歷代志下12:1-16

 

12:1 羅波安的國堅立，他強盛的時候就離棄耶和華的律法，以色列人也都隨從他。
12:2 羅波安王第五年，埃及王示撒上來攻打耶路撒冷，因為王和民得罪了耶和華。
12:3 示撒帶戰車一千二百輛，馬兵六萬，並且跟從他出埃及的路比人、蘇基人，和古實人，多得不可勝數。
12:4 他攻取了猶大的堅固城，就來到耶路撒冷。
12:5 那時，猶大的首領因為示撒就聚集在耶路撒冷。有先知示瑪雅去見羅波安和眾首領，對他們說：「耶和華如此說：『你們離棄了我，所以我使你們落在示撒手裡。』」
12:6 於是王和以色列的眾首領都自卑說：「耶和華是公義的。」
12:7 耶和華見他們自卑，耶和華的話就臨到示瑪雅說：「他們既自卑，我必不滅絕他們；必使他們略得拯救，我不藉著示撒的手將我的怒氣倒在耶路撒冷。
12:8 然而他們必作示撒的僕人，好叫他們知道，服事我與服事外邦人有何分別。」
12:9 於是，埃及王示撒上來攻取耶路撒冷，奪了耶和華殿和王宮裡的寶物，盡都帶走，又奪去所羅門製造的金盾牌。
12:10 羅波安王製造銅盾牌代替那金盾牌，交給守王宮門的護衛長看守。
12:11 王每逢進耶和華的殿，護衛兵就拿這盾牌，隨後仍將盾牌送回，放在護衛房。
12:12 王自卑的時候，耶和華的怒氣就轉消了，不將他滅盡，並且在猶大中間也有善益的事。
12:13 羅波安王自強，在耶路撒冷作王。他登基的時候年四十一歲，在耶路撒冷，就是耶和華從以色列眾支派中所選擇立他名的城，作王十七年。羅波安的母親名叫拿瑪，是亞捫人。
12:14 羅波安行惡，因他不立定心意尋求耶和華。
12:15 羅波安所行的事，自始至終不都寫在先知示瑪雅和先見易多的史記上嗎？羅波安與耶羅波安時常爭戰。
12:16 羅波安與他列祖同睡，葬在大衛城裡。他兒子亞比雅接續他作王。

 

After Rehoboam’s position as king was established and he had become strong, he and all Israel^[a] with him abandoned the law of the Lord. ² Because they had been unfaithful to the Lord, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem in the fifth year of King Rehoboam. ³ With twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen and the innumerable troops of Libyans, Sukkites and Cushites^[b] that came with him from Egypt, ⁴ he captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

⁵ Then the prophet Shemaiah came to Rehoboam and to the leaders of Judah who had assembled in Jerusalem for fear of Shishak, and he said to them, “This is what the Lord says, ‘You have abandoned me; therefore, I now abandon you to Shishak.’”

⁶ The leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The Lord is just.”

⁷ When the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, this word of the Lord came to Shemaiah: “Since they have humbled themselves, I will not destroy them but will soon give them deliverance. My wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem through Shishak. ⁸ They will, however, become subject to him, so that they may learn the difference between serving me and serving the kings of other lands.”

⁹ When Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem, he carried off the treasures of the temple of the Lord and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields Solomon had made. ¹⁰ So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned these to the commanders of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace. ¹¹ Whenever the king went to the Lord’s temple, the guards went with him, bearing the shields, and afterward they returned them to the guardroom.

¹² Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the Lord’s anger turned from him, and he was not totally destroyed. Indeed, there was some good in Judah.

¹³ King Rehoboam established himself firmly in Jerusalem and continued as king. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel in which to put his Name. His mother’s name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite. ¹⁴ He did evil because he had not set his heart on seeking the Lord.

¹⁵ As for the events of Rehoboam’s reign, from beginning to end, are they not written in the records of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer that deal with genealogies? There was continual warfare between Rehoboam and Jeroboam. ¹⁶ Rehoboam rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David. And Abijah his son succeeded him as king.

 

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    羅波安沒有專心信靠上帝，這是他一生的敗筆！

 

    這也提醒我們，要好好專心愛主，不要時好時壞！