約翰福音5:16-30

 

5:16 所以猶太人逼迫耶穌，因為他在安息日做了這事。
5:17 耶穌就對他們說：「我父做事直到如今，我也做事。」
5:18 所以猶太人越發想要殺他；因他不但犯了安息日，並且稱上帝為他的父，將自己和上帝當作平等。
5:19 耶穌對他們說：「我實實在在地告訴你們，子憑著自己不能做甚麼，惟有看見父所做的，子才能做；父所做的事，子也照樣做。
5:20 父愛子，將自己所做的一切事指給他看，還要將比這更大的事指給他看，叫你們希奇。
5:21 父怎樣叫死人起來，使他們活著，子也照樣隨自己的意思使人活著。
5:22 父不審判甚麼人，乃將審判的事全交與子，
5:23 叫人都尊敬子如同尊敬父一樣。不尊敬子的，就是不尊敬差子來的父。
5:24 我實實在在地告訴你們，那聽我話、又信差我來者的，就有永生；不至於定罪，是已經出死入生了。
5:25 我實實在在地告訴你們，時候將到，現在就是了，死人要聽見上帝兒子的聲音，聽見的人就要活了。
5:26 因為父怎樣在自己有生命，就賜給他兒子也照樣在自己有生命，
5:27 並且因為他是人子，就賜給他行審判的權柄。
5:28 你們不要把這事看作希奇。時候要到，凡在墳墓裡的，都要聽見他的聲音，就出來：
5:29 行善的，復活得生；作惡的，復活定罪。
5:30 「我憑著自己不能做甚麼，我怎麼聽見就怎麼審判。我的審判也是公平的；因為我不求自己的意思，只求那差我來者的意思。」

 

¹⁶ So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. ¹⁷ In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” ¹⁸ For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

¹⁹ Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. ²⁰ For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed. ²¹ For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it. ²² Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, ²³ that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.

²⁴ “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. ²⁵ Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. ²⁶ For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. ²⁷ And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.

²⁸ “Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice ²⁹ and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned. ³⁰ By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.

 

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    猶太人要除滅主耶穌有兩個原因：就是在安息日醫治人和「自稱是上帝的兒子，將自己和上帝當作平等」。

 

    這是很有意思的兩件事情：因為在他們的心中將遵守律法看成是完成上帝的旨意，若不遵守律法會帶來上帝的咒詛，讓他們被滅亡，不守安息日就是件極嚴重的事情；另外一件是，就是人沒有資格自稱是上帝的兒子，是上帝是高過人的，人是不可能與上帝同等的！也因此，他們不能接受主耶穌是彌賽亞，是上帝的兒子，是與上帝同等的！

 

    同樣基督徒不是相信有上帝，更要相信耶穌基督：「是完全的上帝、也是完全的人」，之外還要相信「神人二性一位格」！這是因為我們有教會的傳統信條，是關於基督論的描述，也就是「迦克墩信經」。（https://kk1591.blogspot.com/2014/01/blog-post_7555.html ）

 

    希望你能點進去閱讀與思考，論到基督我們不可以不清楚我們該信什麼，該如何表達我們所信的！

 

約翰福音5:1-15

 

5:1 這事以後，到了猶太人的一個節期，耶穌就上耶路撒冷去。
5:2 在耶路撒冷，靠近羊門有一個池子，希伯來話叫作畢士大，旁邊有五個廊子；
5:3 裡面躺著瞎眼的、瘸腿的、血氣枯乾的許多病人。（有古卷加：等候水動；
5:4 因為有天使按時下池子攪動那水，水動之後，誰先下去，無論害甚麼病就痊癒了。）
5:5 在那裡有一個人，病了三十八年。
5:6 耶穌看見他躺著，知道他病了許久，就問他說：「你要痊癒嗎？」
5:7 病人回答說：「先生，水動的時候，沒有人把我放在池子裡；我正去的時候，就有別人比我先下去。」
5:8 耶穌對他說：「起來，拿你的褥子走吧！」
5:9 那人立刻痊癒，就拿起褥子來走了。
5:10 那天是安息日，所以猶太人對那醫好的人說：「今天是安息日，你拿褥子是不可的。」
5:11 他卻回答說：「那使我痊癒的，對我說：『拿你的褥子走吧。』」
5:12 他們問他說：「對你說『拿褥子走』的是甚麼人？」
5:13 那醫好的人不知道是誰；因為那裡的人多，耶穌已經躲開了。
5:14 後來耶穌在殿裡遇見他，對他說：「你已經痊癒了，不要再犯罪，恐怕你遭遇的更加利害。」
5:15 那人就去告訴猶太人，使他痊癒的是耶穌。

 

 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. ² Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda^[a] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. ³ Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. ^{[4] [b] 5} One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. ⁶ When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”

⁷ “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”

⁸ Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” ⁹ At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.

The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, ¹⁰ and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”

¹¹ But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ”

¹² So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”

¹³ The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

¹⁴ Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.” ¹⁵ The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.

 

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    這個事件感人是因為有一個人病了三十八年，耶穌看見他躺著，知道他病了許久，就問他說：「你要痊癒嗎？」

 

    無奈他說：「先生，水動的時候，沒有人把我放在池子裡；我正去的時候，就有別人比我先下去。」

 

    因為畢士大，有一個傳說：有病的人要等候水動，趕快下去池子，最好是第一個人，就可以得醫治；因為有天使按時下池子攪動那水，水動之後，誰先下去，無論害甚麼病就痊癒了。

 

    這個病三十八年的人，就是沒有機會把握到第一個！所以，就一直在那裏等很久，卻又不願意放棄！但是，心裡想要卻得不著，因為總有別人比他搶先！

 

    當然他的遭遇也讓我想到自己的狀態，過去一直想要牧會，到過好多地方講道，都是敬陪末座，沒有被聘！好像都沒有被看好，內心也有許多沮喪！還好，上帝有另外的安排，但是那種落空我能夠體會！

 

    期待人會落空，但是遇見主耶穌就不會落空，那人等畢士大池的水落空了，但是主耶穌出手醫治，就得痊癒了，沒有落空！

 

    我們主耶穌的救贖也是如此，雖然很多人信主以後發覺自己還是沒有多大的改變，仍然是「過去的我」！心裡就覺得福音是上帝的大能嗎？心中有些落空的感覺！

 

     其實，我們的盼望不是在今世就得著，那就不叫盼望，我們的盼望是尚未發生，是在主耶穌再來時，完全的得贖，那時我們才能完全更新，成為榮耀的新人，與主耶穌一同坐王到永遠！也因此，主榮耀國度完全實現的時候，我們才能一起享受榮耀無限！您盼望那日快快實現嗎？

 

歷代志下13章

    歷代志下13:1-22    ,

    歷代志下13:5   ,

歷代志下13:1-22

 

13:1 耶羅波安王十八年，亞比雅登基作猶大王，
13:2 在耶路撒冷作王三年。他母親名叫米該亞（又作瑪迦），是基比亞人烏列的女兒。亞比雅常與耶羅波安爭戰。
13:3 有一次亞比雅率領挑選的兵四十萬擺陣，都是勇敢的戰士；耶羅波安也挑選大能的勇士八十萬，對亞比雅擺陣。
13:4 亞比雅站在以法蓮山地中的洗瑪臉山上，說：「耶羅波安和以色列眾人哪，要聽我說！
13:5 耶和華─以色列的上帝曾立鹽約（鹽就是不廢壞的意思），將以色列國永遠賜給大衛和他的子孫，你們不知道嗎？
13:6 無奈大衛兒子所羅門的臣僕、尼八兒子耶羅波安起來背叛他的主人。
13:7 有些無賴的匪徒聚集跟從他，逞強攻擊所羅門的兒子羅波安；那時羅波安還幼弱，不能抵擋他們。
13:8 「現在你們有意抗拒大衛子孫手下所治耶和華的國，你們的人也甚多，你們那裡又有耶羅波安為你們所造當作神的金牛犢。
13:9 你們不是驅逐耶和華的祭司亞倫的後裔和利未人嗎？不是照著外邦人的惡俗為自己立祭司嗎？無論何人牽一隻公牛犢、七隻公綿羊將自己分別出來，就可作虛無之神的祭司。
13:10 至於我們，耶和華是我們的上帝，我們並沒有離棄他。我們有事奉耶和華的祭司，都是亞倫的後裔，並有利未人各盡其職，
13:11 每日早晚向耶和華獻燔祭，燒美香，又在精金的桌子上擺陳設餅；又有金燈臺和燈盞，每晚點起，因為我們遵守耶和華─我們上帝的命；惟有你們離棄了他。
13:12 率領我們的是上帝，我們這裡也有上帝的祭司拿號向你們吹出大聲。以色列人哪，不要與耶和華─你們列祖的上帝爭戰，因你們必不能亨通。」
13:13 耶羅波安卻在猶大人的後頭設伏兵。這樣，以色列人在猶大人的前頭，伏兵在猶大人的後頭。
13:14 猶大人回頭觀看，見前後都有敵兵，就呼求耶和華，祭司也吹號。
13:15 於是猶大人吶喊；猶大人吶喊的時候，上帝就使耶羅波安和以色列眾人敗在亞比雅與猶大人面前。
13:16 以色列人在猶大人面前逃跑，上帝將他們交在猶大人手裡。
13:17 亞比雅和他的軍兵大大殺戮以色列人，以色列人仆倒死亡的精兵有五十萬。
13:18 那時，以色列人被制伏了，猶大人得勝，是因倚靠耶和華─他們列祖的上帝。
13:19 亞比雅追趕耶羅波安，攻取了他的幾座城，就是伯特利和屬伯特利的鎮市，耶沙拿和屬耶沙拿的鎮市，以法拉音（或譯：以弗倫）和屬以法拉音的鎮市。
13:20 亞比雅在世的時候，耶羅波安不能再強盛；耶和華攻擊他，他就死了。
13:21 亞比雅卻漸漸強盛，娶妻妾十四個，生了二十二個兒子，十六個女兒。
13:22 亞比雅其餘的事和他的言行都寫在先知易多的傳上。

 

In the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam, Abijah became king of Judah, ² and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Maakah,^[a] a daughter^[b] of Uriel of Gibeah.

There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam. ³ Abijah went into battle with an army of four hundred thousand able fighting men, and Jeroboam drew up a battle line against him with eight hundred thousand able troops.

⁴ Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim, in the hill country of Ephraim, and said, “Jeroboam and all Israel, listen to me! ⁵ Don’t you know that the Lord, the God of Israel, has given the kingship of Israel to David and his descendants forever by a covenant of salt? ⁶ Yet Jeroboam son of Nebat, an official of Solomon son of David, rebelled against his master. ⁷ Some worthless scoundrels gathered around him and opposed Rehoboam son of Solomon when he was young and indecisive and not strong enough to resist them.

⁸ “And now you plan to resist the kingdom of the Lord, which is in the hands of David’s descendants. You are indeed a vast army and have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made to be your gods. ⁹ But didn’t you drive out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and make priests of your own as the peoples of other lands do? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams may become a priest of what are not gods.

¹⁰ “As for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not forsaken him. The priests who serve the Lord are sons of Aaron, and the Levites assist them. ¹¹ Every morning and evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the Lord. They set out the bread on the ceremonially clean table and light the lamps on the gold lampstand every evening. We are observing the requirements of the Lord our God. But you have forsaken him. ¹² God is with us; he is our leader. His priests with their trumpets will sound the battle cry against you. People of Israel, do not fight against the Lord, the God of your ancestors, for you will not succeed.”

¹³ Now Jeroboam had sent troops around to the rear, so that while he was in front of Judah the ambush was behind them. ¹⁴ Judah turned and saw that they were being attacked at both front and rear. Then they cried out to the Lord. The priests blew their trumpets ¹⁵ and the men of Judah raised the battle cry. At the sound of their battle cry, God routed Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. ¹⁶ The Israelites fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hands. ¹⁷ Abijah and his troops inflicted heavy losses on them, so that there were five hundred thousand casualties among Israel’s able men. ¹⁸ The Israelites were subdued on that occasion, and the people of Judah were victorious because they relied on the Lord, the God of their ancestors.

¹⁹ Abijah pursued Jeroboam and took from him the towns of Bethel, Jeshanah and Ephron, with their surrounding villages. ²⁰ Jeroboam did not regain power during the time of Abijah. And the Lord struck him down and he died.

²¹ But Abijah grew in strength. He married fourteen wives and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

²² The other events of Abijah’s reign, what he did and what he said, are written in the annotations of the prophet Iddo.

 

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    亞比雅相信自己有上帝的同在，所以能夠勝過耶波羅安！同樣，我們要靠主耶穌向魔鬼誇勝，不要被害怕征服！

 

    同樣世界藉由新冠肺炎來但給人恐懼，我們要靠著主耶穌，宣告：「只要信，不要怕！」

 

    也唯有靠主耶穌的恩典才可以勝過恐懼的心！