歷代志下23:1-21

 

23:1 第七年，耶何耶大奮勇自強，將百夫長耶羅罕的兒子亞撒利雅，約哈難的兒子以實瑪利，俄備得的兒子亞撒利雅，亞大雅的兒子瑪西雅，細基利的兒子以利沙法召來，與他們立約。
23:2 他們走遍猶大，從猶大各城裡招聚利未人和以色列的眾族長到耶路撒冷來。
23:3 會眾在上帝殿裡與王立約。耶何耶大對他們說：「看哪，王的兒子必當作王，正如耶和華指著大衛子孫所應許的話」；
23:4 又說：「你們當這樣行：祭司和利未人凡安息日進班的，三分之一要把守各門，
23:5 三分之一要在王宮，三分之一要在基址門；眾百姓要在耶和華殿的院內。
23:6 除了祭司和供職的利未人之外，不准別人進耶和華的殿；惟獨他們可以進去，因為他們聖潔。眾百姓要遵守耶和華所吩咐的。
23:7 利未人要手中各拿兵器，四圍護衛王；凡擅入殿宇的，必當治死。王出入的時候，你們當跟隨他。」
23:8 利未人和猶大眾人都照著祭司耶何耶大一切所吩咐的去行，各帶所管安息日進班出班的人來，因為祭司耶何耶大不許他們下班。
23:9 祭司耶何耶大便將上帝殿裡所藏大衛王的槍、盾牌、擋牌交給百夫長，
23:10 又分派眾民手中各拿兵器，在壇和殿那裡，從殿右直到殿左，站在王子的四圍；
23:11 於是領王子出來，給他戴上冠冕，將律法書交給他，立他作王。耶何耶大和眾子膏他，眾人說：「願王萬歲！」
23:12 亞她利雅聽見民奔走讚美王的聲音，就到民那裡，進耶和華的殿，
23:13 看見王站在殿門的柱旁，百夫長和吹號的人侍立在王左右，國民都歡樂吹號，又有歌唱的，用各樣的樂器領人歌唱讚美；亞她利雅就撕裂衣服，喊叫說：「反了！反了！」
23:14 祭司耶何耶大帶管轄軍兵的百夫長出來，吩咐他們說：「將她趕到班外，凡跟隨她的必用刀殺死！」因為祭司說：「不可在耶和華殿裡殺她。」
23:15 眾兵就閃開，讓她去；她走到王宮的馬門，便在那裡把她殺了。
23:16 耶何耶大與眾民和王立約，都要作耶和華的民。
23:17 於是眾民都到巴力廟，拆毀了廟，打碎壇和像，又在壇前將巴力的祭司瑪坦殺了。
23:18 耶何耶大派官看守耶和華的殿，是在祭司利未人手下。這祭司利未人是大衛分派在耶和華殿中、照摩西律法上所寫的，給耶和華獻燔祭，又按大衛所定的例，歡樂歌唱；
23:19 且設立守門的把守耶和華殿的各門，無論為何事，不潔淨的人都不准進去。
23:20 又率領百夫長和貴冑，與民間的官長，並國中的眾民，請王從耶和華殿下來，由上門進入王宮，立王坐在國位上。
23:21 國民都歡樂，合城都安靜。眾人已將亞她利雅用刀殺了。

 

In the seventh year Jehoiada showed his strength. He made a covenant with the commanders of units of a hundred: Azariah son of Jeroham, Ishmael son of Jehohanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zikri. ² They went throughout Judah and gathered the Levites and the heads of Israelite families from all the towns. When they came to Jerusalem, ³ the whole assembly made a covenant with the king at the temple of God.

Jehoiada said to them, “The king’s son shall reign, as the Lord promised concerning the descendants of David. ⁴ Now this is what you are to do: A third of you priests and Levites who are going on duty on the Sabbath are to keep watch at the doors, ⁵ a third of you at the royal palace and a third at the Foundation Gate, and all the others are to be in the courtyards of the temple of the Lord. ⁶ No one is to enter the temple of the Lord except the priests and Levites on duty; they may enter because they are consecrated, but all the others are to observe the Lord’s command not to enter.^{[a] 7} The Levites are to station themselves around the king, each with weapon in hand. Anyone who enters the temple is to be put to death. Stay close to the king wherever he goes.”

⁸ The Levites and all the men of Judah did just as Jehoiada the priest ordered. Each one took his men—those who were going on duty on the Sabbath and those who were going off duty—for Jehoiada the priest had not released any of the divisions. ⁹ Then he gave the commanders of units of a hundred the spears and the large and small shields that had belonged to King David and that were in the temple of God. ¹⁰ He stationed all the men, each with his weapon in his hand, around the king—near the altar and the temple, from the south side to the north side of the temple.

¹¹ Jehoiada and his sons brought out the king’s son and put the crown on him; they presented him with a copy of the covenant and proclaimed him king. They anointed him and shouted, “Long live the king!”

¹² When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and cheering the king, she went to them at the temple of the Lord. ¹³ She looked, and there was the king, standing by his pillar at the entrance. The officers and the trumpeters were beside the king, and all the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets, and musicians with their instruments were leading the praises. Then Athaliah tore her robes and shouted, “Treason! Treason!”

¹⁴ Jehoiada the priest sent out the commanders of units of a hundred, who were in charge of the troops, and said to them: “Bring her out between the ranks^[b] and put to the sword anyone who follows her.” For the priest had said, “Do not put her to death at the temple of the Lord.” ¹⁵ So they seized her as she reached the entrance of the Horse Gate on the palace grounds, and there they put her to death.

¹⁶ Jehoiada then made a covenant that he, the people and the king^[c] would be the Lord’s people. ¹⁷ All the people went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols and killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.

¹⁸ Then Jehoiada placed the oversight of the temple of the Lord in the hands of the Levitical priests, to whom David had made assignments in the temple, to present the burnt offerings of the Lord as written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and singing, as David had ordered. ¹⁹ He also stationed gatekeepers at the gates of the Lord’s temple so that no one who was in any way unclean might enter.

²⁰ He took with him the commanders of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people and all the people of the land and brought the king down from the temple of the Lord. They went into the palace through the Upper Gate and seated the king on the royal throne. ²¹ All the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was calm, because Athaliah had been slain with the sword.

 

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    上帝藉由祭司耶何耶大來打敗亞她利雅，使得大衛的子孫可以繼續擔任猶大國的王，使得基督的預備沒有受影響！

 

    可見上帝決定的事，是人無法阻擋的，必定會成就的！也因此我們對上帝的應許要堅定的相信！不要獸醫些人為想像的神學影響，這不是上帝所喜悅的！

 

    也因此，神學的建立是要靠聖經，不是人的推理，這是非常重要的原則！

 

 

約翰福音14:15-31

 

14:15 「你們若愛我，就必遵守我的命令。 

14:16 我要求父，父就另外賜給你們一位保惠師（或譯：訓慰師；下同），叫他永遠與你們同在，

14:17 就是真理的聖靈，乃世人不能接受的；因為不見他，也不認識他。你們卻認識他，因他常與你們同在，也要在你們裡面。
14:18 我不撇下你們為孤兒，我必到你們這裡來。
14:19 還有不多的時候，世人不再看見我，你們卻看見我；因為我活著，你們也要活著。
14:20 到那日，你們就知道我在父裡面，你們在我裡面，我也在你們裡面。
14:21 有了我的命令又遵守的，這人就是愛我的；愛我的必蒙我父愛他，我也要愛他，並且要向他顯現。」
14:22 猶大（不是加略人猶大）問耶穌說：「主啊，為甚麼要向我們顯現，不向世人顯現呢？」
14:23 耶穌回答說：「人若愛我，就必遵守我的道；我父也必愛他，並且我們要到他那裡去，與他同住。
14:24 不愛我的人就不遵守我的道。你們所聽見的道不是我的，乃是差我來之父的道。
14:25 「我還與你們同住的時候，已將這些話對你們說了。
14:26 但保惠師，就是父因我的名所要差來的聖靈，他要將一切的事指教你們，並且要叫你們想起我對你們所說的一切話。
14:27 我留下平安給你們；我將我的平安賜給你們。我所賜的，不像世人所賜的。你們心裡不要憂愁，也不要膽怯。
14:28 你們聽見我對你們說了，我去還要到你們這裡來。你們若愛我，因我到父那裡去，就必喜樂，因為父是比我大的。
14:29 現在事情還沒有成就，我預先告訴你們，叫你們到事情成就的時候就可以信。
14:30 以後我不再和你們多說話，因為這世界的王將到。他在我裡面是毫無所有；
14:31 但要叫世人知道我愛父，並且父怎樣吩咐我，我就怎樣行。起來，我們走吧！」

 

¹⁵ “If you love me, keep my commands. ¹⁶ And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— ¹⁷ the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be^[c] in you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. ¹⁹ Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. ²⁰ On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. ²¹ Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”

²² Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”

²³ Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. ²⁴ Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.

²⁵ “All this I have spoken while still with you. ²⁶ But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. ²⁷ Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

²⁸ “You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. ²⁹ I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe. ³⁰ I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold over me, ³¹ but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded me.

“Come now; let us leave.

 

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    主耶穌在這裡應許另一位保惠師，就是聖靈保惠師。透過聖靈保惠師，我們可以活出上帝兒女的身分，享受上帝在基督裡的一切豐盛與平安！

 

約翰福音14:5-14

 

14:5 多馬對他說：「主啊，我們不知道你往哪裡去，怎麼知道那條路呢？」
14:6 耶穌說：「我就是道路、真理、生命；若不藉著我，沒有人能到父那裡去。
14:7 你們若認識我，也就認識我的父。從今以後，你們認識他，並且已經看見他。」
14:8 腓力對他說：「求主將父顯給我們看，我們就知足了。」
14:9 耶穌對他說：「腓力，我與你們同在這樣長久，你還不認識我嗎？人看見了我，就是看見了父；你怎麼說『將父顯給我們看』呢？
14:10 我在父裡面，父在我裡面，你不信嗎？我對你們所說的話，不是憑著自己說的，乃是住在我裡面的父做他自己的事。
14:11 你們當信我，我在父裡面，父在我裡面；即或不信，也當因我所做的事信我。
14:12 我實實在在地告訴你們，我所做的事，信我的人也要做，並且要做比這更大的事，因為我往父那裡去。
14:13 你們奉我的名無論求甚麼，我必成就，叫父因兒子得榮耀。
14:14 你們若奉我的名求甚麼，我必成就。」

 

⁵ Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

⁶ Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ⁷ If you really know me, you will know^[b] my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

⁸ Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”

⁹ Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰ Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. ¹¹ Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. ¹² Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. ¹³ And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴ You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

 

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    主耶穌在這裡向門徒說明自己和父的關係，讓我們感受到父與子有美好的交通，是和諧的合一，不是緊張的互相競爭。並且向門徒說到，唯有透過耶穌基督人才可以認識父！

 

    認識父不是靠想像，不是靠人的論述，而是藉由耶穌基督，這是唯一的道路！雖然上帝是不可見，但是主耶穌基督卻讓父在祂身上彰顯，成為可見得！正如祂與門徒的對話：「我就是道路、真理、生命；若不藉著我，沒有人能到父那裡去。你們若認識我，也就認識我的父。從今以後，你們認識他，並且已經看見他。」「我與你們同在這樣長久，你還不認識我嗎？人看見了我，就是看見了父」

 

    不僅如此，我們禱告更是要奉主耶穌的名，正如主耶穌對門徒說：「你們奉我的名無論求甚麼，我必成就，叫父因兒子得榮耀。你們若奉我的名求甚麼，我必成就。」

 

    也因為如此，我們要常常在聖靈的引導下，讓耶穌基督的救恩成就在我們的身上，靠主耶穌與上帝親近！