約翰福音16:1-15

 

16:1 「我已將這些事告訴你們，使你們不至於跌倒。
16:2 人要把你們趕出會堂，並且時候將到，凡殺你們的就以為是事奉上帝。
16:3 他們這樣行，是因未曾認識父，也未曾認識我。
16:4 我將這事告訴你們，是叫你們到了時候可以想起我對你們說過了。」「我起先沒有將這事告訴你們，因為我與你們同在。
16:5 現今我往差我來的父那裡去，你們中間並沒有人問我：『你往哪裡去？』
16:6 只因我將這事告訴你們，你們就滿心憂愁。
16:7 然而，我將真情告訴你們，我去是與你們有益的；我若不去，保惠師就不到你們這裡來；我若去，就差他來。
16:8 他既來了，就要叫世人為罪、為義、為審判，自己責備自己。
16:9 為罪，是因他們不信我；
16:10 為義，是因我往父那裡去，你們就不再見我；
16:11 為審判，是因這世界的王受了審判。
16:12 「我還有好些事要告訴你們，但你們現在擔當不了（或譯：不能領會）。
16:13 只等真理的聖靈來了，他要引導你們明白（原文是進入）一切的真理；因為他不是憑自己說的，乃是把他所聽見的都說出來，並要把將來的事告訴你們。
16:14 他要榮耀我，因為他要將受於我的告訴你們。
16:15 凡父所有的，都是我的；所以我說，他要將受於我的告訴你們。」

 

 “All this I have told you so that you will not fall away. ² They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. ³ They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. ⁴ I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you, ⁵ but now I am going to him who sent me. None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ ⁶ Rather, you are filled with grief because I have said these things. ⁷ But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. ⁸ When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: ⁹ about sin, because people do not believe in me; ¹⁰ about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; ¹¹ and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.

¹² “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. ¹³ But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. ¹⁴ He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. ¹⁵ All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”

 

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    主耶穌要將保惠師聖靈差遣來到門徒中間，這是非常重要的，因為主耶穌必須回到天父上帝那裏去。然而主耶穌回到天家以後，差派來的聖靈是與門徒永遠在一起，讓人經歷上帝的救贖大功，過新的生命，並且明白真理。

 

    這也就是告訴我們信仰的建立，不是在於我們用自己的意志和方法來努力追求。而是聖靈來引導與啟示，使上帝的話語在我們的身上發生功效。沒有聖靈的工作，我們就沒有上帝兒子的生命。

 

    想想猶太人花了多少精神和歲月，靠著猶太的遺傳和自己的努力，結果竟然與主耶穌基督的救恩無關，這是多麼可惜！因為他們沒有認識主耶穌就是彌賽亞，還一直排斥祂，與祂衝突，最後一切都失落了！

 

    保羅說到聖靈的做為就是讓人認識耶穌基督就是主，如哥林多前書12章3節說：「所以我告訴你們，被上帝的靈感動的，沒有說『耶穌是可咒詛』的；若不是被聖靈感動的，也沒有能說『耶穌是主』的。」

 

    因此，能認「耶穌是主」成為上帝的兒女，是聖靈工作之結果，這是我們判定真假基督徒的試金石。而使徒約翰也告訴我們：「凡靈認耶穌基督是成了肉身來的，就是出於上帝的；從此你們可以認出上帝的靈來。凡靈不認耶穌，就不是出於上帝，這是那敵基督者的靈。你們從前聽見他要來，現在已經在世上了。」(約翰一書4:2-3)

 

 

歷代志下24:17-27

 

24:17 耶何耶大死後，猶大的眾首領來朝拜王；王就聽從他們。
24:18 他們離棄耶和華─他們列祖上帝的殿，去事奉亞舍拉和偶像；因他們這罪，就有忿怒臨到猶大和耶路撒冷。
24:19 但上帝仍遣先知到他們那裡，引導他們歸向耶和華。這先知警戒他們，他們卻不肯聽。
24:20 那時，上帝的靈感動祭司耶何耶大的兒子撒迦利亞，他就站在上面對民說：「上帝如此說：你們為何干犯耶和華的誡命，以致不得亨通呢？因為你們離棄耶和華，所以他也離棄你們。」
24:21 眾民同心謀害撒迦利亞，就照王的吩咐，在耶和華殿的院內用石頭打死他。
24:22 這樣，約阿施王不想念撒迦利亞的父親耶何耶大向自己所施的恩，殺了他的兒子。撒迦利亞臨死的時候說：「願耶和華鑒察伸冤！」
24:23 滿了一年，亞蘭的軍兵上來攻擊約阿施，來到猶大和耶路撒冷，殺了民中的眾首領，將所掠的財貨送到大馬士革王那裡。
24:24 亞蘭的軍兵雖來了一小隊，耶和華卻將大隊的軍兵交在他們手裡，是因猶大人離棄耶和華─他們列祖的上帝，所以藉亞蘭人懲罰約阿施。
24:25 亞蘭人離開約阿施的時候，他患重病；臣僕背叛他，要報祭司耶何耶大兒子流血之仇，殺他在床上，葬他在大衛城，只是不葬在列王的墳墓裡。
24:26 背叛他的是亞捫婦人示米押的兒子撒拔和摩押婦人示米利的兒子約薩拔。
24:27 至於他的眾子和他所受的警戒，並他重修上帝殿的事，都寫在列王的傳上。他兒子亞瑪謝接續他作王。

 

¹⁷ After the death of Jehoiada, the officials of Judah came and paid homage to the king, and he listened to them. ¹⁸ They abandoned the temple of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and worshiped Asherah poles and idols. Because of their guilt, God’s anger came on Judah and Jerusalem. ¹⁹ Although the Lord sent prophets to the people to bring them back to him, and though they testified against them, they would not listen.

²⁰ Then the Spirit of God came on Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood before the people and said, “This is what God says: ‘Why do you disobey the Lord’s commands? You will not prosper. Because you have forsaken the Lord, he has forsaken you.’”

²¹ But they plotted against him, and by order of the king they stoned him to death in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple. ²² King Joash did not remember the kindness Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had shown him but killed his son, who said as he lay dying, “May the Lord see this and call you to account.”

²³ At the turn of the year,^[a] the army of Aram marched against Joash; it invaded Judah and Jerusalem and killed all the leaders of the people. They sent all the plunder to their king in Damascus. ²⁴ Although the Aramean army had come with only a few men, the Lord delivered into their hands a much larger army. Because Judah had forsaken the Lord, the God of their ancestors, judgment was executed on Joash. ²⁵ When the Arameans withdrew, they left Joash severely wounded. His officials conspired against him for murdering the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they killed him in his bed. So he died and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

²⁶ Those who conspired against him were Zabad,^[b] son of Shimeath an Ammonite woman, and Jehozabad, son of Shimrith^[c] a Moabite woman. ²⁷ The account of his sons, the many prophecies about him, and the record of the restoration of the temple of God are written in the annotations on the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son succeeded him as king.

 

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     耶何耶大去世以後約阿施就變了樣，受到猶大的眾首領的影響，他們離棄耶和華─他們列祖上帝的殿，去事奉亞舍拉和偶像；因他們這罪，就有忿怒臨到猶大和耶路撒冷。

 

    不僅如此先知的勸告都不聽，最後上帝的靈感動祭司耶何耶大的兒子撒迦利亞，他就站在上面對民說：「上帝如此說：你們為何干犯耶和華的誡命，以致不得亨通呢？因為你們離棄耶和華，所以他也離棄你們。」

 

    約阿施最後和猶大百姓一起殺害了撒迦利亞，在耶和華殿的院內用石頭打死他。這樣，約阿施王不想念撒迦利亞的父親耶何耶大向自己所施的恩，殺了他的兒子。撒迦利亞臨死的時候說：「願耶和華鑒察伸冤！」

 

    上帝後來真的伸冤：藉亞蘭人懲罰約阿施。亞蘭人離開約阿施的時候，他患重病；臣僕背叛他，要報祭司耶何耶大兒子流血之仇，殺他在床上，葬他在大衛城，只是不葬在列王的墳墓裡。

 

    主耶穌在教訓百姓時也記念這事：「使創世以來所流眾先知血的罪都要問在這世代的人身上，就是從亞伯的血起，直到被殺在壇和殿中間撒迦利亞的血為止。我實在告訴你們，這都要問在這世代的人身上。」(路加福音11:50-51)

 

 

 

歷代志下24章

     歷代志下24:1-16 ,

     歷代志下24:17-27  ,

歷代志下24:1-16

 

24:1 約阿施登基的時候年七歲，在耶路撒冷作王四十年。他母親名叫西比亞，是別是巴人。
24:2 祭司耶何耶大在世的時候，約阿施行耶和華眼中看為正的事。
24:3 耶何耶大為他娶了兩個妻，並且生兒養女。
24:4 此後，約阿施有意重修耶和華的殿，
24:5 便召聚眾祭司和利未人，吩咐他們說：「你們要往猶大各城去，使以色列眾人捐納銀子，每年可以修理你們上帝的殿；你們要急速辦理這事。」只是利未人不急速辦理。
24:6 王召了大祭司耶何耶大來，對他說：「從前耶和華的僕人摩西，為法櫃的帳幕與以色列會眾所定的捐項，你為何不叫利未人照這例從猶大和耶路撒冷帶來作殿的費用呢？
24:7 （因為那惡婦亞她利雅的眾子曾拆毀上帝的殿，又用耶和華殿中分別為聖的物供奉巴力。）
24:8 於是王下令，眾人做了一櫃，放在耶和華殿的門外，
24:9 又通告猶大和耶路撒冷的百姓，要將上帝僕人摩西在曠野所吩咐以色列人的捐項給耶和華送來。
24:10 眾首領和百姓都歡歡喜喜地將銀子送來，投入櫃中，直到捐完。
24:11 利未人見銀子多了，就把櫃抬到王所派的司事面前；王的書記和大祭司的屬員來將櫃倒空，仍放在原處。日日都是這樣，積蓄的銀子甚多。
24:12 王與耶何耶大將銀子交給耶和華殿裡辦事的人，他們就雇了石匠、木匠重修耶和華的殿，又雇了鐵匠、銅匠修理耶和華的殿。
24:13 工人操作，漸漸修成，將上帝殿修造得與從前一樣，而且甚是堅固。
24:14 工程完了，他們就把其餘的銀子拿到王與耶何耶大面前，用以製造耶和華殿供奉所用的器皿和調羹，並金銀的器皿。耶何耶大在世的時候，眾人常在耶和華殿裡獻燔祭。
24:15 耶何耶大年紀老邁，日子滿足而死。死的時候年一百三十歲，
24:16 葬在大衛城列王的墳墓裡；因為他在以色列人中行善，又事奉上帝，修理上帝的殿。

Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba. ² Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all the years of Jehoiada the priest. ³ Jehoiada chose two wives for him, and he had sons and daughters.

⁴ Some time later Joash decided to restore the temple of the Lord. ⁵ He called together the priests and Levites and said to them, “Go to the towns of Judah and collect the money due annually from all Israel, to repair the temple of your God. Do it now.” But the Levites did not act at once.

⁶ Therefore the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest and said to him, “Why haven’t you required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax imposed by Moses the servant of the Lord and by the assembly of Israel for the tent of the covenant law?”

⁷ Now the sons of that wicked woman Athaliah had broken into the temple of God and had used even its sacred objects for the Baals.

⁸ At the king’s command, a chest was made and placed outside, at the gate of the temple of the Lord. ⁹ A proclamation was then issued in Judah and Jerusalem that they should bring to the Lord the tax that Moses the servant of God had required of Israel in the wilderness. ¹⁰ All the officials and all the people brought their contributions gladly, dropping them into the chest until it was full. ¹¹ Whenever the chest was brought in by the Levites to the king’s officials and they saw that there was a large amount of money, the royal secretary and the officer of the chief priest would come and empty the chest and carry it back to its place. They did this regularly and collected a great amount of money. ¹² The king and Jehoiada gave it to those who carried out the work required for the temple of the Lord. They hired masons and carpenters to restore the Lord’s temple, and also workers in iron and bronze to repair the temple.

¹³ The men in charge of the work were diligent, and the repairs progressed under them. They rebuilt the temple of God according to its original design and reinforced it. ¹⁴ When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada, and with it were made articles for the Lord’s temple: articles for the service and for the burnt offerings, and also dishes and other objects of gold and silver. As long as Jehoiada lived, burnt offerings were presented continually in the temple of the Lord.

¹⁵ Now Jehoiada was old and full of years, and he died at the age of a hundred and thirty. ¹⁶ He was buried with the kings in the City of David, because of the good he had done in Israel for God and his temple.

 

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     耶何耶大在世的時候，盡心盡力輔佐約阿施，讓約阿施做好一位猶大王該做的事。不僅如此，還用巧計――準備一個奉獻箱，使猶大人未聖殿的修建和利未人服事的需要來奉獻。

 

    從猶大人奉獻的行動告訴我們，上帝喜悅我們的敬拜中有「奉獻」這個項目，讓我們把當納上帝的，在禮拜的時候歸給上帝，這是上帝所喜悅的！奉獻的意義如《歷代志上》29章14節所說：「…因為萬物都從你而來，我們把從你而得的獻給你。」

 

    因此，我們奉獻不要以為自己很慷慨，是上帝先對我們慷慨，我們才有能力好奉獻呢！