羅馬書10:1-21

 

10:1 弟兄們，我心裡所願的，向上帝所求的，是要以色列人得救。
10:2 我可以證明，他們向上帝有熱心，但不是按著真知識；
10:3 因為不知道上帝的義，想要立自己的義，就不服上帝的義了。
10:4 律法的總結就是基督，使凡信他的都得著義。
10:5 摩西寫著說：「人若行那出於律法的義，就必因此活著。」
10:6 惟有出於信心的義如此說：「你不要心裡說：誰要升到天上去呢？（就是要領下基督來；）
10:7 誰要下到陰間去呢？（就是要領基督從死裡上來。）」
10:8 他到底怎麼說呢？他說：這道離你不遠，正在你口裡，在你心裡─（就是我們所傳信主的道。）
10:9 你若口裡認耶穌為主，心裡信上帝叫他從死裡復活，就必得救。
10:10 因為，人心裡相信就可以稱義，口裡承認就可以得救。
10:11 經上說：「凡信他的人必不至於羞愧。」
10:12 猶太人和希臘人並沒有分別，因為眾人同有一位主；他也厚待一切求告他的人。
10:13 因為「凡求告主名的就必得救」。
10:14 然而，人未曾信他，怎能求他呢？未曾聽見他，怎能信他呢？沒有傳道的，怎能聽見呢？
10:15 若沒有奉差遣，怎能傳道呢？如經上所記：「報福音、傳喜信的人，他們的腳蹤何等佳美！」
10:16 只是人沒有都聽從福音，因為以賽亞說：「主啊，我們所傳的有誰信呢？」
10:17 可見，信道是從聽道來的，聽道是從基督的話來的。
10:18 但我說，人沒有聽見嗎？誠然聽見了。他們的聲音傳遍天下；他們的言語傳到地極。
10:19 我再說，以色列人不知道嗎？先有摩西說：我要用那不成子民的惹動你們的憤恨；我要用那無知的民觸動你們的怒氣。
10:20 又有以賽亞放膽說：沒有尋找我的，我叫他們遇見；沒有訪問我的，我向他們顯現。
10:21 至於以色列人，他說：「我整天伸手招呼那悖逆頂嘴的百姓。」

 

Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. ² For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. ³ Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. ⁴ Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.

⁵ Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.”^{[a] 6} But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’”^[b] (that is, to bring Christ down) ⁷ “or ‘Who will descend into the deep?’”^[c] (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). ⁸ But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,”^[d] that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: ⁹ If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. ¹⁰ For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. ¹¹ As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.”^{[e] 12} For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, ¹³ for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”^[f]

¹⁴ How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? ¹⁵ And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”^[g]

¹⁶ But not all the Israelites accepted the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”^{[h] 17} Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ. ¹⁸ But I ask: Did they not hear? Of course they did:

“Their voice has gone out into all the earth,
    their words to the ends of the world.”^[i]

¹⁹ Again I ask: Did Israel not understand? First, Moses says,

“I will make you envious by those who are not a nation;
    I will make you angry by a nation that has no understanding.”^[j]

²⁰ And Isaiah boldly says,

“I was found by those who did not seek me;
    I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me.”^[k]

²¹ But concerning Israel he says,

“All day long I have held out my hands
    to a disobedient and obstinate people.”

 

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    保羅在此很明確地說出心中的盼望：「是要以色列人得救。」

 

    然而要以色列人得救不是靠人自己，而是要信靠耶穌基督，因為人唯有透過基督才能得救，這是上帝立下的旨意。雖然，上帝在以色列人中間過去任何的做為，都是為了預備基督的到來，更是要預備人如何接納耶穌為救主！

 

    而要接受耶穌基督為救主，是必須透過福音的傳講，讓人因聽了福音而願意信靠耶穌基督為救主，也因此上帝從世界各族各國呼召人來傳講福音，使人聽了明白而「口裡認耶穌為主，心裡信上帝叫他從死裡復活」！

 

    得救之後，人的表現也就是如此，正如你和我「口裡認耶穌為主，心裡信上帝叫他從死裡復活」！

 

羅馬書9:30-33

 

9:30 這樣，我們可說甚麼呢？那本來不追求義的外邦人反得了義，就是因信而得的義。
9:31 但以色列人追求律法的義，反得不著律法的義。
9:32 這是甚麼緣故呢？是因為他們不憑著信心求，只憑著行為求；他們正跌在那絆腳石上。
9:33 就如經上所記：我在錫安放一塊絆腳的石頭，跌人的磐石；信靠他的人必不至於羞愧。

 

³⁰ What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; ³¹ but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal. ³² Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone. ³³ As it is written:

“See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble
    and a rock that makes them fall,
    and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.”

 

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    不管你使否相信「預定論」，或是不管你是不是「靈恩派」，但是一件事情是救恩必須，你也一定會贊同，就是是因著信靠耶穌而得救，不是靠信仰立場或行為或守規條而得救！

 

    既是憑著信心而得救，那是因為上帝的恩典！用信心表示我們不是靠行為或修行，是完全信賴上帝的引導和耶穌基督的代贖，以及聖靈將救恩運行在我們身上，使我們出死入生！

 

    所以，不管是猶太人、外邦人都只有一條路，且是唯一的一條路，就是信靠耶穌基督，正如主耶穌說：「我就是道路、真理、生命；若不藉著我，沒有人能到父那裡去。」（約翰福音14:6）

 

 

 

 

羅馬書9:14-29

 

9:14 這樣，我們可說甚麼呢？難道上帝有甚麼不公平嗎？斷乎沒有！
9:15 因他對摩西說：我要憐憫誰就憐憫誰，要恩待誰就恩待誰。
9:16 據此看來，這不在乎那定意的，也不在乎那奔跑的，只在乎發憐憫的上帝。
9:17 因為經上有話向法老說：「我將你興起來，特要在你身上彰顯我的權能，並要使我的名傳遍天下。」
9:18 如此看來，上帝要憐憫誰就憐憫誰，要叫誰剛硬就叫誰剛硬。
9:19 這樣，你必對我說：「他為甚麼還指責人呢？有誰抗拒他的旨意呢？」
9:20 你這個人哪，你是誰，竟敢向上帝強嘴呢？受造之物豈能對造他的說：「你為甚麼這樣造我呢？」
9:21 窯匠難道沒有權柄從一團泥裡拿一塊做成貴重的器皿，又拿一塊做成卑賤的器皿嗎？
9:22 倘若上帝要顯明他的忿怒，彰顯他的權能，就多多忍耐寬容那可怒、預備遭毀滅的器皿，
9:23 又要將他豐盛的榮耀彰顯在那蒙憐憫、早預備得榮耀的器皿上。
9:24 這器皿就是我們被上帝所召的，不但是從猶太人中，也是從外邦人中。這有甚麼不可呢？
9:25 就像上帝在何西阿書上說：那本來不是我子民的，我要稱為「我的子民」；本來不是蒙愛的，我要稱為「蒙愛的」。
9:26 從前在甚麼地方對他們說：你們不是我的子民，將來就在那裡稱他們為「永生上帝的兒子」。
9:27 以賽亞指著以色列人喊著說：「以色列人雖多如海沙，得救的不過是剩下的餘數；
9:28 因為主要在世上施行他的話，叫他的話都成全，速速地完結。」
9:29 又如以賽亞先前說過：若不是萬軍之主給我們存留餘種，我們早已像所多瑪、蛾摩拉的樣子了。

 

¹⁴ What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! ¹⁵ For he says to Moses,

“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
    and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”^[f]

¹⁶ It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. ¹⁷ For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”^{[g] 18} Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.

¹⁹ One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?” ²⁰ But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’”^{[h] 21} Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?

²² What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction? ²³ What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory— ²⁴ even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? ²⁵ As he says in Hosea:

“I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people;
    and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”^[i]

²⁶ and,

“In the very place where it was said to them,
    ‘You are not my people,’
    there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”^[j]

²⁷ Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,
    only the remnant will be saved.
²⁸ For the Lord will carry out
    his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”^[k]

²⁹ It is just as Isaiah said previously:

“Unless the Lord Almighty
    had left us descendants,
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.”

 

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    相信反對「預定論」者讀了保羅這段文字之後，內心必定有許多掙扎，甚至會說：「上帝不是愛世人嗎？怎麼可以一些人得憐憫而被上帝拯救，而一些遭上帝憤怒而滅亡呢？上帝不應該是這樣！

 

    如果你有這樣的想法，就是在代替上帝做上帝，代替上帝做決定，這是與上帝主權相衝突，是撒但的作為，下場就是滅亡！你不覺得不接受保羅所得的啟示而寫出的話語，就是在反抗上帝嗎？

 

    也因為如此，我們不要做上面的想法與上帝的主權相爭，我們反倒要因保羅這樣說來感謝上帝，因為要不是上帝的憐憫我們怎會接受耶穌基督為救主？怎會成為上帝的兒女呢？這一切都是上帝的恩典，我們一定要為此感謝與讚美上帝，將榮耀歸給他都來不及，還與祂有甚麼相爭的呢？