2016年10月27日 星期四

箴言22:4



敬畏耶和華心存謙卑,就得富有、尊榮、生命為賞賜。


 

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    關於這樣的經文我們要小心,聖經要我們行的是「敬畏耶和華心存謙卑」,不是鼓勵我們追求後面的應許,因為後面的應許是指在上帝國實現時,上帝要讓我們完全享受到的,是永恆的獎賞。

    也因此,基督徒在世要存「忍耐」的心來實行上帝的旨意。因為我們遵行上帝旨意必定有所付出,甚至是要與我們的罪性相抵抗,正如主耶穌在客西馬尼園說的:「總要警醒禱告,免得入了迷惑。你們心靈固然願意,肉體卻軟弱了。」(馬太福音26:41

    但是,我們這一路並不是我們一個人傻傻地忍耐,而是有主耶穌隨時地同在與扶持,有主的同在就如同這裡所說,「得富有、尊榮、生命為賞賜」!

2016年10月26日 星期三

以西結書16:30-43



16:30 主耶和華說:你行這一切事,都是不知羞恥妓女所行的,可見你的心是何等懦弱!
16:31 因你在一切市口上建造圓頂花樓,在各街上做了高臺,你卻藐視賞賜,不像妓女。
16:32 哎!你這行淫的妻啊,寧肯接外人,不接丈夫。
16:33 凡妓女是得人贈送,你反倒贈送你所愛的人,賄賂他們從四圍來與你行淫。
16:34 你行淫與別的婦女相反,因為不是人從你行淫;你既贈送人,人並不贈送你;所以你與別的婦女相反。
16:35 你這妓女啊,要聽耶和華的話。
16:36 主耶和華如此說:因你的污穢傾洩了,你與你所愛的行淫露出下體,又因你拜一切可憎的偶像,流兒女的血獻給他,
16:37 我就要將你一切相歡、相愛的,和你一切所恨的都聚集來,從四圍攻擊你;又將你的下體露出,使他們看盡了。
16:38 我也要審判你,好像官長審判淫婦和流人血的婦女一樣。我因忿怒忌恨,使流血的罪歸到你身上。
16:39 我又要將你交在他們手中;他們必拆毀你的圓頂花樓,毀壞你的高臺,剝去你的衣服,奪取你的華美寶器,留下你赤身露體。
16:40 他們也必帶多人來攻擊你,用石頭打死你,用刀劍刺透你,
16:41 用火焚燒你的房屋,在許多婦人眼前向你施行審判。我必使你不再行淫,也不再贈送與人。
16:42 這樣,我就止息向你發的忿怒,我的忌恨也要離開你,我要安靜不再惱怒。
16:43 因你不追念你幼年的日子,在這一切的事上向我發烈怒,所以我必照你所行的報應在你頭上,你就不再貪淫,行那一切可憎的事。這是主耶和華說的。

30 "How sick is your heart, declares the Lord God, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute, 31 building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, because you scorned payment. 32 Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband! 33 Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings. 34 So you were different from other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore, and you gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you were different.
35 "Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the Lord:36 Thus says the Lord God, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them, 37 therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from every side and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness. 38 And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy. 39 And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places. They shall strip you of your clothes and take your beautiful jewels and leave you naked and bare. 40 They shall bring up a crowd against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords. 41 And they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. I will make you stop playing the whore, and you shall also give payment no more. 42 So will I satisfy my wrath on you, and my jealousy shall depart from you. I will be calm and will no more be angry. 43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord God. Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?

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    先知在此描述耶路撒冷比妓女還不如,所以上帝要懲罰她!因為猶大國的變態狀況,花錢找人來與自己行淫,卻拒絕丈夫。上帝就是要毀滅耶路撒冷,讓祂的忌恨可以平息,所以宗教上淫亂的耶路撒冷是一定要被擄、被毀滅的。但整個毀滅的動機卻是來自「丈夫的愛」。

    而在此讓我們認識到信仰是人心靈中最私密的事情,但是這私密如同婚姻一般是要忠貞的。而忠貞的原因是因為我們是被上帝拯救,被上帝所命定、所揀選,是與上帝有一種不可抗拒的關係選擇了其他對象,是否定上帝的愛,藐視上帝的地位,也因此會遭上帝的懲罰

    以色列人蒙上帝拯救脫離埃及為奴之地!而基督徒不僅蒙拯救脫離「埃及」,更是蒙拯救脫離「罪與死」的權勢,就是魔鬼的權勢!而上帝為我們的拯救,是一種犧牲的愛,就是透過愛子耶穌基督為我們的罪死在十字架上!使我們不能再悖離這樣的愛,因為祂已徹底敗壞魔鬼在我們身上的權勢了得勝是屬乎上帝和祂的子民

2016年10月25日 星期二

以西結書16:23-29

16:23 你行這一切惡事之後(主耶和華說:你有禍了!有禍了!)
16:24 又為自己建造圓頂花樓,在各街上做了高臺。
16:25 你在一切市口上建造高臺,使你的美貌變為可憎的,又與一切過路的多行淫亂。
16:26 你也和你鄰邦放縱情慾的埃及人行淫,加增你的淫亂,惹我發怒。
16:27 因此我伸手攻擊你,減少你應用的糧食,又將你交給恨你的非利士眾女(眾女是城邑的意思;本章下同),使她們任意待你。她們見你的淫行,為你羞恥。
16:28 你因貪色無厭,又與亞述人行淫,與他們行淫之後,仍不滿意,
16:29 並且多行淫亂,直到那貿易之地,就是迦勒底,你仍不滿意。

"And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! declares the Lord God), 24 you built yourself a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square. 25 At the head of every street you built your lofty place and made your beauty an abomination, offering yourself to any passerby and multiplying your whoring. 26 You also played the whore with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your whoring, to provoke me to anger. 27 Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you and diminished your allotted portion and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior. 28 You played the whore also with the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied. 29 You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.

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    聖經用男女關係的混亂(淫亂)來形容以色列人對上帝不忠心,這事非常貼切,因為男女關係是人與人之間最親密且最接近的關係,是不能隨便,也不是為了滿足彼此的慾望。這也是問甚麼混亂的男女關係會被輕視,甚至於被認為如同「禽獸」降低等級。不僅如此,若是為利益而失去對婚姻的忠誠,更是被唾棄!

    然而偏偏在人類的社會中,充斥著這樣的情形。以至於讓人感受到罪惡的力量,使人不僅失格,更是讓人墜入滅亡之中,因為人沒有與上帝有正確且合宜的關係,就是生命隔絕,這是非常嚴重的事情,這也是為什麼上帝要透過耶穌基督設立救恩,使人不再落在滅亡之中。

    上帝更透過祂與以色列之關係讓世人知道上帝不喜悅也無法容忍他的子民在罪中生活這是一種淫亂的祂為了恢復正常關係情願以不生愛子耶穌基督為贖罪祭獻上好把悖逆的人拉回應有的地位這是何等的愛與恩典


2016年10月24日 星期一

以西結書16:15-22



16:15 只是你仗著自己的美貌,又因你的名聲就行邪淫。你縱情淫亂,使過路的任意而行。
16:16 你用衣服為自己在高處結彩,在其上行邪淫。這樣的事將來必沒有,也必不再行了。
16:17 你又將我所給你那華美的金銀、寶器為自己製造人像,與他行邪淫;
16:18 又用你的繡花衣服給他披上,並將我的膏油和香料擺在他跟前;
16:19 又將我賜給你的食物,就是我賜給你吃的細麵、油,和蜂蜜,都擺在他跟前為馨香的供物。這是主耶和華說的。
16:20 並且你將給我所生的兒女焚獻給他。
16:21 你行淫亂豈是小事,竟將我的兒女殺了,使他們經火歸與他嗎?
16:22 你行這一切可憎和淫亂的事,並未追念你幼年赤身露體滾在血中的日子。

But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty became his.  You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.  You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore.  And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set my oil and my incense before them.  Also my bread that I gave you—I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord God.  And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter  that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?  And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.

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    先知在這裡說到:以色列人罪惡的開始是以色列人看錯了,以為自己的福分是來自自己的「可愛(美麗)」,而沒有正確的看清楚那是上帝(她的丈夫)的恩賜。

    這也是許多基督徒要小心的地方有許多人自以為蒙福是因為自己敬虔行上帝喜悅的事所以上帝就賜福殊不知我們蒙福是來自耶穌基督在十字架上如同祭物獻上為我們的罪付上代價我們才能夠成為上帝的兒女成為上帝賜福的對象。我們若不感謝主耶穌所做的,常常會自以為自己是十分可愛,其實是不是的!

    上帝責備耶路撒冷忘記她以前的狀況。我們也常常因為建忘落到不好的狀況中。有一首歌叫「數主的恩典」,就是提醒我們不要忘記上帝給我們的恩典,讓我們可以持續走在正確的信心之中。因為我們可以享受上帝兒女的名分是耶穌基督為我們上生命的代價!豈可不感恩與讚美呢?豈可在認為是自己不錯呢?一切都是主的恩典啊!

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