耶利米書23:33-40

23:33 「無論是百姓，是先知，是祭司，問你說：『耶和華有甚麼默示呢？』你就對他們說：『甚麼默示啊？耶和華說：我要撇棄你們。』

23:34 無論是先知，是祭司，是百姓，說『耶和華的默示』，我必刑罰那人和他的家。

23:35 你們各人要對鄰舍，各人要對弟兄如此說：『耶和華回答甚麼？』『耶和華說了甚麼呢？』

23:36 『耶和華的默示』你們不可再提，各人所說的話必作自己的重擔（重擔和默示原文同），因為你們謬用永生上帝、萬軍之耶和華─我們上帝的言語。

23:37 你們要對先知如此說：『耶和華回答你甚麼？』『耶和華說了甚麼呢？』

23:38 你們若說『耶和華的默示』，耶和華就如此說：『因你們說「耶和華的默示」這句話，我也打發人到你們那裡去，告訴你們不可說「耶和華的默示」。』

23:39 所以我必全然忘記你們，將你們和我所賜給你們並你們列祖的城撇棄了；

23:40 又必使永遠的凌辱和長久的羞恥臨到你們，是不能忘記的。」

​“When one of this people, or a prophet or a priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the Lord?’ you shall say to them, ‘You are the burden, and I will cast you off, declares the Lord.’  And as for the prophet, priest, or one of the people who says, ‘The burden of the Lord,’ I will punish that man and his household.  Thus shall you say, every one to his neighbor and every one to his brother, ‘What has the Lord answered?’ or ‘What has the Lord spoken?’  But ‘the burden of the Lord’ you shall mention no more, for the burden is every man's own word, and you pervert the words of the living God, the Lord of hosts, our God.  Thus you shall say to the prophet, ‘What has the Lord answered you?’ or ‘What has the Lord spoken?’  But if you say, ‘The burden of the Lord,’ thus says the Lord, ‘Because you have said these words, “The burden of the Lord,” when I sent to you, saying, “You shall not say, ‘The burden of the Lord,’”  therefore, behold, I will surely lift you up and cast you away from my presence, you and the city that I gave to you and your fathers.  And I will bring upon you everlasting reproach and perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.’”

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    上帝這段話的意思是，禁止耶利米那個時代的先知，濫用「耶和華的默示」來說預言！因為這些說預言的人，常常隨己意來說預言，而不是憑這上帝的心意，卻託上帝的名來欺騙人，使人誤入歧途，離上帝越來越遠！

    同樣，今日在講台上傳講話語的人，也要小心自己的話語，是來自上帝的啟示呢？還是個人的意思呢？還是人云亦云？沒有好好考察研讀上帝的話，任意憑己意來宣講，這是很危險的！這真的是瞎子領瞎子了！

    親愛的弟兄姊妹，我們若渴慕宣講上帝的話，就要好好禱告和學習正確的釋經和解經，以及教會二千年來的大公信仰，不要任意解經、任意宣講，落入異端而不自覺，尤其是許多人不明白「因信稱義」的真理，常常在此出了差錯而不自知，導致害己害人，不可以不謹慎啊！

耶利米書23:23-32

23:23 耶和華說：「我豈為近處的上帝呢？不也為遠處的上帝嗎？」

23:24 耶和華說：「人豈能在隱密處藏身，使我看不見他呢？」耶和華說：「我豈不充滿天地嗎？

23:25 我已聽見那些先知所說的，就是託我名說的假預言，他們說：『我做了夢！我做了夢！』

23:26 說假預言的先知，就是預言本心詭詐的先知，他們這樣存心要到幾時呢？

23:27 他們各人將所做的夢對鄰舍述說，想要使我的百姓忘記我的名，正如他們列祖因巴力忘記我的名一樣。

23:28 得夢的先知可以述說那夢；得我話的人可以誠實講說我的話。糠秕怎能與麥子比較呢？這是耶和華說的。」

23:29 耶和華說：「我的話豈不像火，又像能打碎磐石的大錘嗎？」

23:30 耶和華說：「那些先知各從鄰舍偷竊我的言語，因此我必與他們反對。」

23:31 耶和華說：「那些先知用舌頭，說是耶和華說的；我必與他們反對。」

23:32 耶和華說：「那些以幻夢為預言，又述說這夢，以謊言和矜誇使我百姓走錯了路的，我必與他們反對。我沒有打發他們，也沒有吩咐他們。他們與這百姓毫無益處。這是耶和華說的。」

​“Am I a God at hand, declares the Lord, and not a God far away?  Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the Lord.  I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed!’  How long shall there be lies in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, and who prophesy the deceit of their own heart,  who think to make my people forget my name by their dreams that they tell one another, even as their fathers forgot my name for Baal?  Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let him who has my word speak my word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat? declares the Lord.  Is not my word like fire, declares the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?  Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, declares the Lord, who steal my words from one another.  Behold, I am against the prophets, declares the Lord, who use their tongues and declare, ‘declares the Lord.’  Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, declares the Lord, and who tell them and lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or charge them. So they do not profit this people at all, declares the Lord.

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    上帝在此明確地說出先知預言和解夢者是不同的：先知預言的根據是上帝的話，是確確實實的；解夢的人說的是自己的夢境，是虛幻沒有根據的。然而先知是要引人歸向上帝，離棄罪惡；說夢的人卻是迎合人的喜好，來聽從他，受他操控。

    今日我們成為上帝的傳道者，就是福音的傳揚者，不是述說我們的夢想，而是述說上帝的拯救。然而上帝的拯救是美過人的夢境，甚至比人的夢境更有吸引力，而且是真實可靠，雖然現在尚未完全實現。

    然而人常常被虛假的夢境所迷惑，以至於沒有辦法來認識上帝的拯救。不認識上帝的拯救，就無法感受其美好與價值，就無法有合宜的行動，於是沉溺在夢幻與無知當中！

    也因此，我們需要傳道者將上帝的拯救講清楚，讓聽的人被聖靈開啟，認識到人需要透過耶穌基督並祂釘十字架、死與復活、升天和再來，使我們永永遠遠與祂同享榮耀，並將榮耀歸給天父上帝，讓上帝的心意滿足！

耶利米書23: 16-22

23:16 萬軍之耶和華如此說：「這些先知向你們說預言，你們不要聽他們的話。他們以虛空教訓你們，所說的異象是出於自己的心，不是出於耶和華的口。

23:17 他們常對藐視我的人說：『耶和華說：你們必享平安』；又對一切按自己頑梗之心而行的人說：『必沒有災禍臨到你們。』」

23:18 有誰站在耶和華的會中得以聽見並會悟他的話呢？有誰留心聽他的話呢？

23:19 看哪！耶和華的忿怒好像暴風，已經發出；是暴烈的旋風，必轉到惡人的頭上。

23:20 耶和華的怒氣必不轉消，直到他心中所擬定的成就了。末後的日子你們要全然明白。

23:21 我沒有打發那些先知，他們竟自奔跑；我沒有對他們說話，他們竟自預言。

23:22 他們若是站在我的會中，就必使我的百姓聽我的話，又使他們回頭離開惡道和他們所行的惡。

​Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord.  They say continually to those who despise the word of the Lord, It shall be well with you’; and to everyone who stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, No disaster shall come upon you.’”

  For who among them has stood in the council of the Lord

to see and to hear his word,

or who has paid attention to his word and listened?

  Behold, the storm of the Lord!

Wrath has gone forth,

a whirling tempest;

it will burst upon the head of the wicked.

  The anger of the Lord will not turn back

until he has executed and accomplished

the intents of his heart.

In the latter days you will understand it clearly.

“I did not send the prophets,

yet they ran;

I did not speak to them,

yet they prophesied.

  But if they had stood in my council,

then they would have proclaimed my words to my people,

and they would have turned them from their evil way,

and from the evil of their deeds.

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    這是上帝對先知的要求：「他們若是站在我的會中，就必使我的百姓聽我的話，又使他們回頭離開惡道和他們所行的惡。」

    然而耶利米在此描述的先知卻是害怕傳上帝責備的話，專門說好話，正如上帝在此所說的：「他們常對藐視我的人說：『耶和華說：你們必享平安』；又對一切按自己頑梗之心而行的人說：『必沒有災禍臨到你們。』」

    因為如此，所以上帝說：「這些先知向你們說預言，你們不要聽他們的話。他們以虛空教訓你們，所說的異象是出於自己的心，不是出於耶和華的口。」「有誰站在耶和華的會中得以聽見並會悟他的話呢？有誰留心聽他的話呢？」

    先知耶利米更進一步宣告，上帝是公義的上帝，對罪惡是充滿怒氣！這是上帝的先知必須有的基本認識，若沒有這樣的認識是不配做上帝的先知與代言人！因此上帝的傳道者，該責備的時候，還是要勇敢說出責備的話，不要害怕人的反應！更何況上帝期盼人的悔改，不知罪及不知罪的嚴重性，人豈能悔改接受耶穌基督的救恩呢？

    所以，上帝話語的宣講者，就是要勇敢傳講，人才會悔改接受福音！