申命記4:15-31

4:15 「所以，你們要分外謹慎；因為耶和華在何烈山、從火中對你們說話的那日，你們沒有看見甚麼形像。
4:16 惟恐你們敗壞自己，雕刻偶像，彷彿甚麼男像女像，
4:17 或地上走獸的像，或空中飛鳥的像，
4:18 或地上爬物的像，或地底下水中魚的像。
4:19 又恐怕你向天舉目觀看，見耶和華─你的上帝為天下萬民所擺列的日月星，就是天上的萬象，自己便被勾引敬拜事奉它。
4:20 耶和華將你們從埃及領出來，脫離鐵爐，要特作自己產業的子民，像今日一樣。
4:21 耶和華又因你們的緣故向我發怒，起誓必不容我過約旦河，也不容我進入耶和華─你上帝所賜你為業的那美地。
4:22 我只得死在這地，不能過約旦河；但你們必過去得那美地。
4:23 你們要謹慎，免得忘記耶和華─你們上帝與你們所立的約，為自己雕刻偶像，就是耶和華─你上帝所禁止你做的偶像；
4:24 因為耶和華─你的上帝乃是烈火，是忌邪的上帝。
4:25 「你們在那地住久了，生子生孫，就雕刻偶像，彷彿甚麼形像，敗壞自己，行耶和華─你上帝眼中看為惡的事，惹他發怒。
4:26 我今日呼天喚地向你們作見證，你們必在過約旦河得為業的地上速速滅盡！你們不能在那地上長久，必盡行除滅。
4:27 耶和華必使你們分散在萬民中；在他所領你們到的萬國裡，你們剩下的人數稀少。
4:28 在那裡，你們必事奉人手所造的神，就是用木石造成、不能看、不能聽、不能吃、不能聞的神。
4:29 但你們在那裡必尋求耶和華─你的上帝。你盡心盡性尋求他的時候，就必尋見。
4:30 日後你遭遇一切患難的時候，你必歸回耶和華─你的上帝，聽從他的話。
4:31 耶和華─你上帝原是有憐憫的上帝；他總不撇下你，不滅絕你，也不忘記他起誓與你列祖所立的約。

 ¹⁵ You saw no form of any kind the day the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire. Therefore watch yourselves very carefully, ¹⁶ so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman, ¹⁷ or like any animal on earth or any bird that flies in the air, ¹⁸ or like any creature that moves along the ground or any fish in the waters below. ¹⁹ And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars—all the heavenly array—do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the Lord your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven. ²⁰ But as for you, the Lord took you and brought you out of the iron-smelting furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of his inheritance, as you now are.

²¹ The Lord was angry with me because of you, and he solemnly swore that I would not cross the Jordan and enter the good land the Lord your God is giving you as your inheritance. ²² I will die in this land; I will not cross the Jordan; but you are about to cross over and take possession of that good land. ²³ Be careful not to forget the covenant of the Lord your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the Lord your God has forbidden. ²⁴ For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

²⁵ After you have had children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time—if you then become corrupt and make any kind of idol, doing evil in the eyes of the Lord your God and arousing his anger, ²⁶ I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live there long but will certainly be destroyed. ²⁷ The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the Lord will drive you. ²⁸ There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell. ²⁹ But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul. ³⁰ When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the Lord your God and obey him. ³¹ For the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your ancestors, which he confirmed to them by oath.

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    偶像或假神的產生是因為人沒有認識真神，或是沒有遇到真神。但是，人被造的時候，上帝為了讓人可以信靠祂，就將人設定為需要上帝成為倚靠，就像有一個說法所說，每個人心中都有一個空處，必需要上帝才能填滿，沒有上帝時就會用別的事物來填入，這些就成了人的假神或偶像！

    就像有人以為很多錢，心裡才會滿足，錢財就成了他們的偶像，相對他們也成了錢的奴才，做甚麼事情都是以錢為他們的目標，再大的苦也會忍受，這就是以錢為偶像的人的表現！

    當然也有更高級的，就是以成就為偶像，就走到自我中心，以表現自我的成就為目的為滿足！表面上這樣的很積極，但是在這背後也有許多辛酸，所謂的人比人氣人！或是所謂的「亮瑜情節」，造成為了自我成就而與人之間的關係破壞，得不償失。

    也因為這樣，上帝拯救人也是從人性中需要上帝為依靠開始，正如祂揀選以色列人，讓以色列人的心倚賴祂，以祂為主，才能真正讓上帝來眷顧！對我們成為基督徒的人，更是如此！也唯有這樣，才能享真正的自由與平安！

申命記4章

            申命記4:1-14  ,

            申命記4:15-31  ,

            申命記4:32-49  ,

申命記4:1-14

4:1 「以色列人哪，現在我所教訓你們的律例典章，你們要聽從遵行，好叫你們存活，得以進入耶和華─你們列祖之上帝所賜給你們的地，承受為業。
4:2 所吩咐你們的話，你們不可加添，也不可刪減，好叫你們遵守我所吩咐的，就是耶和華─你們上帝的命令。
4:3 耶和華因巴力‧毘珥的事所行的，你們親眼看見了。凡隨從巴力‧毘珥的人，耶和華─你們的上帝都從你們中間除滅了。
4:4 惟有你們專靠耶和華─你們上帝的人，今日全都存活。
4:5 我照著耶和華─我上帝所吩咐的將律例典章教訓你們，使你們在所要進去得為業的地上遵行。
4:6 所以你們要謹守遵行；這就是你們在萬民眼前的智慧、聰明。他們聽見這一切律例，必說：『這大國的人真是有智慧，有聰明！』
4:7 哪一大國的人有上帝與他們相近，像耶和華─我們的上帝、在我們求告他的時候與我們相近呢？
4:8 又哪一大國有這樣公義的律例典章、像我今日在你們面前所陳明的這一切律法呢？
4:9 「你只要謹慎，殷勤保守你的心靈，免得忘記你親眼所看見的事，又免得你一生、這事離開你的心；總要傳給你的子子孫孫。
4:10 你在何烈山站在耶和華─你上帝面前的那日，耶和華對我說：『你為我招聚百姓，我要叫他們聽見我的話，使他們存活在世的日子，可以學習敬畏我，又可以教訓兒女這樣行。』
4:11 那時你們近前來，站在山下；山上有火焰沖天，並有昏黑、密雲、幽暗。
4:12 耶和華從火焰中對你們說話，你們只聽見聲音，卻沒有看見形像。
4:13 他將所吩咐你們當守的約指示你們，就是十條誡，並將這誡寫在兩塊石版上。
4:14 那時耶和華又吩咐我將律例典章教訓你們，使你們在所要過去得為業的地上遵行。」

 Now, Israel, hear the decrees and laws I am about to teach you. Follow them so that you may live and may go in and take possession of the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. ² Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you.

³ You saw with your own eyes what the Lord did at Baal Peor. The Lord your God destroyed from among you everyone who followed the Baal of Peor, ⁴ but all of you who held fast to the Lord your God are still alive today.

⁵ See, I have taught you decrees and laws as the Lord my God commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land you are entering to take possession of it. ⁶ Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding to the nations, who will hear about all these decrees and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.” ⁷ What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the Lord our God is near us whenever we pray to him? ⁸ And what other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and laws as this body of laws I am setting before you today?

⁹ Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them. ¹⁰ Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, when he said to me, “Assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children.” ¹¹ You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain while it blazed with fire to the very heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness. ¹² Then the Lord spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of words but saw no form; there was only a voice. ¹³ He declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments, which he commanded you to follow and then wrote them on two stone tablets. ¹⁴ And the Lord directed me at that time to teach you the decrees and laws you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

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    遵行律法是上帝子民的記號，然而他們是蒙上帝的拯救，才能領受上帝的律法。當然上帝的律法有廣義和狹義的意義，但是無論是廣義和狹義，都是上帝的心意，要上帝選民遵行來顯明上帝的榮耀！

    然而上帝的律法就是上帝的話語，既然如此就必須完全遵守！所以摩西對他們說：「所吩咐你們的話，你們不可加添，也不可刪減，好叫你們遵守我所吩咐的，就是耶和華─你們上帝的命令。」

    這段話類似啟示錄22章18-19節：「我向一切聽見這書上預言的作見證，若有人在這預言上加添甚麼，上帝必將寫在這書上的災禍加在他身上；這書上的預言，若有人刪去甚麼，上帝必從這書上所寫的生命樹和聖城刪去他的分。」

    這也告訴我們，不可以按自己的心意來加減上帝的命令，要完完全全遵行！不過我們會說這怎麼可能呢？我們不能的，主耶穌已經完全都守了！所以，我們信靠主耶穌之後，是披戴基督而完全，非自己已經完全！這也是上帝救贖的奧秘！

詩篇52篇

     詩篇52:1-9   ,

詩篇52:1-9

52:1 （以東人多益來告訴掃羅說：大衛到了亞希米勒家。那時，大衛作這訓誨詩，交與伶長。）勇士啊，你為何以作惡自誇？上帝的慈愛是常存的。
52:2 你的舌頭邪惡詭詐，好像剃頭刀，快利傷人。
52:3 你愛惡勝似愛善，又愛說謊，不愛說公義。（細拉）
52:4 詭詐的舌頭啊，你愛說一切毀滅的話！
52:5 上帝也要毀滅你，直到永遠；他要把你拿去，從你的帳棚中抽出，從活人之地將你拔出。（細拉）
52:6 義人要看見而懼怕，並要笑他，
52:7 說：看哪，這就是那不以上帝為他力量的人，只倚仗他豐富的財物，在邪惡上堅立自己。
52:8 至於我，就像上帝殿中的青橄欖樹；我永永遠遠倚靠上帝的慈愛。
52:9 我要稱謝你，直到永遠，因為你行了這事。我也要在你聖民面前仰望你的名；這名本為美好。

For the director of music. A maskil of David. When Doeg the Edomite had gone to Saul and told him: “David has gone to the house of Ahimelek.”

¹ Why do you boast of evil, you mighty hero?
    Why do you boast all day long,
    you who are a disgrace in the eyes of God?
² You who practice deceit,
    your tongue plots destruction;
    it is like a sharpened razor.
³ You love evil rather than good,
    falsehood rather than speaking the truth.
⁴ You love every harmful word,
    you deceitful tongue!

⁵ Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin:
    He will snatch you up and pluck you from your tent;
    he will uproot you from the land of the living.
⁶ The righteous will see and fear;
    they will laugh at you, saying,
⁷ “Here now is the man
    who did not make God his stronghold
but trusted in his great wealth
    and grew strong by destroying others!”

⁸ But I am like an olive tree
    flourishing in the house of God;
I trust in God’s unfailing love
    for ever and ever.
⁹ For what you have done I will always praise you
    in the presence of your faithful people.
And I will hope in your name,
    for your name is good.

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    人看見惡人作惡而興旺時，會抱怨上帝沒有眼睛，認為世界黑暗！但是大衛卻不一樣，他反而認為這樣的惡這必遭上帝的審判，上帝必定會彰顯他的公義，使這樣的人敗亡！

    大衛在這裡宣告：「詭詐的舌頭啊，你愛說一切毀滅的話！上帝也要毀滅你，直到永遠；他要把你拿去，從你的帳棚中抽出，從活人之地將你拔出。」

    並且說到義人該有的態度：「看哪，這就是那不以上帝為他力量的人，只倚仗他豐富的財物，在邪惡上堅立自己。至於我，就像上帝殿中的青橄欖樹；我永永遠遠倚靠上帝的慈愛。我要稱謝你，直到永遠，因為你行了這事。我也要在你聖民面前仰望你的名；這名本為美好。」

    這也讓我們知道義人和惡人的差別，就是倚靠上帝還是以靠自己！尤其是現代人，受到啟蒙運動與現代化的影響，倚靠的是自己而不是上帝，甚至要用自己的方式來博取上帝的喜悅被上帝稱義！

    其實聖經很清楚告訴我們：「若有人在基督裡，他就是新造的人，舊事已過，都變成新的了。一切都是出於上帝；他藉著基督使我們與他和好，又將勸人與他和好的職分賜給我們。」（哥林多後書5:17-18）

    所以，在今日成為義人就是要靠耶穌基督與上帝有和好的關係，進而與人有和睦關係，與大自然有和諧的關係，這就是所謂的「平安」了！

申命記3章

           申命記3:1-29  ,

            申命記3:22 , 申命記3:24  ,

申命記3:1-29

3:1 「以後，我們轉回，向巴珊去。巴珊王噩和他的眾民都出來，在以得來與我們交戰。
3:2 耶和華對我說：『不要怕他！因我已將他和他的眾民，並他的地，都交在你手中；你要待他像從前待住希實本的亞摩利王西宏一樣。』
3:3 於是耶和華─我們的上帝也將巴珊王噩和他的眾民都交在我們手中；我們殺了他們，沒有留下一個。
3:4 那時，我們奪了他所有的城，共有六十座，沒有一座城不被我們所奪。這為亞珥歌伯的全境，就是巴珊地噩王的國。
3:5 這些城都有堅固的高牆，有門有閂。此外還有許多無城牆的鄉村。
3:6 我們將這些都毀滅了，像從前待希實本王西宏一樣，把有人煙的各城，連女人帶孩子，盡都毀滅；
3:7 惟有一切牲畜和城中的財物都取為自己的掠物。
3:8 那時，我們從約旦河東兩個亞摩利王的手將亞嫩谷直到黑門山之地奪過來
3:9 （這黑門山，西頓人稱為西連，亞摩利人稱為示尼珥），
3:10 就是奪了平原的各城、基列全地、巴珊全地，直到撒迦和以得來，都是巴珊王噩國內的城邑。
3:11 （利乏音人所剩下的只有巴珊王噩。他的床是鐵的，長九肘，寬四肘，都是以人肘為度。現今豈不是在亞捫人的拉巴嗎？）」
3:12 「那時，我們得了這地。從亞嫩谷邊的亞羅珥起，我將基列山地的一半，並其中的城邑，都給了流便人和迦得人。
3:13 其餘的基列地和巴珊全地，就是噩王的國，我給了瑪拿西半支派。亞珥歌伯全地乃是巴珊全地；這叫做利乏音人之地。
3:14 瑪拿西的子孫睚珥佔了亞珥歌伯全境，直到基述人和瑪迦人的交界，就按自己的名稱這巴珊地為哈倭特‧睚珥，直到今日。
3:15 我又將基列給了瑪吉。
3:16 從基列到亞嫩谷，以谷中為界，直到亞捫人交界的雅博河，我給了流便人和迦得人，
3:17 又將亞拉巴和靠近約旦河之地，從基尼烈直到亞拉巴海，就是鹽海，並毘斯迦山根東邊之地，都給了他們。
3:18 「那時，我吩咐你們說：『耶和華─你們的上帝已將這地賜給你們為業；你們所有的勇士都要帶著兵器，在你們的弟兄以色列人前面過去。
3:19 但你們的妻子、孩子、牲畜（我知道你們有許多的牲畜）可以住在我所賜給你們的各城裡。
3:20 等到你們弟兄在約旦河那邊，也得耶和華─你們上帝所賜給他們的地，又使他們得享平安，與你們一樣，你們才可以回到我所賜給你們為業之地。』
3:21 那時我吩咐約書亞說：『你親眼看見了耶和華─你上帝向這二王所行的；耶和華也必向你所要去的各國照樣行。
3:22 你不要怕他們，因那為你爭戰的是耶和華─你的上帝。』」
3:23 「那時，我懇求耶和華說：
3:24 『主耶和華啊，你已將你的大力大能顯給僕人看。在天上，在地下，有甚麼上帝能像你行事、像你有大能的作為呢？
3:25 求你容我過去，看約旦河那邊的美地，就是那佳美的山地和黎巴嫩。』
3:26 但耶和華因你們的緣故向我發怒，不應允我，對我說：『罷了！你不要向我再提這事。
3:27 你且上毘斯迦山頂去，向東、西、南、北舉目觀望，因為你必不能過這約旦河。
3:28 你卻要囑咐約書亞，勉勵他，使他膽壯；因為他必在這百姓前面過去，使他們承受你所要觀看之地。』
3:29 於是我們住在伯‧毘珥對面的谷中。」

 Next we turned and went up along the road toward Bashan, and Og king of Bashan with his whole army marched out to meet us in battle at Edrei. ² The Lord said to me, “Do not be afraid of him, for I have delivered him into your hands, along with his whole army and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.”

³ So the Lord our God also gave into our hands Og king of Bashan and all his army. We struck them down, leaving no survivors. ⁴ At that time we took all his cities. There was not one of the sixty cities that we did not take from them—the whole region of Argob, Og’s kingdom in Bashan. ⁵ All these cities were fortified with high walls and with gates and bars, and there were also a great many unwalled villages. ⁶ We completely destroyed^[a] them, as we had done with Sihon king of Heshbon, destroying^[b] every city—men, women and children. ⁷ But all the livestock and the plunder from their cities we carried off for ourselves.

⁸ So at that time we took from these two kings of the Amorites the territory east of the Jordan, from the Arnon Gorge as far as Mount Hermon. ⁹ (Hermon is called Sirion by the Sidonians; the Amorites call it Senir.) ¹⁰ We took all the towns on the plateau, and all Gilead, and all Bashan as far as Salekah and Edrei, towns of Og’s kingdom in Bashan. ¹¹ (Og king of Bashan was the last of the Rephaites. His bed was decorated with iron and was more than nine cubits long and four cubits wide.^[c] It is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)

¹² Of the land that we took over at that time, I gave the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory north of Aroer by the Arnon Gorge, including half the hill country of Gilead, together with its towns. ¹³ The rest of Gilead and also all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (The whole region of Argob in Bashan used to be known as a land of the Rephaites. ¹⁴ Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maakathites; it was named after him, so that to this day Bashan is called Havvoth Jair.^[d]) ¹⁵ And I gave Gilead to Makir. ¹⁶ But to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory extending from Gilead down to the Arnon Gorge (the middle of the gorge being the border) and out to the Jabbok River, which is the border of the Ammonites. ¹⁷ Its western border was the Jordan in the Arabah, from Kinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea), below the slopes of Pisgah.

¹⁸ I commanded you at that time: “The Lord your God has given you this land to take possession of it. But all your able-bodied men, armed for battle, must cross over ahead of the other Israelites. ¹⁹ However, your wives, your children and your livestock (I know you have much livestock) may stay in the towns I have given you, ²⁰ until the Lord gives rest to your fellow Israelites as he has to you, and they too have taken over the land that the Lord your God is giving them across the Jordan. After that, each of you may go back to the possession I have given you.”

²¹ At that time I commanded Joshua: “You have seen with your own eyes all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings. The Lord will do the same to all the kingdoms over there where you are going. ²² Do not be afraid of them; the Lord your God himself will fight for you.”

²³ At that time I pleaded with the Lord: ²⁴ “Sovereign Lord, you have begun to show to your servant your greatness and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do the deeds and mighty works you do? ²⁵ Let me go over and see the good land beyond the Jordan—that fine hill country and Lebanon.”

²⁶ But because of you the Lord was angry with me and would not listen to me. “That is enough,” the Lord said. “Do not speak to me anymore about this matter. ²⁷ Go up to the top of Pisgah and look west and north and south and east. Look at the land with your own eyes, since you are not going to cross this Jordan. ²⁸ But commission Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he will lead this people across and will cause them to inherit the land that you will see.” ²⁹ So we stayed in the valley near Beth Peor.

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    這一章分三小段，但是我們還是用整章的視野來看，因為這裡說到上帝怎樣讓他們得勝過巴珊王噩和他的眾民，就是因為上帝的同在。但是，這裡雖然有些城池，卻不完全是上帝要給他們的應許之地，他們尚未進入迦南地，也就是上帝應許給亞伯拉罕之地。而在這裡讓我們看見，土地是上帝給的，不是靠武力占領的！

   然而上帝卻不讓摩西進入迦南美地，只能讓他登上毘斯迦山頂去向東、西、南、北舉目觀望！因為上帝要讓摩西知道人是有限的，即使是上帝所喜悅的人，也不是向上帝要求甚麼就有什麼，若是上帝沒有應許，求再多也沒有用！求主幫助我們也學習這樣順服的功課，不要求我們不應該求的！

    但是上帝並沒有讓摩西因此失去使命與希望，上帝命令他：「要囑咐約書亞，勉勵他，使他膽壯；因為他必在這百姓前面過去，使他們承受你所要觀看之地。」

    更奇妙的是，摩西似乎安定下來，接受上帝的命令，以「於是我們住在伯‧毘珥對面的谷中」作結束，不為不能進迦南地感到遺憾和抱怨上帝！這也是我們必須學習的功課，就是安息在主的命令之中！