2021年3月6日 星期六

馬可福音10:13-16

10:13 有人帶著小孩子來見耶穌,要耶穌摸他們,門徒便責備那些人。
10:14
耶穌看見就惱怒,對門徒說:「讓小孩子到我這裡來,不要禁止他們;因為在上帝國的,正是這樣的人。
10:15
我實在告訴你們,凡要承受上帝國的,若不像小孩子,斷不能進去。」
10:16
於是抱著小孩子,給他們按手,為他們祝福。

 

13 People were bringing little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them, but the disciples rebuked them. 14 When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. 15 Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” 16 And he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them.

 

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    小孩子和大人最大的差別就是沒有受到人世間的虛假與謊言的影響,容易分辨真與假,也能真誠回應!當然不能說小孩子們沒有罪性,是天真無邪,他們仍然是被罪惡污染的,是需要主耶穌的拯救!

 

    兒童仍然需要受教育,尤其是在基督教育中,兒童教育也是非常重要的一環。正如《箴言》中說:「教養孩童,使他走當行的道,就是到老他也不偏離。」(22:6)

   

    在我的BLOG中有<兒童基督教教育>http://lk1591q.blogspot.com/2015/01/blog-post_34.html)中有論述到關於兒童信仰教育,當然<家庭教育>(http://lk1591q.blogspot.com/2014/10/blog-post_20.html )也是對兒童的靈性與生活都很重要的!

 

    對父母而言,兒女是上帝給的產業,要好好愛惜培養成為敬虔的後代!

 

 

 

馬可福音10:1-12

 


10:1 耶穌從那裡起身,來到猶太的境界並約旦河外。眾人又聚集到他那裡,他又照常教訓他們。
10:2
有法利賽人來問他說:「人休妻可以不可以?」意思要試探他。
10:3
耶穌回答說:「摩西吩咐你們的是甚麼?」
10:4
他們說:「摩西許人寫了休書便可以休妻。」
10:5
耶穌說:「摩西因為你們的心硬,所以寫這條例給你們;
10:6
但從起初創造的時候,上帝造人是造男造女。
10:7
因此,人要離開父母,與妻子連合,二人成為一體。
10:8
既然如此,夫妻不再是兩個人,乃是一體的了。
10:9
所以,上帝配合的,人不可分開。」
10:10
到了屋裡,門徒就問他這事。
10:11
耶穌對他們說:「凡休妻另娶的,就是犯姦淫,辜負他的妻子;
10:12
妻子若離棄丈夫另嫁,也是犯姦淫了。」

 

Jesus then left that place and went into the region of Judea and across the Jordan. Again crowds of people came to him, and as was his custom, he taught them.

Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

“What did Moses command you?” he replied.

They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.”

“It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied. “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’[a] ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,[b] and the two will become one flesh.’[c] So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

10 When they were in the house again, the disciples asked Jesus about this. 11 He answered, “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. 12 And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”

 

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    主耶穌雖然面對法利賽人用休妻的議題來試探祂但是祂清楚婚姻的意義而且婚姻是上帝所設立的正如祂回答法利賽人的:「但從起初創造的時候,上帝造人是造男造女。因此,人要離開父母,與妻子連合,二人成為一體。既然如此,夫妻不再是兩個人,乃是一體的了。所以,上帝配合的,人不可分開。」

 

    是的,主耶穌知道婚姻是一種盟約,也就是永遠之約,也因此祂會教導門徒:「凡休妻另娶的,就是犯姦淫,辜負他的妻子;妻子若離棄丈夫另嫁,也是犯姦淫了。」

 

    希伯來書134節:「婚姻,人人都當尊重,床也不可污穢;因為苟合行淫的人,上帝必要審判。」

 

    為何主耶穌這樣看重婚姻呢?因為教會與主耶穌也是一種婚姻的關係!正如《啟示錄》197-8節所說:「我們要歡喜快樂,將榮耀歸給他。因為,羔羊婚娶的時候到了;新婦也自己預備好了,就蒙恩得穿光明潔白的細麻衣。(這細麻衣就是聖徒所行的義。)」

 

    《以弗所書》525-27節說:「你們作丈夫的,要愛你們的妻子,正如基督愛教會,為教會捨己。要用水藉著道把教會洗淨,成為聖潔,可以獻給自己,作個榮耀的教會,毫無玷污、皺紋等類的病,乃是聖潔沒有瑕疵的。」

 

    所以教會的聖潔是來自基督,不是來自歷代的聖徒的善行,也沒有所謂的功德庫,一切都是來自基督的恩賜與作為!也因此基督配得成為教會的頭,祂是上帝與教會之間的中保,唯一中保!中保不是眾聖徒,更不是聖母馬利亞!

 

    因此,人間的婚姻是代表基督與教會的關係,人人應當尊重,不可當兒戲,更不可被邪情私慾所破壞!

 

 

 

2021年3月5日 星期五

列王紀下18:17-35

 


18:17 亞述王從拉吉差遣他珥探、拉伯撒利,和拉伯沙基率領大軍往耶路撒冷,到希西家王那裡去。他們上到耶路撒冷,就站在上池的水溝旁,在漂布地的大路上。
18:18
他們呼叫王的時候,就有希勒家的兒子家宰以利亞敬,並書記舍伯那和亞薩的兒子史官約亞,出來見他們。
18:19
拉伯沙基說:「你們去告訴希西家說,亞述大王如此說:『你所倚靠的有甚麼可仗賴的呢?
18:20
你說有打仗的計謀和能力,我看不過是虛話。你到底倚靠誰才背叛我呢?
18:21
看哪,你所倚靠的埃及是那壓傷的葦杖;人若靠這杖,就必刺透他的手。埃及王法老向一切倚靠他的人也是這樣。
18:22
你們若對我說:我們倚靠耶和華我們的上帝,希西家豈不是將上帝的邱壇和祭壇廢去,且對猶大和耶路撒冷的人說:你們當在耶路撒冷這壇前敬拜嗎?
18:23
現在你把當頭給我主亞述王,我給你二千匹馬,看你這一面騎馬的人夠不夠。
18:24
若不然,怎能打敗我主臣僕中最小的軍長呢?你竟倚靠埃及的戰車馬兵嗎?
18:25
現在我上來攻擊毀滅這地,豈沒有耶和華的意思嗎?耶和華吩咐我說:你上去攻擊毀滅這地吧!』」
18:26
希勒家的兒子以利亞敬和舍伯那,並約亞,對拉伯沙基說:「求你用亞蘭言語和僕人說話,因為我們懂得;不要用猶大言語和我們說話,達到城上百姓的耳中。」
18:27
拉伯沙基說:「我主差遣我來,豈是單對你和你的主說這些話嗎?不也是對這些坐在城上、要與你們一同吃自己糞、喝自己尿的人說嗎?」
18:28
於是拉伯沙基站著,用猶大言語大聲喊著說:「你們當聽亞述大王的話!
18:29
王如此說:『你們不要被希西家欺哄了;因他不能救你們脫離我的手。
18:30
也不要聽希西家使你們倚靠耶和華,說耶和華必要拯救我們,這城必不交在亞述王的手中。』
18:31
不要聽希西家的話!因亞述王如此說:『你們要與我和好,出來投降我,各人就可以吃自己葡萄樹和無花果樹的果子,喝自己井裡的水。
18:32
等我來領你們到一個地方與你們本地一樣,就是有五穀和新酒之地,有糧食和葡萄園之地,有橄欖樹和蜂蜜之地,好使你們存活,不至於死。希西家勸導你們,說耶和華必拯救我們;你們不要聽他的話。
18:33
列國的神有哪一個救他本國脫離亞述王的手呢?
18:34
哈馬、亞珥拔的神在哪裡呢?西法瓦音、希拿、以瓦的神在哪裡呢?他們曾救撒馬利亞脫離我的手嗎?
18:35
這些國的神有誰曾救自己的國脫離我的手呢?難道耶和華能救耶路撒冷脫離我的手嗎?』」
18:36
百姓靜默不言,並不回答一句,因為王曾吩咐說:「不要回答他。」
18:37
當下,希勒家的兒子家宰以利亞敬和書記舍伯那,並亞薩的兒子史官約亞,都撕裂衣服,來到希西家那裡,將拉伯沙基的話告訴了他。

 

17 The king of Assyria sent his supreme commander, his chief officer and his field commander with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They came up to Jerusalem and stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman’s Field. 18 They called for the king; and Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to them.

19 The field commander said to them, “Tell Hezekiah:

“‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours? 20 You say you have the counsel and the might for war—but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me? 21 Look, I know you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him. 22 But if you say to me, “We are depending on the Lord our God”—isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem”?

23 “‘Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them! 24 How can you repulse one officer of the least of my master’s officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen[e]? 25 Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this place without word from the Lord? The Lord himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.’”

26 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

27 But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”

28 Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria! 29 This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. He cannot deliver you from my hand. 30 Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the Lord when he says, ‘The Lord will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’

31 “Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree and drink water from your own cistern, 32 until I come and take you to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Choose life and not death!

“Do not listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, ‘The Lord will deliver us.’ 33 Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria? 34 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand? 35 Who of all the gods of these countries has been able to save his land from me? How then can the Lord deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”

36 But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, “Do not answer him.”

37 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn, and told him what the field commander had said.

 

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    從亞述王的使者拉伯沙基的言論中,讓我們感受到強國的人講話是很大聲,而且是很狂妄的!然而這些人之所以如此囂張,就是以為自己有辦法。因為武力的強大,就以為所向無敵,連上帝都敢惹!

 

    這不禁讓人想到台灣隔壁的「強國」,因為一時的經濟成長,就自以為了不得,自以為可以人定勝天!講起話來十分囂張,甚至利用全國人民的力量來壓迫香港,殘害新疆、西藏、蒙古、等民族,將國家建立在這種階級鬥爭,這和亞述帝國簡直沒有兩樣!

 

    然而人再怎樣囂張,甚至魔鬼也是囂張的,但是這一切還在上帝的掌握之中,時間到了上帝一伸手,這些惡勢力都會被消滅殆盡!也因為如此,上帝的子民要忍耐,最後的勝利必地屬於上帝和祂的子民!

 

 

 

列王紀下18章

    列王紀下18:1-16  ,

    列王紀下18:17-35 ,

列王紀下18:1-16

 


18:1 以色列王以拉的兒子何細亞第三年,猶大王亞哈斯的兒子希西家登基。
18:2
他登基的時候年二十五歲,在耶路撒冷作王二十九年。他母親名叫亞比,是撒迦利雅的女兒。
18:3
希西家行耶和華眼中看為正的事,效法他祖大衛一切所行的。
18:4
他廢去邱壇,毀壞柱像,砍下木偶,打碎摩西所造的銅蛇,因為到那時以色列人仍向銅蛇燒香。希西家叫銅蛇為銅塊(或譯:人稱銅蛇為銅像)。
18:5
希西家倚靠耶和華以色列的上帝,在他前後的猶大列王中沒有一個及他的。
18:6
因為他專靠耶和華,總不離開,謹守耶和華所吩咐摩西的誡命。
18:7
耶和華與他同在,他無論往何處去盡都亨通。他背叛、不肯事奉亞述王。
18:8
希西家攻擊非利士人,直到迦薩,並迦薩的四境,從瞭望樓到堅固城。
18:9
希西家王第四年,就是以色列王以拉的兒子何細亞第七年,亞述王撒縵以色上來圍困撒馬利亞;
18:10
過了三年就攻取了城。希西家第六年,以色列王何細亞第九年,撒馬利亞被攻取了。
18:11
亞述王將以色列人擄到亞述,把他們安置在哈臘與歌散的哈博河邊,並米底亞人的城邑;
18:12
都因他們不聽從耶和華他們上帝的話,違背他的約,就是耶和華僕人摩西吩咐他們所當守的。
18:13
希西家王十四年,亞述王西拿基立上來攻擊猶大的一切堅固城,將城攻取。
18:14
猶大王希西家差人往拉吉去見亞述王,說:「我有罪了,求你離開我;凡你罰我的,我必承當。」於是亞述王罰猶大王希西家銀子三百他連得,金子三十他連得。
18:15
希西家就把耶和華殿裡和王宮府庫裡所有的銀子都給了他。
18:16
那時,猶大王希西家將耶和華殿門上的金子和他自己包在柱上的金子都刮下來,給了亞述王。

 

In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abijah[a] daughter of Zechariah. He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father David had done. He removed the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it. (It was called Nehushtan.[b])

Hezekiah trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before him or after him. He held fast to the Lord and did not stop following him; he kept the commands the Lord had given Moses. And the Lord was with him; he was successful in whatever he undertook. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him. From watchtower to fortified city, he defeated the Philistines, as far as Gaza and its territory.

In King Hezekiah’s fourth year, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and laid siege to it. 10 At the end of three years the Assyrians took it. So Samaria was captured in Hezekiah’s sixth year, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel. 11 The king of Assyria deported Israel to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River and in towns of the Medes. 12 This happened because they had not obeyed the Lord their God, but had violated his covenant—all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded. They neither listened to the commands nor carried them out.

13 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. 14 So Hezekiah king of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria at Lachish: “I have done wrong. Withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand of me.” The king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents[c] of silver and thirty talents[d] of gold. 15 So Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the temple of the Lord and in the treasuries of the royal palace.

16 At this time Hezekiah king of Judah stripped off the gold with which he had covered the doors and doorposts of the temple of the Lord, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

 

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    希西家王是上帝所喜悅的猶大王,聖經的描述是:「希西家行耶和華眼中看為正的事,效法他祖大衛一切所行的。他廢去邱壇,毀壞柱像,砍下木偶,打碎摩西所造的銅蛇,因為到那時以色列人仍向銅蛇燒香。希西家叫銅蛇為銅塊(或譯:人稱銅蛇為銅像)。希西家倚靠耶和華─以色列的上帝,在他前後的猶大列王中沒有一個及他的。因為他專靠耶和華,總不離開,謹守耶和華所吩咐摩西的誡命。耶和華與他同在,他無論往何處去盡都亨通。他背叛、不肯事奉亞述王。」

 

    可見他清楚上帝的主權,知道一切都是在上帝的掌握之中,專心依賴上帝勝過一切,不管是宗教或是軍事、政治,都比不上上帝的保守與看顧,因為唯有上帝是人永遠的堅固保障!

 

    雖然在當時的強權是亞述帝國,但是希西家王靠上帝堅立,不屈服、不討好亞述王,雖然以色列國被亞述所滅,他也不懼怕!雖然後來也遇到亞述的攻擊,失去土地又賠款,心中仍然堅信上帝!

 

    基督徒在世上也需要有這樣的精神,因為我們求的不是一時或現實的順利,而是在永生裡的福樂,那是一種永遠的福樂,是只有從上帝的恩賜中才能享受到的,是上帝真真實實的愛與憐憫,是任何事物無法比擬與取代的!

 

 

 

 

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