路加福音18:15-17

 

18:15 有人抱著自己的嬰孩來見耶穌，要他摸他們；門徒看見就責備那些人。
18:16 耶穌卻叫他們來，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。
18:17 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。」

 

¹⁵ People were also bringing babies to Jesus for him to place his hands on them. When the disciples saw this, they rebuked them. ¹⁶ But Jesus called the children to him and said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. ¹⁷ Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

 

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    真正的謙卑不是靠自己的意志想要謙卑，也不是自以為謙卑就是謙卑。真正謙卑是承認上帝的主權，認為一切都是從上帝那裏領受的！若沒有上帝的賞賜和恩助，我們是一無所是、一無所有、更是一無所成！這樣的心境，就是主耶穌所說的「像小孩子」！

 

    其實我們若是認真想一想，我們是赤身的來到這世界，沒有帶甚麼來。而一切所需用的，都是上帝透過這個世界賜給我們的！當然，上帝更透過主耶穌，將上帝兒女的身分賜給我們！

 

    而我們將來要離開這世界，永遠與主耶穌同在，也不能從這世界帶走什麼！真是所謂的，赤身的來，也要赤身的走！但是，永遠不會改變的是上帝兒女的身分！上帝既在基督裡拯救我們，付上獨生子的代價，所成就的是永不改變的！

 

    也因此，我們不是一時得救，是永遠得救！我們所領受的是聖靈為憑據，是到永永遠遠的！

 

 

 

路加福音18:1-8

 

18:1 耶穌設一個比喻，是要人常常禱告，不可灰心。
18:2 說：「某城裡有一個官，不懼怕上帝，也不尊重世人。
18:3 那城裡有個寡婦，常到他那裡，說：『我有一個對頭，求你給我伸冤。』
18:4 他多日不准，後來心裡說：『我雖不懼怕上帝，也不尊重世人，
18:5 只因這寡婦煩擾我，我就給她伸冤吧，免得她常來纏磨我！』」
18:6 主說：「你們聽這不義之官所說的話。
18:7 上帝的選民晝夜呼籲他，他縱然為他們忍了多時，豈不終久給他們伸冤嗎？
18:8 我告訴你們，要快快地給他們伸冤了。然而，人子來的時候，遇得見世上有信德嗎？」

 

Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. ² He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. ³ And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’

⁴ “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, ⁵ yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’”

⁶ And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. ⁷ And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? ⁸ I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

 

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    人常常以為主耶穌這一段話是在挑戰人要向上帝呼求，要人知道不義的官都會寡婦的呼求而改變心意，為寡婦來申冤！所以，要人禱告不要灰心，上帝必定垂聽！

 

    然而我不喜歡這樣的註解，因為上帝並不是被動為人申冤，上帝是主動為人申冤。只是上帝申冤的時間和方式不是人的想像的方式，上帝有上帝申冤的方式，也有申冤的時間。

 

     正如《啟示錄》的記載：

6:9 揭開第五印的時候，我看見在祭壇底下，有為上帝的道、並為作見證被殺之人的靈魂，
6:10 大聲喊著說：「聖潔真實的主啊，你不審判住在地上的人，給我們伸流血的冤，要等到幾時呢？」
6:11 於是有白衣賜給他們各人；又有話對他們說，還要安息片時，等著一同作僕人的和他們的弟兄也像他們被殺，滿足了數目。

 

    由此可知上帝的申冤不是個別性的，是整體性的申冤！不是上帝不申冤，是上帝要為全部受害者申冤，要等候數目滿足！

 

    也因此，我們不要急著申冤，上帝要用上帝國的完全的實現的方式來為我們申冤！祂要徹底及永遠的申冤，一次的做為，成就祂永遠的旨意！

 

    既然是如此，我們要相信上帝一定會申冤，並切要用堅定的信心來等候，這就要靠上帝的保守了！正如聖徒恆忍的教義告訴我們，我們的忍耐是來自上帝的恆保守！這就是主耶穌所要的信德，不是自以為有信心的信德！你有這樣的信德嗎？

 

歷代志下3章

    歷代志下3:1-17 ,

    歷代志下3:1  ,

    歷代志下3:6  ,

    歷代志下3:15-17  ,

歷代志下3:1-17

 

3:1 所羅門就在耶路撒冷、耶和華向他父大衛顯現的摩利亞山上，就是耶布斯人阿珥楠的禾場上、大衛所指定的地方預備好了，開工建造耶和華的殿。
3:2 所羅門作王第四年二月初二日開工建造。
3:3 所羅門建築上帝殿的根基，乃是這樣：長六十肘，寬二十肘，都按著古時的尺寸。
3:4 殿前的廊子長二十肘，與殿的寬窄一樣，高一百二十肘；裡面貼上精金。
3:5 大殿的牆都用松木板遮蔽，又貼了精金，上面雕刻棕樹和鍊子；
3:6 又用寶石裝飾殿牆，使殿華美；所用的金子都是巴瓦音的金子。
3:7 又用金子貼殿和殿的棟樑、門檻、牆壁、門扇；牆上雕刻基路伯。
3:8 又建造至聖所，長二十肘，與殿的寬窄一樣，寬也是二十肘；貼上精金，共用金子六百他連得。
3:9 金釘重五十舍客勒。樓房都貼上金子。
3:10 在至聖所按造像的法子造兩個基路伯，用金子包裹。
3:11 兩個基路伯的翅膀共長二十肘。這基路伯的一個翅膀長五肘，挨著殿這邊的牆；那一個翅膀也長五肘，與那基路伯翅膀相接。
3:12 那基路伯的一個翅膀長五肘，挨著殿那邊的牆；那一個翅膀也長五肘，與這基路伯的翅膀相接。
3:13 兩個基路伯張開翅膀，共長二十肘，面向外殿而立。
3:14 又用藍色、紫色、朱紅色線和細麻織幔子，在其上繡出基路伯來。
3:15 在殿前造了兩根柱子，高三十五肘；每柱頂高五肘。
3:16 又照聖所內鍊子的樣式做鍊子，安在柱頂上；又做一百石榴，安在鍊子上。
3:17 將兩根柱子立在殿前，一根在右邊，一根在左邊；右邊的起名叫雅斤，左邊的起名叫波阿斯。

 

Then Solomon began to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing floor of Araunah^[a] the Jebusite, the place provided by David. ² He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.

³ The foundation Solomon laid for building the temple of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide^[b] (using the cubit of the old standard). ⁴ The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits^[c] long across the width of the building and twenty^[d] cubits high.

He overlaid the inside with pure gold. ⁵ He paneled the main hall with juniper and covered it with fine gold and decorated it with palm tree and chain designs. ⁶ He adorned the temple with precious stones. And the gold he used was gold of Parvaim. ⁷ He overlaid the ceiling beams, doorframes, walls and doors of the temple with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.

⁸ He built the Most Holy Place, its length corresponding to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. He overlaid the inside with six hundred talents^[e] of fine gold. ⁹ The gold nails weighed fifty shekels.^[f] He also overlaid the upper parts with gold.

¹⁰ For the Most Holy Place he made a pair of sculptured cherubim and overlaid them with gold. ¹¹ The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits^[g] long and touched the temple wall, while its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the other cherub. ¹² Similarly one wing of the second cherub was five cubits long and touched the other temple wall, and its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the first cherub. ¹³ The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main hall.^[h]

¹⁴ He made the curtain of blue, purple and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim worked into it.

¹⁵ For the front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits^[i] long, each with a capital five cubits high. ¹⁶ He made interwoven chains^[j] and put them on top of the pillars. He also made a hundred pomegranates and attached them to the chains. ¹⁷ He erected the pillars in the front of the temple, one to the south and one to the north. The one to the south he named Jakin^[k] and the one to the north Boaz.

 

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    所羅門勇敢擔起建造聖殿的使命，雖然是艱辛，是操練倚靠上帝的最佳時機！