路加福音11:1

 

耶穌在一個地方禱告；禱告完了，有個門徒對他說：「求主教導我們禱告，像約翰教導他的門徒。」

One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”

 

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    門徒想學習禱告的動機因看見主耶穌禱告，激起他們禱告的動機，確右不知如何導告，也因此要求主耶穌：「求主教導我們禱告，像約翰教導他的門徒。」

 

    可建在跟隨主耶穌的人當中，是對施洗約和有認同，也盼望主耶穌像施洗約和一般教導他們一些信仰的功課。這也像一些渴望真理的基督徒，希望能夠得到名確的指示一般。

 

    然而人生的確有許多困擾人的事情，讓人的心神無法承受時，就會有尋求幫助的需要。請人幫忙不一定有好結果，許多人都會尋求上帝的幫助，所以渴望學習禱告，更期盼禱告之後上帝會讓願望實現，所以希望有人能教導禱告，好學習講上帝聽得懂的話。

 

    當然主耶穌是我們的好教師，祂也會教導我們怎樣導告，正如我們常常誦讀的「主禱文」就是在這樣的狀況產生的！

 

    因此，我們要學習信仰的功課，特別是禱告，我們要存謙卑的心來尋求主耶穌：「求主教導我禱告！」

提摩太前書 5:22-25

 

5:22 給人行按手的禮，不可急促；不要在別人的罪上有分，要保守自己清潔。
5:23 因你胃口不清，屢次患病，再不要照常喝水，可以稍微用點酒。
5:24 有些人的罪是明顯的，如同先到審判案前；有些人的罪是隨後跟了去的。
5:25 這樣，善行也有明顯的，那不明顯的也不能隱藏。

 

​²² Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, and do not share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.

²³ Stop drinking only water, and use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.

²⁴ The sins of some are obvious, reaching the place of judgment ahead of them; the sins of others trail behind them. ²⁵ In the same way, good deeds are obvious, and even those that are not obvious cannot remain hidden forever.

 

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    保羅吩咐提摩太要保守好自己，不管是身體或行為表現，因為一切在上帝面前都不能隱藏的！

 

 

 

腓立比書3:15-21

 

3:15 所以我們中間，凡是完全人總要存這樣的心；若在甚麼事上存別樣的心，上帝也必以此指示你們。
3:16 然而，我們到了甚麼地步，就當照著甚麼地步行。
3:17 弟兄們，你們要一同效法我，也當留意看那些照我們榜樣行的人。
3:18 因為有許多人行事是基督十字架的仇敵。我屢次告訴你們，現在又流淚地告訴你們：
3:19 他們的結局就是沉淪；他們的神就是自己的肚腹。他們以自己的羞辱為榮耀，專以地上的事為念。
3:20 我們卻是天上的國民，並且等候救主，就是主耶穌基督從天上降臨。
3:21 他要按著那能叫萬有歸服自己的大能，將我們這卑賤的身體改變形狀，和他自己榮耀的身體相似。

 

¹⁵ All of us, then, who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you. ¹⁶ Only let us live up to what we have already attained.

¹⁷ Join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do. ¹⁸ For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. ¹⁹ Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things. ²⁰ But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹ who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.

 

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    基督徒雖然生活在這個世界，但是所盼望的卻是主耶穌在來之後的榮耀上帝國的實現。也正如保羅在這裡所說：「我們卻是天上的國民，並且等候救主，就是主耶穌基督從天上降臨。他要按著那能叫萬有歸服自己的大能，將我們這卑賤的身體改變形狀，和他自己榮耀的身體相似。」

 

    也因為這樣基督徒相信主耶穌再來的時候，我們必定有肉身復活，不只是屍體復活，而是上帝會賜給我們一個像基督一樣的榮耀的身體。那是我們因基督的緣故而得榮耀的時刻，是何等美好的時刻！

 

    因此，基督徒所享受的救恩是完整的，是從上帝的揀選、呼召、一直到最後得榮耀！這中間當然包括稱義、和好和被接納為兒女！我們真是有福，上帝所應許的必定一步步成就，不會落空的！

 

 

 

 

腓立比書3:1-14

 

3:1 弟兄們，我還有話說，你們要靠主喜樂。我把這話再寫給你們，於我並不為難，於你們卻是妥當。
3:2 應當防備犬類，防備作惡的，防備妄自行割的。
3:3 因為真受割禮的，乃是我們這以上帝的靈敬拜、在基督耶穌裡誇口、不靠著肉體的。
3:4 其實，我也可以靠肉體；若是別人想他可以靠肉體，我更可以靠著了。
3:5 我第八天受割禮；我是以色列族、便雅憫支派的人，是希伯來人所生的希伯來人。就律法說，我是法利賽人；
3:6 就熱心說，我是逼迫教會的；就律法上的義說，我是無可指摘的。
3:7 只是我先前以為與我有益的，我現在因基督都當作有損的。
3:8 不但如此，我也將萬事當作有損的，因我以認識我主基督耶穌為至寶。我為他已經丟棄萬事，看作糞土，為要得著基督；
3:9 並且得以在他裡面，不是有自己因律法而得的義，乃是有信基督的義，就是因信上帝而來的義，
3:10 使我認識基督，曉得他復活的大能，並且曉得和他一同受苦，效法他的死，
3:11 或者我也得以從死裡復活。
3:12 這不是說我已經得著了，已經完全了；我乃是竭力追求，或者可以得著基督耶穌所以得著我的（所以得著我的：或譯所要我得的）。
3:13 弟兄們，我不是以為自己已經得著了；我只有一件事，就是忘記背後，努力面前的，
3:14 向著標竿直跑，要得上帝在基督耶穌裡從上面召我來得的獎賞。

 

Further, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you. ² Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh. ³ For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh— ⁴ though I myself have reasons for such confidence.

If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: ⁵ circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; ⁶ as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.

⁷ But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. ⁸ What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ ⁹ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in^[a] Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. ¹⁰ I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, ¹¹ and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.

¹² Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. ¹³ Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, ¹⁴ I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

 

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    保羅在這裡說明真正的敬虔不是外表的規矩或禮儀，而是在心裡尊主耶穌為大，正如這裡所說：「因為真受割禮的，乃是我們這以上帝的靈敬拜、在基督耶穌裡誇口、不靠著肉體的。」

 

    這也就是說一切的資格不是人靠著在肉體上做了甚麼，而是要人在基督裡得著因信基督而有的義才有的。換句話說，人要服事和敬拜上帝的資格是來自上帝的恩典，不是個人的意願或別人的要求。

 

    也因為這樣，我們服事上帝，是來自被上帝恩典所感動。所以，我們服事是心被恩感，是在聖靈的帶領！而上帝也應許我們服事祂，將以基督為我們的獎賞，基督的王權和榮耀也是屬於我們的，我們更是要為此讚美上帝！