2017年1月9日 星期一

以西結書46:19-24



46:19 那帶我的,將我從門旁進入之處、領進為祭司預備的聖屋,是朝北的,見後頭西邊有一塊地。
46:20 他對我說:「這是祭司煮贖愆祭、贖罪祭,烤素祭之地,免得帶到外院,使民成聖。」
46:21 他又帶我到外院,使我經過院子的四拐角,見每拐角各有一個院子。
46:22 院子四拐角的院子,周圍有牆,每院長四十肘,寬三十肘。四拐角院子的尺寸都是一樣,
46:23 其中周圍有一排房子,房子內有煮肉的地方。
46:24 他對我說:「這都是煮肉的房子,殿內的僕役要在這裡煮民的祭物。」

Then he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, to the north row of the holy chambers for the priests, and behold, a place was there at the extreme western end of them.  And he said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, in order not to bring them out into the outer court and so transmit holiness to the people.”
  Then he brought me out to the outer court and led me around to the four corners of the court. And behold, in each corner of the court there was another court—  in the four corners of the court were small courts, forty cubits long and thirty broad; the four were of the same size.  On the inside, around each of the four courts was a row of masonry, with hearths made at the bottom of the rows all around.  Then he said to me, “These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple shall boil the sacrifices of the people.”

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    這裡說到:「祭司煮贖愆祭、贖罪祭,烤素祭之地,免得帶到外院,使民成聖「殿內的僕役要在這裡煮民的祭物」。表示祭物只有祭司可以吃,其他人不能吃,因為這是上帝賜給利未人的!

    我們今日領聖餐時吃餅喝杯象徵性地吃耶穌基督的身體和喝寶血讓我們認清自己也是祭司才可以食用祭物」。也因為如此我們是上帝在新約時代所揀選的祭司耶穌基督是我們的產業更是我們杯中的份我們有因為吃喝耶穌基督的身體和寶血就有分於基督與基督同屬上帝的兒女

    我們當為此獻上感謝,因為耶穌基督為了拯救我們,將自己都捨了,為的要使我們可以進入上帝的國,建立我們與上帝有正確合宜的關係,使我們擁有永生,可以彰顯上帝的榮光!

以西結書46:11-18



46:11 「在節期和聖會的日子同獻的素祭,要為一隻公牛獻一伊法細麵,為一隻公綿羊獻一伊法細麵,為羊羔照他的力量而獻,一伊法細麵加油一欣。
46:12 王預備甘心獻的燔祭或平安祭,就是向耶和華甘心獻的,當有人為他開朝東的門。他就預備燔祭和平安祭,與安息日預備的一樣,獻畢就出去。他出去之後,當有人將門關閉。」
46:13 「每日,你要預備無殘疾一歲的羊羔一隻,獻與耶和華為燔祭;要每早晨預備。
46:14 每早晨也要預備同獻的素祭,細麵一伊法六分之一,並油一欣三分之一,調和細麵。這素祭要常獻與耶和華為永遠的定例。
46:15 每早晨要這樣預備羊羔、素祭,並油為常獻的燔祭。」
46:16 主耶和華如此說:「王若將產業賜給他的兒子,就成了他兒子的產業,那是他們承受為業的。
46:17 倘若王將一分產業賜給他的臣僕,就成了他臣僕的產業;到自由之年仍要歸與王。至於王的產業,必歸與他的兒子。
46:18 王不可奪取民的產業,以致驅逐他們離開所承受的;他要從自己的地業中,將產業賜給他兒子,免得我的民分散,各人離開所承受的。」

At the feasts and the appointed festivals, the grain offering with a young bull shall be an ephah, and with a ram an ephah, and with the lambs as much as one is able to give, together with a hin of oil to an ephah.  When the prince provides a freewill offering, either a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the Lord, the gate facing east shall be opened for him. And he shall offer his burnt offering or his peace offerings as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out the gate shall be shut.
  “You shall provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to the Lord daily; morning by morning you shall provide it.  And you shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, one sixth of an ephah, and one third of a hin of oil to moisten the flour, as a grain offering to the Lord. This is a perpetual statute.  Thus the lamb and the meal offering and the oil shall be provided, morning by morning, for a regular burnt offering.
  “Thus says the Lord God: If the prince makes a gift to any of his sons as his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons. It is their property by inheritance.  But if he makes a gift out of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty. Then it shall revert to the prince; surely it is his inheritance—it shall belong to his sons.  The prince shall not take any of the inheritance of the people, thrusting them out of their property. He shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that none of my people shall be scattered from his property.”

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    上帝在這裡透過先知宣講國王的分際:「王不可奪取民的產業,以致驅逐他們離開所承受的;他要從自己的地業中,將產業賜給他兒子,免得我的民分散,各人離開所承受的。」

    上帝如此宣告是要王做人民的保護者不可以做搶奪者或壓迫者以免民怨而使人民離開家鄉流浪到世界各地,失去上帝要他們承受的迦南美地!

    同樣今日在教會中也要防止使人受傷害和跌倒的事情,因為教會乃是基督用寶血所贖回的一群人,是上帝的寶貝,一個也不能失落!

2017年1月8日 星期日

以西結書46章

     以西結書46:1-10  ,  以西結書46:11-18   ,  以西結書46:19-24  ,

以西結書46:1-10



46:1 主耶和華如此說:「內院朝東的門,在辦理事務的六日內必須關閉;惟有安息日和月朔必須敞開。
46:2 王要從這門的廊進入,站在門框旁邊。祭司要為他預備燔祭和平安祭,他就要在門檻那裡敬拜,然後出去。這門直到晚上不可關閉。
46:3 在安息日和月朔,國內的居民要在這門口,耶和華面前敬拜。
46:4 安息日,王所獻與耶和華的燔祭要用無殘疾的羊羔六隻,無殘疾的公綿羊一隻;
46:5 同獻的素祭要為公綿羊獻一伊法細麵,為羊羔照他的力量而獻,一伊法細麵加油一欣。
46:6 當月朔,要獻無殘疾的公牛犢一隻,羊羔六隻,公綿羊一隻,都要無殘疾的。
46:7 他也要預備素祭,為公牛獻一伊法細麵,為公綿羊獻一伊法細麵,為羊羔照他的力量而獻,一伊法細麵加油一欣。
46:8 王進入的時候必由這門的廊而入,也必由此而出。
46:9 在各節期,國內居民朝見耶和華的時候,從北門進入敬拜的,必由南門而出;從南門進入的,必由北門而出。不可從所入的門而出,必要直往前行,由對門而出。
46:10 民進入,王也要在民中進入;民出去,王也要一同出去。

Thus says the Lord God: The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.  The prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from outside, and shall take his stand by the post of the gate. The priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening.  The people of the land shall bow down at the entrance of that gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.  The burnt offering that the prince offers to the Lord on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish.  And the grain offering with the ram shall be an ephah, and the grain offering with the lambs shall be as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.  On the day of the new moon he shall offer a bull from the herd without blemish, and six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish.  As a grain offering he shall provide an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.  When the prince enters, he shall enter by the vestibule of the gate, and he shall go out by the same way.
When the people of the land come before the Lord at the appointed feasts, he who enters by the north gate to worship shall go out by the south gate, and he who enters by the south gate shall go out by the north gate: no one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered, but each shall go out straight ahead.  When they enter, the prince shall enter with them, and when they go out, he shall go out.

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    這裡讓我們看見王雖然是上帝所設立的但是他必須成為帶領百姓敬拜耶和華上帝不可以單獨敬拜

    在此讓我們感受到上帝喜悅共同的禮拜要以色列的王和百姓在安息日和月朔的時候來敬拜祂。這也是為甚麼我們要有集體性的禮拜之原因。

    也因此,主日不可在家中看GOOD TV來代替到教會禮拜,這是不蒙上帝喜悅的!

詩篇118篇

             詩篇118:1-29  ,

              詩篇118:1 , 詩篇118:1 ,

             詩篇118:5-6   ,

             詩篇118:14   ,  

             詩篇118:22-23   ,

            詩篇118:29 ,

詩篇118:22-23



118:22 匠人所棄的石頭已成了房角的頭塊石頭。
118:23 這是耶和華所做的,在我們眼中看為希奇。

22 The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone.
23 This is the Lord's doing;
it is marvelous in our eyes.

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     彼得曾經用這段話來描寫耶穌基督,說明主耶穌到這世界的時候,並沒有受到注意,甚至還被人厭棄!

    當時的法利賽人和撒督該人,認為祂有甚麼資格來教訓人,來赦免人的罪,最後還利用羅馬人的手,把祂釘在十字架上。雖然如此上帝卻讓祂從死人中復活以此來顯明祂是上帝的兒子

    這也告訴我們,不要在意人對我們的看法如何,而要在意的是,我們是否可以為主所用,讓主來使用我們在榮耀主名的事上,贏過被人所稱讚卻為上帝所丟棄!的確,上帝才是我們真正價值的裁示者,我們要靠基督,成為基督身體的一部分,成為上帝所喜愛的靈宮的活石,這樣我們才有永恆的價值!

    不要怕人藐視和挑剔的眼光,上帝既然接納我們為兒女,我們就是有價值,有公用的人,讓我們為此感謝上帝,將榮耀歸給上帝!