路加福音24:36-49

24:36 正說這話的時候，耶穌親自站在他們當中，說：「願你們平安！」
24:37 他們卻驚慌害怕，以為所看見的是魂。
24:38 耶穌說：「你們為甚麼愁煩？為甚麼心裡起疑念呢？
24:39 你們看我的手，我的腳，就知道實在是我了。摸我看看！魂無骨無肉，你們看，我是有的。」
24:40 說了這話，就把手和腳給他們看。
24:41 他們正喜得不敢信，並且希奇；耶穌就說：「你們這裡有甚麼吃的沒有？」
24:42 他們便給他一片燒魚。（有古卷加：和一塊蜜房。）
24:43 他接過來，在他們面前吃了。
24:44 耶穌對他們說：「這就是我從前與你們同在之時所告訴你們的話說：摩西的律法、先知的書，和詩篇上所記的，凡指著我的話都必須應驗。」
24:45 於是耶穌開他們的心竅，使他們能明白聖經，
24:46 又對他們說：「照經上所寫的，基督必受害，第三日從死裡復活，
24:47 並且人要奉他的名傳悔改、赦罪的道，從耶路撒冷起直傳到萬邦。
24:48 你們就是這些事的見證。
24:49 我要將我父所應許的降在你們身上，你們要在城裡等候，直到你們領受從上頭來的能力。」

 

³⁶ While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

³⁷ They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. ³⁸ He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? ³⁹ Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”

⁴⁰ When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. ⁴¹ And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” ⁴² They gave him a piece of broiled fish, ⁴³ and he took it and ate it in their presence.

⁴⁴ He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”

⁴⁵ Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. ⁴⁶ He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, ⁴⁷ and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. ⁴⁸ You are witnesses of these things. ⁴⁹ I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

 

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    主耶穌要升天前，想門徒顯現，並且應許聖靈的來到！正如主耶穌吩咐他們的使命：「照經上所寫的，基督必受害，第三日從死裡復活，並且人要奉他的名傳悔改、赦罪的道，從耶路撒冷起直傳到萬邦。你們就是這些事的見證。我要將我父所應許的降在你們身上，你們要在城裡等候，直到你們領受從上頭來的能力。」

 

    主耶穌復活之後，時間到了就要升天回上帝的右邊，然後聖靈來到，展現上帝的大能大力！當然聖靈降臨之後，教會的角色才明顯出來，因為聖靈是教會的主，祂要將教會聖化成為主耶穌的新娘！

 

    然而教會在世上的工作是有期限的，就是到主耶穌的再臨，上帝國完全實現的時候！因為主耶穌升天之後，祂還要再來！讓我們隨時隨刻準備好迎接主耶穌的再來！

 

 

 

路加福音24:13-35

  

24:13 正當那日，門徒中有兩個人往一個村子去；這村子名叫以馬忤斯，離耶路撒冷約有二十五里。
24:14 他們彼此談論所遇見的這一切事。
24:15 正談論相問的時候，耶穌親自就近他們，和他們同行；
24:16 只是他們的眼睛迷糊了，不認識他。
24:17 耶穌對他們說：「你們走路彼此談論的是甚麼事呢？」他們就站住，臉上帶著愁容。
24:18 二人中有一個名叫革流巴的回答說：「你在耶路撒冷作客，還不知道這幾天在那裡所出的事嗎？」
24:19 耶穌說：「甚麼事呢？」他們說：「就是拿撒勒人耶穌的事。他是個先知，在上帝和眾百姓面前，說話行事都有大能。
24:20 祭司長和我們的官府竟把他解去，定了死罪，釘在十字架上。
24:21 但我們素來所盼望、要贖以色列民的就是他！不但如此，而且這事成就，現在已經三天了。
24:22 再者，我們中間有幾個婦女使我們驚奇；她們清早到了墳墓那裡，
24:23 不見他的身體，就回來告訴我們，說看見了天使顯現，說他活了。
24:24 又有我們的幾個人往墳墓那裡去，所遇見的正如婦女們所說的，只是沒有看見他。」
24:25 耶穌對他們說：「無知的人哪，先知所說的一切話，你們的心信得太遲鈍了。
24:26 基督這樣受害，又進入他的榮耀，豈不是應當的嗎？」
24:27 於是從摩西和眾先知起，凡經上所指著自己的話都給他們講解明白了。
24:28 將近他們所去的村子，耶穌好像還要往前行，
24:29 他們卻強留他，說：「時候晚了，日頭已經平西了，請你同我們住下吧！」耶穌就進去，要同他們住下。
24:30 到了坐席的時候，耶穌拿起餅來，祝謝了，擘開，遞給他們。
24:31 他們的眼睛明亮了，這才認出他來。忽然耶穌不見了。
24:32 他們彼此說：「在路上，他和我們說話，給我們講解聖經的時候，我們的心豈不是火熱的嗎？」
24:33 他們就立時起身，回耶路撒冷去，正遇見十一個使徒和他們的同人聚集在一處，
24:34 說：「主果然復活，已經現給西門看了。」
24:35 兩個人就把路上所遇見，和擘餅的時候怎麼被他們認出來的事，都述說了一遍。

 

 ¹³ Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles^[a] from Jerusalem. ¹⁴ They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. ¹⁵ As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; ¹⁶ but they were kept from recognizing him.

¹⁷ He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?”

They stood still, their faces downcast. ¹⁸ One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”

¹⁹ “What things?” he asked.

“About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people. ²⁰ The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; ²¹ but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place. ²² In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning ²³ but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive. ²⁴ Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Jesus.”

²⁵ He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! ²⁶ Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” ²⁷ And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

²⁸ As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther. ²⁹ But they urged him strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.

³⁰ When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. ³¹ Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. ³² They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

³³ They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together ³⁴ and saying, “It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.” ³⁵ Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.

 

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    以馬忤斯的路上讓人不解的是，復活的主耶穌與門徒同行，卻不認識祂，直到擘餅的時候，門徒才認識出來！

 

    當然，這些插曲是要肯定耶穌基督的復活是事實，不是傳說，這也是基督信樣和其他宗教不同之處。因為我們強調的是真理，而不是神祕主義，更不是裝神弄鬼，所以不需要將信仰建立在神話！

 

    既然不是建立在神話，關係更是重要，上帝與我們相會與我們相交才是生命中重要的事，因為我們與上帝的關係是要延續到永遠，這才是永生最重要的意義！因此我們是要領人與上帝發生關係，讓人享受上帝的同在，而不是讚嘆我們多屬靈！

 

 

 

路加福音24:1-12

 

24:1 七日的頭一日，黎明的時候，那些婦女帶著所預備的香料來到墳墓前，
24:2 看見石頭已經從墳墓滾開了，
24:3 她們就進去，只是不見主耶穌的身體。
24:4 正在猜疑之間，忽然有兩個人站在旁邊，衣服放光。
24:5 婦女們驚怕，將臉伏地。那兩個人就對她們說：「為甚麼在死人中找活人呢？
24:6 他不在這裡，已經復活了。當記念他還在加利利的時候怎樣告訴你們，
24:7 說：『人子必須被交在罪人手裡，釘在十字架上，第三日復活。』」
24:8 她們就想起耶穌的話來，
24:9 便從墳墓那裡回去，把這一切的事告訴十一個使徒和其餘的人。
24:10 那告訴使徒的就是抹大拉的馬利亞和約亞拿，並雅各的母親馬利亞，還有與她們在一處的婦女。
24:11 她們這些話，使徒以為是胡言，就不相信。
24:12 彼得起來，跑到墳墓前，低頭往裡看，見細麻布獨在一處，就回去了，心裡希奇所成的事。

 

 On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. ² They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, ³ but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. ⁴ While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. ⁵ In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? ⁶ He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ⁷ ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ” ⁸ Then they remembered his words.

⁹ When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others. ¹⁰ It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles. ¹¹ But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense. ¹² Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.

 

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    主耶穌的復活，是讓幾位婦人先看見，因為這些人預備香料來到主耶穌的墳墓。正在愁墓門的石頭那麼種怎麼辦？竟然到墳墓時看見石頭已經從墳墓滾開了，主耶穌的身體竟然不見了！而在這時候天使向她們顯現，對她們說：「為甚麼在死人中找活人呢？他不在這裡，已經復活了。當記念他還在加利利的時候怎樣告訴你們，說：『人子必須被交在罪人手裡，釘在十字架上，第三日復活。』」

 

    然而婦女們將主耶穌復活的事情告訴使徒，卻以為他們以為是胡言，就不相信。這其實是許多基督徒的寫照，若不是聖靈的啟示和聖經的話語，許多人是無法接受耶穌基督復活的事實！

 

    然而彼得卻有行動到空墳墓那裏，見細麻布獨在一處，就回去了，心裡希奇所成的事。表示，他也相信耶穌基督的復活了！這也是基督信仰迷人之處，不是只有呆呆的想像，是真真實實可以經歷的！

 

 

 

 

 

歷代志下8章

    歷代志下8:1-18  ,

歷代志下8:1-18

 

 

8:1 所羅門建造耶和華殿和王宮，二十年才完畢了。
8:2 以後所羅門重新修築希蘭送給他的那些城邑，使以色列人住在那裡。
8:3 所羅門往哈馬瑣巴去，攻取了那地方。
8:4 所羅門建造曠野裡的達莫，又建造哈馬所有的積貨城，
8:5 又建造上伯‧和崙、下伯‧和崙作為保障，都有牆，有門，有閂；
8:6 又建造巴拉和所有的積貨城，並屯車輛馬兵的城，與耶路撒冷、黎巴嫩，以及自己治理的全國中所願意建造的。
8:7 至於國中所剩下不屬以色列人的赫人、亞摩利人、比利洗人、希未人、耶布斯人，
8:8 就是以色列人未曾滅絕的，所羅門挑取他們的後裔作服苦的奴僕，直到今日。
8:9 惟有以色列人，所羅門不使他們當奴僕做工，乃是作他的戰士、軍長的統領、車兵長、馬兵長。
8:10 所羅門王有二百五十督工的，監管工人。
8:11 所羅門將法老的女兒帶出大衛城，上到為她建造的宮裡；因所羅門說：「耶和華約櫃所到之處都為聖地，所以我的妻不可住在以色列王大衛的宮裡。」
8:12 所羅門在耶和華的壇上，就是在廊子前他所築的壇上，與耶和華獻燔祭；
8:13 又遵著摩西的吩咐在安息日、月朔，並一年三節，就是除酵節、七七節、住棚節，獻每日所當獻的祭。
8:14 所羅門照著他父大衛所定的例，派定祭司的班次，使他們各供己事，又使利未人各盡其職，讚美耶和華，在祭司面前做每日所當做的；又派守門的按著班次看守各門，因為神人大衛是這樣吩咐的。
8:15 王所吩咐眾祭司和利未人的，無論是管府庫或辦別的事，他們都不違背。
8:16 所羅門建造耶和華的殿，從立根基直到成功的日子，工料俱備。這樣，耶和華的殿全然完畢。
8:17 那時，所羅門往以東地靠海的以旬‧迦別和以祿去。
8:18 希蘭差遣他的臣僕，將船隻和熟悉泛海的僕人送到所羅門那裡。他們同著所羅門的僕人到了俄斐，得了四百五十他連得金子，運到所羅門王那裡。

 

At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built the temple of the Lord and his own palace, ² Solomon rebuilt the villages that Hiram^[a] had given him, and settled Israelites in them. ³ Solomon then went to Hamath Zobah and captured it. ⁴ He also built up Tadmor in the desert and all the store cities he had built in Hamath. ⁵ He rebuilt Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon as fortified cities, with walls and with gates and bars, ⁶ as well as Baalath and all his store cities, and all the cities for his chariots and for his horses^[b]—whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled.

⁷ There were still people left from the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (these people were not Israelites). ⁸ Solomon conscripted the descendants of all these people remaining in the land—whom the Israelites had not destroyed—to serve as slave labor, as it is to this day. ⁹ But Solomon did not make slaves of the Israelites for his work; they were his fighting men, commanders of his captains, and commanders of his chariots and charioteers. ¹⁰ They were also King Solomon’s chief officials—two hundred and fifty officials supervising the men.

¹¹ Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her, for he said, “My wife must not live in the palace of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the Lord has entered are holy.”

¹² On the altar of the Lord that he had built in front of the portico, Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings to the Lord, ¹³ according to the daily requirement for offerings commanded by Moses for the Sabbaths, the New Moons and the three annual festivals—the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles. ¹⁴ In keeping with the ordinance of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their duties, and the Levites to lead the praise and to assist the priests according to each day’s requirement. He also appointed the gatekeepers by divisions for the various gates, because this was what David the man of God had ordered. ¹⁵ They did not deviate from the king’s commands to the priests or to the Levites in any matter, including that of the treasuries.

¹⁶ All Solomon’s work was carried out, from the day the foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid until its completion. So the temple of the Lord was finished.

¹⁷ Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and Elath on the coast of Edom. ¹⁸ And Hiram sent him ships commanded by his own men, sailors who knew the sea. These, with Solomon’s men, sailed to Ophir and brought back four hundred and fifty talents^[c] of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.

 

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    讀到這一章可以感受到所羅門王統治以色列時，國勢是何等的強盛！尤其是其對國中的迦南人所施展的管轄力，本是內憂的，卻是可以將他們化為助力，如經文所說：「至於國中所剩下不屬以色列人的赫人、亞摩利人、比利洗人、希未人、耶布斯人，就是以色列人未曾滅絕的，所羅門挑取他們的後裔作服苦的奴僕，直到今日。」

 

    可見有一位敬畏上帝的君王，是一個國家的福分！上帝可以透過這一位君王，使國家獲得興盛，展現非凡的國力！正如詩篇33篇12節：「以耶和華為上帝的，那國是有福的！他所揀選為自己產業的，那民是有福的！」

 

    求主保守我們的國家，也能以耶和華為上帝，規屬於上帝，讓人民百姓因為信靠上帝而成為新造的子民，這是國家之福啊！