列王紀下4:2-4

 

4:2 以利沙問她說：「我可以為你做甚麼呢？你告訴我，你家裡有甚麼？」她說：「婢女家中除了一瓶油之外，沒有甚麼。」
4:3 以利沙說：「你去，向你眾鄰舍借空器皿，不要少借；
4:4 回到家裡，關上門，你和你兒子在裡面將油倒在所有的器皿裡，倒滿了的放在一邊。」

² Elisha replied to her, “How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?”

“Your servant has nothing there at all,” she said, “except a small jar of olive oil.”

³ Elisha said, “Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don’t ask for just a few. ⁴ Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side.”

 

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    用譬喻性的說法來解這段聖經好像不好，但是使用起來卻可以激勵人位主做工，也可以考慮來使用一下，因為在屬靈的原則上是說得通的話，也可以為之，並不會讓主不喜悅。

 

    也因為這樣，我們可以看有油的罐子就是我們，因為油在聖經中常常是被看成聖靈，罐子就是瓦器，也就是指人。先知行的神蹟，是把油從罐子倒到其他空的容器內，表世上帝可以透我們這些有聖靈的人，讓聖靈流到他們的心中，只要他們預備好，讓出空間來給聖靈，就可以把聖靈澆灌過去。

 

    先知吩咐婦人要去借容器，要越多越好，同樣上帝也要我們找越多的人來信耶穌好領受聖靈。雖然上帝有預定，但是上帝越鼓勵我們要使萬民成為耶穌基督的門徒。所以，上帝預定的數目是超過我們的想像的，我們只管多多的去找「器皿」讓聖靈來澆灌！

 

    這是上帝的對每一位基督徒的呼召，你願意如此行嗎﹖這是蒙福的行動喔！不要錯過喔，錯過了就不在上帝的賜福中喔！

 

 

 

 

使徒行傳21:27-40

 

21:27 那七日將完，從亞細亞來的猶太人看見保羅在殿裡，就聳動了眾人，下手拿他，
21:28 喊叫說：「以色列人來幫助，這就是在各處教訓眾人糟踐我們百姓和律法，並這地方的。他又帶著希臘人進殿，污穢了這聖地。」
21:29 （這話是因他們曾看見以弗所人特羅非摩同保羅在城裡，以為保羅帶他進了殿。）
21:30 合城都震動，百姓一齊跑來，拿住保羅，拉他出殿，殿門立刻都關了。
21:31 他們正想要殺他，有人報信給營裡的千夫長說：「耶路撒冷合城都亂了。」
21:32 千夫長立時帶著兵丁和幾個百夫長，跑下去到他們那裡。他們見了千夫長和兵丁，就止住不打保羅。
21:33 於是千夫長上前拿住他，吩咐用兩條鐵鍊捆鎖；又問他是甚麼人，做的是甚麼事。
21:34 眾人有喊叫這個的，有喊叫那個的；千夫長因為這樣亂嚷，得不著實情，就吩咐人將保羅帶進營樓去。
21:35 到了臺階上，眾人擠得兇猛，兵丁只得將保羅抬起來。
21:36 眾人跟在後面，喊著說：「除掉他！」
21:37 將要帶他進營樓，保羅對千夫長說：「我對你說句話可以不可以？」他說：「你懂得希臘話嗎？
21:38 你莫非是從前作亂、帶領四千兇徒往曠野去的那埃及人嗎？」
21:39 保羅說：「我本是猶太人，生在基利家的大數，並不是無名小城的人。求你准我對百姓說話。」
21:40 千夫長准了。保羅就站在臺階上，向百姓擺手，他們都靜默無聲，保羅便用希伯來話對他們說：

 

²⁷ When the seven days were nearly over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him, ²⁸ shouting, “Fellow Israelites, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people and our law and this place. And besides, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.” ²⁹ (They had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with Paul and assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple.)

³⁰ The whole city was aroused, and the people came running from all directions. Seizing Paul, they dragged him from the temple, and immediately the gates were shut. ³¹ While they were trying to kill him, news reached the commander of the Roman troops that the whole city of Jerusalem was in an uproar. ³² He at once took some officers and soldiers and ran down to the crowd. When the rioters saw the commander and his soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

³³ The commander came up and arrested him and ordered him to be bound with two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he had done. ³⁴ Some in the crowd shouted one thing and some another, and since the commander could not get at the truth because of the uproar, he ordered that Paul be taken into the barracks. ³⁵ When Paul reached the steps, the violence of the mob was so great he had to be carried by the soldiers. ³⁶ The crowd that followed kept shouting, “Get rid of him!”

³⁷ As the soldiers were about to take Paul into the barracks, he asked the commander, “May I say something to you?”

“Do you speak Greek?” he replied. ³⁸ “Aren’t you the Egyptian who started a revolt and led four thousand terrorists out into the wilderness some time ago?”

³⁹ Paul answered, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city. Please let me speak to the people.”

⁴⁰ After receiving the commander’s permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned to the crowd. When they were all silent, he said to them in Aramaic^[a]:

 

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    保羅陷在這種無妄之災的處境，讓人覺得要改變世界實在不容易，尤其是面對一群心中充滿錯誤信仰的人，更是辛苦！這也是為甚麼要與那些受意識形態綑綁的人爭戰不容易之處！

 

    求主保守我們，在這樣的狀態之中，能夠靈巧的對付，將一切的結果交託上帝！

 

使徒行傳21:17-26

 

21:17 到了耶路撒冷，弟兄們歡歡喜喜地接待我們。
21:18 第二天，保羅同我們去見雅各；長老們也都在那裡。
21:19 保羅問了他們安，便將上帝用他傳教，在外邦人中間所行之事，一一地述說了。
21:20 他們聽見，就歸榮耀與上帝，對保羅說：「兄台，你看猶太人中信主的有多少萬，並且都為律法熱心。
21:21 他們聽見人說，你教訓一切在外邦的猶太人離棄摩西，對他們說，不要給孩子行割禮，也不要遵行條規。
21:22 眾人必聽見你來了，這可怎麼辦呢？
21:23 你就照著我們的話行吧！我們這裡有四個人，都有願在身。
21:24 你帶他們去，與他們一同行潔淨的禮，替他們拿出規費，叫他們得以剃頭。這樣，眾人就可知道，先前所聽見你的事都是虛的；並可知道，你自己為人，循規蹈矩，遵行律法。
21:25 至於信主的外邦人，我們已經寫信擬定，叫他們謹忌那祭偶像之物，和血，並勒死的牲畜，與姦淫。」
21:26 於是保羅帶著那四個人，第二天與他們一同行了潔淨的禮，進了殿，報明潔淨的日期滿足，只等祭司為他們各人獻祭。

 

¹⁷ When we arrived at Jerusalem, the brothers and sisters received us warmly. ¹⁸ The next day Paul and the rest of us went to see James, and all the elders were present. ¹⁹ Paul greeted them and reported in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

²⁰ When they heard this, they praised God. Then they said to Paul: “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law. ²¹ They have been informed that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs. ²² What shall we do? They will certainly hear that you have come, ²³ so do what we tell you. There are four men with us who have made a vow. ²⁴ Take these men, join in their purification rites and pay their expenses, so that they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know there is no truth in these reports about you, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law. ²⁵ As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.”

²⁶ The next day Paul took the men and purified himself along with them. Then he went to the temple to give notice of the date when the days of purification would end and the offering would be made for each of them.

 

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    保羅雖然讓外邦人自由，不守摩西的律法，但是自己仍然遵守由蓋人該遵守的禮儀，所以接受建議和四名拿細耳人到聖殿行潔淨之禮。

 

    當然我們不可以這個例子來說，我們必須回歸我們的傳統文化。因為猶太人的文化本是敬畏上帝的，我們的傳統文化是悖逆上帝的！

 

   求主幫助我們能明辦是非，不受世俗影響！