12月14日 一年的第349天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:來11-13章
希伯來書第11章主要在講:「信心討神喜悅」。
信心:1.信就所望之事的實底,是未見之事的確據,2.古人在這信上得了美好的證據,3.我們因著信,就知道諸世界是藉上帝的話造成的,4.古人的信:A.亞伯因著信,獻祭給上帝,得了稱義的見證,B.以諾因著信被接去,不至於死,得了上帝喜悅的明證:人非有信就不能得上帝的喜悅,到上帝面前的人,必須信有上帝,且信上帝賞賜尋求祂的人,C.挪亞因著信,蒙上帝指示,動了敬畏的心,建造方舟使他全家得救,就定了那世代的罪,D.亞伯拉罕因著信,蒙召遵命出去,在應許之地作客,在異地住帳棚,羡慕一個更美的家鄉,被試驗的時候,把以撒獻上,以為上帝能叫他兒子從死裡復活,他彷彿死中得回兒子,E.以撒因著信,給雅各、以掃祝福,F.約瑟因著信,提到臨終題到以色列要出埃及,G.摩西父母因著信,把摩西藏了三個月,不怕王命,H.摩西因著信,不肯稱法老女兒之子,寧可和上帝百姓同受苦,不願享受暫時罪中之樂,為基督受淩辱,想望所要得的賞賜,因著信離開埃及不怕王怒,恆心忍耐,因著信守逾越節,免得那滅長子臨近,I.以色列人因著信過紅海行乾地,因著信圍繞耶利哥城七日,城牆就倒塌,眾先知因著信,忍受患難...,,本是世界不配有的人,4.這些都是因信得了美好證據,卻仍未得著所應許的,因為上帝給我們預備更美的事,叫他們若與我們同得,就不能完全。
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希伯來書第12章主要在講:「忍耐結出果子」。
我們既有這些因信的見證人,如果雲彩圍著:1.就當放下重擔、脫去纏累的罪、存心忍耐、奔向前頭路程、仰望耶穌,像耶穌一樣:喜樂奔跑、輕看羞辱,忍受十字架苦難,2.你們與罪惡相爭,還沒有到流血地步,不可輕看主的管教,被責備時候,不要灰心:A.主所愛的必管教,B.管教是眾子的事,C.管教時要敬重上帝、順服聖靈得生命,D.管教是要我們得益處,使我們在祂聖潔上有分,E.管教當時不快樂,反覺得愁苦,後來經練過的人,卻結出平安果子,就是義,3.你們要把下垂的手、發酸的腿挺起來,把自己的道路修直,要謹慎恐怕失去上帝的恩,像以掃出賣長子的名分,要謹慎不可棄絕警戒的話,4.我們得了不能動的國,就當感恩,照上帝所喜悅的,用虔誠敬畏的心事奉上帝,因為上帝是烈火。
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希伯來書第13章主要在講:「相愛依從引導」。
1.你們要常存愛弟兄的心,要用愛心接待客旅,因為有接待客旅,不知不覺就接待天使,2.要紀念被捆綁的人和遭苦害的人,想到自己也在肉身之內,3.婚姻人人都當尊重,牀不可污穢,存心不貪愛錢財,要以自己所有的為足,要放膽說:主是幫助我的,我必懼怕,人能把我怎樣,4.要想念、效法從前引導,傳上帝之道給你們的人,看他們為人的結局,並要依從現在引導你們的人。
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"God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world."(Gal. 6:14)
THEY were living to themselves; self with its hopes, and promises and dreams, still had hold of them; but the Lord began to fulfill their prayers. They had asked for contrition, and had surrendered for it to be given them at any cost, and He sent them sorrow; they had asked for purity, and He sent them thrilling anguish; they had asked to be meek, and He had broken their hearts; they had asked to be dead to the world, and He slew all their living hopes; they had asked to be made like unto Him, and He placed them in the furnace, sitting by "as a refiner and purifier of silver," until they should reflect His image; they had asked to lay hold of His cross, and when He had reached it to them it lacerated their hands.
They had asked they knew not what, nor how, but He had taken them at their word, and granted them all their petitions. They were hardly willing to follow Him so far, or to draw so night to Him. They had upon them an awe and fear, as Jacob at Bethel, or Eliphaz in the night visions, or as the apostles when they thought that they had seen a spirit, and knew not that it was Jesus. They could almost pray Him to depart from them, or to hide His awfulness. They found it easier to obey than to suffer, to do than to give up, to bear the cross than to hang upon it. But they cannot to back, for they have come too near the unseen cross, and its virtues have pierced too deeply within them. He is fulfilling to them His promise, "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me" (John 12:32).
But now at last their turn has come. Before, they had only heard of the mystery, but now they feel it. He has fastened on them His look of love, as He did on Mary and Peter, and they can but choose to follow.
Little by little, from time to time, by fitting gleams, the mystery of His cross shines out upon them. They behold Him lifted up, they gaze on the glory which rays from the wounds of His holy passion; and as they gaze they advance, and are changed into His likeness, and His name shines out throught them, for He dwells in them. They live alone with Him above, in unspeakable fellowship; willing to lack what others own (and what they might have had), and to be unlike all, so that they are only like Him.
Such, are they in all ages, "who follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth."
Had they chosen for themselves, or their friends chosen for them, they would have chosen otherwise. They would have been brighter here, but less glorious in His Kingdom. They would have had Lot's portion, not Abraham's. If they had halted anywhere-if God had taken off His hand and let them stray back-what would they not have lost? What forfeits in the resurrection?
But He stayed them up, even against themselves. Many a time their foot had well night slipped; but He in mercy held them up. Now, even in this life, they know that all He did was done well. It was good to suffer here, that they might reign hereafter; to bear the cross below, for they shall wear the crown above; and that not their will but His was done on them and in them.
-Anonymous.
基督曾說過:「我心柔和謙卑,你們當學我的樣式,這樣你們心裏就必得享安息。」這兒有雙重的真理,有忍耐、溫柔、謙卑和與神和好的美德,這與傚法基督或信靠祂有相同的意義;同時因著你有這些美德,可以完全脫離亞當墮落的本性而有信靠主高尚的行為。
連帶而有的福份,是因著脫離罪惡和對基督初步信仰、期望,受基督忍耐、溫柔、謙卑和與神和好的靈引導並管理;當你具有這些德性,你的生命就有目的,是真理和生命的基督才會在你裏面,你不再掌權,而是基督在你裏面活著。除非你願在忍耐、溫柔、謙卑和與神和好裏治死老我,否則神聖愛的靈,因無立足之地而不能在你裏面產生;而當你又為不忍耐、驕傲所困擾之際,馬上完全捨己,求神施恩幫助。當你遇到難處就促使與神親近,最能使你忍耐接受神的幫助,我們對神有多少信心和期望就可得多少的啟示。
「這些雖然很簡短,但是真正確的教義,使我們因賜下的救恩而真正完全順服神的啟示下,也真正宣告承認三而一的真神。」現在願你有個思想:完全將我的心靈獻上,單單尋求救恩,直接藉著溫柔、謙卑、忍耐和與神和好的力量,使我的生命有屬天的德性。
「並且要作這更大的事,因為我往父那裡去。」約翰福音十四章12節
祈禱不是叫我們適於那偉大的工作;祈禱本身就是偉大的工作。我們以為祈禱,是叫我們得到較高的能力,去應付神的工作。但按照耶穌基督的眼光看,祈禱是我本已救贖的奇蹟,藉著神的能力,同時也是別人救贖的奇蹟。結果子之方法,是祈禱,但須記取的,這種祈禱是建立在救贖的痛苦,不是建立於我的痛苦。一個小孩能獲得祈禱的答覆,一個聰明人反而得不著。
你無論在那裡祈禱總是一種戰爭。不管神製造環境的方法怎樣,本分就是祈禱。切不可如此作想──「我所在的地方,不見得有用;」因為你不在的地方,你必沒有有用。無論神安排你在那裡,祈禱,常常向祂祈禱。「你們若奉我的名求甚麼,我必成就。」(約十四13)我們不肯祈禱,我們得不著奮興,就不肯祈禱,那就是靈性自私的極度形態。我們要依照神的指導而勞動,但祂指導我們的是祈禱,「所以你們當求莊稼的主,打發工人出去,收祂的莊稼。
通常的工人對於工作,是沒有興奮的,但是成功通常是工作勞作出來的;同樣基督的概念,沒有那些勞苦的聖徒是不會發現的。你慇勤祈禱,從神的立場看,是無時不發生效果的。當帕子揭開,一種說不出的驚奇必然發現,你可以看出你是慣於接受耶穌基督的命令的,已經為祂收穫了不少的靈魂。
「……亞伯拉罕信神……」羅馬書四章3節
亞伯拉罕的信心是向著神本身的,他認識帶領他的神,所以他對神有絕對的信心。
亞伯拉罕一生的秘訣在於他與神的友誼。他所認識的神是一位偉大、良善、信實的朋友。無怪乎他能聽神的話,從他自身所愛的本家本族出來,走向一條未知的道路。
除了信靠神的話語,我們是否已學會把自己全然交給神呢?神有無限的愛及力量,祂是與我們立約的主並永遠的好朋友。
經上告訴我們,亞伯拉罕因著信心而榮耀了神。最能榮耀神的辦法,乃是讓世人看見神是誰,以及祂的大能力。神並不希望藉著我們所能做的事,讓世人知道祂能做什麼;神也不用那些有乖謬性格的器皿。相反的,祂一直在找尋那些謙卑的人,並用這些人在世世代代中榮耀祂。