27_05手指頭在牆上寫字_話劇
第一幕 但以理解釋手指頭在牆上寫的字 (經文:但4:1-27)
★場景:巴比倫王宮。
☆人物:最少要有七位,包含_伯沙撒王、護衛長一、護衛長二、太后、大臣一、哲士、但以理
旁白:瑪代波斯國與巴比倫王尼布甲尼撒打戰,結果巴比倫戰敗,瑪代波斯國放出假消息,說:巴比倫國打勝戰,計劃當夜攻打巴比倫國,尼布甲尼撒王的兒子伯沙撒王,聽到這個消息,就把城門打開了,在宮中開了「慶功宴」,為他的一千大臣設擺盛筵,與這一千人對面飲酒。伯沙撒王歡飲之間,就吩咐人將他父尼布甲尼撒從耶路撒冷殿中所掠的金銀器皿拿來,王與大臣、皇后、妃嬪好用這器皿飲酒。於是他們把耶路撒冷神殿庫房中所掠的金器皿拿來,王和大臣、皇后、妃嬪就用這器皿飲酒。他們飲酒,讚美金、銀、銅、鐵、木、石所造的神。
伯沙撒王:各位大臣,我們巴比倫是多麼的厲害,瑪代波斯都被我們打敗了,世界上只我們巴比倫最厲害,這都要感謝我們所造的這些神明在保佑我們,我們才能打敗所有的國家,我父親說以色列的神是多麼偉大,我才不信,你們看他們聖殿的器皿都被我們擄來,只有我們的神明才是真的。
大臣一:大王說的好!說的妙,我們用以色列人聖殿的杯喝酒,就是跟以色列的上帝一起喝酒。
伯沙撒王:各位大臣就儘量的喝,不醉不歸,我們就在這等我父王回來,跟我們一起慶祝吧!
大臣二:微臣就先敬大王的英明。
旁白:當時,忽有人的指頭顯出,在王宮與燈臺相對的粉牆上寫字。
大臣一:大王你看!牆上出現有手指頭,在牆上寫。
旁白:王看見寫字的指頭就變了臉色,心意驚惶,腰骨好像脫節,雙膝彼此相碰,大聲吩咐說
伯沙撒王:來人阿!把所有將用法術的和迦勒底人並觀兆的領進來,
大臣二:國王有令,把所有將用法術的和迦勒底人並觀兆的帶進來,
伯沙撒王:你們看那牆上的字,誰能讀這文字,把講解告訴我,他必身穿紫袍,項帶金鍊,在我國中位列第三。
旁白:伯沙撒王心中的排名,第一位是尼布甲尼撒王,第二位是他自己,第三位是能把牆上的字解出來的人,但是王的一切哲士都進來了,但卻不能讀那文字,也不能把講解告訴王。伯沙撒王就甚驚惶,臉色改變,他的大臣也都驚奇。
哲士:啟稟國王,屬下看不懂這些字。
伯沙撒王:好吧!你下去吧!
伯沙撒王:這怎麼辦呢?沒有人能講解這些字嗎?
旁白:太后因王和他大臣所說的話,就進入宴宮,說:
太后:「願王萬歲!你心意不要驚惶,臉面不要變色。在你國中有一人,他裏頭有聖神的靈,你父在世的日子,這人心中光明,又有聰明智慧,好像神的智慧。你父尼布甲尼撒王,就是王的父,立他為術士、用法術的,和迦勒底人,並觀兆的領袖。在他裏頭有美好的靈性,又有知識聰明,能圓夢,釋謎語,解疑惑。這人名叫但以理,尼布甲尼撒王又稱他為伯提沙撒,現在可以召他來,他必解明這意思。」
伯沙撒王:去傳但以理進宮。
旁白:但以理就被領到王前。王問但以理說:
伯沙撒王:「你是被擄之猶大人中的但以理麼?就是我父王從猶大擄來的麼?我聽說你裏頭有神的靈,心中光明,又有聰明和美好的智慧。現在哲士和用法術的都領到我面前,為叫他們讀這文字,把講解告訴我,無奈他們都不能把講解說出來。我聽說你善於講解,能解疑惑;現在你若能讀這文字,把講解告訴我,就必身穿紫袍,項戴金鍊,在我國中位列第三。」
旁白:但以理在王面前回答說:
但以理:「你的贈品可以歸你自己,你的賞賜可以歸給別人;我卻要為王讀這文字,把講解告訴王。王阿,至高的神曾將國位、大權、榮耀、威嚴賜與你父尼布甲尼撒;因神所賜他的大權,各方、各國、各族的人都在他面前戰兢恐懼。他可以隨意生殺,隨意升降。但他心高氣傲,靈也剛愎,甚至行事狂傲,就被革去王位,奪去榮耀。他被趕出離開世人,他的心變如獸心,與野驢同居,喫草如牛,身被天露滴濕,等他知道至高的神在人的國中掌權,憑自己的意旨立人治國。
◎伯沙撒阿,你是他的兒子,你雖知道這一切,你心仍不自卑,竟向天上的主自高,使人將他殿中的器皿拿到你面前,你和大臣、皇后、妃嬪用這器皿飲酒。你又讚美那不能看、不能聽、無知無識、金、銀、銅、鐵、木、石所造的神,卻沒有將榮耀歸與那手中有你氣息,管理你一切行動的神。因此從神那裏顯出指頭來寫這文字。
◎「所寫的文字是:『彌尼,彌尼,提客勒,烏法珥新。』
◎講解是這樣:彌尼,就是神已經數算你國的年日到此完畢。提客勒,就是你被稱在天平裏,顯出你的虧欠。毗勒斯,就是你的國分裂,歸與瑪代人和波斯人。
旁白:伯沙撒王下令,人就把紫袍給但以理穿上,把金鍊給他戴在頸項上,又傳令使他在國中位列第三。雖然伯沙撒王實現了他的承諾,但是這一切都沒有改變,當夜,迦勒底王伯沙撒被殺。瑪代人大利烏年六十二歲,取了迦勒底國。
但以理書第五章手指頭在牆上寫字劇情討論與省思:
1.伯沙撒能夠當上巴比倫王,都是因為他父親的關係,然而他並沒有從他父親尼布甲尼撒王身上學功課,歷史就是一面很好的借鏡,他父親因為狂傲,就變成「像獸吃草」七年,但是這些沒有讓他學到教訓,反而他比他父親更狂妄,竟然用聖殿的器皿來喝酒,於是上帝忿怒了,他的這種行為,也導致他國家亡了自己也被殺的命運。你是不是也是,不會從歷史學功課的人嗎?「失敗不是為成功之母,失敗為失敗之母」,一個不會從失敗記取教訓改變自己的,結果是很悲慘的,你願意勇於面對自己失敗,勇敢的拒絕罪中之樂嗎?
2. 伯沙撒王是一位「信守承諾、說話算話」,他真的說到作到,他把紫袍給但以理穿上,把金鍊給他戴在頸項上,又傳令使但以理在國中位列第三,但是這樣人,並不能改變上帝對他的審判,他天真的以為只要給「別人一點甜頭,就會改變故事的結局」,其實若沒有真正的悔改,結果是一樣,他父親能夠「大難不死」,是因為他的悔改。當上帝責備你時,你是否真正悔改?或是你以為只要給上帝的僕人,一個甜點事情就可以不了了之了?或是你願意真誠的求上帝赦免你的罪?
3.上帝的手中是有「天平」,「天平」的一端放著你所作的事,另一端放著上帝對你作事的回應,人所作的無論是好是壞,上帝最後總是會回應我們的,正如傳道書12:14「因為人所作的事,連一切隱藏的事,無論是善是惡,神必審問」,你預備好了接受上帝的審問了嗎?你期待上帝如何審問你呢?你期待上帝怎樣回答你所的呢?
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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。