「聖經圖表導航」經句、金句、精句:書本」目錄
1. 創世記:如何得到上帝的祝福?
2. 出埃及記:如何得到上帝的救贖?
3. 利未記:如何成為服事的人
4. 民數記:如何面對曠野試煉管教?
5. 申命記:如何抓住上帝的話
6. 約書亞記:如何得到應許之地?
7. 士師記:如何面對上帝的試驗管教?
8. 路得記:如何面對不幸的遭遇?
9. 撒母耳記上:如何避免成為被神所厭棄的君王?
10. 撒母耳記下:如何成為合神心意的君王?
11. 列王紀上:如何成為蒙神祝福的君王?
12. 列王紀下:如何成為行神看為正的君王?
13. 歷代志上:上帝對君王的心意為?
14. 歷代志下:上帝對君王的吩咐為何?
15. 以斯拉記:如何重建聖殿?
16. 尼希米記:如何重建聖殿的城牆?
17. 以斯帖記:如何經歷上帝的拯救?
18. 約伯記:人要如何面對人生的苦難?
19. 詩篇:如何禱告建立與神的關係?
20. 箴言:如何才能有智慧?
21. 傳道書:如何面對日光之下人生的虚空?
22. 雅歌;如何面對感情與愛情?
23. 以賽亞書:如何面對強敵入侵?
24. 耶利米書:如何面對無法改變被擄困境?
25. 耶利米哀歌如何面對無法改變被擄結果?
26. 以西結書:如何在被擄環境傳道?
27. 但以理書:如何在被擄之地發光作鹽?
28. 何西阿書:如何在社會道德敗壞下生活?
29. 約珥書:如何面對災難?
30. 阿摩司書:上帝如何看人三番四次的的罪?
31. 俄巴底亞書:如何面對兄弟遭難?
32. 約拿書:如何面對上帝的旨意?
33. 彌迦書:如何面對道德腐敗的社會?
34. 那鴻書:如何面對殘暴的亞逑仇敵?
35. 哈巴谷書:如何面對巴比倫殘暴的環境?
36. 西番雅書:如何面對耶和華的日子?
37. 哈該書:如何面對聖殿的需要?
38. 撒迦利亞書 :如何恢復聖殿的事奉?
39. 瑪拉基書:認清自己的錯誤,悔改歸向神
40. 馬太福音:如何像耶穌作君王管理事?
41. 馬可福音:如何像耶穌作僕人服事入?
42. 路加福音:如何像耶穌作人子憐憫人?
43. 約翰福音:如何彰顯神子的生命?
44. 使徒行傳:如何與聖靈同工帶出能力?
45. 羅馬書:教會要如何面對罪的問題?
46. 哥林多前書:教會要如何運用屬靈恩賜?
47. 哥林多後書:教會要如何分辨使徒職分?
48. 加拉太書:教會要如何得到真福音?
49. 以弗所書:教會要如何得到屬靈的福氣?
50. 腓立比書:教會要如何面對捆溑與衝突?
51. 歌羅西書:如何不被世俗小學影響?
52. 帖撒羅尼迦前書:教會如何面對主來的時候?
53. 帖撒羅尼迦後書:教會如何面對主來的情形?
54. 提摩太前書:傳道人牧會,要如何面對被人輕看?
55. 提摩太後書:傳道人如何在軟弱膽怯牧會?
56. 提多書:傳道人如何在有問題的教會牧會?
57. 腓利門書:如何有效的請求別人的幫助?
58. 希伯來書:如何進入天上更美的家鄉?
59. 雅各書 :信徒應該要有什麼的正確行為?
60. 彼得前書:如何面對教會外火煉的試驗?
61. 彼得後書:如何面對教會內異端假先知?
62. 約翰一書:如何面對錯誤的世界潮流?
63. 約翰二書:如何鼓勵人遵行真理?
64. 約翰三書 :如何鼓勵人接待客旅?
65. 猶大書:如何面對異端不失腳?
66. 啟示錄:如何得勝進入新天新地?
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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。