02月03日讀經 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
經文:出21-24章(山上神的吩咐)
第21章主要在講:「待僕人與殺人的典章」。
上帝說:「你要立的典章是這樣:1.買男人作奴隸,只可服事6年,第7年他就可以自由出去,倘若奴隸不願意自由,就要帶到審判官那裡,用錐子穿耳朵,永遠服事主人,買婢女不可像男僕,不喜歡就要許他贖身,不可用詭計待她,賣給外邦人,如果把他當媳婦,就要待他如同女兒。2.故意殺人致死、打父母、買賣人口、咒罵父母,就要致死。打傷人就要用錢賠補,耽誤工作費,還要幫他醫好,人用棍子打奴隸或婢女致死,就要受刑,3.牛觸死人,要用石頭打死牛,那牛素來觸人,主人不把牛拴著,牛觸死人,牛要治死,牛主人也要治死。4.人若敞開井不遮蓋,有牛羊驢掉在裏頭,井主人要拿錢賠人,牲畜要歸自己,5.人的牛傷了別人的牛致死,要賣了自己的牛,平分價值,平分死牛,若素來是觸人,不把牛拴好,就要以牛還牛,死牛要歸自己。
◎心得分享:這章分為「故意」與「無意」的罪,從上帝的角度來看,無論是有意或無意,對別人造成的傷害,是不能視而不見,對於「粗心大意」不把牛拴好觸死人,是要把牛賣了,賠人家錢,而連續於「粗心大意」不把牛拴好觸死人,不但要治死牛、連牛主人也要治死,所以要謹慎小心,不要「粗心大意」。
第22章主要在講:「盜賊與淫亂的典章」。
上帝說:1.偷牛以五牛賠一牛,四羊賠一羊,若在夜間把賊打死,就不算有流血的罪,若是太陽出來致死,就有流血的罪,2.任憑牲畜到別人田間葡萄園吃,就要賠還,不小心點火,燒到別人,也要賠還,別人交付銀錢,若被偷,就不必賠還,人若向別人借的東西壞了,要賠還,3.與處女行淫的要娶他為娶,行邪術女人、與獸淫行 ,要治死,祭祀別神的人,要滅絕。4.要照顧弱勢的人:寄居、寡婦、孤兒v21-27,5.不可毀謗神,和百姓的官長,將頭生的兒子,歸給神v28-30,要在神的面前聖潔v31。
◎心得分享:這一章主要人要對自己的行為負責任,偷牛、偷羊都要賠錢,未婚發生關係,就一定要娶人家,在神的眼中看為最嚴重要治死的是,行邪術、與獸淫行、拜偶像的,雖然這些罪,一般法律,會因為不直接影響人,所以不會判這麼重,但是神的標準是跟人的標準是不同,在神的眼中藐視神,比藐視人罪更重。
第23章主要在講:「爭訟節期的典章」。
上帝說:「1.不可佈散謠言,作假見證,不可在爭訟的隨眾偏行,偏袒窮人,若見仇敵牛驢失迷路要牽回來交給他,見恨你人的驢負重跌倒,不可走開,要把驢拉開,2.要守安息年,第7年要休耕,一年三次守節,朝見神,將初熟之物送到神的殿,3.我要差遣使者在你面前,保護你、帶領你到所預備的地方,你們要聽他的話,迦南仇敵我要剪除他們,你們不可效法他們,我不在一年之內攆走他們,而是漸漸將他們攆出走,等到你們人數眾多,可以承受地為業,不可與他們的神立約,你若事奉他們的神,這必成為你的網羅。
◎心得分享:1.神要我們學會饒恕,看見仇敵牛驢迷路,要幫忙牽回來給他,這是不容易的,但也是我們必須去作的,就如主說的:仇敵餓了給他吃,渴了給他喝。2.神可以把迦南仇敵立刻剪除,但是上帝在等候我們,在經過試驗「長大成熟」後,仇敵自然就不見了。
第24章主要在講:「摩西上山帶石版領受律法和誡命四十畫夜」。
神對摩西說:「你和亞倫、拿達、亞比戶、並70位長老,要上山遠遠下拜,只有你能靠近上帝,百姓也不可一同上來」,摩西在下山後,1.將神的命令典章,講給百姓聽,百姓說願意遵行,摩西將命令寫上,2..築一座壇,立12根柱子,按12支派,打發少年人獻燔祭和平安祭,摩西將血一半盛盆中,一半撒在壇上,是按神的話,作立約的憑據。摩西、亞倫、拿達、亞比戶、並70位長老,都上山看見了神,上帝腳下有藍寶石,上帝和以色列領袖,一起吃飯。摩西要再一次上山,把爭訟的事,交給亞倫、戶珥,他就帶著石版,和他的幫手約書亞上山,神的榮耀雲彩,停在西乃山6天,第7天神從雲中呼召摩西,整個山頂,雲彩形狀像烈火,摩西在山上40天。
◎心得分享:摩西要上山遇見上帝之前,就先帶領百姓築壇獻祭給神,與神立約,神很想與人建立關係,但是上帝不勉強人,神要人也有甘心樂意,主動積極,與立志的決心,雖然人容易毀約,只要人堅持尋求神,神親自讓這不可能的約,完全成就。
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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。