02月05日讀經 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
經文:出28-31章(山上的吩咐)
第28章主要在講:「作祭司的聖衣、胸牌、外袍、衣冠法則」。
上帝說:1.祭司人選:A由.亞倫和他的兒子,B.心中有神智慧靈充滿、分別為聖的人。2.製作祭司的以弗得和鑲有12顆寶石決斷胸牌,烏陵和土明放在胸牌裡面,3.製作外袍,袍上有金鈴鐺,4.製作內袍、腰帶、裹頭斤、細麻布褲子。
◎心得分享:祭司的人選,除了是亞倫的後代,最重要的是,有神聖靈、智慧充滿,聖靈充滿在於,一個人降服、破碎自己在神的面前順服、渴慕上帝的愛,而智慧是在於,一個人對神敬畏的態度,並且甘樂意,按神的方式行,就有智慧,求神把聖靈與智慧賞賜給我們。
第29章主要在講:「作祭司的獻祭法則」。
上帝說:「1.祭司任職禮:A.帶1隻公牛、2隻公綿羊、無酵餅,B.穿上祭司服,C.將公牛、公綿羊、獻給耶和華馨香的火祭v10-25,D.祭司當得的是公羊舉祭的胸和舉祭的腿,E.任祭司職要有7天潔淨禮。2.祭司每天要獻在二隻羊羔,早上獻1隻,黃昏獻1隻羊羔,作世世代代常獻的禮。
◎心得分享:祭司除了要有聖靈與智慧的靈,也要獻上禮物給上帝,並且也要為自己獻火祭,就是燔給神,潔淨自己,而且每天早上要獻一隻羊,黃昏獻一隻羊羔,是為贖祭,這是祭司每天例行的工作,這是在提醒我們的是服事主的人,在一天工作的開始,要把自己奉獻給神,在一天黃昏工作結束,都要將自己奉獻給神。
第30章主要在講:「造香壇、洗濯盆、膏油、香料法則」。
上帝說:「1.造香壇:用皂莢木作的香壇,是正方的,長1肘、寬1肘、高1肘,壇上要燒馨香的香料,早晨要燒這香,黃昏也要燒這香,一年一次要用祭牲的血,行贖罪之禮,2.每人當獻生命的贖價半舍客勒給上帝,富足不可多出,貧窮也不可少出。3.造洗濯盆:用銅造的洗濯盆,在盆裡盛水,祭司進會幕供職,要用裡面的水洗手洗腳,免得死亡。4.製聖膏:用上等的香料:流質的沒藥六公斤、香肉桂三公斤、香菖蒲三公斤,和六公斤的桂皮,加上四公升的橄欖油,用調製香水的方法製成聖油,這香膏是用來抹會幕的一切器具,製作與此相似的膏油,要從民中剪除,5.製香:用韾香的香料,蘇合香、香螺、白松香,和純乳香,分量相等,用調製香水的方法配製。再加上鹽,使它純潔聖化,若有人配製這種香,自己享用,要把這人從我的子民中被開除。」
◎心得分享:「香壇」代表的是信徒的禱告,「洗濯盆」代表的是服事上帝的人,要潔淨自己,才能服事上帝,「膏油」是代表一種,聖潔的象徵,所有會幕是人造,並不是聖潔,但是透過「膏油」在器具上,器具就都成為聖潔,「香」是要用火來燒,經過火燒的香,就像煙一樣,成為馨香之氣,能討神喜悅,這在提醒我們,我們就像是上帝分別為聖的「香料」,但是惟有我們經過火的試驗,才能散發出馨香之氣,討神喜悅。
第31章主要在講:「工匠人選,守安息日、上帝將石版給摩西」。
上帝說:「1.造會幕的工人:我召比撒列來造會幕一切器具,他是A.被聖靈充滿,B.有智慧、聰明、知識,C.能想出巧工、鑲刻寶石、作各樣的工。另外我派亞何利亞伯,與他同工,這都是照我一切吩咐的,2.要吩咐以色列人守安息日,以為聖日,凡在安息日作工的,必要把他治死。」,上帝在西乃山說完話,把用指頭寫的兩塊石版,交給摩西。
◎心得分享:會幕是按著上帝的吩咐來作的,雖然材料是以色列人獻上的,但是上帝親自指定「上帝的工人」,就如聖經告訴我們:「不是我們揀選上帝,仍是上帝先揀選我們」,上帝知道、認識服事祂的人,神所揀選的人,祂就賜能力幫助他們,完成上帝所托負完成的事工。
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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。