02月08日讀經 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
經文:出38-40章
第38章主要在講:「動工造祭壇、洗濯盆、幕院」。
1.用皂莢木造燔祭的祭壇:是四方的,長5肘、寬5肘、高3肘,用銅把壇包著,2.用銅作洗濯盆和盆座,是會幕門前伺候的婦人作的,看起來像鏡子一樣亮。3.作帳幕的院子:院子A.南面,寬100肘,有柱子20根,柱頂是用銀,底座是用銅作的,B.北面,寬100肘,有柱子20根,柱頂是用銀,底座是用銅作的,C.西面,寬50肘,有柱子10根,柱頂是用銀,底座是用銅作的,D.東面,寬50肘,中間是門,門的左右各有三根柱子,帳幕一切釘子,都是銅的,4.帳幕所用的物件的總數,是照摩西吩咐,經祭司亞倫的兒子「以他瑪」,數點過的,經由猶大支派「以撒列」、和他同工的,但支派的「亞何利亞伯」製作的。
◎心得分享:「祭壇」是獻祭用,代表聖徒要將自己身體獻上,當作活祭,給上帝,「洗濯盆」表示,服事神的人,要自潔,「幕院」是代表一種分別為聖,要進入會幕的人,是要預備好自己,否則隨隨便便進入會幕,是會被神擊殺,這在提醒我們,我們到上帝面前,不能把世界想法,帶到神的面前,要到神的面前,必須按上帝的吩咐,分別為聖,才能來到神面。
第39章主要在講:「動工作聖衣、胸牌、外袍、內袍、聖冠、會幕完工」。
比撒列1.用藍色、紫色、朱紅色作精緻的祭司衣的聖衣,2.用金線、藍色、紫色、朱紅色、白色細麻作「以弗得」,在以弗得肩帶上有兩塊寶石,刻著以色列12兒子的名子,3.用巧匠的手工作胸牌,用金線、藍色、紫色、朱紅色、白色細麻作,上面鑲著四行寶石,第1行,紅寶石、黃玉、翡翠,第2行,紫寶石、藍寶石、鑽石,第3行,黃瑪瑙、白瑪瑙、紫晶,第4行,水蒼玉、紅瑪瑙、碧玉。4.用識工作以弗得的外袍,顏色全是藍色,袍子的底邊,是用精金作的鈴鐺,一個鈴鐺,一個石榴,排列而成,石榴是用藍、紫、朱紅色線作的,5.作細麻布作內袍、冠冕、裹頭巾、褲子,用精金作聖冠上的牌子,上面刻著「歸耶和華為聖」。6.帳幕就是會幕,一切的工作完了,是照上帝的吩咐,摩西要就給他們祝福。
◎心得分享:大祭司的衣服特點,是在以弗得「肩帶上的兩個紅寶石」,刻著12支派的名子,還有胸牌上12顆寶石,也刻著12支派名字,這在說明我們的大祭司主耶穌,常常惦記著我們,把我們的名字放在胸前,常常為我們禱告,也提醒我們這些成為上帝僕人的牧者,要記得常常為會友禱告。
第40章主要在講:「會幕完工,神的榮光充滿會慕」。
神對摩西說:「正月初一,你要立起帳幕,1.聖所:把法櫃,放在最裡面,用幔子遮掩,2.聖所:陳設桌、金燈台要點上燈,香壇在法櫃前,掛上帳幕的門簾,3.院子:會幕前面是洗濯盆,再前面燔祭壇,4.用膏油把帳幕所有器具,都抹上油,5.大祭司亞倫到會幕門口來,要用洗濯盆的水洗身,再穿聖衣,用油膏他,其他祭司亞倫的兒子們,要穿門內袍,也要受膏,才能任祭司的職任」,摩西照耶和華吩咐,第2年正月初一,帳幕就立起來,摩西在帳幕內,點燈、燒香,掛上門簾。摩西到外面帳幕前1.獻燔祭、素祭,2.再用洗濯盆的水,盛水洗手洗腳,3.才能進會幕,每次都要照這種方式進會幕。摩西、亞倫並亞倫的兒子在會幕前,摩西把院子的門簾掛上,這樣摩西就完工了,當時雲彩遮蓋會幕,耶和華的榮光充滿帳幕,摩西不能進帳幕,因為雲彩停在上面,雲彩從帳幕收上去,以色列就起程前往,雲彩若不收上去,他們就不起程,日間雲彩停在上面,夜間雲中有火。
◎心得分享:這一章讓我們看到最興奮的是,神的榮耀充滿了會幕,神的榮耀不是隨隨便便就充滿,當以色列人按著神的吩咐去作,一步步的作,從正月初一,到隔年的正月初一,有一年的時間,他們終於完成了這個會幕,要造一個會幕,是很繁瑣,不是一個人可以完成的,但他們最後完成了,上帝榮耀降臨,也肯定了他們的工作是對的,這照我們學習到要作上帝的事工,是非常困難的,具有挑戰的,但是我們只要不斷的堅持,按上帝的吩咐作,一定能完成上帝的工作。
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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。