18約伯記逐章綱要
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第01章:「約伯受到撒但加害」。
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第02章:「朋友陪他7天7夜」。
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第03章:「約伯咒詛自己生日」
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第04章:「以利法的責備:一切都是報應」。
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第05章:「以利法的安慰:這是全能者的管教」。
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第06章:「約伯的反駁:請提出我有錯的證據」。
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第07章:「約伯:我若有罪求神赦免除掉,不要讓我在塵土中」。
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第08章:「比勒達的責備:因你沒有殷勤尋求神」。
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第09章:「約伯:我知道沒有人能在神面前稱義」。
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第10章:「約伯:我曾求神指示、紀念、寬容我」。
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第11章:「瑣珥責備:你要除掉手裏罪孽,住在義的帳棚之中」v14。
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第12章:「約伯反駁:我也有聰明,你們所說誰不知道」v3。
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第13章:「約伯罵人:你們是編造謊言,都是無用的醫生」v4。
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第14章:「約伯表達:只知身上痛苦,與中心的悲哀」v22。
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第15章:「以利法責備:你不敬畏神,你是有罪,從你口裡說出來的話就知道」v4-5。
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第16章:「約伯表達:你們安慰人,卻叫人愁煩,說的是無窮虛空的話」v2-3。
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第17章:「約伯表達:他痛苦心靈消耗、日子滅盡、成了民中笑談,願上帝來作保」v1,3,6。
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第18章:「比勒達責備:惡人的光要熄滅v5,住處變黑暗v6,這是因他不認識神v22」。
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第19章:「約伯表達:他知道他救贖主活著,以後他必站立在地上v25」。
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第20章:「瑣法責備:上帝發怒,惡人的產業都要消滅v29」。
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第21章:「約伯反問:惡人為何存活享大壽數,勢力強盛呢?」。
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第22章:「以利法定罪:你為富不仁,強取弟兄物、剝去窮人衣、沒有幫助困乏人」v6。
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第23章:「約伯表達:希望到神面前,案件陳明,滿口辯白」。
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第24章:「約伯表達:上帝為什麼不用《現世報》,使惡人受到懲處呢?」v1。
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第25章:「比勒達讚美神的權能和聖潔,反駁約伯不公義的講法」。
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第26章:「約伯反諷比勒達對他的幫助無能力、指教無智慧,他比他更認識神」v2-3。
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第27章:「約伯說:至死都堅持我自已是對的、正確的」v5。
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第28章:「約伯說:只有上帝是明白智慧v23,敬畏主才是智慧v28」。
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第29章:「約伯回顧過去的日子:是蒙神眷顧,充滿上帝的祝福」。
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第30章:「約伯想到現在的日子:今非昔比,景況淒慘苦不堪言」v16-17。
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第31章:「約伯提出自己答辯詞:受苦是與罪無關,神賜給他公正的判決」。
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第32章:「以利戶不看人情面,不奉承人v21責備約伯與他三個朋友v2-4」。
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第33章:「以利戶陳訴約伯的告白,強調神比人大,作事根本不須對人解釋v13」。
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第34章:「以利戶責備:約伯像惡人,悖逆用許多言語輕慢上帝v37」。
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第35章:「以利戶說:人若犯罪或是行公義,不會影響上帝,只會影響世人v5-8」。
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第36章:「以利戶說:神必引你離患難,你要順服在神的責罰v17-18」。
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第37章:「以利戶說:你要留心聽,站立思想上帝奇妙作為v14,自以為智慧,神不顧念v24」。
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第38章:「神讓約伯知道自己知識有限,不能以自己的準則來批判創造者的上帝」。
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第39章:「上帝透過家禽的特性:來詢問約伯」v9。
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第40章:「上帝說:強辯的人,是無法駁倒上帝,於是約伯自認自己是卑賤」
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第41章:「上帝說:人連鱷魚都鬥不過,怎能跟造鱷魚的上帝鬥呢?」v10。
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第42章:「上帝使約伯從苦境轉回」v10。
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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。