08月31日 一年的第244天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:代下01-03章
第01章主要在講:「所羅門獻祭」。
一.大衛的兒子所羅門國位堅固;耶和華他的神與他同在,使他甚為尊大。代下1:1
1.所羅門吩咐以色列眾人,就是千夫長、百夫長、審判官、首領與族長都來。代下1:2
2.所羅門和會眾都往基遍的邱壇去,因那裏有神的會幕,就是耶和華僕人摩西在曠野所製造的。代下1:3
A.只是神的約櫃,大衛已經從基列耶琳搬到他所豫備的地方,因他曾在耶路撒冷為約櫃支搭了帳幕,代下1:4
B.並且戶珥的孫子、烏利的兒子比撒列所造的銅壇也在基遍耶和華的會幕前。所羅門和會眾都就近壇前。代下1:5
3.所羅門上到耶和華面前會幕的銅壇那裏,獻一千犧牲為燔祭。代下1:6
二.當夜,神向所羅門顯現,對他說:「你願我賜你甚麼,你可以求。」代下1:7
1.所羅門對神說:「你曾向我父大衛大施慈愛,使我接續他作王。代下1:8
A.耶和華神阿,現在求你成就向我父大衛所應許的話;因你立我作這民的王,他們如同地上塵沙那樣多。代下1:9
B.求你賜我智慧聰明,我好在這民前出入;不然,誰能判斷這眾多的民呢?」代下1:10
2.神對所羅門說:「我已立你作我民的王。你既有這心意,並不求資財、豐富、尊榮,也不求滅絕那恨你之人的性命,又不求大壽數,只求智慧聰明好判斷我的民;代下1:11
我必賜你智慧聰明,也必賜你資財、豐富、尊榮。在你以前的列王都沒有這樣,在你以後也必沒有這樣的。代下1:12
三.於是,所羅門從基遍邱壇會幕前回到耶路撒冷,治理以色列人。代下1:13
1.所羅門聚集戰車馬兵,有戰車一千四百輛,馬兵一萬二千名,安置在屯車的城邑和耶路撒冷,就是王那裏。代下1:14
2.王在耶路撒冷使金銀多如石頭,香柏木多如高原的桑樹。代下1:15
3.所羅門的馬是從埃及帶來的,是王的商人一群一群按著定價買來的。代下1:16
4.他們從埃及買來的車,每輛價銀七百舍客勒,馬每匹一百五十舍客勒。赫人諸王和亞蘭諸王所買的車馬,也是按這價值經他們手買來的。代下1:17
◎心得分享:所羅門王「向上帝求智慧」,上帝肯定他的祈求,上帝說:「你不為自己求資財、豐富、尊榮,也不求滅絕那恨你之人的性命,又不求大壽數,只求智慧聰明好判斷我的民,我必賜你智慧聰明,也必賜你資財、豐富、尊榮。在你以前的列王都沒有這樣,在你以後也必沒有這樣的」。這在告訴我們無私的禱告,上帝就無私的祝福,超過我們所想的。
第02章主要在講:「所羅定意建殿」。
一.所羅門定意要為耶和華的名建造殿宇,又為自己的國建造宮室。代下2:1
二.所羅門就挑選七萬扛抬的,八萬在山上鑿石頭的,三千六百督工的。代下2:2
三.所羅門差人去見推羅王希蘭,說:「你曾運香柏木與我父大衛建宮居住,求你也這樣待我。代下2:3
1.我要為耶和華我神的名建造殿宇,分別為聖獻給他,在他面前焚燒美香,常擺陳設餅,每早晚、安息日、月朔,並耶和華我們神所定的節期獻燔祭。這是以色列人永遠的定例。代下2:4
A.我所要建造的殿宇甚大;因為我們的神至大,超乎諸神。代下2:5
B.天和天上的天,尚且不足他居住的,誰能為他建造殿宇呢?我是誰?能為他建造殿宇麼?不過在他面前燒香而已。代下2:6
C.現在求你差一個巧匠來,就是善用金、銀、銅、鐵,和紫色、朱紅色、藍色線,並精於雕刻之工的巧匠,與我父大衛在猶大和耶路撒冷所豫備的巧匠一同作工;代下2:7
D.又求你從利巴嫩運些香柏木、松木、檀香木到我這裏來,因我知道你的僕人善於砍伐利巴嫩的樹木。我的僕人也必與你的僕人同工。代下2:8
a.這樣,可以給我豫備許多的木料,因我要建造的殿宇高大出奇。代下2:9
b.你的僕人砍伐樹木,我必給他們打好了的小麥二萬歌珥,大麥二萬歌珥,酒二萬罷特,油二萬罷特。」代下2:10
2.推羅王希蘭寫信回答所羅門說:「耶和華因為愛他的子民,所以立你作他們的王」;代下2:11
A.又說:「創造天地的耶和華以色列的神是應當稱頌的!他賜給大衛王一個有智慧的兒子,使他有謀略聰明,可以為耶和華建造殿宇,又為自己的國建造宮室。代下2:12
B.現在我打發一個精巧有聰明的人去,他是我父親希蘭所用的,代下2:13
C.是但支派一個婦人的兒子。他父親是推羅人,他善用金、銀、銅、鐵、石、木,和紫色、藍色、朱紅色線與細麻製造各物,並精於雕刻,又能想出各樣的巧工。請你派定這人,與你的巧匠和你父我主大衛的巧匠一同作工。代下2:14
D.我主所說的小麥、大麥、酒、油,願我主運來給眾僕人。代下2:15
E.我們必照你所需用的,從利巴嫩砍伐樹木,紮成筏子,浮海運到約帕;你可以從那裏運到耶路撒冷。」代下2:16
3.所羅門仿照他父大衛數點住在以色列地所有寄居的外邦人,共有十五萬三千六百名;代下2:17
使七萬人扛抬材料,八萬人在山上鑿石頭,三千六百人督理工作。代下2:18
◎心得分享:本章分成三段,第一段「所羅門定意要為耶和華的名建造殿宇」,第二段「所羅門就挑選七萬扛抬的,八萬在山上鑿石頭的,三千六百督工」,第三段「所羅門差人去見推羅王希蘭,要求巧匠和木材:香柏木、松木、檀香木。這裡讓我們看見「一件事的完工」,除了上帝的動工,還需要「自己的定意」加上「自助」和「人助」。
第03章主要在講:「開始建殿的結構體」。
一.所羅門就在耶路撒冷、耶和華向他父大衛顯現的摩利亞山上,就是耶布斯人阿珥楠的禾場上、大衛所指定的地方豫備好了,開工建造耶和華的殿。代下3:1
二.所羅門作王第四年二月初二日開工建造。代下3:2
1.所羅門建築神殿的根基,乃是這樣:長六十肘,寬二十肘,都按著古時的尺寸。代下3:3
2.殿前的廊子長二十肘,與殿的寬窄一樣,高一百二十肘;裏面貼上精金。代下3:4
3.大殿的牆都用松木板遮蔽,又貼了精金,上面雕刻棕樹和鍊子;代下3:5
A.又用寶石裝飾殿牆,使殿華美;所用的金子都是巴瓦音的金子。代下3:6
B.又用金子貼殿和殿的棟梁、門檻、牆壁、門扇;牆上雕刻基路伯。代下3:7
4.又建造至聖所,長二十肘,與殿的寬窄一樣,寬也是二十肘;貼上精金,共用金子六百他連得。代下3:8
A.金釘重五十舍客勒。樓房都貼上金子。代下3:9
B.在至聖所按造像的法子造兩個基路伯,用金子包裹。代下3:10
a.兩個基路伯的翅膀共長二十肘。這基路伯的一個翅膀長五肘,挨著殿這邊的牆;那一個翅膀也長五肘,與那基路伯翅膀相接。代下3:11
b.那基路伯的一個翅膀長五肘,挨著殿那邊的牆;那一個翅膀也長五肘,與這基路伯的翅膀相接。代下3:12
c.兩個基路伯張開翅膀,共長二十肘,面向外殿而立。代下3:13
C.又用藍色、紫色、朱紅色線和細麻織幔子,在其上繡出基路伯來。代下3:14
5.在殿前造了兩根柱子,高三十五肘;每柱頂高五肘。代下3:15
A.又照聖所內鍊子的樣式作鍊子,安在柱頂上;又作一百石榴,安在鍊子上。代下3:16
B.將兩根柱子立在殿前,一根在右邊,一根在左邊;右邊的起名叫雅斤,左邊的起名叫波阿斯。代下3:17
◎心得分享:聖殿建造在耶路撒冷的「摩利亞山上」,就是耶和華向他父大衛顯現的,耶布斯人阿珥楠的禾場上、大衛所指定的地方豫備好了,開工建造耶和華的殿,在所羅門作王第四年二月初二日開工建造。這在告訴我們,很多的事情是急不得的,更大的事工,需要更多的時間來預備與等候。
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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。