09月21日 一年的第265天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:結34-36章
第34章主要在講:「譴責以色列的牧人」。
一.耶和華的話臨到我說:結34:1
1.人子阿,你要向以色列的牧人發豫言,攻擊他們,說,主耶和華如此說:禍哉!以色列的牧人只知牧養自己。牧人豈不當牧養群羊麼?結34:2
A.你們喫脂油、穿羊毛、宰肥壯的,卻不牧養群羊。結34:3
B.瘦弱的,你們沒有養壯;有病的,你們沒有醫治;受傷的,你們沒有纏裹;被逐的,你們沒有領回;失喪的,你們沒有尋找;但用強暴嚴嚴地轄制。
2.因無牧人,羊就分散;既分散,便作了一切野獸的食物。結34:4 結34:5
3.我的羊在諸山間、在各高岡上流離,在全地上分散,無人去尋,無人去找。結34:6
4.所以,你們這些牧人要聽耶和華的話。結34:7
5.主耶和華說:我指著我的永生起誓,我的羊因無牧人就成為掠物,也作了一切野獸的食物。我的牧人不尋找我的羊;這些牧人只知牧養自己,並不牧養我的羊。結34:8
二.所以你們這些牧人要聽耶和華的話。結34:9
1.主耶和華如此說:我必與牧人為敵,必向他們的手追討我的羊,使他們不再牧放群羊;牧人也不再牧養自己。我必救我的羊脫離他們的口,不再作他們的食物。」結34:10
2.主耶和華如此說:看哪,我必親自尋找我的羊,將他們尋見。結34:11
3.牧人在羊群四散的日子怎樣尋找他的羊,我必照樣尋找我的羊。這些羊在密雲黑暗的日子散到各處,我必從那裏救回他們來。結34:12
4.我必從萬民中領出他們,從各國內聚集他們,引導他們歸回故土,也必在以色列山上一切溪水旁邊、境內一切可居之處牧養他們。結34:13
5.我必在美好的草場牧養他們。他們的圈必在以色列高處的山上,他們必在佳美之圈中躺臥,也在以色列山肥美的草場喫草。結34:14
三.主耶和華說:我必親自作我羊的牧人,使他們得以躺臥。結34:15
1.失喪的,我必尋找;被逐的,我必領回;受傷的,我必纏裹;有病的,我必醫治;只是肥的壯的,我必除滅,也要秉公牧養他們。結34:16
2我的羊群哪,論到你們,主耶和華如此說:我必在羊與羊中間、公綿羊與公山羊中間施行判斷。結34:17
A.你們這些肥壯的羊,在美好的草場喫草還以為小事麼?剩下的草,你們竟用蹄踐踏了;你們喝清水,剩下的水,你們竟用蹄攪渾了。結34:18
B.至於我的羊,只得喫你們所踐踏的,喝你們所攪渾的。結34:19
3.所以,主耶和華如此說:我必在肥羊和瘦羊中間施行判斷。結34:20
A.因為你們用脅用肩擁擠一切瘦弱的,又用角牴觸,以致使他們四散。結34:21
B.所以,我必拯救我的群羊不再作掠物;我也必在羊和羊中間施行判斷。結34:22
四.我必立一牧人照管他們,牧養他們,就是我的僕人大衛。他必牧養他們,作他們的牧人。結34:23
1.我耶和華必作他們的神,我的僕人大衛必在他們中間作王。這是耶和華說的。結34:24
2.我必與他們立平安的約,使惡獸從境內斷絕,他們就必安居在曠野,躺臥在林中。結34:25
A.我必使他們與我山的四圍成為福源,我也必叫時雨落下,必有福如甘霖而降。結34:26
B.田野的樹必結果,地也必有出產;他們必在故土安然居住。我折斷他們所負的軛,救他們脫離那以他們為奴之人的手;那時,他們就知道我是耶和華。結34:27
C.他們必不再作外邦人的掠物,地上的野獸也不再吞喫他們;卻要安然居住,無人驚嚇。結34:28
D.我必給他們興起有名的植物;他們在境內不再為饑荒所滅,也不再受外邦人的羞辱,結34:29
E.必知道我、耶和華他們的神是與他們同在的,並知道他們以色列家是我的民。這是主耶和華說的。結34:30
3.你們作我的羊,我草場上的羊,乃是以色列人,我也是你們的神。這是主耶和華說的。結34:31
◎心得分享:以色列的牧人只知牧養自己,並不牧養他的羊,瘦弱的,你們沒有養壯;有病的,你們沒有醫治;受傷的,你們沒有纏裹;被逐的,你們沒有領回;失喪的,你們沒有尋找;但用強暴嚴嚴地轄制,主耶和華如此說:我必與牧人為敵,必向他們的手追討我的羊,使他們不再牧放群羊;牧人也不再牧養自己。我必救我的羊脫離他們的口,不再作他們的食物,我必立一牧人照管他們,牧養他們,就是我的僕人大衛。他必牧養他們,作他們的牧人。耶和華才是真正的以色列牧者,是他們的引導者。
第35章主要在講:「以東全地必都荒涼」。
一.耶和華的話又臨到我說:
1.人子阿,你要面向西珥山發豫言,攻擊他,結35:1 結35:2
2.對他說,主耶和華如此說:西珥山哪,我與你為敵,必向你伸手攻擊你,使你荒涼,令人驚駭。結35:3
3.我必使你的城邑變為荒場,成為淒涼。你就知道我是耶和華。結35:4
4.因為你永懷仇恨,在以色列人遭災、罪孽到了盡頭的時候,將他們交與刀劍,結35:5
二.所以主耶和華說:我指著我的永生起誓,我必使你遭遇流血的報應,罪必追趕你;你既不恨惡殺人流血,所以這罪必追趕你。結35:6
1.我必使西珥山荒涼,令人驚駭,來往經過的人我必剪除。結35:7
2.我必使西珥山滿有被殺的人。被刀殺的,必倒在你小山和山谷,並一切的溪水中。結35:8
3.我必使你永遠荒涼,使你的城邑無人居住,你的民就知道我是耶和華。結35:9
A.「因為你曾說:『這二國這二邦必歸於我,我必得為業』,結35:10
B.所以主耶和華說:我指著我的永生起誓,我必照你的怒氣和你從仇恨中向他們所發的嫉妒待你。我審判你的時候,必將自己顯明在他們中間。結35:11
C.你也必知道我耶和華聽見了你的一切毀謗,就是你攻擊以色列山的話,說:『這些山荒涼,是歸我們吞滅的。』結35:12
三.你們也用口向我誇大,增添與我反對的話,我都聽見了。結35:13
1.主耶和華如此說:全地歡樂的時候,我必使你荒涼。結35:14
2.你怎樣因以色列家的地業荒涼而喜樂,我必照你所行的待你。西珥山哪,你和以東全地必都荒涼。你們就知道我是耶和華。」結35:15
◎心得分享:西珥山就是以東,主耶和華如此說:西珥山哪,我與你為敵,必向你伸手攻擊你,使你荒涼,令人驚駭,我必使你的城邑變為荒場,成為淒涼。你就知道我是耶和華。猶大遭難的時候,以東「落井下石」,所以上帝要審判,這在告訴我們,弟兄遭難不要嘲笑與「趁火打劫」。
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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。