10月07日 一年的第281天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:亞03-06章
第03章主要在講:「遵守命令,管理神的家」。
一.天使又指給我看:大祭司約書亞站在耶和華的使者面前;撒但也站在約書亞的右邊,與他作對。亞3:1
1.耶和華向撒但說:「撒但哪,耶和華責備你!就是揀選耶路撒冷的耶和華責備你!這不是從火中抽出來的一根柴麼?」亞3:2
2.約書亞穿著污穢的衣服站在使者面前。亞3:3
3.使者吩咐站在面前的說:「你們要脫去他污穢的衣服」;又對約書亞說:「我使你脫離罪孽,要給你穿上華美的衣服。」亞3:4
4.我說:「要將潔淨的冠冕戴在他頭上。」他們就把潔淨的冠冕戴在他頭上,給他穿上華美的衣服,耶和華的使者在旁邊站立。亞3:5
二.耶和華的使者告誡約書亞說:亞3:6
1.萬軍之耶和華如此說:你若遵行我的道,謹守我的命令,你就可以管理我的家,看守我的院宇;我也要使你在這些站立的人中間來往。亞3:7
2.大祭司約書亞阿,你和坐在你面前的同伴都當聽。(他們是作預兆的。)我必使我僕人大衛的苗裔發出。亞3:8
3.看哪,我在約書亞面前所立的石頭,在一塊石頭上有七眼。萬軍之耶和華說:我要親自雕刻這石頭,並要在一日之間除掉這地的罪孽。亞3:9
4.當那日,你們各人要請鄰舍坐在葡萄樹和無花果樹下。這是萬軍之耶和華說的。亞3:10
◎心得分享:聖殿重建困難重重,尤其領袖更容易受到攻擊,先知鼓勵當時的祭司約書亞,他是從「火中抽出來的一根柴」,上帝要脫去他污穢的衣服、給他穿上華美的衣服、將冠冕戴在他頭上,萬軍之耶和華如此說:你若遵行我的道,謹守我的命令,你就可以管理我的家,看守我的院宇;我也要使你在這些站立的人中間來往。要重建聖殿的人的條件,他必須是遵守神的話語,服事神的人,必須以神的話,為他生活中心。
第04章主要在講:「依靠聖靈,不靠勢力才能」。
一.那與我說話的天使又來叫醒我,好像人睡覺被喚醒一樣。亞4:1
1.他問我說:「你看見了甚麼?」我說:「我看見了一個純金的燈臺,頂上有盞燈,燈臺上有七盞燈,每盞有七個管子。亞4:2
2.旁邊有兩棵橄欖樹,一棵在燈盞的右邊,一棵在燈盞的左邊。亞4:3
3.我問與我說話的天使說:「主阿,這是甚麼意思?」亞4:4
A.與我說話的天使回答我說:「你不知道這是甚麼意思麼?」我說:「主阿,我不知道。」亞4:5
B.他對我說:「這是耶和華指示所羅巴伯的。萬軍之耶和華說:不是倚靠勢力,不是倚靠纔能,乃是倚靠我的靈方能成事。亞4:6
C.大山哪,你算甚麼呢?在所羅巴伯面前,你必成為平地。他必搬出一塊石頭,安在殿頂上。人且大聲歡呼說:『願恩惠恩惠歸與這殿(殿:或作石)!』」亞4:7
二.耶和華的話又臨到我說:亞4:8
1.所羅巴伯的手立了這殿的根基,他的手也必完成這工,你就知道萬軍之耶和華差遣我到你們這裏來了。亞4:9
2.誰藐視這日的事為小呢?這七眼乃是耶和華的眼睛,遍察全地,見所羅巴伯手拿線鉈就歡喜。亞4:10
三.我又問天使說:「這燈臺左右的兩棵橄欖樹是甚麼意思?」亞4:11
1.我二次問他說:「這兩根橄欖枝在兩個流出金色油的金嘴旁邊是甚麼意思?」亞4:12
2.他對我說:「你不知道這是甚麼意思麼?」我說:「主阿,我不知道。」亞4:13
3.他說:「這是兩個受膏者站在普天下主的旁邊。」亞4:14
◎心得分享:兩根橄欖枝,在當時指的是當時的領袖「祭司約書亞與所羅巴伯」,在後來是指耶穌是「祭司、君王」,七盞金燈台,是代表基督徒的見證,然而要能發光,不是「靠著勢力」、不是「靠著才能」,仍是靠著聖靈方能成事,我們要成就上帝所託付的事工,就必須有聖靈動工,聖靈作事。
第05章主要在講:「舉目觀看,一飛行的書卷」。
一.我又舉目觀看,見有一飛行的書卷。亞5:1
1.他問我說:「你看見甚麼?」我回答說:「我看見一飛行的書卷,長二十肘,寬十肘。」亞5:2
2.他對我說:「這是發出行在遍地上的咒詛。凡偷竊的必按卷上這面的話除滅;凡起假誓的必按卷上那面的話除滅。亞5:3
3.萬軍之耶和華說:我必使這書卷出去,進入偷竊人的家和指我名起假誓人的家,必常在他家裏,連房屋帶木石都毀滅了。」亞5:4
4.與我說話的天使出來,對我說:「你要舉目觀看,見所出來的是甚麼?」亞5:5
二.我說:「這是甚麼呢?」他說:「這出來的是量器。」他又說:「這是惡人在遍地的形狀。」亞5:6
1.(我見有一片圓鉛被舉起來。)這坐在量器中的是個婦人。亞5:7
2.天使說:「這是罪惡。」他就把婦人扔在量器中,將那片圓鉛扔在量器的口上。亞5:8
3.我又舉目觀看,見有兩個婦人出來,在他們翅膀中有風,飛得甚快,翅膀如同鸛鳥的翅膀。他們將量器抬起來,懸在天地中間。亞5:9
4.我問與我說話的天使說:「他們要將量器抬到那裏去呢?」亞5:10
5.他對我說:「要往示拿地去,為他蓋造房屋;等房屋齊備,就把他安置在自己的地方。」亞5:11
◎心得分享:「一飛行的書卷」代表神的話語,要來除滅「偷竊與起假誓」的人,有一邪惡的婦人被丟入量器,「圓鉛」是指量器上的蓋子,也就是惡的天使被丟入量器中,上面有蓋子蓋起來,另外兩個婦人,是指兩個有翅膀的天使,也是上帝所揀選的,他們把量器抬到「示拿」,就是人類最早被叛上帝的地方,也是巴比倫,罪惡的發源地,讓他不能再作惡事。
第06章主要在講:「留意聽從,上帝話必成就」。
一.我又舉目觀看,見有四輛車從兩山中間出來;那山是銅山。亞6:1
1.第一輛車套著紅馬,第二輛車套著黑馬。亞6:2
第三輛車套著白馬,第四輛車套著有斑點的壯馬。亞6:3
2.我就問與我說話的天使說:「主阿,這是甚麼意思?」亞6:4
天使回答我說:「這是天的四風,是從普天下的主面前出來的。」亞6:5
3.套著黑馬的車往北方去,白馬跟隨在後;有斑點的馬往南方去。亞6:6
4.壯馬出來,要在遍地走來走去。天使說:「你們只管在遍地走來走去。」他們就照樣行了。亞6:7
5.他又呼叫我說:「看哪,往北方去的已在北方安慰我的心。」亞6:8
二.耶和華的話臨到我說:亞6:9
1.「你要從被擄之人中取黑玳、多比雅、耶大雅的金銀。這三人是從巴比倫來到西番雅的兒子約西亞的家裏。當日你要進他的家,亞6:10
2.取這金銀作冠冕,戴在約撒答的兒子大祭司約書亞的頭上,亞6:11
3.對他說,萬軍之耶和華如此說:看哪,那名稱為大衛苗裔的,他要在本處長起來,並要建造耶和華的殿。亞6:12
A.他要建造耶和華的殿,並擔負尊榮,坐在位上掌王權;又必在位上作祭司,使兩職之間籌定和平。亞6:13
B.這冠冕要歸希連(就是黑玳)、多比雅、耶大雅,和西番雅的兒子賢(就是約西亞),放在耶和華的殿裏為記念。亞6:14
4.遠方的人也要來建造耶和華的殿,你們就知道萬軍之耶和華差遣我到你們這裏來。你們若留意聽從耶和華你們神的話,這事必然成就。亞6:15
◎心得分享:四輛馬車,紅馬(象徵戰爭)、黑馬(象徵死亡)、白馬(象徵著勝利)、斑馬(象徵饑荒與瘟疫),從銅山的中間出來,銅山代表神的審判,北方是指亞述、巴比倫、瑪代,也就是說上帝北方是指亞述,往北方去的已在北方安慰我的心,是表示「神的怒氣已經發作,當北方受了報應,怒氣就可以止息」。說明只要我們專心為上帝建造聖殿,上帝就替我們解決我們的問題。
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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。