神的異象
不能改變也不能動搖
經文
希伯來書十三章1至16節
1你們務要常存弟兄相愛的心。
2不可忘記用愛心接待客旅;因為曾有接待客旅的,不知不覺就接待了天使。
3你們要記念被捆綁的人,好像與他們同受捆綁;也要記念遭苦害的人,想到自己也在肉身之內。
4婚姻,人人都當尊重,床也不可污穢;因為苟合行淫的人,神必要審判。
5你們存心不可貪愛錢財,要以自己所有的為足;因為主曾說:我總不撇下你,也不丟棄你。
6所以我們可以放膽說:主是幫助我的,我必不懼怕;人能把我怎麼樣呢?
7從前引導你們、傳神之道給你們的人,你們要想念他們,效法他們的信心,留心看他們為人的結局。
8耶穌基督,昨日、今日、一直到永遠、是一樣的。
9你們不要被那諸般怪異的教訓勾引了去;因為人心靠恩得堅固才是好的,並不是靠飲食。那在飲食上專心的從來沒有得著益處。
10我們有一祭壇,上面的祭物是那些在帳幕中供職的人不可同吃的。
11原來牲畜的血被大祭司帶入聖所作贖罪祭;牲畜的身子被燒在營外。
12所以,耶穌要用自己的血叫百姓成聖,也就在城門外受苦。
13這樣,我們也當出到營外,就了他去,忍受他所受的凌辱。
14我們在這裡本沒有常存的城,乃是尋求那將來的城。
15我們應當靠著耶穌,常常以頌讚為祭獻給神,這就是那承認主名之人嘴唇的果子。
16只是不可忘記行善和捐輸的事;因為這樣的祭,是神所喜悅的。
信息分享
昨天我們看到,每當神將我們腳下的支柱除去,都是為了使我們更安穩地倚賴祂。我們越快學會怎樣以神作為我們的保障就越好,因為我們前面將要面對一些黑暗和艱難的日子。
當報章充滿關於歐洲動亂以及俄羅斯大轉變的那段日子,我打開聖經,讀到這些話:「……我們既得了不能震動的國,就當感恩……」(來十二28)。這信息是多麼的貼切!我們現在周圍的各國都被震動,幾乎一切都處於紛亂和改變階段。我不是先知,但我相信將會有更多的國際動盪和改變要發生,而在這種時候,神希望祂的百姓向上仰望,因為祂仍然坐在寶座上。
除了神的國度以外,其他的國度都會動搖。它需要以武力來維持團結,一旦鬆開那武力,它便會瓦解,正如世界所看到的一樣。金融的國度會動搖,股票市場每天隨著發生的事情而波動。健康的國度也會動搖,醫生說:「很不幸,你患上了不治之症!」一切都會動搖!但在變動的世界中我們必須肯定一點:基督徒屬於一位不改變的主,祂的國度是不會動搖的。神容許人的國度動搖,為了讓他們發現那不會動搖的國度──神的國度。
「除了神的國度以外,其他國度都會動搖」
進深研究
詩篇一零二27; 瑪三6;來一10-12;雅一1-18
1. 耶和華宣告了甚麼?
2. 雅各確定了甚麼?
祈禱
天父,我明白我是屬於一位不改變的主,一個不動搖的國度,這是多大的安慰啊!短暫的事件不能動搖我。在您裡面,我能夠應付一切。我永遠都充滿感恩。阿們。
The Vision of God
Unchanging and Unshakeable
Bible reading:
Hebrews 13:1-16
1 Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters.
2 Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.
3 Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.
4 Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you."[a]
6 So we say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?"[b]
7 Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
9 Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by grace, not by eating ceremonial foods, which is of no benefit to those who do so.
10 We have an altar from which those who minister at the tabernacle have no right to eat.
11 The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp.
12 And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood.
13 Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore.
14 For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.
15 Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name.
16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
Message
We saw yesterday that whenever God knocks the props from beneath our feet it is in order that we might rest more securely on Him. The sooner we learn how to make God our security the better, for we are going to face some dark and difficult days up ahead.
During the period when the newspapers were filled with reports of the upheaval in Europe and the great changes taking place in Russia, I turned to my Bible and read these words: "...let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken..." (Heb. 12:28, RSV). The message seemed so appropriate. All around us right now nations are being shaken and almost everything is in the stage of upheaval and change. I am not a prophet, but I think more international unrest and change is on the way. This is a time when God wants His people to look up and see that He is still on the throne.
Every kingdom is shakeable except the kingdom of God. The kingdom of Communism is shakeable. It has to be held together by force. Relax the force and, as the world has witnessed, it goes to pieces. The kingdom of finances is shakeable. The stock market goes up and down with the events of the day. The kingdom of health is shakeable. The doctor says: "I am afraid you have an incurable illness." Shakeable! But in a world of flux be assured of this: Christians are people who belong to an unchanging Person and who dwell in an unshakeable kingdom. God is allowing kingdoms to be shaken so that they might discover the unshakeable kingdom - the kingdom of God.
"Every kingdom is shakeable except the kingdom of God"
Prayer
Father, what a comfort it is to realise that I belong to an unchanging Person and an unshakeable kingdom. Passing events cannot shake me. In You I am more than a match for anything. I am eternally grateful. Amen.
Further study
Psalm 102:27
Malachi 3:6
Hebrews 1:10-12
James 1:1-18
1. What has the Lord declared?
2. What did James confirm?
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