害怕死去的麥子
打雷了
經文
哥林多前書二1-16
1弟兄們，從前我到你們那裡去，並沒有用高言大智對你們宣傳神的奧祕。
2因為我曾定了主意，在你們中間不知道別的，只知道耶穌基督並他釘十字架。
3我在你們那裡，又軟弱又懼怕，又甚戰兢。
4我說的話、講的道，不是用智慧委婉的言語，乃是用聖靈和大能的明證，
5叫你們的信不在乎人的智慧，只在乎神的大能。
6然而，在完全的人中，我們也講智慧。但不是這世上的智慧，也不是這世上有權有位、將要敗亡之人的智慧。
7我們講的，乃是從前所隱藏、神奧祕的智慧，就是神在萬世以前預定使我們得榮耀的。
8這智慧世上有權有位的人沒有一個知道的、他們若知道，就不把榮耀的主釘在十字架上了。
9如經上所記：神為愛他的人所預備的是眼睛未曾看見，耳朵未曾聽見，人心也未曾想到的。
10只有神藉著聖靈向我們顯明了，因為聖靈參透萬事，就是神深奧的事也參透了。
11除了在人裡頭的靈，誰知道人的事；像這樣，除了神的靈，也沒有人知道神的事。
12我們所領受的，並不是世上的靈，乃是從神來的靈，叫我們能知道神開恩賜給我們的事。
13並且我們講說這些事，不是用人智慧所指教的言語，乃是用聖靈所指教的言語，將屬靈的話解釋屬靈的事。（或作：將屬靈的事講與屬靈的人）
14然而，屬血氣的人不領會神聖靈的事，反倒以為愚拙，並且不能知道，因為這些事惟有屬靈的人才能看透。
15屬靈的人能看透萬事，卻沒有一人能看透了他。
16誰曾知道主的心去教導他呢？但我們是有基督的心了。
信息分享
我們這幾天一直在討論和思想耶穌接見希臘人的事件，今天，我們看看在這重要的事件中，我們的主以一句甚麼說話來作結：「父啊，願你榮耀你的名！」（約十二28）。這是何等美好的一刻！「父啊，不要在乎我所要付出的代價，只要榮耀你的名。」在那一刻，耶穌給天父一張空白的支票，上面是以祂自己的血簽上了名字。我們生命中也可以有同樣重要的時刻──就是我們將生命的空白支票交給神，並以我們自己的血簽上名字，邀請神按我們所有的一切、和我們是誰來呼召我們的時候。
有人稱這時刻為「偉大的降服」。如果是這樣的話，在降服的一刻之後是一種偉大的宣告。約翰福音十二28說：「當時，就有聲音從天上來，說：『我已經榮耀了我的名，還要再榮耀』」。耶穌作出最後回應的那一刻，天上發出了聲音。我們很多人都抱怨自己活在沉默的天空下，其實如果我們選擇加略山的道路，就會發現天上充滿神的聲音。
當然，旁觀的人不明白真正發生的事情，「就說：『打雷了！』」（約十二29）。對他們來說，那比較像是大自然、非人的聲音。另一些人則比較接近現實，說：「有天使對他說話。」對他們來說，那是超自然一點的聲音，但仍然不是神的聲音。是的，任何站在生命邊緣作旁觀者的人，都會對神所做的事作出膚淺的解釋。只有那些願意面對「死還是不死」的選擇的人，才能真正活在當中。
「如果我們選擇加略山的道路，就會聽到神的聲音」
進深研究
書二十四1-15；詩一一九30；路十42；來十一25
1. 約書亞帶來甚麼挑戰？
2. 經文怎樣講說摩西？
祈禱
我的父神，我不要作旁觀者，我要站在您所說和所做的一切的中心。這是一張以我的血簽了名的支票，請您填下您所要從我身上得到的東西。我是如此樂意地、高興地、快樂地獻上。阿們。
The Corn of Wheat Afraid to Die
"It thundered"
Bible reading:
1 Corinthians 2:1-16
1 And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.[a]
2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
3 I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling.
4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power,
5 so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God's power.
6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
7 No, we declare God's wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began.
8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 However, as it is written: "What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived"[b]— the things God has prepared for those who love him—
10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
11 For who knows a person's thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.
13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.[c]
14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments,
16 for, "Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?"[d] But we have the mind of Christ.
Message
The final words of our Lord in the incident we are considering are these: "Father, glorify thy name" (John 12:28, RSV). What a decision! What a moment! "Father, do not think of what it costs me - only glorify Your name." At that moment, He gave God a blank cheque, blank save that it was signed in His own blood. It is a great moment in our life, too, when we hand God a blank cheque, signed in our own blood, and invite Him to call on us for all we have and all we are.
One person described this moment as "the great renunciation". If that is so, then the moment of great renunciation is followed by a great annunciation. Listen: "Then a voice came from heaven, 'I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again'" (John 12:28, RSV). The moment Jesus made the final response, then heaven spoke. Many of us who complain we are living under a silent heaven would find it vocal with the voice of God if we would choose the Calvary way.
Of course, the bystanders missed what was really going on and "said that it had thundered" (John 12:29). To them, it was the impersonal voice of nature. Others came a little closer to reality, and said: "An angel had spoken to him." To them, it was a little more than the impersonal voice of nature, and yet something less than the voice of God. Anyone who stands on the edges of life as a bystander is bound to give a shallow interpretation of what God is doing. It is only those who have faced the alternatives - to die or not to die - who are really involved.
"We would hear God's voice if we chose the Calvary way"
Prayer
My Father, I don't want to be a bystander. I want to be in the centre of all You are saying and all You are doing. Here's my cheque - signed with my own blood. Fill it in for everything You want from me. I do it willingly, gladly, happily. Amen.
Further study
Joshua 24:1-15
Psalm 119:30
Luke 10:42
Hebrews 11:25
1.What challenge did Joshua bring?
2. What was said of Moses?
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