害怕死去的麥子
錯誤的餵養

經文
希伯來書十1-18
1律法既是將來美事的影兒,不是本物的真像,總不能藉著每年常獻一樣的祭物叫那近前來的人得以完全。
2若不然,獻祭的事豈不早已止住了嗎?因為禮拜的人,良心既被潔淨,就不再覺得有罪了。
3但這些祭物是叫人每年想起罪來;
4因為公牛和山羊的血,斷不能除罪。
5所以基督到世上來的時候,就說:神阿,祭物和禮物是你不願意的;你曾給我預備了身體。
6燔祭和贖罪祭是你不喜歡的。
7那時我說:神阿,我來了,為要照你的旨意行;我的事在經卷上已經記載了。
8以上說:祭物和禮物,燔祭和贖罪祭,是你不願意的,也是你不喜歡的(這都是按著律法獻的);
9後又說:我來了為要照你的旨意行;可見他是除去在先的,為要立定在後的。
10我們憑這旨意,靠耶穌基督,只一次獻上他的身體,就得以成聖。
11凡祭司天天站著事奉神,屢次獻上一樣的祭物,這祭物永不能除罪。
12但基督獻了一次永遠的贖罪祭,就在神的右邊坐下了。
13從此,等候他仇敵成了他的腳凳。
14因為他一次獻祭,便叫那得以成聖的人永遠完全。
15聖靈也對我們作見證;因為他既已說過:
16主說:那些日子以後,我與他們所立的約乃是這樣:我要將我的律法寫在他們心上,又要放在他們的裡面。
17以後就說:我不再記念他們的罪愆和他們的過犯。
18這些罪過既已赦免,就不用再為罪獻祭了。
信息分享
今天我們要從一個稍為不同的角度來繼續思考基督在曠野遇到的試探。我們看到這試探的目的是阻止祂與人的眾子認同。昨天我們看到祂怎樣從人中退出,以便把自己獻給人。問題不在於祂是否神的兒子,這一點祂在受洗時已清楚地獲得肯定;祂所面對的問題是:既身為神子,是否也是人子。
當耶穌禁食結束時,祂預備給軟弱的身體進食,但試探者就來試探祂,要祂將曠野的石頭變成食物。撒但也許對耶穌說:「為甚麼要回到人群那裡去呢?就留在這兒給自己食物吧。你是神的兒子,那不是已經很足夠了嗎」?我們雖然不能肯定這是撒但的意思,但是可能性相當高。
我們在做任何屬靈工作時都會遇到試探,叫我們退縮的,以自己方法來餵養自己,並為了我們是神的兒女而得意忘形。歷代以來都有很多基督徒在這方面跌倒,他們選擇了「逃避的心態」,試圖藉著躲開來使自己不用經歷十字架的死亡。不過我們必須牢牢的記住一個要點:我們也會遇到類似的、避免向自我生命死去的試探,以為自己既然已是神的兒女,就不再需要承受任何羞辱或痛苦。
「提防逃避的心態」
進深研究
弗一1-23;創三15;約十六33;約壹三8
1. 耶穌怎樣破壞魔鬼的工作?
2. 我們可以如何勝過魔鬼的工作?
祈禱
慈愛的天父,求您幫助我,就好像幫助您的兒子一樣,抵擋一切阻止我背起十字架的試探。求您與我同在,讓我能夠一無所懼。阿們。
The Corn of Wheat Afraid to Die
Feeding on the wrong bread

Bible reading:
Hebrews 10:1-18
1 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
2 Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins.
3 But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins.
4 It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me;
6 with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased.
7 Then I said, 'Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll—I have come to do your will, my God.'"[a]
8 First he said, "Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them"—though they were offered in accordance with the law.
9 Then he said, "Here I am, I have come to do your will." He sets aside the first to establish the second.
10 And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
12 But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,
13 and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool.
14 For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.
15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says:
16 "This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds."[b]
17 Then he adds: "Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more."[c]
18 And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary.
Message
We continue looking at Christ's temptation in the desert, but from a slightly different perspective. We are seeing how the temptation was designed to keep Him from identifying Himself with the sons of men. We saw yesterday how, He withdrew from men in order that He might give Himself to men. The issue was not so much whether He was the Son of God - He had heard that confirmed quite clearly at His baptism - but whether, being the Son of God, He would also be the Son of Man.
Once Jesus feels that His period of fasting is over, He prepares to return to feed His weakened body, but the tempter intervenes and tempts Him to turn the stones of the desert into bread. In doing this, is he really saying to Jesus: "Why go back to men? Stay here and feed Yourself. You are the Son of God, isn't that enough"? We cannot be sure, of course, but seen in this light, it is a possibility.
In all spiritual work, there is always the temptation to withdraw, to feed ourselves apart, to rejoice in the fact that we are sons of God and feast upon it. Many Christians down the ages have fallen for this, and have opted for an "escape mentality" in which they attempt to avoid the issue of death via a cross by isolating themselves from it. Mark this and mark it well: a similar temptation will come to you - the temptation to avoid the challenge of going down into the death of your self-life, by focusing on the fact that you are already a son of God, and that there is no need for any further humiliation or pain.
"Beware of the escape mentality"
Prayer
Gracious and loving heavenly Father, help me, as You did Your Son, to resist every temptation that tries to keep me from coming to grips with my own personal Calvary. Abide with me, and then I can abide with anything. Amen.
Further study
Ephesians 1:1-23
Genesis 3:15
John 16:33
1 John 3:8
1.How did Jesus destroy the devil's works?
2. How can we overcome the devil's works?
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