爱成全了律法
出埃及记二十章1至17节
1神吩咐这一切的话说：
2我是耶和华─你的神，曾将你从埃及地为奴之家领出来。
3除了我以外，你不可有别的神。
4不可为自己雕刻偶像，也不可做甚么形像仿佛上天、下地，和地底下、水中的百物。
5不可跪拜那些像，也不可事奉他，因为我耶和华─你的神是忌邪的神。恨我的，我必追讨他的罪，自父及子，直到三四代；
6爱我、守我诫命的，我必向他们发慈爱，直到千代。
7不可妄称耶和华─你神的名；因为妄称耶和华名的，耶和华必不以他为无罪。
8当记念安息日，守为圣日。
9六日要劳碌做你一切的工，
10但第七日是向耶和华─你神当守的安息日。这一日你和你的儿女、仆婢、牲畜，并你城里寄居的客旅，无论何工都不可做；
11因为六日之内，耶和华造天、地、海，和其中的万物，第七日便安息，所以耶和华赐福与安息日，定为圣日。
12当孝敬父母，使你的日子在耶和华─你神所赐你的地上得以长久。
13不可杀人。
14不可奸淫。
15不可偷盗。
16不可作假见证陷害人。
17不可贪恋人的房屋；也不可贪恋人的妻子、仆婢、牛驴，并他一切所有的。
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神吩咐以色列民遵守的其他所有律法，都是建基于十诫之上。然而，除了耶稣基督之外，再没有人能够完全地守住律法。
我们不能谨守神的律法，本该受到神的惩罚；可是，基督却替代我们受罚，甚至死在十字架上。因此，我们今天之所以得着神的救恩，完全是因为信靠基督，而绝非因为能守住律法。
有趣的是，十诫的其中九条，都在新约的书信中被重申，只有守安息日那条律法没有提及。这条律法是神与犹太人立约的一部分。今天的信徒，通常在每周的第一日，即基督从死里复活的星期日，一起聚集去敬拜神。
我们今天仍然恪守这九条诫命，完全是出于我们对神的爱。爱促使我们去成全神的律法；换句话说，我们遵行十诫，绝非是因为被逼，而是为了爱神和爱人（参罗马书十三章8-10节）。
举例说，你如果真的爱神，你怎会再拜其他偶像？你如果爱慕神的名，当然不会用祂的名来起誓或亵渎祂的名。你如果爱神，就自自然然会爱你的父母及邻舍。你的心若充满对神的爱，以及对神所赐的配偶充满爱，就绝不会做出淫乱的事。你的心若因着神的爱而满足，又怎会贪婪别人的财物？爱完成了律法，并非是基于责任，而是因为爱自然驱使我们去服从。
我们又怎能让自己的心充满爱呢？我们未必能够爱每一个人，但耶稣基督却能够。我们只要让基督住在我们心里，我们的心就自然充满了爱；爱的力量必激发我们去遵守神的诫命，过讨神喜悦的生活。
祷告：
主啊，求你住在我心里，让你的爱充满我的心，以致这爱能流溢到别人的生命中。
LOVE, THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW
Exodus 20:1-17
1 And God spoke all these words, saying:
2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;
5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them.For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
7 “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
8 “ Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God.In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.
11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day.Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
12 “ Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.
13 “You shall not murder.
14 “You shall not commit adultery.
15 “You shall not steal.
16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
Message
These Ten Commandments are the basis or foundation of all the other laws given by God to the Children of Israel. No one was ever able to keep them perfectly (except our Lord Jesus) and no one can today.
When Christ died, he paid the penalty which was on us for breaking God's laws. We have salvation today through Christ and not through trying to keep the law.
It is interesting however to see that nine out of ten of these laws are repeated in the New Testament epistles. The one which is repeated concerns the Sabbath. That was part of God's agreement with the Jews. Today we worship on Sunday, the first day of the week, the day on which Christ rose from the dead.
However, there are many of these nine points which we do keep today simply because we love God. Love fulfils God's law, not because it is forced to do so but because it wants to do these things (see Romans 13:8-10).
For example if you really love God, will you want any other god? If you love God's name, you won't use it in swearing or blasphemy. If you love God, you will surely find it easy to love your parents and your neighbours. You will never commit adultery, if your heart is filled with love for God and for the partner he has given you. You will never covet what other people have, if your heart is satisfied with love for God. Love fulfils the law, not because it has to, but because it is the nature of love to obey.
How can our hearts be filled with love? I can't love people like I should, but Jesus Christ can. If I let him live his life through me, it will be a life of love that pleases God and fulfils all his commandments.
A PRAYER:
Love this world through me, Lord.