神的异象
不能改变也不能动摇
经文
希伯来书十三章1至16节
1你们务要常存弟兄相爱的心。
2不可忘记用爱心接待客旅;因为曾有接待客旅的,不知不觉就接待了天使。
3你们要记念被捆绑的人,好像与他们同受捆绑;也要记念遭苦害的人,想到自己也在肉身之内。
4婚姻,人人都当尊重,床也不可污秽;因为苟合行淫的人,神必要审判。
5你们存心不可贪爱钱财,要以自己所有的为足;因为主曾说:我总不撇下你,也不丢弃你。
6所以我们可以放胆说:主是帮助我的,我必不惧怕;人能把我怎么样呢?
7从前引导你们、传神之道给你们的人,你们要想念他们,效法他们的信心,留心看他们为人的结局。
8耶稣基督,昨日、今日、一直到永远、是一样的。
9你们不要被那诸般怪异的教训勾引了去;因为人心靠恩得坚固才是好的,并不是靠饮食。那在饮食上专心的从来没有得着益处。
10我们有一祭坛,上面的祭物是那些在帐幕中供职的人不可同吃的。
11原来牲畜的血被大祭司带入圣所作赎罪祭;牲畜的身子被烧在营外。
12所以,耶稣要用自己的血叫百姓成圣,也就在城门外受苦。
13这样,我们也当出到营外,就了他去,忍受他所受的凌辱。
14我们在这里本没有常存的城,乃是寻求那将来的城。
15我们应当靠着耶稣,常常以颂赞为祭献给神,这就是那承认主名之人嘴唇的果子。
16只是不可忘记行善和捐输的事;因为这样的祭,是神所喜悦的。
信息分享
昨天我们看到,每当神将我们脚下的支柱除去,都是为了使我们更安稳地倚赖祂。我们越快学会怎样以神作为我们的保障就越好,因为我们前面将要面对一些黑暗和艰难的日子。
当报章充满关于欧洲动乱以及俄罗斯大转变的那段日子,我打开圣经,读到这些话:「……我们既得了不能震动的国,就当感恩……」(来十二28)。这信息是多么的贴切!我们现在周围的各国都被震动,几乎一切都处于纷乱和改变阶段。我不是先知,但我相信将会有更多的国际动荡和改变要发生,而在这种时候,神希望祂的百姓向上仰望,因为祂仍然坐在宝座上。
除了神的国度以外,其他的国度都会动摇。它需要以武力来维持团结,一旦松开那武力,它便会瓦解,正如世界所看到的一样。金融的国度会动摇,股票市场每天随着发生的事情而波动。健康的国度也会动摇,医生说:「很不幸,你患上了不治之症!」一切都会动摇!但在变动的世界中我们必须肯定一点:基督徒属于一位不改变的主,祂的国度是不会动摇的。神容许人的国度动摇,为了让他们发现那不会动摇的国度──神的国度。
「除了神的国度以外,其他国度都会动摇」
进深研究
诗篇一零二27; 玛三6;来一10-12;雅一1-18
1. 耶和华宣告了甚么?
2. 雅各确定了甚么?
祈祷
天父,我明白我是属于一位不改变的主,一个不动摇的国度,这是多大的安慰啊!短暂的事件不能动摇我。在您里面,我能够应付一切。我永远都充满感恩。阿们。
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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