害怕死去的麦子
打雷了
经文
哥林多前书二1-16
1弟兄们，从前我到你们那里去，并没有用高言大智对你们宣传神的奥秘。
2因为我曾定了主意，在你们中间不知道别的，只知道耶稣基督并他钉十字架。
3我在你们那里，又软弱又惧怕，又甚战兢。
4我说的话、讲的道，不是用智慧委婉的言语，乃是用圣灵和大能的明证，
5叫你们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，我们也讲智慧。但不是这世上的智慧，也不是这世上有权有位、将要败亡之人的智慧。
7我们讲的，乃是从前所隐藏、神奥秘的智慧，就是神在万世以前预定使我们得荣耀的。
8这智慧世上有权有位的人没有一个知道的、他们若知道，就不把荣耀的主钉在十字架上了。
9如经上所记：神为爱他的人所预备的是眼睛未曾看见，耳朵未曾听见，人心也未曾想到的。
10只有神借着圣灵向我们显明了，因为圣灵参透万事，就是神深奥的事也参透了。
11除了在人里头的灵，谁知道人的事；像这样，除了神的灵，也没有人知道神的事。
12我们所领受的，并不是世上的灵，乃是从神来的灵，叫我们能知道神开恩赐给我们的事。
13并且我们讲说这些事，不是用人智慧所指教的言语，乃是用圣灵所指教的言语，将属灵的话解释属灵的事。（或作：将属灵的事讲与属灵的人）
14然而，属血气的人不领会神圣灵的事，反倒以为愚拙，并且不能知道，因为这些事惟有属灵的人才能看透。
15属灵的人能看透万事，却没有一人能看透了他。
16谁曾知道主的心去教导他呢？但我们是有基督的心了。
信息分享
我们这几天一直在讨论和思想耶稣接见希腊人的事件，今天，我们看看在这重要的事件中，我们的主以一句甚么说话来作结：「父啊，愿你荣耀你的名！」（约十二28）。这是何等美好的一刻！「父啊，不要在乎我所要付出的代价，只要荣耀你的名。」在那一刻，耶稣给天父一张空白的支票，上面是以祂自己的血签上了名字。我们生命中也可以有同样重要的时刻──就是我们将生命的空白支票交给神，并以我们自己的血签上名字，邀请神按我们所有的一切、和我们是谁来呼召我们的时候。
有人称这时刻为「伟大的降服」。如果是这样的话，在降服的一刻之后是一种伟大的宣告。约翰福音十二28说：「当时，就有声音从天上来，说：『我已经荣耀了我的名，还要再荣耀』」。耶稣作出最后回应的那一刻，天上发出了声音。我们很多人都抱怨自己活在沉默的天空下，其实如果我们选择加略山的道路，就会发现天上充满神的声音。
当然，旁观的人不明白真正发生的事情，「就说：『打雷了！』」（约十二29）。对他们来说，那比较像是大自然、非人的声音。另一些人则比较接近现实，说：「有天使对他说话。」对他们来说，那是超自然一点的声音，但仍然不是神的声音。是的，任何站在生命边缘作旁观者的人，都会对神所做的事作出肤浅的解释。只有那些愿意面对「死还是不死」的选择的人，才能真正活在当中。
「如果我们选择加略山的道路，就会听到神的声音」
进深研究
书二十四1-15；诗一一九30；路十42；来十一25
1. 约书亚带来甚么挑战？
2. 经文怎样讲说摩西？
祈祷
我的父神，我不要作旁观者，我要站在您所说和所做的一切的中心。这是一张以我的血签了名的支票，请您填下您所要从我身上得到的东西。我是如此乐意地、高兴地、快乐地献上。阿们。
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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