从迷惘到信靠
信仰的分水岭
经文
希伯来书十19-39
19弟兄们，我们既因耶稣的血得以坦然进入至圣所，
20是借着他给我们开了一条又新又活的路，从幔子经过，这幔子就是他的身体。
21又有一位大祭司治理神的家！
22并我们心中天良的亏欠已经洒去，身体用清水洗净了，就当存着诚心和充足的信心来到神面前；
23也要坚守我们所承认的指望，不至摇动，因为那应许我们的是信实的。
24又要彼此相顾，激发爱心，勉励行善。
25你们不可停止聚会，好像那些停止惯了的人，倒要彼此劝勉，既知道（原文是看见）那日子临近，就更当如此。
26因为我们得知真道以后，若故意犯罪，赎罪的祭就再没有了；
27惟有战惧等候审判和那烧灭众敌人的烈火。
28人干犯摩西的律法，凭两三个见证人，尚且不得怜恤而死，
29何况人践踏神的儿子，将那使他成圣之约的血当作平常，又亵慢施恩的圣灵，你们想，他要受的刑罚该怎样加重呢！
30因为我们知道谁说：伸冤在我，我必报应；又说：主要审判他的百姓。
31落在永生神的手里，真是可怕的！
32你们要追念往日，蒙了光照以后所忍受大争战的各样苦难：
33一面被毁谤，遭患难，成了戏景，叫众人观看；一面陪伴那些受这样苦难的人。
34因为你们体恤了那些被捆锁的人，并且你们的家业被人抢去，也甘心忍受，知道自己有更美长存的家业。
35所以，你们不可丢弃勇敢的心；存这样的心必得大赏赐。
36你们必须忍耐，使你们行完了神的旨意，就可以得着所应许的。
37因为还有一点点时候，那要来的就来，并不迟延；
38只是义人（有古卷：我的义人）必因信得生。他若退后，我心里就不喜欢他。
39我们却不是退后入沉沦的那等人，乃是有信心以致灵魂得救的人。
信息分享
今天我们要思想圣经里面其中一句最了不起的话──「惟义人因信得生」（哈二4）。新约多次引述过这句经文，而几乎所有基督徒对它都不陌生。一般信徒不大熟悉的倒是前面的经文：「迦勒底人自高自大，心不正直……」，如果我们忽略了第一句话，就会错过神向哈巴谷所说的话的真正意思，而如果把两句经文连起来一起读，你就会看到一幅图画的两面──完全不信的人以及充满信心的人。
你看到吗？我们在这个世上生活，只能够采取两种基本的态度：一种是有信心的态度，另一种是不信的态度。有一位解经家如此指出：「我们要不就是根据自己对神的信仰，以及从中所得的结论来看待生命；要不就是将我们自己的看法建立在拒绝神、否认神的基础上。」
这节经文显然是信仰的分水岭，或者有时被称为「大分界」，把所有人都分成两边。我们的生命若不是以信仰为基础，就是不以信仰为基础。因此，生命就变成是──我们接受神对宇宙的统治，或者不接受。那些拒绝神统治的人，无论他们发觉与否，都是在过着充满疑惑和恐惧的生活；而那些接受祂统治的人，却在过着平静的信心和信仰的生活。
「我们的生命若不是以信仰为基础──就是不以信仰为基础」
进深研究
路十七1-5；可九14-27；来十一6
1. 使徒有甚么要求？
2. 男孩的父亲有甚么要求？
祈祷
慈爱的天父，我明白无论我喜欢与否，我都要站在分水岭的其中一边。亲爱的天父，我要站在您那边，因为没有任何东西是在您的国度领域以外，特别是没有任何值得拥有的东西。阿们。
From Confusion to Confidence
The Great Divide
Bible reading:
Hebrews 10:19-39
19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,
20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body,
21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.
24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,
25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
26 If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left,
27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.
28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
29 How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him who said, "It is mine to avenge; I will repay,"[a] and again, "The Lord will judge his people."[b]
31 It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering.
33 Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated.
34 You suffered along with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions. 35 So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.
36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.
37 For, "In just a little while, he who is coming will come and will not delay."[c]
38 And, "But my righteous[d] one will live by faith. And I take no pleasure in the one who shrinks back."[e]
39 But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.
Message
We come today to one of the most wonderful statements in Scripture: "the just shall live by his faith" (Hab. 2:4, AV). The verse is quoted several times in the New Testament and is familiar to almost every Christian. What is not so familiar is the statement prior to it: "See, he is puffed up, his desires are not upright...". And if we fail to focus on that first statement, then we will miss the sense of what God is saying to Habakkuk. Join the two statements together and you will notice that they present two sides of a picture - the man who is full of unbelief and the man who is full of faith.
You see, there are only two basic attitudes we can adopt to life in this world - one is the attitude of faith, the other the attitude of unbelief. One commentator puts it like this: "Either we view our lives in terms of our belief in God and the conclusions we are entitled to draw from that, or our outlook is based upon a rejection of God and the corresponding denials."
It is quite clear that this verse is a Biblical watershed, or, as it is sometimes called, "a Great Divide", with every single person being on one side or the other. Our lives are either based on faith - or they are not. So this is what life comes down to: we accept the government of God in the universe or we do not. Those who reject His rule, whether they realise it or not, live lives that are shot through with doubt and fear. Those who receive His rule live lives of quiet confidence and faith.
"Our lives are either based on faith - or they are not"
Prayer
Gracious Father, I see that whether I like it or not, I have to stand on one side of this Great Divide. I stand on Your side, dear Father, for nothing lies outside the domain of Your Kingdom - at least, nothing worth having. Amen.
Further study
Luke 17:1-5
Mark 9:14-27
Hebrews 11:6
1. What was the apostles' request?
2. What was the request of the boy's father?
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