害怕死去的麦子
错误的喂养

经文
希伯来书十1-18
1律法既是将来美事的影儿,不是本物的真像,总不能借着每年常献一样的祭物叫那近前来的人得以完全。
2若不然,献祭的事岂不早已止住了吗?因为礼拜的人,良心既被洁净,就不再觉得有罪了。
3但这些祭物是叫人每年想起罪来;
4因为公牛和山羊的血,断不能除罪。
5所以基督到世上来的时候,就说:神阿,祭物和礼物是你不愿意的;你曾给我预备了身体。
6燔祭和赎罪祭是你不喜欢的。
7那时我说:神阿,我来了,为要照你的旨意行;我的事在经卷上已经记载了。
8以上说:祭物和礼物,燔祭和赎罪祭,是你不愿意的,也是你不喜欢的(这都是按着律法献的);
9后又说:我来了为要照你的旨意行;可见他是除去在先的,为要立定在后的。
10我们凭这旨意,靠耶稣基督,只一次献上他的身体,就得以成圣。
11凡祭司天天站着事奉神,屡次献上一样的祭物,这祭物永不能除罪。
12但基督献了一次永远的赎罪祭,就在神的右边坐下了。
13从此,等候他仇敌成了他的脚凳。
14因为他一次献祭,便叫那得以成圣的人永远完全。
15圣灵也对我们作见证;因为他既已说过:
16主说:那些日子以后,我与他们所立的约乃是这样:我要将我的律法写在他们心上,又要放在他们的里面。
17以后就说:我不再记念他们的罪愆和他们的过犯。
18这些罪过既已赦免,就不用再为罪献祭了。
信息分享
今天我们要从一个稍为不同的角度来继续思考基督在旷野遇到的试探。我们看到这试探的目的是阻止祂与人的众子认同。昨天我们看到祂怎样从人中退出,以便把自己献给人。问题不在于祂是否神的儿子,这一点祂在受洗时已清楚地获得肯定;祂所面对的问题是:既身为神子,是否也是人子。
当耶稣禁食结束时,祂预备给软弱的身体进食,但试探者就来试探祂,要祂将旷野的石头变成食物。撒但也许对耶稣说:「为甚么要回到人群那里去呢?就留在这儿给自己食物吧。你是神的儿子,那不是已经很足够了吗」?我们虽然不能肯定这是撒但的意思,但是可能性相当高。
我们在做任何属灵工作时都会遇到试探,叫我们退缩的,以自己方法来喂养自己,并为了我们是神的儿女而得意忘形。历代以来都有很多基督徒在这方面跌倒,他们选择了「逃避的心态」,试图借着躲开来使自己不用经历十字架的死亡。不过我们必须牢牢的记住一个要点:我们也会遇到类似的、避免向自我生命死去的试探,以为自己既然已是神的儿女,就不再需要承受任何羞辱或痛苦。
「提防逃避的心态」
进深研究
弗一1-23;创三15;约十六33;约壹三8
1. 耶稣怎样破坏魔鬼的工作?
2. 我们可以如何胜过魔鬼的工作?
祈祷
慈爱的天父,求您帮助我,就好像帮助您的儿子一样,抵挡一切阻止我背起十字架的试探。求您与我同在,让我能够一无所惧。阿们。
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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