害怕死去的麦子
神圣的目标

经文
腓立比书三1-14
1弟兄们,我还有话说,你们要靠主喜乐。我把这话再写给你们,于我并不为难,于你们却是妥当。
2应当防备犬类,防备作恶的,防备妄自行割的。
3因为真受割礼的,乃是我们这以神的灵敬拜、在基督耶稣里夸口、不靠着肉体的。
4其实,我也可以靠肉体;若是别人想他可以靠肉体,我更可以靠着了。
5我第八天受割礼;我是以色列族、便雅悯支派的人,是希伯来人所生的希伯来人。就律法说,我是法利赛人;
6就热心说,我是逼迫教会的;就律法上的义说,我是无可指摘的。
7只是我先前以为与我有益的,我现在因基督都当作有损的。
8不但如此,我也将万事当作有损的,因我以认识我主基督耶稣为至宝。我为他已经丢弃万事,看作粪土,为要得着基督;
9并且得以在他里面,不是有自己因律法而得的义,乃是有信基督的义,就是因信神而来的义,
10使我认识基督,晓得他复活的大能,并且晓得和他一同受苦,效法他的死,
11或者我也得以从死里复活。
12这不是说我已经得着了,已经完全了;我乃是竭力追求,或者可以得着基督耶稣所以得着我的(或作:所要我得的)。
13弟兄们,我不是以为自己已经得着了;我只有一件事,就是忘记背后,努力面前的,
14向着标竿直跑,要得神在基督耶稣里从上面召我来得的奖赏。
信息分享
如果第一个试探的目的是阻止主基督回去成为人子的话,那么第二个试探看来是为了要令祂对人采取不同的态度。魔鬼也许这样对祂说:「如果你必须回去的话,那就不要继续采用你原来的态度。不要与人站在一起,要站在圣殿的顶上,接受敬拜、荣耀和敬重。你的位置应该是高高在上,不要走到下面那些可怜的群众当中」。其实你也会遇到类似的试探。撒但会说:「不要理会所有这些有关下去死亡的话,尽管停留在上面以避开那些痛苦。你可以下去帮助他们,但必须让天使领你回到崇高的位置上去。」
然后是第三个狡猾的试探,这个试探的意思似乎是:「如果你决意要成为人子,与群众一起,那么就用人的方法俯伏敬拜我。既然你要好像他们一样,那么各方面都应该像他们,你要跟那些服从我的人采取相同的态度。」
耶稣拒绝了撒但。祂会成为人子,会承受人所遇到的一切。但不同的是,祂只会以神圣的方法去达到神圣的目的、完成祂在天上的父神的旨意。因此,祂毅然走上那最终会把祂带上十字架的道路。没有任何试探可以令祂偏离这路,同样的,也没有任何试探能够使你和我偏离正路。
「耶稣会以神圣的方法去完成神的旨意」
进深研究
诗三十七1-40;赛十二2;路十二29
1. 诗篇三十七篇有哪七个信靠的步骤?
2. 信靠有哪五个结果?
祈祷
天父,求您帮助我以耶稣对待试探的方式来面对试探,使我更懂得遵行您的旨意。感谢您,因为您对我的考验不是要找到我的弱点,而是要促使我前进。求您帮助我每一次都能够得胜。阿们。
The Corn of Wheat Afraid to Die
The divine end

Bible reading:
Philippians 3:1-14
1 Further, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.
2 Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh.
3 For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—
4 though I myself have reasons for such confidence. If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more:
5 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee;
6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.
7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.
8 What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ
9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in[a] Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.
10 I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
11 and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.
12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Message
If the first temptation contained elements designed to prevent Christ from returning to humanity as the Son of Man, then the second temptation might be seen as an attempt to get Him to take a different attitude to men. Was the devil saying: "If you must go back, then do not take the attitude You took when You began. Don't stand alongside man, but stand on the pinnacle of the Temple. Be worshipped, be honoured and respected. Your place is up there, not down among those wretched multitudes"? A similar temptation will come to you, too. Satan will say: "Stay above all this talk of going down into death; escape the pain by remaining above it. You can descend to help men and women, but then let the angels carry you back to your exalted position."
Then came the subtle third temptation, which seemed to suggest this: "If You are determined to be the Son of Man and to be one with men, then adopt humanity's methods - fall down and worship me. If You are going to be like them, be like them in everything, and take a similar attitude to those who obey me."
Jesus refused this way too. He would be the Son of Man and let everything that falls on men fall on Him. But there would be this difference - He would reach the divine end only by means of the divine method, and by doing the will of His Father in heaven. At that point, He put His feet upon the way that He knew would lead ultimately to the cross. No temptation would divert Him from that. And no temptation must divert you and me either.
"Jesus would reach the divine end by the divine method"
Prayer
O Father, help me to do with temptation what Jesus did with it - to use it to reinforce my readiness to do Your will. I am so thankful that Your tests are not meant to catch me out, but to spur me on. Help me to meet every test - triumphantly. Amen.
Further study
Psalm 37:1-40
Isaiah 12:2
Luke 12:29
1.What 7 steps of trusting are in Psalm 37?
2. What are the 5 results of trusting?
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