耶利米书2:3a 那时以色列归耶和华为圣，作为土产初熟的果子，凡吞吃他的必算为有罪，灾祸必临到他们。
阅读经文：2:1-3
1耶和华的话临到我说： 2 「你去向耶路撒冷人的耳中喊叫说：『耶和华如此说：你幼年的恩爱，婚姻的爱情，你怎样在旷野，在未曾耕种之地跟随我，我都记得。 3 那时以色列归耶和华为圣，作为土产初熟的果子，凡吞吃他的必算为有罪，灾祸必临到他们。』这是耶和华说的。」
这是神给耶利米的第一个信息中的一部份。神没有以严厉的指责开始，而是希望以色列人回想起初的情形，而能够回转归向神。起初的爱是非常宝贵而单纯的，你记得当年和妻子或丈夫初见面的情形，怎样开始交往的经过吗？
在〈启示录〉第二章里，神赞美以弗所教会：“我知道你的行为、劳碌、忍耐，也知道你不能容忍恶人。你也曾试验那自称为使徒却不是使徒的，看出他们是假的来。你也能忍耐，曾为我的名劳苦，并不乏倦。你恨恶尼哥拉一党人的行为，这也是我所恨恶的。”但是神责备她：“然而，有一件事我要责备你，就是你把起初的爱心离弃了。”以弗所教会有各样的好处，却失去了起初的爱心，这有什么关系吗？
Hi GAMErs!
Today’s passage is Galatians 5:13-18. Let’s go!
Galatians 5:13-18 (NIV)
13 You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love.
14 The entire law is summed up in a single command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
15 If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.
16 So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.
17 For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want.
18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.
On verses 13-18: We must choose what we will do with the freedom Jesus has given us. Either we can choose to indulge the sinful nature (also called our flesh) or we can choose to love (v13). Here Paul identifies the struggle that every Christian experiences, the struggle between doing what is loving, just and honourable and doing what pleases our sinful nature (also called our flesh). This struggle between the Spirit and the flesh is an ongoing one in every Christian’s heart and mind (v17).
耶利米书1:19 他们要攻击你，却不能胜你，因为我与你同在，要拯救你。」这是耶和华说的。
阅读经文：1:11-19
11 耶和华的话又临到我说：「耶利米，你看见什么？」我说：「我看见一根杏树枝。」 12 耶和华对我说：「你看得不错，因为我留意保守我的话，使得成就。」
13 耶和华的话第二次临到我说：「你看见什么？」我说：「我看见一个烧开的锅，从北而倾。」 14 耶和华对我说：「必有灾祸从北方发出，临到这地的一切居民。」 15 耶和华说：「看哪，我要召北方列国的众族。他们要来，各安座位在耶路撒冷的城门口，周围攻击城墙，又要攻击犹大的一切城邑。 16 至于这民的一切恶，就是离弃我，向别神烧香，跪拜自己手所造的，我要发出我的判语，攻击他们。
约西亚王八岁登基，圣经的作者记载他行耶华眼中看为正的事。当约西亚十六岁时，他开始寻求大卫的神；廿岁时（约西亚第12年）开始除去犹大国里的偶像。约西亚第13年，神呼召耶利米作先知；约西亚王26岁（约西亚第18年）时，他的改革工作到达巅峰。
虽然如此，但是上有政策下有对策。约西亚的改革只获得了表面的成功，百姓们虚与委蛇，并没有真正的悔改，依然在私底下拜偶像。神兴起耶利米就是要让百姓知道，神看中的是属灵的实际，切实的悔改，而不是应付王的表面工作。
Hi GAMErs!
Today’s passage is Galatians 5:1-12. Let’s go!
Galatians 5:1-2 (NIV)
1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
2 Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.
On verses 1-2: Throughout his letter to the Galatians, Paul has been making this point to the Galatian Christians: you used to be slaves to the idea that you need to work for your righteousness, but now Jesus has set you free from that slavery, giving you a righteousness that is not earned by your works but received by faith in God’s promise. Here in verse 1 Paul reminds the Christians in Galatia why Christ set them free in the first place: so that they could stay free (v1). What is the point of Christ setting us free if we choose to go back to being enslaved again? Yet by trying to add circumcision as a pre-condition to being fully accepted by God, the believers in Galatia were going back to a “works by righteousness” slavery and in so doing, treating Christ as if he is “of no value to you at all” (v2).
耶利米书1:5 我未将你造在腹中，我已晓得你；你未出母胎，我已分别你为圣。我已派你做列国的先知。
阅读经文：1:4-10
4 耶利米说：耶和华的话临到我说： 5 「我未将你造在腹中，我已晓得你；你未出母胎，我已分别你为圣。我已派你做列国的先知。」 6 我就说：「主耶和华啊！我不知怎样说，因为我是年幼的。」 7 耶和华对我说：「你不要说『我是年幼的』，因为我差遣你到谁那里去，你都要去，我吩咐你说什么话，你都要说。
在〈诗篇〉139篇，大卫王说：“我的肺腑是祢所造的，我在母腹中，祢已覆庇我。 我要称谢祢，因我受造奇妙可畏；祢的作为奇妙，这是我心深知道的。我在暗中受造，在地的深处被联络，那时我的形体并不向祢隐藏。 我未成形的体质，祢的眼早已看见了；祢所定的日子，我尚未度一日，祢都写在祢的册上了”（13-16节）。而神对耶利米说：“我未将你造在腹中，我已晓得你；你未出母胎，我已分别你为圣。”这两处的经文让我们明白，神和我们的关系何等密切。祂是造我们的神，祂认识我们，对我们的人生都有特别的计划。
约西亚王在位的第十三年，耶和华的话语临到耶利米，使他作神的先知。那时他回应神：“我是年幼的。”年幼不是孩童的意思，这词的希伯来文是拿阿（naar），是指一个在社会中尚无地位之人，特别是还未结婚的年轻人，可能是在16-20岁之间，由此推断他是在玛拿西王统治的末期出生的。
Hi GAMErs!
Today’s passage is Galatians 4:21-31. Let’s go!
Galatians 4:21-31 (NIV)
21 Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says?
22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
23 His son by the slave woman was born in the ordinary way; but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a promise.
On verses 21-31: What is Paul talking about in Galatians 4:21-31? Remember that Paul is writing to people who think that in order to be justified (that is, in order for God to see you as blameless and worthy to have a relationship with Him), it’s not enough to believe in Jesus; it also depends on how well you obey the Jewish law. So the goal of Paul’s entire letter to the Galatians is to show that we are not justified by our efforts to obey God’s law; rather we are justified by faith in Christ’s power to save us and to forgive our sins. We need to seek justification by faith, not justification by our works.
耶利米书1:2 犹大王亚们的儿子约西亚在位十三年，耶和华的话临到耶利米。
阅读经文：1:1-3
1便雅悯地亚拿突城的祭司中，希勒家的儿子耶利米的话记在下面。 2 犹大王亚们的儿子约西亚在位十三年，耶和华的话临到耶利米。 3 从犹大王约西亚的儿子约雅敬在位的时候，直到犹大王约西亚的儿子西底家在位的末年，就是十一年五月间耶路撒冷人被掳的时候，耶和华的话也常临到耶利米。
你可曾对生活的环境不满意？对政局感到极大的无奈和愤怒？对工作感到沮丧，因社会对你的歧视和排斥而时常悲哀？你的人生里是否一片灰色和阴影？当你以为跟随主的人生必然有所不同时，在教会或事奉的环境里，却感受到更多的失望和痛苦？在《圣经》里，神把祂的一位先知放在这样的境遇里，让我们知道，神全然明白我们的处境。但也就是在这样的黑暗里，这位先知说出了一句名言：“祢信实何广大！”这位先知就是耶利米。
耶利米先知又被称为“流泪的先知”，表明他一生绝大部份的时间在痛苦的泪水中度过。神却让他的眼泪化为一颗颗闪亮的钻石，在黑暗的世道里发光，带领后人继续去体会神的信实；在全然败坏的光景里看见神要给人的，那不能抹灭的希望。现在让我们先来认识一件这位伟大先知的一些背景。
以赛亚书66:22 耶和华说：我所要造的新天新地怎样在我面前长存，你们的后裔和你们的名字也必照样长存。
阅读经文：66:18-24
18 「我知道他们的行为和他们的意念。时候将到，我必将万民万族[a]聚来，看见我的荣耀。 19 我要显神蹟在他们中间，逃脱的，我要差到列国去，就是到他施、普勒、拉弓的路德和土巴、雅完，并素来没有听见我名声，没有看见我荣耀辽远的海岛。他们必将我的荣耀传扬在列国中。
本段信息一开始，上帝以「我知道他们的行为和他们的意念」来宣示祂的全知。这一句宣示，乃是针对66:17当中所述的那些隐藏的拜偶像者所发出的回应，指出人一切偏差的行为与意念，都逃不过上帝的法眼。上帝要将一切虚假的恶人完全除去，而却要「将万民万族聚来看见我的荣耀，我要显神蹟」。这乃是一段的预言，其中所揭开的奥祕，乃是指耶稣基督将要在十字架上被举起来，就要吸引万人来归向祂所说的。神聚集万民万族，不再利用旗帜的号召（例如兴起亚述、巴比伦、波斯等国成为惩罚悖逆百姓的工具），而是利用祂牺牲的爱。
当一切的恶人（假信徒）都被除去之后，接着先知引导我们看到几幅美好的景象，先知说这完全是出于耶和华神的作为（66:18）。
Hi GAMErs!
Today’s passage is Galatians 4:12-20. Let’s go!
Galatians 4:12-20 (NIV)
12 I plead with you, brothers, become like me, for I became like you. You have done me no wrong.
13 As you know, it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.
14 Even though my illness was a trial to you, you did not treat me with contempt or scorn. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus himself.
15 What has happened to all your joy? I can testify that, if you could have done so, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.
16 Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
On verses 12-20: In Galatians 4:12-20 we see an emotional and passionate Paul writing to the churches he helped to build in Galatia. Using very emotional language, Paul describes the roller coaster of emotions he experienced with his churches in Galatia:
– the joy and comfort Paul felt at first when, because of an illness, Paul got to preach the gospel to them and was taken care of by them (v12-15);
– the heartbreak Paul felt when these same Christians scorned him and distanced themselves from him because they became infatuated with another group who convinced them that Paul’s gospel was wrong and that their circumcision-based “gospel” was correct (v16-17);
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