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不见一人，只见耶稣
马太福音17: 1_8不见一人，只见耶稣
1过了六天，耶稣带着彼得、雅各和雅各的兄弟约翰暗暗地上了高山， 2 就在他们面前变了形象，脸面明亮如日头，衣裳洁白如光。 3 忽然，有摩西、以利亚向他们显现，同耶稣说话。 4 彼得对耶稣说：「主啊，我们在这里真好！你若愿意，我就在这里搭三座棚：一座为你，一座为摩西，一座为以利亚。」 5 说话之间，忽然有一朵光明的云彩遮盖他们，且有声音从云彩里出来说：「这是我的爱子，我所喜悦的，你们要听他！」 6 门徒听见，就俯伏在地，极其害怕。 7 耶稣进前来，摸他们说：「起来，不要害怕！」 8 他们举目不见一人，只见耶稣在那里。
有人说这段经文读起来像一次马拉松。摩西从远古的埃及跑来，以利亚在迦南地等著，一手往后，接了棒就往迦密山上跑，一直冲到黑门山，耶稣接了棒就跑去耶路撒冷了。神的永世蓝图就这样简单地呈现在世人的眼前。还有一幅画是义大利画家拉斐尔的耶稣变像图，也有类似的意境，这图和一般解经家的看法在地点上有点不同，一般认为耶稣带着门徒从该撒利比亚出来以后，最近的地方就是黑门山，而拉斐尔的作图则以他泊山为背景。但是不管背景是哪里，重要的是图里所呈现的意境和画家想要表达的意思。
解经王子摩根提到，在耶稣的生涯里有七个重要的关键时刻，就是降生、受洗、试探、变像、钉十字架、复活、升天。这七个关键时刻时都不容许有少微的差错，只要有一点点的疏忽，救世大功就会功亏一篑。
Disturbing the Peace So That Greater Peace Can Result
Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is 2 Kings 9:14-29. Let’s go!
2 Kings 9:22 (NIV)
22 When Joram saw Jehu he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?” “How can there be peace,” Jehu replied, “as long as all the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?”
On verses 14-29: These verses describe how Jehu assassinates Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah. Jehu travels from Ramoth Gilead to Jezreel where Joram king of Israel is nursing his wounds from battle and where Ahaziah king of Judah has gone to visit Joram (v14-16). When Joram’s guards spot Jehu approaching in his chariot, twice Joram sends a horseman to ask Jehu, “Do you come in peace?” and each time Jehu replies, “What do you have to do with peace?” Instead of reporting back to Joram, both of these horsemen decide to follow Jehu (v17-20) and Jehu continues driving “like a madman” in his chariot toward King Joram (v21).
耶稣的荣耀
马太福音16: 27_28耶稣的荣耀
27 人子要在祂父的荣耀里同著众使者降临，那时候祂要照各人的行为报应各人。28 我实在告诉你们：站在这里的，有人在没尝死味以前，必看见人子降临在祂的国里。
看过雨果的名著改编的《悲惨世界Les Misérables》，我心里有很大的震撼。在这部影片里，是爱和律法的交战。罗素‧克洛演警长贾维，代表律法；神父代表爱，因为神父没有把尚万强，一个刚被释放的囚犯的偷窃行为告诉贾维，尚万强因而有了重新做人的意愿。贾维好像步步逼迫耶稣的法利赛人，以律法之名不断想加罪于耶稣；而尚万强却因为耶稣的爱重新做人，并且重新认识自己。在影片的最后，因为尚万强放走了被革命党抓住的贾维，贾维因而无法下手射杀背着一个受伤的革命党逃跑的尚万强，贾维选择自杀。影片似乎想让观众觉得在爱和律法的交战中，爱得胜了，律法失败了。
我们都希望爱终于得胜，也希望永远活在爱中，不受律法的綑绑。但是耶稣却告诉我们，祂来是要成全律法，并不是要废掉律法。我们之所以讨厌律法，是因为人不明白神的爱；唯有在人做了父母之后，才知道律法原来就是爱，为了保护，为了让孩子走在正路上，一生蒙福。律法和爱原来并不冲突，只是需要有一定的成熟度才能明白两者之间的关系。
God Wants To Get You Alone
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Today’s passage is 2 Kings 9:1-13. Let’s go!
God Wants To Get You Alone + God Is Just + How Do You See The Lord’s Servants?
2 Kings 9:1-2 (NIV)
1 The prophet Elisha summoned a man from the company of the prophets and said to him, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take this flask of oil with you and go to Ramoth Gilead.
2 When you get there, look for Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi. Go to him, get him away from his companions and take him into an inner room.
On verses 1-6: Elisha sends one of his junior prophets to speak to Jehu and anoint him as the next king of Israel. Notice Elisha’s instructions to that junior prophet: “Go to him, get him away from his companions and take him into an inner room” (v2). When God wants to speak to you an intimate and personal word to you, He often wants to get you in private first.
人能拿什么换生命
马太福音16: 24_26人能拿什么换生命
24 于是，耶稣对门徒说：「若有人要跟从我，就当舍己，背起他的十字架来跟从我。 25 因为凡要救自己生命的，必丧掉生命；凡为我丧掉生命的，必得着生命。 26 人若赚得全世界，赔上自己的生命，有什么益处呢？人还能拿什么换生命呢？
有一个朋友说了一个见证。他在刚过十二岁生日不久后去看一场电影，买票时，他看到十二岁的价钱比十一岁的价钱贵了三毛钱。这当然是几十年前的事了。那时他起了一个念头，向收票员撒谎说他是十一岁。收票员连问都没问就让他进去了。回家后，他很得意地向父母炫耀省下了三毛钱的经过，他的父亲问了他一句话：「儿子，你会为了一毛钱出卖你的灵魂吗？」这句话一直留在他的心中，成为他成长时处事的一个警诫。
在今日的社会里，我们经常会碰到这样的挑战。当耶稣说，跟从祂的人当舍己，背起十字架来跟随祂时，这个十字架有时会以不同的形态出现在我们的生活里。
有一位曾在非洲传道的牧者说了一个故事，某天他在赶往开会的途中，看到有一个小男孩在路边嚎啕大哭。他觉得应该停下来帮助那个男孩，可是又想到开会必然迟到，于是继续往前到教堂。但是心里一直有声音催促他去找那个男孩，于是他找了一个朋友去把那个男孩带到教堂。
God Is At His Best Even When You’re At Your Worst
Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is 2 Kings 8:16-29. Let’s go!
2 Kings 8:16-18 (NIV)
16 In the fifth year of Joram son of Ahab king of Israel, when Jehoshaphat was king of Judah, Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat began his reign as king of Judah.
17 He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years.
18 He walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for he married a daughter of Ahab. He did evil in the eyes of the LORD.
On verses 16-18: Jehoram succeeds his father Jehoshaphat as the king of Judah. But instead of being a humble, wise, God-fearing king like his father Jehoshaphat was, Jehoram is said to have “walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done” (v18).
体贴神的意思
马太福音16: 21_23体贴神的意思
21 从此，耶稣才指示门徒，他必须上耶路撒冷去，受长老、祭司长、文士许多的苦，并且被杀，第三日复活。 22 彼得就拉着他，劝他说：「主啊，万不可如此！这事必不临到你身上。」 23 耶稣转过来，对彼得说：「撒旦，退我后边去吧！你是绊我脚的，因为你不体贴神的意思，只体贴人的意思。」
在耶稣和彼得短短的对话中，主耶稣给我们一个很明确的信息：主知道祂在做什么，祂要做什么，祂不需要我们的意见。祂只要我们跟祂一样，顺服神的旨意。
其次，莫小看主耶稣对彼得的责备。当主耶稣指出彼得不体贴神的意思，只体贴人的意思时，祂用的名词是：撒旦。
主耶稣是有备而来，在祂即将离世前，祂把门徒们带到该撒利亚腓利比。在那里，祂给了门徒一个毕业考。该撒利亚腓利比充满了偶像崇拜和世俗的污秽，道德的败坏。主耶稣也要我们看清楚自己身处的环境，也是和当年的该撒利亚腓利比一样，换汤不换药。
当我们置身在这样的社会里，我们能清楚地认识耶稣是谁吗？还是人云亦云？我为什么信耶稣？你又为什么信耶稣呢？我们能像彼得受感而说：「祢是基督，是永生神的儿子。」吗？假如现在有人问你为何信耶稣，你会怎样回答呢？我听过一些答案：信耶稣有平安，信耶稣有喜乐，耶稣会帮助我度过困难，帮我解决问题，等等。但是还没有听人回答：「因为祂是基督，是永生神的儿子。」
The King Has Spoken and You Are Restored
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Today’s passage is 2 Kings 8:1-15. Let’s go!
2 Kings 8:6 (NIV)
6 The king asked the woman about it, and she told him. Then he assigned an official to her case and said to him, “Give back everything that belonged to her, including all the income from her land from the day she left the country until now.”
On verses 1-6: Elisha the prophet tells the woman whose son he had raised back to life to move away from Israel for a time due to a severe famine that would hit Israel. After being away from Israel for 7 years, the woan returns to Israel, but by this time the government has taken over her land. Now the woman is at the mercy of the king, who has power to decide whether or not to give the land back to her. It just so happens that on the same day that the woman appears before the king to request that her land be restored to her, Gehazi the servant of Elisha had been telling the king about what Elisha had done for this woman. On this basis, the king speaks the word to restore the land to this woman, including all the income that her land had generated during her seven year absence.
Faith and Unbelief
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Today’s passage is 2 Kings 7:1-20. Let’s go!
2 Kings 7:3-4 (NIV)
3 Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate. They said to each other, “Why stay here until we die?
4 If we say, ‘We’ll go into the city’–the famine is there, and we will die. And if we stay here, we will die. So let’s go over to the camp of the Arameans and surrender. If they spare us, we live; if they kill us, then we die.”
On verses 1-20: In the middle of a siege and famine in Samaria where food resources are increasingly scarce and expensive, Elisha the prophet predicts that within 24 hours the finest flour and barley will be sold for extremely cheap. An officer of King Joram does not believe it. In response to the officer’s unbelief, Elisha states that this officer will see it with his own eyes but will not eat any of it (v2).
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