〈約書亞記〉 23:10你們一人必追趕千人，因耶和華你們的神照祂所應許的，為你們爭戰。
閱讀經文：〈約書亞記〉 23:1-16
人的肉體總有一老和一死，但是像摩西和約書亞這樣，可以做完神託咐的工作，安然去見主，是何等有福啊！人老了，身體逐漸衰落，便知道神給自己在世上的時間已經快要結束了。人生有限，神給每個人在世上的日子都是可以數算的，因此我們當求神給我們智慧的心去過世上的歲月。
當約書亞年紀老邁，便召集眾人做最後的交代時，他講了一件很重要的事，他提醒以色列人：「那為你們爭戰的是耶和華你們的神」，這位神不只是要帶領約書亞，也將帶領以色列人面對將來的戰事，只要他們願意好好跟隨祂。約書亞沒有說他自己很厲害，而是說這位神才是帶領爭戰的，所以不要因為他的離開而難過；因為每一個人都可以被取代，唯有神不能被取代。
1 Kings 18:40 (NIV) reads, “Elijah commanded them, ‘Seize the prophets of Baal. Don’t let anyone get away!’ They seized them, and Elijah had them…slaughtered there.”
This moment does not sit well in our modern, westernized mindset. Elijah, a man of God, brandishing a sword and executing several hundred men? Except for the fact that these weren’t just men; they were disciples of the devil. They were demonic in their devotion to the cause of hell, all in the name of God.
In the final days, as recorded in Revelation 20:3 (NKJV), God will “cast him [Satan] into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him so that he should deceive the nations no more.”
〈約書亞記〉 22:34 流便人、迦得人給壇起名叫證壇，意思說：「這壇在我們中間證明耶和華是神。」
閱讀經文：〈約書亞記〉 22:1-34
很奇妙的，當我們偏離神的話語時，我們很自然就會有不安全感，因而想盡辦法要討神的祝福。例如，藉著功德或清修等等，希望得到神的悅納，卻總是覺得無法完全。選了河東之地的以色列人就有這樣的不安全感。他們看中了那塊可以蓄牧的美麗草場，可是心裡卻明白，那不是神應許的迦南地，還隔了一條河。雖然很近，但還是差了一點點。當你想要用自己的方法去尋求神的祝福時，你就要小心省察自己了。
Elijah challenged the prophets of Baal to a duel on Mt. Carmel. He dared them to call on Baal to send fire. From morning to evening they cried. Satan had no response. With the prophets of Baal exhausted and defeated, Elijah “repaired the altar of the Lord” (1 Kings 18:30 NASB).
Twelve stones symbolizing the twelve tribes of Israel. They saturated the altar with water three times so that everything was soaked. Then Elijah prayed. He didn’t even request fire. But the Lord sent it. A blaze from heaven consumed the water, the rocks, the wood, even the dust. For the first time in three generations, the nation of Israel cried to Jehovah, “The Lord, He is God!” (1 Kings 18:39 NASB).
Is it time for our generation to rebuild the altar?
〈約書亞記〉 21:45 耶和華應許賜福給以色列家的話一句也沒有落空，都應驗了。
閱讀經文：〈約書亞記〉 21:1-45
事奉神的人得不到地上的基業，你覺得合情合理嗎？你還敢事奉神嗎？在卅幾年前，溫哥華刮起了傳銷之風，我們也被捲進去了。那時大家都有一個夢，好像再過幾年都可以變成百萬富翁了。但是逐漸地，我發現當自己的心思和時間都花在組織聚會和推銷貨品時，那種感覺就好像用生命去換錢。我問自己值不值得？答案是不值得。世界上的錢可以賺，但是若要用生命的時間去換，值得嗎？事奉神雖然賺不到什麼錢，但是神是我們的供應，賺到靈魂的喜樂，讓人感到付出一生的光陰都值得。那種心靈的滿足是沒有什麼物質可以替換的。物質和享受都會成為過去，但是神同在的滿足卻一生一世都不會消失。
On the second day of the D-Day invasion, Leon was taken captive by the Nazis. While being marched to a POW camp, he and another soldier escaped. A farmer found them and put them in touch with the French underground. They took his US credentials and created a French ID card for him.
He made it back to the Allied camp. Yet with no American ID, he was suspected of being a spy. He rolled up his sleeve and said, “Would this prove I’m an American?” It was a tattoo of an eagle, and on its breast was an American flag with the word Mother written across it. That convinced them.
Sound familiar? God says, “See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands” (Isaiah 49:16 NIV). Satan is vicious, but he will not be victorious. Why? Your name is tattooed on God’s hand.
The devil knows your name. He has a wrecking ball with your name on it. As General Eisenhower wrote to US troops on the eve of the great D-Day invasion, “Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely.”
But the steadfast soul does not fear Satan. Elijah didn’t. Elijah entered Scriptures talking about the living God. He served and obeyed the living God. He sought the living God. And because he did, the 850+ prophets of Baal meant nothing to him. The equation is never 850 to 1. It is 850 to 1 plus God.
F. B. Meyer said, “God will never fail the man who trusts him utterly….Be sure that you are on God’s plan, then go forward in God’s name.”
〈約書亞記〉 20:3 使那無心而誤殺人的可以逃到那裡。這些城可以做你們逃避報血仇人的地方。
閱讀經文: 〈約書亞記〉 20:1-9
逃城，顧名思義，便是一個暫時可以躲藏起來的地方。你有沒有過想逃的感覺呢？當你做錯事被發現的時候，會不會想逃呢？在一些車禍現場，肇事者往往逃逸現場。但是現在許多人有行車記錄儀，就正好把肇事者的車牌號記了下來，令他不得不面對自己的罪行。台灣曾有個新聞頭條，復興航空七個月內接連在澎湖和台北發生空難，共釀成92人死亡，罹難者屍骨未寒，賠償善後也尚未和解。復航董事長林明昇卻開著保時捷跑車於山區飆車，甚至在彎道跨越雙黃線超車，逼得對向大型重型機車騎士無處可躲，被迫撞山壁受傷送醫，林視人命如草芥，未停車察看就肇事逃逸。好像這樣的例子，林可否躲到逃城逃避責任呢？
〈約書亞記〉 19:49 以色列人按著境界分完了地業，就在他們中間將地給嫩的兒子約書亞為業。
閱讀經文：〈約書亞記〉 19:1-51
〈約書亞記〉 18-20章依次記載了以色列人拈鬮把土地分給便雅憫支派、西緬支派、西布倫支派、以薩迦支派、亞設支派、拿弗他利支派、但支派等七個支派，他們就都得了迦南地為業。他們的地大都在以色列的北邊，圍繞著加利利海，這些地區有何特色呢？
在〈列王記〉上第九章記載：「推羅王希蘭曾照所羅門所要的，資助他香柏木、松木和金子，所羅門王就把加利利地的二十座城給了希蘭。」但是推羅王看了這廿座城後，有何反應，你知道嗎？他嗤之以鼻，對所羅門王說：「我兄啊，你給我的是什麼城邑呢？」他稱那廿座城為迦布勒，意思是無用的小城。在〈歷代志〉下八章2節，希蘭把這些城還給了所羅門。希蘭是推羅的王，推羅是臨海貿易之地，希蘭對內地的城巿自然沒有興趣。但是所羅門王收回這廿座小城後，就重新建造它們（王上9:17-19）。
Do you recall the day God sent fire from heaven? The display of power occurred on Mount Carmel in the days of Elijah. The prophet laid the ground rules for the event: Your team has 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah; my team has me. You ask Baal for fire, and I’ll ask Jehovah for fire “…and the God who answers by fire, He is God” (1 Kings 18:24 NASB).
And when it came time to blast a fire, the devil was powerless. No spark, no flames. In the decisive moment Baal was shown to be no match for the living God. Satan is impotent to defy the plans of God. He is bound by the ropes of God’s sovereignty, gagged by God’s righteous plan.
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