心意更新 | Renewing in mind

       近日听了良友电台的《天路导向》节目，很受里面的信息的感动和提醒，花一些时间，把所听到的信息用文字记录下来，因为网上的节目录音只保留一个星期。

       由于自己的英语水平有限，有些词反复听许多遍也没能准确的听出来，只能找同义的词来代替，但中文翻译的基本听得还是比较准确的 :P  尽管如此，我发现这样的整理记录对自己还是益处多多，希望能有时间和毅力坚持下来，给自己加油啦！哈:)

“十诫”表述了神的性情之二--神的嫉妒

麦克牧师分享， 安祥翻译

Hello listening friends, welcome again to this broadcast. If you have not listened to the broadcast before, we are talking about The Ten Commandments, and today we're gona talk about the second commandment. I think most of parents have desire in their heart to leave the children some sort of inheritance. Parents and grandparents work hard in order to put something away for their children and grandchildren. Of course, in some situation, I'm seeing how easy money can ruin lives. A friend of mine used to say that leave your children a financial inheritance without the spiritual inheritance is a disaster. The second commandment, it is not only a stem warning to against worship in God the wrong way, but it's a warning about worship in the wrong way and passing the wrong way to the next generation. The first commandment has to do with worship in the right God, and second commandment has to do with worship in the right God, the right way. The first commandment tells us that we must reject fault gods, and the second commandment tells us that we must not worship the true God in any form of man made image, and that's why this commandment is very enlivened to every believer in Jesus Christ. Again, if you have your bible with you, please turn to Exodus chapter 20, and verse 4. Here is what the second commandment said: "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand {generations} of those who love me and keep my commandments." This commandment force and four headings: first, the precept, secondly, the premise, then the expostulation, and then the promise.

What's the precept here? It's very simple. Do not create any representation of God whether it was representation is made by hand or created in your imagination. That's precept, and I don't want you to misunderstand this commandment. There is a word that's different between artistic design and the worship this work of art, and that's why the second part of the precept said: you should not bow down to them nor worship them, it's must not take place. But please listen carefully to I'm gona tell you. Some people also make idol out of pastors and teachers and preachers. They may not bow down to them but they follow them to the point of idolization, but teachers and preachers are simply instruments of God. In the book of Exodus, God's people worship him wrongly, by worship in the image they created to represent God. When God's people become impatient to Moses, they created a buck and they bow to worship it but they are not really worship in a buck, as far as they were concerned they would worship in Jehovah, and they said to themselves. Jehovah represents power, and the symbol of power was a buck, so they pull their will and their gold and their silver and they made that buck image, but in their false worship. They will focus only on one aspect of God, and that's what the idolatry does. People today are worship in all kind of false representation to their true God, and the tragic thing is they are thinking they worship in God, but God said do not make image of me. Now this is the precept. What about the premise of precept? What's the reason for the rule of that commandment? You should not bow to idols. Why? For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, why should you not confuse God and representation of God? Because, sooner or later, you will focus on that representation and forget the real thing, and God does not want us to focus on that representation out of love for us, some of you probably say, what does the love has to do with jealousy? Does God forbid us making any statue of him? because he is jealous God? In the true sense of the word jealousy is not bad. We often confuse the word jealousy and we use it in a wrong way. We sometimes talk about jealousy when we really mean envy. And there are two different things. The word zealous or zeal means to guard that which rightfully yours. That's what jealousy does. It's guard which rightfully yours. That is very different from envy. And that's what God means when he talked about being jealous about his children. When God see his children in a grip of another, he becomes jealous. Whatever that god may be that makes God jealous. Do you know why? Because God's love for his children, it's an exclusion love. Because God is passionate about you. And that's why he becomes jealous when he sees you in a grip of another god. When you are more concerned about your likings and this likings and God's glory, when you're more in love with yourself than with him, when you're more in love with your possession than you are with him. God become jealous. God's jealousy is a protective jealousy. Because he knows that idols are terrible for you. he knows idols ultimately are very destructive in your life, because he know idols have power to limit God in your life, he knows idols have power to obscure God in your life, and he knows idols have power to control you, that idols have the power to blind you to the truth. Idols have power to robe you off the blessing that God wants to give you. And God loves you too much and that's why he becomes jealous, when he sees you're flirting with idols. God loves you too much and that's why he becomes jealous when he sees you obsess with some thing or someone. Someone said jealousy is God's love protecting itself. So we saw the precept or the rule of God.

Secondly, we saw the premise or the reason on rule of God, thirdly and fourthly we have the expostulation and the promise, what's the expostulation or warning. Listen carefully please! My listening friends, the expostulation is that if you persist to break the second commandment, then not only you suffer but the next generation is going to suffer as well. Let me explain some thing to you. Idolatry is the perversion of what's real. Idolatry takes some thing good and twist. Idolatry takes some thing belongs to God and turns it against God. You see idolatry is a way of showing hatred to God whether you're conscious on it or not, the principle is this: the fathers who hate God are going to have children who hate God. Children often are impacted by their parents, but there is more to this warning. God holds family responsible for their conduct as their families. Now, please don't misunderstand me! It doesn't mean that God's grace can not invade parents who are godless and their child becomes convert to Christ.. In fact, God stress Individual's responsibility. In Ezekiel 18:20 he says, the soul that sin it shall die. But there is some thing here in the second commandment I don't want you to miss. God said that he would judge to those who hate him to the third and fourth generations. People often make a mistake of thinking that the second commandment means that the fathers are guilty but the children get punish. That's not what I mean at all. But often the parents who hate God have children hate God. The general principle is that the fathers who curse God will produce children who curse God, but it doesn't mean that God's grace can not invade and can not convert someone in a family like this. So God gives us the precept or the rule, and then he gives us the premise or the reason of the rule. Then he gives us precept of the warning for not keeping the rule. But the best part is the last part which the promise of keeping his commandments.

Look at the promise of God with me please, right in the end of the second commandment, there is a contrast, God judge those who hate him to the third and fourth generation, but then those who love him are going to be blessed for a thousand generations. My listening friends, when you comprehend this, it will make you rejoice, because this contrast tells me that judgment is very strange to God but grace is very nature to him. Isn't that wonderful? Judgment is an exception, but he does it because of his justice and righteousness. God judgment is not because he enjoys judging. No, because God loves pulling Grace on you. And that's why contrast between fourth generations and a thousand generations. Let me speak to the parents just for a minute, this promise will make you far more concern about leave your children a spiritual legacy than anything else. This promise should make you determine to leave your children and grandchildren a legacy of passion for God, this promise compact you to leave alone model of love for Jesus Christ not love for money. Every time you remove one of the idols in your life, your blessing will be far greater than you can imagine. Every time you destroy the idol in your life, it will bring you untold treasure of grace and mercy and blessings. Every idol that you strike down and break down, for that will pull out answers to the prayer that you have been waiting for, for so long. In some cases God delays the answers to the prayer until you deal with the idols in your life. My listening friends, please listen carefully as I conclude, only you know what these idols are, only you can say to the Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus, will your power and will your strength, I strike out at those idols in my life, I will not let them rule my life, I will not let them dominate my thought, I will not let them robe me all the blessings, until next time I wish God richness blessing

亲爱的朋友，你好！欢迎您再次收听我们的节目。如果你以前没有收听过我们的节目，现在我们正在讲有关十诫的信息。今天我们要来谈谈第二条诫命。我想大多数为人父母的内心都有一个愿望，那就是给自己的孩子留下一些遗产。祖父母和父母们拼命地工作就是要给他们的子孙留下点什么。其实，在一些情形下我看见金钱很容易就可以毁掉人们的生活。我的一个朋友曾说过，只给孩子们留下钱财而没有给他们留下属灵遗产会是一场灾祸。第二条诫命，不仅仅是对用错误的方式敬拜神的一个严厉警告，而且也告诫我们不要把敬拜神的错误方式传给下一代！第一条诫命讲的是要敬拜真神，第二条诫命讲的是要用正确的方式来敬拜真神。第一条诫命告诉我们一定要拒绝假神！第二条诫命告诉我们一定不要用任何人造的形象来敬拜真神！因此这条诫命是和每一个相信耶稣基督的信徒息息相关的。如果你手上有圣经的话，请翻到出埃及记第20章第4节， 第二条诫命是这样说的：“不可为自己雕刻偶像，也不可作什么形像仿佛上天，下地，和地底下，水中的百物。不可跪拜那些像，也不可事奉它，因为我耶和华你的神是忌邪的神。恨我的，我必追讨他的罪，自父及子，直到三四代，爱我，守我诫命的，我必向他们发慈爱，直到千代。”这条诫命可以分为四个重点：第一是规则，第二是前提，第三是告诫，最后是应许。

这里讲的规则是什么呢？非常简单！不要制造任何偶像来替代神，无论是人手所做的还是在你的意念里想象出来的！这就是规则！请不要误解这条诫命。在艺术创作和崇拜这些艺术作品之间是有本质上区别的。因此在这条诫命上说，不可跪拜这些像也不可事奉它！那是绝对不可以的！但请留心我将要告诉你的，有些人会把牧师，老师或传道人当作偶像，他们不会跪拜他们，但是他们会追随这些人到一个崇拜的地步，但老师和传道人只不过是神所使用的器皿。在出埃及记中，神的百姓用错误的方式来敬拜神，他们敬拜自己手所造的可以象征神的一个偶像，当神的百姓对摩西失去耐心时，他们就做了一个金牛犊并且跪拜它，其实他们不是在拜一只牛犊，对他们来说他们认为自己是在敬拜耶和华，他们告诉自己耶和华就等于能力，而牛犊是能力的标志，因此他们倾其所有的金银财宝做成那只金牛犊。在他们错误的敬拜中，他们只注重神的某一种特性。这就是偶像崇拜。今天的人们在敬拜各式各样的替代物代替对神的敬拜，可悲的是他们还以为自己是在敬拜真神。神说不可雕刻我的像！这就是规则。那么这个规则的前提是什么呢？设立不可跪拜那些像这条规则的原因是什么呢？为什么要设立这条诫命呢？“因为我耶和华你的神是嫉邪的神。”为什么不可将神和神的雕像混为一谈呢？这是因为你迟早都会只专注于那个雕像而忘了真神。正是因为神爱我们才不愿我们专注于那个雕像。有些人也许会问，爱和嫉妒有什么关联呢？然道我们的神是一位嫉邪的神，他就禁止我们制造一些与他有关的东西吗？就嫉妒这个词最真实的含义而言，它并不是贬义的。我们常常搞不清嫉妒这个词的意思，把它用错了地方。有时我们用嫉妒的时候，其实我们要表达的意思是羡慕。它们是两个不同的词。热心或热忱的这一词的意思是守卫那本来就属于你的东西。嫉妒就是这个意思。它是指守卫属于你的东西，这与羡慕的区别是非常大的。当神谈到对他的儿女他是嫉邪的神，指的就是这个意思。当神看到自己的儿女被别的神所控制的时候他就嫉妒起来。无论那个别的神是什么都会让上帝嫉妒起来。你知道为什么吗？因为神对他儿女的爱是具有排他性的。因为神对你倾注了他的情感，因此当神看到你被别的神操纵的时候，他就嫉妒起来。当你关心自己的喜欢胜过神的荣耀的时候，当你爱自己胜过你爱神的时候，当你爱自己的财产超过你爱神的时候，神就嫉妒起来。神的嫉妒是一种保护性的嫉妒。因为他知道那些偶像对你的影响是极坏的。他知道那些偶像最终会破坏你的生命。因为他知道那些偶像会限制神在你生命中的地位，他知道偶像会使你看不清神在你生命中的影响，他还知道那些偶像会控制你，那些偶像会让你对真理视而不见，那些偶像会将神想要赐给你的福从你手中夺走。神是如此地爱你，因此当他看到你迷恋那些偶像的时候，他就嫉妒起来。神是如此地爱你，因此当他看到你对某个人或东西着迷时，他就嫉妒起来。有人说嫉邪是神一种保护性的爱。好，我们谈过了神给我们的规则，第二，我们也明白了神颁布规则的前提或原因，第三和第四，我们来看告诫和应许。

什么是告诫和警告呢？亲爱的朋友，请留意！告诫就是，如果你执意要违反第二条诫命，那么不仅你会受苦，你的后代也要受苦。让我来给你解释一下，拜偶像是对真实的一种颠倒，拜偶像是对美好的一种扭曲，拜偶像是把原本属于神的扭转过来与神为敌。无论你意识到没有，拜偶像就是对神的仇视。规律是这样的，父辈仇视神，他的孩子也会仇视神，孩子们常常受父母们很深的影响。在这个告诫里还有深一层的含义，神以家庭为单位，让人们对自己的行为负责，请不要误会！这并不是说神的恩典不能临到那些父母不敬虔而孩子却愿意相信耶稣的家庭，事实上神也强调个人的责任，在以西结书18章20节里说：“唯有犯罪的他必死亡”但在第二条诫命里有些重点请你注意！千万不要漏掉！神说，“恨他的，他必追讨他的罪，自父及子直到三、四代。”人们常常误以为，第二条诫命的意思是讲：父辈犯了罪孩子们却受惩罚。这完全不是这条诫命的意思！但通常父辈们仇视神他的孩子们也会仇视神。一般来说，父辈咒诅神的也会教养出咒诅神的孩子。但这并不是说神的恩典不能临到和转变这种家庭中的某一个人。所以神给了我们规则或准则，然后告诉我们他颁布规则的前提或原因，接着神又对不遵守这些规则或准则的人发出警戒或警告。最后的这一部分才是最好的。那就是遵守诫命所得到的应许。

请跟我一起来看神的应许。就在第二天诫命的结束部分，这里是个对比，神说，恨他的他必追讨他的罪自父及子直到三、四代，而爱他的他必向他们发慈爱直到千代。我亲爱的朋友，当你理解了这点，你就会喜乐起来了，因为这个对比告诉我，神不常常审判，却很愿意施恩典。这是何等的奇妙嘛！审判属于非常的情况，神这么做是因为他的公义和正直！神审判并不是因为他喜欢审判！不是的！因为神乐意将恩典倾注于你。因此才有三、四代和千代的对比。我想对为人父母的说一句话，这应许应该让你更关注于给孩子们留下属灵的遗产，而不是别的。这应许应该让你定意给子孙留下一笔遗产就是诚挚地爱神。这应许应该促使你立下楷模爱耶稣基督而不贪爱钱财。每一次你将自己生命中的偶像除去，你所得到的福分将远比你想象的更多。每一次你将自己生命中的偶像打碎，那将给你带来数不清的恩典，怜悯和赐福。你每每击倒或打碎一个偶像，就会为你带来祷告的回应，那是你等待已久的。有些时候神推迟对祷告的回应，直到你对付掉你生命中的偶像。亲爱的朋友在我结束的时候，请你留意！只有你才知道这些偶像是什么，只有你才能对主耶稣说：“主耶稣靠着你的权柄和力量，我给我生命中的偶像有力的一击，我不会让它们再控制我的生命，我不会让它们再主导我的思想，我不会让它们再夺走你赐给我的福分！”愿神大大的赐福给你，下次节目再会！

       不知什么时候，在妈妈所栽种的“番西林”（闽南语音译）藤上多了个鸟窝。小窝在摇摇晃晃的的藤上却不失安稳，且隐秘的很好，不轻易被发现。妈妈每天都要花些时间在她的小花园里打点着，这个可爱的小窝自然逃不过妈妈的眼睛。可对于我来说，就是在妈妈的指引下，也没看出来那就是个鸟窝。心想着，这是什么鸟啊？竟选了个这样靠近人类的地方筑巢。妈妈的迷你后花园就在出阳台那个不足5平方米的地方。妈妈所搭的“番西林”藤就在阳台门口，抬头差不多2米高的地方。

       又过了几日，小院传来鸟叫声中多了幼鸟的叫声。妈妈说小窝里有小鸟出生了！呀！这个太新奇了！一定要看看！ 早上，藉著一把小云梯，爬上去，想俯瞰藤上鸟窝的真面目。我已是小心翼翼，尽量“番西林”藤远一点，生怕惊动的小鸟儿们。可还是惊动了生性敏感的鸟妈妈。它“诧”地飞出鸟窝，我这才看清这鸟儿，不是麻雀，它的头顶羽毛是白色的。它在我不远处的晾衣杆上停下来，一边急促的呼叫着，不过一会儿，鸟爸爸也飞来了，夫妇俩在不远的高处不停地飞跳着，不安地呼叫着。随即，我听到不知哪棵树上的鸟儿们好像都一起狂叫起来。声势浩大呀！这对鸟爸爸，鸟妈妈，始终围绕在他们的小窝不远处不安飞跳着、叫唤着。我知道自己已经严重的惹怒它们了，自己站在云梯上，没有依靠的地方，生怕愤怒的它们说不准来个俯冲，我肯定抵挡不住。

        匆忙中，还是抓拍到几张这对勇敢、恩爱的白头翁夫妇。只是别想照片有好效果，我自己都站不稳，摇摇晃晃地焦都对不准。:P

       在他们安稳的小窝里，它们的孩子安静地在窝里，一点不敢出声，它明白它的父母正在为保护它，正奋不顾身地引起我这不速之客的注意，这个时候它可不能再添乱了 ！

       我很抱歉打扰它们一家美好的早晨，我其实没有不喜欢它们在我家按个窝，希望它们真喜欢这里，能住下来。:)

                                                                         小可 2008-6-3 于家中

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     感谢神！在这样的聚会中我的一位同事站起来表明她愿意信主了！尽管她还有许多担忧，但我们都相信是神爱她，亲自拣选她，就在我们还没有完全认识他，甚至都没有事先预备好接受他的时候，他就以他的话语，以及已经彰显的爱感动我们，使姊妹有勇气站起来表明愿意信靠他。

      求神以他那永不改变的爱，保守坚定姊妹的信心，使姊妹更认识神，并因为信靠神而得喜乐满足！阿门！

       四川汶川地震至今已经9天了，每日关注着来自着来自灾区的新闻。恨不得自己也能赶赴那块满载着自己童年回忆的土地做点什么。教会的一位蔡姊妹已在地震的第二日赶到灾区，前两日得到她来自绵竹的消息，那里需要志愿者，心理救助与伤员护理的义工。自己却苦于缺乏这方面的知识！

       以下是这两日在网上搜索有关灾后心理救助的知识，与灾区求助所需的消息，先转发一些，灾区救助重建是个长期不懈的工作，若有志参与的弟兄姊妹可以先预备，更需众弟兄姊妹为此祷告支持！

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