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1:1 大流士王第二年六月初一日,耶和華的話藉先知哈該向猶大省長撒拉鐵的兒子所羅巴伯和約撒答的兒子大祭司約書亞說: In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua 1:1 A variant of ((Jeshua)); here and elsewhere in Haggai son of Jehozadak, the high priest:
1:2 萬軍之耶和華如此說:「這百姓說,建造耶和華殿的時候尚未來到。」 This is what the LORD Almighty says: <<These people say, <The time has not yet come for the LORD's house to be built.> >> 1:3 那時耶和華的話臨到先知哈該說: Then the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai: 1:4 「這殿仍然荒涼,你們自己還住天花板的房屋嗎? <<Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?>> 1:5 現在萬軍之耶和華如此說:你們要省察自己的行為。 Now this is what the LORD Almighty says: <<Give careful thought to your ways. 1:6 你們撒的種多,收的卻少;你們吃,卻不得飽;喝,卻不得足;穿衣服,卻不得暖;得工錢的,將工錢裝在破漏的囊中。」 You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.>> 1:7 萬軍之耶和華如此說:「你們要省察自己的行為。 This is what the LORD Almighty says: <<Give careful thought to your ways. 1:8 你們要上山取木料,建造這殿,我就因此喜樂,且得榮耀。這是耶和華說的。 Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored,>> says the LORD. 1:9 你們盼望多得,所得的卻少;你們收到家中,我就吹去。這是為甚麼呢?因為我的殿荒涼,你們各人卻顧〔原文是奔〕自己的房屋。這是萬軍之耶和華說的。 <<You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?>> declares the LORD Almighty. <<Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with his own house. 1:10 所以為你們的緣故,天就不降甘露,地也不出土產。 Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops. 1:11 我命乾旱臨到地土、山岡、五榖、新酒,和油,並地上的出產、人民、牲畜,以及人手一切勞碌得來的。」 I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the oil and whatever the ground produces, on men and cattle, and on the labor of your hands.>> 1:12 那時,撒拉鐵的兒子所羅巴伯和約撒答的兒子大祭司約書亞,並剩下的百姓,都聽從耶和華─他們 神的話和先知哈該奉耶和華─他們 神差來所說的話;百姓也在耶和華面前存敬畏的心。 Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the whole remnant of the people obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the message of the prophet Haggai, because the LORD their God had sent him. And the people feared the LORD. 1:13 耶和華的使者哈該奉耶和華差遣對百姓說:「耶和華說:我與你們同在。」 Then Haggai, the LORD's messenger, gave this message of the LORD to the people: <<I am with you,>> declares the LORD. 1:14 耶和華激動猶大省長撒拉鐵的兒子所羅巴伯和約撒答的兒子大祭司約書亞,並剩下之百姓的心,他們就來為萬軍之耶和華─他們 神的殿做工。 So the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of the whole remnant of the people. They came and began to work on the house of the LORD Almighty, their God, 1:15 這是在大流士王第二年六月二十四日。 on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the second year of King Darius. This is Alex Markley's PHPScripture v1.2.0, displaying a copy of Chinese Union Version Bible in XOOPS. 本模組中文化由長島基督福音教會的Jack起始, 聖經文字部分由CCIM(網路基督使團)網站下載. 如欲修改經文請洽聖經公會. 荒漠甘泉五合一■ 中文荒漠甘泉(03月19日)
三月十九日 「親愛的阿,有火煉的試驗臨到你們,不要以為奇怪……倒要歡喜;因為你們是與基督一同受苦。」彼得前書四章12節 大衛的遭難使他的古琴發出更悅耳的音樂來,他的遇險使他發出「感謝和歌唱的聲音」(賽五一3)來;他的詩篇直到今天仍能叫地上的許多軟弱信徒得到幫助,叫天上的父神得到快樂。 究竟甚麼東西使耶西的兒子有這般屬靈的藝術呢? 仇敵的吼叫,逼他發出神的呼籲來。神大能的拯救、豐富的恩慈,使他唱出感謝和歡樂的讚美來。所以,每一次的苦難在他的琴上添一根弦;每一次的拯救給他一個讚美的新題目。 一次痛苦躲過,一次祝福扣留;一次危難避去,一次榮耀失去。平穩度日的人不懂得依靠,所以他們不會看見神的榮耀,也不會唱出讚美來。 如果我們要多明白屬靈的奧祕,我們就不能懼怕在前面等待我們的苦難;因為有許多寶貝的功課,是必須在苦難中方能學到的。 ─薛伯登 「祂試驗我,為要派我服事祂。」(提前一12,韋氏譯本)
■ 英文荒漠甘泉(03月19日)
March 19 "Beloved, do not be surprised at the ordeal that has come to test you....you are sharing what Christ suffered; so rejoice in it."(1 Peter 4:12.) MANY a waiting hour was needful to enrich the harp of David, and many a waiting hour in the wilderness will gather for us a psalm of "thanksgiving, and the voice of melody," to cheer the hearts of fainting ones here below, and to make glad our Father's house on high. What was the preparation of the son of Jesse for the songs like unto which none other have ever sounded on this earth? The outrage of the wicked, which brought forth cries for God's help. Then the faint hope in God's goodness blossomed into a song of rejoicing for His mighty deliverances and manifold mercies. Every sorrow was another string to his harp; every deliverance another theme for praise. One thrill of anguish spared, one blessing unmarked or unprized, one difficulty or danger evaded, great would have been our loss in that thrilling Psalmody in which God's people today find the expression of their grief or praise! To wait for God, and to suffer His will, is to know Him in the fellowship of His sufferings, and to be conformed to the likeness of His Son. So now, if the vessel is to be enlarged for spiritual understanding, be not affrighted at the wider sphere of suffering that awaits you. The Divine capacity of sympathy will have a more extended sphere, for the breathing of the Holy Ghost in the new creation never made a stoic, but left the heart's affection tender and true. ─Anna Shipton. "He tested me ere He entrusted me." (1 Tim. 1:12.) (Way's Trans.)
■ 永活之泉(03月19日)
三月十九日 為眾聖徒祈求 「靠著聖靈隨時多方禱告祈求,並要在此儆醒不倦,為眾聖徒祈求。」以弗所書六章18節 保羅一再地重複這些話,說出他的願望是何等迫切巴望這些話能深深印在讀者心中的意念,藉著說出來的話,可以從神得著反應。 保羅深深感覺到基督身體合一的重要,而且他也確知,只有在禱告與愛中才能合一,因此他不斷地要求以弗所的信徒要迫切不斷的為聖徒祈求;不僅請求當地少數信徒為他們禱告,乃是請求在基督裡的全教會、所有的信徒為他們祈求。「合一就是力量」,若是我們常為人多方代禱,我們就會被脫離拯救自己及所有軟弱的禱告,並使自己的度量被擴充到一個程度,不僅使基督的愛充充滿滿流入我們內心,並且從我們身上滿溢出來。 真實的信徒最大的缺欠,就是在禱告中滿了己的成分,滿了要神為他們成就的事。在此,我們須認清神乃是呼召每個信徒一直從事於愛與禱告的事工上。只有當我們在信心中忘記自己時,神才會擔負我們的責任;只有當我們服在可以帶下祝福的偉大有福的事工上時,教會才會使基督傳於萬民。唯有如此將自己完全奉獻給神的人,他的生活才健全、蒙福。 所以,當著神的兒女及各教會禱告,為著他們所從事的事工禱告。隨時在靈裡為神的聖徒禱告,沒有其他事比在交通裡連於神更蒙福。想要達到這種光景,只有生活於代禱中,保羅就是為此而發出呼籲。
■ 中文屬天日子(03月19日)
三月十九日 亞伯拉罕信仰的方法 「出去的時候,還不知往那裡去。」希伯來書十一章8節 舊約裡面,私人與神的關係,因別離而表示出來的是亞伯拉罕。他在別離故鄉和親族的關係上,把他與神的關係象徵出來。今日的別離是著重心理和道德方面的,我們與神發生關係,不與我們最親愛的人抱同一的眼光,那就是精神上的別離。耶穌基督亦曾著重此舉(參路十四26)。 不知道被領到甚麼地方,但是愛而且知道那領導的一位。這是信仰的生活,不是理智的生活,卻是知道誰叫我去的生活。信仰之根是認識祂,而最大的錯誤,是存著神定會叫我們事事順遂的觀念。 信仰生活最後的階段,是人格之上進,人格之改變有許多是暫時的。於我們禱告之時,我們感覺神的祝福包圍著我們,我們覺得當時改變了;但是以後又退到平常的生活中,光榮也隨之消逝了。信仰的生活不是高飛上升的生活,卻是腳踏實地,毫無跌滑的生活。不是成聖的問題,是超過成聖的問題,是經過試練而不敗的信仰問題。亞伯拉罕不是成聖的模範,卻是信心生活的模範。一種經過試練的信仰,建立在真實的神上面。「亞伯拉罕相信神。」
■ 中文上海嗎哪(03月19日)
三月十九日 「把船開到水深之處……」路加福音五章4節 要解決生命中許多與基督徒生活有關的難題、困惑,最好的辦法就是簡單、但大膽地決定,繼續靠著亮光前進,把我們無法斷定的猜測和理論留待以後解決。當我們肩負起現在的責任,完全地順服時,許多不該浪費時間去決定的事,都將會變得清楚明朗。 如果我們大膽地把自己投往水深之處,基督會為我們解決一切我們正左右為難的問題。更可能的是,祂會使我們看出那些事是多麼微不足道,使我們明白,解決那些小事的惟一辦法是不去理它。因為那些事不過是撒但的小詭計,牠想用那些網羅使我們在該前進時,浪費時間、猶豫不定。 神的恩典宛如海洋, 既無邊界,又不可測, 往深水開出去,離開海岸邊, 讓我們沈浸在神的豐富裡。
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