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1:1 耶和華藉瑪拉基傳給以色列的默示。 An oracle: The word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi. 1:1 ((Malachi)) means ((my messenger.))\F
1:2 耶和華說:「我曾愛你們。」你們卻說:「你在何事上愛我們呢?」耶和華說:「以掃不是雅各的哥哥嗎?我卻愛雅各, <<I have loved you,>> says the LORD. <<But you ask, <How have you loved us?> <<Was not Esau Jacob's brother?>> the LORD says. <<Yet I have loved Jacob, 1:3 惡以掃,使他的山嶺荒涼,把他的地業交給曠野的野狗。」 but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his mountains into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.>> 1:4 以東人說:「我們現在雖被毀壞,卻要重建荒廢之處。」萬軍之耶和華如此說:「任他們建造,我必拆毀;人必稱他們的地為『罪惡之境』;稱他們的民為『耶和華永遠惱怒之民』。」 Edom may say, <<Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild the ruins.>> But this is what the LORD Almighty says: <<They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the LORD. 1:5 你們必親眼看見,也必說:「願耶和華在以色列境界之外被尊為大!」 You will see it with your own eyes and say, <Great is the LORD--even beyond the borders of Israel!> 1:6 「藐視我名的祭司啊,萬軍之耶和華對你們說:兒子尊敬父親,僕人敬畏主人;我既為父親,尊敬我的在哪裏呢?我既為主人,敬畏我的在哪裏呢?你們卻說:『我們在何事上藐視你的名呢?』 <<A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?>> says the LORD Almighty. <<It is you, O priests, who show contempt for my name. <<But you ask, <How have we shown contempt for your name?> 1:7 你們將污穢的食物獻在我的壇上,且說:『我們在何事上污穢你呢?』因你們說,耶和華的桌子是可藐視的。 <<You place defiled food on my altar. <<But you ask, <How have we defiled you?> <<By saying that the LORD's table is contemptible. 1:8 你們將瞎眼的獻為祭物,這不為惡嗎?將瘸腿的、有病的獻上,這不為惡嗎?你獻給你的省長,他豈喜悅你,豈能看你的情面嗎?這是萬軍之耶和華說的。 When you bring blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice crippled or diseased animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you?>> says the LORD Almighty. 1:9 「現在我勸你們懇求 神,他好施恩與我們。這妄獻的事,既由你們經手,他豈能看你們的情面嗎?這是萬軍之耶和華說的。 <<Now implore God to be gracious to us. With such offerings from your hands, will he accept you?>>--says the LORD Almighty. 1:10 甚願你們中間有一人關上殿門,免得你們徒然在我壇上燒火。萬軍之耶和華說:我不喜悅你們,也不從你們手中收納供物。 <<Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased with you,>> says the LORD Almighty, <<and I will accept no offering from your hands. 1:11 萬軍之耶和華說:從日出之地到日落之處,我的名在外邦中必尊為大。在各處,人必奉我的名燒香,獻潔淨的供物,因為我的名在外邦中必尊為大。 My name will be great among the nations, from the rising to the setting of the sun. In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to my name, because my name will be great among the nations,>> says the LORD Almighty. 1:12 你們卻褻瀆我的名,說:『耶和華的桌子是污穢的,其上的食物是可藐視的。』 <<But you profane it by saying of the Lord's table, <It is defiled,> and of its food, <It is contemptible.> 1:13 你們又說:『這些事何等煩瑣!』並嗤之以鼻。這是萬軍之耶和華說的。你們把搶奪的、瘸腿的、有病的拿來獻上為祭。我豈能從你們手中收納呢?這是耶和華說的。 And you say, <What a burden!> and you sniff at it contemptuously,>> says the LORD Almighty. <<When you bring injured, crippled or diseased animals and offer them as sacrifices, should I accept them from your hands?>> says the LORD. 1:14 行詭詐的在群中有公羊,他許願卻用有殘疾的獻給主,這人是可咒詛的。因為我是大君王,我的名在外邦中是可畏的。這是萬軍之耶和華說的。 <<Cursed is the cheat who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but then sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord. For I am a great king,>> says the LORD Almighty, <<and my name is to be feared among the nations. 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(02月20日)
二月廿日 「你們沒有一件不能作的事了。」馬太福音十七章20節 有了信心,我們就沒有一件不能的事。只要我們真相信神有保守和得勝的能力,我們就能看見祂所說的話語和應許,都是實在的。 我們能。天天把我們一切的罣慮和重擔卸給神,享受平安和喜樂。 我們能。管轄頭腦中的思想,晝夜繫念神的話語。 我們能。在每一件事情上清楚神的旨意;不是用嘆息,乃是用讚美去接受。 我們能靠神的恩典剛強;我們以前的軟弱,以前叫我們不能忍耐、聖潔、謙卑的罪,今天都能靠著愛我們的主勝過了,使罪完全失去它在我們身上的權勢。 這些都是神恩典中可能的事,如果我們有了這些經歷,就會更願意俯伏在神腳前,也就會更渴慕最高的靈命。 我們如果不能每天、每小時、每分鐘在基督裏,藉著聖靈的能力與神同行,我們就不會得到滿足。 ─慕爾 在基督裏,我們能有神一切的豐富。主已經把神寶庫的鑰匙放在我們手中了,祂吩咐我們去無限制地領取一切我們所要的。若是一個銀行的行長,准許一個窮人到銀行庫中去任意取他所要的;假定那個窮人出來的時候,只帶了一文錢,這是誰的過失呢?基督人能得到神完全的豐富,而仍過著極窮的生活,這是誰的過失呢? ─麥克拉倫
■ 英文荒漠甘泉(02月20日)
February 20 "Nothing shall be impossible unto you."(Matt. 17:20.) IT is possible, for those who really are willing to reckon on the power of the Lord for keeping and victory, to lead a life in which His promises are taken as they stand and are found to be true. It is possible to cast all our care upon Him daily and to enjoy deep peace in doing it. It is possible to have the thoughts and imasinations of our hearts purified, in the deepest meaning of the word. It is possible to see the will of God in everything, and to receive it, not with sighing, but with singing. It is possible by taking complete refuge in Divine power to become strong through and through; and, where previously our greatest weakness lay, to find that things which formerly upset all our resolves to be patient, or pure, or humble, furnish today an opportunity─through Him who loved us, and works in us an agreement with His will and a blessed sense of His presence and His power─to make sin powerless over us. These things are DIVINE POSSIBLILITIES, and because they are His work, the true experience of them will always cause us to bow lower at His feet and to learn to thirst and long for more. We cannot possibly be satisfied with anything less─each day, each hour, each moment, in Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit─than to WALK WITH GOD. ─H. C. G. Moule. We may have as much of God as we will. Christ puts the key of the treasure-chamber into our hand, and bids us take all that we want. If a man is admitted into the bullion vault of a bank, and told to help himself, and comes out with one cent, whose fault is it that he is poor? Whose fault is it that Christian people generally have such scanty portions of the free riches of God? ─McLaren.
■ 永活之泉(02月20日)
二月廿日 測不透的神 「神為大,我們不能全知;論到全能者,我們不能測度;祂大有能力。」約伯記卅六章26節,卅七章23節 神是個靈,祂的位格和榮耀,是遠超我們所能領會的;我們實在太渺小了,對於祂的審度,是微乎其微的。在屬靈的生命裡,最要緊的是該有一個深深的感覺,就是神的意念和道路是遠遠地高過我們的意念,像天離地那樣高。我們該用何等謙卑和聖潔的虔誠來仰望神,並帶著像孩子一樣簡單的心,降服於聖靈的教訓呢?「深哉,神豐富的智慧和知識!祂的判斷,何其難測!祂的蹤跡,何其難尋!」(羅十一33) 讓我們的心答應說:「哦,主啊!哦,諸神之神,您的意念何等奇妙;您的謀略何其深奧。」認識神的學習應當充滿在我們裡面,使我們用聖潔的敬畏,並聖潔的盼望,正確地認識並尊敬祂。讓我們思想——祂的偉大、祂的能力、祂的全能、祂的智慧、祂的聖潔、祂的憐憫、祂的慈愛,這些都是我們所無法測度的。 當我們敬拜的時候,讓我們喊說:「我們的神,我們的父,在您的偉大裡,有何等無法測度的榮耀!」願你帶著羞愧的心承認,你沒有好好地追求認識祂,也沒有等候祂來啟示祂自己。然後開始在信心裡超越所有理解的方法,來信靠這位測不透全然榮耀的神,要作工在你的心裡和生命裡,使你越過越正確的認識祂。 「主耶和華啊,我的眼目仰望您;我投靠您。」(詩一四一8)「當休息(或作安靜),要知道我是神。」(詩四十六10)
■ 中文屬天日子(02月20日)
二月廿日 避免夢想 「起來,我們走吧!」約翰福音十四章31節 為的要一件事做得合法,而多想其事,那是對的;但是到了我應該動手的時候,我們還在那裡夢想,那是不對的。我們的主向門徒說了那些奇特的事件以後,我們也許以為祂要對他們說走開去,把它們從頭到尾默想默想;但是我們的主從不許「呆著癡著。」當我們與神接觸時,要察出祂所要的是甚麼,多用想像是對的;但是我們一味的花費我們的時光去夢想神要我們所做的事,那是不對的,而且這也不是神可能祝福的舉動。神總是帶著刺的性質,喚醒這種迷夢;所謂刺便是吩咐我們「走動吧!不要坐著也不要站著。」 如果我們靜候於神之前,祂必說:「你們單獨的來吧,」這個時候便是在神面前默想之時,為的要得知我們所追奔的路線。但是不要在神表示祂的意志以後,還在那裡一味的夢想,應當出去實現其所說的。如果你戀愛一個人,你不會常坐著,夢想你所愛的人,你一定是想去,替他效力;那就是耶穌基督盼望我們作的。在神吩咐以後還是夢想,那是我們不信靠祂的一種表示。
■ 中文上海嗎哪(02月20日)
二月廿日 「你不要害怕,因為我與你同在……」以賽亞書四十一章10節 撒但不斷地藉著恐懼,使我們的信心變得軟弱。牠是一個了不起的玄學家,並且知道恐懼能使人癱瘓、是信心最大的仇敵。假如牠能使我們害怕,就能叫我們不再靠主,阻止我們得到需要的祝福。約伯曾感到恐懼的危險,他給一個悲哀的見證:「因我所恐懼的臨到我身……。」(伯三25) 懼怕乃從撒但而來。我們若是能花一點時間想想看,就不難發現所有撒但說的都是建築在虛偽的事上。牠是謊言之父,即使是從牠來的懼怕都是假的,我們應該把牠所恐嚇的變成一種鼓勵。 所以,當撒但對你說有些壞事會發生時,你應該靜靜地轉著牠的臉告訴牠,牠是個大騙子。因為神所應許的是,我們一生一世都有恩惠慈愛隨著我們。然後我們可以轉臉對主說:「我懼怕的時候要依靠您。」(詩五六3)懼怕乃因不靠主,仰賴神是懼怕的良藥。
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