一、神的居所:圣殿
第一圣殿:大卫预备材料,所罗马花了7年时间建造。后来被巴比伦攻占烧毁,巴比伦被波斯帝国灭掉后居鲁士允许犹太人回国,并修建了第二圣殿,后来在公元70年犹太战争中被罗马帝国毁坏,就再也没有重建过,只留下西墙,也就是哭墙。
【出25:8】又当为我造圣所,使我可以住在他们中间。
'Then have them make a sanctuary for me,and I will dwell among them.
【出25:9】制造帐幕和其中的一切器具都要照我所指示你的样式。
Make this tabernacle and all itsfurnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you.
【来8:5】他们供奉的事,本是天上事的形状和影像,正如摩西将要造帐幕的时候,蒙神警戒他,说,你要谨慎,作各样的物件,都要照着在山上指示你的样式。
They serve at a sanctuary that is a copyand shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was aboutto build the tabernacle: 'See to it that you make everything according to thepattern shown you on the mountain.'
圣所(影子)à实体是什么?
神喜悦的是什么样的圣殿?更高大的?更豪华的?
【徒7:48】其实至高者并不住人手所造的。就如先知所言,
'However, the Most High does not live inhouses made by men. As the prophet says:
【徒7:49】主说,天是我的座位,地是我的脚凳。你们要为我造何等的殿宇?哪里是我安息的地方呢?
'`Heaven is my throne, and the earth is myfootstool. What kind of house will you build for me? says the Lord. Or wherewill my resting place be?
神并不住人所造的房子,那为何要花那么大人力财力物力时间去建造圣殿呢?
既然这样,神到底要住在哪里?人身上
【太3:16】耶稣受了洗,随即从水里上来。天忽然为他开了,他就看见神的灵,仿佛鸽子降下,落在他身上。
As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went upout of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit ofGod descending like a dove and lighting on him.
耶稣与父神的关系?
【约14:10】我在父里面,父在我里面,你不信吗?我对你们所说的话,不是凭着自己说的,乃是住在我里面的父作他自己的事。
Don't you believe that I am in the Father,and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own.Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.
【林前3:9】因为我们是与神同工的。你们是神所耕种的田地,所建造的房屋。
For we are God's fellow workers; you areGod's field, God's building.
拆毁圣殿,三日内重建。这殿就是耶稣的身体。
【约2:19】耶稣回答说,你们拆毁这殿,我三日内要再建立起来。
Jesus answered them, 'Destroy this temple,and I will raise it again in three days.'
【约2:20】犹太人便说,这殿是四十六年才造成的,你三日内就再建立起来吗?
The Jews replied, 'It has taken forty-sixyears to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?'
【约2:21】但耶稣这话,是以他的身体为殿。
But the temple he had spoken of was hisbody.
不是要去有形的圣殿去敬拜神,而是将自己的心变成圣殿,这殿有心灵诚实。
我们是神的殿,是神的居所。
【林前3:16】岂不知你们是神的殿,神的灵住在你们里头吗?
Don't you know that you yourselves areGod's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?
【约4:24】神是个灵(或无个字)所以拜他的,必须用心灵和诚实拜他。
God is spirit, and his worshipers mustworship inspirit and in truth.'
用圣灵和真理去敬拜!
圣灵:
【徒2:2】忽然从天上有响声下来,好像一阵大风吹过,充满了他们所坐的屋子。
Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violentwind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.
【徒2:3】又有舌头如火焰显现出来,分开落在他们各人头上。
They saw what seemed to be tongues of firethat separated and came to rest on each of them.
【徒2:4】他们就都被圣灵充满,按着圣灵所赐的口才,说起别国的话来。
All of them were filled with the HolySpirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
【约15:26】但我要从父那里差保惠师来,就是从父出来真理的圣灵。他来了,就要为我作见证。
'When the Counselor comes, whom I will sendto you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, hewill testify about me.
真理:
【约17:8】因为你所赐给我的道,我已经赐给他们。他们也领受了,又确实知道,我是从你出来的,并且信你差了我来。
For I gave them the words you gave me andthey accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and theybelieved that you sent me.
综上,知道圣殿的实体就是领受真理与圣灵的人。
二、如何成为神的圣殿
【耶1:10】看哪,我今日立你在列邦列国之上,为要施行拔出,拆毁,毁坏,倾覆,又要建立,栽植。
See, today I appoint you over nations andkingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and toplant.'
根基:真知识
【犹1:20】亲爱的弟兄阿,你们却要在至圣的真道上造就自己,在圣灵里祷告,
But you, dear friends, build yourselves upin your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit.
围墙:信心
【弗6:16】此外又拿着信德当作藤牌,可以灭尽那恶者一切的火箭。
In addition to all this, take up the shieldof faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
屋顶:行为
【雅1:22】只是你们要行道,不要单单听道,自己欺哄自己。
Do not merely listen to the word, and sodeceive yourselves. Do what it says.
【雅2:22】可见信心是与他的行为并行,而且信心因着行为才得成全。
You see that his faith and his actions wereworking together, and his faith was made complete by what he did.
缺真知识的热心:
【罗10:2】我可以证明他们向神有热心,但不是按着真知识。
For I can testify about them that they arezealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge.
【罗10:3】因为不知道神的义,想要立自己的义,就不服神的义了。
Since they did not know the righteousnessthat comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit toGod's righteousness.
籍着真理和信心得以洁净
【彼前1:22】你们既因顺从真理,洁净了自己的心,以致爱弟兄没有虚假,就当从心里彼此切实相爱。从心里有古卷作从清洁的心
Now that you have purified yourselves byobeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love oneanother deeply, from the heart.
【徒15:9】又借着信,洁净了他们的心,并不分他们我们。
He made no distinction between us and them,for he purified their hearts by faith.