【事情是偶然发生的吗？】

sky5107 · 发表于 23-5-2014 16:47:41|来自：北京

事情是偶然发生的吗

祝基督里的弟兄姊妹们“好运”，这样做适当吗？

事情的发生是凭偶然吗？如果是的话，那么一个人可以说某人幸运或者倒霉。但是，如果事情不是偶然发生的，那我们就不能这么说。世上有太多的共识都是出自远离上帝，以人的角度来看生命。只有没有上帝、纯粹以人的角度来看，才会认为那些不认识上帝的人看起来是幸运或霉运的。

让我们看圣经，一个争战的王虽然拥有一支强大的军队，但是敌军一个无名小卒任意射出的一支“偶然”的箭，恰巧就射入王的盔甲缝里，结果王死兵败（历代志下18:33有一人随便开弓，恰巧射入以色列王的甲缝里。王对赶车的说：“我受了重伤，你转过车来，拉我出阵吧！”）。这个亚哈王是不走运吗？他是因为运气不好而阵亡吗？读历代志下18章我们就会发现，是上帝从开始就在参与并掌管这件事情。那个射箭的敌军士兵根本不清楚箭的轨迹，但是上帝透过祂的至高主权，知道事情是顺应祂的意旨进行，就是要邪恶的亚哈王阵亡（历代志下18:33）。

在路得记中也有类似的“偶然”事件。路得，一个寡妇，奉养她的寡妇婆婆，她在“恰巧”找到的一个田里，靠拾麦穗养活她们。“路得就去了，来到田间，在收割的人身后拾取麦穗。她恰巧到了以利米勒本族的人，波阿斯那块田里。”（路得记2:3）这里提到以利米勒，他是路得的婆婆，拿俄米的丈夫，所以波阿斯就是她们的一个亲属，并且波阿斯也恩待了路得。路得回家时带回很多粮食，超出拿俄米的预想，所以拿俄米问路得：“你今日在哪里拾取麦穗，在哪里作工呢？愿那顾恤你的得福。”路得就告诉婆婆：“我今日在一个名叫波阿斯的人那里作工。”于是，婆婆就对她说：“愿那人蒙耶和华赐福，因为他不断地恩待活人死人，”又说：“那是我们本族的人，是一个至近的亲属。”（路得记2:19-20）所以，拿俄米没有看这件事为“偶然”，而是如众人所讲，是上帝的意旨（路得记4:14）。

在箴言16:33里，阐明了一个普遍原则：签放在怀里，定事由耶和华。这里是运用掣签（类似于抛硬币或掷骰子）的方式来解决某些司法案件，比如约书亚7章里关于亚干的案例，就是运用箴言16:33的普遍原则找出犯罪的一方。此外，箴言18:18也有类似阐明：掣签能止息争竞，也能解散强胜的人。这里再一次肯定，是上帝的意旨来决定掣签的结果，以此公正地止息争端，无论这个争端有多大。从箴言16:33也表明，虽然有些事情好像如掷骰子或摇硬币一样在随性运转，但事实上都无法超出上帝至高主权的掌管。所以，万事的结果都不是偶然（好运或霉运）这么简单。

上帝的至高主权包括两方面。一方面是上帝的主动意旨或主权，就是上帝直接参与某些事情，就如邪恶的亚哈王领军阵亡（历代志下18:18-19）。亚哈并不是被那支任意射出的箭恰巧射死，而显明是上帝指挥着整件事情：使亚哈领军上战场，在那一天，用那支任意射出的箭来成就上帝要亚哈死的意旨。

另一方面是上帝的被动意旨，就是某些事情虽然不是直接出自上帝之手，但必是经过祂的允许才会发生。就如约伯记1章里阐明，是上帝允许撒旦用各种灾难来试探约伯。此外，约瑟的经历也是如此，是上帝允许约瑟的哥哥们以恶念来害约瑟，但是上帝的旨意是为了成就自己的美意，虽然对约瑟的美意不是显而易见，直到多年之后才成就在他身上（创世纪50:20）。

因为我们无法掀开幔子看到发生在天国里的事情，所以我们永远不能决定上帝以祂的主动意旨或被动意旨来参与发生在我们生命中的事情，但是我们能够确切地知道，万事的发生都必是按照上帝的至高旨意，不论是上帝的主动或是被动旨意，所以没有任何事情是偶然发生的（凭运气）。当一个人玩掷骰子时，可能有时上帝会参与决定骰子的落地面，但通常在不重要的事情中，上帝允许骰子的落地面是由祂所定的自然原则来决定，而祂没有任何主动地参与。然而，即使上帝没有主动参与，但是骰子的落地面也仍在祂至高主权的掌管之下。

在生命中发生的每件事情都是如此，不论事情多小（马太福音10:29-31）或多大（但以理4:35，箴言21:1），上帝是掌管万有的（以弗所1:11，诗篇115:3，以赛亚46:9-10），所以没有任何事情是凭运气的。

从世俗的角度看，事情好像是随性发生的，但纵观整本圣经，我们清楚地看到上帝是掌管着祂全部的受造物，而事物是以自然原则来随其运转，无论善人或恶人的自由意志，就是恶人的恶念，上帝也能用其转而成就祂美善而完全的旨意（创世纪50:20；约伯记1，42；约翰福音9:1-7）。并且，上帝赐给基督徒特别的承诺，就是上帝使万事（无论看似是好事或坏事）都相互效力，叫爱祂的人得益处，就是按祂旨意被召的人（罗马书8:28）

在此，我们夫妻感谢上帝，我们主耶稣基督的父，赐给我们美好的一天，也赐给我们你们这些忠心于主的弟兄姊妹们。

（以上所写的，你们可以用来建造耶稣基督的国度）

Do things happen by CHANCE

Is it appropriate to wish brothers and sisters in CHRIST ‘Good Luck’?

Do things happen by chance? If they do, then one can speak of someone being lucky or unlucky. But if they do not happen by chance, then it is inappropriate to use those terms. Much of what the world shares is from the perspective of a person who looks at life on earth without GOD. From such a perspective—leaving GOD out of the picture—there seems to be good luck and bad luck to those who know not GOD.

A warrior king may have the strongest army but some “chance” arrow shot up into the air at random by a no-name enemy soldier just happens to pierce the king’s armour in its most vulnerable location resulting in that king’s death and the loss of the battle (2 Chronicles 18:33). How unlucky for King Ahab? Was it a matter of bad luck? Reading the whole of 2 Chronicles 18, we find that GOD had HIS hand in the matter from the beginning. The soldier who shot the arrow was totally unaware of its trajectory, but GOD in HIS sovereignty knew all along it would mean the death of wicked King Ahab. (2 Chronicles 18:33)

A similar “chance” occurrence takes place in the book of Ruth. Ruth, a widow who was caring for her widowed mother-in-law, seeks a field to glean grain to provide for them. “So she went out and began to glean in the fields behind the harvesters. As it turned out, she found herself working in a field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech” (Ruth 2:3). Elimelech had been the husband of her mother-in-law, Naomi, so Boaz was a relative of hers and was generous to Ruth. As Ruth returns home with a great deal more grain than Naomi expected, “her mother-in-law asked her, ‘Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!’ Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. ‘The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,’ she said. ‘The LORD bless him!’ Naomi said to her daughter-in-law. ‘He has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead.’ She added, ‘That man is our close relative; he is one of our kinsman-redeemers.’"(Ruth 2:19-20). So Naomi did not see it as a “chance” occurrence but as the providence of God, as do others later on (Ruth 4:14).

Proverbs 16:33 states a general principle: “The lot is cast into the lap, But its every decision is from the Lord.” This refers to the use of casting lots (similar to the tossing of a coin or the rolling of dice) to settle certain judicial cases. The case involving Achan in Joshua 7 is an example in which the principle of Proverbs 16:33 is used to find the guilty party. Proverbs 18:18 states something similar: “Casting the lot settles disputes and keeps strong opponents apart.” Again, the idea is that GOD’s providence plays the determining role in the results of the casting of lots so that judicial conflicts can be resolved no matter how great the contention. Proverbs 16:33 would indicate that something as random as the rolling of dice or the tossing of a coin is not outside of GOD’s sovereign control. And, therefore, its results are not merely of chance (good luck or bad luck).

GOD’s sovereignty involves two aspects. GOD’s active will or sovereignty would involve something HE causes to happen such as the leading of wicked King Ahab into battle (2 Chronicles 18: 18-19). Ahab’s death was not merely the result of a randomly shot arrow, but as (2 Chronicles 18) reveals, GOD actively directed the events that led Ahab into battle and used that randomly shot arrow to accomplish HIS intended will for Ahab that day.

GOD’s passive will involves HIM allowing, rather than causing, something to happen. Chapter1 of the book of Job illustrates this in what GOD allowed Satan to do in the life of Job. It is also involved in the evil that GOD allowed Joseph’s brothers to do to Joseph in order to accomplish a greater good, a good not apparent to Joseph until years later (Genesis 50:20).

Because we do not have the curtains drawn back to see what is taking place in heaven, we cannot always determine whether GOD’s active or passive will is involved in the events of our lives, but we do know that all things that take place are under the sovereignty of HIS will, whether active or passive, and, therefore, nothing is a matter of mere chance (luck). When a person rolls the dice to play a board game, GOD may sometimes cause the dice to land a certain way, but more often than not in such inconsequential matters, HE may allow the dice to land as HIS laws of nature would determine without any active involvement. But even when HE is not actively involved, how the dice land is still under HIS sovereignty.

So it is for any event of life; no matter how small (Matthew 10:29-31)) or how large (Daniel 4:35; Proverbs 21:1), GOD is sovereign over all (Ephesians 1:11; Psalm 115:3; Isaiah 46:9-10), and thus nothing is merely the matter of luck.

From an earthly perspective, things may seem to happen at random, but throughout the whole of Scripture, it is clear that GOD is in control of all of HIS creation and is somehow able to take the random acts of natural law, the free will of both good and evil men, and the wicked intent of demons and combine them all to accomplish HIS good and perfect will (Genesis 50:20; Job chapters 1 and 42; John 9:1-7). And Christians, specifically, are given the promise that GOD works all things, whether seemingly good or bad, together for good to those who love HIM and are called according to HIS purpose (Romans 8:28).

We give thanks to GOD, the FATHER of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, for this day and for you, faithful brothers and sisters.

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sky5107 · 发表于 24-5-2014 20:32:42|来自：北京

所有账目都将在永恒界、上帝的面前被清算

罪人虽然作恶百次，倒享长久的年日。然而我准知道，敬畏神的，就是在祂面前敬畏的人，终久必得福乐（传道书8:12）

平安弟兄姊妹们！要真正懂得上帝的应许，我们就必须从长远来看。虽然有时恶人会兴盛，但这只是暂时的；虽然有时义人受苦难，这也是暂时的，这就是我们所处的世界。但是这个世界即将结束，在新的世界里，我们会有一个完全不同的生命，因为“所有账目都将在永恒界、上帝的面前被清算”。

All accounts get balanced in eternity before GOD

Eccl. 8:12 - Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear GOD, who fear before HIM.

Shalom Brothers n Sisters,

To really understand the promises of GOD, we have to take the long view. Sometimes the wicked prosper . . . for a while. And sometimes the righteous suffer . . . for a while. That's the world we live in. But this world is coming to an end, and the next one will feature a very different story, "all accounts get balanced in eternity before GOD."

sky5107 · 发表于 26-5-2014 14:10:04|来自：北京

为了荣耀上帝而做

平安弟兄姊妹们！无论今天你的工作在哪个地方，在工厂里、在水槽下面、在桌子边，或作一名清洁工、一个电话客服……，你都要感谢上帝赐给你这份工作。我们必须将工作的每一个细节视为侍奉上帝的机会，为此使徒保罗告诉我们： “你们或吃或喝，无论作什么都要荣耀神而行”（哥林多前书10:31），并且他还提醒我们：“无论作什么都要从心里作，像是给主作的，不是给人作的。因你们知道从主那里，必得着基业为赏赐，你们所事奉的乃是主基督”（歌罗西3:23-24）。以这样的态度来工作，就能够将一个简单的工作岗位变为一个传道的实际讲台，你能够以你的实际行动更有力、更有效地向众人传达你与基督的关系，这是光用语言传道所无法做到的。

就在今天，将你的工作视为上帝的恩赐！并且感谢上帝赐给你工作的机会和特权，不仅是为了生计，更是为了侍奉和荣耀上帝。那么，你就会开始将工作日看作与休息日是一样的。

Do all to the glory of GOD

Shalom Brothers n Sisters,

wherever you find yourself working today - - on a factory line, under the sink, at a desk, as a cleaner or on the phone - thank GOD for your work. We must come to see every detail of our job as an opportunity to serve GOD. The apostle Paul tells us, "whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of GOD" (1 Cor. 10:31). And Paul reminds us, "whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the LORD and not to men, knowing that from the LORD you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the LORD CHRIST" (Col. 3: 23, 24). Such an attitude can transform the workplace from a mere workstation to a practical pulpit that says more about your relationship with CHRIST than words ever could.

See your work as a gift from GOD! Give HIM thanks for the opportunity and the privilege of working, not just for a living, but for HIM. Then you can start anticipating the weekday as much as the weekend.

sky5107 · 发表于 29-5-2014 15:37:13|来自：北京

宽恕那些不公正对待你的人

我已经给你们权柄，可以践踏蛇和蝎子，又胜过仇敌一切的能力，断没有甚么能害你们（路加福音10:19）

亲爱的弟兄姊妹们，总有一天，我们每个人都会经历到被人不公正地对待。在生命的道路上，我们都会受到伤害、上当受骗、被人欺谎或毁谤。

这些是可预见的痛苦。然而，当这些事情发生时，我们大多数人还是会感到诧异又毫无准备。然后，我们通常会在愤怒中，呼求上帝对付那些不公正对待自己的人。我们追求公义，甚至要报复他们，但这样做最终只能使事情变得更为严重，殃及到每位当事人，也包括我们自己。

如果以上所讲的正符合你的境遇，那么现在就是你获得解决方法的时候，当下一次有人再伤害你时，你就会懂得怎样使上帝的大能为你而运作。

第一步：确认敌人。在这一点上，我们大多数人都犯了一个最大的错误，我们错误地把伤害我们的人确定为敌人。我们不要浪费精力去大声抱怨，或暗中算计那些使我们受到痛苦的人，因为他们只不过是受到魔鬼的操纵。你要把你灵命的炮口瞄准靶心（撒旦），撒旦才是罪魁祸首、万恶之源，你追击的应该是他！

第二步：开火！一旦你灵命的炮口瞄准了目标（魔鬼），那就正对目标，开火！用上帝的话语迅速而猛烈地向魔鬼射击，奉耶稣基督之名、并以你作为真基督徒被赐予的能力来捆绑魔鬼，不让他再进一步地伤害你。然后，训练有素地转向下一场关键的灵命战斗。

第三步：代祷。马太福音5:44-45，主耶稣指示我们：“只是我告诉你们，要爱你们的仇敌，为那逼迫你们的祷告。这样就可以作你们天父的儿子，因为祂叫日头照好人、也照歹人，降雨给义人、也给不义的人。”

当有人不公正地对待我们时，如果我们呼求上帝像闪电一样地击打报复他们，那我们就是没有像天父那样去做。你要记住，上帝有极大的怜悯，而祂的怜悯不仅是对你和我，也是对每一个人。

如果你按照以上三步去做，那么下一次魔鬼想扰搅你时，他就会先掂量掂量自己的处境和下场。如果下一次有人使你受到痛苦，那么你就让上帝的大能为你运作：先确定你真正的敌人（魔鬼），然后用你作为真基督徒被赐予的权柄来猛烈地攻击他，最后你要为那个伤害你的人代祷。

研经：马太福音6:6-15

6:6 你祷告的时候要进你的内屋，关上门，祷告你在暗中的父。你父在暗中察看，必然报答你。

6:7 你们祷告，不可像外邦人，用许多重复话，他们以为话多了必蒙垂听。

6:8 你们不可效法他们，因为你们没有祈求以先你们所需用的，你们的父早已知道了。

6:9 所以你们祷告要这样说：“我们在天上的父，愿人都尊你的名为圣。

6:10 愿你的国降临，愿你的旨意行在地上如同行在天上。

6:11 我们日用的饮食，今日赐给我们。

6:12 免我们的债，如同我们免了人的债。

6:13 不叫我们遇见试探，救我们脱离凶恶。因为国度、权柄、荣耀全是你的，直到永远，阿们。

6:14 你们饶恕人的过犯，你们的天父也必饶恕你们的过犯。

6:15 你们不饶恕人的过犯，你们的天父也必不饶恕你们的过犯。

在此，我们夫妻感谢上帝，我们主耶稣基督的父，赐给我们美好的一天，也赐给我们你们这些忠心于主的弟兄姊妹们。

（以上所写的，你们可以用来建造耶稣基督的国度）

Forgive Those Who do You Wrong

Luke 10:19 I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Somebody's done you wrong! Sooner or later it happens to all of us. Somewhere along the way, we all get hurt or cheated or lied to or abused.

It's as predictable as it is painful. Yet when it happens most of us find ourselves strangely unprepared. In our outrage, we often cry out to GOD against the one who wronged us. We ask for justice, or even vengeance, and end up making things tougher on everyone involved--including ourselves.

If that's been true of you, it's time you to find out how you can put the power of GOD to work for you the next time somebody does you wrong.

Step one: Identify the enemy! Right here's where the majority of us make our biggest mistake. We mistakenly identify our enemy as the person who hurts us. Don't waste your energy ranting and raving or plotting and scheming against people who cause you pain. They're simply under the devil's influence. Aim your spiritual ammunition at the right target (Satan). It's the Satan who's behind it all. Go after him!

Step two: Fire! Once you've pointed your spiritual guns in the right direction, fire! Hit the devil fast and furiously with the WORD of GOD. Use the Name of JESUS and the power that's been given you as a true believer and bind the devil from doing you any further harm in that area. Then move on to the next and most important part of this spiritual battle.

Step three: Pray the prayer of intercession. In Matthew 5:44-45, JESUS gives us these instructions: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your FATHER which is in heaven."

Crying out for the vengeance of GOD to strike like a lightning bolt when somebody does us wrong isn't acting like our FATHER. Remember GOD has great, great mercy. Not just for me and you, but for everyone!

The devil will probably think twice before he bothers you again. Next time someone causes you pain, put the power of GOD to work for you. Identify the real enemy. Hit him hard with the authority you've been given as a true believer. Then pray the prayer of intercession.

Scripture Study:

Matthew 6:6-15

6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your FATHER, who is unseen. Then your FATHER, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your FATHER knows what you need before you ask HIM.

9 “This, then, is how you should pray:

“‘Our FATHER in heaven,

hallowed be YOUR name,

10 YOUR kingdom come,

YOUR will be done,

on earth as it is in heaven.

11 Give us today our daily bread.

12 And forgive us our debts,

as we also have forgiven our debtors.

13 And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from the evil one.’