感恩福氣--值得紀念的里程碑

值得記念的里程碑The Memorable Milestones

高雲漢牧師

(約書亞記4:19-24.Joshua 4:19-24 )

引言:感謝天父,在牙買加有一群蒙耶穌基督拯救,愛主愛人的基督徒,同心合意、出錢出力,為主基督建造這座新禮拜堂,為要同心敬拜,廣傳福音,真是同行天路,值得紀念的里程碑。

I. 神救贖的里程碑The Milestones of God’s Salvation

書4:23 因為耶和華你們的神在你們前面使約但河的水乾了,等著你們過來,就如耶和華你們的神從前在我們前面使紅海乾了,等著我們過來一樣。

Jos 4:23 For the Lord your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The Lord your God did to the Jordan just what he had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over.

A. 神拯救以民經過紅海及約但河

B. 牙買加的華僑也經歷許多的痛苦掙扎

C. 建成這座禮拜堂使我們的子孫敬畏神

詩128:1-4凡敬畏耶和華、遵行他道的人便為有福!你要吃勞碌得來的;你要享福,事情順利。你妻子在你的內室,好像多結果子的葡萄樹;你兒女圍繞你的桌子,好像橄欖栽子。看哪,敬畏耶和華的人必要這樣蒙福!

Ps 128:1-4 Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in his ways. You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours. Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your sons will be like olive shoots around your table. Thus is the man blessed who fears the Lord.

D. 有生命的活石建成教會,生命成長,彼此代禱

彼前2:4-5主乃活石,固然是被人所棄的,卻是被神所揀選、所寶貴的。你們來到主面前,也就像活石,被建造成為靈宮,作聖潔的祭司,藉著耶穌基督奉獻神所悅納的靈祭。

1 Pet 2:4-5 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him—you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

II. 兄弟情的里程碑The Milestones of God’s Brotherhood

書4:5-6 對他們說:你們下約但河中,過到耶和華你們神的約櫃前頭,按著以色列人十二支派的數目,每人取一塊石頭扛在肩上。這些石頭在你們中間可以作為證據。日後,你們的子孫問你們說:這些石頭是什麼意思﹖

Jos 4:5-6 and said to them, “Go over before the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’

A. 全十二支派取石堆聚石碑

B. 牙買加僑胞守望相助,彼此照顧

C. 牙買加教會相愛合一,齊心事奉(許多已息勞歸主的兄姊)

D. 多倫多華基教會短宣隊一同事奉

III. 神供應的里程碑The Milestones of God’s Provision

書5:8-12 國民都受完了割禮,就住在營中自己的地方,等到痊癒了。耶和華對約書亞說:我今日將埃及的羞辱從你們身上滾去了。因此,那地方名叫吉甲,直到今日。以色列人在吉甲安營。正月十四日晚上,在耶利哥的平原守逾越節。逾越節的次日,他們就吃了那地的出產;正當那日吃無酵餅和烘的穀。他們吃了那地的出產,第二日嗎哪就止住了,以色列人也不再有嗎哪了。那一年,他們卻吃迦南地的出產。

Jos 5:8-12 And after the whole nation had been circumcised, they remained where they were in camp until they were healed. Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” So the place has been called Gilgal to this day. On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, the Israelites celebrated the Passover. The day after the Passover, that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain. The manna stopped the day after they ate this food from the land; there was no longer any manna for the Israelites, but that year they ate the produce of Canaan.

A. 神供應嗎哪,又得進入流奶與蜜之地。

B. 牙買加信徒蒙神豐富供應,也慷慨奉獻

IV. 神大能的里程碑The Milestones of God’s Power

書4:24 要使地上萬民都知道,耶和華的手大有能力,也要使你們永遠敬畏耶和華─你們的神。

Jos 4:24  He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the Lord is powerful and so that you might always fear the Lord your God.

彼前2:9 惟有你們是被揀選的族類,是有君尊的祭司,是聖潔的國度,是屬神的子民,要叫你們宣揚那召你們出黑暗入奇妙光明者的美德。

1 Pet 2:9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

A. 創造宇宙的獨一神大有能力,要我們敬畏祂

B. 基督徒蒙神揀選,要傳揚神的大能與美德

C. 牙買加信徒要靈命成長,作祭司代禱,憑愛心作見證。

結語:我們大家同心合意,出錢出力建成這座新禮拜堂,成為值得記念的里程碑。前面還有長遠的路,我們全體會眾今天奉獻新堂,要記念基督裡兄弟情深,也記念神的救贖、神的供應、神的大能,使神得榮耀,人得永福。

 

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