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认识神的圣洁之年（2021）｜第二场 | 不可轻慢主的圣洁

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经文: 利10:1-3，9-11；撒下6:6-8；徒2:38-40；加6:7-10

课题: 神的公义, 恩典, 顺服/跟从, 人的心灵, 善行,

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圣经说：不要自欺，神是轻慢不得的。人种的是什么，收的也是什么《加6:7》。神也说：倘若你们得罪耶和华，要知道你们的罪必追上你们《民32:23》。试想若神是圣洁的，也是守信的，那祂必定按祂所说的事在必行。因此，我们哪一个人若继续犯罪的话能够逃脱罪的刑罚呢？当圣经将这么清楚的诫命、律例、典章、法度，甚至是新约圣经里头很多道德教导给予我们时，为什么这么多人却是轻忽这些教导呢？为什么今天的信徒在认识恩典的时候没有因神的圣洁而战兢呢？理由很简单。那是因为我们好像不太看得见主所说的刑罚临到犯罪的我们或他人身上。当我们看始祖吃了禁果时，他们好像没有立即死掉。我们多少次拿别人的东西，或是做一些不诚实的事情但没有被发现。有些人甚至是犯法（例如：逃税、做假账、或一些不正当的手法来赚钱），但没有被捉。因此，我们心想：“那不太严重。并且很多人都这样做，也没有后果”。当我们这样认为时，我们首先以别人的水准为我们的道德标准。另外，我们没有问一个很重要的问题，就是为什么这些人没有受到当得的刑罚？是否神失误了？或是祂在睡觉？其实，无论是我们或我们旁边的人没有得着犯罪而应得的后果，那是因为神的怜悯，不是因为神失误。但如果我们以为没有后果就能继续这样行，那我们是践踏神的恩典，也是轻慢主的圣洁了。有些人认为若没有被发现，不会丢脸，后果就不显得太严重。有的认为只要是多人这么做的就不需要太担心会有问题。其实，当一个基督徒怀着这样的意念时，他是一个心里忽视神的圣洁的人，因为他没有问神是否许可他如此行吗？他只有以“所有人都这样做”为合理。其实，一个时代越来越堕落的理由就在此了。当人心中没有上帝圣洁的道，教会也少将上帝的圣洁传讲，人就会按着合乎现代文化的理念与风潮来断定自己的道德观，最后他们就将神的话语按着自己所喜悦的来解释。美国神学家史普罗讲到教会界很有意思的趋势。据说在18世纪时，教会的讲台带出来的信息是：“人非常非常的糟糕，神非常非常的忿怒”。典型的就是美国最著名的神学家爱德华兹所讲的：“落在愤怒之神手中的罪人”。据说他在讲这篇道时，有些人在教会里在听的时候极其的战兢而当场昏倒。后来到了19世纪时，教会讲台（包括讲道者的谈吐和语气）所带给信徒的信息是：“人不是太糟糕，神也不是太忿怒”。后来进到20世纪时，教会讲台就进入一种转变，像是间接的将神划分为两种不同的属性，一个是旧约的神的属性，一个是新约的神的属性。旧约的神非常的严厉，叫人恐惧。新约的神是非常的有慈爱，使人能以靠近。那21世纪只是开始，但我们会看见所有能叫大群人涌进去的大教会都几乎不讲人的罪，也不讲神的圣洁，只有多讲恩典、能力、恩赐、神迹、医能。为何这样呢？他们的辩词是说：“我们已经不在律法之下，乃在恩典之下”。其实早在第二世纪时，教会界出现一个很聪明的人物叫做马西昂。他提倡一种叫做基督教的二元信仰体系。这二元信仰体系讲的是旧约的神与新约的神不一样。他相信耶稣是神差来的救主，而保罗是神重用的首要使徒。但是他拒绝旧约里西伯来人所拜的神。他认为这位神不符合基督带来的恩惠与慈爱的教导。他认为旧约的神是一个充满妒忌、忿怒与琢磨不定的神，像似一下子击杀人，一下子用火烧死人，一下子叫以色列人将迦南人完全灭杀。他认为那是与新约的基督不相称的。当然，这样的人最后被证明是异端了。但我们问这样的人为何对神有如此的见解？其原因是他在读圣经时根本不认识这位神是圣洁的。他是以凡人的性情来要认识这位神，因此他就倾向了没有圣洁的慈爱与怜悯，以此来认识神。但虽然如此，我们要问当今信徒是否有很多是怀有马西昂的倾向呢？我们是否常听见人说旧约的神很严厉，新约的神很有慈爱呢？其实，旧约的神也是新约的神。新约是旧约的成全，旧约是新约的根基。我们很容易将这两者分开是因为我们不认识神的圣洁。在神的忿怒里有神的圣洁，在祂的恩典里也同样有神的圣洁。我们在神的忿怒里战兢，我们更是要在神的恩典里战兢。这样，神的恩典才能化为我们的圣洁生活。

The Bible says, “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.” <Gal 6:7>. God also said, “you will be sinning against the Lord; and you may be sure that your sin will find you out” <Num 32:23>. Think about it, if God is holy and the commands He has given us are consecrated truths, then He will surely do as He had said. Hence, which of us, if we continue to sin, can escape the punishment of sin? When the Bible very clearly gives us the commandments, laws, decrees and instructions, and even the New Testament has given us many moral teachings, why is it that many people take these teachings lightly? Why believers today, though knowing God’s grace, do not fear and tremble because of His holiness? The answer is simple. This is because we cannot seem to see the punishment, which the Lord had mentioned, coming upon us or others who have sinned. When we saw our first ancestors eat the forbidden fruit, they seemingly did not die immediately. How many times did we take the things of others or do things that are dishonest without being detected? Some people even commit crimes (e.g. evade taxes, cook the books, or use underhanded ways to earn money) but are not caught. Hence, our hearts will think, “That is not so serious. Moreover, many people are doing so and there are also no consequences.” When we think like that, we are first setting our moral standards based on others’ standards. Second, we did not ask a very important question, why is it that these people did not get the punishment they deserved? Did God make a mistake? Or is He sleeping? Actually, regardless of whether it is us or the people around us, when we did not suffer the consequences of our sins, it is because of God’s mercy not because He made a mistake. But if we think that there is no consequence and hence continue to do wrong, we are trampling on God’s grace and also taking His holiness lightly. Some people think that if it is not discovered, then there is no loss of face and hence the result does not seem too serious. Or some may think that if many people are also doing a certain thing then there is no need to worry about it becoming a problem. Actually, when a Christian has such thoughts, he is one who looks down upon the holiness of God because he does not ask God if He allows him to do as such. He rationalises his actions based on what “all others are doing”. Actually, this is the reason why a generation becomes more and more fallen. When a person’s heart does not have the holy word of God, and the church also preaches less of God’s holiness, humans will set their own moral standards according to the current cultural ideals and trends. Lastly, they will also use God’s words and explain them as they please. American theologian R. C. Sproul spoke of some interesting trends in church history. It was said that in the 18th century, the message from the church pulpit was: “Man is very, very, very bad and that God is very, very, very mad.” A typical example is what Jonathan Edwards, the most famous American theologian had preached, “Sinners in the hands of an angry God”. It was said that when he was preaching that sermon, some people in the church trembled so much that they passed out on the spot while listening. Later in the 19th century, the message from the church pulpit (including the speaker’s style and tone) to the believers was, “Man isn’t quite so bad, and God’s not really quite so mad.” Later in the 20th century, the church pulpit went through a transformation, as though indirectly dividing God into two different attributes, one being the attributes of God in the Old Testament and the other being the attributes of God in the New Testament. God in the Old Testament is harsh and causes people to fear. God in the New Testament is very loving, such that people can draw close to Him. The 21st century is only beginning, but we will see that the mega churches that bring in large crowds almost never talk about human sins or God’s holiness, but only talk more about grace, power, gifts, miracles and healing power. Why is this so? Their argument is, “We are no longer under the law, but under grace.” In fact, as early as the second century, a very intelligent figure called Marcion emerged in the church history. He advocated a dual Christian belief system. This dual belief system talks about how God in the Old Testament was different from God in the New Testament. He believed that Jesus was the Savior sent by God, and Paul was greatly used as God’s chief apostle. But he rejected the God worshipped by the Hebrews in the Old Testament. He believed that this God was not in line with the teaching of grace and love brought by Christ. He believed that the God in the Old Testament was a God filled with jealousy, wrath, and was unpredictable, killing people one moment, burning people to death another moment, and asking the Israelites to completely destroy the Canaanites. He felt that it was a mismatch with Christ in the New Testament. Of course, such a person was proven to be a heretic eventually. But we ask, why people have such an opinion of God? The reason is that when they read the Bible, they do not know that God is holy. They only want to know God from their mortal disposition, so they are inclined towards knowing a God with love and mercy but without holiness. Nonetheless, we have to ask whether there are many believers today who have inclinations similar to Marcion. Do we often hear people say that God in the Old Testament is harsh and God in the New Testament is very loving? In fact, the God in the Old Testament is also the God in the New Testament. The New Testament is a fulfilment of the Old Testament, and the Old Testament is the foundation of the New Testament. We easily separate the two because we do not know the holiness of God. There is the holiness of God in the wrath of God, and there is also the holiness of God in His grace. We tremble in the wrath of God, and we must all the more tremble in the grace of God. In this way, the grace of God can transform us to live holy lives.

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