沒有神的智慧是什麼，林前2:6-13

 沒有神的智慧是什麼，林前2:6-13

2021/05/16 台南聖教會  高

思想：

1.你們中間也不可分黨，只要一心一意，彼此相合。

… 我是屬保羅的；我是屬亞波羅的；

我是屬磯法的；我是屬基督的。基督是分開的嗎？林前 1:10-13

2.弟兄們哪，可見你們蒙召的，按著肉體

   有智慧的不多，有能力的不多，有尊貴的也不多。

  神卻揀選了世上愚拙的，叫有智慧的羞愧；

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   法利賽人和文士私下議論說：這個人接待罪人，又同他們吃飯。,,,一個罪人悔改， 在天上也要這樣為他歡喜，較比為九十九個不用悔改的義人歡喜更大。 路15

1.世上的智慧? 這世上有權有位、 將要敗亡之人的智慧。

    然而，在完全的人中，我們也講智慧。但不是這世上的智慧， 也不是這世上有權有位、將要敗亡之人的智慧。 我們講的，乃是從前所隱藏、神奧祕的智慧， 就是神在萬世以前預定使我們得榮耀的。這智慧世上有權有位的人， 沒有一個知道的、他們若知道，就不把榮耀的主釘在十字架上了。

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這歷代以來隱藏在創造萬物之神裡的奧祕是如何安排的，為要藉著教會 使天上執政的、掌權的，現在得知神百般的智慧。這是照神從萬世以前 ，在我們主基督耶穌裡所定的旨意。 弗3:9-11

哥林多前書 1 Corinthians 15:23-24

2.眼睛看得見，耳朵聽得見，人心想得到的 ?

  神為愛他的人所預備的是 眼睛未曾看見，耳朵未曾聽見，人心也未曾想到的。 2:9 ……………………………………………………………………………… 因為天國的奧祕只叫你們知道，不叫他們知道。凡有的，還要加給他，叫他有餘； 凡沒有的，連他所有的，也要奪去。所以我用比喻對他們講 … 在他們身上， 正應了以賽亞的預言，說：你們聽是要聽見，卻不明白；看是要看見，卻不曉得； 因為這百姓油蒙了心，耳朵發沉，眼睛閉著， 恐怕眼睛看見，耳朵聽見，心裡明白，回轉過來，我就醫治他們。?? 但你們的眼睛是有福的，因為看見了；你們的耳朵也是有福的，因為聽見了。 太13:11-17

若早知道 ? 

• 紅海會分開 … 百姓會抱怨攻擊摩西嗎 ?  

• 5000人可以吃飽 … 還輪的到小孩的五餅二魚嗎 ?

• 耶利哥城會倒下來 … 喇合就不須這麼困難分別了 ? 

• 獅子坑的反差 … 那些總掌還敢陷害但以理嗎 ? 

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 • 主會復活 … 猶大還敢賣主嗎

3.聖靈參透萬事，就是 神深奧的事也參透了。

  只有神藉著聖靈向我們顯明了， 因為聖靈參透萬事，就是神深奧的事也參透了。 除了在人裡頭的靈，誰知道人的事；像這樣， 除了神的靈，也沒有人知道神的事。 我們所領受的，並不是世上的靈， 乃是從神來的靈，叫我們能知道神開恩賜給我們的事。 並且我們講說這些事，不是用人智慧所指教的言語， 乃是用聖靈所指教的言語，將屬靈的話解釋屬靈的事。 2:10-13

敬畏耶和華是智慧的開端；認識至聖者便是聰明。 箴9:10

況且我們的軟弱有聖靈幫助，我們本不曉得當怎樣禱告， 只是聖靈親自用說不出來的歎息替我們禱告。鑒察人心的， 曉得聖靈的意思，因為聖靈照著神的旨意替聖徒祈求。 我們曉得萬事都互相效力，叫愛神的人得益處， 就是按他旨意被召的人。 羅8:26-28 ………………………………………………………………………………… 

誰敬畏耶和華，耶和華必指示他當選擇的道路。 他必安然居住；他的後裔必承受地土。 耶和華與敬畏他的人親密；他必將自己的約指示他們。 詩25:12-14

林前 1:10-13

Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning

Exodus 27:1-21

Build an altar of acacia wood, three cubits high; it is to be square, five cubits long and five cubits wide. Make a horn at each of the four corners, so that the horns and the altar are of one piece, and overlay the altar with bronze. Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots to remove the ashes, and its shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks and firepans. 

Make a courtyard for the tabernacle. The south side shall be a hundred cubits long and is to have curtains of finely twisted linen, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases and with silver hooks and bands on the posts. The north side shall also be a hundred cubits long and is to have curtains, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.

The west end of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits wide and have curtains, with ten posts and ten bases. On the east end, toward the sunrise, the courtyard shall also be fifty cubits wide. 

For the entrance to the courtyard, provide a curtain twenty cubits long, of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen—the work of an embroiderer—with four posts and four bases.

Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning. In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law, Aaron and his sons are to keep the lamps burning before the Lord from evening till morning. This is to be a lasting ordinance among the Israelites for the generations to come.

Why?

Keep the lamp burning, which means the Lord is with them always. 

This is the duty of Aaron, for only Aaron and his sons may enter the Tabernacle. Israelite has the duty to supply the clear oil of olives for the lights. 

Every Christian has the responsibility to serve the Lord in a different way and position.

How?

Serve the Lord with the capability that Lord gives me.

The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place

Exodus 26:15-37

Make upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle. Each frame is to be ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide, with two projections set parallel to each other. Make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way. Make twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle and make forty silver bases to go under them—two bases for each frame, one under each projection. 

Also make crossbars of acacia wood: five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle, five for those on the other side, and five for the frames on the west, at the far end of the tabernacle.

Make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen, with cherubim woven into it by a skilled worker.  Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases. Hang the curtain from the clasps and place the ark of the covenant law behind the curtain. The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place. Put the atonement cover on the ark of the covenant law in the Most Holy Place. Place the table outside the curtain on the north side of the tabernacle and put the lampstand opposite it on the south side.

For the entrance to the tent make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen—the work of an embroiderer. Make gold hooks for this curtain and five posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold. And cast five bronze bases for them.

The people of the ancient Near East were skilled in spinning, weaving, and using natural dyes (scarlet from the cochineal insect; purple, for the wealthy, from the murex shellfish). Fine embroidery was also produced. Precious and semiprecious stones were rounded, polished, and engraved. Gold and silver were beaten and worked into elaborate design. All these skills God called into play for the construction of his Tent.

Why?

The Lord told Moses every detail design of the tabernacle. For it is the place for the Lord. Everything has to do follow the way of the Lord. So if we like to honor the name of the Lord have to do follow the way of the Lord.

The curtain separates the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place, this is to distinguish between people who serve the Lord. Where I am in the tabernacle? Everyone who accepts Jesus as our master in our life, we are the sons of the Lord, we may stand in the Holy Place to serve and pray to the Lord. 

How?

Pray to the Lord directly is the highest position and role before the Lord. May my life and my behavior can honor the name of the Lord!

Make the tabernacle

Exodus 26:1-14

Make the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, with cherubim woven into them by a skilled worker. All the curtains are to be the same size—twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide. Join five of the curtains together, and do the same with the other five.

Make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven altogether. All eleven curtains are to be the same size—thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.

Make for the tent a covering of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of the other durable leather.

Many of the materials used were brought by the Israelites from Egypt and willingly given so that God's Tent might be as worthy of him as they could make it. Where there are no banks it is practical to convert wealth into jewellery, which can be worn and carried around easily. Wood is scarce in the Sinai desert" the acacia is one of the few trees which grow there. Their own herds provided skins.

Why?

They used much material to build the tent of the Lord, many of it is provided by Israelites.

God's home belongs to his people, so the church belongs to Christians. It is our home of the Lord in the world.

Build the church and keep it holy is the word to all Christians.

How?

God has given the most precious gift to us, so we have to feedback our all to the Lord, for God is good!

Make a table of acacia wood and seven lamps

 Exodus 25:23-40

Make a table of acacia wood—two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high.

And make its plates and dishes of pure gold, as well as its pitchers and bowls for the pouring out of offerings. Put the bread of the Presence on this table to be before me at all times.

Make a lampstand of pure gold. Hammer out its base and shaft, and make its flowerlike cups, buds and blossoms of one piece with them. Six branches are to extend from the sides of the lampstand—three on one side and three on the other. 

Then make its seven lamps and set them up on it so that they light the space in front of it. Its wick trimmers and trays are to be of pure gold. A talent of pure gold is to be used for the lampstand and all these accessories. See that you make them according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.

Why?

Here is the instruction on how to make a table of acacia wood, seven lampstands.

Bread of the Presence on this table all times

Everything before the Lord has to be built with God's way. For worship to the Lord have to follow the way of the Lord. Worship is not by our own idea, way, and time. 

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陳設桌和燈台，與37章記載相同。神供應的餅(東西)是都是屬靈的，分別為聖的。桌子有邊，代表有神的保守。金環：要抬起來。要高舉神的恩典。陳設餅，神的供應是常常更新的，每週換一次，每時每刻沒有缺乏。神的供應是豐富精彩的，如各樣的器皿多樣化。

燈臺：不是接出來的，是一塊金子打出來的，金燈臺發光是照亮陳設餅，光要叫人看見豐富的供應。有七個燈臺，七是完全的，代表完全的靈，也代表教會，教會要發光，叫人看見陳設餅，神的供應。教會是一個身體，基督的身體。

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How?

Worship the Lord with all my heart and honor the name of the Lord, I am a servant before the Lord.

Have them make an ark of acacia wood

Exodus 25:10-22

Have them make an ark of acacia wood—two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high. Overlay it with pure gold, both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it. Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other. Then make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry it. The poles are to remain in the rings of this ark; they are not to be removed. Then put in the ark the tablets of the covenant law, which I will give you.

Make an atonement cover of pure gold—two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. And make two cherubim out of hammered gold at the ends of the cover.

The cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the cover. Place the cover on top of the ark and put in the ark the tablets of the covenant law that I will give you. There, above the cover between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the covenant law, I will meet with you and give you all my commands for the Israelites.

Portable, prefabricated tent shrines similar to God's Tent were constructed in Egypt even earlier than this. Here, although the description is detailed, some practical points are missing it is not a complete blueprint. The roof of the tent, for example, may have been flat or raised with a ridge-pole.

Why?

The Ark is an important part of the Tabernacle. So God shows the material and shape and size of it. 

Between two cherubim over the ark is the place God will meet Moses and give commands for the Israelites.

The Ark is the symbol place of the Lord in the world with his people Israelite. Inside the ark is the tablets of the covenant law, it is the word of the Lord.

Pure gold means holy and forever of the Lord.

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神指示摩西約櫃的做法。37章講製造過程。

施恩座是一塊用金做的板子，與約櫃的長寬一樣，等於是約櫃上方的蓋子。約櫃裏面放十誡的石板，律法要定人的罪，施恩座把律法的罪蓋起來，讓神不再追究人的罪。上方有金牙邊在四角，施恩座不會滑出來，石板不會露出來，控告人。即因信稱義的真理穩固，不會改變。

施恩座上有基路伯，基路伯有翅膀，表示神的恩典不停止。基路伯看贖罪的血，贖罪的血撒在施恩座上而不看東邊，不看人的罪。

神會見人，是在施恩座上，位置沒有很高，與人親近。會幕最重要的是約櫃，是神與人同在，神向人說話的地方。啟示時最早說約櫃，製造時卻最後才做約櫃，會幕好了，約櫃可以被進去會幕。

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How?

God's word is the power and the love of his people.

You are to receive the offering for me from everyone whose heart prompts them to give敬拜

Exodus 25:1-9

The Lord said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites to bring me an offering. You are to receive the offering for me from everyone whose heart prompts them to give. These are the offerings you are to receive from them: gold, silver and bronze; blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen; goat hair; ram skins dyed red and another type of durable leather[a]; acacia wood; olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense; and onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the ephod and breast piece.

“Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them. Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you.

God has brought the nation out of Egypt. He has set out the terms of his covenant and they have been agreed. Now, as a visible sign that these are his people, he gives Moses instructions to make him a special tent; God is to have a home-like theirs and live among them.

Why?

God likes to live among his people, so God instructed Moses what offering should bring to the Lord, and the pattern of the tabernacle has to follow. Then God will live among his people.

Because the Lord loves his people so God likes to live among his people, Actually, it shows the love of the Lord come upon us.

The Lord needs is our heart to fully devote ourselves to the Lord, for this love has to be holy and pure.

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建造會幕的人是誰?所有以色列人。不是單單摩西的責任，長老的責任。每個人都有份。神的同在是每個人都同在。建造教會是每個弟兄姊妹的責任。

建造的材料來源，來自全民，沒有牛半等，預備敬拜的場地，用敬拜的方式來預備場地。預備心來敬拜就是敬拜了。沒有建造以前的奉獻，就沒有會幕來敬拜，沒有會前的敬拜，就沒有公共的敬拜。

材料的內容：金，銀，銅。金：尊貴，銅：外院器具，人的價值。木材：皂莢木，實用的，寶石。三色線代表基督的榮耀。細麻布：純正、潔淨。染紅的公羊皮：耶穌的寶血，海狗皮不好看，耶穌的沒有佳形美容。會幕建造目的在彰顯神的同在，是我們到神面前的一條路。

建造的方式，要照神指示的樣式。不可按自己的想法來造，若是神有指示的不可更改，這條路是神開的，不是按照人的方式。敬拜不是照自己習慣、喜好、方便、時間，而是按照神的方式、時間。按照神的真理來敬拜。敬拜是要討神的喜歡，不是討人的喜歡。禮物是要有規範的。

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How?

The Lord is everything in my life. Humble me and love the Lord!