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Book of Deuteronomy 5

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申命记 第五章|Book of Deuteronomy 5

【神与百姓立圣约】

主讲：区箴唤实习传道 + 陈炎明牧师

11/10/2022

引言：

讲到日常生活里的立约，我们常会想起合同。之所以要有合同，是因为我们需要它来保障我们的利益，好让那些属于我们的权益不被侵犯。

圣经中最常提到的立约，是神与我们所立的约，但这个约并非保障与我们立约的神不可侵犯我们的利益，而是神主动要把最好的福气赏给我们，所以祂与我们立约，并且祂盼望我们能够一直活在这个约中！

一、神与百姓在何烈山立约

1. 爱神的约（V1-11）

神与百姓在何烈山上立约，让百姓们首先透过十诫中的前3诫学习如何单单地来爱神，敬畏神。

2. 安息的约（V12-15）

来到十诫的第二部分（第4诫），神与百姓立安息的约，让百姓们真实体会神这位父亲必充充足足地供应他们。

3. 爱人的约（V16-21）

来到十诫的第三部分（第5到第10诫），神与百姓立爱人的约，让百姓们学习去爱人，并体会因着对人有爱而带来的和睦关系里的祝福。

二、百姓求摩西为他们传话（V22-27）

在这个立约的过程里，其实百姓在这样的一个超自然的环境里，看见神是何等的伟大和圣洁，而自己却是何等的污秽于是他们就深感敬畏，也求摩西来作为神人之间的中保来为他们传话。他们也表明在这个约中，他们愿意谨慎遵行神的吩咐。可是透过历史我们看到，他们并没有持守住当时他们所说的话，这是我们历史的借鉴。

三、神应允并期待百姓守约（V28-33）

最后，神应允了百姓想要中保的诉求，并期待百姓能够像他们所说的那样去守约，这样他们和他们的子孙后代必永远享福！

总结：

在何烈山上，神曾与以色列民立下圣约，让他们能够活出爱神爱人并得享安息的蒙福人生！而在当时这个神与他们非常超自然地相遇的经历里，以色列民都对神十分地敬畏，他们看到自己是何等的不洁和不配，所以他们表达他们愿意听神的吩咐，但是他们需要中保来为他们传话。

信实的神应允了他们的祈求，也盼望百姓能够带着这份敬畏的心去守约。可是历史上我们看到事情并没有这样去发展，以色列民多次悖逆，然后又多次经历神的救赎，这就成了今天我们所有神子民的历史借鉴！

Deuteronomy 5: God Makes A Covenant with The People
GK611 Morning Devotion
11/10/2022
Speaker: IP Moses Ou

Introduction:

When we talk about making a covenant in our daily life, we often think of contracts. The reason why we have contracts is that we need them to protect our benefit so that those rights that belong to us are not violated.

The covenant most often mentioned in the Bible is the covenant God makes with us, but this covenant is not a guarantee that the God who makes the covenant with us cannot infringe upon our interests, but that God takes the initiative to reward us with the best blessings, so He makes the covenant with us and He expects us to live in it all the time!

1. God Made a Covenant With the People at Mount Horeb

(1) The covenant of loving God (V1-11)

God made a covenant with the people on Mount Horeb, so that the people could first learn how to love and fear God through the first three commandments of the Ten Commandments.

(2) The covenant of rest (V12-15)

Coming to the second part of the Ten Commandments (the 4th commandment), God made a covenant of rest with the people so that they could truly experience that God, the Father, would provide for them in abundance.

(3) The covenant of loving people (V16-21)

Coming to the third part of the Ten Commandments (commandments 5 to 10), God makes a covenant with the people to love people so that they can learn to love people and experience the blessings in the harmony that comes from having love for people.

2. The People Asked Moses to Deliver a Message For Them (V22-27)

In this covenant process, in fact, the people saw how great and holy God was in such a supernatural setting, and how defiled they were, so they were in awe, and asked Moses to be their intercessor between God and man. They also showed that they were willing to be careful to do what God commanded them in this covenant. But through history we see that they did not keep what they said at that time, which is a lesson for our history.

3. God Promises and Expects the People to Keep the Covenant (V28-33)

Finally, God answered the people's request for intercession and expected them to keep the covenant as they said they would, so that they and their children's children would be blessed forever!

Conclusion:

On Mount Horeb, God had made a covenant with the people of Israel so that they could live a blessed life of loving God and loving people and enjoying rest! And in this experience of God's very supernatural encounter with them at that time, the people of Israel were in great fear of God, and they saw how unclean and unworthy they were, so they expressed their willingness to hear God's commands, but they needed a mediator to deliver the Word for them.

The faithful God answered their prayers, and expected the people to keep the covenant with this honour. But we see in history that things did not go this way. The people of Israel rebelled many times, and then experienced God's salvation many times, and this becomes a historical lesson for all of us in God's people today!