撒母耳记上［第6章］
Book of 1 Samuel 6
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撒母耳记上［第6章］|Book of 1st Samuel 6【冒犯圣神人遭殃】
12/07/2023
引言：俗语说：识时务者为俊杰！
一、一个完整的刑罚季节（6:1）
七是个完整的数字，包括神对冒犯者的刑罚也是有计划的完整时限。这些犯罪的外邦人受够了病痛的折腾，才有假神偶像的祭司起来说话，但是假祭司的作为始终是一派胡言，非神法则。故此刑罚依旧，管教尚存，疾病还在，人还要继续招灾受祸。人生问题何尝不是如此，如果没有发现问题，走出困局，终其一生，也许都是受苦的经历，咒诅的人生。
二、宗教领袖的常理推论（6:2-12）
1.属灵问题找宗教领袖（V2）
上一章说到要送走约柜，当时是找非利士人的领袖。但是祸患不断在所到之处蔓延，到底该如何处理呢？最后只能找上偶像的宗教领袖。而假神的祭司和占卜的人士一般上都善于‘指点迷津’，让人言听计从，一味付出。结果迷失再迷失，越陷越深。
2.送礼赔罪是人之常理（V3）
赔罪送礼乃总所周知的人之常情；因此人在尚未真认识神之先，就已经认为神就和人一样，只要给神甜头、说说好话，就可以顺利过关。以为神好哄的人真是自取羞辱，自食其果。
3.以常理论事头头是道（V4-5）
身体有什么病就以金做成什么形状的金块？老鼠毁坏田地就制造金老鼠为礼物，只都是偶像式献礼。不但不蒙神悦纳，甚至还大大的羞辱神，冒犯神。
4.假祭司随意提供方案（V6-9）
未负轭又乳奶的母牛基本上就不可能拉车。一是乳牛未受过训练而不会拉车，二是乳牛不会离开还在喝奶的小牛。按此推论，牛车大概只会往回头走，那是排除神意，所经历的只是偶然事件。而母牛拉车若往以色列民之地走去，这就证明果然是神的作为。人可以发现真神、察觉神迹、但是是否愿意降服真神？那才是更重要的结果。
5.神真显出祂是记念子民（V10-12）
最后看到母牛果然把车拉往利未支派所居住的伯示麦去，这是神迹！这只能说，神是真的乐于回到选民的居所。即使选民没有主动来寻找约柜，要回约柜。可见，神是主动爱我们的，我们绝对不要辜负神的爱。
三、连选民也有热心没真理（6:13-21）
1.看见约柜而欢喜是对的（V13）
神的子民看见约柜就欢喜，这是对的，这是好事。神喜悦祂的子民欢喜迎接祂不是吗？对神有热心是好的，但是绝对不能没有真理，或者偏离正道。
2.将母牛献为燔祭是错的（V14）
按照献祭的规矩，利未人应该比一般人更清楚，利未记第一章就说到献燔祭必须是公牛犊，或者公羊。神是有规矩的神，尤其是执行律法的利未人都不明白这真理的话，这是显出以色列何等无知和错误不是吗？
3.连利未人都无知真该死（V15-21）
利未人理当是教导律法和执行律法的人，但是偏偏是他们显出对律法的无知。结果他们当中被神击杀的超过五万人，这是何等严厉和可怕的管教啊！我们怎么解读这个现象呢？是神残忍吗？不！是人不听从真理和悖逆。我们以为如今有耶稣基督恩典的新约就不同了，因为新约的主不再定罪。耶稣是这样说的吗？不！主说走永生窄路、得救的人少；走向灭亡大道的人多，将来灭亡的人何止五万？你说我们可以对信仰不认真吗？
总结：我们都要认真面对神
神的真的，祂的话语和应许也都是真的，我们要认真的学习敬畏神，尊从真理。
1 Samuel 6 Those who offend the God will suffer
GK611 Morning Devotion
12/7/2023
The Morning Devotion Speaker: Rev David Tan
Introduction:
whosoever understands the times is a great man.
1. A complete season of punishment (6:1)
Seven is a complete number and includes a planned complete time frame for God's punishment of the offender. These offending Gentiles had had enough of being tossed about in sickness and pain before the priests of the false idols of God rose up to speak, but the actions of the false priests were always a bunch of nonsense and not God's law. So the punishment remains, the discipline remains, the sickness remains, and the people continue to suffer. Life's problems are no different. If we don't recognise the problems and get out of the predicament, our whole life may be a life of suffering and cursing.
2. Common sense reasoning of religious leaders (V2-12)
(1)Spiritual problems go to the religious leaders (V2)
The previous chapter talked about sending away the ark of the Lord, and at that time it was the Philistine leaders who were approached. But the scourge kept spreading wherever it went, so what exactly was to be done about it? In the end the idolatrous religious leaders had to be approached. And the priests and diviners of false gods were generally good at 'showing the way' and getting people to do what they were told and give what they were told. As a result, they get lost and lost again, and fall deeper and deeper into the trap.
(2) Giving gifts to make amends for sins is common sense (V3)
Giving gifts to make amends for sins is a well-known common human practice; therefore, even before people really know God, they already think that God is just like human beings, and that they can get through the world by giving God sweet treats and saying nice things. Those who think that God is easy to coax really bring shame on themselves and eat their own fruit.
(3) Making the theory of common sense (V4-5)
What kind of disease is there in the body, then will use nuggets of gold to make into a shape? If a rat destroys a field, they make a golden rat as a gift, which is only an idolatrous offering. Not only were they not pleasing to God, but they even greatly humiliated Him and offended Him.
(4) False Priests Offer Random Programme (V6-9)
It is basically impossible for an unyoked and suckling cow to pull a cart. For one thing, the cow was not trained to pull a cart, and for another, the cow would not leave her calf, which was still drinking milk. By this reasoning, the ox-cart would probably only have gone backward, which would have precluded divine providence, and would have been experienced as a chance event. But if the oxen pulling the cart went toward the land of the people of Israel, this would be proof that it was indeed an act of God. One can discover the true God and perceive miracles, but is one willing to surrender to the true God? That is the more important result.
(5) God truly shows that He remembers His people (V10-12)
At the end, we see that the oxen did pull the cart to Beth Shemesh,, where the tribe of Levi lived, which was a miracle! This can only mean that God is truly pleased to return to the dwelling place of the elect. Even though the elect did not take the initiative to come and find the ark of the Lord and ask for it back. It is evident that God loves us on His own initiative, and we should never fail Him.
3. Even the elect have zeal without truth (V13-21)
(1) It is right to rejoice at the sight of the ark of the Lord (V13)
It is right and good for God's people to rejoice at the sight of the ark of the Lord. God delights in His people rejoicing to meet Him doesn't He? It is good to have a zeal for God, but never without the truth or straying from the right path.
(2) It was wrong to offer cows as burnt offerings (V14)
According to the rules of offering sacrifices, the Levites should have known better than the general public. Leviticus chapter 1 says that the burnt offering must be a male calf, or a ram. God is a God of rules, and the fact that the Levites in particular, who enforced the law, did not understand this truth, shows how ignorant and wrong Israel was, doesn't it?
(3) Even the Levites should be damned for their ignorance (V15-21)
The Levites were supposed to be the ones who taught and enforced the law, but it was they who showed their ignorance of the law. As a result, more than 50,000 of them were struck down by God, what a harsh and terrible discipline! How do we interpret this phenomenon? Was God cruel? No! It was man's disobedience and rebellion. We think that nowadays the new covenant with the grace of Jesus Christ is different, because the Lord of the new covenant no longer condemns. Is that what Jesus said? No! The Lord said that the number of those who walk the narrow path to eternal life and are saved is small; the number of those who walk the highway to perdition is great, and the number of those who will perish in the future will be more than 50,000? Do you think we can not be serious about our faith?
Conclusion: We all need to face God seriously
God's true, and His words and promises are all true, we need to seriously learn to fear God and honour the truth.
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