Sep 30【每日活水】你们是神圣的子民

 

申命记7:1~7

1「耶和华-你 神领你进入要得为业之地,从你面前赶出许多国民,就是赫人、革迦撒人、亚摩利人、迦南人、比利洗人、希未人、耶布斯人,共七国的民,都比你强大。

2耶和华-你 神将他们交给你击杀,那时你要把他们灭绝净尽,不可与他们立约,也不可怜恤他们。

3不可与他们结亲。不可将你的女儿嫁他们的儿子,也不可叫你的儿子娶他们的女儿;

4因为他必使你儿子转离不跟从主,去事奉别神,以致耶和华的怒气向你们发作,就速速地将你们灭绝。

5你们却要这样待他们:拆毁他们的祭坛,打碎他们的柱像,砍下他们的木偶,用火焚烧他们雕刻的偶像。

6因为你归耶和华-你 神为圣洁的民;耶和华-你 神从地上的万民中拣选你,特作自己的子民。

7「耶和华专爱你们,拣选你们,并非因你们的人数多于别民,原来你们的人数在万民中是最少的。

1When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—

2and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.

3Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

4for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods, and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you.

5This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire.

6For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

7The Lord did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

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内容观察

1.摩西吩咐以色列百姓要如何对待迦南人?(2节)

2.为什么摩西禁止百姓与迦南人通婚?(3~4节)

 

思考与默想

 

3.神为什么如此残忍,命令百姓完全消灭迦南人?(5节;参创15:16;出20:3~6)
 

个人感受

4.神称自己的百姓为神圣的子民,并要求他们在实际的生活中要圣洁,对此你有什么感受?
 

决心与应用

5.你认为自己在生活中有哪些事不合乎神的圣洁?

为了不与罪恶妥协,你要如何保守自己?

不可怜惜他们(2节):指放过该杀的对象或使用他们成为劳力。
不可与他们结亲(3节):透过婚姻让家门或种族间结合,就可能让其他文化和宗教渗透进来。
属于耶和华你神神圣的子民(6节):为了神的荣耀被神分别为圣。
创15:16“到了第四代,他们必回到这里,因为亚摩利人的罪恶到现在还没有满盈。
出20:3~6“除了我以外,你不可有别的神。不可为自己雕刻偶像….爱我,守我诫命的,我必向他们施慈爱,直到千代。

灵修指南

摩西向百姓宣布,神会带领他们战胜在迦南地的强国(1节)。但摩西强调,他们必须遵守神的旨意,完全消灭这些迦南人,不可与他们立约、结亲,也不可怜惜他们,并且要彻底清除当地的偶像(2~5节)。这是因为神希望自己的百姓彻底在外邦文化中分别为圣。神呼召以色列成为神圣的子民,不希望外邦偶像与异教风俗渗入他们的生活中,反倒要明白自己的身份,彻底履行使命。虽然某些事物会为群体会带来现实的益处,但若有损于神的圣洁,就万万不可留它。我们应当时时留心安逸的引诱,以致我们失去神圣子民的身份,背弃与神之间的关系。
 

内室祷告

求神让我持守圣洁的生活,成为无愧的神国子民。

 

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