The Church of Jesus Christ Taiwan Restoration Mission
復原耶穌基督教會台灣佈道所
November 3rd, 2013 (Sunday 10:30am – 14:00pm)
Topic：God as Creator主題：神是造物者
“神是造物者” 是所有基督徒都深信不疑的事! 我們敬拜祂, 是建立在認知祂的權柄, 以及訂下規範和管理我們的生命上.
“God as Creator” is fundamental to the Christian faith. We worship Him, and recognize His authority to rule and govern our lives based on His work of creation.
神創造生物, 並以祂自己的形象創造了人類, 再以相似的規範創造其他物種.
God created life, making man in His own image and likeness to rule over the rest of creation.
神愛我們, 關心我們的生命, 是自腹中受胎起, 就已自己形象塑造他們.
God loves and cares for human life, including the pre-born, transferring His image to them.
唸完上面的字串, 長老 Duff 開口就問說 “想到上帝就想到什麼?” (我只注意一到歲末, 他就開始留鬍鬚, 聽說這可是有防寒效果, 差點沒聽到他的開場一問), Paul 趕緊pass 說”Love, Peace and Joy”.
以賽亞書 Isaiah 45:9
禍哉、那與造他的主爭論的、他不過是地上瓦片中的一塊瓦片．泥土豈可對摶弄他的說、你作甚麼呢．所作的物豈可說、你沒有手呢。
"Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker, to him who is but a potsherd among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, 'What are you making?' Does your work say, 'He has no hands'?
羅馬書 Romans 9:21
壺匠難道沒有權柄、從一團泥裡拿一塊作成貴重的器皿、又拿一塊作成卑賤的器皿麼。
Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?
“是的, 神愛世人, 已是眾所週知的事” 長老Duff 接著說, 因為祂的愛, 為我們創造了適宜人類居住的世界.
詩篇Psalm 95:6
來阿、我們要屈身敬拜、在造我們的耶和華面前跪下。
Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker;
以賽亞書 Isaiah 45:18
創造諸天的耶和華、製造成全大地的 神、他創造堅定大地、並非使地荒涼、是要給人居住．他如此說、我是耶和華、再沒有別神。
For this is what the LORD says--he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited--he says: "I am the LORD, and there is no other.
神, 也是上天入地唯一的真神, 除了形塑每人為獨一無二的個體, 更如牧羊者般的愛護我們, 也為我們帶來沒有悲傷和憂愁, 只有平安和喜悅的世界.
創世記 Genesis 1:1
起初 神創造天地。
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
詩篇 Psalm 100:3
你們當曉得耶和華是 神．我們是他造的、也是屬他的．我們是他的民、也是他草場的羊。
Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
創世記 Genesis 2:7-8
7 耶和華 神用地上的塵土造人、將生氣吹在他鼻孔裡、他就成了有靈的活人、名叫亞當。
the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
8 耶和華 神在東方的伊甸立了一個園子、把所造的人安置在那裡。
Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.
創世記 Genesis 1:27
神就照著自己的形像造人、乃是照著他的形像造男造女。
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
神所造的人, 有靈有肉, 我們敬拜 神, 是因為祂賜給我們擁有靈性與身體的生命, 並依照祂的計劃, 使我們因遵從祂的誡律, 而得到平安、喜悅和愛.
詩篇 95:6
來阿、我們要屈身敬拜、在造我們的耶和華面前跪下。
Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker;
詩篇 119:73
你的手製造我、建立我．求你賜我悟性、可以學習你的命令。
Your hands made me and formed me; give me understanding to learn your commands.
人的生命是有限的, 死後的肉體回歸土壤, 靈性就因你的信靠 神, 而得以永生. 所以肉體就只是一個皮囊, 我們也只是時間恆河裡暫駐的過客, 尋覓永生之道, 才能不枉此生.
使徒行傳 Acts 17:24-25
24 創造宇宙和其中萬物的 神、既是天地的主、就不住人手所造的殿．
"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands.
25 也不用人手服事、好像缺少甚麼、自己倒將生命、氣息、萬物、賜給萬人。
And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.
不像其他泥塑木雕的偶像, 還要三枝香或魚肉的侍候, 我們的 神, 不需奉祀. 祂也不是只要你賺錢自己拿來花, 而是要行善助人, 將取自 耶和華的恩賜, 回饋給大家; 從而建立一個和諧互助, 屏除對立的世界.
約伯記 Job 31:15
惟願有一位肯聽我、（看哪、在這裡有我所劃的押、願全能者回答我）
"Oh, that I had someone to hear me! I sign now my defense--let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser put his indictment in writing.
約翰福音 John 1:3
萬物是藉著他造的．凡被造的、沒有一樣不是藉著他造的。
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
耶利米書 Jeremiah 1:5
我未將你造在腹中、我已曉得你、你未出母胎、我已分別你為聖．我已派你作列國的先知。
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."
耶利米被告知將成為先知, 時年方25歲, 他相當的惶恐, 但仍接受 耶和華的揀選.
以弗所書 Ephesians 2:10
我們原是他的工作、在基督耶穌裡造成的、為要叫我們行善、就是 神所豫備叫我們行的。
For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
使徒行傳 Acts 17:26
他從一本造出萬族的人、〔本有古卷作血脈〕住在全地上、並且豫先定準他們的年限、和所住的疆界．
From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.
既然, 我們都是 神一手塑造的, 為何有膚色不同, 又為何會散居四處? 或許 神的本意, 就是要讓我們各自為生, 看看同一血脈的眾生, 是否真能如 祂所設計, 個個遵守誡律, 互助合作, 和諧團結? 目前看來, 似乎離 祂的設計~ 還有很長一段距離.
詩篇 Psalm 139:1-18, 23-24
1 〔大衛的詩、交與伶長。〕耶和華阿、你已經鑒察我、認識我．
For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.
2 我坐下、我起來、你都曉得．你從遠處知道我的意念。
You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 我行路、我躺臥、你都細察、你也深知我一切所行的。
You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
4 耶和華阿、我舌頭上的話、你沒有一句不知道的．
Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.
5 你在我前後環繞我、按手在我身上。
You hem me in--behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.
6 這樣的知識奇妙、是我不能測的．至高、是我不能及的。
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
7 我往那裡去躲避你的靈．我往那裡逃躲避你的面。
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
8 我若升到天上、你在那裡．我若在陰間下榻、你也在那裡。
If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 我若展開清晨的翅膀、飛到海極居住．
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 就是在那裡、你的手必引導我．你的右手、也必扶持我。
even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
神, 造物者, 我們看不見 祂在我們的身邊, 一如太陽下山了, 我們看不見, 但是我們知道太陽仍然是在運轉中一般, 祂依然時時刻刻環顧在我們身邊, 照顧著我們.
11 我若說、黑暗必定遮蔽我、我周圍的亮光必成為黑夜．
If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,"
12 黑暗也不能遮蔽我使你不見、黑夜卻如白晝發亮．黑暗和光明、在你看都是一樣。
even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
13 我的肺腑是你所造的．我在母腹中、你已覆庇我。
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 我要稱謝你、因我受造奇妙可畏．你的作為奇妙．這是我心深知道的。
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
15 我在暗中受造、在地的深處被聯絡、那時、我的形體並不向你隱藏。
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
16 我未成形的體質、你的眼早已看見了．你所定的日子、我尚未度一日、〔或作我被造的肢體尚未有其一〕你都寫在你的冊上了。
your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
17 神阿、你的意念向我何等寶貴．其數何等眾多。
How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
18 我若數點、比海沙更多．我睡醒的時候、仍和你同在。
Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.
23 神阿、求你鑒察我、知道我的心思、試煉我、知道我的意念．
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 看在我裡面有甚麼惡行沒有、引導我走永生的道路。
See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
常常有人感嘆漫漫生涯, 但是比之生命恆河, 實不過一瞬間而已, 所以, 如何讓自己在短暫的生命裡, 把瞬間化為永恆, 活得更充實、更有意義呢? 朋友! 我們已經找到那永生的道路, 邀請你們一起來探討, 更歡迎你們加入我們一起邁向永生之境的行列.
(Those Who Came：Eileen Chen, Eric Ho, Paul Lin, Rachel Yang, Wayne Lan, Claire Yen)
(Skype to：＜Daugherty＞Duff, Amanda; ＜Lade＞Rick, Nancy, Sarah, Amanda, Anna, David, Joseph; Jai-yu, Joshua; Maggie, Sashay, Uncel; Elizabeth)
^_^ Happy birthday to Wayne ^_^
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