十字架與我,希九26~28.
基督徒喜歡在頸項上帶十字架,象徵或見證我與基督的關係.
教堂用十字架來彰顯她的存在,告訴人神的愛.神的救贖,人的盼望.
但是,你可知到嗎?十字架原是古羅馬一種極殘忍的刑罰工具,將人活生生地釘在十字架上.三口十寸長的鐵釘釘入左手掌上,然後聽見“呀”的一聲,再拿起犯人的手,又釘在右手掌上,你再聽見“哎呀,呀”的慘痛聲.羅馬士兵再將犯人的雙腳搭在一起,再釘上去,你會聽見“呀,呀”的叫聲,悽慘絕倫.
這三口十寸長爆炸式的長釘,本來是釘在你的雙手,你的雙腳上.如今,主耶蘇為了愛你,為你承受了這三口十寸的長釘.您又有甚麼的感想?二千年來,十字架成為神愛世人最偉大的象徵,它代表神偉大的愛和犧牲.十字架的符號簡單,但卻屬於世界上每一個人的.因著十字架,警察和殺人犯成為弟兄姊妹,(有學問)(黑人白人)(共產資本)......他們在十字架的旗下,產生了世上最大的群體~教會.
因此,每一次受難節,我們就想起神的愛和赦免,心里充滿感謝和讚美,使我們不得不傳揚這古舊的救恩.不得不記念主的受苦受難.我們從今以後,不再誇別的,只誇基督并祂釘十字架.
本論
(一)人人有一死 希九27
[按著定命,人人都有一死,死後且有審判].我們的遭遇各人有所不同,有人富貴命,有人勞苦命,有人一生在溫室中長大,有人感到人生簡直是悲劇,終生痛苦,淒涼.聖經說:[人的命運,是失敗,是必死,滅亡.]
有一個故事,提到有一大官生了兒子,前來道賀的人說:{這孩子天庭飽滿,有大官 相,}又有人說:[這孩子鼻子高挺,有富貴相,]又有人說:[這孩子耳朵厚且大,董事長相,]唯有一人搖頭說:[[必死無疑,他有死人相.] 當然,這人正煞風景,不識台舉.但有誰可以否定他的說法呢?沒有人可以保証這孩子,長大後可以做大官,必富貴,當董事,但你我都知道,他必死無疑!這就是人類的命運.
羅馬書五12節[......罪是從一人入了世界,死又是從罪而來的,於是死就臨到眾人,因為眾人都犯了罪.]
這世界有好人,但沒有義人.連一個都沒有,所有的人都偏行己路.[世人都犯了罪,虧欠了神的榮耀.][罪的工價乃是死.]因此,沒有一個人可以逃離死亡.(張潤萍父.**陳如祥哮喘病)
難到這就是人的命運嗎?
二) 基督替人人釘在十字架上.(28)
希伯來九28說:[像這樣,基督既然一次被獻,擔當了多人的罪.]
我們人犯罪,應當受審,受刑罰,死亡.然而,基督代替你受死,受刑罰,流血捨身,死在十字架上.主的死,帶給我們新希望.
1)十字架帶給你我,與神和好 林後五:1.7~21)
十字架用樅橫木組成.樅代表基督在十字架上所建立的,神人之間的團契.橫代表基督在十字架上所建立,人人之間的團契.正如保羅說:[你們從前遠離神的人,如今卻在基督里靠祂的血(十字架),已經得親近(團契)了.因祂使我們和睦,將兩下合而為一(團契),拆毀了中間隔斷的牆.](弗二13~14).
人類的罪惡,造成人與人,人與神的隔離.因此,造成這個世界上的人,彼此摩察.人與人,人與神,的摩察,(團體的對立,民族的仇恨,國家的戰爭).這一卻,都是人類的罪惡所造成,人類要負起責任.基督的十字架折除了人與人,人與神的隔膜,以無比的愛來建立人神的橋樑.
當人與神的關係正常化,人與人的關係也會正常化.因為人與神的關係,是人與人關係的基礎.再進一步來說,當一個人恢愎人與神,人與人的關係正常化,這個人就同時恢愎與自己的關係正常化,他就有自信心,就會快樂.人生就會有意義.
2)十字架說明神的愛,長闊高深. (弗三18~19)
保羅說:[你們能以和眾聖徒一同明白基督的愛,是何等的長闊高深.并知道這愛是過紆人所能測度的.]
十字架有四角,橫木代表長與闊,樅代表高與深.
(A)長與闊:基督對人的愛,不分東西南北,貧富智愚,白人黑人,黃種紅種.萬國萬民,基督的寶血都要潔淨,一個人向主耶蘇悔改,沒有人可以跑出主的愛手中.
*父親問小女兒.你愛我有多深......
(B)高深:基督從天降生,卑微降生在馬糟里,作下人,作奴僕,被棄絕,受藐視......
主的愛臨到罪惡最深的人,墮落深坑的人.祂被稱為罪人的朋友,主的愛,感動罪惡最深的人,像先知說:神將我們的罪,投在最深的海中,永不紀念.
3)十字架表徵神有慈愛和公義 (來九14)
如果,神只有慈愛,就不會有各各他山上的字架,因為神可以無條件地赦免人類一的過犯;再從另一方面來說,如果,神只有公義,也不會有十字架,因為神可以無情的審判人類,給於地獄的刑罰.但是,神是慈愛又有公義.神絕不能背乎本性作任何一件事,因此,主耶蘇為甚麼必須死在十字架上的基本原因.基督的死,就表明神是慈愛的,同時神又是公義的.十字架就表明神的慈愛和公義.
(在這個代死的倫理上,我們要知道神與基督是合而為一的,所以,十字架就是神為人類受苦的記號,,基督在十字架上所受的痛苦,就是神自己所受的苦.若我們忽略這在神學的真理,就以為神叫第三者代替人受罪,那麼,這就是一件不慈愛和不公義的事.
***古代希臘有一個皇帝,說明愛和義兩全的道理.國王下昭全國人民,不可作惡,違者將遭受剜眼睛的刑罰.下令之後,竟然有人違令,違令者不是別人,正是太子.國王左右為難,赦免太子呢,還是執行法令呢?最後,國王作了一個痛苦的決定;挖出自己的一隻眼睛,又挖出太子的一隻眼.國王這樣做,既可保持法令的尊嚴,又成全他的慈愛.照樣,我們在十字架上,看見神的公義和慈愛.
(4)十字架重建人的生命. 來九18~21;25~28. 林後五17~21.
這兩段經文講甚麼呢?就是講舊約的獻祭制度用羔羊的血來贖罪,又講到新約,主耶蘇不用羔羊的血,用十字架,所以十字架上所流的寶血,就是神救贖能力.神藉著十字架重建人的生命.
(A)重建人性,愛的品性
基督愛世人,為人曦牲.你對人,特別給你痲煩的人,你能為他祝福嗎?基督給你一個功課,為人祝福.
B)重建生命,與基督同行的生命. 生命是神,將一口氣吹在人的鼻孔里,人就成為有靈的活人.可惜人犯罪,就滅 亡了.基督在十字架上救贖了我們,給我們新的生命,因此,我們的生命是從基 督開始.你一的成就也是從基督開始,假若有一天,你有苦難,人的盡頭,也 就是神的開始.你的每一天,要讓基督參予.你的工作(婚姻,健康......)
(C)重建你的事奉
每一個享受了十字架救恩的基督徒,都有一個無可推諉的責任.就是背十字架和傳揚十字架的救恩.我們絕不能做一個要權利而不負責任的基督徒.
三)結論
十字架是古羅馬最慘痛的刑罰.碰,碰,碰.三口長釘,是釘在你的手上.釘在你的腳下,痛苦的是你,要死的是你,如今,基督為你而死,救贖你.你有甚麼回應.
2011年7月22日星期五
阿拉法是俄梅戛
阿拉法是俄梅戛(、創始成終的耶穌)(昔在今在永在的全能者) 經文:希伯來書12:2 ;啟示錄1:8;啟示錄 11:15-19。
希伯來書12:2:仰望為我們信心創始成終的耶穌(或作:仰望那將 真道創始成終的耶穌)。他因那擺在前面的喜樂, 就輕看羞辱, 忍受了十字架的苦難, 便坐在神寶座的右邊。
一‧引言
今天我教大家認識兩個希臘字:α和Ω;(Alpha ,Omega)
阿拉法α,俄梅戛Ω,亞米加手錶Omega Ω,就是這個符號。小字告訴我們,Alpha ,Omega兩字,是希臘文的首、末的意思。好像英文字母AZ。
耶穌基督在這裡告訴我們,祂是阿拉法,祂是俄梅戛,耶穌基督非常清楚的告訴我們說,耶穌基督是一位首先的,也是末后的。意思希伯來書的作者補充說:『仰望為我們信心創始成終的耶穌』(或作:仰望那將 真道創始成終的耶穌)(12:2)。
但耶和華向摩西介紹自己說:我是自由永有(出3:14)。
我們時常說:『我們的神是三位一體的神是自有永有,永生,永恆,祝福的時候沒說,永永遠遠』。
在啟示錄這裡講的很清楚了。
二、本論:
(1)昔在
主耶穌說,我是阿拉法α,意思是說:耶穌基督是創始者,是首先的,是最初。
世界從何而來,很多人相信石頭變得。基督徒相信是神創造這個世界。
箴言八22節,『在耶和華造化的起頭,在太初創造萬物之先,就有了我。』和
約翰一1節:『太初有道,道與神同在』。耶穌是太初的道,太初就有耶穌基督。
摩西問神說:『你是誰?』耶和華神說:『我是自有永有的』。
因此,我們相信世界來自神的創造,不是石頭變的。
不過,有人問,聖經記載聖經的歷史只有7000~10000年,而世界考古學告訴我們,地球有幾億萬年,為什麼衝突那麽大,差別那麽大,怎樣是神的創造呢?
剛才的經文不是給了我們答案嗎?
很久以前,耶穌基督已經存在,耶穌基督是昔在今在永在的全能者。難道我們的神是幾億萬年嗎,肯定不是,太初,自有永有;是不知年。
假如你說地球有一億萬年,自有永有的耶穌基督肯定不止一億萬年。剛好證明神的自有永有。以前是多麼恆久。
2)永在
耶穌說,我是俄梅戛Ω,是,末后。
我們的生命,只有10年,50年,80~90年,我們就不在人間。我們的人生只有70~80~90年的生命嗎?人死后就完了嗎?
聖經告訴我們,我們的人生真的只有幾十年,可是,我們的靈魂,是永恒的,有永生和永死的。
耶穌基督告訴我們,有耶穌的的就有永生,沒有耶穌就沒有永生。
各位,你相信耶穌基督嗎?相信,你就有永生,不相信,就沒有永生。這是聖經的應許。
永在,就是明天的意思,明天的明天,就是一個永恒的時間,明天永遠來臨,明天是誰掌管,既然耶穌基督是永遠的,就是耶穌基督掌管明天。
明天是一個奧秘?明天,將來,非常神秘?假的宗教好玄學家、相學家,就是利用人對將來的憂慮,來迷惑人。
最近,不是說世界的末日嗎?很多人不關心又關心,不相信又相信,不知道有很想知道,因為明天永遠是一個謎。
新聞不是有甜甜和陳先生的事情嗎?就是用人對明天的憂慮,來控制人。
明天,雖然是一個迷?,可是我們也可以掌控明天。比如說,明天,明年我搬去美國,我們掌握和相信。明天上班工作等,
可是,你真的知道明天一定會工作嗎?不一定?
有一位金融界的弟兄告訴我(潘國華):你知道一秒前的事情,已經不得了,了不得,能知道一秒的事情,是得不了的。
明天,怎樣,我們不知道,有人說,明天的我們還能穿回我們的鞋子,已經是一個恩典,
香港有一個金磚的老板林先生,就是一睡就永別了,不能起床了。
2008年年底,我探訪一位球友李先生,他說,太太需要耶穌,叫我帶領他太太信耶穌,因為我拜拜之後,她會得到耶穌的幫助。
李先生是一位很愛大羽毛球的,他提早退休,就是打羽毛球就快樂,又健康,有耐力。有一天,他要起身,不能起床,失去健康,不能走路,不知道為甚麼。
每一年年底,算命的先生女士就會說運程,預測流年,答案只有兩個,一定是很準確和不準確。
百分一百對,百分一百錯,錯的沒有知道,對了,一鳴驚人了。
今天一些的的基督教也學了迷惑人未來學,叫現代的視圖和先知,知道你的過去好未來,看見你的將來。
我看見這些預測,我很難過,如果可以預測地震,四川就不會死了這麼多學生,如果可以預測,就沒毒奶粉,就沒有金融海嘯了,沒有911了,沒有H1N1了。明日之後怎樣,沒有人知道,聖經說,能告訴你將來的事情的人,或許是走火入魔,是迷惑著的門徒。
啟示錄記載聖經說,只有三一的神知道未來,三一的神是『昔在永在,創始成終者』。
因此,明日,明天,將來是在基督的手中,故此,耶穌基督為甚麽要我們不要為明天憂慮。
因此,耶穌基督叫我們驚醒,因為,耶穌基督會再來,幾時來,沒有人知道。
因此,明天如何,我們不知道,可是我們知道我們有永生的主,祂就在那里等待我們。
(3)昔在,永在的兩端
既然耶穌基督是開始,也是結束,在開始和結束的兩端的中間,有誰來掌管,當然也是耶穌基督掌管。
在這一條的線路上,就是我們今天歷史,是今在,是當下。
因此,我們的神歷史的神,是掌管歷史的神。各位,你信得過神的掌管一切嗎?
聖經的歷史觀,時間觀:是一條直線,開始到永遠。而中國人的歷史觀和時間觀,是波浪形的,所謂否極泰來,轉運,風水,相命,中國人就很吃香。
聖經的時間觀和歷史觀是一條直線,開始了以後,就一直往永恆跑。一直到永恆的日子。因此,基督徒活在世界,面對世界所發生的事件和問題,我們不能逃走?歷史苦難,我們不能逃避,沙士來到,我們不能逃避,你會面對它的傷害,猶太人六百萬被殺,猶太人不能逃避。我們就要面對歷史的事件和問題。
有一個同工,被信徒邀請,向一個女士傳福音,因為女士運氣不好,看看耶穌基督能不能幫助他。
他的問題是工作不順利,爸爸叫她回去士多幫忙(罵父親去死,不再雇傭她,又失業)
我的同事告訴我,去到她的家,就嚇你一跳,她的門一邊金色,一邊黃色,說可以避邪轉運。(我的同事說,那位女士不是要轉運,乃是要改變脾氣)
各位,我們活在世間,歷史學家告訴我們,我們人類正在寫歷史,歷史有太平盛世,有戰爭年年,我們活在歷史中間,我們活在香港,我們的社會是現實的歷史,金融海嘯來,我們這些歷史人物,一定不能置身度外,一起面對,有人很慘,有人沒有事情,有人失業,有人還有工作,有人賺錢有人破產。
正如傳道書三章一樣,生有時,死有時,得失有時,喜樂悲哀有時。
明天如何,我們不知道,我們只管帶著信心,勇氣,和基督使命為主而活。
三、昔在今在永在的真理給我甚麼教導
1、我們活在當下,可是我們已經得到永生。
基督的最大福氣,就是活在今天,已經得到永生。永生不是死了才得到,是信耶穌為救主的一刻,就已經得到永生。
例子:好像錄影好的球賽,尖浸對曼聯,成績1:0,尖浸勝利。曼聯如何攻擊,球是不會進去的,因為成績是1:0 。
各位不要以為我開玩笑;大家有沒有看少林足球;周星馳的少林足球,就有這個味道。
我們對曼聯,1:0,尖浸勝利;
在香港有允少龍,殺死外籍情侶的,信了耶穌基督得到永生。
臺灣的白冰冰女兒白曉燕被綁架撕票,警察追捕殺人犯陳進興候,陳進興闖入南非大使館武官家中,夾持大使卓懋祺一家五口,使整件事情升高成為國際事件。不知道為甚麼,他投降,後來殺人犯陳進興信了耶穌.
我們無論犯了甚麽大罪,錯了甚麼,只要我們信耶穌為救主,我們就得到救恩。活在基督里的恩典。
2、昔在今在永在還給我們甚麼的屬靈恩典
1, 人生有許多不如意的事情,特別公義的問題,世界有沒有公義,有,沒有;
我們人與人接觸,有許多是非黑白,許多爭論,我們解決不來,申冤無門,我們只有啞子吃黃連,有苦無路訴;
各位,聖經說,耶穌基督是AZ,因為有最後,因此,基督在將來的白色大寶座,為我們申冤。
因此,耶穌基督有時教導我們,不要為自己申冤,不要老是討回公道,能討的去討,許多時候討不來,這樣就算了嗎?在末日的時候,一件一件的事情,都在耶穌基督的面前公開,擺平。主耶穌一定給我們申冤。
因此,基督徒不會白白做好人,沒有永在,只有今在,就一定白白做好人。
若沒有將來的審判,做壞事享受一切,被人罵沒有德行,有如何,反正沒有將來的審判,犯罪又賺到錢,又做善事,是不是聰明人?
賴昌星逃亡了12年,公義追趕著他,最終被遣返。
3、十一15說『世上的國,成了我主和主基督的國,祂要作王直到永永遠遠。』
世上的國,基督作王,就是天國在地上的彰顯。基督徒活在今天,讓人看見,體驗那看不見的永生,天堂,就是因為基督活在基督徒的心裡,基督徒讓基督掌權,基督徒的使命,基督徒的愛心,基督徒的信心‘喜樂/和平等,讓基督掌權。
世上的國,就是基督的國,基督的國不是世界上的國,世上的國,是用霸權,用武力。在索馬里,人民沒得吃,也要發動戰爭發展,見到人民沒五分鐘就餓死一個(北韓,印度、巴基斯坦,人民沒得吃,還要擴軍)。
基督的國在那裡,基督的國就是基督徒,基督徒在世界上生活,讓人看見基督。基督就在哪里,哪里有基督徒,哪里就有天國,永生,平安,就有醫治。
故事:25歲的海華,有一位45歲的同事,丈夫失業,又被人逼遷;雙重打擊,很不開心。海華看見同事不開心,怎樣辦,帶她參加麥基佈道會;信主了,年輕姐妹怎樣幫助這位年長的姐妹?帶她參加教會的成年團,有成年團關顧,支持。後來受浸,之後,丈夫有工作。又租到一間又大又便宜的房子。憂傷變成感恩了。就邀請我們到她的家開感恩會。
那天在感恩會,她說出他的經歷,她說,我信了耶穌,心中有平安,我信耶穌不敢給丈夫知道,怕丈夫反對。
當天他的丈夫回應說:『這樣的重要的決定要告訴我嗎?我看見你耶穌基督,耶穌基督幫助你,我怎樣會反對呢?』
天堂在哪里?你是誰?基督的精兵,基督徒,你里面有基督,已經是天國大使的代表了。諸位,讓人從你看見耶穌。
4、我們活在當下,明天如何,我們只有信靠(不明白神的旨意如何,懷疑失去平安,信靠會感恩)黃黎明的妹夫,住在太平
有一個熱心傳福音的會計師基督徒,很多年前,頭痛,發現腦積水,要開刀才痊癒,但是,一個熱心的基督徒為甚麼會有這麼重的病,之不會明白。
又有一天,他在公司跌了一跤,碰到頭,受傷,以後發燒,發燒不退,醫不好,碰到頭,照腦,醫生沒有發現,還是發燒,他就到我另外一位基督徒的腦科那裡求醫,腦科醫生看他的腦掃描記錄,叫他快快來開刀,發現腦裏面有溢血,不開刀後果不一樣。這位腦科醫生說,你非常幸運,因為,你的腦有一個空穴,那些血流了進去,不然,已經沒命了。
回想起,一次的腦積水,一次在公司碰到頭,兩次都要開腦,想不通,為甚麼神給我這個病;
想不到這個病,就是救回生命的一次意外。
5、在這一條線上面,聖經告訴我們,耶穌道成肉身,降世為人,又回到天上,差派聖靈住在我們內心。
加拉太4:4~6,及至時候滿足,神就差遣他的兒子,為女子所生,且生在律法以下, 要把律法以下的人贖出來,叫我們得著兒子的名分。
你們既為兒子,神就差他兒子的靈進入你們(原文作我們)的心,呼叫:阿爸!父! 可見,從此以後,你不是奴僕,乃是兒子了;既是兒子,就靠著神為後嗣。
我們活在當下,可是,我們有這位昔在永在的神,他道成肉身,就住在我們當中,復活升天,就差派聖靈住在我們的旁邊,永遠與我們同在,保護我們安慰我們,
結論:
啟德機場故事。小孩子下車,追。我問:哭甚麽?。他答:媽媽在車上。一定人多下不了車,巴士開走。
我問:你要去哪里,他說:去機場回印尼,
我說:我帶你到機場,找你的親人。
到了機場的找他的親人:見到爸爸媽媽,擁抱高興不得了。
我們是跟小孩一樣,不知道方向,不知道下一步,只有哭,憂慮,
讓耶穌基督帶領,這位自由永有,α和Ω;(Alpha ,Omega)的主宰,
在歷史中間,在今天帶領你。
希伯來書12:2:仰望為我們信心創始成終的耶穌(或作:仰望那將 真道創始成終的耶穌)。他因那擺在前面的喜樂, 就輕看羞辱, 忍受了十字架的苦難, 便坐在神寶座的右邊。
一‧引言
今天我教大家認識兩個希臘字:α和Ω;(Alpha ,Omega)
阿拉法α,俄梅戛Ω,亞米加手錶Omega Ω,就是這個符號。小字告訴我們,Alpha ,Omega兩字,是希臘文的首、末的意思。好像英文字母AZ。
耶穌基督在這裡告訴我們,祂是阿拉法,祂是俄梅戛,耶穌基督非常清楚的告訴我們說,耶穌基督是一位首先的,也是末后的。意思希伯來書的作者補充說:『仰望為我們信心創始成終的耶穌』(或作:仰望那將 真道創始成終的耶穌)(12:2)。
但耶和華向摩西介紹自己說:我是自由永有(出3:14)。
我們時常說:『我們的神是三位一體的神是自有永有,永生,永恆,祝福的時候沒說,永永遠遠』。
在啟示錄這裡講的很清楚了。
二、本論:
(1)昔在
主耶穌說,我是阿拉法α,意思是說:耶穌基督是創始者,是首先的,是最初。
世界從何而來,很多人相信石頭變得。基督徒相信是神創造這個世界。
箴言八22節,『在耶和華造化的起頭,在太初創造萬物之先,就有了我。』和
約翰一1節:『太初有道,道與神同在』。耶穌是太初的道,太初就有耶穌基督。
摩西問神說:『你是誰?』耶和華神說:『我是自有永有的』。
因此,我們相信世界來自神的創造,不是石頭變的。
不過,有人問,聖經記載聖經的歷史只有7000~10000年,而世界考古學告訴我們,地球有幾億萬年,為什麼衝突那麽大,差別那麽大,怎樣是神的創造呢?
剛才的經文不是給了我們答案嗎?
很久以前,耶穌基督已經存在,耶穌基督是昔在今在永在的全能者。難道我們的神是幾億萬年嗎,肯定不是,太初,自有永有;是不知年。
假如你說地球有一億萬年,自有永有的耶穌基督肯定不止一億萬年。剛好證明神的自有永有。以前是多麼恆久。
2)永在
耶穌說,我是俄梅戛Ω,是,末后。
我們的生命,只有10年,50年,80~90年,我們就不在人間。我們的人生只有70~80~90年的生命嗎?人死后就完了嗎?
聖經告訴我們,我們的人生真的只有幾十年,可是,我們的靈魂,是永恒的,有永生和永死的。
耶穌基督告訴我們,有耶穌的的就有永生,沒有耶穌就沒有永生。
各位,你相信耶穌基督嗎?相信,你就有永生,不相信,就沒有永生。這是聖經的應許。
永在,就是明天的意思,明天的明天,就是一個永恒的時間,明天永遠來臨,明天是誰掌管,既然耶穌基督是永遠的,就是耶穌基督掌管明天。
明天是一個奧秘?明天,將來,非常神秘?假的宗教好玄學家、相學家,就是利用人對將來的憂慮,來迷惑人。
最近,不是說世界的末日嗎?很多人不關心又關心,不相信又相信,不知道有很想知道,因為明天永遠是一個謎。
新聞不是有甜甜和陳先生的事情嗎?就是用人對明天的憂慮,來控制人。
明天,雖然是一個迷?,可是我們也可以掌控明天。比如說,明天,明年我搬去美國,我們掌握和相信。明天上班工作等,
可是,你真的知道明天一定會工作嗎?不一定?
有一位金融界的弟兄告訴我(潘國華):你知道一秒前的事情,已經不得了,了不得,能知道一秒的事情,是得不了的。
明天,怎樣,我們不知道,有人說,明天的我們還能穿回我們的鞋子,已經是一個恩典,
香港有一個金磚的老板林先生,就是一睡就永別了,不能起床了。
2008年年底,我探訪一位球友李先生,他說,太太需要耶穌,叫我帶領他太太信耶穌,因為我拜拜之後,她會得到耶穌的幫助。
李先生是一位很愛大羽毛球的,他提早退休,就是打羽毛球就快樂,又健康,有耐力。有一天,他要起身,不能起床,失去健康,不能走路,不知道為甚麼。
每一年年底,算命的先生女士就會說運程,預測流年,答案只有兩個,一定是很準確和不準確。
百分一百對,百分一百錯,錯的沒有知道,對了,一鳴驚人了。
今天一些的的基督教也學了迷惑人未來學,叫現代的視圖和先知,知道你的過去好未來,看見你的將來。
我看見這些預測,我很難過,如果可以預測地震,四川就不會死了這麼多學生,如果可以預測,就沒毒奶粉,就沒有金融海嘯了,沒有911了,沒有H1N1了。明日之後怎樣,沒有人知道,聖經說,能告訴你將來的事情的人,或許是走火入魔,是迷惑著的門徒。
啟示錄記載聖經說,只有三一的神知道未來,三一的神是『昔在永在,創始成終者』。
因此,明日,明天,將來是在基督的手中,故此,耶穌基督為甚麽要我們不要為明天憂慮。
因此,耶穌基督叫我們驚醒,因為,耶穌基督會再來,幾時來,沒有人知道。
因此,明天如何,我們不知道,可是我們知道我們有永生的主,祂就在那里等待我們。
(3)昔在,永在的兩端
既然耶穌基督是開始,也是結束,在開始和結束的兩端的中間,有誰來掌管,當然也是耶穌基督掌管。
在這一條的線路上,就是我們今天歷史,是今在,是當下。
因此,我們的神歷史的神,是掌管歷史的神。各位,你信得過神的掌管一切嗎?
聖經的歷史觀,時間觀:是一條直線,開始到永遠。而中國人的歷史觀和時間觀,是波浪形的,所謂否極泰來,轉運,風水,相命,中國人就很吃香。
聖經的時間觀和歷史觀是一條直線,開始了以後,就一直往永恆跑。一直到永恆的日子。因此,基督徒活在世界,面對世界所發生的事件和問題,我們不能逃走?歷史苦難,我們不能逃避,沙士來到,我們不能逃避,你會面對它的傷害,猶太人六百萬被殺,猶太人不能逃避。我們就要面對歷史的事件和問題。
有一個同工,被信徒邀請,向一個女士傳福音,因為女士運氣不好,看看耶穌基督能不能幫助他。
他的問題是工作不順利,爸爸叫她回去士多幫忙(罵父親去死,不再雇傭她,又失業)
我的同事告訴我,去到她的家,就嚇你一跳,她的門一邊金色,一邊黃色,說可以避邪轉運。(我的同事說,那位女士不是要轉運,乃是要改變脾氣)
各位,我們活在世間,歷史學家告訴我們,我們人類正在寫歷史,歷史有太平盛世,有戰爭年年,我們活在歷史中間,我們活在香港,我們的社會是現實的歷史,金融海嘯來,我們這些歷史人物,一定不能置身度外,一起面對,有人很慘,有人沒有事情,有人失業,有人還有工作,有人賺錢有人破產。
正如傳道書三章一樣,生有時,死有時,得失有時,喜樂悲哀有時。
明天如何,我們不知道,我們只管帶著信心,勇氣,和基督使命為主而活。
三、昔在今在永在的真理給我甚麼教導
1、我們活在當下,可是我們已經得到永生。
基督的最大福氣,就是活在今天,已經得到永生。永生不是死了才得到,是信耶穌為救主的一刻,就已經得到永生。
例子:好像錄影好的球賽,尖浸對曼聯,成績1:0,尖浸勝利。曼聯如何攻擊,球是不會進去的,因為成績是1:0 。
各位不要以為我開玩笑;大家有沒有看少林足球;周星馳的少林足球,就有這個味道。
我們對曼聯,1:0,尖浸勝利;
在香港有允少龍,殺死外籍情侶的,信了耶穌基督得到永生。
臺灣的白冰冰女兒白曉燕被綁架撕票,警察追捕殺人犯陳進興候,陳進興闖入南非大使館武官家中,夾持大使卓懋祺一家五口,使整件事情升高成為國際事件。不知道為甚麼,他投降,後來殺人犯陳進興信了耶穌.
我們無論犯了甚麽大罪,錯了甚麼,只要我們信耶穌為救主,我們就得到救恩。活在基督里的恩典。
2、昔在今在永在還給我們甚麼的屬靈恩典
1, 人生有許多不如意的事情,特別公義的問題,世界有沒有公義,有,沒有;
我們人與人接觸,有許多是非黑白,許多爭論,我們解決不來,申冤無門,我們只有啞子吃黃連,有苦無路訴;
各位,聖經說,耶穌基督是AZ,因為有最後,因此,基督在將來的白色大寶座,為我們申冤。
因此,耶穌基督有時教導我們,不要為自己申冤,不要老是討回公道,能討的去討,許多時候討不來,這樣就算了嗎?在末日的時候,一件一件的事情,都在耶穌基督的面前公開,擺平。主耶穌一定給我們申冤。
因此,基督徒不會白白做好人,沒有永在,只有今在,就一定白白做好人。
若沒有將來的審判,做壞事享受一切,被人罵沒有德行,有如何,反正沒有將來的審判,犯罪又賺到錢,又做善事,是不是聰明人?
賴昌星逃亡了12年,公義追趕著他,最終被遣返。
3、十一15說『世上的國,成了我主和主基督的國,祂要作王直到永永遠遠。』
世上的國,基督作王,就是天國在地上的彰顯。基督徒活在今天,讓人看見,體驗那看不見的永生,天堂,就是因為基督活在基督徒的心裡,基督徒讓基督掌權,基督徒的使命,基督徒的愛心,基督徒的信心‘喜樂/和平等,讓基督掌權。
世上的國,就是基督的國,基督的國不是世界上的國,世上的國,是用霸權,用武力。在索馬里,人民沒得吃,也要發動戰爭發展,見到人民沒五分鐘就餓死一個(北韓,印度、巴基斯坦,人民沒得吃,還要擴軍)。
基督的國在那裡,基督的國就是基督徒,基督徒在世界上生活,讓人看見基督。基督就在哪里,哪里有基督徒,哪里就有天國,永生,平安,就有醫治。
故事:25歲的海華,有一位45歲的同事,丈夫失業,又被人逼遷;雙重打擊,很不開心。海華看見同事不開心,怎樣辦,帶她參加麥基佈道會;信主了,年輕姐妹怎樣幫助這位年長的姐妹?帶她參加教會的成年團,有成年團關顧,支持。後來受浸,之後,丈夫有工作。又租到一間又大又便宜的房子。憂傷變成感恩了。就邀請我們到她的家開感恩會。
那天在感恩會,她說出他的經歷,她說,我信了耶穌,心中有平安,我信耶穌不敢給丈夫知道,怕丈夫反對。
當天他的丈夫回應說:『這樣的重要的決定要告訴我嗎?我看見你耶穌基督,耶穌基督幫助你,我怎樣會反對呢?』
天堂在哪里?你是誰?基督的精兵,基督徒,你里面有基督,已經是天國大使的代表了。諸位,讓人從你看見耶穌。
4、我們活在當下,明天如何,我們只有信靠(不明白神的旨意如何,懷疑失去平安,信靠會感恩)黃黎明的妹夫,住在太平
有一個熱心傳福音的會計師基督徒,很多年前,頭痛,發現腦積水,要開刀才痊癒,但是,一個熱心的基督徒為甚麼會有這麼重的病,之不會明白。
又有一天,他在公司跌了一跤,碰到頭,受傷,以後發燒,發燒不退,醫不好,碰到頭,照腦,醫生沒有發現,還是發燒,他就到我另外一位基督徒的腦科那裡求醫,腦科醫生看他的腦掃描記錄,叫他快快來開刀,發現腦裏面有溢血,不開刀後果不一樣。這位腦科醫生說,你非常幸運,因為,你的腦有一個空穴,那些血流了進去,不然,已經沒命了。
回想起,一次的腦積水,一次在公司碰到頭,兩次都要開腦,想不通,為甚麼神給我這個病;
想不到這個病,就是救回生命的一次意外。
5、在這一條線上面,聖經告訴我們,耶穌道成肉身,降世為人,又回到天上,差派聖靈住在我們內心。
加拉太4:4~6,及至時候滿足,神就差遣他的兒子,為女子所生,且生在律法以下, 要把律法以下的人贖出來,叫我們得著兒子的名分。
你們既為兒子,神就差他兒子的靈進入你們(原文作我們)的心,呼叫:阿爸!父! 可見,從此以後,你不是奴僕,乃是兒子了;既是兒子,就靠著神為後嗣。
我們活在當下,可是,我們有這位昔在永在的神,他道成肉身,就住在我們當中,復活升天,就差派聖靈住在我們的旁邊,永遠與我們同在,保護我們安慰我們,
結論:
啟德機場故事。小孩子下車,追。我問:哭甚麽?。他答:媽媽在車上。一定人多下不了車,巴士開走。
我問:你要去哪里,他說:去機場回印尼,
我說:我帶你到機場,找你的親人。
到了機場的找他的親人:見到爸爸媽媽,擁抱高興不得了。
我們是跟小孩一樣,不知道方向,不知道下一步,只有哭,憂慮,
讓耶穌基督帶領,這位自由永有,α和Ω;(Alpha ,Omega)的主宰,
在歷史中間,在今天帶領你。
2011年6月9日星期四
向上舉目 週聯華
向上舉目 週聯華
http://www.fbny.org/zh-hant/content/%E6%88%91%E9%80%B2%E4%BA%86%E4%B8%8A%E5%B8%9D%E7%9A%84%E8%81%96%E6%89%80
上行之詩
不管你在甚麽地方,永遠向上行,耶和華在山上;
耶和華在那個地方,那個地方就是最高
上行之詩,即使朝聖者之詩;
三次朝聖
從家裡開始
巴勒斯坦是沙漠,經過沙漠
遙遠地方,危險,最後到了耶路撒冷
朝聖者到了聖殿,黃昏,耶路撒冷用黃金做的,看見美好
122;我喜樂,我們到耶和華的殿
到耶和華的殿非常喜樂
每一個人都喜樂,雖然不是錫安,還是耶和華聖殿
多多到禮拜堂,本身就是喜樂
默禱,就有說不出的喜樂
朝聖者往上看,看見耶和華的殿美
就唱
向上舉目
在路上危險。有耶和華 的保護,非常興奮
唱了這首歌曲,
聖經有這樣的歌
祭祀們,在高山回應
啟
應:
我們的幫助從創天地的來
耶和華造了天地,沒有看顧我們
比喻:新車,保養
耶和華造天地,保養
非常遺憾,天賦給我們好的天地,
我們糟蹋了
讓我們好好管理宇宙
管理保養,保護宇宙
動物生物,人
看見詩篇感謝神給我們好的宇宙,我們唱出讚美
保護以色列的不睡覺打盹
全天候保護
耶和華打盹怎樣辦
我們會打盹
可是耶和華保護絕不打盹
在路上,隱蔽我們;
右手,右像人在人的右邊保護我們,左右手保護我們
我們人想像耶和華,想不出,
沒有看過耶和華
就用人的想像來描繪耶和華,
用右臂保護我們
在前面隱蔽
我們到十字路口。很想有人告訴我們,
之黑暗裡面,怕跌到
爬山:累,有人在後面推
身體檢查,跑步,跑上,小心,他扶著我的手,
耶和華在後面拖住我們,
在旁邊夫妻我們
在後面推我們
月亮
太陽
沙漠在太陽下,很熱,燒焦了,沙漠在夜晚冷,
我受得了嗎
聖經說,太陽的熱
晚上的冷
我們可以走下去
耶和華在我們傍邊
耶和華保護我們
不是人的歷練
是神的力量
我們隨時遇到危險
耶和華在保護我們
所有的危險和困難
不管怎樣的危險
耶和華在我們的邊上保護
他們不是有口無心
乃是他們的經驗
出入,耶和華保護
家門走到耶路撒冷,耶和華保護
回家,耶和華保護
空間耶路撒冷回到家
時間:從今天一直到永遠
我們是朝聖者
有一天回到耶和華面前
我們糊糊塗塗過日子
我們是從耶和華而來
出生-厲害世界
出入,無論出生,死後,久一點,長一點,沒有關係
嬰孩離開,神愛他們
我們懂事,要好好見證
天了歷程
我們是朝聖者,是天路歷程者,有人快,有人慢,
回頭,
向一個方向走
耶穌基督就是道路
走這條路,走到天父那裡去
問:從家裡開始,辦公地方,哪裡都是天路開始的地方;路的開始
交託給主,就是開始的時候
鄉下:
沒有超級市場
虛
傳教士,拿起小提琴,唱歌,拍單張
5年,沒有人新主
忽然又一老先生問,你們派的單張嗎
羅米飯,包羅米飯,最簡單的信息
有一天到天上
一條路到地獄
中間十字架
5年沒有信主,老先生慕道.
老先生信主了,
受洗,跟我回去
有人唱歌
老先生叫村民唱歌
那先生來了
聽見的東西告訴全村的人;
一天就知道
5年,沒有人信
5年後,一人信主,全村的人信主
週聯華去過
自己做教會,比自己的家還美
走天路,
我進了神的殿;73
年輕人問年長的說:
V1:我以前差點失腳
我見:惡人會倒霉:
項鍊:
神沒有處罰他
他們一直很好
走歪:我見
為什麽神沒有處罰
好死
好人:窮,生病.
惡人好死;我見
看人;問題越來越多
2=看自己:突然洗手;不做壞事
禱告:早晨,難過,沒有得到祝福;
壞人好,我沒有這樣好,難過
23:徒然:
然而:進入聖所,不看別人
看神
看別人,別人好;看自己,沒有好
到了聖所,不要看人,不要別人
看神;
仰望神:
23:然而;
1:與你同在,以馬內利,耶穌到世界來.
世界2次大戰;德國,意大利;連方面禱告,神幫助哪裡;想,神審判基督徒,基督徒,和睦的人有福,卻大戰,審判神學;美國開始;
我的心不正,私慾,神會跟我們私慾同在嗎>
神與我們同在,是最大的福氣
虧錢;神同在,我馬上知道錯了,是多麼有福.
2右手看護我;
不會走偏道路;
鄉下的路,沒有手電筒,只有火把,有水,亮亮的,走了進去,會潮濕;
神在我們旁邊;
紅雨會來了,怕,走不到;
TOYODA;
耶和華看護,就不怕;
走獨木橋,怕;我是領隊,說,我怕,怎樣辦;怕過去;不准有人走過去;要爬過去’
失踪;找
無所不能的神,看護我,我的腳不會搖動.
3教訓,教導,常常讀聖經
不要翻到哪裡督導那裡
常常讀,想起神的話,你的訓言引導我,走錯路,一生就完了.
4接我到永恆裡去
將來怎樣辦
走到神的榮耀裡面,就是最好.
看人:驕傲,壞
看自己:可憐;
等我上到聖殿,看神,
馬上看見在神裡面的好處.
上帝的殿2011 詩篇84篇
我喜樂,我上耶和華的殿
詩篇133;84;120;73
喜樂,到耶和華的殿
我喜樂,因為有人對我說,我到耶和華的殿;
燕子,也把耶和華的殿當作家
麻雀與燕子,一種不值錢的。
不講鸚鵡,鴿子
百靈鳥
麻雀,讓我們知道,進到聖殿,不是貴族,乃是普通人,只是麻雀燕子
羅馬聖殿,美麗雄偉,如聖母堂。
但是做禮拜的人很少
聖殿是敬拜地方,禮拜堂是敬拜的地方,有喜樂;
一生中間,最感動的地方在哪裡
肺病禮拜堂;路乃:周牧師來了,
窗關起來了,養豬的地方,燈,不亮,
衛生紙,因為做禮拜堂的人,這裡咳嗽,
那個吐痰,有肺病,不久就後悔離開世界
天國,離開世界,到天堂,不會咳嗽,肺病
所有的致病沒有了
退伍軍人,患病,離開世界,最美的地方
在天堂沒有臭味,不會暗暗的
想到這裡,我們知道這裡是天國的地方
我們有一天會離開世界,可是,不再是可怕。
這樣臭的禮拜堂,咳嗽,這是最美的一間禮拜堂
真的渴慕敬拜神,
你進來的時候,你就成為最美的禮拜堂
全教會如此,就是沒的
錫安大道
乾旱,有秋雨,巴勒斯坦,收成之前,下雨;收割,美
流淚谷:醫生醫治不好,生意失敗,失戀,走投無路,經過流淚谷,
現在有秋雨,敬拜如此,秋雨,
敬拜不是責任
乃是有喜樂
這禮拜堂,有一位創造者,
選總統:選舉以後,受膏者,
耶和華的殿與
看門。情願看門不做惡人的僕人
廟:有一群討飯的人,善心的人,瘸腿的,情願做瘸腿的,哭的人,看門的人。
不願再惡人當中享福
我們也有這樣的心態
醫生說:一人有癌症,叫牧師為他禱告,好了,要到禮拜堂,
醫生說,沒有了癌症,好了,沒有來禮拜堂
健康來禮拜堂,不健康來禮拜堂;
猶太人;詩篇,朝聖者
窮人,要到耶和華的殿,只有麵粉奉獻
鄰居,來說,兒子餓死,可以給麵粉我媽嗎
給了窮人
可是第二天,我獻上甚麽,就關起門來
關門的時候,
想到,神要得是憂傷的心,痛苦的靈,
明天,他去聖殿,祭師問你有沒有帶羊,有沒有油
他說,我本來有麵粉
神說,要得是憂傷的心,我帶來憂傷的靈
有的,可有獻上好的,可是耶和華不只是錢,還要憂傷的心
不要把身外之物獻給神,。。。。。。。。。。。。。
上帝之殿的本意。雖然舊約中上帝的殿往往是雄偉壯觀的,
但他表示高大雄偉的外表並非是上帝之殿的特徵。
他指出現今在歐美很多衰敗的大教堂如同徒具華麗外表卻失去與神同在的軀殼,它們不能稱為上帝的殿。「那麼,上帝的殿在哪里呢?」
問題的關鍵不在於外面的建築而是裏面的人,倘若有一群內心柔和謙卑、真正渴慕真道的人聚集在一起敬拜神,那聚會的地方就是耶和華的殿宇。
信徒上聖殿見神時要摆正心態,
「我們去教會不是出於『責任感』,
而是因為在教會裏能遇見神、享受與神同在的喜樂。」
最後,
大家追求靈命長進、過討神喜悅的生活,讓自己的教會成為最美麗的上帝之殿。
http://www.fbny.org/zh-hant/content/%E6%88%91%E9%80%B2%E4%BA%86%E4%B8%8A%E5%B8%9D%E7%9A%84%E8%81%96%E6%89%80
上行之詩
不管你在甚麽地方,永遠向上行,耶和華在山上;
耶和華在那個地方,那個地方就是最高
上行之詩,即使朝聖者之詩;
三次朝聖
從家裡開始
巴勒斯坦是沙漠,經過沙漠
遙遠地方,危險,最後到了耶路撒冷
朝聖者到了聖殿,黃昏,耶路撒冷用黃金做的,看見美好
122;我喜樂,我們到耶和華的殿
到耶和華的殿非常喜樂
每一個人都喜樂,雖然不是錫安,還是耶和華聖殿
多多到禮拜堂,本身就是喜樂
默禱,就有說不出的喜樂
朝聖者往上看,看見耶和華的殿美
就唱
向上舉目
在路上危險。有耶和華 的保護,非常興奮
唱了這首歌曲,
聖經有這樣的歌
祭祀們,在高山回應
啟
應:
我們的幫助從創天地的來
耶和華造了天地,沒有看顧我們
比喻:新車,保養
耶和華造天地,保養
非常遺憾,天賦給我們好的天地,
我們糟蹋了
讓我們好好管理宇宙
管理保養,保護宇宙
動物生物,人
看見詩篇感謝神給我們好的宇宙,我們唱出讚美
保護以色列的不睡覺打盹
全天候保護
耶和華打盹怎樣辦
我們會打盹
可是耶和華保護絕不打盹
在路上,隱蔽我們;
右手,右像人在人的右邊保護我們,左右手保護我們
我們人想像耶和華,想不出,
沒有看過耶和華
就用人的想像來描繪耶和華,
用右臂保護我們
在前面隱蔽
我們到十字路口。很想有人告訴我們,
之黑暗裡面,怕跌到
爬山:累,有人在後面推
身體檢查,跑步,跑上,小心,他扶著我的手,
耶和華在後面拖住我們,
在旁邊夫妻我們
在後面推我們
月亮
太陽
沙漠在太陽下,很熱,燒焦了,沙漠在夜晚冷,
我受得了嗎
聖經說,太陽的熱
晚上的冷
我們可以走下去
耶和華在我們傍邊
耶和華保護我們
不是人的歷練
是神的力量
我們隨時遇到危險
耶和華在保護我們
所有的危險和困難
不管怎樣的危險
耶和華在我們的邊上保護
他們不是有口無心
乃是他們的經驗
出入,耶和華保護
家門走到耶路撒冷,耶和華保護
回家,耶和華保護
空間耶路撒冷回到家
時間:從今天一直到永遠
我們是朝聖者
有一天回到耶和華面前
我們糊糊塗塗過日子
我們是從耶和華而來
出生-厲害世界
出入,無論出生,死後,久一點,長一點,沒有關係
嬰孩離開,神愛他們
我們懂事,要好好見證
天了歷程
我們是朝聖者,是天路歷程者,有人快,有人慢,
回頭,
向一個方向走
耶穌基督就是道路
走這條路,走到天父那裡去
問:從家裡開始,辦公地方,哪裡都是天路開始的地方;路的開始
交託給主,就是開始的時候
鄉下:
沒有超級市場
虛
傳教士,拿起小提琴,唱歌,拍單張
5年,沒有人新主
忽然又一老先生問,你們派的單張嗎
羅米飯,包羅米飯,最簡單的信息
有一天到天上
一條路到地獄
中間十字架
5年沒有信主,老先生慕道.
老先生信主了,
受洗,跟我回去
有人唱歌
老先生叫村民唱歌
那先生來了
聽見的東西告訴全村的人;
一天就知道
5年,沒有人信
5年後,一人信主,全村的人信主
週聯華去過
自己做教會,比自己的家還美
走天路,
我進了神的殿;73
年輕人問年長的說:
V1:我以前差點失腳
我見:惡人會倒霉:
項鍊:
神沒有處罰他
他們一直很好
走歪:我見
為什麽神沒有處罰
好死
好人:窮,生病.
惡人好死;我見
看人;問題越來越多
2=看自己:突然洗手;不做壞事
禱告:早晨,難過,沒有得到祝福;
壞人好,我沒有這樣好,難過
23:徒然:
然而:進入聖所,不看別人
看神
看別人,別人好;看自己,沒有好
到了聖所,不要看人,不要別人
看神;
仰望神:
23:然而;
1:與你同在,以馬內利,耶穌到世界來.
世界2次大戰;德國,意大利;連方面禱告,神幫助哪裡;想,神審判基督徒,基督徒,和睦的人有福,卻大戰,審判神學;美國開始;
我的心不正,私慾,神會跟我們私慾同在嗎>
神與我們同在,是最大的福氣
虧錢;神同在,我馬上知道錯了,是多麼有福.
2右手看護我;
不會走偏道路;
鄉下的路,沒有手電筒,只有火把,有水,亮亮的,走了進去,會潮濕;
神在我們旁邊;
紅雨會來了,怕,走不到;
TOYODA;
耶和華看護,就不怕;
走獨木橋,怕;我是領隊,說,我怕,怎樣辦;怕過去;不准有人走過去;要爬過去’
失踪;找
無所不能的神,看護我,我的腳不會搖動.
3教訓,教導,常常讀聖經
不要翻到哪裡督導那裡
常常讀,想起神的話,你的訓言引導我,走錯路,一生就完了.
4接我到永恆裡去
將來怎樣辦
走到神的榮耀裡面,就是最好.
看人:驕傲,壞
看自己:可憐;
等我上到聖殿,看神,
馬上看見在神裡面的好處.
上帝的殿2011 詩篇84篇
我喜樂,我上耶和華的殿
詩篇133;84;120;73
喜樂,到耶和華的殿
我喜樂,因為有人對我說,我到耶和華的殿;
燕子,也把耶和華的殿當作家
麻雀與燕子,一種不值錢的。
不講鸚鵡,鴿子
百靈鳥
麻雀,讓我們知道,進到聖殿,不是貴族,乃是普通人,只是麻雀燕子
羅馬聖殿,美麗雄偉,如聖母堂。
但是做禮拜的人很少
聖殿是敬拜地方,禮拜堂是敬拜的地方,有喜樂;
一生中間,最感動的地方在哪裡
肺病禮拜堂;路乃:周牧師來了,
窗關起來了,養豬的地方,燈,不亮,
衛生紙,因為做禮拜堂的人,這裡咳嗽,
那個吐痰,有肺病,不久就後悔離開世界
天國,離開世界,到天堂,不會咳嗽,肺病
所有的致病沒有了
退伍軍人,患病,離開世界,最美的地方
在天堂沒有臭味,不會暗暗的
想到這裡,我們知道這裡是天國的地方
我們有一天會離開世界,可是,不再是可怕。
這樣臭的禮拜堂,咳嗽,這是最美的一間禮拜堂
真的渴慕敬拜神,
你進來的時候,你就成為最美的禮拜堂
全教會如此,就是沒的
錫安大道
乾旱,有秋雨,巴勒斯坦,收成之前,下雨;收割,美
流淚谷:醫生醫治不好,生意失敗,失戀,走投無路,經過流淚谷,
現在有秋雨,敬拜如此,秋雨,
敬拜不是責任
乃是有喜樂
這禮拜堂,有一位創造者,
選總統:選舉以後,受膏者,
耶和華的殿與
看門。情願看門不做惡人的僕人
廟:有一群討飯的人,善心的人,瘸腿的,情願做瘸腿的,哭的人,看門的人。
不願再惡人當中享福
我們也有這樣的心態
醫生說:一人有癌症,叫牧師為他禱告,好了,要到禮拜堂,
醫生說,沒有了癌症,好了,沒有來禮拜堂
健康來禮拜堂,不健康來禮拜堂;
猶太人;詩篇,朝聖者
窮人,要到耶和華的殿,只有麵粉奉獻
鄰居,來說,兒子餓死,可以給麵粉我媽嗎
給了窮人
可是第二天,我獻上甚麽,就關起門來
關門的時候,
想到,神要得是憂傷的心,痛苦的靈,
明天,他去聖殿,祭師問你有沒有帶羊,有沒有油
他說,我本來有麵粉
神說,要得是憂傷的心,我帶來憂傷的靈
有的,可有獻上好的,可是耶和華不只是錢,還要憂傷的心
不要把身外之物獻給神,。。。。。。。。。。。。。
上帝之殿的本意。雖然舊約中上帝的殿往往是雄偉壯觀的,
但他表示高大雄偉的外表並非是上帝之殿的特徵。
他指出現今在歐美很多衰敗的大教堂如同徒具華麗外表卻失去與神同在的軀殼,它們不能稱為上帝的殿。「那麼,上帝的殿在哪里呢?」
問題的關鍵不在於外面的建築而是裏面的人,倘若有一群內心柔和謙卑、真正渴慕真道的人聚集在一起敬拜神,那聚會的地方就是耶和華的殿宇。
信徒上聖殿見神時要摆正心態,
「我們去教會不是出於『責任感』,
而是因為在教會裏能遇見神、享受與神同在的喜樂。」
最後,
大家追求靈命長進、過討神喜悅的生活,讓自己的教會成為最美麗的上帝之殿。
2011年6月6日星期一
尋求健康、醫療與社會服務獲得協助(社區資源,醫療輔助器材)
尋求健康、醫療與社會服務獲得協助(社區資源,醫療輔助器材)
箴言一5:『使智慧人聽見,增長學問,使聰明人得著智謀。』
大部分成為照顧者的人,都沒有醫學和法律方面的背景,若不知道各式各樣的資源可以利用,就無法得到更大的幫助。
長期病患者需要一位好醫生,一位居家護士,或有一個懂的尋找資源的照顧者,這樣是真正幫助照顧者自助。尋求可以幫助的資源,或請人幫忙接送病人,讓自己或有喘息時間,能夠有精力體力再上路。認識越多,就更可能為長者提供最好的服務。
問題是甚麽?
家人患病使身體機能逐漸衰退,自我照顧的能力相對下降,起居生活或需利用不同的輔助器具協助,依賴他人照顧,自我形像減少。
迫切處理的問題:(1)生活保障、(2)個人護理、(3)長者輔助器材的協助。
老人及長期照顧資料庫:
(1)生活保障
退休保障
強制性公積金計劃(2000年開始)
退休金(公務員)
儲蓄
綜合社會保障緩助計劃(綜緩)
公共福利
社會優惠
1.2社會資源:綜合社會保障緩助計劃
緩助金分三類:1 標準金額;2 補助金;3 特別津貼
http://www.lizawang.com/talk/talk48_hk_social_security/cssa.shtml
1.2.1、標準金額
按年歲(60歲以上/下)及身體需要而定立。例:
>60歲獨居者:
50%健全 $2590
100%殘疾 $3140
需要護理 $4420
1.2.2、補助金
長期個案補助金 ($1625/yr)
單親補助金 ($225/m)
社會生活補助金 ($115/m) (100%殘疾而非住院舍)
交通補助金 ($210/m) (12 - 64歲之100%殘疾人士)
1.2.3、特別津貼
應付個人特別需要:
租金
學費
交通費
殮葬費
醫生建議必需的開支:
膳食
復康/醫療用具
1.3.公共福利:每月金額 (由2009年1月1日起生效)
普通高齡津貼 (生果金) $1,000 (年齡65-69,需經濟調查)
高額高齡津貼 (生果金) $1,000 (年齡70以上,無需經濟調查)
普通傷殘津貼 $1,280 (經醫生證明申請)
高額傷殘津貼 $2,560 (經醫生證明申請)
(2)個人護理
2.1.長者支援服務隊:附設於長者地區中心,提供長者支援。包括:
探訪/關懷
情緒支援/輔導
護送
家居維修
鼓勵長者成義工,參與服務有需要的長者,發輝老有所為的精神。
2.2.住宿照顧服務
長者宿舍 (Hostel for the Elderly)(2003年停止接受申請,2006年開始逐步轉型至護理安老院)
安老院 (Home for the Aged) (2006年開始逐步轉型至護理安老院)
護理安老院 (C&A Home)
護養院 (Nursing Home)
2.3.長者社區活動中心
提 供 社 交 及 康 樂 活 動 ﹐ 以 助 長 者 善 用 餘 暇 ﹐ 透 過 學 習 發 展 潛 能 ﹐ 以 及 擴 闊 社 交 網 絡 。
服務提供給60歲或以上之長者
部份長者中心提供服務給50-59歲之人士
2.4.長者中心服務
長者地區中心服務
以地區層面為長者及護老者提供多元化支援服務
長者鄰舍中心服務
以鄰舍層面為長者及護老者提供多元化支援服務
2.5.長者地區服務中心
地區中心是一種地區層面的社區支援服務,目的是幫助長者在社區過著健康、受尊重及有尊嚴的生活
每17,000名65歲以上人口一間
現政府資助中心有41間
服務內容:
安老服務支援
社交及康樂活動
飯堂膳食及洗衣服務
外展及社區網絡工作
護老者支援
健康教育
2.6.長者鄰舍中心
以鄰舍層面為長者及護老者提供多元化支援服務
提供服務與長者地區中心相似
每2000名65歲以上人口一間
政府資助單位:115
2.7.家務助理服務
4/2003推出「重整長者社區支援計劃」,所有家務助理隊(除東涌一隊外) ,已被提升為「綜合家居照顧服務隊」,提供不同照顧及服務。
服務內容:
個人照顧:沐浴、送飯
護送服務
家居清潔
2.8.長者日間護理中心
為身體機能屬中度或嚴重受損的長者提供日間照顧。
每17000名65歲以上人口一間。
政府資助單位:59
暫托服務: 支 援 及 分 擔 護 老 者 長 期 照顧 長 者 的 責 任 , 讓 他 們 在 有 需 要 時 能 得 到 短 暫 休 息 的 機 會 。
2.9.住宿照顧服務
11/2003起 實 施 長 期 護 理 服 務 中 央 輪 候 冊 ,集 中 處 理 申 請 和 服 務 編 配 。 申 請 人 需 要 長 期 護 理 服 務 時 ﹐ 會 被 安 排 接 受 統 一 評 估 以 確 定 他 們 的 服 務 需 要 ﹐ 並 安 排 切 合 他 們 所 需 的 長 期 護 理 服務 。
現輪候時間長達34-39個月
參加改善買位計劃輪候時間較短 (約9個月)
2.10.本港安老院舍服務
2.11.基本住院收費(參考)
安老院 護理安老院 護養院 改善買位安老院
傷殘津貼資助 $1506 $1813 $1994 $1707(甲一級)
$1603(甲二級)
非傷殘津貼資助 $1429 $1605 $1994
(3)長者輔助器材
3.1.輔助行動器材:手扙、助行器、輪椅
3.2.一般生活輔助器材:浴室輔助器材、其他輔助器材
3.3.護理器材:平安鐘、關愛鈴、耳聾機
3.4輔助行動器材--士的 可摺士的 四腳爪拐仗
3.5.輔助行動工具;摺疊式士的椅 摺疊式助行器
3.6.輔助行動器材;助行架 有轆助行架 標準型助行車
3.7.自助式輪椅 高背輪椅 電動輪椅
3.8.廁所輔助器材;洗澡便椅 坐廁扶手
3.9.傾斜式沐浴坐厠椅
3.10.浴室輔助器材;沐浴椅
3.11.沐浴板:沐浴板放在浴缸兩旁作托
3.12.浴室輔助器材:摺疊式沐浴板
3.13.扣鈕器: 協助手部關節軟弱的病者扣鈕
3.14.手鉗: 協助對較遠取物有困難的人
3.15.改裝指甲箝
協助手指關節軟弱的病者剪指甲,病者只需用手掌或手腕按下便可
3.16.穿衣器 :使舉高手部穿衣有困難的病者自行完成穿衣步驟。
3.17.加粗柄湯匙:使抓握有困難的病者能自行進食
3.18.筷子:頂部連接,使手部協調能力及力度較弱的病者能自行使用筷子進食。
3.19.離床警報器
病者離開床時,床墊會放出聲響,以提醒家人留意病者有否跌倒。
3.20.穿襪器 :方便坐姿平衡較弱及彎腰有困難的病者自行穿襪。
3.21.復康器材租借服務
以下機構有復康器材租借服務:
復康資源協會(紅磡理工)
紅十字會輔助行動器材租借服務(上環)
香港輪椅輔助隊(深水埗)
香港傷健協會(只借輪椅)
路向四肢傷殘人士協會(將軍澳)
3.22.輪椅/電動輪椅檢查及維修
賽馬會復康科技中心(理工)
香港輪椅輔助隊(深水埗)
香港耀能協會鄧肇瓊記念工場(沙田禾輋)
4教會資源
4.1.基督教院牧部;電話:http://www.hospitalchap.org.hk/082nd/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=868&Itemid=417
4.2.『《靈.家舍》社區服務 Community-based Service
家庭為中心的全人關顧服務,服務形式以配合醫院管理局的醫療發展方向
院舍探訪等心靈關懷家居和院舍的非住院病患/長者,以達受顧者增強自我照顧能力及延續的鄰舍關顧與社區支援,從而提升其及家屬的心靈指數創造和諧家庭與改善生活質素。
4.3.教會支援:
4.31.教會長期病患者關懷團隊(實踐部分分工分隊):
4.32.教牧緊急探訪:23692237
4.33殯儀
5其他
病人互助組織
發揮助人自助的精神,透過病人自助組織的工作,與其他病友分享過來人的經驗,互相支持。
腎友聯 九龍橫頭磡村宏禮樓地下 8100 0821 www.arpmha.org.hk
關心您的心 香港中環皇后大道中99號
中環中心地下2C室 2614 0422 www.careheart.org.hk
香港哮喘會 九龍觀塘復康徑七號一樓 2895 6502 www.hkasthma.org.hk
樂晞會 九龍中央郵箱13390號 8103 7018 www.hklupus.org.hk
毅希會 九龍橫頭磡村宏禮樓地下 2713 6444 www.hkraasso.org
香港柏金遜症會 九龍橫頭磡村宏禮樓地下 2337 2292 www.hkpda.org
香港協癇會 九龍橫頭磡村宏禮樓地下 2794 7006 www.hkepilepsy.com
結長友會 九龍橫頭磡村宏禮樓地下 2794 3010
香港兒童糖尿協會 香港中環干諾道中62-63號
中興商業大廈5樓B2室 2544 3263 www.hkjda.org
自強協會 九龍灣啟業村
啟裕樓58-61號地下 3165 8337 www.1stephk.org
想了解其他病人自助組織,請瀏覽香港復康會病人自助組織。
社區復康網絡
為長期病患者提供教育,訓練及支援性的服務,同時協助他們建立互助網絡,使他們能如常地在社區生活。
香港復康會社區復康網絡,港島康山中心 香港鰂魚涌英皇道1120號,康山花園第六座地下 2549 7744 www.rehabsociety.org.hk/c/ services_rehabilitation...
衞 生 署 中 央 健 康 教 育 組
網頁資料
長期病患者援助金 :http://www.pokoi.org.hk/tc/services_fund.aspx
社區資源共享 http://www.ciif.gov.hk/dnld/promotion/brief/Alice%20ppt.pdf
再生會 http://www.regensoc.org/uploads/2010%20final.pdf
屯門醫院社區服務中心 www.ha.org.hk/tmh/csc
醫院管理局 www.ha.org.hk
衛生署中央健康教育組 www.cheu.goc.hk
社區復康網路 www.Rehabsociety.org.hk.crn
照顧長期病患者 http://www.gov.hk/tc/residents/health/rehab/chronicpatients.htm
醫院管理局—健之訊 http://www.ha.org.hk
香港復康會社區復康網絡 http://www.rehabsociety.org.hk/crn
安老服務 http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_elderly/
http://edblog.hkedcity.net/te_hmsc/wp-content/blogs/1680/uploads/Booklet%204_Mental%20Health_110210_C_clean.pdf
醫院社工:http://www.swik.org.hk/SWIKPortal/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabIndex=0&tabid=50&ItemID=270
安寧照顧
6結語:
長期病患照顧者壓力大
一項調查顯示,照顧長期患病家人的人士,多數需要辭去工作,承受經濟及精神上壓力而感到身心疲累。關注團體建議政府加強對這類家庭的支援服務。
負責調查的「香港復康會」社區復康網絡,早前訪問了179名需要照顧60歲以下長期病患者的人士,發現其中7成沒有工作,要全職照顧患病家人。調查又顯示7成受訪者對照顧長期病患家人感到身心疲累,其中又以女性、沒有接受社會服務和需面對家庭經濟困難的照顧者所承受的壓力最大。73%受訪者的情緒及起居生活要適應患者而改變,8成受訪感到煩燥及脾氣暴躁。但8成受訪者沒有接受任何社會服務協助解決問題。
「香港復康會」指長期病患者的家人,由於要長時間照顧患病家人而承受經濟及精神壓力,甚至被迫辭去工作及領取綜援金。該會建議仿效長者返回內地養老計劃,讓病者到內地居住但繼續可以領取傷殘津貼。此外,還建議政府為中年病患者制訂支援政策,包括設立日間復康中心,拓展庇護工場及展能中心服務,讓病者加強與外界接觸,減輕家人的壓力,令照顧者可出外工作。
約翰三書『親愛的兄弟啊,我願你凡事興盛,身體健壯,正如你的靈魂興盛一樣。』
箴言一5:『使智慧人聽見,增長學問,使聰明人得著智謀。』
大部分成為照顧者的人,都沒有醫學和法律方面的背景,若不知道各式各樣的資源可以利用,就無法得到更大的幫助。
長期病患者需要一位好醫生,一位居家護士,或有一個懂的尋找資源的照顧者,這樣是真正幫助照顧者自助。尋求可以幫助的資源,或請人幫忙接送病人,讓自己或有喘息時間,能夠有精力體力再上路。認識越多,就更可能為長者提供最好的服務。
問題是甚麽?
家人患病使身體機能逐漸衰退,自我照顧的能力相對下降,起居生活或需利用不同的輔助器具協助,依賴他人照顧,自我形像減少。
迫切處理的問題:(1)生活保障、(2)個人護理、(3)長者輔助器材的協助。
老人及長期照顧資料庫:
(1)生活保障
退休保障
強制性公積金計劃(2000年開始)
退休金(公務員)
儲蓄
綜合社會保障緩助計劃(綜緩)
公共福利
社會優惠
1.2社會資源:綜合社會保障緩助計劃
緩助金分三類:1 標準金額;2 補助金;3 特別津貼
http://www.lizawang.com/talk/talk48_hk_social_security/cssa.shtml
1.2.1、標準金額
按年歲(60歲以上/下)及身體需要而定立。例:
>60歲獨居者:
50%健全 $2590
100%殘疾 $3140
需要護理 $4420
1.2.2、補助金
長期個案補助金 ($1625/yr)
單親補助金 ($225/m)
社會生活補助金 ($115/m) (100%殘疾而非住院舍)
交通補助金 ($210/m) (12 - 64歲之100%殘疾人士)
1.2.3、特別津貼
應付個人特別需要:
租金
學費
交通費
殮葬費
醫生建議必需的開支:
膳食
復康/醫療用具
1.3.公共福利:每月金額 (由2009年1月1日起生效)
普通高齡津貼 (生果金) $1,000 (年齡65-69,需經濟調查)
高額高齡津貼 (生果金) $1,000 (年齡70以上,無需經濟調查)
普通傷殘津貼 $1,280 (經醫生證明申請)
高額傷殘津貼 $2,560 (經醫生證明申請)
(2)個人護理
2.1.長者支援服務隊:附設於長者地區中心,提供長者支援。包括:
探訪/關懷
情緒支援/輔導
護送
家居維修
鼓勵長者成義工,參與服務有需要的長者,發輝老有所為的精神。
2.2.住宿照顧服務
長者宿舍 (Hostel for the Elderly)(2003年停止接受申請,2006年開始逐步轉型至護理安老院)
安老院 (Home for the Aged) (2006年開始逐步轉型至護理安老院)
護理安老院 (C&A Home)
護養院 (Nursing Home)
2.3.長者社區活動中心
提 供 社 交 及 康 樂 活 動 ﹐ 以 助 長 者 善 用 餘 暇 ﹐ 透 過 學 習 發 展 潛 能 ﹐ 以 及 擴 闊 社 交 網 絡 。
服務提供給60歲或以上之長者
部份長者中心提供服務給50-59歲之人士
2.4.長者中心服務
長者地區中心服務
以地區層面為長者及護老者提供多元化支援服務
長者鄰舍中心服務
以鄰舍層面為長者及護老者提供多元化支援服務
2.5.長者地區服務中心
地區中心是一種地區層面的社區支援服務,目的是幫助長者在社區過著健康、受尊重及有尊嚴的生活
每17,000名65歲以上人口一間
現政府資助中心有41間
服務內容:
安老服務支援
社交及康樂活動
飯堂膳食及洗衣服務
外展及社區網絡工作
護老者支援
健康教育
2.6.長者鄰舍中心
以鄰舍層面為長者及護老者提供多元化支援服務
提供服務與長者地區中心相似
每2000名65歲以上人口一間
政府資助單位:115
2.7.家務助理服務
4/2003推出「重整長者社區支援計劃」,所有家務助理隊(除東涌一隊外) ,已被提升為「綜合家居照顧服務隊」,提供不同照顧及服務。
服務內容:
個人照顧:沐浴、送飯
護送服務
家居清潔
2.8.長者日間護理中心
為身體機能屬中度或嚴重受損的長者提供日間照顧。
每17000名65歲以上人口一間。
政府資助單位:59
暫托服務: 支 援 及 分 擔 護 老 者 長 期 照顧 長 者 的 責 任 , 讓 他 們 在 有 需 要 時 能 得 到 短 暫 休 息 的 機 會 。
2.9.住宿照顧服務
11/2003起 實 施 長 期 護 理 服 務 中 央 輪 候 冊 ,集 中 處 理 申 請 和 服 務 編 配 。 申 請 人 需 要 長 期 護 理 服 務 時 ﹐ 會 被 安 排 接 受 統 一 評 估 以 確 定 他 們 的 服 務 需 要 ﹐ 並 安 排 切 合 他 們 所 需 的 長 期 護 理 服務 。
現輪候時間長達34-39個月
參加改善買位計劃輪候時間較短 (約9個月)
2.10.本港安老院舍服務
2.11.基本住院收費(參考)
安老院 護理安老院 護養院 改善買位安老院
傷殘津貼資助 $1506 $1813 $1994 $1707(甲一級)
$1603(甲二級)
非傷殘津貼資助 $1429 $1605 $1994
(3)長者輔助器材
3.1.輔助行動器材:手扙、助行器、輪椅
3.2.一般生活輔助器材:浴室輔助器材、其他輔助器材
3.3.護理器材:平安鐘、關愛鈴、耳聾機
3.4輔助行動器材--士的 可摺士的 四腳爪拐仗
3.5.輔助行動工具;摺疊式士的椅 摺疊式助行器
3.6.輔助行動器材;助行架 有轆助行架 標準型助行車
3.7.自助式輪椅 高背輪椅 電動輪椅
3.8.廁所輔助器材;洗澡便椅 坐廁扶手
3.9.傾斜式沐浴坐厠椅
3.10.浴室輔助器材;沐浴椅
3.11.沐浴板:沐浴板放在浴缸兩旁作托
3.12.浴室輔助器材:摺疊式沐浴板
3.13.扣鈕器: 協助手部關節軟弱的病者扣鈕
3.14.手鉗: 協助對較遠取物有困難的人
3.15.改裝指甲箝
協助手指關節軟弱的病者剪指甲,病者只需用手掌或手腕按下便可
3.16.穿衣器 :使舉高手部穿衣有困難的病者自行完成穿衣步驟。
3.17.加粗柄湯匙:使抓握有困難的病者能自行進食
3.18.筷子:頂部連接,使手部協調能力及力度較弱的病者能自行使用筷子進食。
3.19.離床警報器
病者離開床時,床墊會放出聲響,以提醒家人留意病者有否跌倒。
3.20.穿襪器 :方便坐姿平衡較弱及彎腰有困難的病者自行穿襪。
3.21.復康器材租借服務
以下機構有復康器材租借服務:
復康資源協會(紅磡理工)
紅十字會輔助行動器材租借服務(上環)
香港輪椅輔助隊(深水埗)
香港傷健協會(只借輪椅)
路向四肢傷殘人士協會(將軍澳)
3.22.輪椅/電動輪椅檢查及維修
賽馬會復康科技中心(理工)
香港輪椅輔助隊(深水埗)
香港耀能協會鄧肇瓊記念工場(沙田禾輋)
4教會資源
4.1.基督教院牧部;電話:http://www.hospitalchap.org.hk/082nd/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=868&Itemid=417
4.2.『《靈.家舍》社區服務 Community-based Service
家庭為中心的全人關顧服務,服務形式以配合醫院管理局的醫療發展方向
院舍探訪等心靈關懷家居和院舍的非住院病患/長者,以達受顧者增強自我照顧能力及延續的鄰舍關顧與社區支援,從而提升其及家屬的心靈指數創造和諧家庭與改善生活質素。
4.3.教會支援:
4.31.教會長期病患者關懷團隊(實踐部分分工分隊):
4.32.教牧緊急探訪:23692237
4.33殯儀
5其他
病人互助組織
發揮助人自助的精神,透過病人自助組織的工作,與其他病友分享過來人的經驗,互相支持。
腎友聯 九龍橫頭磡村宏禮樓地下 8100 0821 www.arpmha.org.hk
關心您的心 香港中環皇后大道中99號
中環中心地下2C室 2614 0422 www.careheart.org.hk
香港哮喘會 九龍觀塘復康徑七號一樓 2895 6502 www.hkasthma.org.hk
樂晞會 九龍中央郵箱13390號 8103 7018 www.hklupus.org.hk
毅希會 九龍橫頭磡村宏禮樓地下 2713 6444 www.hkraasso.org
香港柏金遜症會 九龍橫頭磡村宏禮樓地下 2337 2292 www.hkpda.org
香港協癇會 九龍橫頭磡村宏禮樓地下 2794 7006 www.hkepilepsy.com
結長友會 九龍橫頭磡村宏禮樓地下 2794 3010
香港兒童糖尿協會 香港中環干諾道中62-63號
中興商業大廈5樓B2室 2544 3263 www.hkjda.org
自強協會 九龍灣啟業村
啟裕樓58-61號地下 3165 8337 www.1stephk.org
想了解其他病人自助組織,請瀏覽香港復康會病人自助組織。
社區復康網絡
為長期病患者提供教育,訓練及支援性的服務,同時協助他們建立互助網絡,使他們能如常地在社區生活。
香港復康會社區復康網絡,港島康山中心 香港鰂魚涌英皇道1120號,康山花園第六座地下 2549 7744 www.rehabsociety.org.hk/c/ services_rehabilitation...
衞 生 署 中 央 健 康 教 育 組
網頁資料
長期病患者援助金 :http://www.pokoi.org.hk/tc/services_fund.aspx
社區資源共享 http://www.ciif.gov.hk/dnld/promotion/brief/Alice%20ppt.pdf
再生會 http://www.regensoc.org/uploads/2010%20final.pdf
屯門醫院社區服務中心 www.ha.org.hk/tmh/csc
醫院管理局 www.ha.org.hk
衛生署中央健康教育組 www.cheu.goc.hk
社區復康網路 www.Rehabsociety.org.hk.crn
照顧長期病患者 http://www.gov.hk/tc/residents/health/rehab/chronicpatients.htm
醫院管理局—健之訊 http://www.ha.org.hk
香港復康會社區復康網絡 http://www.rehabsociety.org.hk/crn
安老服務 http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_elderly/
http://edblog.hkedcity.net/te_hmsc/wp-content/blogs/1680/uploads/Booklet%204_Mental%20Health_110210_C_clean.pdf
醫院社工:http://www.swik.org.hk/SWIKPortal/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabIndex=0&tabid=50&ItemID=270
安寧照顧
6結語:
長期病患照顧者壓力大
一項調查顯示,照顧長期患病家人的人士,多數需要辭去工作,承受經濟及精神上壓力而感到身心疲累。關注團體建議政府加強對這類家庭的支援服務。
負責調查的「香港復康會」社區復康網絡,早前訪問了179名需要照顧60歲以下長期病患者的人士,發現其中7成沒有工作,要全職照顧患病家人。調查又顯示7成受訪者對照顧長期病患家人感到身心疲累,其中又以女性、沒有接受社會服務和需面對家庭經濟困難的照顧者所承受的壓力最大。73%受訪者的情緒及起居生活要適應患者而改變,8成受訪感到煩燥及脾氣暴躁。但8成受訪者沒有接受任何社會服務協助解決問題。
「香港復康會」指長期病患者的家人,由於要長時間照顧患病家人而承受經濟及精神壓力,甚至被迫辭去工作及領取綜援金。該會建議仿效長者返回內地養老計劃,讓病者到內地居住但繼續可以領取傷殘津貼。此外,還建議政府為中年病患者制訂支援政策,包括設立日間復康中心,拓展庇護工場及展能中心服務,讓病者加強與外界接觸,減輕家人的壓力,令照顧者可出外工作。
約翰三書『親愛的兄弟啊,我願你凡事興盛,身體健壯,正如你的靈魂興盛一樣。』
2011年6月3日星期五
逼迫福 2011
逼迫福 2011
為了實行神的旨意而受逼迫的人多麽有福。
(一) 引言
(1) 2011年5月20~26日,到印尼,回教徒,犯了7個炸彈,75公斤,要把教會炸平。信徒說,不怕,否則他們成功。
(2) 意識準備犧牲。
(二) 本論
一、 -逼迫的種類:
(2) 生活上面,工作逼人;
(3) 愛情殉情
(4) 民族
(5) 歧視
(6) 功課,工作,愛情,犧牲
(7) 商人
二、政府的逼害;
內地的藝術家,艾美美
天安門母親
大頭BB,讀奶粉,趙連海
罪惡的源頭。
主耶穌說的,是人信仰,為信靠主耶穌,為義受逼迫的人,有福。
為義:為神的道
神的旨意
福音
歷史上,信仰受到逼迫
獅子坑
埃及尼祿王,用松脂油包紮基督徒,點火,作路燈。
獸皮,給獵狗追
拷問
燒紅烙印在追敏感的部位;澆灌冷水,
挖眼睛
割下身體部分
逼迫的理由
1、 政治上:凱撒為主
2、 嫁禍:尼祿焚燒羅馬城,重建行宮,民眾反叛,嫁禍基督徒燒;
3、 信仰的誤解:基督的血,彼此相愛,男女
三、流血的福氣;
為了實行神的旨意而受逼迫的人多麽有福。
忠心
歷史告訴我們,殉道士的血,是福音的種子,
印尼JONI ,殺害歐洲宣教士,爺爺信主;
只是忠心的冠冕:
啟示錄二章10~11
(三) 結論
登山寶訓:
基督徒的憲章
實踐神國之一的代價,罪的世界
http://g-highway.net/book/shengjing1/jl1-9/146.htm
http://www.allaboutfollowingjesus.org/chinese/christian-persecution.htm
為了實行神的旨意而受逼迫的人多麽有福。
(一) 引言
(1) 2011年5月20~26日,到印尼,回教徒,犯了7個炸彈,75公斤,要把教會炸平。信徒說,不怕,否則他們成功。
(2) 意識準備犧牲。
(二) 本論
一、 -逼迫的種類:
(2) 生活上面,工作逼人;
(3) 愛情殉情
(4) 民族
(5) 歧視
(6) 功課,工作,愛情,犧牲
(7) 商人
二、政府的逼害;
內地的藝術家,艾美美
天安門母親
大頭BB,讀奶粉,趙連海
罪惡的源頭。
主耶穌說的,是人信仰,為信靠主耶穌,為義受逼迫的人,有福。
為義:為神的道
神的旨意
福音
歷史上,信仰受到逼迫
獅子坑
埃及尼祿王,用松脂油包紮基督徒,點火,作路燈。
獸皮,給獵狗追
拷問
燒紅烙印在追敏感的部位;澆灌冷水,
挖眼睛
割下身體部分
逼迫的理由
1、 政治上:凱撒為主
2、 嫁禍:尼祿焚燒羅馬城,重建行宮,民眾反叛,嫁禍基督徒燒;
3、 信仰的誤解:基督的血,彼此相愛,男女
三、流血的福氣;
為了實行神的旨意而受逼迫的人多麽有福。
忠心
歷史告訴我們,殉道士的血,是福音的種子,
印尼JONI ,殺害歐洲宣教士,爺爺信主;
只是忠心的冠冕:
啟示錄二章10~11
(三) 結論
登山寶訓:
基督徒的憲章
實踐神國之一的代價,罪的世界
http://g-highway.net/book/shengjing1/jl1-9/146.htm
http://www.allaboutfollowingjesus.org/chinese/christian-persecution.htm
2011年5月6日星期五
BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS.......
BleSSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS....... By Keith Hunt
Do you want to be a literal child of God? You do - then you will have to be a person of PEACE, for it is written, Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God (Mat.5:9).
The greatest peacemaker in the universe is the heavenly Father, but mankind, as a whole, is not at peace with the Father,because of sin. Sin (the breaking of the law of God - 1 John 3:4)cuts us off from being at peace with the Father. Notice Isaiah
59:1,2. "Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy that it cannot hear. But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His eyes from you, that He will not hear."
Yet the Father wants a reconciliation - a peace - between Himself and mankind whom He created. So He cries out to those who could be His children, "Seek you the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked FORSAKE HIS WAY,and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him RETURN unto the
Lord, and He will have MERCY upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly PARDON " (Isa.55:6,7).
God wants peace!
He is the greatest peacemaker in all the universe. He wants -He DESIRES, that every last person who has ever lived or will ever live, should repent and not perish. For it is written, "The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count
slackness; but is longsuffering towards us, not willing(not wanting) that ANY should perish, but that ALL should come to repentance" (2 Pet.3:9, emphasis mine).
Repentance is vitally important for each of us if we are not to perish - if we are to make peace with God. Jesus said, ".......except you repent, you shall all likewise perish." (Luke 13:3). Paul was inspired to write, "And the times of this
ignorance God winked at, but now commands all men every where to REPENT" (Acts 17:30). We have literature on the subject of repentance - what it really is. Write for it if you have not already done so.
The wages of sin is death - Romans 6:23. The heavenly Father could not just turn a "blind eye" to our sins. He could not just ignore them as if we had never ransgressed His holy, just, and good law and commandments(Rom.7:12). Our sins had to be paid in full to make peace with Him, but instead of each one of us having
to die He made a way by which we could be made at peace with Him.
He sent His Son to overcome sin in the flesh, to take our sins upon Himself, and to die in our place. Notice it in Romans 3:23-25, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. Being JUSTIFIED(forgiven of sin - declared sinless) freely
by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Whom God has sent forth to be a PROPITIATION(atoning sacrifice) through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins(forgiveness of) that are past, through the
forbearance of God."
God the Father is the great peacemaker. He has made a way whereby all mankind can have peace with Him. That way is through Christ Jesus. Paul instructed the church at Ephesus, "But now in Christ Jesus you who sometimes far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For He is our(Jew and Gentile) peace, who has made both one.......so making peace. And that He might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross......And came and preached peace to you(Gentiles) which were far off, and to them(Jews) that were nigh. For through Him we both have access by one Spirit unto
the Father" (Eph.2:13-18).
The way of peace with the Father is through Jesus Christ. The Father is the greatest peacemaker in the universe. He has gone out of His way to make peace with the humans He created. If we are willing to repent of our sins, if we are willing to separate ourselves from unrighteousness and follow righteousness(see Ps.119:172 for a definition as to righteousness), if we are willing to separate ourselves from the world of Satan and walk in the light and truth of God's word, then the Father says,
"......you shall be my sons and daughters......" (2 Cor.6:14-18).
We can then be the children of God!
BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS
How would you like to be remembered? What kind of reputation do you desire? What kind of image do you want? What words would you like to be carved on your tombstone - maybe the words: "Here lays a child of God" ?
If you earnestly desire to be the son or daughter of God, you will have to be a peacemaker. For it is written, "Blessed are the PEACEMAKERS, for they shall be called the CHILDREN of God."
How do we build a reputation as "the children of God"? The seventh Beatitude of Christ as they are called, tells us one way - being peacemakers.
We are all called to be peacemakers in one way or another. We are probably going to get at least one chance in this life time to be a peacemaker, and most of us will no doubt get many opportunities to peacemake.
Being a peacemaker can be extremely rewarding. Helping bring peace where there is conflict, tension, and strife, brings about a healthy sense of satisfaction.
Peacemaking can also be a tough role to play. And yet it is absolutely crucial if you are to be a child of God.
Senator Hubert Humphrey put it this way: "Negotiating between conflicting parties is like crossing a river by walking on slippery rocks. It s risky, but it s the only way to get across."
We see "breaches" all around us. In families. Between labor and management. Between nations. Between political parties. And between Christian brothers and sisters.
We have been called as Christians to be REPAIRERS of the breach. Restorers of paths to dwell in. Where a relationship has been ripped, torn apart, we are called to bring about
reconciliation and peace. Where there's a rupture, create a rapture. Where there is a scar, create a star - healing where there was only hurt.
Paul instructed, "If it be possible, as much as lies with you, live peaceably with ALL men"(Rom.12:18 - emphasis mine).
Peacemakers. Who are they? Are they only politicians or world leaders? Ah, not at all! They are people like you and me.Everyone can be a peacemaker. The mother who resolves the conflict between her toddlers is a peacemaker. The student who
helps settle disputes between her class mates is a peacemaker.The man or woman who helps in resolving family arguments, is a peacemaker. Those who help restore a spiritual brother or sister from being overcome by sin, is a peacemaker(Gal.6:1).
Every one of us can be a peacemaker - no matter who we are or
what we do.
There are great blessing here and now, and in the future, for being a peacemaker. You want to see good days in this physical life, then do as Peter instructed: "For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his
lips that they speak no guile. Let him eschew evil, and do good;let him SEEK PEACE and ensue it" (1 Pet.3:10,11).
Now notice this important verse found in Hebrews 12:14, "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord."
Now it follows that if we can not see God without following peace and holiness, then by following holiness and peace we shall see God!
It is just that important. To be a child of God you must FOLLOW PEACE. Those that do shall one day live for eternity and be called the children of God.
PEACEMAKERS
Abraham was very rich in cattle, silver, and in gold. He and his household together with Lot his nephew and all that he possessed, went up out of Egypt to the area of Bethel. So large were their combined flocks and herds, the land "was not able to bear them" (Gen.13:6).
Verse 7 says, "And there was STRIFE between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle...."
Did Abram, as the older man, get all steamed up with
indignation and demand his rights? Look at it - verses 8 and 9.What an example of peacemaking we have recorded for us. "And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be NO STRIFE......between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we be
brethren. Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself .....from me. If you will take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if you depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left."
Among other things, Abram was a peacemaker. It is no wonder then that he is called the father of the faithful and a friend of God.
We too can not only be a friend of God but a child of God, if we are peacemakers.
The Bible contains many examples of people who were peacemakers. There is Moses and his peacemaking efforts as found in Exodus 2:13 and chapter 32, where he acts as a peacemaker between God and the people of Israel. There is the example of Abimelech in Genesis 26. We have the example of Mordecai as a man of peace - Esther 10. And there is David - a man after God's own heart - who tried numerous times to make peace with King Saul who was often out to "nail his hide to the wall." David returned good
and peace for the evil Saul wanted to do to him.
These are but some of the examples left us in the Bible concerning people of peace. Here are some from more recent history.
Rolan Hayes was one of three children born to a Black family on a fifteen-acre cotton farm in Tennessee. At the age of five Roland lost his father to an accident. His mother moved the family soon after the death of her husband, to Chattanooga. While in that town they sang in a church choir. And one day the choir director played for them a recording of Caruso and of Melba, two of the great singers of the day. Roland Hayes was so moved by the music that he said, "I believe that God has called me to sing a message of peace and brotherhood around the world."
With determination and effort over many years he did indeed become an international solo concert singer.
In 1924 he was booked for a concert at the Beethoven Concert Hall in Berlin. En route to Germany, Roland stopped in Prague. He was called into the American consul's office. "Mr. Hayes," the consul said, "I have bad news for you. You are going to have to cancel your concert in Germany. The French have taken over the Rhineland and they are holding it with troops made up of Negroes from America. The Germans are furious. No black-skinned person will be able to sing in Germany at this time."
"Thank you for telling me this, Mr. Consul," Roland said, "I will surely pray about it." The days passed and he could not bring himself to cancel the concert.
On the night of the concert, Roland and his black accompanist carefully made their way to the auditorium and slipped in through a back door. Once inside, they peered through the curtains and saw that the place was packed to overflowing. Now Roland realized he was an internationally controversial case.
When the curtain went up, Roland Hayes stood in the curve of the baby brand piano. He folded his hands, looked upward, and said a private prayer to God: "God, make me a horn for the Omnipotent to sound through."
As he stood silently praying, he began to hear hissing, then stomping, and then catcalls and boos. Somebody shouted, "Don't disgrace the Beethoven Concert Hall with plantation songs about black men from America."
Hate seemed to fill that auditorium. His accompanist said,"Mr. Hayes, we better get out of here!"
Then objects began to fly onto the stage, narrowly missing the soloist. Roland Hayes later recalled the incident and remarked, "I just stood there and prayed,'God,what will I do?' "
An idea entered his mind. To the accompanist he said, "Let's begin with Beethoven's 'This Is My Peace.' " The accompanist slowly and softly began to play. A surprised murmur ran through the hall as the German concertgoers heard the music of their favorite, Beethoven.
Roland Hayes opened his mouth and began to sing "This Is My Peace." His mighty voice rolled through the auditorium, and the audience fell into silence. By the time he finished, there was absolute attention. He went on to sing several classical numbers and ended the concert with Negro spirituals and plantation songs .
At the close of the concert, some members of the audience jumped up on the stage, hoisted Roland on their shoulders, and paraded him around the auditorium. He was the hero of the continent, and he was an inspiration in settling the dispute between France and Germany.
It s not always easy to be a peacemaker, but there can be great rewards here and now, in trying. And the best of all is that you can be called the CHILD of God.
Another great Black leader that advocated the peaceful means to procure change, was the Baptist minister of the 1960's -Martin Luther King,Jr.
At a young age, and while studying for the ministry, Martin attended a lecture about the tremendous social change that had occurred in India as a result of the efforts of a lawyer named GANDHI. Though born in India, Gandhi spent much of his early life in South Africa. He returned to India at the age of 46. He quickly saw that India was nothing more than a British colony and that it was slowly dying under such bondage. He advocated a nonviolent - peaceful protest against the British for India's independence. It was most important to be nonviolent Gandhi taught. Sometimes protesters forgot this and turned to violence and bloodshed. When they did, Gandhi would fast, refusing to eat until the violence ended.
It took years, seventeen long years, but through the combined efforts of people like Gandhi, the unity of the Indian people,and adverse world opinion, the British granted India its independence in 1947.
Martin Luther King left the lecture so excited he went out and bought all the books he could about Gandhi and his philosophy of nonviolence.
Martin recognized the differences between his country and Gandhi's. In the United States, blacks were only about ten per cent of the population. Still, he could not get rid of the
feeling that somehow Gandhi's philosophy could be applies to the plight of the blacks in the USA. Martin was living for the most part in the South, where there was still WHITES ONLY signs on Coke machines or water fountains or over doorways. Where blacks
had to ride at the back on public buses. On trains in the South,blacks had to sit in the rear of the dining car, and a shade was pulled down to separate them from the rest, as if the sight of blacks in a car would offend the white diners.
This was the world the blacks lived in, in the South. Martin was determined to do something about it - but only through peaceful means.
During the 50's and on into the 60's Martin Luther King became the most prominent voice for the Civil Rights Movement.His philosophy and teaching throughout all those years up to his assassination and death on April the 4th, 1968, was a nonviolent
PEACEFUL approach to "equal rights" for blacks.
Yes, the "Civil Rights Movement" was from time to time during those years, to be infiltrated by those who recommended violence as the solution to the black problem of the South, and indeed,violence did flare up at times, blacks being the instigators, but Martin Luther King would have no part of it. He stood only for a peaceful solution - peaceful marches and public demonstrations.
It was on Monday January 30, 1956, that Martin s house was bombed for the first time. He was not at home that evening.
When he did arrive home, summoned by a brief and frightening telephone call, he found his house filled with people and the street outside jammed with onlookers. The crowd of blacks was angry; police stood by, expecting at any moment to have to quell
a riot. The Mayor and Commissioner of Montgomery were there to grab Martin on his arrival and to express their sympathy. The crowd was not mollified. Rage filled the air.
Having seen for himself that Coretta and Yoki(his wife and daughter) were all right, Martin turned to the most immediate problem. The crowd might loose control at any moment and burst into violence. He made his way to the front porch and held up his arms. He spoke to the crowd. He assured them his wife and baby were fine. He was all right. They must not let their anger hurt the nonviolent cause for which they were working. He quoted Jesus. He spoke of love. Gradually the crowd quieted. Then,
Martin Luther King, Jr. channelled the high emotion of the crowd from negative to positive and made his first public utterance about the possi bility of his own death: "Remember, if I am stopped, this movement will not stop because God is with this
movement. Go home with this glowing faith and radiant assurance."Shouting "Amen!" amid tears, the crowd dispersed.
As the leader of the successful Montgomery bus boycott,Martin Luther King Jr., was in great demand as a speaker. Many young whites were receptive to his pleas for black equality.
Inspired by King and the nonviolent peaceful civil rights movement, young black students started their own nonviolent protests. Tired of segregation they wanted to do something about it.
So began the "sit in lunch counter" campaigns across the South. These "sit-ins" adhered completely to nonviolent principles. This is the list of rules governing behavior at sit-ins drawn up by Nashville, Tennessee, college students in the
spring of 1960:
Don't strike back if cursed or abused. Don't laugh out.Don't hold conversations with your fellow workers. Don't leave your seats until your leader has given you instructions to do so.
Don't block entrances to the stores and aisles. Show yourself courteous and friendly at all times. Sit straight
and always face the counter. Report all serious incidents to your leader. Refer all information to your leader in a polite manner. Remember love and nonviolence. May God bless each of you.
There was much sorrow and pain yet to endure for those who stood for de-segregation and equality through peaceful means. But their efforts were not in vain. During those years of the 60's, mountains were moved, the wall of bigotry was broken down, segregation was smashed, blacks did get to use the same water fountain as whites, sit on any seat they wanted to on the buses, and be treated as an equal part of the human creation of God Almighty.
All this was accomplished by the use of PEACE!
The world finally honored the peaceful efforts and teaching of Martin Luther King Jr. They presented him with the NOBEL PRIZE FOR PEACE in 1964.
Shortly before he died, King gave a sermon in which he related how he would like people to remember him: "......I'd like someone to mention that day of my funeral, that Martin Luther King Jr., tried to give his life serving others. I'd like someone
to say that day that Martin Luther King Jr., tried to love somebody."
Ah yes, the fruit of the Spirit is........love, joy,PEACE........
Those that are peacemakers will be called the children of God.
THE CHILD OF GOD
Do you want to be a child of God? Do you want to be a son or daughter of the greatest peacemaker in the universe? If you do then you will have to practice peacemaking. And it may not be easy, for the NATURAL way of man is to dislike, distrust, impute evil motives, slander, and hate, those we think have "done us
dirt" in one way or another.
It is human nature to fight against and even go to war, with those whom we perceive to be our enemies. They may not really be our enemy, but we think they are, or they may very well have "done us evil." Which ever the case is, the natural way to go -the way of least resistance - is to hate and war, and not to try and peacemake. It is not a proclivity for most of us, to say,"Please forgive me if I have done or said something to offend you. I would like us to be friends." Or, "I ask your forgiveness for the wrong I have done to you."
It is not easy for human nature to say, "I realize their is a wall between us. I would like for us to talk, get things out in the open, lay the cards on the table, and say sorry where the word sorry is needed to be said. I would like us to forgive where forgiveness is due, and be at peace with each other."
No it is not easy to PRACTICE the above words. But we must try to do so as Christians if we want to be called a child of God.
With the power of the Holy Spirit in us we can be peacemakers!
Now brethren, it is commonly noised abroad that there is in many of the churches, dissent, bickering, strife, antagonisms,jealousy, suspiciousness, back-biting, and other "works of the flesh" that are anything but peace and love.
This should not be!
The fruits of the Spirit, are among other things, "....love, joy, PEACE ....... (Gal.5:22). Where there is little evidence of these fruits in a church's life, there can only be a lack of the Spirit of God among the church's membership.
The spiritual "thermometer reading" of any group will be determined by the amount of heated love, joy, and peace, the group produces. If there is little love and peace, there will be a VACUUM, and the vacuum will need to be filled. It will usually be filled with anger and strife, the works of the flesh (Gal.5:19-21).
Notice what God is NOT the author of, as well as what He IS the author of: "For God is NOT the author of confusion (tumult -mrg. reading) BUT of peace...." (1 Cor.14:33).
Yes, God is the greatest peacemaker in the universe - He wrote the book on it. He is the author of peace. And those who will seek to be peacemakers will be called the children of God.
Are you "at odds" with someone? Is there strife between you and another, or resentment, or anger, or maybe bad feelings over something? Then you need to do what YOU can do, to bring about peace. Do not wait for the other guy to make the first move
towards peace - he may never do so, or as you are waiting for him, he is waiting for you.
Paul instructs, "If it be possible(some carnal minded individual may never want to be at peace with you), as much as lies in you(you at least should smoke the peace pipe) LIVE PEACEABLY with all men" (Rom.12:18 added comments and emphasis mine).
I was having my car professionally washed and waxed one day,and while waiting in the lounge they provided for their customers, I came across a card in a rack of BLUE MOUNTAIN ARTS. The poem on it by Paula Finn was entitled: "I THINK WE NEED TO TALK." Here are the words:
"Lately things haven't been quite right between us....We've allowed some negative feelings to build up, and those unexpressed feelings have kept us from being as close as we could be.
We need to trust our love enough to share the truth.....to express criticism as well as praise,to be honest about our disappointments as well as our hopes, to communicate our hurts and frustrations, rather than keeping them inside.
We have to find ways to put into words what we need from each other, so the other person....can find ways to give it. And we need to be realistic in our expectations, and remember that no one person can ever meet them all.
We have to talk more freely about our own feelings and listen more sensitively to each other's, to realize that feelings are neither right nor wrong, but they are all important, and that our differences can really be strengths if we bring them out into the open and work together to solve them.
It will take effort and courage on both our parts, but we need to realize that keeping anger inside will only make it stronger and will cause us to hurt each other even more.
We have to talk.
I'm not quite sure how to begin.......but I know we must."
Yes, communicating through word or letter, to those we are
having problems with is the key. Jesus taught: "...if you bringyour gift to the altar, and there you remember that your brother has something against you. Leave your gift before the altar;
first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift......Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you. That you may be the children of your
Father which is in heaven, for He makes the sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust. For if you love them that love you, what reward do you have? Do not even sinners do the same? And if you honor you brethren only, what do you more than others? Do not even the criminals of society do the same among themselves? Become you therefore spiritually mature even as your Father which is in heaven, is spiritually mature" (Mat.5:23,24,44-48 paraphrased myself).
Then also notice Jesus words in Matthew 18:15, "......if your brother shall trespass against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone; if he shall hear you, you have gained your brother."
For those who claim they love Christ, who claim they are followers of Jesus, they must obey this teaching of being peacemakers, for Jesus said, "If a man love me, he will keep my words......" (John 14:23).
That's it, there's no way around it - Christians must put forth the effort to be peacemakers!
The child of God is to seek peace and pursue it(1 P et.3:11). There is joy to the counsellors of peace (Prov.12:20). Proverbs 20 and verse 3 says, "...It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling." The words of Zechariah admonish us to love the TRUTH and PEACE (Zech.8:19). Jesus taught
us to "....have peace one with another...." (Mark 9:50). Unity of the Spirit is bonded together by PEACE (Eph.4:3).
Peace is an integral part of true wisdom and righteousness;"But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then PEACEABLE.....The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace " (James 3:17,18). We are to do the things that
will produce peace (Rom. 14:19).
HOW TO BE A PEACEMAKER
Who are the peacemakers? They are not necessarily the people who are talking about peace all the time. Peacemakers are those who are doing something, creating something, building something -bridges, mostly!
You would like peace in your family, in your community, in your place of work, in your church. There will be no peace anywhere as long as there is war going on in YOUR heart and in your life.
To be a peacemaker you must first be at peace with God and yourself. You can be a peacemaker once you have your life together, once you've let the heavenly Father and Christ Jesus become your friends. When you have made your peace with them by repenting of sin in your life and accepting Jesus as your savior, once you have made peace to God through Christ, once you are at peace in your own heart and mind, when all your anger, bitterness, hate, resentments, jealousy, and animosities, have
been washed away from your heart by the blood of Christ, then you are ready to make peace with others - with those whom you need to make peace with.
So you are at peace with the two main persons of the universe, now what should you do next? I think the next move is for you to PRAY!
Pray for humility and wisdom. Pray that you will be able, in word and deed, to go about the job of making peace in the light of God's word.
Once you have done the above, you are ready to ACT! It s no use just wishing for peace but doing nothing. Just thinking about peace will not automatically bring about peace. You must act. Be determined that you are going to communicate, in verbal or
written word, with the person or persons you need to have peace with. Then fulfil that communication.
It will take effort, it may not be easy, but most things in life that are rewarding and lasting, do not come at the snap of the fingers, but takes work and effort.
Yes, all of us can be peacemakers - wherever we are. There may be a tension inside of you, in your home, or in your place of business. But you can resolve this tension if you give it all you've got. Tackling the problem of tens ion is no different than tackling any other problem. You can make peace in much the same
way that you solve other problems. The people who ultimately win at what they go after are people who give it all they've got.
This true story may help you win at peacemaking.
It happened on the slopes of Squaw Valley. The handicapped skier was a girl by the name of Kim. She was about eighteen and blind. Kim was being led down the giant slalom. She made it through forty-four gates, and she was lined up straight with the
finishing line. Her guide behind her said, "Straight ahead Kim; go for it!"
Kim dug in and was flying over the snow when she hit a rut. The poles flew out of her hands. She fell flat on her face. She knew she'd have to get her body across the finish line or be disqualified. She looked beaten, looked like she was out of it,
but she didn't stop. She reached out for her poles. When she couldn't find them, she started swimming over the snow, straight ahead, until she crossed the finish line.
"Kim, you made it!" the judge called out. But she didn't hear him. She just kept on snow swimming on her stomach for another five, ten, fifteen feet.
The judge kept shouting, "You made it, Kim; you can stop!"She still did not hear him. Finally a second voice, then another,then all of the spectators shouted, "You made it, Kim!"
Kim stopped, still flat on her belly. Then she heard the applause. She jumped up to her feet and danced for joy.
You can do it, too! You can be a peacemaker - you can be called a child of God.
"Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the
children of God.
Written in 1991
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Do you want to be a literal child of God? You do - then you will have to be a person of PEACE, for it is written, Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God (Mat.5:9).
The greatest peacemaker in the universe is the heavenly Father, but mankind, as a whole, is not at peace with the Father,because of sin. Sin (the breaking of the law of God - 1 John 3:4)cuts us off from being at peace with the Father. Notice Isaiah
59:1,2. "Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy that it cannot hear. But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His eyes from you, that He will not hear."
Yet the Father wants a reconciliation - a peace - between Himself and mankind whom He created. So He cries out to those who could be His children, "Seek you the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked FORSAKE HIS WAY,and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him RETURN unto the
Lord, and He will have MERCY upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly PARDON " (Isa.55:6,7).
God wants peace!
He is the greatest peacemaker in all the universe. He wants -He DESIRES, that every last person who has ever lived or will ever live, should repent and not perish. For it is written, "The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count
slackness; but is longsuffering towards us, not willing(not wanting) that ANY should perish, but that ALL should come to repentance" (2 Pet.3:9, emphasis mine).
Repentance is vitally important for each of us if we are not to perish - if we are to make peace with God. Jesus said, ".......except you repent, you shall all likewise perish." (Luke 13:3). Paul was inspired to write, "And the times of this
ignorance God winked at, but now commands all men every where to REPENT" (Acts 17:30). We have literature on the subject of repentance - what it really is. Write for it if you have not already done so.
The wages of sin is death - Romans 6:23. The heavenly Father could not just turn a "blind eye" to our sins. He could not just ignore them as if we had never ransgressed His holy, just, and good law and commandments(Rom.7:12). Our sins had to be paid in full to make peace with Him, but instead of each one of us having
to die He made a way by which we could be made at peace with Him.
He sent His Son to overcome sin in the flesh, to take our sins upon Himself, and to die in our place. Notice it in Romans 3:23-25, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. Being JUSTIFIED(forgiven of sin - declared sinless) freely
by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Whom God has sent forth to be a PROPITIATION(atoning sacrifice) through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins(forgiveness of) that are past, through the
forbearance of God."
God the Father is the great peacemaker. He has made a way whereby all mankind can have peace with Him. That way is through Christ Jesus. Paul instructed the church at Ephesus, "But now in Christ Jesus you who sometimes far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For He is our(Jew and Gentile) peace, who has made both one.......so making peace. And that He might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross......And came and preached peace to you(Gentiles) which were far off, and to them(Jews) that were nigh. For through Him we both have access by one Spirit unto
the Father" (Eph.2:13-18).
The way of peace with the Father is through Jesus Christ. The Father is the greatest peacemaker in the universe. He has gone out of His way to make peace with the humans He created. If we are willing to repent of our sins, if we are willing to separate ourselves from unrighteousness and follow righteousness(see Ps.119:172 for a definition as to righteousness), if we are willing to separate ourselves from the world of Satan and walk in the light and truth of God's word, then the Father says,
"......you shall be my sons and daughters......" (2 Cor.6:14-18).
We can then be the children of God!
BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS
How would you like to be remembered? What kind of reputation do you desire? What kind of image do you want? What words would you like to be carved on your tombstone - maybe the words: "Here lays a child of God" ?
If you earnestly desire to be the son or daughter of God, you will have to be a peacemaker. For it is written, "Blessed are the PEACEMAKERS, for they shall be called the CHILDREN of God."
How do we build a reputation as "the children of God"? The seventh Beatitude of Christ as they are called, tells us one way - being peacemakers.
We are all called to be peacemakers in one way or another. We are probably going to get at least one chance in this life time to be a peacemaker, and most of us will no doubt get many opportunities to peacemake.
Being a peacemaker can be extremely rewarding. Helping bring peace where there is conflict, tension, and strife, brings about a healthy sense of satisfaction.
Peacemaking can also be a tough role to play. And yet it is absolutely crucial if you are to be a child of God.
Senator Hubert Humphrey put it this way: "Negotiating between conflicting parties is like crossing a river by walking on slippery rocks. It s risky, but it s the only way to get across."
We see "breaches" all around us. In families. Between labor and management. Between nations. Between political parties. And between Christian brothers and sisters.
We have been called as Christians to be REPAIRERS of the breach. Restorers of paths to dwell in. Where a relationship has been ripped, torn apart, we are called to bring about
reconciliation and peace. Where there's a rupture, create a rapture. Where there is a scar, create a star - healing where there was only hurt.
Paul instructed, "If it be possible, as much as lies with you, live peaceably with ALL men"(Rom.12:18 - emphasis mine).
Peacemakers. Who are they? Are they only politicians or world leaders? Ah, not at all! They are people like you and me.Everyone can be a peacemaker. The mother who resolves the conflict between her toddlers is a peacemaker. The student who
helps settle disputes between her class mates is a peacemaker.The man or woman who helps in resolving family arguments, is a peacemaker. Those who help restore a spiritual brother or sister from being overcome by sin, is a peacemaker(Gal.6:1).
Every one of us can be a peacemaker - no matter who we are or
what we do.
There are great blessing here and now, and in the future, for being a peacemaker. You want to see good days in this physical life, then do as Peter instructed: "For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his
lips that they speak no guile. Let him eschew evil, and do good;let him SEEK PEACE and ensue it" (1 Pet.3:10,11).
Now notice this important verse found in Hebrews 12:14, "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord."
Now it follows that if we can not see God without following peace and holiness, then by following holiness and peace we shall see God!
It is just that important. To be a child of God you must FOLLOW PEACE. Those that do shall one day live for eternity and be called the children of God.
PEACEMAKERS
Abraham was very rich in cattle, silver, and in gold. He and his household together with Lot his nephew and all that he possessed, went up out of Egypt to the area of Bethel. So large were their combined flocks and herds, the land "was not able to bear them" (Gen.13:6).
Verse 7 says, "And there was STRIFE between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle...."
Did Abram, as the older man, get all steamed up with
indignation and demand his rights? Look at it - verses 8 and 9.What an example of peacemaking we have recorded for us. "And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be NO STRIFE......between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we be
brethren. Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself .....from me. If you will take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if you depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left."
Among other things, Abram was a peacemaker. It is no wonder then that he is called the father of the faithful and a friend of God.
We too can not only be a friend of God but a child of God, if we are peacemakers.
The Bible contains many examples of people who were peacemakers. There is Moses and his peacemaking efforts as found in Exodus 2:13 and chapter 32, where he acts as a peacemaker between God and the people of Israel. There is the example of Abimelech in Genesis 26. We have the example of Mordecai as a man of peace - Esther 10. And there is David - a man after God's own heart - who tried numerous times to make peace with King Saul who was often out to "nail his hide to the wall." David returned good
and peace for the evil Saul wanted to do to him.
These are but some of the examples left us in the Bible concerning people of peace. Here are some from more recent history.
Rolan Hayes was one of three children born to a Black family on a fifteen-acre cotton farm in Tennessee. At the age of five Roland lost his father to an accident. His mother moved the family soon after the death of her husband, to Chattanooga. While in that town they sang in a church choir. And one day the choir director played for them a recording of Caruso and of Melba, two of the great singers of the day. Roland Hayes was so moved by the music that he said, "I believe that God has called me to sing a message of peace and brotherhood around the world."
With determination and effort over many years he did indeed become an international solo concert singer.
In 1924 he was booked for a concert at the Beethoven Concert Hall in Berlin. En route to Germany, Roland stopped in Prague. He was called into the American consul's office. "Mr. Hayes," the consul said, "I have bad news for you. You are going to have to cancel your concert in Germany. The French have taken over the Rhineland and they are holding it with troops made up of Negroes from America. The Germans are furious. No black-skinned person will be able to sing in Germany at this time."
"Thank you for telling me this, Mr. Consul," Roland said, "I will surely pray about it." The days passed and he could not bring himself to cancel the concert.
On the night of the concert, Roland and his black accompanist carefully made their way to the auditorium and slipped in through a back door. Once inside, they peered through the curtains and saw that the place was packed to overflowing. Now Roland realized he was an internationally controversial case.
When the curtain went up, Roland Hayes stood in the curve of the baby brand piano. He folded his hands, looked upward, and said a private prayer to God: "God, make me a horn for the Omnipotent to sound through."
As he stood silently praying, he began to hear hissing, then stomping, and then catcalls and boos. Somebody shouted, "Don't disgrace the Beethoven Concert Hall with plantation songs about black men from America."
Hate seemed to fill that auditorium. His accompanist said,"Mr. Hayes, we better get out of here!"
Then objects began to fly onto the stage, narrowly missing the soloist. Roland Hayes later recalled the incident and remarked, "I just stood there and prayed,'God,what will I do?' "
An idea entered his mind. To the accompanist he said, "Let's begin with Beethoven's 'This Is My Peace.' " The accompanist slowly and softly began to play. A surprised murmur ran through the hall as the German concertgoers heard the music of their favorite, Beethoven.
Roland Hayes opened his mouth and began to sing "This Is My Peace." His mighty voice rolled through the auditorium, and the audience fell into silence. By the time he finished, there was absolute attention. He went on to sing several classical numbers and ended the concert with Negro spirituals and plantation songs .
At the close of the concert, some members of the audience jumped up on the stage, hoisted Roland on their shoulders, and paraded him around the auditorium. He was the hero of the continent, and he was an inspiration in settling the dispute between France and Germany.
It s not always easy to be a peacemaker, but there can be great rewards here and now, in trying. And the best of all is that you can be called the CHILD of God.
Another great Black leader that advocated the peaceful means to procure change, was the Baptist minister of the 1960's -Martin Luther King,Jr.
At a young age, and while studying for the ministry, Martin attended a lecture about the tremendous social change that had occurred in India as a result of the efforts of a lawyer named GANDHI. Though born in India, Gandhi spent much of his early life in South Africa. He returned to India at the age of 46. He quickly saw that India was nothing more than a British colony and that it was slowly dying under such bondage. He advocated a nonviolent - peaceful protest against the British for India's independence. It was most important to be nonviolent Gandhi taught. Sometimes protesters forgot this and turned to violence and bloodshed. When they did, Gandhi would fast, refusing to eat until the violence ended.
It took years, seventeen long years, but through the combined efforts of people like Gandhi, the unity of the Indian people,and adverse world opinion, the British granted India its independence in 1947.
Martin Luther King left the lecture so excited he went out and bought all the books he could about Gandhi and his philosophy of nonviolence.
Martin recognized the differences between his country and Gandhi's. In the United States, blacks were only about ten per cent of the population. Still, he could not get rid of the
feeling that somehow Gandhi's philosophy could be applies to the plight of the blacks in the USA. Martin was living for the most part in the South, where there was still WHITES ONLY signs on Coke machines or water fountains or over doorways. Where blacks
had to ride at the back on public buses. On trains in the South,blacks had to sit in the rear of the dining car, and a shade was pulled down to separate them from the rest, as if the sight of blacks in a car would offend the white diners.
This was the world the blacks lived in, in the South. Martin was determined to do something about it - but only through peaceful means.
During the 50's and on into the 60's Martin Luther King became the most prominent voice for the Civil Rights Movement.His philosophy and teaching throughout all those years up to his assassination and death on April the 4th, 1968, was a nonviolent
PEACEFUL approach to "equal rights" for blacks.
Yes, the "Civil Rights Movement" was from time to time during those years, to be infiltrated by those who recommended violence as the solution to the black problem of the South, and indeed,violence did flare up at times, blacks being the instigators, but Martin Luther King would have no part of it. He stood only for a peaceful solution - peaceful marches and public demonstrations.
It was on Monday January 30, 1956, that Martin s house was bombed for the first time. He was not at home that evening.
When he did arrive home, summoned by a brief and frightening telephone call, he found his house filled with people and the street outside jammed with onlookers. The crowd of blacks was angry; police stood by, expecting at any moment to have to quell
a riot. The Mayor and Commissioner of Montgomery were there to grab Martin on his arrival and to express their sympathy. The crowd was not mollified. Rage filled the air.
Having seen for himself that Coretta and Yoki(his wife and daughter) were all right, Martin turned to the most immediate problem. The crowd might loose control at any moment and burst into violence. He made his way to the front porch and held up his arms. He spoke to the crowd. He assured them his wife and baby were fine. He was all right. They must not let their anger hurt the nonviolent cause for which they were working. He quoted Jesus. He spoke of love. Gradually the crowd quieted. Then,
Martin Luther King, Jr. channelled the high emotion of the crowd from negative to positive and made his first public utterance about the possi bility of his own death: "Remember, if I am stopped, this movement will not stop because God is with this
movement. Go home with this glowing faith and radiant assurance."Shouting "Amen!" amid tears, the crowd dispersed.
As the leader of the successful Montgomery bus boycott,Martin Luther King Jr., was in great demand as a speaker. Many young whites were receptive to his pleas for black equality.
Inspired by King and the nonviolent peaceful civil rights movement, young black students started their own nonviolent protests. Tired of segregation they wanted to do something about it.
So began the "sit in lunch counter" campaigns across the South. These "sit-ins" adhered completely to nonviolent principles. This is the list of rules governing behavior at sit-ins drawn up by Nashville, Tennessee, college students in the
spring of 1960:
Don't strike back if cursed or abused. Don't laugh out.Don't hold conversations with your fellow workers. Don't leave your seats until your leader has given you instructions to do so.
Don't block entrances to the stores and aisles. Show yourself courteous and friendly at all times. Sit straight
and always face the counter. Report all serious incidents to your leader. Refer all information to your leader in a polite manner. Remember love and nonviolence. May God bless each of you.
There was much sorrow and pain yet to endure for those who stood for de-segregation and equality through peaceful means. But their efforts were not in vain. During those years of the 60's, mountains were moved, the wall of bigotry was broken down, segregation was smashed, blacks did get to use the same water fountain as whites, sit on any seat they wanted to on the buses, and be treated as an equal part of the human creation of God Almighty.
All this was accomplished by the use of PEACE!
The world finally honored the peaceful efforts and teaching of Martin Luther King Jr. They presented him with the NOBEL PRIZE FOR PEACE in 1964.
Shortly before he died, King gave a sermon in which he related how he would like people to remember him: "......I'd like someone to mention that day of my funeral, that Martin Luther King Jr., tried to give his life serving others. I'd like someone
to say that day that Martin Luther King Jr., tried to love somebody."
Ah yes, the fruit of the Spirit is........love, joy,PEACE........
Those that are peacemakers will be called the children of God.
THE CHILD OF GOD
Do you want to be a child of God? Do you want to be a son or daughter of the greatest peacemaker in the universe? If you do then you will have to practice peacemaking. And it may not be easy, for the NATURAL way of man is to dislike, distrust, impute evil motives, slander, and hate, those we think have "done us
dirt" in one way or another.
It is human nature to fight against and even go to war, with those whom we perceive to be our enemies. They may not really be our enemy, but we think they are, or they may very well have "done us evil." Which ever the case is, the natural way to go -the way of least resistance - is to hate and war, and not to try and peacemake. It is not a proclivity for most of us, to say,"Please forgive me if I have done or said something to offend you. I would like us to be friends." Or, "I ask your forgiveness for the wrong I have done to you."
It is not easy for human nature to say, "I realize their is a wall between us. I would like for us to talk, get things out in the open, lay the cards on the table, and say sorry where the word sorry is needed to be said. I would like us to forgive where forgiveness is due, and be at peace with each other."
No it is not easy to PRACTICE the above words. But we must try to do so as Christians if we want to be called a child of God.
With the power of the Holy Spirit in us we can be peacemakers!
Now brethren, it is commonly noised abroad that there is in many of the churches, dissent, bickering, strife, antagonisms,jealousy, suspiciousness, back-biting, and other "works of the flesh" that are anything but peace and love.
This should not be!
The fruits of the Spirit, are among other things, "....love, joy, PEACE ....... (Gal.5:22). Where there is little evidence of these fruits in a church's life, there can only be a lack of the Spirit of God among the church's membership.
The spiritual "thermometer reading" of any group will be determined by the amount of heated love, joy, and peace, the group produces. If there is little love and peace, there will be a VACUUM, and the vacuum will need to be filled. It will usually be filled with anger and strife, the works of the flesh (Gal.5:19-21).
Notice what God is NOT the author of, as well as what He IS the author of: "For God is NOT the author of confusion (tumult -mrg. reading) BUT of peace...." (1 Cor.14:33).
Yes, God is the greatest peacemaker in the universe - He wrote the book on it. He is the author of peace. And those who will seek to be peacemakers will be called the children of God.
Are you "at odds" with someone? Is there strife between you and another, or resentment, or anger, or maybe bad feelings over something? Then you need to do what YOU can do, to bring about peace. Do not wait for the other guy to make the first move
towards peace - he may never do so, or as you are waiting for him, he is waiting for you.
Paul instructs, "If it be possible(some carnal minded individual may never want to be at peace with you), as much as lies in you(you at least should smoke the peace pipe) LIVE PEACEABLY with all men" (Rom.12:18 added comments and emphasis mine).
I was having my car professionally washed and waxed one day,and while waiting in the lounge they provided for their customers, I came across a card in a rack of BLUE MOUNTAIN ARTS. The poem on it by Paula Finn was entitled: "I THINK WE NEED TO TALK." Here are the words:
"Lately things haven't been quite right between us....We've allowed some negative feelings to build up, and those unexpressed feelings have kept us from being as close as we could be.
We need to trust our love enough to share the truth.....to express criticism as well as praise,to be honest about our disappointments as well as our hopes, to communicate our hurts and frustrations, rather than keeping them inside.
We have to find ways to put into words what we need from each other, so the other person....can find ways to give it. And we need to be realistic in our expectations, and remember that no one person can ever meet them all.
We have to talk more freely about our own feelings and listen more sensitively to each other's, to realize that feelings are neither right nor wrong, but they are all important, and that our differences can really be strengths if we bring them out into the open and work together to solve them.
It will take effort and courage on both our parts, but we need to realize that keeping anger inside will only make it stronger and will cause us to hurt each other even more.
We have to talk.
I'm not quite sure how to begin.......but I know we must."
Yes, communicating through word or letter, to those we are
having problems with is the key. Jesus taught: "...if you bringyour gift to the altar, and there you remember that your brother has something against you. Leave your gift before the altar;
first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift......Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you. That you may be the children of your
Father which is in heaven, for He makes the sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust. For if you love them that love you, what reward do you have? Do not even sinners do the same? And if you honor you brethren only, what do you more than others? Do not even the criminals of society do the same among themselves? Become you therefore spiritually mature even as your Father which is in heaven, is spiritually mature" (Mat.5:23,24,44-48 paraphrased myself).
Then also notice Jesus words in Matthew 18:15, "......if your brother shall trespass against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone; if he shall hear you, you have gained your brother."
For those who claim they love Christ, who claim they are followers of Jesus, they must obey this teaching of being peacemakers, for Jesus said, "If a man love me, he will keep my words......" (John 14:23).
That's it, there's no way around it - Christians must put forth the effort to be peacemakers!
The child of God is to seek peace and pursue it(1 P et.3:11). There is joy to the counsellors of peace (Prov.12:20). Proverbs 20 and verse 3 says, "...It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling." The words of Zechariah admonish us to love the TRUTH and PEACE (Zech.8:19). Jesus taught
us to "....have peace one with another...." (Mark 9:50). Unity of the Spirit is bonded together by PEACE (Eph.4:3).
Peace is an integral part of true wisdom and righteousness;"But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then PEACEABLE.....The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace " (James 3:17,18). We are to do the things that
will produce peace (Rom. 14:19).
HOW TO BE A PEACEMAKER
Who are the peacemakers? They are not necessarily the people who are talking about peace all the time. Peacemakers are those who are doing something, creating something, building something -bridges, mostly!
You would like peace in your family, in your community, in your place of work, in your church. There will be no peace anywhere as long as there is war going on in YOUR heart and in your life.
To be a peacemaker you must first be at peace with God and yourself. You can be a peacemaker once you have your life together, once you've let the heavenly Father and Christ Jesus become your friends. When you have made your peace with them by repenting of sin in your life and accepting Jesus as your savior, once you have made peace to God through Christ, once you are at peace in your own heart and mind, when all your anger, bitterness, hate, resentments, jealousy, and animosities, have
been washed away from your heart by the blood of Christ, then you are ready to make peace with others - with those whom you need to make peace with.
So you are at peace with the two main persons of the universe, now what should you do next? I think the next move is for you to PRAY!
Pray for humility and wisdom. Pray that you will be able, in word and deed, to go about the job of making peace in the light of God's word.
Once you have done the above, you are ready to ACT! It s no use just wishing for peace but doing nothing. Just thinking about peace will not automatically bring about peace. You must act. Be determined that you are going to communicate, in verbal or
written word, with the person or persons you need to have peace with. Then fulfil that communication.
It will take effort, it may not be easy, but most things in life that are rewarding and lasting, do not come at the snap of the fingers, but takes work and effort.
Yes, all of us can be peacemakers - wherever we are. There may be a tension inside of you, in your home, or in your place of business. But you can resolve this tension if you give it all you've got. Tackling the problem of tens ion is no different than tackling any other problem. You can make peace in much the same
way that you solve other problems. The people who ultimately win at what they go after are people who give it all they've got.
This true story may help you win at peacemaking.
It happened on the slopes of Squaw Valley. The handicapped skier was a girl by the name of Kim. She was about eighteen and blind. Kim was being led down the giant slalom. She made it through forty-four gates, and she was lined up straight with the
finishing line. Her guide behind her said, "Straight ahead Kim; go for it!"
Kim dug in and was flying over the snow when she hit a rut. The poles flew out of her hands. She fell flat on her face. She knew she'd have to get her body across the finish line or be disqualified. She looked beaten, looked like she was out of it,
but she didn't stop. She reached out for her poles. When she couldn't find them, she started swimming over the snow, straight ahead, until she crossed the finish line.
"Kim, you made it!" the judge called out. But she didn't hear him. She just kept on snow swimming on her stomach for another five, ten, fifteen feet.
The judge kept shouting, "You made it, Kim; you can stop!"She still did not hear him. Finally a second voice, then another,then all of the spectators shouted, "You made it, Kim!"
Kim stopped, still flat on her belly. Then she heard the applause. She jumped up to her feet and danced for joy.
You can do it, too! You can be a peacemaker - you can be called a child of God.
"Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the
children of God.
Written in 1991
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和好的福音 以弗所二11~22(2011-5-4)
和好的福音 以弗所二11~22(2011-5-4)
(一) 引言
母親節;天下母親愛家庭,愛丈夫,愛子女,愛和平,愛教會,愛在神家。
(二)本論(以弗所二章11-22)
(1)教會今年的主題,愛在神家(二章19)。
19:這裡講『我們我們不再做外人和客旅,是與聖徒同國,是神家裡的人』。
我們不是外人,不是客旅, 我們是怎樣的關係,是與聖徒同國,是神家裡的人 ,愛在神家。
家人,我們從外國回來,第一件做甚麽,就是打電話回家,『蜜糖,我回家了』,
我們是聖徒; 是同國的人,是聖徒,是天國的國民;
今天,我要跟大家思想,聖徒和天國子民的特質:所以,以弗所以弗所二19:
『這樣,你們不再作外人,和客旅;是與聖徒同國,是神家裡的人。』
今天的經文清楚告訴我們,幾個重要的名詞: 『外人』:就是外族人,甚至是敵人; 客旅:旅客,過客,來消費,或是帶來不好的影響。
沙士,就是有一位中國教授來香港求醫,帶來沙士。
外地孕婦來港分娩,本地婦女憂心沒有床位。
外地人來買房子,80後地說,我們買不起了。
所以,外人有不好的意思。
究竟我們我們能不能實踐是神家裡的人,愛在神家。
就看我們有沒有愛在神家,不作外人,是與聖徒同國,是神家裡的人。
第1次世界大戰,第2次世界大戰,很多人以為世界大戰是神的審判,德國打法國,意大利打英國,打美國;英國人,美國人,意大利人,德國人都是信主的人,是弟兄姊妹。
基督徒的國家大戰,弟兄姐妹打弟兄姊妹,死了千千萬萬人的弟兄姊妹,這是甚麽?當時的信徒,當時有人以為是神的審判來到。
當然,這不是神的審判,乃是政治領袖的私慾,用武力去解決問題,用武力解決問題,一直到今天,都不能解決。 武力不是解決問題最大的力量。
第一次世界大戰之後,人人知道戰爭的痛苦,就不想用武力,就組成國際聯盟, 成立聯合國,不用武力,用討論,同『話語權』來解決問題。
請問,用口可以說服人嗎?
1931年9月18日,日本侵略中國東北省,中國可以用口把日本人趕走嗎,日本侵略中國,結果是發生第二次大戰; 聯合國,用嘴來辯論,可是不能說服日本人撤離中國。
甚麽的力量才是最大呢? 愛。
愛的力量才是最大的力量;耶穌基督以十字架的愛為力量,用十字架的愛,用基督的愛,才能真正的征服人,最壞的壞人,只有用愛才能改變他。
掃羅是一個宗教狂熱分子,有權,有才華,這種人,危害很大,在使徒行傳告訴我們,
掃羅殺掉司提反,乃是因為司提反指責猶太人,說,『神不住在人手的聖殿,你們這硬著頸項、心與耳未受割禮的人,常時抗拒聖靈!你們的祖宗怎樣,你們也怎樣。』
你們心硬,聽不進去, 我現在就是以先知說話告訴你們,耶穌基督就是彌賽亞。
猶太人不進去聽,還煽動猶太人,要殺死司提反,處罰人的方法很多,絞刑,槍斃等,猶太人用石頭, 猶太人就用石頭活生生的打死司提反。
各位,司提反受逼害,受傷,還沒有死的時候,聖經記載,司提反『又跪下大聲喊著說:主啊,不要將這罪歸於他們!說了這話,就睡了。』司提反的話多麼美,司提反的臉多麼美,司提反的行為是多美,司提反的話語多麼美,也是耶穌基督在十字架的話; 『父啊,饒恕他們』。
使徒行傳十七章,記載,司提反看見耶穌基督就站在神的身邊,他看見耶穌基督,看見自己靈魂歸回耶穌基督,就表現出司提反多麼美的臉孔,美的言語,美的死亡。
當保羅打死司提反,拿著大祭師的令牌, 繼續去追殺基督徒,在路上一定想,我可以消滅基督徒。
保羅在追趕的路上,突然有大光照著保羅,保羅就撲倒,就是向穌基督仆倒,『掃羅…… 』。有人跟保羅講話,從此之後,保羅認識了耶穌基督,歸向了耶穌基督, 本來是殺基督徒的,變成傳揚耶穌基督,是司提反的愛,耶穌基督的愛,
使徒行傳很清楚告訴我們,誰接續司提反的工作;是彼得嗎?是約翰嗎;不是, 是保羅。
掃羅在大馬色的路上,遇見耶穌基督,遇見神,現在,保羅才明白過來,神不住在人手殿宇裡面。
神在路上可以遇見。於是保羅悔改了,保羅成為外邦的使徒,帶領外邦人歸向主,是司提反的死;是司提反的愛;
我們今天信主了, 同樣是司提反所傳的信息,耶穌基督是主的福音,是十字架愛的福音,是和平的福音,饒恕的福音,平安的福音,保羅延續了, 你我也來延續這和平的福音。
(2)這個世界需要和平的福音(二13~18)
耶穌基督在馬太福音五~七章的登山寶訓講和平,和保羅在以弗所二章講和諧,及今天在我們教會的主題『愛在神家』,又適逢今天母親節一個重要的日子裡面,但願天下的基督徒得到這個寶貴的禮物,平安,和平,和諧為禮物。
各位,保羅延續司提反的路,傳和平的福音,我有沒有司提反的信息呢,『父啊,饒恕他們』。
愛的為威力很大,
2001年,美國的911,引發的是阿富汗,伊拉克戰爭,直至2011年5月2日,美國軍隊殺死了拉登,目前局勢所關注的焦點,會不會報復。是更加和平,還是更多的殺害,局勢發展令人憂心。。
仗打完了,懷恨開始, 這個戰爭完了嗎,我們可以相信另外一個戰爭又開始了,
理論可以解決們問題嗎?或許可以, 可是愛的力量最大,最有威力。
以弗所二章說『你們從前遠離神的人,如今卻在基督耶穌裡,靠著他的血,已經得親近了。因他使我們和睦(原文作:因他是我們的和睦),將兩下合而為一,拆毀了中間隔斷的牆;而且以自己的身體廢掉冤仇,就是那記在律法上的規條,為要將兩下藉著自己造成一個新人,如此便成就了和睦。既在十字架上滅了冤仇,便藉這十字架使兩下歸為一體,與神和好了,並且來傳和平的福音給你們遠處的人,也給那近處的人。 』。
主耶穌來到世界上來,把任何高大的牆拆毀。
耶路撒冷是神聖的聖殿,神聖的聖殿卻有不近人情事情發生。
主耶穌來到世界上來,把任何高大的牆拆毀。
耶路撒冷是神聖的聖殿,神聖的聖殿卻有不近人情事情發生。
在耶路撒冷,猶太人的聖殿也有好幾十尺高的圍牆,它的裡面宗廟之美,百官之富遠遠的超過了世上的一切,在它的門口有一塊石碑,上面寫著:「外邦人不得擅自進入,否則格殺勿論。」怎樣的人才有資格進去呢?信猶太教的猶太人,所以所有的外國人或者叫外邦人的都只能在門外探個頭向裡面看看而已。
這道高牆,耶穌基督將牆拆除了, 聖殿有聖所和至聖所,祭師只有一年一次進入至聖所, 耶穌基督愛我們,為我們的罪死的時候,聖幕斷成兩半,根據希伯來的記錄, 耶穌基督是第一個進入至聖所,
以後,所有的人都能進入至聖所, 我們可以跟耶穌基督交通,不需要祭師,我們就可以禱告,耶穌基督的死是多麼重要, 使我們成為和平的使者。
十字架從此就成為救贖的記號,和平,和諧的記號。十字架的信息是基督徒的信息,基督和保羅是根據聖經的總原則來教導我們要『愛』。
基督徒所盼望的是天國,基督徒活在這個世界的動機是甚麽,就是建立天國,我們所傳的是天國的福音,天國的好消息,就是耶穌基督,耶穌基督就是福音。
天國在那裡,天國不是死了之後才得到,是現在就得到,是相信耶穌基督的那一刻,天國就在你們的心裡,
正如羅泰然牧師教導我們的,天國已經降臨,『已然未然,all ready ,but not yet』,
天國在那裡,天國在基督裡面,在教會裡面,在基督徒裡面,在基督裡找到平安,找到生命,喜樂,找到和平。
(3) 我們是和平的使者(以弗所二16—17.)
『既在十字架上滅了冤仇,便藉這十字架使兩下歸為一體,與神和好了,並且來傳和平的福音給你們遠處的人,也給那近處的人。』
我們要樹立追求和睦生命特質,如果,家人兄弟夫妻朋友、國家社會公司都樂意追求和睦,就是一個和平的社會。
彼得追求和睦面對一個難題,彼得問主耶穌,有一個弟兄得罪我已經7次,我已經原諒他7次了,現在我該怎麼辦?耶穌基督回答彼得,饒恕他70個×7次。
兵如港;青年人,怒視,打架
羅倫,希斯(Roland Hayes)羅蘭海斯,是美國著名的歌唱家。
他出生貧窮的家庭,他又極好的歌喉在美國,加拿大,英國歌唱。
世界第二次世界大戰的時候,他到了德國貝多芬音樂廳演出,那是德軍正好佔領法國的萊茵,
當時的法國軍官,有部分是黑人組長,因此,德國人十分討厭,將憤怒轉移在希倫的身上。
希倫極度為難進入音樂廳,為他伴奏的另一個黑人建議他取消當晚的演唱,立刻離開德國,
但是,希倫禱告之後,決定演出,一出場,希倫就遭受群眾鄙斥和噓聲;
就在十分惡劣的情況下,希倫平靜的心情唱出了貝多芬的名曲
『這是我的平安』(This is My Peace).
會眾立刻安靜下來,因為『這是我的平安』是貝多芬寫的。
希倫的演出十分成功,打動德法兩國的領袖,解決紛爭。
希倫說,『我信神召我在全世界唱出四海之內皆兄弟也,以及基督和平的信息』。
但願,你我也是一樣,真能發揮我們是和平之子的生命特性,成為和平使者。
基督活在我裡面,我為基督而活,
我們每一個人成為基督跟誰者,用愛, 跟在耶穌基督的背後,揚起愛的旗幟『愛在神家』。
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所以你們應當記念:你們從前按肉體是外邦人,是稱為沒受割禮的;這名原是那些憑人手在肉身上稱為受割禮之人所起的。
那時,你們與基督無關,在以色列國民以外,在所應許的諸約上是局外人,並且活在世上沒有指望,沒有神。
你們從前遠離神的人,如今卻在基督耶穌裡,靠著他的血,已經得親近了。
因他使我們和睦(原文作:因他是我們的和睦),將兩下合而為一,拆毀了中間隔斷的牆;
而且以自己的身體廢掉冤仇,就是那記在律法上的規條,為要將兩下藉著自己造成一個新人,如此便成就了和睦。
既在十字架上滅了冤仇,便藉這十字架使兩下歸為一體,與神和好了,
並且來傳和平的福音給你們遠處的人,也給那近處的人。
因為我們兩下藉著他被一個聖靈所感,得以進到父面前。
這樣,你們不再作外人和客旅,是與聖徒同國,是神家裡的人了;
並且被建造在使徒和先知的根基上,有基督耶穌自己為房角石,
各(或作:全)房靠他聯絡得合式,漸漸成為主的聖殿。
你們也靠他同被建造,成為神藉著聖靈居住的所在。
使徒七章43
你們擡著摩洛的帳幕和理番神的星,就是你們所造為要敬拜的像。因此,我要把你們遷到巴比倫外去。
我們的祖宗在曠野,有法櫃的帳幕,是神吩咐摩西叫他照所看見的樣式做的。
這帳幕,我們的祖宗相繼承受。當神在他們面前趕出外邦人去的時候,他們同約書亞把帳幕搬進承受為業之地,直存到大衛的日子。
大衛在神面前蒙恩,祈求為雅各的神預備居所;
卻是所羅門為神造成殿宇。
其實,至高者並不住人手所造的,就如先知所言:
主說:天是我的座位,地是我的腳凳;你們要為我造何等的殿宇﹖哪裡是我安息的地方呢﹖
這一切不都是我手所造的嗎﹖
你們這硬著頸項、心與耳未受割禮的人,常時抗拒聖靈!你們的祖宗怎樣,你們也怎樣。
哪一個先知不是你們祖宗逼迫呢﹖他們也把預先傳說那義者要來的人殺了;如今你們又把那義者賣了,殺了。
你們受了天使所傳的律法,竟不遵守。
眾人聽見這話就極其惱怒,向司提反咬牙切齒。
但司提反被聖靈充滿,定睛望天,看見神的榮耀,又看見耶穌站在神的右邊,
就說:我看見天開了,人子站在神的右邊。
眾人大聲喊叫,摀著耳朵,齊心擁上前去,
把他推到城外,用石頭打他。作見證的人把衣裳放在一個少年人名叫掃羅的腳前。
他們正用石頭打的時候,司提反呼籲主說:求主耶穌接收我的靈魂!
又跪下大聲喊著說:主啊,不要將這罪歸於他們!說了這話,就睡了。掃羅也喜悅他被害。
羅蘭·海斯(Roland Hayes,1887–1976年),美國籍音樂會男高音歌唱家。對美國黑人靈歌的詮釋讓人折服,將法國、德國藝術歌曲演唱得非常到位。海斯生於佐治亞州卡裏維勒,就讀于費斯克大學,是“費斯克喜慶歌手”(Fisk Jubilee Singers)主唱男高音。1924年因其作爲一名美國黑人而做出的傑出成就榮獲斯平加恩獎(Spingarn Medal)。\\
黑人男歌唱家先鋒◆陳茂生
十九世紀末期出生的兩位黑人歌唱家,是使得「黑人靈歌」在英國、歐洲及美洲成名的大功臣。一位是男高音羅蘭.海斯〈Roland Hayes, 1887-1977〉,另一位是男低音保羅.羅布森〈Paul Robeson, 1898-1976〉。
這兩位歌唱家以他們誠摯真純的心去「感受」黑人靈歌,他們的歌聲撥 了聽者的心弦,濕潤了千萬人的眼睛。前者以經典古典音樂的深厚基礎,將黑人靈歌帶給世人,後者卻是經由舞台音樂劇傳達出黑人靈歌的精髓。
羅蘭.海斯是二十世紀最受矚目的黑人男高音,他是一九二○年代全世界演唱價位最高的男高音。海斯出生於美國喬治亞州的柯瑞爾小城(Curryville),距大城市卡爾紅(Calhoun)幾哩路,父母都曾是黑奴。小海斯十一歲喪父,母親將全家遷往田納西州,卻是小海斯歌唱生涯的開始。他從小就唱著「家傳之寶」黑人靈歌,在教會參加詩班,也到街頭賣唱,賺錢養家。教會的一位音樂教師發現了他的歌唱天分,自 教導他唱歌技巧及音樂知識和樂理。海斯雖然非常喜歡學校生活,為了幫助家計卻不得不輟學,只讀完小學六年級,就出外做苦工。但是他人窮志不短,從辛苦賺的錢之中撥出了一部分,聘請家教努力向學,後來竟能以同等學力進入當時專收黑人學生的費斯克大學(Fisk U.)。他優美的男高音馬上被重用,成為該校「費斯克慶典歌者」(Fisk Jubilee Singers)的台柱之一,但是他仍需當人家的僕役,賺取生活費。
海斯的男高音出了名,一畢業即被肯塔基州最大城路易斯維爾城(Louisville)的一家無聲電影劇院聘為主唱,頗受該城人們的歡迎,卻因是黑人,只能在幕後歌唱。但他的名聲傳回母校,校長親自出馬,邀請海斯回母校擔任「費斯克慶典歌者」之主唱(特別為前往麻州波士頓之演唱之旅)。演唱會非常成功,海斯卻下定決心留在波士頓追求他專業「歌唱家」的美夢。他走的古典樂路線,除了需要專心練唱,更要辛苦工作存錢,為的是租下波城交響樂廳舉辦獨唱會,他以辛勤及毅力,自己籌畫一切細節,終於成為眾人皆知的歌唱家,佳評潮湧之中,紐約的卡耐基音樂廳、波城的交響樂廳,以及美國許多重要的音樂廳都相繼禮聘他演唱。海斯不忘本,除了演唱經典曲目之外,更竭力推薦黑人靈歌,他稱之為“Aframerican Religious Folk Music”(非/美宗教民歌)。由於絕大部分的黑人靈歌都是「傳唱」而來,海斯用心自己譜曲,編出交響樂的配樂,頗受歡迎,特別是他的歐洲之行,讓黑人靈歌成為他最受歡迎的曲目。一九二○年海斯的倫敦首演,驚 了英王喬治及瑪麗王妃,邀請他在御前演唱,從此,海斯成了英國及歐洲樂界的寵兒,持續將近十年,受邀至歐洲演唱。到了一九二○年代末期,海斯不但是最受歡迎的男高音,更是「演唱費」最高昂的演唱家。
只是,名聲如日中天的海斯,在自己的家鄉卻仍飽受種族歧視之苦。他為了紀念母親,又亟思「落葉歸根」,就回到喬治亞州,自己的出生地柯瑞爾,買下母親生他的小屋以及附近約六 英畝農場(海斯的雙親都曾在那農場當過奴隸),與妻子海倫及女兒“Afrika”住了下來。一九二四年的某天下午,他與妻女到附近的羅馬城(Rome)買鞋子,不經意地坐上鞋店中「只供白人」的試穿區之座椅,全家人被轟出店外。海斯心有不甘,回鞋店與店員理論,卻被揍得鼻青臉腫,全家三人還被當地警察逮捕入獄。這事件馬上成了全國 的頭條新聞,世界著名的美國男高音竟在自己的家鄉遭到非禮的歧視。只是,當時的喬治亞州州長Eugene Talmadge竟向媒體回應:「任何黑人若不同意本州的『種族隔離』政策,就請他們遠離喬州吧!」他更放下重話:「我們一定會守住這“Jim Crow”律法,而且一定會盡力保護它。」(註)
海斯雖然向報界聲稱自己沒有什麼好懷恨的,可是全家人仍在不久之後黯然「告別」「家鄉」,遷回他「創業」的源頭波士頓,並於一九四八年賣掉在喬州的農場。海斯在七十五歲時,在紐約的卡耐基音樂廳為自己舉辦慶生演唱會,特別為當時的「宗教學院」募款。他愛神愛人,把餘生投入鼓舞年輕音樂家的事工,不但提供獎學金,更親自調教(身教、言教),讓學生明白,不論自己是什麼膚色,只要誠懇、用心歌唱,必有昂首闊步的一天。他一生榮獲許多榮譽博士學位及榮譽勳章。八十六歲時,在麻省劍橋的龍基(Longy)音樂院舉行了告別演唱會,九十歲時去世,被榮葬於麻州的「希望之山」墓園。
海斯去世之後,喬治亞州的人們才覺醒到他們原來擁有世界 的「州寶」及美國「國寶」,「先人」竟然虧待了他。於是在一九九一年追 他進入「喬治亞音樂名人榜」,一九九五年該州的自然資源部在海斯的家鄉樹立了他的紀念碑,更在海斯曾經演唱的市政廳廣場前設立「海斯紀念公園」,且將該州的第一五六號州際公路命名為「羅蘭.海斯大道」。
二○○○年時,更在Calhoun城的哈瑞斯藝術中心(Harris Arts Center)完成了「羅蘭.海斯」博物館。從此,每年在該館舉辦紀念海斯的年度音樂會。海斯以真摯的心唱出了「黑人靈歌」的精髓,扣人心弦的演唱成為最具權威、令人難忘的「黑人靈歌」演唱之父,使「黑人靈歌」傳遍了全世界。
黑人男低音──保羅.羅布森
保羅.羅布森〈Paul Robeson, 1898-1976〉出生於紐澤西州普林斯頓的牧師之家。他原是學法律的,卻於一九二二年成為職業演員,只是他那特有的渾厚男低音卻將他帶入了歌唱世界,一九二七演唱舞台音樂劇大作家Jerome Kern(柯恩,1885-1945)的音樂劇“Show Boat”中類似「黑人靈歌」的“Ol'man River”(老人河),而一夕成名為國際 的歌唱家。
與海斯不同的是,羅布森的「黑人靈歌」是尋根研究及勤習來的,因為他並非成長於「黑奴」家庭,但是卻深入了解「受苦」前輩同胞的心,以及血淚所孕育而出的「黑人靈歌」,因此不但能在音樂劇中將「黑人歌曲」唱活了,更能以心靈唱出「黑人靈歌」歌中的信仰力量。他那天生的歌喉以及誠摯的心靈,使他與海斯二人並肩的努力,促成「黑人靈歌」躍上了世界音樂舞台,也為黑人聲樂家舖下了康莊大道。
(作者曾任台灣神學院教會音樂系教授暨主任;現旅居美國,擔任中華音樂崇拜學院加州聖工研究所特任教授)
註釋
“Jim Crow”律法,是涵蓋了將近一 年(1876-1965)的美國州法及地方法。大部分都是美國南方的州、郡。它是一種「種族分離」政策的法令。美其名為「分離卻是平等」地對待「黑人美國人」,實際上卻是極盡種族岐視之能的法令。不論是公立學校、公共汽車、火車、公共場合的洗手間,餐廳、商店,甚至是飲水機,都要「黑白」分明,任何黑人越了界就是犯了法,嚴重者連生命都保不住。“Jin Crow”原是1830年代的一位白人演員及劇作家,Thomas D. Rice在他的“Blackface”舞台劇中,所創出的一種滑稽模仿 作的歌舞叫“Jump Jim Crow”而得名(Jim Crow是劇中小黑人的名字)。這「種族歧視」法是全美國人之「痛」,卻一直到了1954年,美國最高法院判決州立大學「拒收」黑人學生是「違憲」,才有進展。而整個惡法的被剔除,更要等到了1964年,金恩博士榮獲諾貝爾和平獎之後,美國國會所訂立的“Civil Rights Act”(民權條款)以及1965年在詹森總統全力推 之下所通過的“Voting Rights Act”(選舉權條款),才大功告成。
名片推薦
1.Roland Hayes, “My Songs”:Aframerican Religious Folk-Songs. Boston, 1948
2.Roland Hayes Sings,“Negro Spirituals, Aframerican Folk Song”, Amadeo Records, Austria, AVRS 6003(12”LP)
參考書目
1.“Groves Dictionary of Music & Musicians”St. Martin's Press, 1973
2.“Oxford Concise Dictionary of Music”Oxford University Press, 1996
3.“Cassell Companion to 20thXCentury Music”by David Pickering, Cassell, 1997
>>更多精采內容請訂閱曠野雜誌
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英文詩歌分享 (1)My Peace
My peace I give unto you,
It's a peace that the world cannot give,
It's a peace that the world cannot understand.,
Peace to know. Peace to live.
My peace I give unto you.
這首詩歌告訴我們平安是由誰給予人呢?其實這首詩歌提到平安並不是世間所能給予,聖經 腓 四:7「神所賜出人意外的平安,必在基督耶穌裏,保守你們的心懷意念。」,這裏指出了平安乃是由神所賜予的。
記得在1998年放榜的時候,我未能入讀本港大學學位課程,當時我感到很徬惶;但這首詩歌成為我的支持,神在放榜路上給我平安和安靜的心,我在等候香港教育學院放榜的時間裏卻是安靜和平安的渡過。
My peace I give unto you 我將平安賜給你,
It’s a peace that the world cannot give 這平安非世界所能給,
It’s the peace that the world cannot understand 這平安非世界所能够瞭解,
Peace to know, peace to live 藉祂知,藉祂活,
My peace I give unto you 我將平安賜給你。
My joy I give unto you 我將喜樂賜給你,
It’s a joy that the world cannot give 這喜樂非世界所能給,
It’s the joy that the world cannot understand 這喜樂非世界所能够瞭解,
Joy to know, joy to live 藉祂知,藉祂活,
My joy I give unto you 我將喜樂賜給你。
My love I give unto you 我將我的愛賜給你,
It’s a love that the world cannot give 這份愛非世界所能給,
It’s the love that the world cannot understand 這份愛非世界所能够瞭解,
Love to know, love to live 藉祂知,藉祂活,
My love I give unto you 我將這份愛賜給你。
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In 1924 he was booked for a concert at the Beethoven Concert
Hall in Berlin. En route to Germany, Roland stopped in Prague. He
was called into the American consul's office. "Mr. Hayes," the
consul said, "I have bad news for you. You are going to have to
cancel your concert in Germany. The French have taken over the
Rhineland and they are holding it with troops made up of Negroes
from America. The Germans are furious. No black-skinned person
will be able to sing in Germany at this time."
"Thank you for telling me this, Mr. Consul," Roland said, "I
will surely pray about it." The days passed and he could not
bring himself to cancel the concert.
On the night of the concert, Roland and his black accompanist
carefully made their way to the auditorium and slipped in through
a back door. Once inside, they peered through the curtains and
saw that the place was packed to overflowing. Now Roland realized
he was an internationally controversial case.
When the curtain went up, Roland Hayes stood in the curve of
the baby brand piano. He folded his hands, looked upward, and
said a private prayer to God: "God, make me a horn for the
Omnipotent to sound through."
As he stood silently praying, he began to hear hissing, then
stomping, and then catcalls and boos. Somebody shouted, "Don't
disgrace the Beethoven Concert Hall with plantation songs
about black men from America."
Hate seemed to fill that auditorium. His accompanist said,
"Mr. Hayes, we better get out of here!"
Then objects began to fly onto the stage, narrowly missing
the soloist. Roland Hayes later recalled the incident and
remarked, "I just stood there and prayed,'God,what will I do?' "
An idea entered his mind. To the accompanist he said, "Let's
begin with Beethoven's 'This Is My Peace.' " The accompanist
slowly and softly began to play. A surprised murmur ran through
the hall as the German concertgoers heard the music of their
favorite, Beethoven.
Roland Hayes opened his mouth and began to sing "This Is My
Peace." His mighty voice rolled through the auditorium, and the
audience fell into silence. By the time he finished, there was
absolute attention. He went on to sing several classical numbers
and ended the concert with Negro spirituals and plantation songs.
At the close of the concert, some members of the audience
jumped up on the stage, hoisted Roland on their shoulders, and
paraded him around the auditorium. He was the hero of the
continent, and he was an inspiration in settling the dispute
between France and Germany.
It s not always easy to be a peacemaker, but there can be
great rewards here and now, in trying. And the best of all is
that you can be called the CHILD of God.
(一) 引言
母親節;天下母親愛家庭,愛丈夫,愛子女,愛和平,愛教會,愛在神家。
(二)本論(以弗所二章11-22)
(1)教會今年的主題,愛在神家(二章19)。
19:這裡講『我們我們不再做外人和客旅,是與聖徒同國,是神家裡的人』。
我們不是外人,不是客旅, 我們是怎樣的關係,是與聖徒同國,是神家裡的人 ,愛在神家。
家人,我們從外國回來,第一件做甚麽,就是打電話回家,『蜜糖,我回家了』,
我們是聖徒; 是同國的人,是聖徒,是天國的國民;
今天,我要跟大家思想,聖徒和天國子民的特質:所以,以弗所以弗所二19:
『這樣,你們不再作外人,和客旅;是與聖徒同國,是神家裡的人。』
今天的經文清楚告訴我們,幾個重要的名詞: 『外人』:就是外族人,甚至是敵人; 客旅:旅客,過客,來消費,或是帶來不好的影響。
沙士,就是有一位中國教授來香港求醫,帶來沙士。
外地孕婦來港分娩,本地婦女憂心沒有床位。
外地人來買房子,80後地說,我們買不起了。
所以,外人有不好的意思。
究竟我們我們能不能實踐是神家裡的人,愛在神家。
就看我們有沒有愛在神家,不作外人,是與聖徒同國,是神家裡的人。
第1次世界大戰,第2次世界大戰,很多人以為世界大戰是神的審判,德國打法國,意大利打英國,打美國;英國人,美國人,意大利人,德國人都是信主的人,是弟兄姊妹。
基督徒的國家大戰,弟兄姐妹打弟兄姊妹,死了千千萬萬人的弟兄姊妹,這是甚麽?當時的信徒,當時有人以為是神的審判來到。
當然,這不是神的審判,乃是政治領袖的私慾,用武力去解決問題,用武力解決問題,一直到今天,都不能解決。 武力不是解決問題最大的力量。
第一次世界大戰之後,人人知道戰爭的痛苦,就不想用武力,就組成國際聯盟, 成立聯合國,不用武力,用討論,同『話語權』來解決問題。
請問,用口可以說服人嗎?
1931年9月18日,日本侵略中國東北省,中國可以用口把日本人趕走嗎,日本侵略中國,結果是發生第二次大戰; 聯合國,用嘴來辯論,可是不能說服日本人撤離中國。
甚麽的力量才是最大呢? 愛。
愛的力量才是最大的力量;耶穌基督以十字架的愛為力量,用十字架的愛,用基督的愛,才能真正的征服人,最壞的壞人,只有用愛才能改變他。
掃羅是一個宗教狂熱分子,有權,有才華,這種人,危害很大,在使徒行傳告訴我們,
掃羅殺掉司提反,乃是因為司提反指責猶太人,說,『神不住在人手的聖殿,你們這硬著頸項、心與耳未受割禮的人,常時抗拒聖靈!你們的祖宗怎樣,你們也怎樣。』
你們心硬,聽不進去, 我現在就是以先知說話告訴你們,耶穌基督就是彌賽亞。
猶太人不進去聽,還煽動猶太人,要殺死司提反,處罰人的方法很多,絞刑,槍斃等,猶太人用石頭, 猶太人就用石頭活生生的打死司提反。
各位,司提反受逼害,受傷,還沒有死的時候,聖經記載,司提反『又跪下大聲喊著說:主啊,不要將這罪歸於他們!說了這話,就睡了。』司提反的話多麼美,司提反的臉多麼美,司提反的行為是多美,司提反的話語多麼美,也是耶穌基督在十字架的話; 『父啊,饒恕他們』。
使徒行傳十七章,記載,司提反看見耶穌基督就站在神的身邊,他看見耶穌基督,看見自己靈魂歸回耶穌基督,就表現出司提反多麼美的臉孔,美的言語,美的死亡。
當保羅打死司提反,拿著大祭師的令牌, 繼續去追殺基督徒,在路上一定想,我可以消滅基督徒。
保羅在追趕的路上,突然有大光照著保羅,保羅就撲倒,就是向穌基督仆倒,『掃羅…… 』。有人跟保羅講話,從此之後,保羅認識了耶穌基督,歸向了耶穌基督, 本來是殺基督徒的,變成傳揚耶穌基督,是司提反的愛,耶穌基督的愛,
使徒行傳很清楚告訴我們,誰接續司提反的工作;是彼得嗎?是約翰嗎;不是, 是保羅。
掃羅在大馬色的路上,遇見耶穌基督,遇見神,現在,保羅才明白過來,神不住在人手殿宇裡面。
神在路上可以遇見。於是保羅悔改了,保羅成為外邦的使徒,帶領外邦人歸向主,是司提反的死;是司提反的愛;
我們今天信主了, 同樣是司提反所傳的信息,耶穌基督是主的福音,是十字架愛的福音,是和平的福音,饒恕的福音,平安的福音,保羅延續了, 你我也來延續這和平的福音。
(2)這個世界需要和平的福音(二13~18)
耶穌基督在馬太福音五~七章的登山寶訓講和平,和保羅在以弗所二章講和諧,及今天在我們教會的主題『愛在神家』,又適逢今天母親節一個重要的日子裡面,但願天下的基督徒得到這個寶貴的禮物,平安,和平,和諧為禮物。
各位,保羅延續司提反的路,傳和平的福音,我有沒有司提反的信息呢,『父啊,饒恕他們』。
愛的為威力很大,
2001年,美國的911,引發的是阿富汗,伊拉克戰爭,直至2011年5月2日,美國軍隊殺死了拉登,目前局勢所關注的焦點,會不會報復。是更加和平,還是更多的殺害,局勢發展令人憂心。。
仗打完了,懷恨開始, 這個戰爭完了嗎,我們可以相信另外一個戰爭又開始了,
理論可以解決們問題嗎?或許可以, 可是愛的力量最大,最有威力。
以弗所二章說『你們從前遠離神的人,如今卻在基督耶穌裡,靠著他的血,已經得親近了。因他使我們和睦(原文作:因他是我們的和睦),將兩下合而為一,拆毀了中間隔斷的牆;而且以自己的身體廢掉冤仇,就是那記在律法上的規條,為要將兩下藉著自己造成一個新人,如此便成就了和睦。既在十字架上滅了冤仇,便藉這十字架使兩下歸為一體,與神和好了,並且來傳和平的福音給你們遠處的人,也給那近處的人。 』。
主耶穌來到世界上來,把任何高大的牆拆毀。
耶路撒冷是神聖的聖殿,神聖的聖殿卻有不近人情事情發生。
主耶穌來到世界上來,把任何高大的牆拆毀。
耶路撒冷是神聖的聖殿,神聖的聖殿卻有不近人情事情發生。
在耶路撒冷,猶太人的聖殿也有好幾十尺高的圍牆,它的裡面宗廟之美,百官之富遠遠的超過了世上的一切,在它的門口有一塊石碑,上面寫著:「外邦人不得擅自進入,否則格殺勿論。」怎樣的人才有資格進去呢?信猶太教的猶太人,所以所有的外國人或者叫外邦人的都只能在門外探個頭向裡面看看而已。
這道高牆,耶穌基督將牆拆除了, 聖殿有聖所和至聖所,祭師只有一年一次進入至聖所, 耶穌基督愛我們,為我們的罪死的時候,聖幕斷成兩半,根據希伯來的記錄, 耶穌基督是第一個進入至聖所,
以後,所有的人都能進入至聖所, 我們可以跟耶穌基督交通,不需要祭師,我們就可以禱告,耶穌基督的死是多麼重要, 使我們成為和平的使者。
十字架從此就成為救贖的記號,和平,和諧的記號。十字架的信息是基督徒的信息,基督和保羅是根據聖經的總原則來教導我們要『愛』。
基督徒所盼望的是天國,基督徒活在這個世界的動機是甚麽,就是建立天國,我們所傳的是天國的福音,天國的好消息,就是耶穌基督,耶穌基督就是福音。
天國在那裡,天國不是死了之後才得到,是現在就得到,是相信耶穌基督的那一刻,天國就在你們的心裡,
正如羅泰然牧師教導我們的,天國已經降臨,『已然未然,all ready ,but not yet』,
天國在那裡,天國在基督裡面,在教會裡面,在基督徒裡面,在基督裡找到平安,找到生命,喜樂,找到和平。
(3) 我們是和平的使者(以弗所二16—17.)
『既在十字架上滅了冤仇,便藉這十字架使兩下歸為一體,與神和好了,並且來傳和平的福音給你們遠處的人,也給那近處的人。』
我們要樹立追求和睦生命特質,如果,家人兄弟夫妻朋友、國家社會公司都樂意追求和睦,就是一個和平的社會。
彼得追求和睦面對一個難題,彼得問主耶穌,有一個弟兄得罪我已經7次,我已經原諒他7次了,現在我該怎麼辦?耶穌基督回答彼得,饒恕他70個×7次。
兵如港;青年人,怒視,打架
羅倫,希斯(Roland Hayes)羅蘭海斯,是美國著名的歌唱家。
他出生貧窮的家庭,他又極好的歌喉在美國,加拿大,英國歌唱。
世界第二次世界大戰的時候,他到了德國貝多芬音樂廳演出,那是德軍正好佔領法國的萊茵,
當時的法國軍官,有部分是黑人組長,因此,德國人十分討厭,將憤怒轉移在希倫的身上。
希倫極度為難進入音樂廳,為他伴奏的另一個黑人建議他取消當晚的演唱,立刻離開德國,
但是,希倫禱告之後,決定演出,一出場,希倫就遭受群眾鄙斥和噓聲;
就在十分惡劣的情況下,希倫平靜的心情唱出了貝多芬的名曲
『這是我的平安』(This is My Peace).
會眾立刻安靜下來,因為『這是我的平安』是貝多芬寫的。
希倫的演出十分成功,打動德法兩國的領袖,解決紛爭。
希倫說,『我信神召我在全世界唱出四海之內皆兄弟也,以及基督和平的信息』。
但願,你我也是一樣,真能發揮我們是和平之子的生命特性,成為和平使者。
基督活在我裡面,我為基督而活,
我們每一個人成為基督跟誰者,用愛, 跟在耶穌基督的背後,揚起愛的旗幟『愛在神家』。
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所以你們應當記念:你們從前按肉體是外邦人,是稱為沒受割禮的;這名原是那些憑人手在肉身上稱為受割禮之人所起的。
那時,你們與基督無關,在以色列國民以外,在所應許的諸約上是局外人,並且活在世上沒有指望,沒有神。
你們從前遠離神的人,如今卻在基督耶穌裡,靠著他的血,已經得親近了。
因他使我們和睦(原文作:因他是我們的和睦),將兩下合而為一,拆毀了中間隔斷的牆;
而且以自己的身體廢掉冤仇,就是那記在律法上的規條,為要將兩下藉著自己造成一個新人,如此便成就了和睦。
既在十字架上滅了冤仇,便藉這十字架使兩下歸為一體,與神和好了,
並且來傳和平的福音給你們遠處的人,也給那近處的人。
因為我們兩下藉著他被一個聖靈所感,得以進到父面前。
這樣,你們不再作外人和客旅,是與聖徒同國,是神家裡的人了;
並且被建造在使徒和先知的根基上,有基督耶穌自己為房角石,
各(或作:全)房靠他聯絡得合式,漸漸成為主的聖殿。
你們也靠他同被建造,成為神藉著聖靈居住的所在。
使徒七章43
你們擡著摩洛的帳幕和理番神的星,就是你們所造為要敬拜的像。因此,我要把你們遷到巴比倫外去。
我們的祖宗在曠野,有法櫃的帳幕,是神吩咐摩西叫他照所看見的樣式做的。
這帳幕,我們的祖宗相繼承受。當神在他們面前趕出外邦人去的時候,他們同約書亞把帳幕搬進承受為業之地,直存到大衛的日子。
大衛在神面前蒙恩,祈求為雅各的神預備居所;
卻是所羅門為神造成殿宇。
其實,至高者並不住人手所造的,就如先知所言:
主說:天是我的座位,地是我的腳凳;你們要為我造何等的殿宇﹖哪裡是我安息的地方呢﹖
這一切不都是我手所造的嗎﹖
你們這硬著頸項、心與耳未受割禮的人,常時抗拒聖靈!你們的祖宗怎樣,你們也怎樣。
哪一個先知不是你們祖宗逼迫呢﹖他們也把預先傳說那義者要來的人殺了;如今你們又把那義者賣了,殺了。
你們受了天使所傳的律法,竟不遵守。
眾人聽見這話就極其惱怒,向司提反咬牙切齒。
但司提反被聖靈充滿,定睛望天,看見神的榮耀,又看見耶穌站在神的右邊,
就說:我看見天開了,人子站在神的右邊。
眾人大聲喊叫,摀著耳朵,齊心擁上前去,
把他推到城外,用石頭打他。作見證的人把衣裳放在一個少年人名叫掃羅的腳前。
他們正用石頭打的時候,司提反呼籲主說:求主耶穌接收我的靈魂!
又跪下大聲喊著說:主啊,不要將這罪歸於他們!說了這話,就睡了。掃羅也喜悅他被害。
羅蘭·海斯(Roland Hayes,1887–1976年),美國籍音樂會男高音歌唱家。對美國黑人靈歌的詮釋讓人折服,將法國、德國藝術歌曲演唱得非常到位。海斯生於佐治亞州卡裏維勒,就讀于費斯克大學,是“費斯克喜慶歌手”(Fisk Jubilee Singers)主唱男高音。1924年因其作爲一名美國黑人而做出的傑出成就榮獲斯平加恩獎(Spingarn Medal)。\\
黑人男歌唱家先鋒◆陳茂生
十九世紀末期出生的兩位黑人歌唱家,是使得「黑人靈歌」在英國、歐洲及美洲成名的大功臣。一位是男高音羅蘭.海斯〈Roland Hayes, 1887-1977〉,另一位是男低音保羅.羅布森〈Paul Robeson, 1898-1976〉。
這兩位歌唱家以他們誠摯真純的心去「感受」黑人靈歌,他們的歌聲撥 了聽者的心弦,濕潤了千萬人的眼睛。前者以經典古典音樂的深厚基礎,將黑人靈歌帶給世人,後者卻是經由舞台音樂劇傳達出黑人靈歌的精髓。
羅蘭.海斯是二十世紀最受矚目的黑人男高音,他是一九二○年代全世界演唱價位最高的男高音。海斯出生於美國喬治亞州的柯瑞爾小城(Curryville),距大城市卡爾紅(Calhoun)幾哩路,父母都曾是黑奴。小海斯十一歲喪父,母親將全家遷往田納西州,卻是小海斯歌唱生涯的開始。他從小就唱著「家傳之寶」黑人靈歌,在教會參加詩班,也到街頭賣唱,賺錢養家。教會的一位音樂教師發現了他的歌唱天分,自 教導他唱歌技巧及音樂知識和樂理。海斯雖然非常喜歡學校生活,為了幫助家計卻不得不輟學,只讀完小學六年級,就出外做苦工。但是他人窮志不短,從辛苦賺的錢之中撥出了一部分,聘請家教努力向學,後來竟能以同等學力進入當時專收黑人學生的費斯克大學(Fisk U.)。他優美的男高音馬上被重用,成為該校「費斯克慶典歌者」(Fisk Jubilee Singers)的台柱之一,但是他仍需當人家的僕役,賺取生活費。
海斯的男高音出了名,一畢業即被肯塔基州最大城路易斯維爾城(Louisville)的一家無聲電影劇院聘為主唱,頗受該城人們的歡迎,卻因是黑人,只能在幕後歌唱。但他的名聲傳回母校,校長親自出馬,邀請海斯回母校擔任「費斯克慶典歌者」之主唱(特別為前往麻州波士頓之演唱之旅)。演唱會非常成功,海斯卻下定決心留在波士頓追求他專業「歌唱家」的美夢。他走的古典樂路線,除了需要專心練唱,更要辛苦工作存錢,為的是租下波城交響樂廳舉辦獨唱會,他以辛勤及毅力,自己籌畫一切細節,終於成為眾人皆知的歌唱家,佳評潮湧之中,紐約的卡耐基音樂廳、波城的交響樂廳,以及美國許多重要的音樂廳都相繼禮聘他演唱。海斯不忘本,除了演唱經典曲目之外,更竭力推薦黑人靈歌,他稱之為“Aframerican Religious Folk Music”(非/美宗教民歌)。由於絕大部分的黑人靈歌都是「傳唱」而來,海斯用心自己譜曲,編出交響樂的配樂,頗受歡迎,特別是他的歐洲之行,讓黑人靈歌成為他最受歡迎的曲目。一九二○年海斯的倫敦首演,驚 了英王喬治及瑪麗王妃,邀請他在御前演唱,從此,海斯成了英國及歐洲樂界的寵兒,持續將近十年,受邀至歐洲演唱。到了一九二○年代末期,海斯不但是最受歡迎的男高音,更是「演唱費」最高昂的演唱家。
只是,名聲如日中天的海斯,在自己的家鄉卻仍飽受種族歧視之苦。他為了紀念母親,又亟思「落葉歸根」,就回到喬治亞州,自己的出生地柯瑞爾,買下母親生他的小屋以及附近約六 英畝農場(海斯的雙親都曾在那農場當過奴隸),與妻子海倫及女兒“Afrika”住了下來。一九二四年的某天下午,他與妻女到附近的羅馬城(Rome)買鞋子,不經意地坐上鞋店中「只供白人」的試穿區之座椅,全家人被轟出店外。海斯心有不甘,回鞋店與店員理論,卻被揍得鼻青臉腫,全家三人還被當地警察逮捕入獄。這事件馬上成了全國 的頭條新聞,世界著名的美國男高音竟在自己的家鄉遭到非禮的歧視。只是,當時的喬治亞州州長Eugene Talmadge竟向媒體回應:「任何黑人若不同意本州的『種族隔離』政策,就請他們遠離喬州吧!」他更放下重話:「我們一定會守住這“Jim Crow”律法,而且一定會盡力保護它。」(註)
海斯雖然向報界聲稱自己沒有什麼好懷恨的,可是全家人仍在不久之後黯然「告別」「家鄉」,遷回他「創業」的源頭波士頓,並於一九四八年賣掉在喬州的農場。海斯在七十五歲時,在紐約的卡耐基音樂廳為自己舉辦慶生演唱會,特別為當時的「宗教學院」募款。他愛神愛人,把餘生投入鼓舞年輕音樂家的事工,不但提供獎學金,更親自調教(身教、言教),讓學生明白,不論自己是什麼膚色,只要誠懇、用心歌唱,必有昂首闊步的一天。他一生榮獲許多榮譽博士學位及榮譽勳章。八十六歲時,在麻省劍橋的龍基(Longy)音樂院舉行了告別演唱會,九十歲時去世,被榮葬於麻州的「希望之山」墓園。
海斯去世之後,喬治亞州的人們才覺醒到他們原來擁有世界 的「州寶」及美國「國寶」,「先人」竟然虧待了他。於是在一九九一年追 他進入「喬治亞音樂名人榜」,一九九五年該州的自然資源部在海斯的家鄉樹立了他的紀念碑,更在海斯曾經演唱的市政廳廣場前設立「海斯紀念公園」,且將該州的第一五六號州際公路命名為「羅蘭.海斯大道」。
二○○○年時,更在Calhoun城的哈瑞斯藝術中心(Harris Arts Center)完成了「羅蘭.海斯」博物館。從此,每年在該館舉辦紀念海斯的年度音樂會。海斯以真摯的心唱出了「黑人靈歌」的精髓,扣人心弦的演唱成為最具權威、令人難忘的「黑人靈歌」演唱之父,使「黑人靈歌」傳遍了全世界。
黑人男低音──保羅.羅布森
保羅.羅布森〈Paul Robeson, 1898-1976〉出生於紐澤西州普林斯頓的牧師之家。他原是學法律的,卻於一九二二年成為職業演員,只是他那特有的渾厚男低音卻將他帶入了歌唱世界,一九二七演唱舞台音樂劇大作家Jerome Kern(柯恩,1885-1945)的音樂劇“Show Boat”中類似「黑人靈歌」的“Ol'man River”(老人河),而一夕成名為國際 的歌唱家。
與海斯不同的是,羅布森的「黑人靈歌」是尋根研究及勤習來的,因為他並非成長於「黑奴」家庭,但是卻深入了解「受苦」前輩同胞的心,以及血淚所孕育而出的「黑人靈歌」,因此不但能在音樂劇中將「黑人歌曲」唱活了,更能以心靈唱出「黑人靈歌」歌中的信仰力量。他那天生的歌喉以及誠摯的心靈,使他與海斯二人並肩的努力,促成「黑人靈歌」躍上了世界音樂舞台,也為黑人聲樂家舖下了康莊大道。
(作者曾任台灣神學院教會音樂系教授暨主任;現旅居美國,擔任中華音樂崇拜學院加州聖工研究所特任教授)
註釋
“Jim Crow”律法,是涵蓋了將近一 年(1876-1965)的美國州法及地方法。大部分都是美國南方的州、郡。它是一種「種族分離」政策的法令。美其名為「分離卻是平等」地對待「黑人美國人」,實際上卻是極盡種族岐視之能的法令。不論是公立學校、公共汽車、火車、公共場合的洗手間,餐廳、商店,甚至是飲水機,都要「黑白」分明,任何黑人越了界就是犯了法,嚴重者連生命都保不住。“Jin Crow”原是1830年代的一位白人演員及劇作家,Thomas D. Rice在他的“Blackface”舞台劇中,所創出的一種滑稽模仿 作的歌舞叫“Jump Jim Crow”而得名(Jim Crow是劇中小黑人的名字)。這「種族歧視」法是全美國人之「痛」,卻一直到了1954年,美國最高法院判決州立大學「拒收」黑人學生是「違憲」,才有進展。而整個惡法的被剔除,更要等到了1964年,金恩博士榮獲諾貝爾和平獎之後,美國國會所訂立的“Civil Rights Act”(民權條款)以及1965年在詹森總統全力推 之下所通過的“Voting Rights Act”(選舉權條款),才大功告成。
名片推薦
1.Roland Hayes, “My Songs”:Aframerican Religious Folk-Songs. Boston, 1948
2.Roland Hayes Sings,“Negro Spirituals, Aframerican Folk Song”, Amadeo Records, Austria, AVRS 6003(12”LP)
參考書目
1.“Groves Dictionary of Music & Musicians”St. Martin's Press, 1973
2.“Oxford Concise Dictionary of Music”Oxford University Press, 1996
3.“Cassell Companion to 20thXCentury Music”by David Pickering, Cassell, 1997
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英文詩歌分享 (1)My Peace
My peace I give unto you,
It's a peace that the world cannot give,
It's a peace that the world cannot understand.,
Peace to know. Peace to live.
My peace I give unto you.
這首詩歌告訴我們平安是由誰給予人呢?其實這首詩歌提到平安並不是世間所能給予,聖經 腓 四:7「神所賜出人意外的平安,必在基督耶穌裏,保守你們的心懷意念。」,這裏指出了平安乃是由神所賜予的。
記得在1998年放榜的時候,我未能入讀本港大學學位課程,當時我感到很徬惶;但這首詩歌成為我的支持,神在放榜路上給我平安和安靜的心,我在等候香港教育學院放榜的時間裏卻是安靜和平安的渡過。
My peace I give unto you 我將平安賜給你,
It’s a peace that the world cannot give 這平安非世界所能給,
It’s the peace that the world cannot understand 這平安非世界所能够瞭解,
Peace to know, peace to live 藉祂知,藉祂活,
My peace I give unto you 我將平安賜給你。
My joy I give unto you 我將喜樂賜給你,
It’s a joy that the world cannot give 這喜樂非世界所能給,
It’s the joy that the world cannot understand 這喜樂非世界所能够瞭解,
Joy to know, joy to live 藉祂知,藉祂活,
My joy I give unto you 我將喜樂賜給你。
My love I give unto you 我將我的愛賜給你,
It’s a love that the world cannot give 這份愛非世界所能給,
It’s the love that the world cannot understand 這份愛非世界所能够瞭解,
Love to know, love to live 藉祂知,藉祂活,
My love I give unto you 我將這份愛賜給你。
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In 1924 he was booked for a concert at the Beethoven Concert
Hall in Berlin. En route to Germany, Roland stopped in Prague. He
was called into the American consul's office. "Mr. Hayes," the
consul said, "I have bad news for you. You are going to have to
cancel your concert in Germany. The French have taken over the
Rhineland and they are holding it with troops made up of Negroes
from America. The Germans are furious. No black-skinned person
will be able to sing in Germany at this time."
"Thank you for telling me this, Mr. Consul," Roland said, "I
will surely pray about it." The days passed and he could not
bring himself to cancel the concert.
On the night of the concert, Roland and his black accompanist
carefully made their way to the auditorium and slipped in through
a back door. Once inside, they peered through the curtains and
saw that the place was packed to overflowing. Now Roland realized
he was an internationally controversial case.
When the curtain went up, Roland Hayes stood in the curve of
the baby brand piano. He folded his hands, looked upward, and
said a private prayer to God: "God, make me a horn for the
Omnipotent to sound through."
As he stood silently praying, he began to hear hissing, then
stomping, and then catcalls and boos. Somebody shouted, "Don't
disgrace the Beethoven Concert Hall with plantation songs
about black men from America."
Hate seemed to fill that auditorium. His accompanist said,
"Mr. Hayes, we better get out of here!"
Then objects began to fly onto the stage, narrowly missing
the soloist. Roland Hayes later recalled the incident and
remarked, "I just stood there and prayed,'God,what will I do?' "
An idea entered his mind. To the accompanist he said, "Let's
begin with Beethoven's 'This Is My Peace.' " The accompanist
slowly and softly began to play. A surprised murmur ran through
the hall as the German concertgoers heard the music of their
favorite, Beethoven.
Roland Hayes opened his mouth and began to sing "This Is My
Peace." His mighty voice rolled through the auditorium, and the
audience fell into silence. By the time he finished, there was
absolute attention. He went on to sing several classical numbers
and ended the concert with Negro spirituals and plantation songs.
At the close of the concert, some members of the audience
jumped up on the stage, hoisted Roland on their shoulders, and
paraded him around the auditorium. He was the hero of the
continent, and he was an inspiration in settling the dispute
between France and Germany.
It s not always easy to be a peacemaker, but there can be
great rewards here and now, in trying. And the best of all is
that you can be called the CHILD of God.
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