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问题9：神在第一条、第二条和第三条诫命中有什么要求？
答：第一，认识并信靠神，这位独一永活的真神。第二，避免一切的偶像崇拜，不以不当的方式敬拜神。第三，敬畏神的名，尊荣祂的话语和作为。第一，我们要认识并信靠神是又真又活的独一神。 第二，我们要避免一切偶像崇拜，不以不当方式敬拜神。 第三，我们要敬畏神的名，尊荣祂的话语和作为。
儿童版：第一，我们要认识神是独一的真神。 第二，我们要避免一切偶像崇拜。 第三，我们要敬畏神的名。

Question 9: What Does God Require in the First, Second, and Third Commandments?
Answer: First, that we know and trust God as the only true and living God. Second, that we avoid all idolatry and do not worship God improperly. Third, that we treat God’s name with fear and reverence, honoring also his Word and works.
For Kids: First, that we know God as the only true God. Second, that we avoid all idolatry. Third, that we treat God’s name with fear and reverence.

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经文

《申命记》6 章13 节：

　　你要敬畏耶和华你的神，事奉祂，指着祂的名起誓。

注解

司布真

　　神引导人看见，圣经中所启示的和主耶稣所表明的那位神，是创造天地的神。人们往往照着自己的喜好造神，不是用木头或石头，就是用他们所谓的自我意识，或带着文化印记的思想来造一个合他们心意的神，这位神不会过于严厉地责罚他们的罪或对不悔改的人执行严格公义的审判。他们拒绝接纳神的本相，而详述其他的神，并按着自己的想象造神，还指着所造的神说：「以色列啊，这就是你们的神！」

　　然而，当圣灵光照我们的心，我们就会明白，耶和华是神，除祂以外，再无别神。圣灵会教导他的百姓，让他们知道天地之神就是圣经中的神，祂的各属性之间有着完美的平衡，怜悯而公义，慈爱而圣洁，有恩典、有真理，力量中有柔情。神不像异教的神那样对罪睁一只眼闭一只眼，祂恨恶罪，不能容忍罪，也绝不会以有罪为无罪。这是当今哲学家和基督徒之间的大争论。哲学家说：「如果你认为有神，那就有吧，但祂的品性一定会像我所认为的那样。」基督徒这样回复：「我们不是要造神，而是要顺服圣经中所启示的这位独一的主。」

默想

约翰·林

　　前三条诫命告诉我们基于那位独一的、又真又活的神当如何生活。

　　第一条诫命说，除祂以外不可有其他的神，祂是我们独一敬拜的对象，是我们终极的至爱并渴慕的对象。第二条诫命也相仿，告诉我们说，不可按着自己的想法来敬拜神，圣经称之为拜偶像。我们必须按神的本相来敬拜祂，而不是我们的喜好。也就是说，不可敬拜假神，也不可用错误的方式来敬拜神。

　　第三条诫命其实也很类似，不可滥用或妄称神的名。我们知道神的名代表着祂的性格与本质，这也是为什么祂告诉摩西自己的名字是：「我是」。换句话说，神在说，「我是自有永有的。」不滥用神的名并不是纯粹指我们只能使用哪些词，哪些不能用，而是在说，当我们用一言一行论及神的时候，我们就必须全然荣耀尊崇祂。

　　就前两条诫命，让我再多说两句。比如说，也许你心中追寻着一些目标，名声、某种工作、与梦想中的大人物交往，这能使你得着终极的安慰或满足你生命的意义。在日常生活中，你如果从这些梦想中寻求满足，而不是从神那得满足，你就干犯了第一条诫命。假如你把你的目标当作神，无论是声望、工作，或者是一个人，这些都会成为你敬拜的对象。

　　但反过来讲，假如你敬拜神，认为祂应该通过赐你名声、工作和你所渴望的人际关系带给你安慰，假如你只想要这些，这也是在干犯诫命。当你把自己的想象强加给神时，你就制造了一个满足客户需求的神，这就是偶像。前两条诫命让我们唯独敬拜神，把祂当做真的神去敬拜，不是敬拜一个我们定制出来的神或偶像。

　　为何这些诫命强调要唯独敬拜神，要按照祂的本相敬拜祂，而不是按我们自己的喜好？为何第三条诫命特别强调要荣耀祂的名？因为神造我们，让我们渴慕祂，并且只有祂才能满足这种渴慕，只有祂才是问题的答案。如果我们总是想要改变神，或找其他的东西来替代神，我们就永远无法经历平安，永远得不到真安慰、真意义、真喜乐，我们永远会觉得缺乏。但假如神真是我们生命的中心，不是其他的偶像，或是改造过的神，而是又真又活的神，我们就会有真平安。

　　这就是为什么奥古斯丁（Augustine of Hippo）写道：「主啊，祢为你自己造了我们，若不安息在祢怀中，我们便不得安宁。」

祷告

　　独一的神，祢的名超乎万名之上，我们怀着敬畏来到祢的面前。保守我们忠于祢的诫命，戳穿我们生命中一切的假神。让我们用心灵和诚实单单敬拜祢。阿们。

Scripture

DEUTERONOMY 6:13–14

It is the Lord your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear.

Commentary

CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

God leads men to see that the God revealed in Scripture, and manifested in the person of the Lord Jesus, is the God who made heaven and earth. Man fashions for himself a god after his own liking; he makes to himself if not out of wood or stone, yet out of what he calls his own consciousness, or his cultured thought, a deity to his taste, who will not be too severe with his iniquities or deal out strict justice to the impenitent. He rejects God as he is, and elaborates other gods, such as he thinks the Divine One ought to be, and he says concerning these works of his own imagination, “These be thy gods, O Israel!”

The Holy Spirit, however, when he illuminates their minds, leads us to see that Jehovah is God, and beside him there is none else. He teaches his people to know that the God of heaven and earth is the God of the Bible, a God whose attributes are completely balanced, mercy attended by justice, love accompanied by holiness, grace arrayed in truth, and power linked with tenderness. He is not a God who winks at sin, much less is pleased with it, as the gods of the heathen are supposed to be, but a God who cannot look upon iniquity, and will by no means spare the guilty. This is the great quarrel of the present day between the philosopher and the Christian. The philosopher says, “Yes, a god if you will, but he must be of such a character as I now dogmatically set before you”; but the Christian replies, “Our business is not to invent a god, but to obey the one Lord who is revealed in the Scriptures of truth.”

Devotional

JOHN LIN

The first three commandments show how we are to live in reference to and in light of the only true and living God.

The first commandment tells us that we are to have no other gods but God. He is to be the exclusive object of our worship, the ultimate object of our love and desire. The second commandment is similar and tells us that we are not to worship God according to our own conception of God, what the Bible calls idolatry. We must worship God according to who he is and not according to what we want him to be. In other words, do not worship false gods, and do not worship God falsely.

The third commandment is actually similar to the first two. We are not to misuse or mistreat the name of God. We know God’s name describes his character, the essence of his being, which is why he told Moses that his name is “I am.” In other words, God is saying, “My name is that I’m self-existent and eternal.” To not misuse the name of God doesn’t merely mean that there are certain words we can or cannot say. It means that when we speak of God, whether through words or lifestyle, we are to fully honor and respect who he is.

Let’s consider the first two commandments a bit more. Say, for instance, you believe in your heart that attaining some goal in your life—prestige, a certain kind of job, a relationship with the person of your dreams—will provide you with ultimate comfort and will answer your heart’s desire for significance. In a daily functional way, you look to that goal to provide you with deeper comfort than God. That’s breaking the first commandment. You’ve turned your goal into God. Prestige, a certain job, or a person has become the object of your worship.

The flip side is that if you worship God because you believe that he should provide you with comfort by providing the prestige, the job, or the relationship that you desire and are looking for, you are also violating the commandments. You’ve imposed your conception of who God is on God. You’ve created a custom designer god, an idol. These first two commandments are that we worship God alone, that we worship God as a true God, and that we not worship a designer god or an idol.

So why do these commandments insist on us worshiping God alone and worshiping God as he is and not as we want him to be? Why is the third commandment so insistent on honoring and respect- ing his name and his character? It is because God created us with a desire that only he can fulfill—a desire for him. If we are always trying to change who God is or replace him with something else, we’ll never be at peace. We’ll never experience true comfort, true significance, or true joy. We’ll never be whole. But if God is at the center of our lives, not another god or a revised version of God, but the true and living God, we’ll truly be at peace.

This is precisely why Augustine wrote, “You’ve made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.”

Prayer

One and Only God, your name is above all names, and we come before you in reverence and fear. Keep us true to your commandments. Reveal to us any false gods in our lives. Let us worship you alone in spirit and truth. Amen.

问题8：神在十诫中陈明了什么律法？
答：除我以外，你不可有别的神。不可为自己雕刻偶像，也不可做什么形像，仿佛上天、下地和地底下水中的百物。不可跪拜那些像，也不可事奉它。不可妄称耶和华——你神的名。当纪念安息日，守为圣日。当孝敬父母。不可杀人。不可奸淫。不可偷盗。不可作假见证。不可贪心。
儿童版：除我以外，你不可有别的神。不可为自己雕刻偶像，你不可妄称耶和华——你神的名。当纪念安息日，守为圣日。当孝敬父母。不可杀人。不可奸淫。不可偷盗。不可作假见证。不可贪心。

Question 8: What is the Law of God Stated in the Ten Commandments?
Answer: You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below—you shall not bow down to them or worship them. You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God. Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Honor your father and your mother. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not give false testimony. You shall not covet.
For Kids: You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol. You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God. Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Honor your father and your mother. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not give false testimony. You shall not covet.

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经文

《出埃及记》20 章3 节：

　　除了我以外，你不可有别的神。

注解

约翰·班扬

　　危险不在于打破了这十条中的一两条，而在于触犯了其中的任何一条。正如我们所知，如果一个国王颁布十条特令，臣民必须遵守，不遵守就得死；现在，如果有人违反了这十条中的任何一条，他就是犯了叛国罪，如同违反了全部的特令，并当被判处死刑，就好像他破坏了特令的每一条一样……因为这是一个有关行为的约。关于神的律法，有一些事是明显的：假设一个人确实遵行了十条诫命中的九条，但违反了其中的一条，也必要灭亡，无份于天堂的喜乐，如同他违反了全部的诫命一样……即使你完全地履行了全部的约定，遵行了全律法，长达十年、二十年、四十年、五十年、六十年，但在你死之前还是不小心跌倒，只一次触犯了其中的一条，那么你也是背约的……正如那些在恩典之约下的人必然得救一样，那些继续活在基于行为和律法之约下的人也必受到咒诅。

默想

约翰·叶慈

　　神创造我们、爱我们，并知道什么对我们来说是最好的。祂赐下道德与灵性上的引导，使我们以最好的方式生活。十诫是神赐给我们的爱的礼物，当然整本圣经都是，但我们可以在十诫里找到神带领的核心。《出埃及记》20 章，神对摩西说话，也将十诫传达给了以色列百姓，之后，摩西也重申了十诫。我们必须背诵、深思十诫，并在生活中践行。

　　耶稣为我们讲解、澄清了十诫的深意。当祂在福音书中诠释十诫时，祂把我们所理解的神对我们的期待标准大幅提高了。就像在《马太福音》5 章21 节，祂解释了不可杀人的诫命。祂说：「凡向弟兄动怒的，难免受审判」（参见太5:21-22）。

　　前四诫处理我们和神的关系，耶稣归纳为「你要尽心、尽性、尽意，爱主你的神」。后六诫是论到人与人之间的关系，耶稣用「要爱邻舍如同自己」作为总结。（参见太22:37、39）

　　诫命是我们的宝贝，我们要珍惜，是神所赐下爱的厚礼，它引导我们、提醒我们、保护我们。当我们谨守诫命，我们就反映出神的形像；当我们无法谨守诫命，我们就会伤害自己，使造物主蒙羞。

　　但我们难以谨守十诫，因为人生来就被罪恶捆绑，是自私的，最终我们一定会干犯神的神圣律法。但是，当我们因信在基督里成为新造的人，圣灵就内住在我们里面，我们就从「不得不」犯罪的状态下得了自由，我们因恩典可以谨守神的律法。谨守律法不再是艰巨的任务，而是会帮助我们与神和好、与自己和好、与他人和好。

　　当我们明白这是神赐给我们的礼物时，我们就能学着去谨守十诫。这很像我们学着去说实话。年幼时，有时你觉得必须要保护自己，不得不欺骗别人而撒谎；你长大以后，知道了不应该骗人。说实话是需要学习的，做诚实人也是。

　　这就是为何先知们热爱神的律法，我们也应当如此。谨守十诫，它保护我们，也保护社会。这些原则，神要我们当作生活中的核心。

祷告

　　圣洁的主，祢通过赐下律法表明了祢对子民的爱。愿我们能常常为祢的律法献上感恩。祢让我们知道如何走义路。帮助我们遵行祢的十诫来荣耀祢。阿们。

Scripture

EXODUS 20:3

You shall have no other gods before me.

Commentary

JOHN BUNYAN

The danger doth not lie in the breaking of one or two of these ten only, but it doth lie even in the transgression of any one of them. As you know, if a king should give forth ten particular commands, to be obeyed by his subjects upon pain of death; now, if any man doth transgress against any one of these ten, he doth commit treason, as if he had broke them all, and lieth liable to have the sentence of the law as certainly passed on him, as if he had broken every particular of them. . . . These things are clear as touching the law of God, as it is a covenant of works: If a man do fulfill nine of the commandments, and yet breaketh but one, that being broken will as surely destroy him, and shut him out from the joys of heaven, as if he had actually transgressed against them all. . . . Though thou shouldst fulfill this covenant or law, even all of it, for a long time, ten, twenty, forty, fifty, or threescore years; yet if thou do chance to slip, and break one of them but once before thou die, thou art also gone and lost by that covenant. . . . As they that are under the covenant of grace shall surely be saved by it, so, even so, they that are under the covenants of works and the law, they shall surely be damned by it, if continuing therein.

Devotional

JOHN YATES

Because God created and loves us and knows what’s best for us, he gives us moral and spiritual direction about how to live life in the best way. The Ten Commandments are a love gift to us from God. Of course this is true of all Scripture, but the heart and soul of God’s guidance is found in the Ten Commandments. God spoke the words to Moses, and they were overheard by the children of Israel (Exodus 20). Later, Moses restated the Ten Commandments (Deuteronomy 5). The Ten Commandments are to be memorized, pondered, and committed to as a way of life.

Jesus taught and clarified the deeper meaning of the Ten Commandments for us. As he explained the Ten Commandments in the Gospels, he raised the bar on our understanding of what God expects of us. For instance, in Matthew 5:21, Jesus explained the meaning of the commandment not to murder. He said that actually anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment.

The first four commandments deal with our relationship with God, and Jesus summarized them as: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” The last six commandments address our relationship with our fellow man, and Jesus summarized them as: “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Matt. 22:37, 39).

The commandments are our treasure. We cherish them. They’re a great gift, a love gift from God. They guide us. They warn us. They protect us. When we keep them, we show others what God is like. When we fail to live them, we bring great harm to ourselves and we dishonor our Maker.

We have a problem keeping the Ten Commandments because man is born in bondage to sin and selfishness. And in the end we cannot help but break God’s holy law. But when we become a new creature by faith in Christ, we receive the indwelling Holy Spirit. We’re freed from having to sin, and we’re given the grace to keep God’s law. Keeping God’s commandments is not onerous but helps us live at peace with God, with ourselves, and with our neighbors.

We can learn to live out the Ten Commandments as we realize that they’re God’s gift to us. It’s like learning to tell the truth. When you’re young, you sometimes feel that you must protect yourself by deceiving others and not telling the truth. You learn as time goes not to deceive others. We learn to speak the truth. We learn to practice honesty.

That’s why the prophets loved God’s law and why we should, too. Keeping the Ten Commandments protects us. It protects society. These principles are at the heart of how God created us to live.

Prayer

Holy God, you showed your love to your people by giving them your commands. May we always give thanks for your law. You have not left us ignorant of how to walk in the way of righteousness. Help us to glorify you by obeying your Ten Commandments. Amen.

问题7：神的律法有什么要求？
答：要求个人的、全然的、永远的顺服；尽心、尽性、尽意、尽力爱神；并爱人如己。神所禁止的事永远不做，神所要求的事应该常常去做。
儿童版：我们当尽心、尽性、尽意、尽力爱神，并爱人如己。

Question 7: What Does the Law of God Require?
Answer: Personal, perfect, and perpetual obedience; that we love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength; and love our neighbor as ourselves. What God forbids should never be done and what God commands should always be done.
For Kids: That we love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength; and love our neighbor as ourselves.

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经文

《马太福音》22 章37 节至40节：

　　耶稣对他说：「你要尽心、尽性、尽意，爱主你的神。这是诫命中的第一，且是最大的。其次也相仿，就是要爱人如己。这两条诫命是律法和先知一切道理的总纲。」

注解

约翰·卫斯理

　　尽心、尽意、尽性、尽力爱耶和华神是基督教教义的第一大分支。你要以耶和华神为乐，在祂里面寻得一切的满足。你要听并且遵行祂的话，「我儿，要将你的心归我。」当你把灵魂的主权全然交给祂，让祂掌管后，你会情不自禁地呼喊：「我要爱祢，哦主，我的力量。主是我稳固的磐石；是我的救主，我的神，我所信靠的。」基督教教义的第二大分支，也是第二大诫命，与第一条紧密相联、不可分割，即「爱你的邻舍如同自己」。「爱」，就是以最温柔的善意、最诚挚的情感、最强烈的愿望，抵挡和剪除一切罪恶，尽可能地活出一切良善。「你的邻舍」，不仅是你的朋友、亲属或熟人，也不仅是那些尊重你、向你感恩或回报过你善意的人，而是所有人。不排除那些你素未谋面或连名字都不知道的人，也不排除那些你知道是邪恶的和忘恩负义的人，甚至是那些鄙视你的人。即使是面对这些人，你也要爱他们如同自己，也一样的渴望他们能够幸福，一样不知疲倦地为他们的灵魂和身体保驾护航。这就是爱。

默想

胡安·桑切斯

　　这些应许都与一份新的盟约有关。神将通过大卫的后裔，一位应许的王来订立新的盟约。新约圣经表明，订立这约的王就是耶稣。

　　耶稣来做我们自己不能做的事情。耶稣从高天降下，取了人的形状（仍是完全的神），为要救赎我们。（参见来2:14-18）耶稣代表全人类全然遵行了神的旨意，并代替所有违背律法的人受了死的刑罚，从而成全了律法。福音是一个宣告，任何人只要承认自己违背了神的律法，愿意离弃罪恶，并相信耶稣，就可以罪得赦免，耶稣全然的顺服也归算在他们身上。

　　耶稣借着祂的生活，祂的受死、埋葬，从死里复活订立了新约，应许一颗新心（参见耶31）和神的灵的内住（参见结36）。我们能够遵行律法的唯一希望在于新约所应许的重生。重生后有基督新生命的人被赐予了一颗新心和内住的圣灵，使我们有能力去顺服。

　　好消息是，新约下神的子民被赐予能力，得以遵行神的律法。我们再次看到，神的命令并不能建立我们与祂的关系。顺服是我们对神救赎之工的回应，是出于信心的爱的回应。神在耶稣基督里救赎了我们，我们以信靠做出回应，在爱里顺服祂。

祷告

　　伟大的立法者，祢口中的律法纯全，祢配得我们全然的顺服。求祢让我们思想，祢的律法不只是要求外在的服从，更是要我们全心全意的顺服。如此谁能做到呢？我们承认自己远远不能遵行祢的律法。阿们。

Scripture

MATTHEW 22:37–40

And [Jesus] said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Commentary

JOHN WESLEY

Loving the Lord God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength is the first great branch of Christian righteousness. You shall delight yourself in the Lord your God; seeking and finding all happiness in Him. You shall hear and fulfill His word, “My son, give me your heart.” And having given Him your inmost soul to reign there without a rival, you may well cry out in the fulness of your heart, “I will love You, O my Lord, my strength. The Lord is my strong rock; my Savior, my God, in whom l trust.” The second commandment, the second great branch of Christian righteousness, is closely and inseparably connected with the first: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love—embrace with the most tender goodwill, the most earnest and cordial affection, the most inflamed desires of preventing or removing all evil and bringing every possible good. Your neighbor—not only your friends, kinfolk, or acquaintances; not only the virtuous ones who regard you, who extend or return your kindness, but every person, not excluding those you have never seen or know by name; not excluding those you know to be evil and unthankful, those who despitefully use you. Even those you shall love as yourself with the same invariable thirst after their happiness. Use the same unwearied care to screen them from whatever might grieve or hurt either their soul or body. This is love.

Devotional

JUAN SANCHEZ

When you ask, “What does the law of God require?” the short answer is perfect obedience. Now, that sounds daunting, but we have to understand the context in which the law was given. It was given in the context of grace, God’s saving initiative. When God rescued Israel from Egypt and brought them to Sinai and declared, “If you obey my voice and keep my covenant,” he essentially then said, “I will be your God and you will be my children.” So the context of the law is God’s saving initiative. The perfect obedience that the law demands is a response to God’s saving initiative, and it is a wholehearted devotion.

The way that the Old Testament puts it is: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might” (Deut. 6:5). The context of grace motivates a response of wholehearted devotion to the God who saves. It is a response of faith that is called love. And that love flows to love of neighbor as well.

There is only one problem. We cannot obey perfectly. But there is good news. In Jeremiah 31 God says that he will write the law on his people’s hearts. In Ezekiel 36 God further explains: “I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes” (vv. 26–27). These promises are linked to a new covenant that God would initiate through a promised king from David’s line. The New Testament reveals that the promised King who inaugurates this new covenant is Jesus.

Jesus came to do what we ourselves could not do. While remaining fully God, Jesus came from heaven and took on our humanity in order to save us (Heb. 2:14–18). As our human representative, Jesus fulfilled the law of God by perfectly obeying God’s commands and by paying the penalty of death that all lawbreakers owe. The gospel is an announcement that all who confess that they are guilty of breaking God’s law and turn away from their sins and trust in Jesus have their sins forgiven and Jesus’s perfect obedience accounted to them.

Through his life, death, burial, and resurrection, Jesus inaugurated the new covenant with its promises of a new heart (Jeremiah 31) and the indwelling of God’s empowering Spirit (Ezekiel 36). Our only hope of fulfilling what the law requires is the new birth that was promised in the new covenant. Those who are born again to new life in Christ have been granted a new heart and God’s indwelling Spirit, which empowers obedience.

The good news is that under the new covenant, God’s people are empowered to obey God’s law. Once again, we see that the commands of God don’t establish a relationship with God. Obedience is our response to God’s saving work. It is a loving response of faith. God has saved us in Jesus Christ, and we respond by trusting him in loving obedience.

Prayer

Great Law-Giver, you have spoken a perfect law, and you deserve perfect obedience. Let us not merely think that your law requires outward submission; it demands the full assent of our minds and our hearts. Who is equal to such a task? We confess that we fall far short of keeping your law. Amen.

问题6：我们怎样才能荣耀神？
答：我们荣耀神，是通过以祂为乐，爱祂，信靠祂，并遵守祂的旨意、命令和律法。
儿童版：通过爱祂，并遵守祂的命令和律法。

Question 6: How Can We Glorify God?
Answer: We glorify God by enjoying him, loving him, trusting him, and by obeying his will, commands, and law.
For Kids: By loving him and by obeying his commands and law.

歌谱 Lead Sheet

经文

《申命记》11 章1 节：

　　你要爱耶和华你的神，常守祂的吩咐、律例、典章、诫命。

注解

理查德·薛伯斯

　　既然我们的一切都来自神，所以我们理应俯伏在祂的脚前并呼求：「我不要活在罪中，以致与神的恩惠隔绝」……

　　当我们的心在圣灵的帮助下被更新改变，并在基督里顺服神的时候，我们才能找到真正的自由。人心一旦降服于神，被祂所吸引，那么整个人的感觉是甘甜的，因为赐诸般恩典的神使他的心得以自由。神要我们为祂的荣耀而活，然后祂也会将恩典和荣耀赐给我们。

默想

布莱恩·柴培尔

　　我们如何荣耀神？我们可以遵行祂说的话。

　　如果你在思考「照着神说的去行来荣耀祂」意味着什么，那么我们必须记住祂所说的最大的诫命是什么，那就是要爱祂胜过一切，并在所有处境中与祂同行。毕竟，主耶稣也说：「你要尽心、尽性、尽意，爱主你的神。这是诫命中的第一，且是最大的。其次也相仿，就是要爱人如己。」

　　如果我们真的想尊荣我们的救主，我们就会照祂说的去行。但并不意味着顺服祂只是因为祂掌管着我们，而是因为认识到祂对我们的爱是何等的深；我们是因为爱祂而想与祂同行。而这种认识意味着我们会说：「我明白祂是如此的深爱我，所以我的心以爱来回应祂。」

　　当我这样做的时候，我尊荣神的感觉不再是：哦，不，如果我不这样做，祂会找我算账的。这意味着我可能会顺服祂，却并不以祂为乐。这是不对的。如果我们真爱神，就会喜欢祂的律法。当神说「你与我同行」，我知道这是一条平安、美好的生命之路。这是神诫命的真义。诫命向我们展示神的品格和祂的关爱，告诉我们祂指给我们的是生命平安之路。如果你离开这条平安又美好的道路，当然会带来后果。但我们停留在这条路上不是为了设法赢得神的爱，而是因为明白祂的爱，尤其是透过主耶稣基督为我们所做的牺牲而显明出来的爱。当我们明白律法和诫命反映了神的品格和祂对我们的关爱时，我们就会欢喜走这样的道路，因为如此就可以经历到神的恩典。这意味着，无论遭遇什么，我一生都要爱祂，与祂同行。我荣耀祂是因着祂对我的大爱，我行在祂的道上，不仅是为了使祂的心得满足，更表明我爱祂。这对于我不再是苦差事，而是在心灵和生命的层面上得享祂的良善。

　　很多时候，人们因为惧怕神会伤害他们而俯首去做令自己反感的事，还以为这样是在荣耀神。还有的时候，人们去做他们以为神要他们做的事，是为了从祂那里得更多的好处。自私地希望借着所行的来保护自己或高抬自己，这都不是真的爱神。当我们明白神为了我们舍了祂的儿子，以及祂所展现的品格和对我们的关爱，我们就会懂得，爱祂、以祂为乐意味着欢喜地走在祂的道上，这是一条美好、平安的生命之路。

　　我要遵行祂的旨意，与祂同行，并且爱祂，因为如此我就能真正地享受祂给我的最好的人生。

祷告

　　恩慈的主，我们想要完全地认识祢，以祢为乐。求祢开我们的眼，使我们得见祢，以至我们能长久地信靠祢，全心渴望遵行祢的旨意。无论是小小的善意还是莫大的勇气，愿我们的每一个顺服之举都能荣耀祢。阿们。

Scripture

DEUTERONOMY 11:1

You shall therefore love the Lord your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always.

Commentary

RICHARD SIBBES

As we receive all from God, so we should lay all at his feet, and say, “I will not live in a course of sin that will not stand with the favour of my God.” . . .

True freedom is found when by the Spirit the heart is renewed, is enlarged, and becomes subordinate to God in Christ. A man is in a sweet frame when his heart is made subject to God, and drawn out towards him, for the God of all grace sets it at liberty. God will have us make his glory our aim, and then he will bestow grace and glory too upon us.

Devotional

BRYAN CHAPELL

How can we glorify God? We can do as he said, and we can believe what he said.

If you consider what it means to glorify God by doing what he said, then we have to remember what he said was the prime commandment, which was that we love him above all and that we walk with him through all. After all, the Lord Jesus said, “Love me with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. This is the first and the greatest commandment. The second is like unto it. Love you neighbor as yourself.”

If we truly want to honor the Savior, we do as he said. But that means not just obeying him because he’s going to get us. It’s not really that. It’s understanding how great is his love for us so that we, in love for him, want to walk with him. And that understanding means that we begin by saying, “I understand that he has loved me so much that my heart is responding in love for him.”

As I do that, I’m not now honoring God with a sense of Oh no, he’s going to get me if I don’t. That would mean I might obey him, but I would not enjoy him. No, true love for God means I delight in his law. I understand that what God has given me when he says, “Walk with me,” is a safe and good path in life. That’s really what the commandments of God are about. They are explaining, as he shows us his character and care, that he’s given us this safe path for life. If you get off the path, there are consequences, of course, because this is a safe and good path. But we are not staying on that path because we think somehow we are earning his affection. Rather, we understand, as he showed us through Christ and particularly the Lord’s sacrifice for us, how great is his love for us. When we understand that the law or the commandments are echoing the character of God and his care for us, then we delight to walk in that path because it lets us experience the goodness of our God. That means, no matter what I face, I love God in all of life, and I want to walk with him through all of life. In that way I’m both honoring his heart—I glorify him because of how great is his love for me—and I show my love for him by walking in the path, not just out of drudgery, but actually with the sense of enjoying his goodness for my heart and life.

So many times people think they’re glorifying God because they’re just kind of bowing their necks and doing the awful thing they hate because otherwise God is going to hurt them. Or sometimes they do the things that they think God wants so that he’ll give them more good stuff. But both those kinds of sanctified selfishness—I’m doing this so I will protect myself or promote myself—are not really love for God. When we understand that God gave his Son for me, that he’s shown me his character and his care, then I understand that loving him and enjoying him means that I will delight to walk on that which provides the good and safe path for my life.

I’ll walk with him and love him in all that he requires, because in doing so, I will actually enjoy the path that he has designed for the best life that he desires to give me.

Prayer

Gracious Lord, we want to fully know and enjoy you. Open our eyes to see you as you are that we might trust you and long with all we are to keep your commands. Whether through small kindnesses or great courage, may each act of obedience bring you glory. Amen.

问题5：神还造了什么？
答：神用祂大能的话语创造了万物，祂所造的一切都甚好；万物在祂慈爱的治理下欣欣向荣。
儿童版：神创造了万物，祂所造的一切都甚好。

Question 5: What Else Did God Create?
Answer: God created all things by his powerful Word, and all his creation was very good; everything flourished under his loving rule.
For Kids: God created all things, and all his creation was very good.

歌谱 Lead Sheet

经文

《创世记》1 章31 节：

　　神看着一切所造的都甚好……

注解

约翰·加尔文

　　自从造天地以来，神就透过整个世界向我们显明祂永恒的智慧、良善和权能；虽然祂本身是人眼不能见的，但借着所造之物就可以叫人晓得。

　　我们通常称这个世界是神的神性的镜子；这并不是说，人可以透过观察世界来充分认识神，而是说神已经借着这个世界显明了祂自己，让那些不敬虔的人无可推诿。如今，蒙神赐祂属灵眼见的忠实信徒，从每个受造之物身上都能看见神的荣光。这个世界无疑是被造的，是神彰显自己荣耀的舞台。

默想

肯特·修斯

　　在我个人灵修祷告的时候，有时会首先默想宇宙的浩大。光是我们的银河系，就有一百亿颗星星，但宇宙还有数百亿的银河系，每个星系都有数百亿颗的星星。每个星系的直径都有数百光年，一个星系与另一个星系之间更有三百万光年的距离。太神奇了，真叫人难以置信。

　　旧约《创世记》开宗明义说：「起初神创造天地。」（创1:1）当「天」与「地」这两个相反的词被平行使用时，意思是祂造了一切。所以，你也可以这样理解：起初神创造宇宙，然后祂说：这是好的，不仅如此，祂说：这甚好。

　　当我读到新约，也就是关于耶稣基督更充分的启示，我们知道宇宙正是由基督所造。所以《约翰福音》这样开头：「太初有道，道与神同在，道就是神。这道太初与神同在。万物是藉着他造的；凡被造的，没有一样不是藉着祂造的。」所以，我认识到基督是宇宙性的，是这一切的创造者。保罗在《哥林多前书》8 章6 节把这两件事放在一起，他说：「……我们只有一位神，就是父，万物都本于他，我们也归于祂；并有一位主，就是耶稣基督，万物都是藉着祂有的……」

　　然后我们听到一首不可思议的颂歌，记载在《歌罗西书》1 章16 节至17 节。论到耶稣，经文这样描述：「因为万有都是靠祂造的，无论是天上的、地上的、能看见的、不能看见的，或是有位的、主治的、执政的、掌权的，一概都是藉着祂造的，又是为祂造的。祂在万有之先，万有也靠祂而立。」

　　我常常想，若可以指挥《星际迷航》中的「企业号」飞船，离开我们的银河系，穿越在星河之间。当达到曲速8 级时，众星系将会被我抛在脑后。我会抵达宇宙的尽头，转头发现一片尘埃，但这依然是基督造的，又是倚靠基督而存有的。一切都是基督造的，无论是火山的熔岩或是萤火虫的微光。所有能被看到，能被摸到的、天上地上的事物、地底下的、海底下的事物，一切都是被祂所造，又是倚靠祂而存有的。

　　这也意味着祂是万有的创造者，一切都在祂仁爱良善的护理之下。我们必须牢记，作为人，我们是创造的最高峰，我们是按神的形像造的，承载着神的形像。作为重生之人，我们也有基督的形像，这意味着我们可以安息在祂的良善中，在祂伟大的创造中，在祂的能力中。祂掌权生命的一切，我们也在祂的掌权下得丰盛和满足。

祷告

　　用话语创造世界的主，祢手所造的令我们惊叹，即使它已经败坏了。璀璨的群星展现祢的美，猛烈的飓风展示祢的力量，数学定理彰显祢的秩序。凡有气息的，都要因耶和华手所造的来赞美祂！阿们。

Scripture

Genesis 1:31

Commentary

JOHN CALVIN

God has given us, throughout the whole frame-work of this world, clear evidences of his eternal wisdom, goodness, and power; and though he is in himself invisible, he in a manner becomes visible to us in his works.

Correctly then is this world called the mirror of divinity; not that there is sufficient clearness for man to gain a full knowledge of God, by looking at the world, but that he has thus so far revealed himself, that the ignorance of the ungodly is without excuse. Now the faithful, to whom he has given eyes, see sparks of his glory, as it were, glittering in every created thing. The world was no doubt made, that it might be the theatre of the divine glory.

Devotional

R. KENT HUGHES

Sometimes I begin my personal time of prayer and devotion by reflecting on the mind-boggling size of the universe—that our own little galaxy has a hundred thousand million stars, that there are a hundred thousand million more galaxies each with a hundred thousand million stars, that our galaxy and each of those galaxies is a hundred light years across, and that there are three million light years between each of those galaxies. Absolutely phenomenal and amazing.

The opening line of the Old Testament says, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Gen. 1:1). Now when it juxtaposes two words—heavens and earth—two opposites, it means he created everything. So you could really read that as, “In the beginning God created the cosmos.” And then he said it was good, but he said even more than that. He said it was very good.

When we come to the New Testament and the fuller revelation of Jesus Christ, we learn that the cosmos is created by Christ himself. So the opening line of the Gospel of John says, “In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. He was in the beginning with God, and without him was not anything made that was made.” And so what we have there is the cosmic Christ, the Creator of all things. In fact, the apostle Paul brings both together in 1 Corinthians 8:6 when he says that our existence is due to the one God and Father and the one Lord Jesus Christ. All our existence depends on them.

And then you come to that incredible, lyrical song in Colossians 1:16–17, which speaks of Jesus: “For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”

I’ve often thought that if I could commandeer the Enterprise from Star Trek, and I could travel out to our galaxy and across the Milky Way, and then kick it into warp speed eight so the galaxies would fly by like fence posts, and finally come to the very backwater of the universe, make a right turn and find a piece of stellar dust, it would have been created by Christ and sustained by Christ. Everything is made by Christ. The fires of Arcturus, the fires that light a firefly, all textures, all shapes, things in heaven, things on earth, things under the earth, things under the sea, everything is created and sustained by him.

And that means that, as he’s the Creator of all things, everything is under his loving, benevolent care. We must also keep in mind that as human beings, the apex of creation, we were made in the image of God. But as regenerate people, we also have the image of Christ. Which means that we can rest in his goodness, in his great creation power, as he controls all of life, and we can flourish under him.

Prayer

Lord Who Spoke the World into Existence, we marvel at your creation, even though it has been corrupted. Your beauty is revealed in the splendor of the stars. Your might is shown forth in the strength of a hurricane. Your order is displayed in the laws of mathematics. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord for the works of his hands! Amen.