Year: 2022

引言：选择带来结果

当一堆种子摆在我们眼前的时候，我们或许不知道哪一个种子会种出什么样的蔬果。但是今天我们去买种子的时候，已经标签好种子的类别给我们。若我们需要种菜心，就买菜心的种子就好了。

今天神把咒诅和祝福的结果都摆在我们的眼前；咒诅的原因和蒙福的法则也摆在我们的眼前。你就是那需要做选择的人。

一、选择归回，还是离开？V1-8

申30:2-3a你和你的子孙，若尽心尽性归向耶和华你的神，照着我今日一切所吩咐的，听从祂的话；那时你的神必……

神在申命记中一直不断重复，一而再再而三对人发出应许与警告。人若选择归向神，神必使我们得以下的应许，否则就像上一章的所说的被扔到其他的地方。

选择尽心尽性归向神的应许：
1. 神必怜恤：被掳的得释放 V3
2. 神必回转：流失的得回归 V4
3. 神必领你：得地为业V5
4. 神必善待：生养众多 V5
5. 神必洁净：得以存活 V6
6. 神必公义：神伸张正义 V7-8

二、选择听从，还是悖逆？V9-14

1．神祝福听从者他的一切V9-10

我们若听从神的话，谨守这圣经上所写的诫命、律例，又尽心尽性归向耶和华我们的神，神要祝福的不只是我们个人，而是我们所生的、牲畜生的、地土所产，神都眷顾。这是神所应许的，你相信吗？

2. 神给我们能听从的恩典 V11-14

人若不肯听从，总是能找到不想听从的理由。不够时间读圣经、我看不懂圣经总是成为了理由。皇天不负有心人，神绝对不会把过重的担子加给我们，我们所缺的不是神的话，而是顺服的心；使我们得咒诅的，不是因为律法难行，而是因为我们离开律法，不愿意活出神的话语。

三、选择生命，还是灭亡？

神把生与福，死与祸都陈明在我们的面前，让我们用自由意志来做选择。选择神的道就是选择祝福得着生命；偏离神的道就是选择了咒诅最后灭亡。（1）爱我们的神、（2）听从祂 和（3）专心依靠祂就是拣选生命的选择。

总结：

神造人并不是造机器人，祂让我们可以自由选择。祂把咒诅的源头和复兴的应许都摆在我们的眼前，还劝勉我们拣选生命。最后我们可以做的是做选择。你会做什么选择呢？

Deuteronomy 30: The Choice
GK611 Morning Devotion
23/11/2022
Speaker: Asher Chang + Rev Tan
Introduction: Choice brings results

When a pile of seeds is placed in front of us, we may not know which seed will grow what kind of fruits and vegetables. But today, when we go to buy seeds, the categories of seeds have been labelled for us. If we need to grow Choy Sum, we can just buy the seeds of hearts of vegetables-.
Today God has set before our eyes the results of the curse and the blessing; the cause of the curse and the law of the blessing are also set before our eyes. You are the one who needs to make the choice.

1.Choose to return, or leave? (V1-8)
Deuteronomy 30:2-3a and you return to the Lord your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, that the Lord your God will…
God keeps repeating in Deuteronomy, again and again, promises and warnings to man. If man chooses to turn to God, God will give us the following promises, or we will be cast away to other places as mentioned in the previous chapter.

Choose to return to God’s promises with all your heart and soul.
1. God will be merciful: the captives will be released V3
2. God will turn: the lost will be returned V4.
3. God will lead you: to land as an inheritance V5
4. God will be good: to give birth to many V5
5. God will cleanse: to live V6
6. God will be righteous: God will do justice V7-8

2.Choose to obey or rebel?

(1)God blesses all those who obey him V9-10
If we obey the word of God and keep the commandments and statutes written in this Bible, and turn to the LORD our God with all our heart and soul, God will bless not only us personally, but all that we have, and all that our animals have, and all that the earth produces, God will bless. This is what God has promised, do you believe it?

(2) God gives us the grace to listen V11-14
If people won’t listen, they can always find a reason not to listen. I don’t have enough time to read the Bible, and I can’t read the Bible is always the reason. God will never put too heavy a burden on us. What we lack is not the Word of God, but an obedient heart; it is not the difficulty of the law that makes us cursed, but because we leave the law and are not willing to live out the Word of God.

(3) Choose life or perish?
God sets before us life and blessings, death and curses, and allows us to choose with our free will. To choose God’s way is to choose to be blessed with life; to deviate from God’s way is to choose to be cursed and finally perish. To (1) love our God, (2) obey Him, and (3) rely on Him with all our heart is the choice of life.

Conclusion:

God did not create man to be a robot; He gave us the freedom to choose. He puts the source of the curse and the promise of restoration before our eyes, and exhorts us to choose life. The last thing we can do is make a choice. What choice will you make?

引言：

地上的合约都有终止的时候，而神与人所立的约却是直到永永远远。

一、这约关乎神过去的作为 – 过去的世代（1-9）

神与以色列全民族所立的约从西奈山开始，到了摩押地则是再次与以色列民立约来重申祂的心意。透过以色列人从出埃及到他们胜过约旦河东二王的经历，摩西让百姓回想起他们的上一代已经与神立约，所以他们才能往应许之地迈进。

二、这约关乎所有神的百姓 – 如今的世代（10-13）

神与以色列所立的约，也是与如今活着的百姓所立的约。所以摩西勉励活着的人，要选择像他们与神立约的先祖一样，认定耶和华神，并顺服这约去活出神的心意！

三、这约关乎神百姓的后代 – 将来的世代

1.个人犯罪的后果（14-21）

神与百姓所立的约也关系到以后世代的人。在未来世代的百姓中，只要任何一人，选择悖逆神的心意，去敬拜事奉别神，背约的咒诅就必定会临到这样的人身上。

2.集体犯罪的后果（22-28）

神接着摩西也警告以色列百姓，在未来世代的百姓中，要是百姓选择一起去违背神的约，最终神的愤怒也必临到他们，他们会被神从应许之地中拔出，赶逐到外邦。

总结：单纯地向神守约，就必得福（29）

神与人所立的约是世世代代的约，人要学习放下拦阻人来到神面前的理性上的辖制，单纯地向神来守约，活出神的心意，就必得神丰盛的祝福！

Deuteronomy 29: This Is a Covenant for Generations
GK611 Morning Devotion
22/11/2022
Speaker: IP Moses Ou

Introduction:

All earthly contracts have a time of termination, but God’s covenant with man is for ever and ever.

1. The Covenant is About God’s Past Actions – Past Generations (1-9)

God’s covenant with the entire nation of Israel began at Mount Sinai and was reaffirmed in the land of Moab by making another covenant with the people of Israel. Through the experience of the Israelites from the Exodus to their victory over the two kings of the east of the Jordan, Moses reminded the people that their previous generation had made a covenant with God so that they could move forward to the Promised Land.

2. The Covenant Concerns All of God’s People – The Present Generation (10-13)

The covenant God made with Israel is the same covenant He made with the people who are alive today. So, Moses exhorted the living to choose to acknowledge the Lord God, as their forefathers did in their covenant with God, and to live out God’s will in obedience to this covenant!

3. This Covenant Concerns the Future Generations of God’s People – The Future Generations

a. The consequences of individual sin (14-21)

The covenant that God made with the people also concerns the future generations. If any one of the people of the future generation chooses to worship and serve other gods contrary to God’s will, the curse of the covenant will surely come upon such a person.

b. The consequences of collective sin (22-28)

God then warned the people of Israel that if the people chose to break God’s covenant together in future generations, God’s wrath would eventually come upon them, and they would be plucked out of the Promised Land and driven away to another land.

Conclusion: Keep the covenant to God alone, and you will be blessed (29)

God’s covenant with man is a covenant for all generations, and man must learn to put aside the rational dominion that prevents him from coming to God, and keep the covenant simply to God, living the way God wants, and he will be richly blessed by God!