2024年十一月福音特會
马克·安南德弟兄/ Brother Mark Annand
2024年11月16日 (周六晚上Saturday Evening 4:30PM)
4:30-7:30: 包饺子+聚餐/Making Dumpling, Mingling and Dinner
7:35-9:00: 唱诗和信息/Hymns Singing and Message16
出黑暗入光明/ From Darkness To Light
- Zoom ID: 678 125 8289
- Address:
3695 County Rd 101,
Plymouth, MN 55446
讲员简介: 马克·安南德弟兄/ Brother Mark Annand
Mark Annand 成长于明尼苏达。 他曾做过十年的青少年牧师,之后在危地马拉宣教十年,后又在日本宣教四年。 现在,他在双城的街头事工(Street Level Ministry)工作。 Mark 的妻子是Dayle,他们有三个孩子和五个孙辈。
Mark Annand is originally from Minnesota. He was a youth pastor for 10 years before becoming a missionary for 10 years in Guatemala and then for 4 years in Japan. He now works with Street Level Ministry in the Twin Cities. Mark is married to Dayle, and they have 3 children and 5 grandchildren.
信息内容简介: 出黑暗入光明
黑暗与光明
我们从小就学习如何藉由开灯来驱走黑暗。有时候,父母晚上不在家时,我们会打开屋子里的每一盏灯!我们所了解的这项物理定律,同样也是一条属灵的律法:光与黑暗无法同时并存于同一空间。
光会驱走黑暗。光一出现,黑暗就被征服且必退去。更重要的是,黑暗无法战胜光,除非光变得暗淡或离去。只要圣灵的灵性光辉出现,撒但的黑暗就会离去。
主是我们的光,实在地,也是我们的拯救。15就像在尼腓三书中环绕着小孩的神圣之火一样,16只要你们生活配称,祂的光也会在你们和撒但的黑暗之间形成一道防护的盾牌。
制造光
在刚过的这个冬天里,我有机会更认识我的肺。我很清楚知道我们无法储存氧气。无论我们再怎么努力,也无法将我们需要呼吸的空气存留下来。就在这一分一秒、一呼一吸之间,我们获赐生命并不断被更新。灵性的光也是如此。我们必须定期更新我们内在的光。若要使撒但的黑暗远离我们,我们就必须在每一天、每一个思想上,借着每日正义的行为来制造这光。
光明之路
有一条道路可以脱离「黑暗的雾」,24抵达那条通往今生幸福和来世永生的路上。主曾告诉以赛亚说:「我要引瞎子行不认识的道,领他们走不知道的路;在他们面前使黑暗变为光明」。25
先知尼腓描述这道路时说:「因此,我心爱的弟兄们,我知道如果你们用真心诚意跟从子,在神前不伪善、不欺骗,却专心一志,悔改你们的罪,对父证明你们乐于借着洗礼承受基督的名……然后你们必接受圣灵;是的,然后要受火与圣灵的洗礼」。26
我们在洗礼时所立下,并在领受圣餐时予以更新的圣约──要承受基督的名,常常纪念祂,遵守祂的诫命──包括了我们必常有祂的灵与我们同在的应许,使我们一直都有祂的光陪伴我们。27救主赎罪的象征提醒我们,我们无须蹒跚地在黑暗中行走。我们可以一直有祂的光与我们同在。
“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness– on them light has shined.” Not many of us today have any real concept of darkness. We probably think of it as dark right now, but in fact we live in a world where even in the dead of night light is everywhere. So much so that we tend to take light for granted. You get up in the middle of the night and your bedside clock is glowing, the streetlights are shining in the window, your neighbours have their lights on. You can see where you’re going quite clearly. But it wasn’t always the case. I remember when I was growing up, which wasn’t that long ago, can I say, we regularly had blackouts: usually during electrical storms. So there was always a supply of candles and matches nearby and a hurricane lamp in the garage to light so you could see again, because when you have a blackout in the middle of a storm it really does get dark. Most of you are old enough to remember those days I think. If you are, do you also remember what a relief it was when the candle was first lit. That tiny light made such a difference didn’t it? And when the power came back on it was even better.
Well that’s the feeling God is trying to convey, only more so, as Isaiah presents this prophecy of a salvation that will reach to all people. He says God is planning a salvation that will reach to the farthest ends of the earth, a great light to shine on people who live in deep darkness.
People used to think of those who lived in darkness as being the people of Africa. They even talked about darkest Africa. But these days I think we’re realising that darkness is a thing of the heart rather than geography. In fact this has always been the case. Listen to what Romans 1 says about this: “19For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made. So they are without excuse; 21for though they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless minds were darkened. 22Claiming to be wise, they became fools;” (Rom 1:19-22 NRSV)
经文
18 我 差 你 到 他 們 那 裡 去 , 要 叫 他 們 的 眼 睛 得 開 , 從 黑 暗 中 歸 向 光 明 , 從 撒 但 權 下 歸 向 神 ; 又 因 信 我 , 得 蒙 赦 罪 , 和 一 切 成 聖 的 人 同 得 基 業 。
19 亞 基 帕 王 阿 , 我 故 此 沒 有 違 背 那 從 天 上 來 的 異 象 ;
20 先 在 大 馬 色 , 後 在 耶 路 撒 冷 和 猶 太 全 地 , 以 及 外 邦 , 勸 勉 他 們 應 當 悔 改 歸 向 神 , 行 事 與 悔 改 的 心 相 稱
To open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith that is in Me
8 从前你们是暗昧的,但如今在主里面是光明的,行事为人就当像光明的子女—— 9 光明所结的果子就是一切良善、公义、诚实—— 10 总要察验何为主所喜悦的事。 11 那暗昧无益的事不要与人同行,倒要责备行这事的人, 12 因为他们暗中所行的,就是提起来也是可耻的。 13 凡事受了责备,就被光显明出来,因为一切能显明的就是光。 14 所以主说:“你这睡着的人,当醒过来,从死里复活,基督就要光照你了!”
3 亚当活了一百三十岁,生了一个儿子,样式与自己相似,按着自己的形像。他给他起名叫赛斯。
13 他救了我們脫離黑暗的權勢,把我們遷到他愛子的國裡; 14 我們在愛子裡得蒙救贖,罪過得以赦免。