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The Work of God

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  • Date June 16, 2019
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First Wednesday in Lent, 2014

Text: John 6:25-40, Exodus 16:9-30

In the name of Jesus, Amen!

Spring Festival Gala Evening is annual Chinese national TV celebration for the Chinese New Year. During the gala evening this year, there was a magic show. It seemed a long loaf of French bread was pulled out of thin air by a magician. Unfortunately, some TV audience spotted a small mistake he made. A few minutes later a picture was circulated on the internet highlighting that mistake. A black hole can be seen on the screen at the time when he finished pulling the “bread”. So, now everyone knows that the “bread” was not really bread. It was made of an elastic material and was pulled out of a pipe. How smart and incredulous people are! They are ready not to believe anything and are able to expose any falsehood. Think about it for a moment. This was on national TV. With specially-designed stage, well-chosen angles of camera, modern optical illusion equipment, and all kinds of high tech at their disposal; one of the top magicians was caught making a mistake in action when he turned out a loaf of plastic bread.

Now you know how impossible, more than 2000 years ago, for Jesus to turn out (not one loaf of plastic bread but) thousands of loaves of real bread and fish. There was not any modern equipment or high tech of any kind. He was surrounded and closely watched by more than 5000 people. If he had had anything to hide, it could have been very easily exposed by the disbelieving crowd. Please remember Jesus fed at least 20,000 people if you include women and children. And after eating, there were 12 baskets of leftovers. What a huge amount of bread and fish! And this was not a one-time event. Jesus fed 4000 people in another occasion, not to mention He healed the sick and drove out demons right before people’s eyes again and again. They were all done in a very short period of time and were witnessed not by a few, but by people of the whole city or entire region. No wonder the crowd tried to take Jesus by force to make him a king after feeding. Why did they want to make Him a king? That’s the topic we are going to talk about next. Jesus knew their heart. So He withdrew himself. But for now, there was no doubt in people’s mind that what Jesus did was truly a miracle. It had to be the work of God.

The problem is not that people don’t see the work of God, the problem is their unbelief. Unbelief is not a matter of evidence. It’s a matter of the will. Unbelief comes from our sinful nature replacing God in our heart with things of this world. Sin and unbelief are self-centered turning away from God. “They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator.” Unbelief is especially reflected in our anxiety in this life. Today’s text says, the crowd came all the way to seek Jesus the next day. But Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life.” Are you laboring for the food that perishes? Are you seeking Jesus only for the worldly things? Is your spiritual life choked by “the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches?” Because of sin, people see and seek after work of God differently, on different terms.

Jesus is doing and talking about the work of God in Himself for them, for us, and for all the humanity. When Jesus mentions “eternal life,” He says “which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.” It’s God’s work in Christ Jesus that gives us eternal life. Unfortunately, people understand differently. As soon as people hear the word ‘eternal life’, they immediately say to Jesus, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” You see, again they return back to themselves. They think the work of God is something they have to do for God. The critical question is who does the work. Is God or human being is subject of the work? People think that they are the subject of the work of God and they should be doing some pious work for God to earn eternal life. But this is not what Jesus says. Eternal life is God’s gracious gift to us given by Jesus sealed by the Father. This is what Jesus talking about. Eternal life is God’s work for us, not our work for God. Since it is about God’s doing, not ours, it is absolutely makes sense that what we can do is to believe. That’s why Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God (Please pay attention. He is giving us a definition), that you believe in Him whom He has sent.”   If you take a look at both creation and redemption, you can see they are all God’s doing the work for us. How many of us made the sun rise and shine? How many of us sent rain down from the sky? How many of us died on the cross and became alive again? You can labor for money. But God is the ultimate one who provides the water and bread in your life, is it not? It is all God’s work and His gracious gifts. That’s why Jesus mentions the manna that people of Israel ate in the wilderness. And He points out to the fact that it was not Moses, but the Father of Jesus who rained down the true bread from heaven. The only thing they could do was to believe, and trust God would provide. Then they survived. Tonight’s Exodus reading tells us that when they did not believe, what happened? The leftover bred worms and stank, or on the Sabbath day they went out to gather, but they found none.   Now, Jesus says, “I AM the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.”

Last Wednesday, Pr. Lehrer talked about fasting and our humbleness before God, who knows our sins and waits us to bring them to Him alone. He pointed out that fasting is not our pious work to show off but to feel our mortality, our needs and dependency on the great I AM. Food is absolutely necessary for human beings to live. Here Jesus uses another I AM sentence to reveal Himself when He says, “I AM the bread of life”. Jesus points to who He is. He is YHWH, the great I AM, who created everything, who rained down manna from heaven, who sustains us with daily bread. Now, as He spoke to the crowd, He came down to earth as bread of life to give us eternal life. This time, He was doing the work of God in new creation. So, what should be the correct response? Again, it is to believe. That’s why He continued to say, “But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” To do the work of God is to do the will of God, which is to save us from our sins and raise us up on the last day. Jesus does mention our work here. Our work to do the will of the Father is to look on the Son of God and believe in Him. It’s faith. But even faith depends on Jesus’ faithful work to “lose nothing of all that the Father has given Him.” Jesus not only did the work of the cross, but also continues to feed us with the bread of life in His Word, His body and His blood. What Jesus did and does is truly the work of God because He is the great I AM and the bread of life, Who gives us eternal life. The work of God that we do is to believe in Him.

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上帝造祂活的殿堂
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北京圣保罗路德会 二零二二年五旬节 上帝造祂活的殿堂 证道经文:创世记11:1–9 奉耶稣基督的名,阿门! 当你看到全世界最高的迪拜哈利法塔大厦,或古埃及的金字塔,或看到故宫宏伟的建筑群的时候,你一方面慨叹它们的匠斧神功,一方面也许会想那些是谁设计的,又是谁建造的呢?今天是五旬节,就是从主耶稣钉在十字架并放入坟墓之中后的那个安息日开始算的第五十天(七个主日,七七四十九,加一,因为安息日是个周六)。从今天旧约的创世记和新约使徒行传的经文里,我们也看到两个“建筑”,一个是人造的,一个是神造的。在五旬节,我们庆祝上帝所建造的殿堂—就是主的教会,这个建筑超出所有的砖瓦和墙垣;实际上,超越一切的建筑物,分布在整个世界,又集中在同一个主,同一个信仰,同一个洗礼,同一位上帝之中。通过圣灵,上帝将你和万国万民都建造在这个建筑里,这个建筑就是主的教会。   首先,上帝的灵建造了第一对父母亚当和夏娃。虽然上帝用的是尘土,就像人们所造建筑的砖瓦最终也都是尘土一样,但是祂将生气吹在亚当的鼻孔里,使他成了有灵的活人。上帝也造了女人,使男人与女人合而为一,二人成为一体,并使他们与上帝和睦同住。然而当人犯罪堕落之后,人想为自己建造宏伟的建筑,那些建筑已经不再只是为人们居住之用了;就像迪拜大厦、金字塔、或故宫,也正像今天旧约经文创世记第11章中的巴别塔。他们说“来吧!我们要建造一座城和一座塔,塔顶通天,为要传扬我们的名,免得我们分散在全地上。”想想迪拜大厦、金字塔、和故宫的主要目的之一,不也是为了传扬他们自己的名吗?出于骄傲,人要使自己的名不仅传扬到整个世界,还要记载在历史的记录册上。人自我为义,要挑战上帝,所造的塔要能通天,想要与上帝同等,这不就是魔鬼的思路吗?并且人不服上帝,不服上帝的公义,要靠自己的努力通向天堂,这不也一直是人的宗教观念吗?罪人一直想要聚集在大城市,过奢华淫乱的生活(甚至现在不只是性乱了,而是乱性的生活,不生育,堕胎,杀婴的生活),而不愿意按照上帝吩咐的“生养众多,遍满地面”。于是,上帝变乱他们的口音,使他们的言语彼此不通,他们就停工,不造那城了。经文中一再强调,上帝在巴别塔那里变乱天下人的言语,为的是使众人分散在全地上,从而使人能遍满地面。此外,我们还能听出另一个原因,就是为了防止人们犯更大的罪。上帝说,“他们成为一样的人民,都是一样的言语,如今既做起这事来,以后他们所要做的事就没有不成就的了”。当上帝说这话的时候,有人以为上帝是小气,不愿意人做成一番大事;但事实上,上帝说这话是为了防止人类乱来,犯下更大的罪而导致人类的毁灭。其实历史常常重复着类似的悲剧,比如五八年轰轰烈烈的“大炼钢铁”,人们合力做大事的时候,也是为所谓的“三年自然灾害”(其实是人祸)埋下炸弹的时候;如今美国许多类似“文化大革命”的思路和改革,激发人们要轰轰烈烈做大事以改变美国的热情,但实际上这已经为将要来的灾难埋下了炸弹。。   然而,感谢主的是,吹气息进入亚当鼻孔,使他成为有灵活人的那一位上帝的灵,在五旬节降下,降在教会之中,也使教会有了生气;那像舌头如火焰般显现出来并分开落在他们各人头上的圣灵,充满他们,使他们按照圣灵所赐的口才说起别国的话来。这从某种意义来说扭转了巴别塔的悲剧,人们可以彼此沟通了;然而,这是圣灵所赐的口才,是为了教会,所以教会的人们能通过圣灵的恩赐,彼此沟通,并能聚集在一起,共同做大事,就是圣灵要教会做的大事。圣灵的恩赐通过圣道圣礼,使我们这些本来分散在世界各地的人能聚集在主的教会之中;我们共同做的大事就是传讲主的福音,共同建造上帝的殿堂—就是主的教会。通过教会所传的福音,人们得到罪的赦免和复活的生命;所以,这个殿堂是活的殿堂,因为教会是主的身体,是由有复活生命的人所组成的;复活的主是活的,祂的身体(就是教会)也是活的,是有生命的。“首先的人亚当成了有灵的活人,末后的亚当成了叫人活的灵”(林前15:45)这末后的亚当就是耶稣基督。   使徒保罗鼓励提摩太时说,“无论得时不得时,务要专心传道”,“因为时候要到,人必厌烦纯正的道理”(提后4:3)。为什么呢?因为无论得时不得时,圣灵都通过圣道福音以不同的形式将万国万民建造在上帝活的殿堂里。是的,即使是在不得时的时候,因为在不得时的时候,上帝可以像炼精金一样,将信徒的信心炼得更加纯净,这也是建造上帝殿堂的一部分;因为被火烧过的砖瓦更加结实!   所以,求主在五旬节降下的圣灵常在我们里面激励我们,让我们的身体成为主的圣殿,使我们通过圣道圣礼连于耶稣基督,生活在上帝活的殿堂–教会之中;也赐给我们口才,能将美好的福音传达给更多的人,使他们的罪也能得到赦免,并得到永生,使他们也能通过耶稣基督被建造在上帝活的殿堂里!! 奉圣父、圣子、圣灵的名,阿门!

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