信仰的基礎

弟兄姊妹,我當初到你們那裡傳揚上帝的奧祕,並沒有用高深的言論或哲理。 因為我已決定在你們當中不談別的,只講耶穌基督和祂被釘十字架的事。 那時我在你們當中很軟弱,害怕,戰戰兢兢。 我說話、講道不是靠充滿智慧的雄辯之詞,而是靠聖靈的能力作明證, 好使你們的信仰不是以人的智慧為基礎,而是以上帝的能力為基礎。

當然我們也跟成熟的人談論智慧,不過並非這個世代的智慧,也不是那些在世上當權、將來要衰亡之人的智慧。 我們所講的是上帝隱藏在奧祕中的智慧,是祂為了使我們得榮耀而在萬世以前定好的智慧。 只可惜世上當權的人沒有一個明白這智慧。他們要是明白,就不會把榮耀的主釘在十字架上了。 正如聖經上說:

「上帝為愛祂的人所預備的,
是眼睛未曾見過,
耳朵未曾聽聞,
人心也未曾想到的。」

10 然而,上帝藉著聖靈將這一切啟示給我們,因為聖靈洞悉萬事,連上帝深奧的事都瞭若指掌。 11 除了人裡面的靈,誰能瞭解人的事呢?照樣,除了上帝的聖靈,誰也不能瞭解上帝的事。 12 我們接受的不是這世界的靈,而是上帝的聖靈,使我們可以領會上帝開恩啟示給我們的事。 13 我們講述這些事,不是用人類智慧所教的話,而是用聖靈所教的話,用屬靈的話解釋屬靈的事[a]

14 然而,屬血氣的人不接受從上帝來的聖靈的教導,認為愚不可及,無法明白,因為只有屬靈的人才能參透。 15 屬靈的人能夠參透萬事,但沒有人能參透他。

16 「誰曾知道主的心意,
能夠指教祂呢?」

但我們明白基督的心意。

Footnotes

  1. 2·13 用屬靈的話解釋屬靈的事」或譯「向屬靈的人解釋屬靈的事」。

基督十字架的信息

兄弟们,以前我到你们中间时,我没有用华丽的辞藻和深奥的智慧向你们宣讲上帝的奥秘真理。 因为当我和你们在一起时,我立志除了耶稣基督和他被钉死在十字架上的事,其它的事情一概不知。 以前我到你们那里时,是软弱的,害怕得发抖。 我的教导和我所说的没有用令人信服的智慧的话,但是我的传道却有圣灵力量作证, 以便使你们的信仰不是建立在人类的智慧之上,而是以上帝的力量为依据。

上帝的智慧

我们向成熟的人传授智慧,这智慧不是这个世界的智慧,也不是世上正在没落的统治者的智慧。 我们宣讲的是上帝的秘密智慧,是那一直隐藏着、但是上帝在创世之前就为我们的荣耀预定好了的智慧。 世上的统治者中没有一个人懂得这智慧。假如他们懂得,他们就不会把荣耀的主钉死在十字架上了。 正如《经》上所说的那样:

“上帝为爱他的那些人所准备的:
眼睛没有看见过,
耳朵没有听说过,
也不曾有人想到过。” (A)

10 但是上帝通过圣灵把它启示给我们。圣灵无所不知,它甚至知道上帝的深奥的秘密。 11 因为除了一个人自己的灵之外,谁还能知道他的思想呢?同样,除了上帝的灵,没有谁知道上帝的想法。 12 我们接受的不是属于这个世界的灵,而是来自上帝的灵,好让我们知道上帝给予我们的恩赐。 13 我们不是用人类智慧所教授的语言来宣讲这些恩赐,而是用圣灵所教授的语言,用属灵的语言来解释属灵的真理。 14 没有圣灵的人领受不到上帝之灵所揭示的真理。因为对于他来说,它们是愚蠢的,他不能理解它们,因为这些真理只能在属灵的角度上受到判断。 15 但是,属灵的人能判断一切,而没有人能评判他。 16 正如《经》上所说:

“谁知道主的心?
谁能为主出谋划策?”
但是我们有基督的心。

When I came to you, Achim b’Moshiach, I did not come preaching and announcing to you the sod Hashem (mystery of G-d) as a ba’al melitzot (rhetorician, fine talker) or in the excellence of chochmah.

For I made the decision not to have da’as of anything among you except Moshiach and nivlato al haEtz (his body –gufa, kerper—on the Tree Boim (Yiddish for tree), DEVARIM 21:23).

And I came to you (Ac 18:1) in weakness (1:25,27) and in yir’at Shomayim and in fear and in much trembling I was with you,

And my speech and my hachrazah (proclamation, kyrygma, preaching) to you of the Besuras HaGeulah of Hashem was not in persuasive words but in the demonstration of the Ruach Hakodesh and the gevurat Hashem (power of G-d—1:17),

That the [orthodox Jewish] emunah (faith) of you may not be in the [Olam Hazeh] "chochmah" of Bnei Adam, but in the gevurat Hashem [1:17].

But we do speak chochmah (wisdom) to the man who is mevugar (mature, grown up), to those with mature ruchaniyut (spirituality in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach), yet, it is a chochmah (wisdom) not of the Olam Hazeh, neither of the rulers of the Olam Hazeh (Ro 13:3), the ones being brought to naught (1:28). [TEHILLIM 146:4]

But we speak the chochmah of Hashem in a hidden sod (mystery 2:1), which was nigzar merosh (determined from the beginning, preordained, predestined, decided beforehand) by Hashem lifnei yemei haOlam (before the days of eternity) for our kavod (glory, Ro 8:29-30);

A chochmah which not one of the rulers of the Olam Hazeh has known, for, if they had had da’as, they would not have made talui al HaEtz HaKelalat Hashem (being hanged on the Tree of the Curse of G-d- Dt 21:23) the [Moshiach] Adon HaKavod. [Ps 24:7]

But even as it has been written, “Things which no eye has seen and LO SHAMU (“they had not heard”) nor did it come up into the heart of Bnei Adam, the things G-d prepared for the ones who have ahavah for him.” Isa 64:3[4] TARGUM HASHIVIM; Isa 52:15

10 But Hashem has made the hitgalut haSod (the revelation of the mystery) to us of these things through the Ruach Hakodesh; for the Ruach Hakodesh searches all things, even the deep things of G-d.

11 For who of Bnei Adam has da’as of the things of Bnei Adam except the ruach of a man in him? So also the things of G-d no one has known except the Ruach Hashem. [Jer 17:9; Prov 20:27]

12 Now we have not received the ruach of the Olam Hazeh but the Ruach Hakodesh from Hashem, that we may have da’as of the things having been freely given to us by Hashem,

13 Which things also we speak, not in dvarim (words) taught by chochmah haBnei Adam, but in dvarim taught by the Ruach Hakodesh, making midrash [exposition, interpretation] of the things of the Ruach Hakodesh [2:12] by means of the words of the Ruach Hakodesh.

14 But a natural person does not receive the things of the Ruach Hakodesh of Hashem, for they are narrishkait (foolishness 1:21-24) to him, and he is not able to have personal saving da’as of them, because they are discerned in the Ruach Hakodesh.

15 Now the man of the Ruach Hakodesh discerns all things, but, by no one is he discerned.

16 For, "Who has known the mind of Hashem so as to instruct Him" [Isa 40:13 TARGUM HASHIVIM]? But we have the mind of Moshiach. [YESHAYAH 40:13]