(1)這四十年：為何蒙拯救的人仍倒斃曠野 – 身體得自由 心卻仍為奴

choose your own language

(2025.12.28聖靈的安慰)

你們的祖先從前在埃及作奴隸，那時的日子甚是艱苦；因受苦役，被惡者的權勢轄制，心中愁苦，就向天上的神哀求，呼求幫助的聲音達於神；神聽見他們的呻吟，因記念與亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各所立的約，於是興起拯救，帶領百姓從埃及出來，使呼求神的百姓不再作埃及的奴隸，不再被轄制，不再過著沒有自由的日子；從這歷史所發生的事，你們當看見，造人的神是何等的神——是信實守約的神，是滿有慈愛與憐憫的神；

蒙神恩召的人，是被真光照耀、由神帶領前面道路的人；那時，我指示所拯救的百姓往迦南地去，這路程只需十一天，使屬神的選民能早早進入我所賜福之地；那土地肥沃，有豐盛的供應，是神看顧、賜福之地，可使百姓得着新的生活，脫離奴隸的身分，不再受轄制，過著有神同在、蒙福的日子；這原是短而可達的路程，只要相信並且依靠神，照著神的指示前行，便能很快到達；然而他們卻在曠野漂流四十年，並不是因為路途遙遠，只因心中沒有真正依靠神，沒有信心，反倒因所遭遇的環境而發出怨言，想念從前埃及地有美味的食物，甚至要回到原本為奴之地，以致長久漂流，無法定居，得不著神所預備的產業，也進不了安息；

他們沒有將心給神，出了埃及之後，並非一心嚮往神所指示的方向，心中所裝的乃是眼前肉眼所見的；那時，神為人所需降下嗎哪，他們看見神的作為與供應，心中卻沒有生出感謝與敬畏神的心，反倒說我們的心血枯竭了，除嗎哪以外，眼前並沒有任何東西；神的供給是充足無限，並不使人缺乏，乃是天天降下嗎哪，使人天天活在神的恩典之下；人的可憐並非肉體枯竭，而是屬靈生命枯乾，被自己的私慾所擊敗；他們心中所想的是為奴之地不花錢就吃的魚、黃瓜、甜瓜、韭菜、蔥、蒜，以這些廉價之物與神的救贖恩典相比，他們忘記神的憐憫與所施行的拯救，忘記因長期被轄制、被壓迫受苦而向神發出呼求，忘記神施行公義的刑罰，以十災解救百姓，也忘記逾越節羔羊的血，如同今日用重價的寶血將你們贖回一樣；人們忘記神的大能，使紅海分開，在人不能的事上顯出神的能力，在無路之處為人開道路；也忘記神要使人脫離卑賤的身分，重回自由、尊貴的生命；

那些神的選民所要的只是滿足肚腹，卻不看重屬靈的恩典，最後倒斃在曠野，連神早已預備要賜給他們長久的福氣，也未能親眼得著；一個人的信仰，若只停留在眼前的物質世界，是極其容易失敗，無法走到終點。

聖經

(申命記1:2)

從何烈山經過西珥山到加低斯‧巴尼亞有十一天的路程。

(詩篇78:10-11,13-33)

他們不遵守神的約，不肯照他的律法行；又忘記他所行的和他顯給他們奇妙的作為。…他將海分裂，使他們過去，又叫水立起如壘。他白日用雲彩，終夜用火光引導他們。他在曠野分裂磐石，多多地給他們水喝，如從深淵而出。他使水從磐石湧出，叫水如江河下流。他們卻仍舊得罪他，在乾燥之地悖逆至高者。他們心中試探神，隨自己所欲的求食物，並且妄論神說：神在曠野豈能擺設筵席嗎？他曾擊打磐石，使水湧出，成了江河；他還能賜糧食嗎？還能為他的百姓預備肉嗎？所以，耶和華聽見就發怒；有烈火向雅各燒起；有怒氣向以色列上騰；因為他們不信服神，不倚賴他的救恩。他卻吩咐天空，又敞開天上的門，降嗎哪，像雨給他們吃，將天上的糧食賜給他們。各人吃大能者的食物；他賜下糧食，使他們飽足。他領東風起在天空，又用能力引了南風來。他降肉，像雨在他們當中，多如塵土，又降飛鳥，多如海沙，落在他們的營中，在他們住處的四面。他們吃了，而且飽足；這樣就隨了他們所欲的。他們貪而無厭，食物還在他們口中的時候，神的怒氣就向他們上騰，殺了他們內中的肥壯人，打倒以色列的少年人。雖是這樣，他們仍舊犯罪，不信他奇妙的作為。因此，他叫他們的日子全歸虛空，叫他們的年歲盡屬驚恐。

(希伯來書3:15-19)

經上說：「你們今日若聽他的話，就不可硬着心，像惹他發怒的日子一樣。」那時，聽見他話惹他發怒的是誰呢？豈不是跟着摩西從埃及出來的眾人嗎？ 神四十年之久，又厭煩誰呢？豈不是那些犯罪、屍首倒在曠野的人嗎？ 又向誰起誓，不容他們進入他的安息呢？豈不是向那些不信從的人嗎？ 這樣看來，他們不能進入安息是因為不信的緣故了。

歡迎訂閱 專屬繁體中文 YouTube 頻道

https://youtube.com/@mygodlovecom

尋找附近教會地址

Find a Church

請更改參數 10Km 搜尋附近教會

關於本會

本會簡介

假如你所在地 沒有我們的教會，但是想要接觸教會，可以留言給 教會聯合總會信箱請求協助 請選下面連結

聯繫我們

請求：

假若你覺得這些話，從神來的話感動你 ，麻煩發揮你的愛將這些話傳出去分享出去，使更多人了解神愛我們

願神祝福廣傳神的話的人

如何禱告?（正確禱告方式）（市面上流行錯誤的禱告方式，神的名”耶穌” 帶有力量 禱告第一句就要說出來)

虔誠地跪下

閉上眼睛專心預備

第一句話 開頭

先唸,“奉主耶穌聖名禱告”

重複唸,“哈利路亞, 讚美主耶穌”

您也可以將您的需要告訴神,

並祈求 祂賞賜您 聖靈

最後以“阿們!”結束禱告

歡迎訂閱新的 專屬繁體中文 YouTube 頻道

https://youtube.com/@mygodlovecom

(1) These Forty Years: Why the People Who Were Delivered Still Fell in the Wilderness —The Body Was Set Free, but the Heart Remained in Bondage

(2025.12.28 The Encouragement of the Holy Spirit)

Your ancestors were once slaves in Egypt, and their lives were extremely hard. They were forced into cruel labor, oppressed under the power of the evil one, and their hearts were filled with suffering. In their distress, they cried out to the God in heaven, and their cries for help reached Him. God heard their groaning, remembered the covenant He made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and rose up to deliver them. He led His people out of Egypt so that those who cried out to Him would no longer be slaves, no longer under oppression, and no longer live without freedom. From what happened in this history, you should clearly see what kind of God the Creator is—a faithful God who keeps His covenant, a God full of love and mercy.

Those who are called by God are people illuminated by the true light and led by Him on the path ahead. At that time, I directed the people I had rescued to go toward the land of Canaan. This journey required only eleven days, so that My chosen people could quickly enter the land I had prepared for blessing. That land was fertile, rich in provision, and under God’s care and blessing. It was a place where the people could begin a new life, leave behind their identity as slaves, no longer live under bondage, and enjoy blessed days with God’s presence. This was originally a short and reachable journey. As long as they believed, relied on God, and followed His guidance, they could have arrived quickly. Yet they wandered in the wilderness for forty years—not because the road was long, but because their hearts did not truly rely on God. They lacked faith, complained because of their circumstances, longed for the food of Egypt, and even wanted to return to the land where they had been slaves. As a result, they wandered for a long time, unable to settle, unable to receive the inheritance God had prepared, and unable to enter His rest.

They did not give their hearts to God. After leaving Egypt, they did not wholeheartedly pursue the direction God had shown them. What filled their hearts was only what their physical eyes could see. God sent down manna to meet their needs, and though they saw His works and provision, they did not develop hearts of gratitude or reverence toward Him. Instead, they said, “Our strength is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes.” God’s provision was abundant and never lacking. He sent manna daily so that the people could live each day under His grace. What is truly tragic about people is not physical weakness, but the drying up of their spiritual life, as they are defeated by their own desires.What they longed for were the fish, cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic they had eaten freely in the land of slavery. Comparing these cheap things to God’s redeeming grace, they forgot His mercy and salvation. They forgot how they had cried out to God because of long oppression and suffering. They forgot God’s righteous judgment through the ten plagues that delivered them. They forgot the blood of the Passover lamb—just as today you are redeemed by precious blood at a great price. They forgot God’s mighty power in parting the Red Sea, showing His ability where humans were powerless, and making a way where there was no way. They also forgot that God desired to lift them out of a lowly identity and restore them to a life of freedom and dignity.

What those chosen people truly wanted was simply to satisfy their stomachs, while they did not value spiritual grace. In the end, they fell dead in the wilderness and never personally received the lasting blessings God had already prepared for them. A faith that remains focused only on the material world in front of one’s eyes is extremely fragile and will not endure to the end.

Scripture 

Deuteronomy

Chapter 1 Verse 2

There are eleven days’ journey from Horeb

by the way of mount Seir

unto Kadeshbarnea.

Psalms

Chapter 78 Verses 10–33

They kept not the covenant of God,

and refused to walk in his law;

And forgat his works,

and his wonders that he had shewed them.

Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers,

in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through;

and he made the waters to stand as an heap.

In the daytime also he led them with a cloud,

and all the night with a light of fire.

He clave the rocks in the wilderness,

and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

He brought streams also out of the rock,

and caused waters to run down like rivers.

And they sinned yet more against him

by provoking the most High in the wilderness.

And they tempted God in their heart

by asking meat for their lust.

Yea, they spake against God; they said,

Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out,

and the streams overflowed;

can he give bread also?

can he provide flesh for his people?

Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth:

so a fire was kindled against Jacob,

and anger also came up against Israel;

Because they believed not in God,

and trusted not in his salvation:

Though he had commanded the clouds from above,

and opened the doors of heaven,

And had rained down manna upon them to eat,

and had given them of the corn of heaven.

Man did eat angels’ food:

he sent them meat to the full.

He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven:

and by his power he brought in the south wind.

He rained flesh also upon them as dust,

and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:

And he let it fall in the midst of their camp,

round about their habitations.

So they did eat, and were well filled:

for he gave them their own desire;

They were not estranged from their lust.

But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

The wrath of God came upon them,

and slew the fattest of them,

and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

For all this they sinned still,

and believed not for his wondrous works.

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity,

and their years in trouble.

Hebrews

Chapter 3 Verses 15–19

While it is said,

To day if ye will hear his voice,

harden not your hearts,

as in the provocation.

For some, when they had heard, did provoke:

howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

But with whom was he grieved forty years?

was it not with them that had sinned,

whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest,

but to them that believed not?

So we see that they could not enter in

because of unbelief.