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六月十六日

「那真正拜父的，要用心靈和誠實拜祂，因為父要這樣的人拜祂。」                                                        （約   4:23 新國際版）

十誡一開始，神就要求那獨一無二的敬拜。神在這誡命所顯示的旨意，不僅是祂的命令，也是祂的心愿。但如果十條誡命告訴我們什么才能使神喜樂，那么，魔鬼在曠野里的試探，也說出什么能帶給撒但以喜樂。這兩件事，都是關系到敬拜。所以，我們看見了有一個東西（敬拜），是神和撒但都要得著的。借著這件事（敬拜），我們可以滿足天，或滿足地獄。敬拜的价值是無比的。撒但的全盤計划，乃是要引誘神的子民進入一些崇拜偶像的网羅里，借此奪去神的敬拜。崇拜偶像，就是在神以外，還要尋求另一位配得敬拜的對象。我們的特權乃是：借著堅守對神的獨一敬拜，來拒絕對偶像的崇拜。

June 16

"Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks." (John 4:23 NIV)

From the beginning of the Ten Commandments, God requires that unique worship. The will of God revealed in this commandment is not only His command, but also His desire. But if the Ten Commandments tell us what will make God glad, then the devil's temptation in the wilderness also tells what will make Satan happy. Both of these things are related to worship. Therefore, we have seen that there is one thing (worship) that both God and Satan want gain. By this thing (worship), we can satisfy heaven or the hell. The value of worship is incomparable. Satan's whole plan is to rob God's worship by luring God's people into some idolatrous snare. To worship idols is to seek another worthy object of worship besides God. It is our privilege to reject idolatry by steadfasting to the one worship of God.