重建中的呼召：成為神創造中的管家
曾其蘭傳道
經文：撒迦利亞書3:1-5,4:1-6,罗8:19-23
大綱：
一、被潔淨的祭司：恢復與神和受造界的關係
二、被興起的領袖：不依靠勢力，乃靠聖靈完成重建
三、被差遣的群體：在受造世界中活出祭司和君王的身份
撒迦利亞書3:1-5
1天使（原文是他）又指給我看：大祭司約書亞站在耶和華的使者面前；撒但也站在約書亞的右邊，與他作對。2耶和華向撒但說：「撒但哪，耶和華責備你！就是揀選耶路撒冷的耶和華責備你！這不是從火中抽出來的一根柴嗎？」3約書亞穿着污穢的衣服站在使者面前。4使者吩咐站在面前的說：「你們要脫去他污穢的衣服」；又對約書亞說：「我使你脫離罪孽，要給你穿上華美的衣服。」5我說：「要將潔淨的冠冕戴在他頭上。」他們就把潔淨的冠冕戴在他頭上，給他穿上華美的衣服，耶和華的使者在旁邊站立。
撒迦利亞書4:1-6
1那與我說話的天使又來叫醒我，好像人睡覺被喚醒一樣。2他問我說：「你看見了甚麼？」我說：「我看見了一個純金的燈臺，頂上有燈盞，燈臺上有七盞燈，每盞有七個管子。3旁邊有兩棵橄欖樹，一棵在燈盞的右邊，一棵在燈盞的左邊。」4我問與我說話的天使說：「主啊，這是甚麼意思？」5與我說話的天使回答我說：「你不知道這是甚麼意思嗎？」我說：「主啊，我不知道。」6他對我說：「這是耶和華指示所羅巴伯的。萬軍之耶和華說：不是倚靠勢力，不是倚靠才能，乃是倚靠我的靈方能成事。
羅馬書8:19-23
19受造之物切望等候神的眾子顯出來。20因為受造之物服在虛空之下，不是自己願意，乃是因那叫他如此的。21但受造之物仍然指望脫離敗壞的轄制，得享（享：原文是入）神兒女自由的榮耀。22我們知道，一切受造之物一同歎息，勞苦，直到如今。23不但如此，就是我們這有聖靈初結果子的，也是自己心裏歎息，等候得着兒子的名分，乃是我們的身體得贖。
A Call in the Midst of Restoration: Becoming Stewards in God’s Creation.
Scriptures: Zechariah 3:1-5, 4:1-6, Romans 8:19-23
Outline:
- The Cleansed Priest: Restoring the relationship with God and creation
- The Empowered Leader: Rebuilding not by might, but by the Spirit
- The Commissioned Community: Living out the identity of priests and kings in the created world
Zechariah 3:1-5
3 Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan[a] standing at his right side to accuse him. 2 The Lord said to Satan, “The Lord rebuke you, Satan! The Lord, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this man a burning stick snatched from the fire?”
3 Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes as he stood before the angel. 4 The angel said to those who were standing before him, “Take off his filthy clothes.”
Then he said to Joshua, “See, I have taken away your sin, and I will put fine garments on you.”
5 Then I said, “Put a clean turban on his head.” So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him, while the angel of the Lord stood by.
Zechariah 4:1-6
Then the angel who talked with me returned and woke me up, like someone awakened from sleep. 2 He asked me, “What do you see?”
I answered, “I see a solid gold lampstand with a bowl at the top and seven lamps on it, with seven channels to the lamps. 3 Also there are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.”
4 I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these, my lord?”
5 He answered, “Do you not know what these are?”
“No, my lord,” I replied.
6 So he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty.
Romans 8:19-23
For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that[a] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.