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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Some would suggest that Jesus was “seeker sensitive” in that He worked His miracles in order to attract large crowds to which He could share the gospel. But in several passages it is plain this is not His motive: Mark 5:43; 7:36; 8:26, 30; and Luke 4:9-12 (and these are by no means exhaustive). Clearly, Christ did not intend these miraculous works for public exploitation. There is little to indicate Christ worked miracles in order to draw a crowd. He was opposed to selling the gospel by appealing to their love for the sensational. (See Jn. 2:23-25)… He sharply rebuked the five thousand for seeking Him for merely physical satisfaction. Jesus did not teach us to draw people to Him by appealing to their senses. Instead He claimed full responsibility for drawing all to Himself by way of the cross (Jn. 12:32); therefore, exalting Christ, "and Him crucified," is to be the primary object in worship, as well as evangelism. (See Rev. 5:8.)
Bill Izard

Surely Paul could have made the gospel more palatable – and less dangerous – by saying it was about something else. Something cleaner and less ridiculous than the cross. Something more glorious. Less disgusting. He didn’t do that, though. “I decided,” Paul said, “to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified” (1 Cor. 2:2). In the face of the worst cultural prejudice imaginable, he fixed the entire gospel squarely and immovably on the fact that Jesus was tacked to a stauros and left to die. If he had been trying to find a surefire way to turn first-century people off from his “good news,” he couldn’t have done better than that! So why did he do it? It’s simple. He did it because he knew that leaving the cross out, or running past it with a glance, or making it peripheral to the gospel, or allowing anything else to displace it at the center of the gospel would make it, finally, no gospel at all.
Greg Gilbert

Bible – chinese – 新标点和合本 约书亚记 5

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约旦河西亚摩利人的诸王和靠海迦南人的诸王,听见耶和华在以色列人前面使约旦河的水干了,等到我们过去,他们的心因以色列人的缘故就消化了,不再有胆气。
在吉甲行割礼
那时,耶和华吩咐约书亚说:「你制造火石刀,第二次给以色列人行割礼。」
约书亚就制造了火石刀,在「除皮山」那里给以色列人行割礼。
约书亚行割礼的缘故,是因为从埃及出来的众民,就是一切能打仗的男丁,出了埃及以后,都死在旷野的路上。
因为出来的众民都受过割礼;惟独出埃及以后、在旷野的路上所生的众民都没有受过割礼。
以色列人在旷野走了四十年,等到国民,就是出埃及的兵丁,都消灭了,因为他们没有听从耶和华的话。耶和华曾向他们起誓,必不容他们看见耶和华向他们列祖起誓、应许赐给我们的地,就是流奶与蜜之地。
他们的子孙,就是耶和华所兴起来接续他们的,都没有受过割礼;因为在路上没有给他们行割礼,约书亚这才给他们行了。
国民都受完了割礼,就住在营中自己的地方,等到痊愈了。
耶和华对约书亚说:「我今日将埃及的羞辱从你们身上滚去了。」因此,那地方名叫吉甲+,直到今日。
10  以色列人在吉甲安营。正月十四日晚上,在耶利哥的平原守逾越节。
11 逾越节的次日,他们就吃了那地的出产;正当那日吃无酵饼和烘的谷。
12 他们吃了那地的出产,第二日吗哪就止住了,以色列人也不再有吗哪了。那一年,他们却吃迦南地的出产。
约书亚和耶和华军队的元帅
13  约书亚靠近耶利哥的时候,举目观看,不料,有一个人手里有拔出来的刀,对面站立。约书亚到他那里,问他说:「你是帮助我们呢,是帮助我们敌人呢?」
14 他回答说:「不是的,我来是要作耶和华军队的元帅。」约书亚就俯伏在地下拜,说:「我主有什么话吩咐仆人。」
15 耶和华军队的元帅对约书亚说:「把你脚上的鞋脱下来,因为你所站的地方是圣的。」约书亚就照着行了。

+ 5:9 就是滚的意思