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

Nothing makes God more supreme and more central than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing – not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends – is going to bring satisfaction to their aching hearts besides God. This conviction breeds a people who passionately long for God on Sunday morning. They are not confused about why they are here. They do not see songs and prayers and sermons as mere traditions or mere duties. They see them as means of getting to God or God getting to them for more of His fullness.
John Piper

God’s Holy Spirit creates His people by His Word. We can create a people by other means, and this is the great temptation of churches. We can create a people around a certain ethnicity. We can create a people around a fully-graded choir program. We can find people who will get excited about a building project or a denominational identity. We can create a people around a series of care groups, where each feels loved and cared for. We can create a people around a community service project. We can create a people around social opportunities for young mothers or Caribbean cruises for singles. We can create a people around men’s groups. We can even create a people around the personality of a preacher. And God can surely use all of these things. But in the final analysis the people of God, the church of God, can only be created around the Word of God.
Mark Dever

Bible – chinese – 新标点和合本 列王纪上 9

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耶和华再向所罗门显现
(代下7·11—22)
所罗门建造耶和华殿和王宫,并一切所愿意建造的都完毕了,
耶和华就二次向所罗门显现,如先前在基遍向他显现一样,
对他说:「你向我所祷告祈求的,我都应允了。我已将你所建的这殿分别为圣,使我的名永远在其中;我的眼、我的心也必常在那里。
你若效法你父大卫,存诚实正直的心行在我面前,遵行我一切所吩咐你的,谨守我的律例典章,
我就必坚固你的国位在以色列中,直到永远,正如我应许你父大卫说:『你的子孙必不断人坐以色列的国位。』
倘若你们和你们的子孙转去不跟从我,不守我指示你们的诫命律例,去事奉敬拜别神,
我就必将以色列人从我赐给他们的地上剪除,并且我为己名所分别为圣的殿也必舍弃不顾,使以色列人在万民中作笑谈,被讥诮。
这殿虽然甚高,将来经过的人必惊讶、嗤笑,说:『耶和华为何向这地和这殿如此行呢?』
人必回答说:『是因此地的人离弃领他们列祖出埃及地之耶和华—他们的 神,去亲近别神,事奉敬拜他,所以耶和华使这一切灾祸临到他们。』」
所罗门跟希兰订约
(代下8·1—2)
10  所罗门建造耶和华殿和王宫,这两所二十年才完毕了。
11  泰尔希兰曾照所罗门所要的,资助他香柏木、松木,和金子;所罗门王就把加利利地的二十座城给了希兰
12  希兰泰尔出来,察看所罗门给他的城邑,就不喜悦,
13 说:「我兄啊,你给我的是什么城邑呢?」他就给这城邑之地起名叫迦步勒,直到今日。
14  希兰所罗门一百二十他连得金子。
所罗门其他政绩
(代下8·3—18)
15  所罗门王挑取服苦的人,是为建造耶和华的殿、自己的宫、米罗耶路撒冷的城墙、夏琐米吉多,并
16 先前埃及王法老上来攻取基色,用火焚烧,杀了城内居住的迦南人,将城赐给他女儿所罗门的妻作妆奁。
17  所罗门建造基色、下伯·和
18  巴拉,并国中旷野里的达莫
19 又建造所有的积货城,并屯车和马兵的城,与耶路撒冷黎巴嫩,以及自己治理的全国中所愿建造的。
20 至于国中所剩下不属以色列人的亚摩利人、人、比利洗人、希未人、耶布斯人,
21 就是以色列人不能灭尽的,所罗门挑取他们的后裔作服苦的奴仆,直到今日。
22 惟有以色列人,所罗门不使他们作奴仆,乃是作他的战士、臣仆、统领、军长、车兵长、马兵长。
23  所罗门有五百五十督工的,监管工人。
24 法老的女儿从大卫城搬到 所罗门为她建造的宫里。那时,所罗门才建造米罗
25  所罗门每年三次在他为耶和华所筑的坛上献燔祭和平安祭,又在耶和华面前的坛上烧香。这样,他建造殿的工程完毕了。
26  所罗门王在以东红海边,靠近以禄以旬·迦别制造船只。
27  希兰差遣他的仆人,就是熟悉泛海的船家,与所罗门的仆人一同坐船航海。
28 他们到了俄斐,从那里得了四百二十他连得金子,运到所罗门王那里。