影片來源：http://www.ligonier.org/blog/trembling-holiness-god/
In the early chapters of The Institutes of the Christian Religion written by John Calvin, Calvin makes a statement that goes something like this: “Hence that dread and terror by which holy men of old trembled before God, as Scripture uniformly relates.”What Calvin was saying is this: that there is a pattern to human responses to the presence of God in the Scripture and it seems that the more righteous the person is described, the more he trembles when he enters the immediate presence of God.
There is nothing cavalier or casual about the response of Habakkuk when he meets the holy God. Do you remember Habakkuk’s complaint? Where he saw all of the degradation and injustices that were sweeping across the landscape in his homeland and he was so offended by this that he went up into his watchtower and he complained against God and he said “God, you are so holy that you can’t even behold iniquity. How can you stand by and let all of these things come to pass?” And he says “I’m going to sit up here and I’m going to wait until God answers my question.” And you remember what happened? When God appeared to Habakkuk he said “my lips quivered, my belly trembled, and rottenness entered into my bones.”
What happened to Job when he waited for the voice of God? And when God showed Himself to Job, Job said “I abhor myself. I repent in dust and ashes. I have spoken once, I’ll speak no more. I will take my hand and put it upon my mouth. As Calvin said “the uniform report of sacred Scripture is that every human being who ever is exposed to the holiness of God trembles in His presence.”
中文譯本 ：
在約翰加爾文所寫的《基督教要義》的前幾章節裡，加爾文發表了一個如下的說話：「以前聖潔的人因進到神的面前，都會恐懼戰兢，正如聖經一致地講述的一樣。」加爾文正在說的是：根據聖經的描述，當人來到神的面前，他們都有同一種的反應模式，似乎就是描述到越公義的人，當他一進到神的面前時，他就越恐懼戰兢。
當哈巴谷遇見聖潔的神時，他的反應沒有傲慢或隨便。你還記得哈巴谷的控訴嗎？在他的祖國，他看到遍地一切都是充滿著敗壞和不公，他被這種景況所觸怒，以至於他走上守望台，向神抱怨說：「你眼目清潔，不看邪僻，不看奸惡；行詭詐的，你為何看著不理呢？惡人吞滅比自己公義的，你為何靜默不語呢？」（哈巴谷書1：13）他說：「我要站在守望所這裡，一直等到神回答我的問題為止。」你還記得發生了甚麼事情嗎？當神向哈巴谷顯現時，他說：「身體戰兢，嘴唇發顫，骨中朽爛；…」（哈巴谷書3：16）
約伯在等候神的聲音時發生了甚麼事？而當神向約伯顯明祂自己的時候，約伯說：「因此我厭惡自己，在塵土和爐灰中懊悔。我說了一次，就不再說。我要用手摀口。」正如加爾文所說：「神聖的聖經一致的說到，每一個曾經暴露在神的聖潔之前的人，都會在祂的面前恐懼戰兢。」
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尋道者：
藉著聖經向我們啟示自己的神是聖潔的、至尊至榮的，當祂顯現的時候，我們應當恐懼戰兢啊！看哪！任何人來到神的面前，無不恐懼戰兢，任何一位先知或聖徒，每當提到神的名和講論神的時候，無不恭恭敬敬，無不存敬畏的心，無不戰戰兢兢的。然而，看看今天的所謂牧師、傳道等，好像與神平起平坐、不分尊卑，講道時嬉皮笑臉，態度輕佻無禮，拿神和神的話語開玩笑，「佈道會」上與主耶穌稱兄道弟，以為這樣就表示自己很有幽默感，很受聽眾歡迎，很有果效，不錯，今天他們在人面前很風光、很有榮耀，然而這等假師傅、假牧人，到那日，必要受神更重的刑罰，他們一定會聽到主耶穌對他們說：「我從來不認識你們，你們這些作惡的人，離開我去吧！ 」
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