梦游圣经66本书

📅 2025年9月15日

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📖 经文背景

《以斯拉记》记载以色列百姓被掳七十年后，神感动波斯王古列，允许他们回归耶路撒冷，重建圣殿。

以斯拉记 1:5
「犹大和便雅悯的族长、祭司利未人，就是一切被神激动他心的人，都起来，要上耶路撒冷去建造耶和华的殿。」

👉 回归的核心不是先重建家园，而是 恢复神的殿、恢复敬拜。

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✨ 敬拜的恢复：核心不是形式，而是心

1. 筑坛（以斯拉记 3:2–3）
   • 百姓首先恢复献祭，即便圣殿还未建好。
   • 应用：敬拜不是依赖环境或场所，而是先恢复与神的关系。
2. 奠基（以斯拉记 3:10–13)
   • 圣殿根基立好时，百姓大声赞美耶和华。
   • 有人喜乐欢呼，有人因旧殿回忆而哭泣。
   • 应用：敬拜中，神接纳不同的情感——喜乐与眼泪都是真实的敬拜。
3. 更新律法（以斯拉记 7:10）
   • 以斯拉专心研读、遵行、并教导律法。
   • 应用：敬拜不只是歌唱，更是生命回到神话语的顺服中。

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⚔️ 敬拜的拦阻：外在与内在
• 外在拦阻：仇敌抵挡、诽谤、政治压力（以斯拉记 4章）。
• 内在拦阻：百姓与外邦人通婚，心被偶像分散（以斯拉记 9–10章）。
• 应用：今天敬拜的拦阻可能是繁忙、冷漠、妥协。真正的敬拜需要不断回转、悔改与洁净。

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🌱 今天的应用
• 敬拜是关系，不是活动：不仅仅是主日唱诗，而是每日心向神。
• 敬拜是全人，全心：不仅是歌声，更是生命的献上（罗12:1）。
• 敬拜是更新，是重建：如同以斯拉记，敬拜让我们从破碎回到建造，从被掳回到自由。

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🙏 祷告

主啊，我要回到敬拜的核心，
不是为音乐，不是为习惯，而是为祢。
求祢像激动以斯拉的心一样激动我，叫我渴慕祢的话语，使我的生命成为祢喜悦的殿，日日向祢献上真实的敬拜。
奉耶稣的名，阿门。

🎶 Returning to the Heart of Worship · Insights from the Book of Ezra

📅 September 15, 2025

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📖 Scriptural Background

The Book of Ezra records how, after seventy years of exile, God moved the heart of King Cyrus of Persia to allow the Israelites to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple.

Ezra 1:5
“Then the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and Levites—everyone whose heart God had moved—prepared to go up and build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem.”

👉 The core of returning was not first rebuilding their homes, but restoring the house of God and restoring worship.

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✨ The Restoration of Worship: Not Form, but Heart

1. Rebuilding the Altar (Ezra 3:2–3)
   • The people first restored sacrifices, even though the temple had not yet been rebuilt.
   • Application: Worship is not dependent on environment or location—it begins with restoring our relationship with God.
2. Laying the Foundation (Ezra 3:10–13)
   • When the foundation of the temple was laid, the people praised the Lord with loud voices.
   • Some rejoiced with shouts of joy, while others wept as they remembered the former temple.
   • Application: In worship, God accepts different emotions—both joy and tears are true expressions of worship.
3. Renewing the Law (Ezra 7:10)
   • Ezra devoted himself to studying, practicing, and teaching the Law.
   • Application: Worship is not just about singing—it is about returning our lives to obedience to God’s Word.

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⚔️ Hindrances to Worship: External and Internal
• External hindrances: Opposition from enemies, slander, and political pressure (Ezra 4).
• Internal hindrances: Intermarriage with foreign peoples, leading hearts astray to idols (Ezra 9–10).
• Application: Today’s hindrances to worship may include busyness, indifference, or compromise. True worship requires continual turning back, repentance, and cleansing.

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🌱 Application for Today
• Worship is relationship, not activity: Not just singing on Sundays, but turning our hearts to God daily.
• Worship is whole-person, whole-heart: Not only with songs, but by offering our lives as living sacrifices (Romans 12:1).
• Worship is renewal and rebuilding: Just as in Ezra, worship leads us from brokenness to restoration, from captivity to freedom.

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🙏 Prayer

Lord, I want to return to the heart of worship,
Not for music, not for habit, but for You.
Stir my heart as You stirred Ezra’s,
Make me hunger for Your Word,
So that my life may become a temple pleasing to You,
Offering You true worship every day.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.