Have You A Sanballat Or Tobiah In Your Life? 你的生活中有参巴拉或多比雅吗？

Reading Nehemiah Chapter 4

阅读尼希米记 第4章

Have you a Sanballat or Tobiah in your Life?

你的生活中有参巴拉或多比雅吗？

When you start a work for God, you will suffer persecution and opposition.

当你开始为神工作时，你会遭受逼迫和反对。

We have already met in Chapter 2,  the three opponents of Nehemiah and here they come again.

我们已经在第二章中遇到了尼希米记的三个反对者，他们又来了。

Opposition will come in varying ways, but it will come. Once a work of God starts, you can bet your life, that the devil will use people to oppose you.

反对会以不同的方式出现，但它会到来。一旦神的工作开始，你就可以用你的生命来赌，魔鬼会利用人来反对你。

Nehemiah and the people had started the great work of building the wall, and these two men, who had oppressed the Jews, they had the whole of Jerusalem under their power.  They had the run of the city, they came and went and did everything that they wanted, trampling on God’s people, they knew that if the walls were built, their access to the city would be blocked.

尼希米和百姓开始了建造城墙的大工，这两个人压迫了犹太人，他们把整个耶路撒冷都置于他们的权力之下。 他们掌控着这座城市，他们来来去去，为所欲为，践踏上帝的子民，他们知道如果城墙建成，他们进入城市的通道就会被堵住。

Discouragement is the great enemy of Christian work. The people who were building the wall, could of seen the stones piled one upon another and become discouraged, after all, they were not professional wall builders. They were just ordinary people.

灰心是基督徒工作的最大敌人，建造墙的人看到石头一个接一个地堆积起来，就会变得灰心丧气，毕竟他们不是专业的墙建造者，他们只是普通人。

Let’s see the tactics of the enemy and how Nehemiah deals with them.

让我们看看敌人的策略以及尼希米如何对付他们。

The first reaction of the opponents of the work is always anger, but it is clothed in a variety of guises. These two men are angry, but before they show fierce anger, they clothe their anger in words of personal mockery.

这部作品的反对者的第一反应总是愤怒，但它披上了各种伪装，这两个人很生气，但在他们表现出强烈的愤怒之前，他们用以下语言来掩饰他们的愤怒 -个人嘲讽

These men who had the run of Jerusalem for many years, thought that they could come and go as they pleased, but they were in for a shock.

这些统治耶路撒冷多年的人，以为他们可以随心所欲地来去， 他们大吃一惊。

How often do we have to face up to this, the mocking words of the enemy.

我们得多少次正视这件事，面对敌人的嘲讽之词。

First of all, they use words like “feeble.”  This allows the devil to cast doubt into our minds.

首先，他们使用诸如软弱无力之类的词，撒旦将怀疑投射到我们的脑海中。

Are you really able to do this? Look at you all, your so feeble. Can you lift all those heavy stones.

你真的能做到吗？看看你们所有人，你们好虚弱。你能举起那些沉重的石头吗？

Can you hear those mocking words?

你能听到那些嘲讽的话吗？

Ever heard these words? I have many times.

听过这些话吗？我有过很多次。

When those kind of mocking words come from the enemy, what can we do and say?

当那些嘲讽的话语从敌人那里传来时，我们能做什么，说什么呢？

Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Amen.

我靠着加添我力量的基督，凡事都能做..阿们

Personal mockery won’t stop there, it goes like this, look at the size of this work, do you really think you will complete it?

个人的嘲讽不会止步于此，是这样的，看看这部作品的规模，你真的觉得自己会完成吗？

And even if you do finish the work you are doing for God, it will collapse, if a little adversity happens, it will completely fail. We have all heard these words, so what should we do about it.

即使你真的完成了你为上帝所做的工作，它也会崩溃，如果发生一点逆境，它就会完全失败。我们都听说过这些话，那么我们应该怎么做呢。

They prayed

他们祷告

They knew they were despised and hated, so they prayed that God would deal with them, so often we react ad try to sort out the situation ourselves,, they let the Lord handle it, and they went back to building the wall.

他们知道自己被鄙视和憎恨，所以他们祷告 上帝会处理他们，所以我们经常做出反应 试图自己解决问题，他们让 上帝处理，然后他们回去建墙。

The wall was being built, the breaches in the wall were being closed up and this made the enemies of the people even more furious, so instead of mockery, they made a show of force.

墙正在建造，墙的缺口被封闭，这让人们的敌人更加愤怒，所以他们没有嘲笑，而是展示了武力。

Opposition to God’s work is often seen in numbers, if they mobilize enough people, they can surely persuade these Christians to back down. Let’s take the full force of all our armies, surely, they will realise they have no chance.

反对神工作的人经常在人数上看到，如果他们动员了足够的人，他们肯定可以说服这些基督徒让步。让我们动用我们所有军队的全部力量，他们肯定会意识到他们没有机会。

The answer is prayer and watchfulness, the enemy is very sly, it says they conspired against them.

答案是祈祷和警醒，敌人非常狡猾，说他们密谋对付他们。

Internal issues can come to the fore, the people were very tired by this point, this was back breaking work, that many of them were not used to, the stones were harder and harder to dig out, they had to be dragged upwards and there was much rubbish to move, discouragement from within is a great obstacle to building any work for God.

内部问题会浮出水面，人们此时非常疲惫，这是令人费力的工作，他们中的许多人不习惯，石头越来越难挖出来，他们必须被拖上去，有很多垃圾要搬走，来自内部的沮丧是为神建造任何工作的巨大障碍。

Again, what is the answer to this, Nehemiah was one of the great organizers of the bible, he was after all, the cup bearer to the king, he was like the prime minister and God had placed him in this role, he had a very organized  and clear mind, God had given him a plan.

同样，这个问题的答案是什么，尼希米是圣经最伟大的组织者之一，他毕竟是国王的酒政，他就像首相，上帝让他担任这个角色，他有一个非常有条理和清晰的头脑，上帝给了他一个计划。

He organized the people,  he firstly reminded them, and this is something we need to remember, that God is great and that he is with us. verse 14. We also need to remember that we as a people of God are to be unified and to fight for each other, we are in this together. verses 14-15

他组织了人们，他首先提醒他们，这是我们需要记住的，上帝是伟大的，他与我们同在。第 14 节。我们还需要记住，作为上帝的子民，我们应该团结一致，为彼此而战，我们是在一起的。14-15节

They then returned to the work on the wall, some built the wall and some held the weapons, does that remind you of Moses and Joshua in Exodus 17? Joshua fought, Moses prayed. Look at verse 16, half of them worked, half held the spears, this is how it is in the church, some can’t get involved physically in the work because of illness etc, but they can hold the spear of someone who is.

然后他们又回到城墙上的工作，有的筑墙，有的拿着武器，这让你想起出埃及记17章中的摩西和约书亚吗？约书亚争战，摩西祈祷。请看第16节，他们中有一半工作，一半拿着枪，这就是在教会里的情况，有些人因为疾病等原因不能亲自参与工作，但他们可以拿着别人的枪。

Whose spear are you holding?

你拿着谁的长矛？

Spurgeon had a very famous magazine called the sword and the trowel, this title is taken from Nehemiah.

司布真有一本非常有名的杂志，叫《剑与抹刀》，这个标题取自尼希米记。

Every person, who is building has  his sword by his side, as we build the work of God, we must have the word of God by our side.. amen. This is the source of our strength and comfort.

每一个正在建设的人都带着他的剑，当我们建设上帝的工作时，我们必须有上帝的话语在我们身边。阿门。这就是我们力量和舒适的源泉。

Nehemiah was watching, he was an attentive leader, he was watching out for danger, if he saw danger, then he ordered the trumpet player to play loudly, we must  always be ready to sound the alarm, many of God’s people are taken unaware because the trumpet player remains silent Isaiah 62:6

尼希米在看着，他是一个细心的领袖，他提防危险，如果他看到危险，他就命令吹号的人大声吹奏，我们必须随时准备拉响警报，许多神的子民因为吹号的人保持沉默而没有意识到。以赛亚书 62：6

Opposition and discouragement will come sometimes, because we are spilt off from each other, some of the work on the wall, the workers became isolated and they got separated from one another. This can certainly happen in churches, where one work in the church is isolated from all the others, the answer is that if we see others struggling, we help them, we don’t think, well I’ve finished my part of the wall, I don’t need to do anymore, no go and help those who are struggling to complete their area.

反对和沮丧有时会来， 因为我们彼此分散，墙上的一些工作，工人们变得孤立，他们彼此分开。这当然可能发生在教会中，教会中的一项工作与所有其他工作是孤立的，答案是，如果我们看到其他人在挣扎，我们会帮助他们，我们不会想，好吧，我已经完成了我的那部分墙，我不需要再做了，不去帮助那些正在努力完成他们领域的人。

How do we overcome opposition and discouragement,

我们如何克服反对和沮丧，

The answer is unity, we are all together, Nehemiah insisted that the people live in Jerusalem, that they were all together.

答案是团结，我们都在一起，尼希米坚持让人们住在耶路撒冷，他们都在一起。

Unity is strength, the early church is Acts 2:42-47, did all things together, they had all things in common. A church that lives together, loves together, serves together and worships together is one that is blessed by God, this is probably why there are 50 ONE ANOTHERS IN THE NT.

 合一就是力量，早期教会是使徒行传 2：42-47，凡事都一起做，他们有共同的。一个一起生活、一起爱、一起服侍、一起敬拜的教会，是一个被神祝福的教会，这可能就是为什么新约有 50 个”彼此”的原因。

So the next time, your own personal Sanballat and Tobiah come and start mocking and conspiring against you, what do you do?

所以下次，你自己的私人参巴拉和多比雅来了，开始嘲笑和密谋反对你，你会怎么做？

You don’t fight against them, you can’t. You pray asking the Lord to deal with them and then you get back to work.

你不与他们斗争，你不能。你祷告求主对付他们，然后你就可以回去工作了。

You encourage each other when the work gets tough, there will be times when they will conspire against you.

当工作变得艰难时，你们互相鼓励，有时他们会合谋反对你。

You will stand in the gap for the builders, you will literally hold their spear, you will pray for them.

你会站在建造者的缺口上，你会真正地握住他们的长矛，你会为他们祈祷。

Opposition will come, but it must be met by these things.:

反对会来临，但必须用这些事情来应对。：

Prayer

祷告

Watchfulness

警醒

Organization of Resources and Manpower

组织资源和人力

Unity

团结

Holding Each Other Up in Prayer (Holding the Spear)

在祷告中互相扶持（手持长矛）

Community

团契

Girded with the Sword of the Spirit

用圣灵的剑束缚的

All these things will help us, but these two things, we need to remember and it’s this

所有这些都会帮助我们，但我们需要记住这两件事，那就是

Remeber that which is Great and Terrible

Our God Will Fight For Us

记住 这是多么伟大和可畏的 我们的神为我们争战

Romans 8:31: …If God is for us, who can be against us?

如果上帝为我们， 谁能敌挡我们 罗马书 8：31

Sanballat and Tobiah didn’t give up, they came back with new and more devious methods, but again they were met with the same shield of response and that is prayer and God’s Word.

参巴拉和多比雅没有放弃，他们带着新的、更狡猾的方法回来了，但他们又一次遇到了同样的回应盾牌，那就是祷告和神的话语。

We will study that in a future study, but I pray that you will have a mind to work for God’s glorious kingdom and that you will not be distracted or disturbed by the insults of the enemy.

我们将在未来的研究中研究这一点，但我祈祷你会有心为上帝荣耀的国度工作，并且你不会因敌人的侮辱而分心或打扰。

We serve a living savior and with his help, we will build the wall.

我们侍奉一位活生生的救世主，在他的帮助下，我们将建造这堵墙。

Amen

阿们

God bless you

上帝保佑你