当以嘴亲子

以上经文中“以嘴亲子”就是与主亲嘴的意思。亲嘴是希伯来民族的风俗习惯，如同我们见面的握手一般。亲嘴表示接纳、和好、热爱的意思。

一、表示接纳

接纳有接受的意思。从《圣经》中我们看到，约瑟被哥哥出卖，从父亲的爱子沦落为阶下囚，因他敬畏神，神使他成为埃及的宰相。当荒年到来时，以色列的儿子们到埃及籴粮，见约瑟是埃及的宰相，吓得不知所措。约瑟却与众弟兄亲嘴、相认（参创45:15），饶恕并接纳他们的到来。人常有得罪我们的时候，我们应当饶恕、接纳他们。

路15章中记载：浪子带着父亲分给他的产业离家出走，当他耗尽所有的资财，连猪吃的豆荚都吃不到时，才省悟要回家。父亲天天巴望着儿子回家，看到浪子的身影，就动了慈心，不顾浪子肮脏与否，跑去抱着他的颈项，连连与他亲嘴，接纳浪子回家。我们的天父岂不更是这样接纳罪人吗？虽人“装满了各样不义、邪恶、贪婪、恶毒，满心是嫉妒、凶杀、争竞、诡诈、毒恨，又是谗毁的、背后说人的、怨恨神的、侮慢人的、狂傲的、自夸的、捏造恶事的、违背父母的、无知的、背约的、无亲情的、不怜悯人的”（罗1:29-31），人的意念尽都是罪，行为也都是罪（参赛59:6-7）。“我的罪孽高过我的头，如同重担叫我担当不起”（诗38:4）。感谢神，主耶稣基督为世人罪的缘故，道成肉身，他本有神的形像，不以自己与神同等为强夺，降卑为人，成就神拯救人类的计划，拯救一切相信的人脱离罪恶的辖制，黑暗势力的捆绑，在主里享受平安、喜乐、恩典、祝福，使信靠他的人免沉沦得永生。纽约一次布道会上传道人讲到赦罪和救恩，许多人受感悔改归主。坐在前排有位西装笔挺的绅士全神贯注地听，一位醉汉东倒西歪在他身旁。讲道结束，绅士也要悔改，却被醉汉拉住，醉汉从口袋里掏出手表、钞票等，说：“这些都是刚才从你身上偷来的，我要悔改，现在还给你，对不起，我以前是个扒手。”绅士很感动，告诉他自己也是扒手。醉汉不信。“是的，你扒我的，我扒公家的，因为我经常贪污公家的财物。”结果两人一起上前悔改。世人当认罪悔改，与主亲近，与主亲嘴，敞开心接纳主为唯一的救主和生命的主宰。

二、表示和好

和好之前必是有过不和睦、不友好甚至是为仇的。雅各用诡诈的手段骗取长子名份，哥哥以扫要杀他，他不得不离家逃避。二十年后，他恐惧、战兢地回到故土，以扫见到雅各，抱住他，与他亲嘴，重归于好（参创33:4）。和好是多么难能可贵，俗话说：家和万事兴，家以和为贵，冤冤相报何时了，冤家宜解不宜结。从前福州孝义巷住着两户人家，一家家道富有，另一家遵守孝道，父亲在朝做官有权有势。前者拆房重建，将围墙延伸出来扩大自家面积，从此两家不能和睦共处。另一户人家就写信给在京做官的父亲欲以权势强压对方，但做父亲的回信写道：“千里休书只为墙，让人咫尺又何妨，万里长城今犹在，不见当年秦始皇。”儿子听从父亲的劝导，将围墙缩回三米，讲义气的人家见状也拆墙缩回三米，两户人家重新和好，这巷子也被后人称为孝义巷，成为佳话。我们原来也是与神为仇的人，但神爱世人，将独生子耶稣基督赐给我们，为我们罪的缘故钉死十字架上，使我们与神和好，免去神的忿怒与审判，“凡投靠他的，都是有福的”。让我们藉着信，与人和好，和睦共处，为主作美好的见证。

三、表示热爱

大卫与约拿单亲嘴，表示他们相互热爱（参撒上20章）。耶稣在一个法利赛人家里坐席，有一个犯罪女人用极贵重的香膏膏主的脚，用头发擦，用嘴亲。因为她的爱多，她许多罪都赦免了，主对她说：“你的信救了你，平平安安地回去吧！”（参路7:36-50）主的爱是何等长阔高深，何等的奇妙，“天离地何等的高，他的慈爱向敬畏他的人也是何等的大；东离西有多远，他叫我们的过犯离我们也有多远”（诗103:11-12）。

人若不愿以嘴亲子，或者假意以嘴亲子，就难免神震怒的临到。我们不要只用嘴亲近神，心却远离神，卖主的犹大就是我们的借鉴：“他是个贼，又带着钱囊，常取其中所存的”（约12:6下），他为得那三十两银子，假意与主亲嘴，出卖主耶稣，遭到毁灭，成为千古罪人。正是“贪财是万恶之根”（提前6:10上）。一守门人极贪，凡出入主人大门者，他总设法捞一笔。一天，一位渔夫捉到一条大鱼送到府上来，守门人说：“送上这条鱼，必有大赏，你得分给我一半。”渔夫答应。主人见渔夫盛情之礼，准备回赏，但渔夫请求以打五百下作为赏赐。主人不解，渔夫告之实情，主人大怒，轻打渔夫二百五十下，将守门人叫来重责二百五十下作为赏赐的一半。贪心的人终会被贪心所害，会落入自己所织的网罗内。

让我们尽心、尽意、尽力、尽性爱主，不仅相信耶稣，还要爱慕耶稣；不仅跟从耶稣，生命更要象主，使我们与神和好，以嘴亲子，免去神快要发作的怒气，成为有福的人。

To Respond to God's Requirement

By Pastor Jiang Guiying

Bible Verse Reading: Psalm: 2:12

"To kiss His feet" in this verse means to kiss the LORD. Kissing each other is a custom in Hebrew, just like shaking hands with friends in Chinese custom. To kiss means to accept, to make up, and to love.

1. To show acceptance.

In the Bible we read that Joseph was sold by his brother and became a prisoner though he had been a beloved son of his father. But because he revered God, God made him the prime minister of Egypt. When the years of famine came, Israel's sons went to Egypt to buy grain. When they found that Joseph was the Egyptian prime minister, they were frightened and at a loss. Joseph, however, kissed all his brothers and wept upon them (Ref. Genesis 45:15). He forgave them and admitted them. Likewise, we must always forgive and admit those who offend us.

Luke Chapter 15 records that when the prodigal left home with the property given to him by his father and spent everything, he did not even have the pods that the pigs were eating. He woke up and went home. The father longed for his son's coming back and when he saw his son in the distance, he was filled with compassion. He didn't care if the prodigal was dirty or not and ran and put his arms around him and kissed him, admitting his coming home. Isn't our Heavenly Father more forgiving to the sinners? Although human beings are "filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, craftiness, they are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of veil, rebellious toward parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless." (Roman: 1:29-31) Human "thoughts are thoughts of iniquity and their works are works of iniquity." (Ref. Isaiah: 59: 6- 7) "For my iniquities have gone over my head; they weigh like a burden too heavy for me." (Psalms: 38: 4)

Praise the Lord. For the sins of human beings LORD Jesus Christ became flesh. Though he was in the form of God, he did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited. He lowered himself to be a human being and fulfilled God's plan of saving human beings. He saved all the believers from the binding of evils and from the power of devils. All who believe in him enjoy peace, joy, grace and blessings in the LORD and have eternal life instead of sinking into degradation.

Once in a preach in New York, when the minister talked about forgiving and saving grace, many people were touched and converted to the LORD. A gentleman sitting in the front row listened very attentively to the preach and a drunkard leaned against him. After the preach, the gentleman wanted to repent, but the drunkard got hold of him and took out from his own pocket the watch and money he had stolen from the gentleman. He said, " I just stole them from you. I want to repent and return them to you. I am sorry. I was a thief before." The gentleman was so touched that he told him he was a thief too. The drunkard did not believe. The gentleman said, "Yes, I was a thief. You stole from me and I stole from the state. I often grafted public property." It turned out that both of them repented. Human beings should repent and "kiss the LORD" and open our heart to the LORD and accept Him as our only Savior as well as controller in our life.

2. To show reconciliation.

There must be conflict or inharmony or even hatred before reconciliation. Jacob used tricks to cheat Esau out of his birthright. Esau planned to kill him, so he had to run away from home. Twenty years later, he returned to his homeland fearfully. When meeting him, Esau embraced and kissed him. They became reconciled. (Ref. Genesis 33: 4) It is so precious to be harmonious. As the saying goes, family harmony brings prosperity. Once there were two households living in the Filialness and Justice Lane. One household was rich; the other one, whose father was a powerful official, abode by filial morale. The former rebuilt their house and extended their wall to enlarge their place. The two households could not live in peace ever since. The other household wrote to their father, who was a government official, expecting to defeat the former with power. But the father wrote back and said, "The letter from afar is just for the wall. It doesn't matter to yield an inch. The Great Wall is still there while the Qin Emperor is not." The son followed his father's instructions and shortened the wall. Seeing this, the former one, who was of justice, also shortened their wall. Thus, the two households restored good relationship. Later the lane is called Filialness and Justice Lane, which becomes a much-told story. We were not in harmony with God, but God loved us so much so that He gave us His only son. His only son died on the Cross for our sin, which made us reconciled with God, and we are exempted from God's anger and judge. "Happy are all who take refuge in Him." Let's live harmoniously with others and give good testimony for the LORD with our faith in Him.

3. To show love.

David's kissing Jonathan showed their love for each other. (Ref. 1 Samuel 20) Once Jesus took his place at the table in a Pharisee's house. A woman, who was a sinner, anointed the LORD'S feet with very expensive ointment, dried them with her hair and continued kissing them. Because of her great love, her sins, which were many, were forgiven. The LORD said to her, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace." (Ref. Luke 7: 36-50) How deep, great, and miraculous is the LORD'S love! "For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far he removes our transgressions from us."

If we do not want to kiss the LORD, or pretend to kiss the LORD, we will not be exempted from God's fury. Neither can we just kiss the LORD while our heart is far away from the LORD. We should learn from the lesson of Judas, who sold the LORD. "He was a thief; he kept the common purse and used to steal what was put into it." (John 12: 6b) To get the three hundred denarii, Judas pretended to kiss the LORD. He betrayed the LORD and ended up in destruction. He stood condemned through the ages. As it is said, "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil." (1 Timothy 6:10a)

Once there was a very greedy guard. He always wanted to get something when someone passed through the gate. One day, a fisherman caught a big fish and brought it to the house at whose door the man was keeping guard. The guard said, "You will be greatly rewarded for presenting the fish. You ought to give me half of the reward." The fisherman promised so. The master saw that the fisherman was so kind and wanted to return his kindness, but the fisherman begged for 500 whips. The master was confused. Having heard what happened, he was exasperated and gave 250 light whips to the fisherman and called in the guard and had him whipped heavily for the other half. The greedy person will become the victim of greed and fall in his self-weaving net.

Let's love our LORD with all our heart, with all our mind, with all our strength and with all our soul. We should not only believe in the LORD but also love Him; we should not only follow the LORD but also be more like Him and kiss Him so that we can be exempted from His wrath that is quickly kindled and become happy.　 　

（根据录音整理）