2024.08.04 | 終結無父世代 | 王惟中牧師
我們每個人都要成為無父世代的終結者。
【詩篇 Ps. 103:13】父親怎樣憐恤他的兒女，耶和華也怎樣憐恤敬畏他的人！
As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him;
【以賽亞書 Isa 9:6】因有一嬰孩為我們而生；有一子賜給我們。政權必擔在他的肩頭上；他名稱為奇妙策士、全能的神、永在的父、和平的君。
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
【約翰一書 1John 3:1】你看父賜給我們是何等的慈愛，使我們得稱為神的兒女；我們也真是他的兒女。世人所以不認識我們，是因未曾認識他。
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
【箴言 Prov 3:12】因為耶和華所愛的，他必責備，正如父親責備所喜愛的兒子。
because the LORD disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.
【羅馬人書 Rom. 8:15】你們所受的，不是奴僕的心，仍舊害怕；所受的，乃是兒子的心，因此我們呼叫：阿爸！父！
For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”
美國人口普查局的一項報告 （U.S. Census Bureau）
1980 年有 18.4% 出生嬰兒的母親是未婚生子
18.4% of all births in the U.S. in 1980 were to unmarried women
2008 年有 40.6% 出生嬰兒的母親是未婚生子
40.6% of all births in the U.S. in 2008 were to unmarried women
1960 年，18歲以下有五百萬的未成年孩童與單親媽媽同住
In 1960, just 5 million children under 18 lived with only their mother.
1980 年人數翻倍
By 1980 that number had more than doubled.
2000年，1千九百萬18 歲以下孩童與單親媽媽同住
19 million children live in single-mother families in 2000.
根據兒童和家庭中心數據 （Center for Children and Families）
二千五百萬的兒童是在沒有父親的家裡長大
25 million children are growing up without fathers in the home. As reported by the Center for Children and Families
90% 領社會救濟金的是單親媽媽
90% of welfare recipients are single mothers.
70% 幫派份子、高中輟學、青少年自殺、未成年懷孕、青少年嗑藥來自於單親家庭
70% of gang members, high school dropouts, teen suicides, teen pregnancies and teen substance abusers come from single parent homes.
63% 全國自殺的人是來自於單親家庭
63% of suicides nationwide are individuals from single-parent families.
75% 在毒品勒戒醫院的孩子來自於單親家庭
75% of children in chemical dependency hospitals are from single-parent families.
90% 遊民和逃家小孩來自於單親家庭
90% of all homeless and runaway children
85% 行為偏差孩童來自於單親家庭
85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders
強暴犯是因無法正確宣洩憤怒而致，80% 來自於單親家庭
80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger are from single-parent families.
70% 青少年孩子在州政府的監獄是來自於單親家庭
70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions are from single-parent families.
AFPI America First Policy Institute （直譯：美國第一政策研究所）
美國擁有全世界最高的單親家庭比例
有一千八百萬孩童活在沒有父親的家庭裡
80% 的家庭，父親是缺席的
無父的家庭活在貧困中是正常家庭的四倍
無父家庭的孩子有更大的機會得到心理疾病、住在貧困中、中途輟學、校園暴力、藥物成癮、關入少年監獄
在婚姻關係中，當夫妻矛盾的時候，我們會以為離婚是“快速解決問題”的方法，然而，它會帶來的後果往往是更加嚴重而長期的問題。
【瑪拉基書 Malachi 4:5~6】看哪，耶和華大而可畏之日未到以前，我必差遣先知以利亞到你們那裡去。他必使父親的心轉向兒女，兒女的心轉向父親，免得我來咒詛遍地。
“See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse.”
1. 我們都可以成為這個世代的以利亞，把危機變為轉機
【撒母耳記上 1 Sam 22:1~2】大衛就離開那裡，逃到亞杜蘭洞。他的弟兄和他父親的全家聽見了，就都下到他那裡。凡受窘迫的、欠債的、心裡苦惱的都聚集到大衛那裡；大衛就作他們的頭目，跟隨他的約有四百人。
David left Gath and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there. All those who were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him.
大衛在窘迫的時候，因他有為父的心，牧養那些聚集到他那裡的人；後來那些人都成為了大能的勇士。我們也需要為父的心，轉化世代。
【詩篇 Ps. 127:4~5】少年時所生的兒女好像勇士手中的箭。箭袋充滿的人便為有福；他們在城門口和仇敵說話的時候，必不至於羞愧。
Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one’s youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their enemies in the gate.
2. 結束無父世代從家庭開始
【箴言 Prov. 22:6】教養孩童，使他走當行的道，就是到老他也不偏離。
Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.
3. 你我都可以擁有為父的心
【哥林多前書 1 Cor. 2:10~16】只有神藉著聖靈向我們顯明了，因為聖靈參透萬事，就是神深奧的事也參透了。除了在人裡頭的靈，誰知道人的事；像這樣，除了神的靈，也沒有人知道神的事。我們所領受的，並不是世上的靈，乃是從神來的靈，叫我們能知道神開恩賜給我們的事。並且我們講說這些事，不是用人智慧所指教的言語，乃是用聖靈所指教的言語，將屬靈的話解釋屬靈的事。（或作：將屬靈的事講與屬靈的人）然而，屬血氣的人不領會神聖靈的事，反倒以為愚拙，並且不能知道，因為這些事惟有屬靈的人才能看透。屬靈的人能看透萬事，卻沒有一人能看透了他。誰曾知道主的心去教導他呢？但我們是有基督的心了。
but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.
The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man’s judgment: “For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
與聖靈常常交通：
【哥林多前書 1 Cor. 2:10,12】只有神藉著聖靈向我們顯明了，因為聖靈參透萬事，就是神深奧的事也參透了… 我們所領受的，並不是世上的靈，乃是從神來的靈，叫我們能知道神開恩賜給我們的事。
用聖靈啟示來對人說話
【哥林多前書 1 Cor. 2:13】並且我們講說這些事，不是用人智慧所指教的言語，乃是用聖靈所指教的言語，將屬靈的話解釋屬靈的事。（或作：將屬靈的事講與屬靈的人）
當我們對齊聖靈和神的話，我們就有基督的心
【哥林多前書 1 Cor. 2:16】誰曾知道主的心去教導他呢？但我們是有基督的心了。
【創世記 Gen 3:15】我又要叫你和女人彼此為仇；你的後裔和女人的後裔也彼此為仇。女人的後裔要傷你的頭；你要傷他的腳跟。
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
思考與討論
終結無父世代，你可以做些什麼？
請分享你所認識的為父的心？
假設你是管理整個國家的當權者，你要怎麼解決無父世代的問題呢？