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如果你我簽了一紙合約
買了房子
是你我對家庭責任的開始

如果你我簽了一紙合約
立下信條
是你我對他人互重的開始

如果你我簽下一紙合約
領養小孩
是你我對生命關愛的開始

如果你我簽下一紙合約
立下婚約
是你我對婚姻永恆的開始


如果這合約雙方未能遵守
可能房子將無能償還
可能信條將無人遵守
可能小孩將無所適從
可能婚姻將無力挽回

立約是祝福的開始
守約是立約的過程
但若無法持守約定
則看不到幸福未來


今日，神與人立約
是因為神給予我們：責任的交託、生命的互重、關愛的記號、永恆的紀念

神期待你我跟祂一起持守約定直到幸福的來臨，
在晦暗的蔭影之中我們依然可以相信彩虹之約。




創世記

9:1 　神賜福給挪亞和他的兒子，對他們說：「你們要生養眾多，遍滿了地。
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
9:2 凡地上的走獸和空中的飛鳥都必驚恐，懼怕你們，連地上一切的昆蟲並海裡一切的魚都交付你們的手。
The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the air, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered.
9:3 凡活著的動物都可以作你們的食物。這一切我都賜給你們，如同菜蔬一樣。
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.
9:4 惟獨肉帶著血，那就是牠的生命，你們不可吃。
Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
9:5 流你們血、害你們命的，無論是獸是人，我必討他的罪，就是向各人的弟兄也是如此。
For your lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning; of every beast I will require it and of man; of every man's brother I will require the life of man.
9:6 凡流人血的，他的血也必被人所流，因為　神造人是照自己的形像造的。
Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image.
9:7 你們要生養眾多，在地上昌盛繁茂。」
And you, be fruitful and multiply, bring forth abundantly on the earth and multiply in it."
9:8 　神曉諭挪亞和他的兒子說：
Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him,
9:9 「我與你們和你們的後裔立約，
"Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your descendants after you,
9:10 並與你們這裡的一切活物─就是飛鳥、牲畜、走獸，凡從方舟裡出來的活物─立約。
and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark.
9:11 我與你們立約，凡有血肉的，不再被洪水滅絕，也不再有洪水毀壞地了。」
I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth."
9:12 　神說：「我與你們並你們這裡的各樣活物所立的永約是有記號的。
And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:
9:13 我把虹放在雲彩中，這就可作我與地立約的記號了。
I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
9:14 我使雲彩蓋地的時候，必有虹現在雲彩中，
When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds,
9:15 我便記念我與你們和各樣有血肉的活物所立的約，水就再不氾濫、毀壞一切有血肉的物了。
I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
9:16 虹必現在雲彩中，我看見，就要記念我與地上各樣有血肉的活物所立的永約。」
When the bow is in the clouds, I will look upon it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth."
9:17 　神對挪亞說：「這就是我與地上一切有血肉之物立約的記號了。」
God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth."