馬太福音第20章論蒙召多選上少 查經資料 伯特利教會黃哲輝牧師
主題:論蒙召多選上少
Ⅰ、本章大綱。
壹、在前在後的比喻。V.1-16(葡萄園的比喻)
貳、預言受難與復活。V.17-28
參、醫治兩個瞎子。V.29-34
Ⅱ、本章內容。
壹、在前在後的比喻。V.1-16(葡萄園的比喻)
一、家主雇工人。
因為天國好像。太20:1
1.家主清早去雇人進他的葡萄園作工,太20:1
A.和工人講定一天一錢銀子,太20:2
B.就打發他們進葡萄園去。太20:2
2.家主約在巳初出去雇人進他的葡萄園作工。太20:3-太20:4
A.約在巳初出去,看見市上還有閒站的人,太20:3
B.就對他們說:『你們也進葡萄園去,所當給的,我必給你們。太20:4
C.他們也進去了。太20:4
3.約在午正和申初又出去,也是這樣行。太20:5
4.約在酉初出去雇人進他的葡萄園作工。
A.約在酉初出去,看見還有人站在那裏,太20:6
B.就問他們說:『你們為甚麼整天在這裏閒站呢?』太20:6
C.他們說:『因為沒有人雇我們。』太20:7
D.他說:『你們也進葡萄園去。』太20:7
二、家主到了晚上。
1.到了晚上,園主對管事的說:『叫工人都來,太20:8
2.給他們工錢,
A.從後來的起,到先來的為止。太20:8
B.約在酉初雇的人來了,各人得了一錢銀子。太20:9
C.及至那先雇的來了,他們以為必要多得;太20:10
誰知也是各得一錢。
三、雇工的反應。
1.他們得了,就埋怨家主說:太20:11
2.我們整天勞苦受熱,太20:12
3.那後來的只作了一小時,你竟叫他們和我們一樣麼?』太20:12
四、家主的回答。
1.我不虧負你
A.家主回答其中的一人說:『朋友,我不虧負你,太20:13
B.你與我講定的不是一錢銀子麼?太20:13
C.拿你的走罷!太20:14
2.這是我願意的。
A.我給那後來的和給你一樣,這是我願意的。太20:13
B.我的東西難道不可隨我的意思用麼?太20:15
C.因為我作好人,你就紅了眼麼?』太20:15
3.這樣結果,太20:16
A.那在後的,將要在前;
B.在前的,將要在後了。
C.(有古卷加:因為被召的人多,選上的人少。)」
貳、預言受難與復活。V.17-28
一、預言受難復活的情況。太20:18-太20:19
1.耶穌上耶路撒冷去的時候,太20:17
2.在路上把十二個門徒帶到一邊,對他們說:太20:17
3.看哪,我們上耶路撒冷去,太20:18
A.人子要被交給祭司長和文士。太20:18
B.他們要定他死罪,太20:18
C.又交給外邦人,將他戲弄,鞭打,釘在十字架上;太20:19
D.第三日他要復活。」太20:19
二、預言受難復活門徒的反應與耶穌的回答。
1.那時,西庇太兒子的母親同他兩個兒子太20:20
A.上前來拜耶穌,
B.求他一件事。
2.耶穌說:「你要甚麼呢?」太20:21
3.他說:太20:21
A.願你叫我這兩個兒子在你國裏,
B.一個坐在你右邊,一個坐在你左邊。」
4.耶穌回答說:太20:22
A.你們不知道所求的是甚麼;
B.我將要喝的杯,你們能喝麼?」
5.他們說:「我們能。」太20:22
6.耶穌說:太20:23
A.我所喝的杯,你們必要喝;
B.只是坐在我的左右,不是我可以賜的,
(耶穌可以賜,但不是透過關說)
C.乃是我父為誰豫備的,就賜給誰。」
7.那十個門徒聽見,就惱怒他們弟兄二人。太20:24
8.耶穌叫了他們來,
A.說:你們知道太20:25
a.外邦人有君王為主治理他們,
b.有大臣操權管束他們。
B.只是在你們中間,不可這樣;太20:26
C.你們中間誰願為大,就必作你們的用人;太20:27
D.誰願為首,就必作你們的僕人。
E.正如人子來,太20:28
a.不是要受人的服事,
b.乃是要服事人,
c.並且要捨命,作多人的贖價。
參、醫治兩個瞎子。V.29-34
一、當時情況。太20:29
1.他們出耶利哥的時候,
2.有極多的人跟隨他。
二、轉折處
1.有兩個瞎子坐在路旁,聽說是耶穌經過,太20:30
就喊著說:「主阿,大衛的子孫,可憐我們罷!」
2.眾人責備他們,不許他們作聲;太20:31
3.他們卻越發喊著說:「主阿,大衛的子孫,可憐我們罷!」太20:31
4.耶穌就站住,叫他們來,說:「要我為你們作甚麼?」太20:32
5.他們說:「主阿,要我們的眼睛能看見!」太20:33
三、結果。太20:34
1.耶穌就動了慈心,
2.把他們的眼睛一摸,
3.他們立刻看見,就跟從了耶穌。
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"God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world."(Gal. 6:14)
THEY were living to themselves; self with its hopes, and promises and dreams, still had hold of them; but the Lord began to fulfill their prayers. They had asked for contrition, and had surrendered for it to be given them at any cost, and He sent them sorrow; they had asked for purity, and He sent them thrilling anguish; they had asked to be meek, and He had broken their hearts; they had asked to be dead to the world, and He slew all their living hopes; they had asked to be made like unto Him, and He placed them in the furnace, sitting by "as a refiner and purifier of silver," until they should reflect His image; they had asked to lay hold of His cross, and when He had reached it to them it lacerated their hands.
They had asked they knew not what, nor how, but He had taken them at their word, and granted them all their petitions. They were hardly willing to follow Him so far, or to draw so night to Him. They had upon them an awe and fear, as Jacob at Bethel, or Eliphaz in the night visions, or as the apostles when they thought that they had seen a spirit, and knew not that it was Jesus. They could almost pray Him to depart from them, or to hide His awfulness. They found it easier to obey than to suffer, to do than to give up, to bear the cross than to hang upon it. But they cannot to back, for they have come too near the unseen cross, and its virtues have pierced too deeply within them. He is fulfilling to them His promise, "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me" (John 12:32).
But now at last their turn has come. Before, they had only heard of the mystery, but now they feel it. He has fastened on them His look of love, as He did on Mary and Peter, and they can but choose to follow.
Little by little, from time to time, by fitting gleams, the mystery of His cross shines out upon them. They behold Him lifted up, they gaze on the glory which rays from the wounds of His holy passion; and as they gaze they advance, and are changed into His likeness, and His name shines out throught them, for He dwells in them. They live alone with Him above, in unspeakable fellowship; willing to lack what others own (and what they might have had), and to be unlike all, so that they are only like Him.
Such, are they in all ages, "who follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth."
Had they chosen for themselves, or their friends chosen for them, they would have chosen otherwise. They would have been brighter here, but less glorious in His Kingdom. They would have had Lot's portion, not Abraham's. If they had halted anywhere-if God had taken off His hand and let them stray back-what would they not have lost? What forfeits in the resurrection?
But He stayed them up, even against themselves. Many a time their foot had well night slipped; but He in mercy held them up. Now, even in this life, they know that all He did was done well. It was good to suffer here, that they might reign hereafter; to bear the cross below, for they shall wear the crown above; and that not their will but His was done on them and in them.
-Anonymous.
基督曾說過:「我心柔和謙卑,你們當學我的樣式,這樣你們心裏就必得享安息。」這兒有雙重的真理,有忍耐、溫柔、謙卑和與神和好的美德,這與傚法基督或信靠祂有相同的意義;同時因著你有這些美德,可以完全脫離亞當墮落的本性而有信靠主高尚的行為。
連帶而有的福份,是因著脫離罪惡和對基督初步信仰、期望,受基督忍耐、溫柔、謙卑和與神和好的靈引導並管理;當你具有這些德性,你的生命就有目的,是真理和生命的基督才會在你裏面,你不再掌權,而是基督在你裏面活著。除非你願在忍耐、溫柔、謙卑和與神和好裏治死老我,否則神聖愛的靈,因無立足之地而不能在你裏面產生;而當你又為不忍耐、驕傲所困擾之際,馬上完全捨己,求神施恩幫助。當你遇到難處就促使與神親近,最能使你忍耐接受神的幫助,我們對神有多少信心和期望就可得多少的啟示。
「這些雖然很簡短,但是真正確的教義,使我們因賜下的救恩而真正完全順服神的啟示下,也真正宣告承認三而一的真神。」現在願你有個思想:完全將我的心靈獻上,單單尋求救恩,直接藉著溫柔、謙卑、忍耐和與神和好的力量,使我的生命有屬天的德性。
「並且要作這更大的事,因為我往父那裡去。」約翰福音十四章12節
祈禱不是叫我們適於那偉大的工作;祈禱本身就是偉大的工作。我們以為祈禱,是叫我們得到較高的能力,去應付神的工作。但按照耶穌基督的眼光看,祈禱是我本已救贖的奇蹟,藉著神的能力,同時也是別人救贖的奇蹟。結果子之方法,是祈禱,但須記取的,這種祈禱是建立在救贖的痛苦,不是建立於我的痛苦。一個小孩能獲得祈禱的答覆,一個聰明人反而得不著。
你無論在那裡祈禱總是一種戰爭。不管神製造環境的方法怎樣,本分就是祈禱。切不可如此作想──「我所在的地方,不見得有用;」因為你不在的地方,你必沒有有用。無論神安排你在那裡,祈禱,常常向祂祈禱。「你們若奉我的名求甚麼,我必成就。」(約十四13)我們不肯祈禱,我們得不著奮興,就不肯祈禱,那就是靈性自私的極度形態。我們要依照神的指導而勞動,但祂指導我們的是祈禱,「所以你們當求莊稼的主,打發工人出去,收祂的莊稼。
通常的工人對於工作,是沒有興奮的,但是成功通常是工作勞作出來的;同樣基督的概念,沒有那些勞苦的聖徒是不會發現的。你慇勤祈禱,從神的立場看,是無時不發生效果的。當帕子揭開,一種說不出的驚奇必然發現,你可以看出你是慣於接受耶穌基督的命令的,已經為祂收穫了不少的靈魂。
「……亞伯拉罕信神……」羅馬書四章3節
亞伯拉罕的信心是向著神本身的,他認識帶領他的神,所以他對神有絕對的信心。
亞伯拉罕一生的秘訣在於他與神的友誼。他所認識的神是一位偉大、良善、信實的朋友。無怪乎他能聽神的話,從他自身所愛的本家本族出來,走向一條未知的道路。
除了信靠神的話語,我們是否已學會把自己全然交給神呢?神有無限的愛及力量,祂是與我們立約的主並永遠的好朋友。
經上告訴我們,亞伯拉罕因著信心而榮耀了神。最能榮耀神的辦法,乃是讓世人看見神是誰,以及祂的大能力。神並不希望藉著我們所能做的事,讓世人知道祂能做什麼;神也不用那些有乖謬性格的器皿。相反的,祂一直在找尋那些謙卑的人,並用這些人在世世代代中榮耀祂。