馬太福音第21章主騎驢進耶路撒冷 查經資料 伯特利教會黃哲輝牧師
主題:主騎驢進耶路撒冷
Ⅰ、本章大綱。
壹、主騎驢進耶路撒冷。V.1-11
貳、潔淨聖殿。V.12-17
參、咒詛無花果樹。V.18-22
肆、法利賽人質疑耶穌的權柄。V.23-46
Ⅱ、本章內容。
壹、主騎驢進耶路撒冷。V.1-11
一、預備驢子吩付。
1.地點:太21:1
耶穌和門徒將近耶路撒冷,到了伯法其,在橄欖山那裏。
2.耶穌就打發兩個門徒,對他們說:太21:2
A.你們往對面村子裏去,
B.必看見一匹驢拴在那裏,還有驢駒同在一處;
C.你們解開,牽到我這裏來。
3.若有人對你們說甚麼,你們就說:太21:3
A.『主要用他。』
B.那人必立時讓你們牽來。
二、這事成就是要應驗先知的話,說:太21:4
1.要對錫安的居民(原文是女子)說:太21:5
2.看哪,你的王來到你這裏,太21:5
A.是溫柔的,
B.又騎著驢,就是騎著驢駒子。」
三、預備驢子的過程。
1.門徒就照耶穌所吩咐的去行,太21:6
A.牽了驢和驢駒來,太21:7
B.把自己的衣服搭在上面,太21:7
2.耶穌就騎上。太21:7
3.眾人多半把衣服鋪在路上;太21:8
4.還有人砍下樹枝來鋪在路上。太21:8
四、主騎驢的結果。
1.前行後隨的眾人喊著說:太21:9
A.和散那(原有求救的意思,在此是稱頌的話)歸於大衛的子孫!
B.奉主名來的是應當稱頌的!
C.高高在上和散那!」
2.耶穌既進了耶路撒冷,合城都驚動了,說:「這是誰?」太21:10
3.眾人說:「這是加利利拿撒勒的先知耶穌。」太21:11
貳、潔淨聖殿。V.12-17
一、潔淨聖殿的情形。
1.耶穌進了神的殿,太21:12
2.趕出殿裏一切作買賣的人,太21:12
3.推倒兌換銀錢之人的桌子,和賣鴿子之人的凳子;太21:12
二、潔淨聖殿的原因。太21:13
1.對他們說:「經上記著說:太21:13
2.我的殿必稱為禱告的殿,太21:13
3.你們倒使他成為賊窩了。」太21:13
三、潔淨聖殿的結果。
1.在殿裏有瞎子、瘸子到耶穌跟前,他就治好了他們。太21:14
2.祭司長和文士就甚惱怒,太21:15
A.看見耶穌所行的奇事,
B.又見小孩子在殿裏喊著說:「和散那歸於大衛的子孫!」
C.對他說:「這些人所說的,你聽見了麼?」太21:16
3.耶穌的反應。
A.耶穌說:「是的。經上說太21:16
『你從嬰孩和喫奶的口中完全了讚美』的話,太21:16
B.你們沒有念過麼?」太21:16
C.於是離開他們,出城到伯大尼去,在那裏住宿。太21:17
參、咒詛無花果樹。V.18-22
一、當時的情形。
1.早晨回城的時候,他餓了,太21:18
2.看見路旁有一棵無花果樹,就走到跟前,太21:19
3.在樹上找不著甚麼,不過有葉子,
4.就對樹說:「從今以後,你永不結果子。」
5.那無花果樹就立刻枯乾了。
二、門徒的反應。太21:20
1.門徒看見了﹐便希奇
2.說:「無花果樹怎麼立刻枯乾了呢?」
三、耶穌的回答。
1.耶穌回答說:「我實在告訴你們,你們若有信心,不疑惑,太21:21
A.不但能行無花果樹上所行的事,
B.就是對這座山說:『你挪開此地,投在海裏!』也必成就。
2.你們禱告,無論求甚麼,只要信,就必得著。」太21:22
肆、法利竇人質疑耶穌的權柄。V.23-46
一、法利賽人對耶穌質疑的情況。
1.耶穌進了殿,太21:23(空間)
2.正教訓人的時候,太21:23(時間)
3.祭司長和民間的長老來問他說:太21:23
A.你仗著甚麼權柄作這些事?
B.給你這權柄的是誰呢?」
二、耶穌回答法利賽人的質疑。
1.耶穌回答說:「我也要問你們一句話,太21:24
2.你們若告訴我,我就告訴你們我仗著甚麼權柄作這些事。太21:24
3.約翰的洗禮是從那裏來的?太21:25
A.是從天上來的?
B.是從人間來的呢?」
三、法利賽人商議耶穌的話。太21:25
1.他們彼此商議說:
A.「我們若說『從天上來,』他必對我們說:
『這樣,你們為甚麼不信他呢?』
B.若說『從人間來』,我們又怕百姓,太21:26
因為他們都以約翰為先知。」
2.於是回答耶穌說:「我們不知道。」太21:27
四、耶穌的回答。
1.耶穌說:「我也不告訴你們我仗著甚麼權柄作這些事。」太21:27
2.兩個兒子的比喻。(權柄從那裡來不重要,要緊的是懊悔的信他)
甲、故事的內容。
A.又說:「一個人有兩個兒子。太21:28
B.他來對大兒子說:『我兒,你今天到葡萄園裏去作工。』太21:28
a.他回答說:『我不去』,太21:29
b.以後自己懊悔,就去了。太21:29
C.又來對小兒子也是這樣說。太21:30
a.他回答說:『父阿,我去』,
b.他卻不去。
乙、故事的解析。
A.你們想,這個兩兒子是那一個遵行父命呢?」太21:31
他們說:「大兒子。」
B.耶穌說:「我實在告訴你們,
a.稅吏和娼妓倒比你們先進神的國。
b.因為約翰遵著義路到你們這裏來,你們卻不信他;太21:32
c.稅吏和娼妓倒信他。太21:32
d.你們看見了,後來還是不懊悔去信他。」太21:32
3.兇惡園戶的比喻。
甲、故事的內容。
A.「你們再聽一個比喻:有個家主栽了一個葡萄園,太21:33
a.周圍圈上籬笆,太21:33
b.裏面挖了一個壓酒池,太21:33
c.蓋了一座樓,太21:33
d.租給園戶,就往外國去了。太21:33
B.收果子的時候近了,太21:34
a.就打發僕人到園戶那裏去收果子。太21:34
園戶拿住僕人,太21:35
打了一個,太21:35
殺了一個,太21:35
用石頭打死一個。太21:35
b.主人又打發別的僕人去,比先前更多;太21:36
園戶還是照樣待他們。太21:36
c.後來打發他的兒子到他們那裏去,太21:37
意思說:『他們必尊敬我的兒子。』太21:37
不料,園戶看見他兒子,就彼此說:太21:38
這是承受產業的。來罷,我們殺他,佔他的產業!』
他們就拿住他,推出葡萄園外,殺了。太21:39
乙、故事問題與回應。
A.園主來的時候要怎樣處治這些園戶呢?」太21:40
B.他們說:太21:41
a.要下毒手除滅那些惡人,
b.將葡萄園另租給那按著時候交果子的園戶。
丙、故事的解析。
A.耶穌說:「經上寫著:太21:42
a.匠人所棄的石頭已作了房角的頭塊石頭。
b.這是主所作的,在我們眼中看為希奇。
c.這經你們沒有念過麼?
B.所以我告訴你們,太21:43
a.神的國必從你們奪去,
b.賜給那能結果子的百姓。
C.誰掉在這石頭上,必要跌碎;太21:44
這石頭掉在誰的身上,就要把誰砸得稀爛。」
丁、祭司長和法利賽人的反應。
A.祭司長和法利賽人聽見他的比喻,太21:45
B.就看出他是指著他們說的。太21:45
C.他們想要捉拿他,只是怕眾人,太21:46
因為眾人以他為先知。
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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。