馬太福音第23章論法利賽人七禍 查經資料 伯特利教會黃哲輝牧師
主題:論法利賽人
Ⅰ、本章大綱。
壹、論對待法利賽人的方法。V.1-12
貳、論假冒偽善法利賽人有禍。V.13-36
參、論耶路撒冷成為荒場。V.37-39
Ⅱ、本章內容。
壹、論對待法利賽人的方法。V.1-12
一、情況。
1.那時﹐耶穌對眾人和門徒講論,太23:1
2說:「文士和法利賽人坐在摩西的位上,太23:2
二、有關對待文士和法利賽人的方法。
1.凡他們所吩咐你們的,你們都要謹守遵行;太23:3
2.但不要效法他們的行為;太23:3
A.因為他們能說,不能行。太23:3
B.他們把難擔的重擔捆起來,擱在人的肩上,太23:4
但自己一個指頭也不肯動。
C.他們一切所作的事都是要叫人看見,太23:5
a.所以將佩戴的經文作寬了,
b.衣裳的繸子作長了,
D.喜愛筵席上的首座,會堂裏的高位,太23:6
E.喜愛人在街市上問他安,稱呼他拉比(拉比就是夫子)。太23:7
3.你們不要喜歡稱呼。
A.但你們不要受拉比的稱呼,太23:8
因為只有一位是你們的夫子;你們都是弟兄。
B.也不要稱呼地上的人為父,太23:9
因為只有一位是你們的父,就是在天上的父。
C.也不要受師尊的稱呼,太23:10
因為只有一位是你們的師尊,就是基督。
4.你們中間誰為大,誰就要作你們的用人。太23:11
A.凡自高的,必降為卑;太23:12
B.自卑的,必升為高。太23:12
貳、論假冒偽善法利賽人有禍。V.13-36
一、你們這假冒為善的文士和法利賽人有禍了!太23:13
1.因為你們正當人前,把天國的門關了,太23:13
2.自己不進去,正要進去的人,你們也不容他們進去。太23:13
二、你們這假冒為善的文士和法利賽人有禍了!太23:14
1.因為你們侵吞寡婦的家產,太23:14
2.假意作很長的禱告,太23:14
3.所以要受更重的刑罰。太23:14
三、你們這假冒為善的文士和法利賽人有禍了!太23:15
1.因為你們走遍洋海陸地,勾引一個人入教,太23:15
2.既入了教,卻使他作地獄之子,比你們還加倍。太23:15
四、你們這瞎眼領路的有禍了!太23:16
1.你們說:凡指著殿起誓的,這算不得甚麼;太23:16
A.只是凡指著殿中金子起誓的,他就該謹守。』太23:16
B.你們這無知瞎眼的人哪,甚麼是大的?太23:17
C.是金子呢?還是叫金子成聖的殿呢?太23:17
2.你們又說:『凡指著壇起誓的,這算不得甚麼;太23:18
A.只是凡指著壇上禮物起誓的,他就該謹守。』太23:18
B.你們這瞎眼的人哪,甚麼是大的?太23:19
C.是禮物呢?還是叫禮物成聖的壇呢?太23:19
3.人指著壇起誓,就是指著壇和壇上一切所有的起誓;太23:20
A.人指著殿起誓,就是指著殿和那住在殿裏的起誓;太23:21
B.人指著天起誓,就是指著神的寶座和那坐在上面的起誓。太23:22
四、你們這假冒為善的文士和法利賽人有禍了!太23:23
1.因為你們將薄荷、茴香、芹菜,獻上十分之一,太23:23
2.那律法上更重的事,就是公義、憐憫、信實,反倒不行了。太23:23
3.這更重的是你們當行的;那也是不可不行的。太23:23
4.你們這瞎眼領路的,太23:24
A.蠓蟲你們就濾出來,
B.駱駝你們倒吞下去。
五、你們這假冒為善的文士和法利賽人有禍了!太23:25
1.因為你們洗淨杯盤的外面,裏面卻盛滿了勒索和放蕩。太23:25
2.你這瞎眼的法利賽人,太23:26
A.先洗淨杯盤的裏面,
B.好叫外面也乾淨了。
六、你們這假冒為善的文士和法利賽人有禍了!太23:27
1.因為你們好像粉飾的墳墓,太23:27
外面好看,裏面卻裝滿了死人的骨頭和一切的污穢。
2.你們也是如此,太23:28
A.在人前,外面顯出公義來,
B.裏面卻裝滿了假善和不法的事。
七、你們這假冒為善的文士和法利賽人有禍了!太23:29
1.因為你們建造先知的墳,修飾義人的墓,太23:29
2.說:『若是我們在我們祖宗的時候,必不和他們同流先知的血。』太23:30
A.這就是你們自己證明是殺害先知者的子孫了。太23:31
B.你們去充滿你們祖宗的惡貫罷!太23:32
3.你們這些蛇類、毒蛇之種阿,怎能逃脫地獄的刑罰呢?太23:33
A.所以我差遣先知和智慧人並文士到你們這裏來,太23:34
a.有的你們要殺害,要釘十字架;
b.有的你們要在會堂裏鞭打,從這城追逼到那城,
B.叫世上所流義人的血都歸到你們身上,太23:35
a.從義人亞伯的血起,
b.直到你們在殿和壇中間所殺的巴拉加的兒子撒迦利亞的血為止。
C.我實在告訴你們,這一切的罪都要歸到這世代了。」太23:36
參、論耶路撒冷成為荒場。V.37-39
一、原因。
1.耶路撒冷阿,耶路撒冷阿,太23:37
A.你常殺害先知,太23:37
B.又用石頭打死那奉差遣到你這裏來的人。太23:37
2.我多次願意聚集你的兒女,好像母雞把小雞聚集在翅膀底下,太23:37
3.只是你們不願意。太23:37
二、結果。
1.看哪,你們的家成為荒場留給你們。太23:38
2.我告訴你們,從今以後,你們不得再見我,太23:39
3.直等到你們說:『奉主名來的是應當稱頌的。』」太23:39
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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。