42-02路加福音經文分段查經資料 路加福音第2章 彰化伯特利教會黃哲輝牧師
主題:耶穌出生到十二歲的情形。耶穌的智慧和身量,並神和人喜愛他的心都一齊增長。
Ⅰ.耶穌降生牧羊人讚美。V.01-20
Ⅱ.耶穌生滿八天受割禮。V.21-40
Ⅲ.耶穌十二歲聖殿守節。V.41-52
Ⅰ.耶穌降生牧羊人讚美。V.01-20
壹.耶穌降生在伯利恆。2:1-7
一.生在伯特恆的原因。
1.當那些日子,該撒亞古士督有旨意下來,路2:1
叫天下人民都報名上冊。
2.這是居里扭作敘利亞巡撫的時候,頭一次行報名上冊的事。路2:2
3.眾人各歸各城,報名上冊。路2:3
二.到伯利恆的過程。
1.約瑟也從加利利的拿撒勒城上猶太去,路2:4
2.到了大衛的城,名叫伯利恆,路2:4
因他本是大衛一族一家的人,
3.要和他所聘之妻馬利亞一同報名上冊。路2:5
那時馬利亞的身孕已經重了。
三.在伯利恆降生的情形。
1.他們在那裏的時候,馬利亞的產期到了,路2:6
2.就生了頭胎的兒子,用布包起來,路2:7
3.放在馬槽裏,因為客店裏沒有地方。路2:7
貳.牧羊人來見耶穌。2:08-20
一.天使向牧羊人顯現。2:08-15a
1.在伯利恆之野地裏有牧羊的人,夜間按著更次看守羊群。路2:8
2.有主的使者站在他們旁邊,主的榮光四面照著他們;路2:9
牧羊的人就甚懼怕。
3.那天使對他們說:路2:10
A.不要懼怕!我報給你們大喜的信息,是關乎萬民的;路2:10
B.因今天在大衛的城裏,為你們生了救主,就是主基督。路2:11
C.你們要看見一個嬰孩,包著布,臥在馬槽裏,那就是記號了。路2:12
4.忽然,有一大隊天兵同那天使讚美神說:路2:13
A.在至高之處榮耀歸與神!路2:14
B.在地上平安歸與他所喜悅的人(有古卷:喜悅歸與人)!路2:14
5.眾天使離開他們,升天去了。路2:15 a
二.牧羊的人彼此說:我們往伯利恆去看看所成的事就是主所指示我們的。路2:15b
1.他們急忙去了,就尋見馬利亞和約瑟,又有那嬰孩臥在馬槽裏;路2:16
2.既然看見,就把天使論這孩子的話傳開了。路2:17
3.凡聽見的,就詫異牧羊之人對他們所說的話。路2:18
4.馬利亞卻把這一切的事存在心裏,反復思想。路2:19
三.牧羊的人回去了,路2:20
因所聽見所看見的一切事,正如天使向他們所說的,就歸榮耀與神,讚美他。
Ⅱ.耶穌生滿八天受割禮。V.21-40
壹.按摩西行割禮潔淨。
一.滿了八天,就給孩子行割禮,與他起名叫耶穌;路2:21
這就是沒有成胎以前,天使所起的名。
二.按摩西律法滿了潔淨的日子,他們帶著孩子上耶路撒冷去要把他獻與主.路2:22
(正如主的律法上所記:「凡頭生的男子必稱聖歸主;」)路2:23
三.又要照主的律法上所說,或用一對班鳩,或用兩隻雛鴿獻祭。路2:24
貳.公義虔誠西面的見證。路2:25-35
一.西面這個人。
1.在耶路撒冷有一個人,名叫西面;路2:25
2.這人又公義又虔誠,素常盼望以色列的安慰者來到,又有聖靈在他身上。路2:25
3.他得了聖靈的啟示,知道自己未死以前,必看見主所立的基督。路2:26
二.他受了聖靈的感動,進入聖殿,路2:27
1.正遇見耶穌的父母抱著孩子進來,要照律法的規矩辦理。路2:27
2.西面就用手接過他來,路2:28
3.稱頌神說:路2:28
A.主阿!如今可以照你的話,釋放僕人安然去世;路2:29
B.因為我的眼睛已經看見你的救恩,路2:30
C.就是你在萬民面前所豫備的:路2:31
D.是照亮外邦人的光,又是你民以色列的榮耀。路2:32
三.孩子的父母因這論耶穌的話就希奇。路2:33
四.西面給他們祝福,又對孩子的母親馬利亞說:路2:34
1.這孩子被立,是要叫以色列中許多人跌倒,許多人興起;
2.又要作毀謗的話柄,叫許多人心裏的意念顯露出來;
3.你自己的心也要被刀剌透。
參.守寡女先知亞拿的見證。路2:36
一.又有女先知,名叫亞拿,是亞設支派法內力的女兒,路2:36
二.年紀已經老邁,
1.從作童女出嫁的時候,同丈夫住了七年就寡居了,路2:36
2.現在已經八十四歲(或作:就寡居了八十四年),路2:37
3.並不離開聖殿,禁食祈求,晝夜事奉神。路2:37
三.正當那時他進前來稱謝神將孩子的事對一切盼望耶路撒冷得救贖的人講說.2:38
肆.約瑟和馬利亞照主的律法辦完了一切的事,就回加利利,路2:39
一.到自己的城拿撒勒去了。路2:39
二.孩子漸漸長大,強健起來,充滿智慧,路2:40
三.又有神的恩在他身上。路2:40
Ⅲ.耶穌十二歲聖殿守節。V.41-52
壹. 時間。
一.每年到逾越節,他父母就上耶路撒冷去。路2:41
二.當他十二歲的時候,他們按著節期的規矩上去。路2:42
貳.過程。
一.守滿了節期,他們回去,路2:43
1.孩童耶穌仍舊在耶路撒冷。他的父母並不知道,路2:43
2.以為他在同行的人中間,走了一天的路程,路2:44
3.就在親族和熟識的人中找他,路2:44
二.既找不著,就回耶路撒冷去找他。路2:45
三.過了三天,就遇見他在殿裏,坐在教師中間,一面聽,一面問。路2:46
1.凡聽見他的,都希奇他的聰明和他的應對。路2:47
2.他父母看見就很希奇。路2:48
四.他母親對他說:路2:48
1.我兒!為甚麼向我們這樣行呢?
2.看哪!你父親和我傷心來找你!
五.耶穌說:「為甚麼找我呢?豈不知我應當以我父的事為念麼.路2:49
他所說的這話,他們不明白。路2:50
參.結果。
一.他就同他們下去,回到拿撒勒,路2:51
二.並且順從他們。他母親把這一切的事都存在心裏。路2:51
三.耶穌的智慧和身量(或作:年紀),並神和人喜愛他的心,都一齊增長。路2:52
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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。