10月23日 一年的第297天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:可01-03章
第01章主要在講:「開始傳道眾人驚訝」。
一.神的兒子,耶穌基督福音的起頭。可1:1
1. 正如先知以賽亞書上記著說:看哪,我要差遣我的使者在你前面,豫備道路。可1:2
在曠野有人聲喊著說:豫備主的道,修直他的路。可1:3
2.照這話,約翰來了,在曠野施洗,傳悔改的洗禮,使罪得赦。可1:4
3.猶太全地和耶路撒冷的人都出去到約翰那裏,承認他們的罪,在約但河裏受他的洗。可1:5
A.約翰穿駱駝毛的衣服,腰束皮帶,喫的是蝗蟲、野蜜。可1:6
B.他傳道說:「有一位在我以後來的,能力比我更大,我就是彎腰給他解鞋帶也是不配的。可1:7
C.我是用水給你們施洗,他卻要用聖靈給你們施洗。」可1:8
二.那時,耶穌從加利利的拿撒勒來,在約但河裏受了約翰的洗。可1:9
1.他從水裏一上來,就看見天裂開了,聖靈彷彿鴿子,降在他身上。可1:1 0
2.又有聲音從天上來,說:「你是我的愛子,我喜悅你。」可1:11
3.聖靈就把耶穌催到曠野裏去。可1:12
4.他在曠野四十天,受撒但的試探,並與野獸同在一處,且有天使來伺候他。可1:13
三.約翰下監以後,耶穌來到加利利,宣傳神的福音,可1:14
1.說:「日期滿了,神的國近了。你們當悔改,信福音!」可1:15
2. 耶穌順著加利利的海邊走,看見西門和西門的兄弟安得烈在海裏撒網;他們本是打魚的。可1:16
3.耶穌對他們說:「來跟從我,我要叫你們得人如得魚一樣。」可1:17
A.他們就立刻捨了網,跟從了他。可1:18
B.耶穌稍往前走,又見西庇太的兒子雅各和雅各的兄弟約翰在船上補網。可1:19
C. 耶穌隨即招呼他們,他們就把父親西庇太和雇工人留在船上,跟從耶穌去了。可1:20
四.到了迦百農,耶穌就在安息日進了會堂教訓人。可1:21
1.眾人很希奇他的教訓;因為他教訓他們,正像有權柄的人,不像文士。可1:22
2.在會堂裏,有一個人被污鬼附著。他喊叫說:可1:23
A. 「拿撒勒人耶穌,我們與你有甚麼相干?你來滅我們麼?我知道你是誰,乃是神的聖者。」可1:24
B.耶穌責備他說:「不要作聲!從這人身上出來罷。」可1:25
C.污鬼叫那人抽了一陣瘋,大聲喊叫,就出來了。可1:26
D.眾人都驚訝,以致彼此對問說:「這是甚麼事?是個新道理阿!他用權柄吩咐污鬼,連污鬼也聽從了他。」可1:27
E.耶穌的名聲就傳遍了加利利的四方。可1:28
3.他們一出會堂,就同著雅各、約翰,進了西門和安得烈的家。可1:29
A.西門的岳母正害熱病躺著,就有人告訴耶穌。可1:30
B. 耶穌進前拉著他的手,扶他起來,熱就退了,他就服事他們。可1:31
C.天晚日落的時候,有人帶著一切害病的,和被鬼附的,來到耶穌跟前。可1:32
D.合城的人都聚集在門前。可1:33
E. 耶穌治好了許多害各樣病的人,又趕出許多鬼,不許鬼說話,因為鬼認識他。可1:34
4.次日早晨,天未亮的時候,耶穌起來,到曠野地方去,在那裏禱告。可1:35
A. 西門和同伴追了他去,可1:36
B.遇見了就對他說:「眾人都找你。」可1:37
C. 耶穌對他們說:「我們可以往別處去,到鄰近的鄉村,我也好在那裏傳道,因為我是為這事出來的。」可1:38
5.於是在加利利全地,進了會堂,傳道,趕鬼。可1:39
A.有一個長大痳瘋的來求耶穌,向他跪下,說:「你若肯,必能叫我潔淨了。」可1:40
B.耶穌動了慈心,就伸手摸他,說:「我肯,你潔淨了罷!」可1:41
a.大痳瘋即時離開他,他就潔淨了。可1:42
b. 耶穌嚴嚴的囑咐他,就打發他走,可1:43
c.對他說:「你要謹慎,甚麼話都不可告訴人,只要去把身體給祭司察看,又因為你潔淨了,獻上摩西所吩咐的禮物,對眾人作證據。」可1:44
C.那人出去,倒說許多的話,把這件事傳揚開了,叫耶穌以後不得再明明的進城,只好在外邊曠野地方。人從各處都就了他來。可1:45
◎心得分享:馬可福音用很簡短淺顯快速的方式來記述,我們主耶穌的生平,這一章開始介紹耶穌,是用舊約先知以賽亞書上預言,說明施洗約翰就是見證耶穌就是彌賽亞,接著耶穌受洗、在曠野受試探、呼招門徒、在會堂趕鬼、醫治各樣的疾病、潔淨長大痲瘋的。特別讓我們看到的眾人的反應,是驚訝的,彼此對問:「這是甚麼事?是什麼新道理,耶穌用權柄,污鬼都聽從」,我們的主耶穌來,總是讓人感到驚訝、驚奇、驚嘆。
第02章主要在講:「醫治癱子心裡議論」。
一.過了些日子,耶穌又進了迦百農。人聽見他在房子裏,可2:1
1.就有許多人聚集,甚至連門前都沒有空地;耶穌就對他們講道。可2:2
2.有人帶著一個癱子來見耶穌,是用四個人抬來的;可2:3
A.因為人多,不得近前,就把耶穌所在的房子,拆了房頂,既拆通了,就把癱子連所躺臥的褥子都縋下來。可2:4
B.耶穌見他們的信心,就對癱子說:「小子,你的罪赦了。」可2:5
C.有幾個文士坐在那裏,心裏議論,說:可2:6
D.「這個人為甚麼這樣說呢?他說僭妄的話了。除了神以外,誰能赦罪呢?」可2:7
3.耶穌心中知道他們心裏這樣議論,就說:「你們心裏為甚麼這樣議論呢?可2:8
A.或對癱子說『你的罪赦了』,或說『起來!拿你的褥子行走』;那一樣容易呢?可2:9
B. 但要叫你們知道,人子在地上有赦罪的權柄。」就對癱子說:可2:10
C.「我吩咐你,起來!拿你的褥子回家去罷。」可2:11
4.那人就起來,立刻拿著褥子,當眾人面前出去了,以致眾人都驚奇,歸榮耀與神,說:「我們從來沒有見過這樣的事!」可2:12
二.耶穌又出到海邊去,眾人都就了他來,他便教訓他們。可2:13
1.耶穌經過的時候,看見亞勒腓的兒子利未坐在稅關上,就對他說:「你跟從我來。」他就起來,跟從了耶穌。可2:14
2.耶穌在利未家裏坐席的時候,有好些稅吏和罪人與耶穌並門徒一同坐席;因為這樣的人多,他們也跟隨耶穌。可2:15
A.法利賽人中的文士看見耶穌和罪人並稅吏一同喫飯,就對他門徒說:「他和稅吏並罪人一同喫喝麼?」可2:16
B.耶穌聽見,就對他們說:「康健的人用不著醫生,有病的人纔用得著。我來本不是召義人,乃是召罪人。」可2:17
3.當下,約翰的門徒和法利賽人禁食。他們來問耶穌說:「約翰的門徒和法利賽人的門徒禁食,你的門徒倒不禁食,這是為甚麼呢?」可2:18
A.耶穌對他們說:「新郎和陪伴之人同在的時候,陪伴之人豈能禁食呢?新郎還同在,他們不能禁食。可2:19
B.但日子將到,新郎要離開他們,那日他們就要禁食。可2:20
C.沒有人把新布縫在舊衣服上,恐怕所補上的新布帶壞了舊衣服,破的就更大了。可2:21
D.也沒有人把新酒裝在舊皮袋裏,恐怕酒把皮袋裂開,酒和皮袋就都壞了;惟把新酒裝在新皮袋裏。」可2:22
三.耶穌當安息日從麥地經過。他門徒行路的時候,掐了麥穗。可2:23
1.法利賽人對耶穌說:「看哪,他們在安息日為甚麼作不可作的事呢?」可2:24
2.耶穌對他們說:「經上記著大衛和跟從他的人缺乏飢餓之時所作的事,你們沒有念過麼?可2:25
A.他當亞比亞他作大祭司的時候,怎麼進了神的殿,喫了陳設餅,又給跟從他的人喫。這餅除了祭司以外,人都不可喫。可2:26
B.又對他們說:「安息日是為人設立的,人不是為安息日設立的。可2:27
3.所以,人子也是安息日的主。」可2:28
◎心得分享:耶穌來不只叫人驚訝,這章主要講的是「人們對他的議論」,說祂憑什麼對癱子說:「赦免他的罪」,除了上帝,沒有人能赦免別人的罪,接著耶穌又呼招稅吏,進入他們家吃飯,人們議論「祂怎麼跟罪人和稅吏在一起」,接著也議論耶穌的門徒「不禁食」,並且又議論門徒犯了猶太人的規定,在「安息日拾麥穗吃」。人們常用自己的標準來,評斷別人的對錯,然而這樣的論斷,卻使他們遠離了上帝,失去了永生的祝福,我們是否也因為上帝沒有按著我們想的方式作,我們就論斷上帝?開始懷疑,拒絕信靠祂呢?
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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。