10月23日 一年的第297天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:可01-03章
第03章主要在講:「商議除滅設立門徒」。
一.耶穌又進了會堂,在那裏有一個人枯乾了一隻手。可3:1
1.眾人窺探耶穌,在安息日醫治不醫治,意思是要控告耶穌。可3:2
2. 耶穌對那枯乾一隻手的人說:「起來,站在當中。」可3:3
A.又問眾人說:「在安息日行善行惡,救命害命,那樣是可以的呢?」他們都不作聲。可3:4
B.耶穌怒目周圍看他們,憂愁他們的心剛硬,就對那人說:「伸出手來!」他把手一伸,手就復了原。可3:5
3.法利賽人出去,同希律一黨的人商議怎樣可以除滅耶穌。可3:6
二.耶穌和門徒退到海邊去,有許多人從加利利跟隨他。可3:7
1.還有許多人聽見他所作的大事,就從猶太、耶路撒冷、以土買、約但河外,並推羅、西頓的四方來到他那裏。可3:8
2.他因為人多,就吩咐門徒叫一隻小船伺候著,免得眾人擁擠他。可3:9
3.他治好了許多人,所以凡有災病的,都擠進來要摸他。可3:10
4.污鬼無論何時看見他,就俯伏在他面前,喊著說:「你是神的兒子。」可3:11
5.耶穌再三的囑咐他們,不要把他顯露出來。可3:12
三.耶穌上了山,隨自己的意思叫人來;他們便來到他那裏。可3:13
1.他就設立十二個人,要他們常和自己同在,也要差他們去傳道,可3:14
2.並給他們權柄趕鬼。可3:15
3.這十二個人有西門(耶穌又給他起名叫彼得),可3:16
A 還有西庇太的兒子雅各和雅各的兄弟約翰(又給這兩個人起名叫半尼其,就是雷子的意思),可3:17
B 又有安得烈、腓力、巴多羅買、馬太、多馬、亞勒腓的兒子雅各、和達太,並奮銳黨的西門;可3:18
C.還有賣耶穌的加略人猶大。可3:19
四.耶穌進了一個屋子,眾人又聚集,甚至他連飯也顧不得喫。可3:20
1.耶穌的親屬聽見,就出來要拉住他,因為他們說他癲狂了。可3:21
2.從耶路撒冷下來的文士說:「他是被別西卜附著」;又說:「他是靠著鬼王趕鬼。」可3:22
3.耶穌叫他們來,用比喻對他們說:「撒但怎能趕出撒但呢?可3:23
A.若一國自相分爭,那國就站立不住;可3:24
B.若一家自相分爭,那家就站立不住。可3:25
C.若撒但自相攻打分爭,他就站立不住,必要滅亡。可3:26
D.沒有人能進壯士家裏,搶奪他的家具;必先捆住那壯士,纔可以搶奪他的家。可3:27
4.我實在告訴你們,世人一切的罪和一切褻瀆的話都可得赦免;可3:28
A.凡褻瀆聖靈的,卻永不得赦免,乃要擔當永遠的罪。可3:29
B.這話是因為他們說:「他是被污鬼附著的。」可3:30
5.當下,耶穌的母親和弟兄來,站在外邊,打發人去叫他。可3:31
A.有許多人在耶穌周圍坐著,他們就告訴他說:「看哪,你母親和你弟兄在外邊找你。」可3:32
B.耶穌回答說:「誰是我的母親?誰是我的弟兄?」可3:33
C.就四面觀看那周圍坐著的人,說:看哪,我的母親,我的弟兄。可3:34
D. 凡遵行神旨意的人就是我的弟兄姐妹和母親了。可3:35
◎心得分享:耶穌就是世上的光,祂來到這世上,黑暗卻不接受光,這章講到法利賽人出去,同希律一黨的人商議怎樣可以除滅耶穌,我們的主耶穌「不為所動」,繼續醫病趕鬼,並且設立12位門徒,給他們權柄趕鬼,甚至服事到「廢寢忘食」,耶穌的母親和弟弟,要叫他回去吃飯,祂卻說「遵守神的旨意的人,才是真正的家人母親兄弟」。這是給我們留下最好的榜樣,我們是否在遇到問題就退縮停止呢?我們的主耶穌在告訴我們遇到挫折要「勇往直前」。
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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。