10月24日 一年的第298天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:可04-06章
第04章主要在講:「撒種比喻平靜風浪」。
一.耶穌又在海邊教訓人。有許多人到他那裏聚集,他只得上船坐下。船在海裏,眾人都靠近海,站在岸上。可4:1
耶穌就用比喻教訓他們許多道理。在教訓之間,對他們說:可4:2
1.你們聽阿!有一個撒種的出去撒種。可4:3
A.撒的時候,有落在路旁的,飛鳥來喫盡了;可4:4
a.有落在土淺石頭地上的,土既不深,發苗最快,可4:5
日頭出來一曬,因為沒有根,就枯乾了;可4:6
b.有落在荊棘裏的,荊棘長起來,把他擠住了,就不結實;可4:7
c.又有落在好土裏的,就發生長大,結實有三十倍的,有六十倍的,有一百倍的」;可4:8
d.又說:「有耳可聽的,就應當聽!」可4:9
B.無人的時候,跟隨耶穌的人和十二個門徒問他這比喻的意思。可4:10
a.耶穌對他們說:「神國的奧祕只叫你們知道,若是對外人講,凡事就用比喻,可4:11
b.叫他們看是看見,卻不曉得;聽是聽見,卻不明白;恐怕他們回轉過來,就得赦免。可4:12
c.又對他們說:「你們不明白這比喻麼?這樣怎能明白一切的比喻呢?可4:13
C.撒種之人所撒的就是道。可4:14
a.那撒在路旁的,就是人聽了道,撒但立刻來,把撒在他心裏的道奪了去。可4:15
b.那撒在石頭地上的,就是人聽了道,立刻歡喜領受,可4:16
但他心裏沒有根,不過是暫時的,及至為道遭了患難,或是受了逼迫,立刻就跌倒了。可4:17
c.可4:18 還有那撒在荊棘裏的,就是人聽了道,
後來有世上的思慮、錢財的迷惑,和別樣的私慾進來,把道擠住了,就不能結實。可4:19
d.那撒在好地上的,就是人聽道,又領受,並且結實,有三十倍的,有六十倍的,有一百倍的。」可4:20
2.耶穌又對他們說:「人拿燈來,豈是要放在斗底下,床底下,不放在燈臺上麼?可4:21
A.因為掩藏的事,沒有不顯出來的;隱瞞的事,沒有不露出來的。可4:22
B.有耳可聽的,就應當聽!」可4:23
3.又說:你們所聽的要留心。你們用甚麼量器量給人,也必用甚麼量器量給你們,並且要多給你們。可4:24
因為有的,還要給他;沒有的,連他所有的也要奪去。可4:25
4.又說:「神的國如同人把種撒在地上。可4:26
A. 黑夜睡覺,白日起來,這種就發芽漸長,那人卻不曉得如何這樣。可4:27
B. 地生五穀是出於自然的:先發苗,後長穗,再後穗上結成飽滿的子粒;可4:28
C. 穀既熟了,就用鐮刀去割,因為收成的時候到了。可4:29
5.又說:「神的國,我們可用甚麼比較呢?可用甚麼比喻表明呢?可4:30
A.好像一粒芥菜種,種在地裏的時候,雖比地上的百種都小,可4:31
B.但種上以後,就長起來,比各樣的菜都大,又長出大枝來,甚至天上的飛鳥可以宿在他的蔭下。」可4:32
C.耶穌用許多這樣的比喻,照他們所能聽的,對他們講道。可4:33
D.若不用比喻,就不對他們講;沒有人的時候,就把一切的道講給門徒聽。可4:34
二.當那天晚上,耶穌對門徒說:「我們渡到那邊去罷。」可4:35
1.門徒離開眾人,耶穌仍在船上,他們就把他一同帶去;也有別的船和他同行。可4:36
2.忽然起了暴風,波浪打入船內,甚至船要滿了水。可4:37
3.耶穌在船尾上,枕著枕頭睡覺。門徒叫醒了他,說:「夫子!我們喪命,你不顧麼?」可4:38
4.耶穌醒了,斥責風,向海說:「住了罷!靜了罷!」風就止住,大大的平靜了。可4:39
A.耶穌對他們說:「為甚麼膽怯?你們還沒有信心麼?」可4:40
B.他們就大大的懼怕,彼此說:「這到底是誰,連風和海也聽從他了。」可4:41
◎馬可福音第04章心得分享:馬可福音前面幾章提到眾人的驚訝、議論、商議除滅耶穌之後,這一章耶穌就開始用「比喻」的方式講道,「撒種的比喻」主要在講到,「撒種與結果之間最大關鍵點,不是撒種的人或是種子的,而是田地,也就是人的心」,人用什麼「心態」去面對「真道」,而結果就會有所不同,明明耶穌就對門徒說:「我們渡到那邊去罷。」,就一定可以過去,然而門徒遇到風浪的時候,還是會有不信、害怕、懷疑,然而上帝的話句句帶有能力,必要成就,我們有風浪嗎?只要抓住上帝的話,我們必然會跨越、得勝。
第05章主要在講:「醫治血漏閨女復活」。
一.他們來到海那邊格拉森人的地方。可5:1
1.耶穌一下船,就有一個被污鬼附著的人從墳塋裏出來迎著他。可5:2
A.那人常住在墳塋裏,沒有人能捆住他,就是用鐵鍊也不能;可5:3
B.因為人屢次用腳鐐和鐵鍊捆鎖他,鐵鍊竟被他掙斷了,腳鐐也被他弄碎了;總沒有人能制伏他。可5:4
2.他晝夜常在墳塋裏和山中喊叫,又用石頭砍自己。可5:5
3.他遠遠的看見耶穌,就跑過去拜他,可5:6
A.大聲呼叫說:「至高神的兒子耶穌,我與你有甚麼相干?我指著神懇求你,不要叫我受苦!」可5:7
是因耶穌曾吩咐他說:「污鬼阿,從這人身上出來罷!」可5:8
B.耶穌問他說:「你名叫甚麼?」回答說:「我名叫『群』,因為我們多的緣故」;可5:9
a.就再三的求耶穌,不要叫他們離開那地方。可5:10
b.在那裏山坡上,有一大群豬喫食;可5:11
c.鬼就央求耶穌說:「求你打發我們往豬群裏,附著豬去。」可5:12
C. 耶穌准了他們,污鬼就出來,進入豬裏去。於是那群豬闖下山崖,投在海裏,淹死了。豬的數目約有二千。可5:13
4.放豬的就逃跑了,去告訴城裏和鄉下的人。眾人就來,要看是甚麼事。可5:14
A.他們來到耶穌那裏,看見那被鬼附著的人,就是從前被群鬼所附的,坐著,穿上衣服,心裏明白過來,他們就害怕。可5:15
B. 看見這事的,便將鬼附之人所遇見的和那群豬的事都告訴了眾人;可5:16
C.眾人就央求耶穌離開他們的境界。可5:17
5.耶穌上船的時候,那從前被鬼附著的人懇求和耶穌同在。可5:18
A.耶穌不許,卻對他說:「你回家去,到你的親屬那裏,將主為你所作的是何等大的事,是怎樣憐憫你,都告訴他們。」可5:19
B. 那人就走了,在低加波利傳揚耶穌為他作了何等大的事,眾人就都希奇。可5:20
二.耶穌坐船又渡到那邊去,就有許多人到他那裏聚集;他正在海邊上。可5:21
1.有一個管會堂的人,名叫睚魯,來見耶穌,就俯伏在他腳前,可5:22
A. 再三的求他,說:「我的小女兒快要死了,求你去按手在他身上,使他痊癒,得以活了。」可5:23
B. 耶穌就和他同去。有許多人跟隨擁擠他。可5:24
2.有一個女人,患了十二年的血漏,可5:25
A.在好些醫生手裏受了許多的苦,又花盡了他所有的,一點也不見好,病勢反倒更重了。可5:26
B.他聽見耶穌的事,就從後頭來,雜在眾人中間,摸耶穌的衣裳,可5:27
a.意思說:「我只摸他的衣裳,就必痊癒。」可5:28
b.於是他血漏的源頭立刻乾了;他便覺得身上的災病好了。可5:29
C.耶穌頓時心裏覺得有能力從自己身上出去,就在眾人中間轉過來,說:「誰摸我的衣裳?」可5:30
a.門徒對他說:「你看眾人擁擠你,還說『誰摸我』麼?」可5:31
b.耶穌周圍觀看,要見作這事的女人。可5:32
D.那女人知道在自己身上所成的事,就恐懼戰兢,來俯伏在耶穌跟前,將實情全告訴他。可5:33
E.耶穌對他說:「女兒,你的信救了你,平平安安的回去罷!你的災病痊癒了。」可5:34
三.還說話的時候,有人從管會堂的家裏來,說:「你的女兒死了,何必還勞動先生呢?」可5:35
1.耶穌聽見所說的話,就對管會堂的說:「不要怕,只要信!」可5:36
A.於是帶著彼得、雅各、和雅各的兄弟約翰同去,不許別人跟隨他。可5:37
B.他們來到管會堂的家裏;耶穌看見那裏亂嚷,並有人大大的哭泣哀號,可5:38
C.進到裏面,就對他們說:「為甚麼亂嚷哭泣呢?孩子不是死了,是睡著了。」可5:39
2.他們就嗤笑耶穌。耶穌把他們都攆出去,就帶著孩子的父母,和跟隨的人進了孩子所在的地方,可5:40
3.就拉著孩子的手,對他說:「大利大,古米!」(繙出來就是說:「閨女,我吩咐你起來!」)可5:41
4. 那閨女立時起來走。他們就大大的驚奇;閨女己經十二歲了。可5:42
5.耶穌切切的囑咐他們,不要叫人知道這事,又吩咐給他東西喫。可5:43
◎馬可福音第05章心得分享:前一章,我們的主耶穌雖然用「以退為進」的比喻講道,然而「人的需要與上帝的拯救」,永遠要放在「自我的經驗」之上,因此耶穌繼續行神蹟,在格拉森趕出被鬼附的人,又醫治患了血漏十二年的女人,並且使十二歲的閨女復活。我們是否也常常願意放下自己的經驗?隨時聽從上帝的吩咐?
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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。