10月25日 一年的第299天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:可07-10章
第07章主要在講:「婦人信心醫治聾啞」。
一.有法利賽人和幾個文士從耶路撒冷來,到耶穌那裏聚集。可7:1
1.他們曾看見他的門徒中有人用俗手,就是沒有洗的手,喫飯。可7:2
A.(原來法利賽人和猶太人都拘守古人的遺傳,若不仔細洗手就不喫飯;可7:3
B.從市上來,若不洗浴也不喫飯;還有好些別的規矩,他們歷代拘守,就是洗杯、罐、銅器等物。)可7:4
2.法利賽人和文士問他說:「你的門徒為甚麼不照古人的遺傳,用俗手喫飯呢?」可7:5
3.耶穌說:「以賽亞指著你們假冒為善之人所說的豫言是不錯的。如經上說:這百姓用嘴唇尊敬我,心卻遠離我。可7:6
A.他們將人的吩咐當作道理教導人,所以拜我也是枉然。可7:7
B.你們是離棄神的誡命,拘守人的遺傳」;可7:8
C.又說:「你們誠然是廢棄神的誡命,要守自己的遺傳。可7:9
D.摩西說:『當孝敬父母』;又說:『咒罵父母的,必治死他。』可7:10
a.你們倒說:『人若對父母說:『我所當奉給你的,已經作了各耳板』(各耳板就是供獻的意思),可7:11
b.以後你們就不容他再奉養父母。可7:12
E.這就是你們承接遺傳,廢了神的道。你們還作許多這樣的事。」可7:13
4.耶穌又叫眾人來,對他們說:「你們都要聽我的話,也要明白。可7:14
A.從外面進去的不能污穢人,惟有從裏面出來的乃能污穢人。」可7:15
B.(有古卷在此有: 有耳可聽的,就應當聽!)可7:16
5.耶穌離開眾人,進了屋子,門徒就問他這比喻的意思。可7:17
A.耶穌對他們說:「你們也是這樣不明白麼?豈不曉得凡從外面進入的,不能污穢人,可7:18
B.因為不是入他的心,乃是入他的肚腹,又落到茅廁裏(這是說,各樣的食物都是潔淨的)」;可7:19
C.又說:「從人裏面出來的,那纔能污穢人;可7:20
a. 因為從裏面,就是從人心裏,發出惡念、苟合、可7:21
b. 偷盜、兇殺、姦淫、貪婪、邪惡、詭詐、淫蕩、嫉妒、謗讟、驕傲、狂妄。可7:22
c. 這一切的惡都是從裏面出來,且能污穢人。」可7:23
二.耶穌從那裏起身,往推羅、西頓的境內去,進了一家,不願意人知道,卻隱藏不住。可7:24
1.當下,有一個婦人,他的小女兒被污鬼附著,聽見耶穌的事,就來俯伏在他腳前。可7:25
這婦人是希利尼人,屬敘利腓尼基族。他求耶穌趕出那鬼離開他的女兒。可7:26
2.耶穌對他說:「讓兒女們先喫飽,不好拿兒女的餅丟給狗喫。」可7:27
3.婦人回答說:「主阿,不錯;但是狗在桌子底下也喫孩子們的碎渣兒。」可7:28
4.耶穌對他說:「因這句話,你回去罷;鬼已經離開你的女兒了。」可7:29
5.他就回家去,見小孩子躺在床上,鬼已經出去了。可7:30
三.耶穌又離了推羅的境界,經過西頓,就從低加波利境內來到加利利海。可7:31
1.有人帶著一個耳聾舌結的人來見耶穌,求他按手在他身上。可7:32
2.耶穌領他離開眾人,到一邊去,就用指頭探他的耳朵,吐唾沫抹他的舌頭,可7:33
A.望天歎息,對他說:「以法大!」就是說:「開了罷!」可7:34
B.他的耳朵就開了,舌結也解了,說話也清楚了。可7:35
3.耶穌囑咐他們不要告訴人;但他越發囑咐,他們越發傳揚開了。可7:36
4.眾人分外希奇,說:「他所作的事都好,他連聾子也叫他們聽見,啞吧也叫他們說話。」可7:37
◎心得分享:這一章把有信心的外邦希利尼婦人,與上一章沒有信心的耶穌家鄉人,和假冒為善的法利賽人和文士作一個對比,希利尼婦人的信心:「是無論受到任何羞辱與不堪,仍然大膽的來向耶穌祈求」,我們是不是一遇到挫折,就停止我們的禱告,或是我們願意堅持不斷的向我們主耶穌祈求,直到祂應允呢?
第08章主要在講:「要門徒背十架跟從」。
一.那時,又有許多人聚集,並沒有甚麼喫的。耶穌叫門徒來,說:可8:1
1.我憐憫這眾人;因為他們同我在這裏已經三天,也沒有喫的了。可8:2
2.我若打發他們餓著回家,就必在路上困乏,因為其中有從遠處來的。」可8:3
3.門徒回答說:「在這野地,從那裏能得餅,叫這些人喫飽呢?」可8:4
4.耶穌問他們說:「你們有多少餅?」他們說:「七個。」可8:5
A.他吩咐眾人坐在地上,就拿著這七個餅祝謝了,擘開,遞給門徒,叫他們擺開,門徒就擺在眾人面前。可8:6
B.又有幾條小魚;耶穌祝了福,就吩咐也擺在眾人面前。可8:7
C.眾人都喫,並且喫飽了,收拾剩下的零碎,有七筐子。可8:8
5.人數約有四千。耶穌打發他們走了,可8:9
二.隨即同門徒上船,來到大瑪努他境內。可8:10
1.法利賽人出來盤問耶穌,求他從天上顯個神蹟給他們看,想要試探他。可8:11
2.耶穌心裏深深的歎息,說:「這世代為甚麼求神蹟呢?我實在告訴你們,沒有神蹟給這世代看。」可8:12
三.他就離開他們,又上船往海那邊去了。可8:13
1.門徒忘了帶餅;在船上除了一個餅,沒有別的食物。可8:14
2.耶穌囑咐他們說:「你們要謹慎,防備法利賽人的酵和希律的酵。」可8:15
3.他們彼此議論說:「這是因為我們沒有餅罷。」可8:16
4.耶穌看出來,就說:「你們為甚麼因為沒有餅就議論呢?你們還不省悟,還不明白麼?你們的心還是愚頑麼?可8:17
A.你們有眼睛,看不見麼?有耳朵,聽不見麼?也不記得麼?可8:18
B.我擘開那五個餅分給五千人,你們收拾的零碎裝滿了多少籃子呢?」他們說:「十二個。」可8:19
C.「又擘開那七個餅分給四千人,你們收拾的零碎裝滿了多少筐子呢?」他們說:「七個。」可8:20
D.耶穌說:「你們還是不明白麼?」可8:21
四.他們來到伯賽大,有人帶一個瞎子來,求耶穌摸他。可8:22
1.耶穌拉著瞎子的手,領他到村外,就吐唾沫在他眼睛上,按手在他身上,問他說:「你看見甚麼了?」可8:23
2.他就抬頭一看,說:「我看見人了;他們好像樹木,並且行走。」可8:24
3.隨後又按手在他眼睛上,他定睛一看,就復了原,樣樣都看得清楚了。可8:25
4.耶穌打發他回家,說:「連這村子你也不要進去。」可8:26
五.耶穌和門徒出去,往該撒利亞腓立比的村莊去;在路上問門徒說:「人說我是誰?」可8:27
1.他們說:「有人說是施洗的約翰;有人說是以利亞;又有人說是先知裏的一位。」可8:28
A.又問他們說:「你們說我是誰?」彼得回答說:「你是基督。」可8:29
B.耶穌就禁戒他們,不要告訴人。可8:30
2.從此,他教訓他們說:「人子必須受許多的苦,被長老、祭司長,和文士棄絕,並且被殺,過三天復活。」可8:31
A.耶穌明明的說這話,彼得就拉著他,勸他。可8:32
B.耶穌轉過來,看著門徒,就責備彼得說:「撒但,退我後邊去罷!因為你不體貼神的意思,只體貼人的意思。」可8:33
3.於是叫眾人和門徒來,對他們說:「若有人要跟從我,就當捨己,背起他的十字架來跟從我。可8:34
A.因為,凡要救自己生命(或作:靈魂;下同)的,必喪掉生命;凡為我和福音喪掉生命的,必救了生命。可8:35
B.人就是賺得全世界,賠上自己的生命,有甚麼益處呢?可8:36
C.人還能拿甚麼換生命呢?可8:37
D.凡在這淫亂罪惡的世代,把我和我的道當作可恥的,人子在他父的榮耀裏,同聖天使降臨的時候,也要把那人當作可恥的。」可8:38
◎心得分享:我們的主耶穌不只用餅和魚,使五千人吃飽,也使四千人吃飽,只要我們認真的主前聽道,祂必會滿足我們一切需要,這一章是馬可福音的關鍵點,耶穌把眾人打發走,吐唾沫在瞎子眼睛上,醫治他,接著問門徒很重要的問題?耶穌問:「你們說我是誰?」。當彼得講出正確答案之後,主耶穌說祂將要受苦被殺第三天復活,要跟隨耶穌的門徒,要捨已、背起自己的十字架來跟隨主耶穌,我們也要認識主,捨已、背起自己的十字架來跟隨主耶穌。
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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。