10月25日 一年的第299天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:可07-10章
第10章主要在講:「論休妻永生醫瞎子」。
一.耶穌從那裏起身,來到猶太的境界並約但河外。眾人又聚集到他那裏,他又照常教訓他們。可10:1
1.有法利賽人來問他說:「人休妻可以不可以?」意思要試探他。可10:2
A.耶穌回答說:「摩西吩咐你們的是甚麼?」可10:3
B.他們說:「摩西許人寫了休書便可以休妻。」可10:4
2.耶穌說:「摩西因為你們的心硬,所以寫這條例給你們;可10:5
3.但從起初創造的時候,神造人是造男造女。可10:6
A.因此,人要離開父母,與妻子連合,二人成為一體。可10:7
B.既然如此,夫妻不再是兩個人,乃是一體的了。可10:8
C.所以神配合的,人不可分開。」可10:9
4.到了屋裏,門徒就問他這事。可10:10
A.耶穌對他們說:「凡休妻另娶的,就是犯姦淫,辜負他的妻子;可10:11
B.妻子若離棄丈夫另嫁,也是犯姦淫了。」可10:12
二.有人帶著小孩子來見耶穌,要耶穌摸他們,門徒便責備那些人。可10:13
1.耶穌看見就惱怒,對門徒說:「讓小孩子到我這裏來,不要禁止他們;因為在神國的,正是這樣的人。可10:14
2.我實在告訴你們,凡要承受神國的,若不像小孩子,斷不能進去。」可10:15
3.於是抱著小孩子,給他們按手,為他們祝福。可10:16
三.耶穌出來行路的時候,有一個人跑來,跪在他面前,問他說:「良善的夫子,我當作甚麼事纔可以承受永生?」可10:17
1.耶穌對他說:「你為甚麼稱我是良善的?除了神一位之外,再沒有良善的。可10:18
2.誡命你是曉得的:不可殺人;不可姦淫;不可偷盜;不可作假見證;不可虧負人;當孝敬父母。」可10:19
3.他對耶穌說:「夫子,這一切我從小都遵守了。」可10:20
4.耶穌看著他,就愛他,對他說:「你還缺少一件:去變賣你所有的,分給窮人,就必有財寶在天上;你還要來跟從我。」可10:21
5.他聽見這話,臉上就變了色,憂憂愁愁的走了,因為他的產業很多。可10:22
四.耶穌周圍一看,對門徒說:「有錢財的人進神的國是何等的難哪!」可10:23
1.門徒希奇他的話。耶穌又對他們說:「小子,倚靠錢財的人進神的國是何等的難哪!可10:24
A.駱駝穿過針的眼,比財主進神的國還容易呢。」可10:25
B.門徒就分外希奇,對他說:「這樣誰能得救呢?」可10:26
C.耶穌看著他們,說:「在人是不能,在神卻不然,因為神凡事都能。」可10:27
2.彼得就對他說:「看哪,我們已經撇下所有的跟從你了。」可10:28
A.耶穌說:「我實在告訴你們,人為我和福音撇下房屋,或是弟兄、姐妹、父母、兒女、田地,可10:29
B.沒有不在今世得百倍的,就是房屋、弟兄、姐妹、母親、兒女、田地,並且要受逼迫,在來世必得永生。可10:30
C.然而,有許多在前的,將要在後,在後的,將要在前。」可10:31
3.他們行路上耶路撒冷去。耶穌在前頭走,門徒就希奇,跟從的人也害怕。耶穌又叫過十二個門徒來,把自己將要遭遇的事告訴他們說:可10:32
A.「看哪,我們上耶路撒冷去,人子將要被交給祭司長和文士,他們要定他死罪,交給外邦人。可10:33
B.他們要戲弄他,吐唾沫在他臉上,鞭打他,殺害他。過了三天,他要復活。」可10:34
C.西庇太的兒子雅各、約翰進前來,對耶穌說:「夫子,我們無論求你甚麼,願你給我們作。」可10:35
a.耶穌說:「要我給你們作甚麼?」可10:36
b.他們說:「賜我們在你的榮耀裏,一個坐在你右邊,一個坐在你左邊。」可10:37
D.耶穌說:「你們不知道所求的是甚麼,我所喝的杯,你們能喝麼?我所受的洗,你們能受麼?」可10:38
a.他們說:「我們能。」耶穌說:「我所喝的杯,你們也要喝;我所受的洗,你們也要受;可10:39
b.只是坐在我的左右,不是我可以賜的,乃是為誰豫備的,就賜給誰。」可10:40
c.那十個門徒聽見,就惱怒雅各、約翰。可10:41
E.耶穌叫他們來,對他們說:「你們知道,外邦人有尊為君王的,治理他們,有大臣操權管束他們。可10:42
a.只是在你們中間,不是這樣。你們中間,誰願為大,就必作你們的用人;可10:43
b.在你們中間,誰願為首,就必作眾人的僕人。可10:44
c.因為人子來,並不是要受人的服事,乃是要服事人,並且要捨命作多人的贖價。」可10:45
五.到了耶利哥;耶穌同門徒並許多人出耶利哥的時候,有一個討飯的瞎子,是底買的兒子巴底買,坐在路旁。可10:46
1.他聽見是拿撒勒的耶穌,就喊著說:「大衛的子孫耶穌阿!可憐我罷!」可10:47
2.有許多人責備他,不許他作聲。他卻越發大聲喊著說:「大衛的子孫哪,可憐我罷!」可10:48
3.可10:49 耶穌就站住,說:「叫過他來。」他們就叫那瞎子,對他說:「放心,起來!他叫你啦。」
A.瞎子就丟下衣服,跳起來,走到耶穌那裏。可10:50
B.耶穌說:「要我為你作甚麼?」瞎子說:「拉波尼(就是夫子),我要能看見。」可10:51
4.耶穌說:「你去罷!你的信救了你了。」瞎子立刻看見了,就在路上跟隨耶穌。可10:52
◎心得分享:這一章來到猶大,法利賽人用「休妻與休書」來試探耶穌,接著有人來問關於如何承受永生的事?耶穌告訴他要「得」,以前要先「捨」,他雖然平常也捨,但是沒有全捨,耶穌告訴他,變賣所有分給窮人,他就憂愁的走了,他只聽一半就走了,耶穌說:「人為我和福音撇下房屋,或是弟兄、姐妹、父母、兒女、田地沒有不在今世得百倍的,就是房屋、弟兄、姐妹、母親、兒女、田地,並且要受逼迫,在來世必得永生。接著是耶穌醫治瞎子巴底買,他能夠得醫治是他遇到問題「越發喊叫」,越發禱告,上帝就醫治他,求神把「越發喊叫」的信心賜給我們。
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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。