10月26日 一年的第300天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:可11-13章
第13章主要在講:「預言將來聖殿被毀」。
耶穌從殿裏出來的時候,有一個門徒對他說:「夫子,請看,這是何等的石頭!何等的殿宇!」可13:1
一. 耶穌對他說:「你看見這大殿宇麼?將來在這裏沒有一塊石頭留在石頭上,不被拆毀了。」可13:2
1.耶穌在橄欖山上對聖殿而坐,彼得、雅各、約翰,和安得烈暗暗的問他說:可13:3
2.請告訴我們,甚麼時候有這些事呢?這一切事將成的時候有甚麼豫兆呢?」可13:4
二.耶穌說:「你們要謹慎,免得有人迷惑你們。可13:5
1.將來有好些人冒我的名來,說:『我是基督』,並且要迷惑許多人。可13:6
2.你們聽見打仗和打仗的風聲,不要驚慌。這些事是必須有的,只是末期還沒有到。可13:7
A.民要攻打民,國要攻打國;多處必有地震、饑荒。這都是災難(災難:原文是生產之難)的起頭。可13:8
B.但你們要謹慎;因為人要把你們交給公會,並且你們在會堂裏要受鞭打,又為我的緣故站在諸侯與君王面前,對他們作見證。可13:9
C.然而,福音必須先傳給萬民。可13:10
3.人把你們拉去交官的時候,不要豫先思慮說甚麼;到那時候,賜給你們甚麼話,你們就說甚麼;因為說話的不是你們,乃是聖靈。可13:11
A.弟兄要把弟兄,父親要把兒子,送到死地;兒女要起來與父母為敵,害死他們;可13:12
B.並且你們要為我的名被眾人恨惡。惟有忍耐到底的,必然得救。」可13:13
三.「你們看見那行毀壞可憎的,站在不當站的地方(讀這經的人須要會意)。那時,在猶太的,應當逃到山上;可13:14
1.在房上的,不要下來,也不要進去拿家裏的東西;可13:15
A.在田裏的,也不要回去取衣裳。可13:16
B.當那些日子,懷孕的和奶孩子的有禍了!可13:17
2.你們應當祈求,叫這些事不在冬天臨到。可13:18
A.因為在那些日子必有災難,自從神創造萬物直到如今,並沒有這樣的災難,後來也必沒有。可13:19
B.若不是主減少那日子,凡有血氣的,總沒有一個得救的;只是為主的選民,他將那日子減少了。可13:20
3.那時若有人對你們說:『看哪,基督在這裏』,或說:『基督在那裏』,你們不要信!可13:21
A.因為假基督、假先知將要起來,顯神蹟奇事,倘若能行,就把選民迷惑了。可13:22
B.你們要謹慎。看哪,凡事我都豫先告訴你們了。」可13:23
四.在那些日子,那災難以後,日頭要變黑了,月亮也不放光,可13:24
1.眾星要從天上墜落,天勢都要震動。可13:25
2.那時,他們(馬太二十四章三十節是地上的萬族)要看見人子有大能力、大榮耀,駕雲降臨。可13:26
3.他要差遣天使,把他的選民,從四方(方:原文是風),從地極直到天邊,都招聚了來。」可13:27
五.你們可以從無花果樹學個比方:當樹枝發嫩長葉的時候,你們就知道夏天近了。可13:28
1.這樣,你們幾時看見這些事成就,也該知道人子(人子:或作神的國)近了,正在門口了。可13:29
A.我實在告訴你們,這世代還沒有過去,這些事都要成就。可13:30
B.天地要廢去,我的話卻不能廢去。」可13:31
2.但那日子,那時辰,沒有人知道,連天上的使者也不知道,子也不知道,惟有父知道。可13:32
3.你們要謹慎,儆醒祈禱,因為你們不曉得那日期幾時來到。可13:33
A.這事正如一個人離開本家,寄居外邦,把權柄交給僕人,分派各人當作的工,又吩咐看門的儆醒。可13:34
B.所以,你們要儆醒;因為你們不知道家主甚麼時候來,或晚上,或半夜,或雞叫,或早晨;可13:35
C.恐怕他忽然來到,看見你們睡著了。可13:36
D.我對你們所說的話,也是對眾人說:要儆醒!」可13:37
◎心得分享:耶穌走出聖殿,門徒稱讚聖殿「嘆為觀止」,耶穌卻是告訴他,將來沒有一塊石頭是留在石頭上,不被拆毀,這個預言,在主後70年終於應驗,耶穌告訴他們未世的預言,要門徒們儆慎、儆醒、禱告,不要睡著了,天天預備好自己,等候主耶穌的到來,每一天當成是最後一天,全力以赴,榮神益人。
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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。