10月27日 一年的第301天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:可14-16章
第15章主要在講:「受審戲弄釘十架死」。
一.一到早晨,祭司長和長老、文士、全公會的人大家商議,就把耶穌捆綁,解去交給彼拉多。可15:1
1.彼拉多問他說:「你是猶太人的王麼?」耶穌回答說:「你說的是。」可15:2
A.祭司長告他許多的事。可15:3
B.彼拉多又問他說:「你看,他們告你這麼多的事,你甚麼都不回答麼?」可15:4
C.耶穌仍不回答,以致彼拉多覺得希奇。可15:5
2.每逢這節期,巡撫照眾人所求的,釋放一個囚犯給他們。可15:6
A.有一個人名叫巴拉巴,和作亂的人一同捆綁。他們作亂的時候,曾殺過人。可15:7
B.眾人上去求巡撫,照常例給他們辦。可15:8
C.彼拉多說:「你們要我釋放猶太人的王給你們麼?」可15:9
D.他原曉得,祭司長是因為嫉妒纔把耶穌解了來。可15:10
E.只是祭司長挑唆眾人,寧可釋放巴拉巴給他們。可15:11
3.彼拉多又說:「那麼樣,你們所稱為猶太人的王,我怎麼辦他呢?」可15:12
A.他們又喊著說:「把他釘十字架!」可15:13
B.彼拉多說:「為甚麼呢?他作了甚麼惡事呢?」他們便極力的喊著說:「把他釘十字架!」可15:14
二.彼拉多要叫眾人喜悅,就釋放巴拉巴給他們,將耶穌鞭打了,交給人釘十字架。可15:15
1.兵丁把耶穌帶進衙門院裏,叫齊了全營的兵。可15:16
2.他們給他穿上紫袍,又用荊棘編作冠冕給他戴上,可15:17
3.就慶賀他說:「恭喜,猶太人的王阿!」可15:18
4.又拿一根葦子打他的頭,吐唾沫在他臉上,屈膝拜他。可15:19
5.戲弄完了,就給他脫了紫袍,仍穿上他自己的衣服,帶他出去,要釘十字架。可15:20
三.有一個古利奈人西門,就是亞力山大和魯孚的父親,從鄉下來,經過那地方,他們就勉強他同去,好背著耶穌的十字架。可15:21
四.他們帶耶穌到了各各他地方(各各他繙出來就是髑髏地),可15:22
1.拿沒藥調和的酒給耶穌,他卻不受。可15:23
2.於是將他釘在十字架上,拈鬮分他的衣服,看是誰得甚麼。可15:24
3.釘他在十字架上是已初的時候。可15:25
A.在上面有他的罪狀,寫的是:「猶太人的王。」可15:26
B.他們又把兩個強盜和他同釘十字架,一個在右邊,一個在左邊。可15:27
C.(有古卷在此有:這就應了經上的話說:他被列在罪犯之中。)可15:28
4.從那裏經過的人辱罵他,搖著頭說:「咳!你這拆毀聖殿、三日又建造起來的,可15:29
A.可以救自己,從十字架上下來罷!」可15:30
B.祭司長和文士也是這樣戲弄他,彼此說:「他救了別人,不能救自己。可15:31
C.以色列的王基督,現在可以從十字架上下來,叫我們看見,就信了。」那和他同釘的人也是譏誚他。可15:32
5.從午正到申初,遍地都黑暗了。可15:33
A.申初的時候,耶穌大聲喊著說:「以羅伊!以羅伊!拉馬撒巴各大尼?」(繙出來就是:我的神!我的神!為甚麼離棄我?)可15:34
B.旁邊站著的人,有的聽見就說:「看哪,他叫以利亞呢!」可15:35
C.有一個人跑去,把海絨蘸滿了醋,綁在葦子上,送給他喝,說:「且等著,看以利亞來不來把他取下。」可15:36
D.耶穌大聲喊叫,氣就斷了。可15:37
a.殿裏的幔子從上到下裂為兩半。可15:38
b.對面站著的百夫長看見耶穌這樣喊叫(有古卷沒有喊叫二字)斷氣,就說:「這人真是神的兒子!」可15:39
c.還有些婦女遠遠的觀看;內中有抹大拉的馬利亞,又有小雅各和約西的母親馬利亞,並有撒羅米,可15:40
d.就是耶穌在加利利的時候,跟隨他、服事他的那些人,還有同耶穌上耶路撒冷的好些婦女在那裏觀看。可15:41
五.到了晚上,因為這是豫備日,就是安息日的前一日,可15:42
1.有亞利馬太的約瑟前來,他是尊貴的議士,也是等候神國的。他放膽進去見彼拉多,求耶穌的身體;可15:43
2.彼拉多詫異耶穌已經死了,便叫百夫長來,問他耶穌死了久不久。可15:44
3.既從百夫長得知實情,就把耶穌的屍首賜給約瑟。可15:45
4.約瑟買了細麻布,把耶穌取下來,用細麻布裹好,安放在磐石中鑿出來的墳墓裏,又輥過一塊石頭來擋住墓門。可15:46
5.抹大拉的馬利亞和約西的母親馬利亞都看見安放他的地方。可15:47
◎心得分享:這一章是我們主耶穌受戲弄,被釘十字架,遭到辱罵,死了,到了晚上「亞利馬太的約瑟」向彼拉多求耶穌的身體,約瑟就把耶穌放在磐石鑿出來的墳墓,用石頭擋住墓門。我們的主就是這樣,被罵不反口,受害不受威嚇的話,誠然擔當我們的過犯,為我們的罪孽哀傷,因祂受的鞭傷,我們得醫治,因祂受的刑罰,我們得平安。
第16章主要在講:「復活顯現差遣升天」。
一.過了安息日,抹大拉的馬利亞和雅各的母親馬利亞並撒羅米,買了香膏要去膏耶穌的身體。可16:1
1.七日的第一日清早,出太陽的時候,他們來到墳墓那裏,可16:2
A.彼此說:「誰給我們把石頭從墓門輥開呢?」可16:3
B.那石頭原來很大,他們抬頭一看,卻見石頭已經輥開了。可16:4
2.他們進了墳墓,看見一個少年人坐在右邊,穿著白袍,就甚驚恐。可16:5
3.那少年人對他們說:「不要驚恐!你們尋找那釘十字架的拿撒勒人耶穌,他已經復活了,不在這裏。請看安放他的地方。可16:6
4.你們可以去告訴他的門徒和彼得,說:『他在你們以先往加利利去。在那裏你們要見他,正如他從前所告訴你們的。』」可16:7
5.他們就出來,從墳墓那裏逃跑,又發抖又驚奇,甚麼也不告訴人,因為他們害怕。可16:8
二.在七日的第一日清早,耶穌復活了,就先向抹大拉的馬利亞顯現(耶穌從他身上曾趕出七個鬼)。可16:9
1.他去告訴那向來跟隨耶穌的人;那時他們正哀慟哭泣。可16:10
2.他們聽見耶穌活了,被馬利亞看見,卻是不信。可16:11
3.這事以後,門徒中間有兩個人往鄉下去。走路的時候,耶穌變了形像,向他們顯現。可16:12
4.他們就去告訴其餘的門徒;其餘的門徒也是不信。可16:13
三.後來,十一個門徒坐席的時候,耶穌向他們顯現,責備他們不信,心裏剛硬,因為他們不信那些在他復活以後看見他的人。可16:14
1.他又對他們說:「你們往普天下去,傳福音給萬民(萬民:原文是凡受造的)聽。可16:15
2.信而受洗的,必然得救;不信的,必被定罪。可16:16
3.信的人必有神蹟隨著他們,就是奉我的名趕鬼;說新方言;可16:17
手能拿蛇;若喝了甚麼毒物,也必不受害;手按病人,病人就必好了。」可16:18
4.主耶穌和他們說完了話,後來被接到天上,坐在神的右邊。可16:19
5.門徒出去,到處宣傳福音。主和他們同工,用神蹟隨著,證實所傳的道。阿們!可16:20
◎心得分享:這一章是主耶穌復活,向馬利亞顯現,也向門徒顯現,叫他們往普天下傳福音,給他們權柄,信的人必有神蹟隨著他們,就是奉我的名趕鬼;說新方言;手能拿蛇;若喝了甚麼毒物,也必不受害;手按病人,病人就必好了,門徒出去,到處宣傳福音。主和他們同工,用神蹟隨著,證實所傳的道。求神也能賜下神蹟,使我們在越傳越有信心。
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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。