42-05路加福音查經資料 路加福音第05章生活應用
一、彼得下網打魚的故事:告訴我們如何得到豐收的魚獲,1.他聽了耶穌的話(耶穌對彼得說:把船開到水深之處),2.他跟耶穌禱告(他對耶穌說:我們整夜勞力,並沒有打著甚麼?),3.他聽從了耶穌的話(彼得說:但依從你的話,我就下網),如果我們要有上帝的同工與祝福,我們也必需要有這三件事。
二、彼得下網打魚的故事:彼得在魚獲豐收的反應,在告訴我們得到上帝恩典的人,對上帝應該有的正確回應,1.悔改認識自己(彼得說:主啊!離開我,我是個罪人),2.對耶穌充滿驚訝(彼得和一切同在的人都驚訝一網所打的魚),3.他找到新的人生目標(耶穌對西門說:不要怕!從今以後,你要得人了),4.他採取正確的行動(他把兩隻船攏了岸,就撇下所有的,跟從了耶穌)。我們常常得到上帝的恩典,是否我們也願意像彼得一樣,對耶穌有這四個的回應呢?
三、大痲瘋得醫治的故事:他得醫治的方法是,1.他抓住機會來到主前(他看見耶穌),2.他向耶穌敬拜(他就俯伏在地),3.他向耶穌禱告(他求耶穌:主若肯,必能叫我潔淨了),4.他順服了耶穌的話(耶穌伸手摸他說:我肯,你潔淨了吧!)。這在告訴我們若願意順服耶穌,耶穌肯願意醫治我們的病。
四、大痲瘋得醫治的故事:他得醫治後的回應是,耶穌囑咐他不可告訴人,但他卻沒有順服耶穌的話,別人問他,他就直接說,沒有先給祭司看,照摩西吩咐,對眾人作證據,導致耶穌的事工受到影響,耶穌的名聲,就越發傳揚出去。我們是否常常在醫治之後,就「得意就忘形」,忘了耶穌的吩咐呢?
五、當耶穌的名聲,越發傳揚出去,有極多人指望耶穌醫治他們,耶穌卻是退到曠野。這在提醒我們,當我們事工作的很有成就,作的不可開支的時候,我們是繼續的賣命工作,或是我們學習耶穌退到曠野禱告呢?
六、耶穌醫治從瓦間縋下的癱子:聖經說:「耶穌見他們的信心」,說明真正有信心的,不是癱子,而是癱子的朋友,也在提醒我們「真正的信心,是排除萬難來到耶穌面前」。當我們有需要又遇到困難時,「因人多尋不出去子抬進」,我們是否就此放棄,或是真正有信心,像癱子的朋友,再想盡辦法,突破重圍來到耶穌面前呢?
七、耶穌醫治從瓦間縋下的癱子:說明耶穌不只是能治病,祂也是能赦免人的罪,耶穌這樣說,藉此向他們顯明祂自己是神,因為只有神能赦免人的罪,對人來說:說赦罪的話是容易,但是要叫人得醫治是難的,但是對耶穌來說,兩件事都是容易的。
八、從耶穌醫治從瓦間縋下的癱子:眾人滿心懼怕說:「看見非常的事」,說明當時眾人內心的矛盾,他們只相信耶穌是先知,但卻不願相信耶穌就是神的獨生兒子。我們是否也是跟當時的眾人是一樣的,對耶穌的認識是片面,我們只想要我們所知道的,卻不想要知道上帝要我們知道的呢?
九、法利賽人發怨言說:「耶穌和稅吏罪人一同吃飯」,說明像法利賽人自私以自我為中心的想法,沒有以耶穌基督的心為心,就常常會對耶穌有誤會怨言。我們平常是不是也像法利賽人一樣,以基督徒身份自傲,看不起沒有信耶穌的人,稱他們為外邦人呢?
十、耶穌來是要尋找有病的,有需要上帝的人。有病的人,才需要醫生,而耶穌就是最大的醫生,我們是否像耶穌一樣,「在別人的問題上,找到我們的責任」呢?耶穌說他來不是召義人悔改,乃是召罪人悔改。
十一耶穌在論禁食:說明禁食不是一種文化習慣生活方式,而是心靈自我省思的生活方式,如果我們有耶穌同在的感覺時,我們就不需要禁食,若我們感覺不到耶穌與我們同在時,我們就要禁食。
十二新酒與新皮袋:說明人常常被舊有的生活模式(舊布、舊皮袋)限制住,無法接受新的觀念的生活方式(新布、新酒),人一接受人就要裂開了,人總是說「洒是陳的好」,也就是人總是活在舊有的生活方式,不願意改變自己。
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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。