42-07路加福音查經資料 路加福音第07章生活應用 彰化伯持利教會黃哲輝牧師
壹、從百夫長為僕人害病求醫治的信心(V.1-10)來看:
一.真心的信心是謙卑,不濫用自己的百夫長的職務命令人,有求於人很客氣的,覺得自己不配。
二.真正的信心是渴望聽見耶穌的話,耶穌的話會指引我們找到出路。
三.真正的信心是只要抓住耶穌的話,得到耶穌的承諾,就是最好的保証。
四.信心不是依賴原先熟悉方式來得到醫治,以為得醫治的方法,只有耶穌在才能得醫治,耶穌不在,有耶穌的話,也同樣會得到醫治,這才是真信心。
五.我們對耶穌有真正的信心,是會被耶穌稱讚。
貳、從耶穌使寡婦之子復活(v.11-17)來看:
一.主耶穌看見那寡婦,就憐憫他(v.13):說明我們的痛苦,主都知道,是主耶穌先看見我們。
二.主耶穌對他說:不要哭(v.13):說明我們主耶穌會憐憫安慰困苦的人。
三.耶穌說:少年人我吩咐你起來(v.13):說明主耶穌的話,帶有能力,能叫死人復活。我們要得醫治的關鍵,是要得到耶穌應許的話。
參、從施洗約翰被囚,打發人問耶穌是否是彌賽亞?(v.18-35)
一.耶穌回答施洗約翰的提問:「你們去把所看見、所聽見的告訴約翰」:說明事實勝於雄辯,施洗約翰希望得到耶穌口頭的答案,耶穌卻要他用事實來看來尋找答案,當我們像約翰失去信心時,常常希望從別人的肯定,得到答案,但真正的答案,從事實就可以找到答案。
二.耶穌說:「凡不因我跌倒的就有福了!」:說明當我們像施洗約翰面對死亡壓力時,我們不要因為受到逼迫,就妥協,要堅持到底,就是有福的,因為我們在天國賞賜是大的。
三.耶穌在施洗約翰所差的走了以後,就稱讚施洗約翰:說明耶穌對施洗約翰稱讚是出於內心,稱讚他比先知大。
四.神國最小的比施洗約翰大,是指約翰是舊約最後一個先知,就以新約上帝給人的恩惠,他是得到最小的。
五.這世代最大的問題是對神國的冷淡:吹笛不跳舞,舉哀不啼哭。
六.人總是對神的國有偏見:對不吃餅、不喝酒的約翰,說他是被鬼附,對也吃餅、也喝酒的耶穌,說他是貪食好酒的人。當我們對人有主觀,常常就會產生偏見,偏見就產生錯誤。
七.智慧之子,都以智慧為是:說明真正智慧的人,是不會受不同現象影響,他能在任何不同的現象,找到正確的答案,學到智慧。
四、有罪的婦人用香膏的玉瓶膏耶穌。(v.36-50)
一.從有罪的婦人單純愛主,想要服事耶穌,把最好的獻給耶穌,卻換來別人論斷:說明要服事耶穌的人,總是會受到別人的批評論斷。
二.法利賽人論斷耶穌沒有拒絕有罪的婦人,用香膏膏祂:說明人總是自私的從自己的看法角度在看事情,卻沒有從別人的角度來看事情。
三.耶穌向彼得發問:「你看見這女人麼?我進你家你沒有給我水洗腳,沒有與我親嘴,但這女人,用眼淚溼我的腳,用嘴親我的腳」:說明我們常常像彼得說愛主,但事實上為耶穌給耶穌的是非常少,非常有限。
四.耶穌說:「罪大赦免就大,愛就大」:說明人外在為耶穌犧牲大,是因為耶穌赦免她,對她的恩典大,相對的她對上帝的愛,也是大的。
五.耶穌對那有罪的婦人說:「你的罪赦免了!你的信救了你,平平安安回去罷!」:說明我們真心獻給耶穌的,祂都會對我們有回應。
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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。