42-18路加福音經文分段查經資料 彰化伯特利教會黃哲輝牧師
主題:教導神國的特性與經歷神國的五個方法。
Ⅰ.論「禱告原則」建立神國的關係。18:01-14
Ⅱ.論「像小孩子」進入神國的裡面。18:15-17
Ⅲ.論「變賣所有」承受神國的祝福。18:18-30
Ⅳ.論「被殺復活」成就神國的應許。18:31-34
Ⅴ.醫「討飯瞎子」彰顯神國的能力。18:35-43
Ⅰ.論「禱告原則」建立神國的關係。18:01-14
壹.常常禱告。è原則一
耶穌設一個比喻,是要人常常禱告,不可灰心。路18:1
一.禱告的比喻。
1.說:「某城裏有一個官,不懼怕神,也不尊重世人。路18:2
2.那城裏有個寡婦,路18:3
A.常到他那裏,
B.說:『我有一個對頭,求你給我伸冤。』
3.他多日不准。路18:4
4.後來給他伸冤. 路18:4
A.後來心裏說:『我雖不懼怕神,也不尊重世人,路18:4
B.只因這寡婦煩擾我,我就給他伸冤罷,路18:5
C.免得他常來纏磨我!路18:5
二.說明這比喻。
1.主說:「你們聽這不義之官所說的話。路18:6
2.神的選民晝夜呼籲他,路18:7
3.他縱然為他們忍了多時,豈不終久給他們伸冤麼?路18:7
4.我告訴你們,要快快的給他們伸冤了。路18:8
5.然而,人子來的時候,遇得見世上有信德麼?」路18:8
貳.謙卑禱告。è原則二
一.故事的比喻。
耶穌向那些仗著自己是義人,藐視別人的,設一個比喻,路18:9
1.說:「有兩個人上殿裏去禱告:一個是法利賽人,一個是稅吏。路18:10
2.法利賽人站著,路18:11
A.自言自語(※表示上帝沒在聽)的禱告說:路18:11
B.神阿,我感謝你,我不像別人勒索、不義、姦淫,也不像這個稅吏。路18:11
C.我一個禮拜禁食兩次,路18:12
D.凡我所得的都捐上十分之一。路18:12
3.那稅吏遠遠的站著,路18:13
A.連舉目望天也不敢,
B.只捶著胸說:『神阿,開恩可憐我這個罪人!』
二.說明這比喻。路18:14
1.我告訴你們,這人回家去比那人倒算為義了;
2.因為,凡自高的,必降為卑;
3.自卑的,必升為高。
Ⅱ.論「像小孩子」進入神國的裡面。18:15-17
壹.有人抱著自己的嬰孩來見耶穌,要他摸他們;路18:15
貳.門徒看見就責備那些人。路18:15
參.耶穌卻叫他們來,說:路18:16
一.讓小孩子到我這裏來,不要禁止他們;路18:16
二.因為在神國的正是這樣的人。路18:16
三.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。路18:17
Ⅲ.論「變賣所有」承受神國的祝福。18:18-30
壹.有一個官問耶穌說:路18:18
一.良善的夫子,我該作甚麼事纔可以承受永生?」路18:18
二.耶穌對他說:路18:19
1.你為甚麼稱我是良善的?除了神一位之外,再沒有良善的。
2.誡命你是曉得的:路18:20
『不可姦淫;不可殺人;不可偷盜;不可作假見證;當孝敬父母。』」
三.那人說:「這一切我從小都遵守了。」路18:21
四.耶穌聽見了,就說:路18:22
1.你還缺少一件:要變賣你一切所有的,分給窮人,
2.就必有財寶在天上;
3.你還要來跟從我。
五.他聽見這話,就甚憂愁,因為他很富足。路18:23
貳.耶穌看見他,就說:路18:24
一.有錢財的人進神的國是何等的難哪!路18:24
二.駱駝穿過針的眼比財主進神的國還容易呢!路18:25
三.聽見的人說:「這樣,誰能得救呢?」路18:26
四.耶穌說:「在人所不能的事,在神卻能。」路18:27(※在人=看人,在神=眼看神)
參.彼得說:「看哪,我們已經撇下自己所有的跟從你了。」路18:28
一.耶穌說:「我實在告訴你們,人為神的國撇下路18:29
房屋,或是妻子、弟兄、父母、兒女,
二.沒有在今世不得百倍,在來世不得永生的。路18:30
Ⅳ.論「被殺復活」成就神國的應許。18:31-34
耶穌帶著十二個門徒,對他們說:路18:31
壹.看哪,我們上耶路撒冷去,先知所寫的一切事都要成就在人子身上。路18:31
貳.他將要被交給外邦人,他們要戲弄他,凌辱他,吐唾沫在他臉上,路18:32
參.並要鞭打他,殺害他;第三日他要復活。路18:33
肆.這些事門徒一樣也不懂得,意思乃是隱藏的;他們不曉得所說的是甚麼。路18:34
Ⅴ.醫「討飯瞎子」彰顯神國的能力。18:35-43(※參考:路4:19)
壹.問題。路18:35
耶穌將近耶利哥的時候,有一個瞎子坐在路旁討飯。
貳.轉折。
一.聽見許多人經過,就問是甚麼事。路18:36
他們告訴他,是拿撒勒人耶穌經過。路18:37
二.他就呼叫說:「大衛的子孫耶穌阿,可憐我罷!」路18:38
三.在前頭走的人就責備他,不許他作聲;路18:39
他卻越發喊叫說:「大衛的子孫,可憐我罷!」
四.耶穌站住,吩咐把他領過來,到了跟前,就問他說:路18:40
「你要我為你作甚麼?」路18:41
五.他說:「主阿,我要能看見。」路18:41
參.結果。
一.耶穌說:「你可以看見!你的信救了你了。」路18:42
二.瞎子立刻看見了,就跟隨耶穌,一路歸榮耀與神。路18:43
三.眾人看見這事,也讚美神。路18:43
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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。