馬太福音第14章五餅二魚和走在海面神蹟 查經資料 伯特利教會黃哲輝牧師
Ⅰ、本章大綱。
壹、施洗約翰被斬頭。V.1-12
貳、五餅二魚給五千人喫飽。V.13-21
參、耶穌在海面行走。V.22-36
Ⅱ、本章內容。
壹、 施洗約翰被斬頭。V.1-12
一、施洗約翰被斬與耶穌的名聲的關係。太14:1-太14:2
1.分封的王希律認為耶穌是施洗約翰從死裏復活,
2. 分封的王希律認為耶穌是行異能是從施洗約翰發出來。
二、施洗約翰被斬的原因。太14:3-14:10
1.約翰責備罵了希律,被拿住鎖在監裏。太14:3-4
A.希律娶了他兄弟腓力的妻子希羅底的緣故。太14:3
B.約翰曾對他說:「你娶這婦人是不合理的。」太14:4
2.希律就想要殺他,只是怕百姓,太14:5
因為他們以約翰為先知。
3.希律生日,希律起了誓。太14:6-9
A.到了希律的生日,太14:6
B.希羅底的女兒在眾人面前跳舞,使希律歡喜。太14:6
C.希律就起誓,應許隨他所求的給他。太14:7
D.女兒被母親所使,太14:8
就說:「請把施洗約翰的頭放在盤子裏,拿來給我。」
E.王便憂愁,太14:9
a.但因他所起的誓,
b.又因同席的人,就吩咐給他;
4.於是打發人去,在監裏斬了約翰,太14:10
三、施洗約翰被斬的給果。太14:11-13
1.把頭放在盤子裏,拿來給了女子;太14:11
2.女子拿去給他母親。太14:11
3.約翰的門徒來,把屍首領去埋葬了,就去告訴耶穌。太14:12
4.耶穌聽見了,就上船從那裏獨自退到野地裏去。太14:13
貳、五餅二魚給五千人喫飽。V.13-21
一、當時情況。
1.地點在野地裏。太14:13
2.眾人聽見,就從各城裏步行跟隨他。太14:13
3.耶穌出來,見有許多的人,就憐憫他們,治好了他們的病人。太14:14
4.天將晚的時候,太14:15
二、如何解決。
1.門徒進前來,說:太14:15
A.這是野地,時候已經過了,請叫眾人散開,
B.他們好往村子裏去,自己買喫的。」
2.耶穌說:「不用他們去,你們給他們喫罷!」太14:16
3.門徒說:「我們這裏只有五個餅,兩條魚。」太14:17
4.耶穌說:「拿過來給我。」太14:18
5.於是吩咐眾人坐在草地上,太14:19
6.就拿著這五個餅,兩條魚,望著天祝福,太14:19
7.擘開餅,遞給門徒,門徒又遞給眾人。太14:19
三、結果。
1.他們都喫,並且喫飽了;太14:20
2.把剩下的零碎收拾起來,裝滿了十二個籃子。太14:20
3.喫的人,除了婦女孩子,約有五千。太14:21
參、耶穌在海面行走。V.22-36
一、當時情形。
1.耶穌隨即催門徒上船,先渡到那邊去,太14:22
等他叫眾人散開。
2.他就獨自上山去禱告。太14:23
A.散了眾人以後
B.到了晚上,只有他一人在那裏。
3.那時船在海中,因風不順,被浪搖撼。太14:24
4.夜裏四更天,耶穌在海面上走,往門徒那裏去。太14:25
5.門徒看見他在海面上走,就驚慌了,太14:26
A.說:「是個鬼怪!」
B.便害怕,喊叫起來。
二、耶穌安慰。
耶穌連忙對他們說:「你們放心!是我,不要怕!」太14:27
三.彼得嚐試。
1.原因。
A.彼得說:「主,如果是你,請叫我從水面上走到你那裏去。」太14:28
B.耶穌說:「你來罷。」太14:29
C.彼得就從船上下去,在水面上走,要到耶穌那裏去;太14:20
2.問題。太14:30
只因見風甚大,就害怕,將要沉下去,
3.轉機。
A.便喊著說:「主阿,救我!」太14:30
B.耶穌趕緊伸手拉住他,太14:31
說:「你這小信的人哪,為甚麼疑惑呢?」
四.結果。
1.他們上了船,風就住了。太14:32
2.在船上的人都拜他,說:「你真是神的兒子了。」太14:33
3.他們過了海,來到革尼撒勒地方。太14:34
A.那裏的人一認出是耶穌,太14:35
B.就打發人到周圍地方去,把所有的病人帶到他那裏,太14:35
C.只求耶穌准他們摸他的衣裳繸子;太14:36
D.摸著的人就都好了。太14:36
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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。