馬太福音第17章耶穌帶三門徒到變像山 查經資料 伯特利教會黃哲輝牧師
本章主題:耶穌藉著變像山的顯現、醫治被鬼附的孩子、從魚口得稅銀教導門徒,祂是永生上帝的兒子。
Ⅰ、本章大綱。
壹、變像山的顯現。V.1-13
貳、醫治害癲癇被鬼附的孩子。V.14-23
參、從魚口得稅銀。V.24-27
Ⅱ、本章內容。
壹、變像山的顯現。V.1-8
一、時間:
過了六天,太17:1(指的是耶穌向門徒說祂要上十字架這事過後第六天)
二、人物。太17:1
1.耶穌帶著
2.彼得、
3.雅各,和雅
4.各的兄弟約翰,
三、方式。
1.暗暗的上了高山,太17:1
2.就在他們面前變了形像,太17:2
A.臉面明亮如日頭,
B.衣裳潔白如光。
3.忽然,有摩西、以利亞向他們顯現,太17:3
4. 摩西、以利亞同耶穌說話。太17:3
四、彼得的反應。
1.彼得對耶穌說:「主阿,我們在這裏真好!太17:4
2.你若願意,我就在這裏搭三座棚,太17:4
3.一座為你,一座為摩西,一座為以利亞。」太17:4
五、上帝的反應。
1.說話之間,忽然有一朵光明的雲彩遮蓋他們,太17:5
2.且有聲音從雲彩裏出來,太17:5
3.說:「這是我的愛子,我所喜悅的。你們要聽他!」太17:5
六、結果。
1.門徒聽見﹐就俯伏在地,極其害怕。太17:6
2.耶穌進前來,摸他們,太17:7
3.說:「起來,不要害怕!」太17:7
4.他們舉目不見一人,只見耶穌在那裏。太17:8
七、機會教會。
1.時間。
下山的時候,太17:9
2.耶穌吩咐他們說:太17:9
「人子還沒有從死裏復活,你們不要將所看見的告訴人。」
3.門徒問耶穌說:「文士為甚麼說以利亞必須先來?」太17:10
A.耶穌回答說:
a.以利亞固然先來,並要復興萬事;太17:11
b.只是我告訴你們,以利亞已經來了,太17:12
c.人卻不認識他,竟任意待他。太17:12
人子也將要這樣受他們的害。」
B.門徒這纔明白耶穌所說的是指著施洗的約翰。太17:13
貳、醫治害癲癇被鬼附的孩子。V.14-23
一、情況與問題。
1.耶穌和門徒到了眾人那裏,太17:14
2.有一個人來見耶穌,跪下,
3.說:「主阿,憐憫我的兒子。太17:15
4.他害癲癇的病很苦,屢次跌在火裏,屢次跌在水裏。太17:15
5.太17:16 我帶他到你門徒那裏,他們卻不能醫治他。」
二、耶穌如何趕鬼。
1.耶穌說:「噯!太17:17
A.這又不信又悖謬的世代阿,
B.我在你們這裏要到幾時呢?
C.我忍耐你們要到幾時呢?
2.把他帶到我這裏來罷!」太17:17
3.耶穌斥責那鬼,太17:18
三、結果。太17:18
1.鬼就出來;
2.從此孩子就痊癒了。
四、機會教育。
1.門徒暗暗的到耶穌跟前,太17:19
說:「我們為甚麼不能趕出那鬼呢?」
2.耶穌說:「是因你們的信心小。太17:20
3.我實在告訴你們,你們若有信心,像一粒芥菜種,太17:18
A.就是對這座山說:『你從這邊挪到那邊。』
B.他也必挪去;
C.並且你們沒有一件不能作的事了。
4.至於這一類的鬼,若不禱告、禁食,他就不出來太17:21
(或作:不能趕他出來)。」
5.他們還住在加利利的時候,耶穌對門徒說:太17:22
A.人子將要被交在人手裏。
B.他們要殺害他,太17:23
C.第三日他要復活。」太17:23
D.門徒就大大的憂愁。太17:23
參、從魚口得稅銀。V.24-27
一、地點。
到了迦百農,太17:24
二、問題。
1.有收丁稅的人來見彼得,
2.說:「你們的先生不納丁稅(丁稅約有半塊錢)麼?」
3.彼得說:「納。」太17:25
三、問題處理。
1.他進了屋子,
2.耶穌先向他說:「西門﹐你的意思如何?
A.世上的君王向誰徵收關稅、丁稅?
B.是向自己的兒子呢?是向外人呢?」
3.彼得說:「是向外人。」太17:26
4.耶穌說:「既然如此,兒子就可以免稅了。太17:26
5.但恐怕觸犯(觸犯:原文是絆倒)他們,太17:27
A.你且往海邊去釣魚,太17:27
B.把先釣上來的魚拿起來,
C.開了他的口,必得一塊錢,
D.可以拿去給他們,作你我的稅銀。」
壹、變像山的顯現。V.1-8
1.我們知道十字架的痛苦時,同時也要知道十架的榮耀,兩個是一體的兩個面。
2.人總喜歡山上的榮耀,不喜歡山下的十字架,當我們也有這種想法時,榮耀就不見了,只剩下耶穌一人,讓我們聽從。
3.耶穌是至高獨一的真神,超越一切律法和先知,是大能被取代或是同等對待。
貳、醫治害癲癇被鬼附的孩子。V.14-23
1.不是每次用我們過去的經驗,就能有能力趕鬼,除非我們按著神要求的方式,否則鬼會趕不出去。
2.耶穌告訴我們,趕鬼最重要的三件事:就是信心、禁食、禱告。
3.雖然我們看過上帝的榮耀,也經歷過神蹟,但是一講到要面對十字架,我們還是會憂愁。
參、從魚口得稅銀。V.24-27
1.有時耶穌在行神蹟前,會先教導我們正確對神認識後,然後祂再行神蹟。
2.我們傳福音要避免觸法,一定要求神行神蹟,來解決我們的問題。
3.神蹟是幫助我們超越滿足律法的規定。
4.有耶穌同在,任何問題都能解決,只要我們按者耶穌的吩咐去行,就像彼得聽從耶穌的吩咐去作。
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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。