馬太福音第18章教導門徒關係 查經資料 伯特利教會黃哲輝牧師
主題:天國誰最大
Ⅰ、本章大綱。
一、天國最大的是謙卑像小孩子。V.2-4 |
對已 |
謙卑 |
二、天國最大的是接待小孩。V.5-9 |
對人 |
接待 |
三、天國最大的是看重小子的一個。V.10-11 |
看重 |
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四、天國最大的是找回迷失的羊。V.12-14 |
找回 |
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五、天國最大的是能主動和別人和好。V.15-20 |
衝突 |
和好 |
六、天國最大的是饒恕人的人。V.21-35 |
饒恕 |
Ⅱ、本章內容。
1.當時,門徒進前來,太18:1
2.問耶穌說:「天國裏誰是最大的?」
一、天國最大的是謙卑像小孩子。V.2-4
1.耶穌便叫一個小孩子來,使他站在他們當中,太18:2
2.你們若不回轉,變成小孩子的樣式,斷不得進天國。太18:3
說:「我實在告訴你們,
3.凡自己謙卑像這小孩子的,他在天國裏就是最大的。太18:4
二、天國最大的是接待小孩。V.5-9
1.凡為我的名接待一個像這小孩子的,就是接待我。」太18:5
2.凡使這信我的一個小子跌倒的,太18:6
倒不如把大磨石拴在這人的頸項上,沉在深海裏。
3.這世界有禍了,因為將人絆倒;太18:7
絆倒人的事是免不了的,但那絆倒人的有禍了!
4.倘若你一隻手,或是一隻腳,叫你跌倒,就砍下來丟掉。太18:8
A.你缺一隻手,或是一隻腳,進入永生,
強如有兩手兩腳被丟在永火裏。
B.倘若你一隻眼叫你跌倒,就把他剜出來丟掉。太18:9
你只有一隻眼進入永生,強如有兩隻眼被丟在地獄的火裏。
三、天國最大的是看重小子的一個。V.10-11
1.「你們要小心,不可輕看這小子裏的一個;太18:10
2.我告訴你們,他們的使者在天上,常見我天父的面。太18:11
(有古卷加:人子來,為要拯救失喪的人。)
四、天國最大的是找回迷失的羊。V.12-14
1.問題。太18:12
A.一個人若有一百隻羊,
B.一隻走迷了路,你們的意思如何?
2.處理方式。
A.他豈不撇下這九十九隻,太18:12
B.往山裏去找那隻迷路的羊麼?太18:12
C.若是找著了,我實在告訴你們,他為這一隻羊歡喜,太18:13
D.比為那沒有迷路的九十九隻歡喜還大呢!太18:13
3.你們在天上的父也是這樣,太18:14
不願意這小子裏失喪一個。」
五、天國最大的是能主動和別人和好。V.15-20
1.情況:
倘若你的弟兄得罪你,太18:15
2.方法:
A.你就去,趁著只有他和你在一處的時候,指出他的錯來。太18:15
B.他若聽你,你便得了你的弟兄;太18:15
C.他若不聽,你就另外帶一兩個人同去,太18:16
要憑兩三個人的口作見證,句句都可定準。
D.若是不聽他們,就告訴教會;太18:17
E.若是不聽教會,就看他像外邦人和稅吏一樣。太18:17
3.結果:
A.凡你們在地上所捆綁的,在天上也要捆綁;太18:18
B.凡你們在地上所釋放的,在天上也要釋放。太18:18
C.若是你們中間有兩個人在地上同心合意的求甚麼事,太18:19
我在天上的父必為他們成全。
D.因為無論在那裏,有兩三個人奉我的名聚會,太18:20
那裏就有我在他們中間。」
六、天國最大的是饒恕人的人。V.21-35
1.彼得的問題。太18:21
A.那時,彼得進前來,
B對耶穌說:「主阿,我弟兄得罪我,我當饒恕他幾次呢?
C.到七次可以麼?」
2.耶穌的回答。太18:22
A.耶穌說:「我對你說,不是到七次,乃是到七十個七次。
B.天國好像一個王要和他僕人算賬。太18:23
C.你不應當憐恤你的同伴,像我憐恤你麼
甲.主人免了僕人的債。
a.纔算的時候,有人帶了一個欠一千萬銀子的來。太18:24
b.主人吩咐把他和他妻子兒女,並一切所有的都賣了償還。太18:25
因為他沒有甚麼償還之物,
c.那僕人就俯伏拜他,太18:26
d.說:『主阿,寬容我,將來我都要還清。』太18:26
e.那僕人的主人就動了慈心,把他釋放了,太18:27
並且免了他的債。
乙.僕人沒有免了同伴的債。
a.那僕人出來,遇見他的一個同伴欠他十兩銀子太18:28,
b.便揪著他,掐住他的喉嚨,說:『你把所欠的還我!』18:28,
c.他的同伴就俯伏央求他,太18:29
說:『寬容我罷,將來我必還清。』太18:29
d.他不肯,竟去把他下在監裏,等他還了所欠的債。太18:30
e.眾同伴看見他所作的事就甚憂愁,太18:31
f.去把這事都告訴了主人。太18:31
丙.主人重新要求僕人還債。
a.於是主人叫了他來,太18:32
b.對他說:你這惡奴才!太18:32
c.你央求我,我就把你所欠的都免了.太18:32
d.你不應當憐恤你的同伴,像我憐恤你麼?』太18:33
e.主人就大怒,把他交給掌刑的,等他還清了所欠的債。太18:34
D.你們各人若不從心裏饒恕你的弟兄,太18:35
我天父也要這樣待你們了。」
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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。