經文: | 馬太福音16-19章 |
中心思想: | 馬太福音16章 |
提要
馬太在今天的經文中記載著許多耶穌生平中的重要事件。雖然耶穌花時間醫治患癲癇症的男孩,付自己的聖殿稅金,和面對敵意日漸升高的法利賽人,但顯而易見的,祂最關切的還是門徒們──那些在祂離去之後,接續祂已經開始的工作的門徒!醫病、講道、神蹟和比喻──其重心全在預備耶穌忠心的門徒度過前面的危難! |
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第17章
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第18章
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第19章
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君王的控訴
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君王的證明
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天國的教導
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校正天國居民
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考驗
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變像
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敬虔
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休妻
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每日與主同行
假設你是拿撒勒人耶穌,一年之內,你在地上的生命和事奉工作都將結束,你的跟隨者──一群完全不同的人,有漁夫、從政人員和專業人才──都要在你離去後接替你已經開始的工作,這些人如彼得(這人總在學到教訓前需要不斷的提醒,至少三次之多)、雅各和約翰(全是脾氣急躁的「雷子」)、多馬(團體中的懷疑專家)。
問題:你認為向這個裹足、等待的世界傳揚福音的使命,終有完成的一天嗎?然而,今天你會讀到主所說過最重要話語中的一部分:「我要把我的教會建造在這磐石上,陰間的權柄不能勝過他」(太16:18)許多世紀以來,教會儘管遭到迫害、歷經離散、撒但的攻擊和人的失敗,耶穌基督的教會卻始終屹立不搖。為什麼?因為上帝的教會不斷的向這個垂死的世界傳講生命的信息。
現在,你對上帝已經開始,而且祂一心一意要完成的任務有多少把握?上帝擁有一切你從事這項任務所需要的資源,這正是祂留你在地球上的原因;上帝唯一所缺的是:你的心志,這是只有你才能提供的!
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默想
十字架的道路──痛苦與榮耀
彼得洞察到耶穌就是基督的告白之後(太16:16),請注意在以後的經文裡,痛苦與榮耀是怎樣的在耶穌心中交織盤桓,對祂而言是真實的,對祂的跟隨者來說也是真實的。
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金言
只有創造人類的這位木匠才能改造人類。 |
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10/6/2013 Sermons by the Messiah |
Scriptures: | Matthew 16-19 |
Heart of the Passage: | Matthew 16 |
Overview
Matthew records many crucial incidents from Jesus' life in these four chapters. Though Christ takes time to heal.an epileptic boy. pay His temple tax, and confront the increasingly hostile Pharisees, it is clear that His primary concern is for His disciples—those He would soon leave behind to continue the work He had begun. Healings and discourses, miracles and parables—all focus on Jesus' faithful followers to prepare them for the difficult days just ahead. |
Chapter 16
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Chapter 17
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Chapter 18
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Chapter 19
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Accusation of the King
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Affirmation of the King
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Instruction on the Kingdom
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Correction of Kingdom Dwellers
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Test
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Transfiguration
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Devotion
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Divorce
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Your Daily Walk
Imagine for a moment that you are Jesus of Nazareth. In one year's time your earthly life and ministry will be over. Your followers—an unlikely assortment of fishermen, politicians, and professional people—will be all you leave behind to continue the work you have begun. People like ... Peter (.who usually needed three reminders before he learned his lesson) ,.. James and John (the hot-tempered "sons of thunder") .,. Thomas (the skeptic of the group).
Question: How optimistic would you be that the task of taking the Good News of the Gospel to a waiting world would ever be accomplished? And yet, today you will read some of the most significant words ever uttered by our Lord: "I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it" (16:18). Down through the centuries, in spite of persecution and dispersion, satanic attack and human failure, the church of Jesus Christ has continued. Why? Because it is God's vehicle to take the message of life to a dying world.
Now how optimistic are you that what God has begun, He fully intends to complete? God has all the resources you need to do the task for which He has left you here on planet earth. There is just one thing He lacks-, your availability. And only you can provide that.
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Insight
The Way of the Cross — Groan and Glory —
Following Peter's insightful confession that Jesus is the Christ (16:16), notice how Jesus carefully blends the two strands of suffering and glory in the sections to follow. True of His own life, they would be true of the lives of His followers as well.
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Adage
By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by the Carpenter can mankind be remade. |
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