16:21 從此,耶穌才指示門徒,他必須上耶路撒冷去,受長老、祭司長、文士許多的苦,並且被殺,第三日復活。
16:22 彼得就拉著他,勸他說:「主啊,萬不可如此!這事必不臨到你身上。」
16:23 耶穌轉過來,對彼得說:「撒但,退我後邊去吧!你是絆我腳的;因為你不體貼上帝的意思,只體貼人的意思。」
16:24 於是耶穌對門徒說:「若有人要跟從我,就當捨己,背起他的十字架來跟從我。
16:25 因為,凡要救自己生命(生命:或譯靈魂;下同)的,必喪掉生命;凡為我喪掉生命的,必得著生命。
16:26 人若賺得全世界,賠上自己的生命,有甚麼益處呢?人還能拿甚麼換生命呢?
16:27 人子要在他父的榮耀裡,同著眾使者降臨;那時候,他要照各人的行為報應各人。
16:28 我實在告訴你們,站在這裡的,有人在沒嘗死味以前必看見人子降臨在他的國裡。」
21 From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.
22 Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!”
23 Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”
24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 25 For whoever wants to save their life[f] will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. 26 What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? 27 For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.
28 “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”
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主耶穌在這裡有一個非常重要的宣告:「他必須上耶路撒冷去,受長老、祭司長、文士許多的苦,並且被殺,第三日復活。」
表示主耶穌承認自己是基督不是要得人的榮耀,而是要面對死亡,然後才有復活!因為主耶穌清楚自己是基督就有三重職分:「先知、君王和祭司」,然而就祭司的職分而言,祂不只是獻祭者,更是那聖潔無瑕疵的祭物,祂是上帝的羔羊,要承擔世人的罪孽,才能將信靠祂的人從罪惡中拯救出來!
然而祂對祂所拯救的人也有極深的期許:「若有人要跟從我,就當捨己,背起他的十字架來跟從我。因為,凡要救自己生命(生命:或譯靈魂;下同)的,必喪掉生命;凡為我喪掉生命的,必得著生命。人若賺得全世界,賠上自己的生命,有甚麼益處呢?人還能拿甚麼換生命呢?人子要在他父的榮耀裡,同著眾使者降臨;那時候,他要照各人的行為報應各人。我實在告訴你們,站在這裡的,有人在沒嘗死味以前必看見人子降臨在他的國裡。」
這就讓人想起「十架神學」,若想對十架神學有深入的認識,請進入以下的連結閱讀:https://kk1591.blogspot.com/2013/10/blog-post_6041.html。
然而關於十架的道理保羅論述得很清楚:「猶太人是要神蹟,希臘人是求智慧,我們卻是傳釘十字架的基督,在猶太人為絆腳石,在外邦人為愚拙;但在那蒙召的,無論是猶太人、希臘人,基督總為上帝的能力,上帝的智慧。」(哥林多前書1:22-24)
這是「十架神學」得出發,讓馬丁路德透過基督來勝過「榮耀神學」,今日我們也要靠基督來勝過「成功神學」的謬論,我們要追求的不是今世的昌盛和境界的擴張,而是要基督真正成為我們的主,讓自己完完全全歸回上帝的面前,成為上帝的兒女!
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