路加福音12:35-48

 

12:35 「你們腰裡要束上帶，燈也要點著，
12:36 自己好像僕人等候主人從婚姻的筵席上回來。他來到，叩門，就立刻給他開門。
12:37 主人來了，看見僕人警醒，那僕人就有福了。我實在告訴你們，主人必叫他們坐席，自己束上帶，進前伺候他們。
12:38 或是二更天來，或是三更天來，看見僕人這樣，那僕人就有福了。
12:39 家主若知道賊甚麼時候來，就必警醒，不容賊挖透房屋，這是你們所知道的。
12:40 你們也要預備；因為你們想不到的時候，人子就來了。」
12:41 彼得說：「主啊，這比喻是為我們說的呢？還是為眾人呢？」
12:42 主說：「誰是那忠心有見識的管家，主人派他管理家裡的人，按時分糧給他們呢？
12:43 主人來到，看見僕人這樣行，那僕人就有福了。
12:44 我實在告訴你們，主人要派他管理一切所有的。
12:45 那僕人若心裡說：『我的主人必來得遲』，就動手打僕人和使女，並且吃喝醉酒；
12:46 在他想不到的日子，不知道的時辰，那僕人的主人要來，重重地處治他（或譯：把他腰斬了），定他和不忠心的人同罪。
12:47 僕人知道主人的意思，卻不預備，又不順他的意思行，那僕人必多受責打；
12:48 惟有那不知道的，做了當受責打的事，必少受責打；因為多給誰，就向誰多取；多託誰，就向誰多要。」

 

³⁵ “Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, ³⁶ like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. ³⁷ It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them. ³⁸ It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the middle of the night or toward daybreak. ³⁹ But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁰ You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”

⁴¹ Peter asked, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everyone?”

⁴² The Lord answered, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their food allowance at the proper time? ⁴³ It will be good for that servant whom the master finds doing so when he returns. ⁴⁴ Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. ⁴⁵ But suppose the servant says to himself, ‘My master is taking a long time in coming,’ and he then begins to beat the other servants, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk. ⁴⁶ The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.

⁴⁷ “The servant who knows the master’s will and does not get ready or does not do what the master wants will be beaten with many blows. ⁴⁸ But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.

 

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    對基督徒而言要警醒的一件事，就是主耶穌的再來！而祂再來的時候，是要做獎賞的事！但是，唯有警醒的人才可以領受到獎賞，輕忽的人就要在獎賞的事上落空！

 

    既是如此，我們要隨時準好來領受獎賞，絕對不可輕忽！