馬可福音12:18-27

12:18 撒都該人常說沒有復活的事。他們來問耶穌說：
12:19 「夫子，摩西為我們寫著說：『人若死了，撇下妻子，沒有孩子，他兄弟當娶他的妻，為哥哥生子立後。』
12:20 有弟兄七人，第一個娶了妻，死了，沒有留下孩子。
12:21 第二個娶了她，也死了，沒有留下孩子。第三個也是這樣。
12:22 那七個人都沒有留下孩子；末了，那婦人也死了。
12:23 當復活的時候，她是哪一個的妻子呢？因為他們七個人都娶過她。」
12:24 耶穌說：「你們所以錯了，豈不是因為不明白聖經，不曉得上帝的大能嗎？
12:25 人從死裡復活，也不娶也不嫁，乃像天上的使者一樣。
12:26 論到死人復活，你們沒有念過摩西的書荊棘篇上所載的嗎？上帝對摩西說：『我是亞伯拉罕的上帝，以撒的上帝，雅各的上帝。』
12:27 上帝不是死人的上帝，乃是活人的上帝。你們是大錯了。」

 

¹⁸ Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. ¹⁹ “Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. ²⁰ Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died without leaving any children. ²¹ The second one married the widow, but he also died, leaving no child. It was the same with the third. ²² In fact, none of the seven left any children. Last of all, the woman died too. ²³ At the resurrection^[c] whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?”

²⁴ Jesus replied, “Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God? ²⁵ When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. ²⁶ Now about the dead rising—have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the account of the burning bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’^[d]? ²⁷ He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!”

 

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    人常常為細微的道理討論得面紅耳赤，卻忘記真正重要的事情！就像撒督該人不相信復活的事情，卻討論兄弟同娶一妻，將來復活如何處理的事情，不是很沒有意義！

 

    所以主耶穌就直接用上帝的屬性，來回答他們無意義的詢問。因為「上帝不是死人的上帝，乃是活人的上帝」。這表示死人已經與上帝隔絕，是不再受律法的約束，人也無用討論死後會怎樣，重要是要把握活著的時候，悔改歸向上帝，才有復活的確據！

 

    我們今日要讓人知道，唯有透過耶穌基督的拯救，才有真正的復活，與上帝有永遠父子的關係！其他末枝末節的事，就無庸置疑，上帝會有最好的安排，無須費心於此！

 

 

 

 

 

馬可福音12:13-17

 

12:13 後來，他們打發幾個法利賽人和幾個希律黨的人到耶穌那裡，要就著他的話陷害他。
12:14 他們來了，就對他說：「夫子，我們知道你是誠實的，甚麼人你都不徇情面；因為你不看人的外貌，乃是誠誠實實傳上帝的道。納稅給凱撒可以不可以？
12:15 我們該納不該納？」耶穌知道他們的假意，就對他們說：「你們為甚麼試探我？拿一個銀錢來給我看！」
12:16 他們就拿了來。耶穌說：「這像和這號是誰的？」他們說：「是凱撒的。」
12:17 耶穌說：「凱撒的物當歸給凱撒，上帝的物當歸給上帝。」他們就很希奇他。

 

 ¹³ Later they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch him in his words. ¹⁴ They came to him and said, “Teacher, we know that you are a man of integrity. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are; but you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay the imperial tax^[b] to Caesar or not? ¹⁵ Should we pay or shouldn’t we?”

But Jesus knew their hypocrisy. “Why are you trying to trap me?” he asked. “Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.” ¹⁶ They brought the coin, and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”

“Caesar’s,” they replied.

¹⁷ Then Jesus said to them, “Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.”

And they were amazed at him.

 

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     耶穌說：「凱撒的物當歸給凱撒，上帝的物當歸給上帝。」

 

     馬丁路德因這段經文產生「兩國論」（http://ll1591.blogspot.com/2017/11/blog-post_98.html）；不過對加爾文而言，祂認為上帝的主權凌駕在國家的權柄之上，上帝是掌管一切的主！

 

    所以，對主耶穌這段話，我們應該是看作為是主耶穌面對考驗的機智回應，不是基督徒要屈服於不義的政府，任其隨意對待百姓，要勇敢成為百姓之喉舌，好讓上帝的公義彰顯！

 

    也因為如此，較為不可以逃避做「受苦記號」的責任，要勇敢為上帝的公義與不義的政府建言，即使要受牢獄與喪失生命，也在所不惜！保羅說：「我們若在他死的形狀上與他聯合，也要在他復活的形狀上與他聯合；…我們若是與基督同死，就信必與他同活。」（羅馬書6:5,8）

 

    讓我們勇敢為真理而戰，在上帝國完全實現時，我們必要勝利歡呼！

 

 

 

馬可福音12:1-12

 

12:1 耶穌就用比喻對他們說：「有人栽了一個葡萄園，周圍圈上籬笆，挖了一個壓酒池，蓋了一座樓，租給園戶，就往外國去了。
12:2 到了時候，打發一個僕人到園戶那裡，要從園戶收葡萄園的果子。
12:3 園戶拿住他，打了他，叫他空手回去。
12:4 再打發一個僕人到他們那裡。他們打傷他的頭，並且凌辱他。
12:5 又打發一個僕人去，他們就殺了他。後又打發好些僕人去，有被他們打的，有被他們殺的。
12:6 園主還有一位是他的愛子，末後又打發他去，意思說：『他們必尊敬我的兒子。』
12:7 不料，那些園戶彼此說：『這是承受產業的。來吧，我們殺他，產業就歸我們了！』
12:8 於是拿住他，殺了他，把他丟在園外。
12:9 這樣，葡萄園的主人要怎麼辦呢？他要來除滅那些園戶，將葡萄園轉給別人。
12:10 經上寫著說：匠人所棄的石頭，已作了房角的頭塊石頭。
12:11 這是主所做的，在我們眼中看為希奇。這經你們沒有念過嗎？」
12:12 他們看出這比喻是指著他們說的，就想要捉拿他，只是懼怕百姓，於是離開他走了。

 

 Jesus then began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place. ² At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. ³ But they seized him, beat him and sent him away empty-handed. ⁴ Then he sent another servant to them; they struck this man on the head and treated him shamefully. ⁵ He sent still another, and that one they killed. He sent many others; some of them they beat, others they killed.

⁶ “He had one left to send, a son, whom he loved. He sent him last of all, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

⁷ “But the tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ ⁸ So they took him and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.

⁹ “What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others. ¹⁰ Haven’t you read this passage of Scripture:

“‘The stone the builders rejected
    has become the cornerstone;
¹¹ the Lord has done this,
    and it is marvelous in our eyes’^[a]?”

¹² Then the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders looked for a way to arrest him because they knew he had spoken the parable against them. But they were afraid of the crowd; so they left him and went away.

 

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    祭司長和文士並長老和主耶穌之間有一份潛在衝突存在，雖然當時尚未明顯，但是主耶穌知道自己勢必和這一股力量發生爭戰，因為這股力量是假借上帝的名義，來對上帝的百姓予取予求，當然容不下真正上帝的兒子的存在，不然他們就無法一直把持敬拜上帝的事務。

 

    也因為這樣，他們雖然向猶太人說彌賽亞要來，卻不是真正歡迎彌賽亞的來臨。這是猶太人矛盾的地方，即使是今日他們的拉比仍然說，要等候彌賽亞的來臨，就是不要承認主耶穌是彌賽亞！因為他們承認主耶穌是彌賽亞，會堂文化就無法存在了！

 

    但是基督徒不同，我們必須承認主耶穌是彌賽亞，也就是基督，並切要相信祂必定再來，上帝的國必定要實現！也唯有如此，我們才能有得救的確據，才可以肯定我們有永生！

 

 

 

列王紀下20:12-21

 

20:12 那時，巴比倫王巴拉但的兒子米羅達‧巴拉但聽見希西家病而痊癒，就送書信和禮物給他。
20:13 希西家聽從使者的話，就把他寶庫的金子、銀子、香料、貴重的膏油，和他武庫的一切軍器，並他所有的財寶，都給他們看。他家中和他全國之內，希西家沒有一樣不給他們看的。
20:14 於是先知以賽亞來見希西家王，問他說：「這些人說甚麼？他們從哪裡來見你？」希西家說：「他們從遠方的巴比倫來。」
20:15 以賽亞說：「他們在你家裡看見了甚麼？」希西家說：「凡我家中所有的，他們都看見了；我財寶中沒有一樣不給他們看的。」
20:16 以賽亞對希西家說：「你要聽耶和華的話，
20:17 日子必到，凡你家裡所有的，並你列祖積蓄到如今的，都要被擄到巴比倫去，不留下一樣。這是耶和華說的。
20:18 並且從你本身所生的眾子，其中必有被擄去在巴比倫王宮裡當太監的。」
20:19 希西家對以賽亞說：「你所說耶和華的話甚好！若在我的年日中有太平和穩固的景況，豈不是好嗎？」
20:20 希西家其餘的事和他的勇力，他怎樣挖池、挖溝、引水入城，都寫在猶大列王記上。
20:21 希西家與他列祖同睡。他兒子瑪拿西接續他作王。

 

¹² At that time Marduk-Baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent Hezekiah letters and a gift, because he had heard of Hezekiah’s illness. ¹³ Hezekiah received the envoys and showed them all that was in his storehouses—the silver, the gold, the spices and the fine olive oil—his armory and everything found among his treasures. There was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.

¹⁴ Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked, “What did those men say, and where did they come from?”

“From a distant land,” Hezekiah replied. “They came from Babylon.”

¹⁵ The prophet asked, “What did they see in your palace?”

“They saw everything in my palace,” Hezekiah said. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”

¹⁶ Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord: ¹⁷ The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the Lord. ¹⁸ And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

¹⁹ “The word of the Lord you have spoken is good,” Hezekiah replied. For he thought, “Will there not be peace and security in my lifetime?”

²⁰ As for the other events of Hezekiah’s reign, all his achievements and how he made the pool and the tunnel by which he brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah? ²¹ Hezekiah rested with his ancestors. And Manasseh his son succeeded him as king.

 

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    再次看見希西家王的賴皮，先知以賽亞警告他說：「你要聽耶和華的話，日子必到，凡你家裡所有的，並你列祖積蓄到如今的，都要被擄到巴比倫去，不留下一樣。這是耶和華說的。並且從你本身所生的眾子，其中必有被擄去在巴比倫王宮裡當太監的。」

 

    他竟然說：「你所說耶和華的話甚好！若在我的年日中有太平和穩固的景況，豈不是好嗎？」

 

    讓我們感覺：他只要現在過得好，並切一生平平順順的過去，至於子孫要受到什麼災害是子孫的事情，與他無干，他也管不著！

 

    或許這也是我們該有的生活態度，正如主耶穌說：「你們要先求他的國和他的義，這些東西都要加給你們了。所以，不要為明天憂慮，因為明天自有明天的憂慮；一天的難處一天當就夠了。」(馬太福音6:33-34)

 

    其實能夠不憂慮，是因為確信上帝的國必定完全實現！雖然是上有許多苦難和考驗，但是這一切有一天必要過去！因為耶穌基督已經得勝了，祂勝過罪惡和死亡的權勢，上帝永恆的國度正朝向我們過來了！

 

 

 

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