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！

 

 

路加福音12:22-34

 

12:22 耶穌又對門徒說：「所以我告訴你們，不要為生命憂慮吃甚麼，為身體憂慮穿甚麼；
12:23 因為生命勝於飲食，身體勝於衣裳。
12:24 你想烏鴉，也不種也不收，又沒有倉又沒有庫，上帝尚且養活牠。你們比飛鳥是何等地貴重呢！
12:25 你們哪一個能用思慮使壽數多加一刻呢（或譯：使身量多加一肘呢）？
12:26 這最小的事，你們尚且不能做，為甚麼還憂慮其餘的事呢？
12:27 你想百合花怎麼長起來；它也不勞苦，也不紡線。然而我告訴你們，就是所羅門極榮華的時候，他所穿戴的，還不如這花一朵呢！
12:28 你們這小信的人哪，野地裡的草今天還在，明天就丟在爐裡，上帝還給它這樣的妝飾，何況你們呢！
12:29 你們不要求吃甚麼，喝甚麼，也不要掛心；
12:30 這都是外邦人所求的。你們必須用這些東西，你們的父是知道的。
12:31 你們只要求他的國，這些東西就必加給你們了。
12:32 你們這小群，不要懼怕，因為你們的父樂意把國賜給你們。
12:33 你們要變賣所有的賙濟人，為自己預備永不壞的錢囊，用不盡的財寶在天上，就是賊不能近、蟲不能蛀的地方。
12:34 因為，你們的財寶在哪裡，你們的心也在那裡。」

 

²² Then Jesus said to his disciples: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. ²³ For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. ²⁴ Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds! ²⁵ Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life^[b]? ²⁶ Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?

²⁷ “Consider how the wild flowers grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ²⁸ If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe you—you of little faith! ²⁹ And do not set your heart on what you will eat or drink; do not worry about it. ³⁰ For the pagan world runs after all such things, and your Father knows that you need them. ³¹ But seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.

³² “Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom. ³³ Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will never fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. ³⁴ For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

 

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    在我們的生命中當然會有所需求，正如飲食和衣裳的需要，但主耶穌告訴我們還有更重要的「必需品」，就是「上帝國」！

 

    主耶穌也應許說：「你們只要求他的國，這些東西就必加給你們了。你們這小群，不要懼怕，因為你們的父樂意把國賜給你們。」

 

    我們如何得這應許呢？主耶穌說得更奇妙：「你們要變賣所有的賙濟人，為自己預備永不壞的錢囊，用不盡的財寶在天上，就是賊不能近、蟲不能蛀的地方。因為，你們的財寶在哪裡，你們的心也在那裡。」

 

    的確，我們若將我們的財物投入福音的事工，我們就會越關心福音的傳揚，讓我們來試試看！

 

 

 

 

路加福音12:13-21

 

12:13 眾人中有一個人對耶穌說：「夫子！請你吩咐我的兄長和我分開家業。」
12:14 耶穌說：「你這個人！誰立我作你們斷事的官，給你們分家業呢？」
12:15 於是對眾人說：「你們要謹慎自守，免去一切的貪心，因為人的生命不在乎家道豐富。」
12:16 就用比喻對他們說：「有一個財主田產豐盛；
12:17 自己心裡思想說：『我的出產沒有地方收藏，怎麼辦呢？』
12:18 又說：『我要這麼辦：要把我的倉房拆了，另蓋更大的，在那裡好收藏我一切的糧食和財物，
12:19 然後要對我的靈魂說：靈魂哪，你有許多財物積存，可作多年的費用，只管安安逸逸地吃喝快樂吧！』
12:20 上帝卻對他說：『無知的人哪，今夜必要你的靈魂；你所預備的要歸誰呢？』
12:21 凡為自己積財，在上帝面前卻不富足的，也是這樣。」

 

¹³ Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

¹⁴ Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?” ¹⁵ Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”

¹⁶ And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. ¹⁷ He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’

¹⁸ “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. ¹⁹ And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’

²⁰ “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

²¹ “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”

 

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     主耶穌在這裡教導人：「你們要謹慎自守，免去一切的貪心，因為人的生命不在乎家道豐富。」

 

    人要盼望的是「在上帝面前富足」！當然在上帝面前富足是要積財寶在天上，如何積呢？除了奉獻給上帝之外，幫助貧窮的人不求回報的，也是積財寶在天上！

 

    也因為如此，我們要靠聖靈給我們的愛心，幫助該幫助的人，上帝必定讓我們在他面前也富足，這是勝過積財寶在地上的！

 

    當然擁有主耶穌是我們最大的富足！正如保羅以耶穌基督為至寶，其他一切如糞土！