Apr 15【每日活水】预备主的再来

 

路加福音17:20~37

神国的来到
(太24‧23-28,37-41)
20法利赛人问:「 神的国几时来到?」耶稣回答说:「 神的国来到不是眼所能见的。
21人也不得说:『看哪,在这里!看哪,在那里!』因为 神的国就在你们心里。」
22他又对门徒说:「日子将到,你们巴不得看见人子的一个日子,却不得看见。
23人将要对你们说:『看哪,在那里!看哪,在这里!』你们不要出去,也不要跟随他们!
24因为人子在他降临的日子,好像闪电从天这边一闪直照到天那边。
25只是他必须先受许多苦,又被这世代弃绝。
26挪亚的日子怎样,人子的日子也要怎样。
27那时候的人又吃又喝,又娶又嫁,到挪亚进方舟的那日,洪水就来,把他们全都灭了。 
28又好像罗得的日子;人又吃又喝,又买又卖,又耕种又盖造。 
29罗得所多玛的那日,就有火与硫磺从天上降下来,把他们全都灭了。
30人子显现的日子也要这样。 
31当那日,人在房上,器具在屋里,不要下来拿;人在田里,也不要回家。 
32你们要回想罗得的妻子。 
33凡想要保全生命的,必丧掉生命;凡丧掉生命的,必救活生命。 
34我对你们说,当那一夜,两个人在一个床上,要取去一个,撇下一个。 
35两个女人一同推磨,要取去一个,撇下一个。
37门徒说:「主啊,在哪里有这事呢?」耶稣说:「尸首在哪里,鹰也必聚在那里。」
The Coming of the Kingdom of God
20Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed,
21nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is in your midst.”
22Then he said to his disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.
23People will tell you, ‘There he is!’ or ‘Here he is!’ Do not go running off after them.
24For the Son of Man in his day will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other.
25But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
26 “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man.
27People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
28 “It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.
29But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
30 “It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed.
31On that day no one who is on the housetop, with possessions inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything.
32Remember Lot’s wife!
33Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it.
34I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.
35Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.”[36]
37“Where, Lord?” they asked. He replied, “Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather.”
 

内容观察

1.耶稣如何回答法利赛人关于神国几时到来的提问?(20—21 节)
2.当耶稣再来时,这个世界将会变得如何?(27~28节
 

思考与默想

 

3.耶稣为什么说挪亚和罗得的日子怎样,人子的日子也要怎样?
 

个人感受

4.看到挪亚和罗得那时的人们过着与神无关的日子,结果受到审判,我有什么感想?
 

决心与应用

5.我何时曾因忙碌的事务而轻忽了神的话?

6.为了在忙碌的生活中也抓住神的话,积极预备主的再来,我决定要怎么做?

又吃又喝(27、28节):意味着当时受到审判的人不只是犯特定罪恶的人,也包含了那些过着日常生活的人们。尸首在哪里,鹰也会聚在哪里(37节):耶稣将世界描述为一个死亡之地。

灵修指南

法利赛人问耶稣神国几时到来,耶稣回答他们说,因为统治宇宙万物的主已经来到他们中间,所以神的国就在他们心里。接着,耶稣对门徒讲到人子再来的时候,要像挪亚和罗得的日子一样。在挪亚的日子,人们又吃又喝,又娶又嫁,结果受到洪水的审判;在罗得的日子,人们也是又吃又喝,又买又卖,又耕种又建造,最终受到火与硫磺的审判,因为那时的人们只追求现实的幸福,过着与神无关的生活,不信靠神,也不寻求神的旨意,耶稣强调,到了末日,人们对于终末的警惕性会有所松懈,所以,我们作为神的儿女,应当在日常生活中时刻抓住神的话语,仰望神国的降临。盼望我们今天也遵行主的话,预备迎接主的再来。
 

内室祷告

愿我将注意力从现实转移到神国,紧紧抓住神的话,预备主的再来。

 

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