
马太福音12:38~45
要求神迹
(可8‧11-12;路11‧29-32)
38 当时,有几个文士和法利赛人对耶稣说:「夫子,我们愿意你显个神迹给我们看。」
39 耶稣回答说:「一个邪恶淫乱的世代求看神迹,除了先知约拿的神迹以外,再没有神迹给他们看。
40 约拿三日三夜在大鱼肚腹中,人子也要这样三日三夜在地里头。
41 当审判的时候,尼尼微人要起来定这世代的罪,因为尼尼微人听了约拿所传的就悔改了。看哪,在这里有一人比约拿更大!
42 当审判的时候,南方的女王要起来定这世代的罪;因为她从地极而来,要听所罗门的智慧话。看哪,在这里有一人比所罗门更大!」
污鬼回来
(路11‧24-26)
43 「污鬼离了人身,就在无水之地过来过去,寻求安歇之处,却寻不着。
44 于是说:『我要回到我所出来的屋里去。』到了,就看见里面空闲,打扫干净,修饰好了,
45 便去另带了七个比自己更恶的鬼来,都进去住在那里。那人末后的景况比先前更不好了。这邪恶的世代也要如此。」
The Sign of Jonah
38 Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”
39 He answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
41 The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now something greater than Jonah is here.
42 The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon’s wisdom, and now something greater than Solomon is here.
43 “When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.
44 Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order.
45 Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation.”
内容观察
1.耶稣如何回应求看神迹的文士和法利赛人?(39节)
2.为什么审判时,尼尼微人要起来定那世代的罪?(41节)
思考与默想
个人感受
决心与应用
5.你何时曾像文士和法利赛人一样,为了满足自己而祈求神迹?
6.为了脱离只求神迹的年幼信仰,怀着成熟的信心而活,你决定要怎么做?
弗4:27“不可给魔鬼留地步。”
约1:12“凡接纳他的,就是信他名的人,他就赐他们权柄作神的儿女。”
灵修指南
耶稣责备他们是“邪恶淫乱的世代”,并说除了约拿的神迹外,再没有其他的神迹给他们看了。
事实上,如果尼尼微人听见约拿的信息就悔改,那文士和法利赛人听见耶稣的教导也应该要悔改才是。
然而,他们在内心的空处并未用耶稣的话语来充满,以致给魔鬼留了整理好的空房间,招来更多的污灵占据其中(43~45节;参弗4:27)。
因此,我们要谨记,耶稣的门徒不能单靠眼所能见的神迹而活,唯有接受耶稣进人我们的心,我们才能成为神的儿女(参约1:12)。
邪恶淫乱的世代寻求眼睛可见的神迹,但耶稣的门徒当以主的话语充满己心。
内室祷告
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