May 20【每日活水】除去刚硬的心才能接纳他人

马太福音19:1~15

休妻的问题
(可10‧1-12)
1 耶稣说完了这些话,就离开加利利,来到犹太的境界约旦河外。
2 有许多人跟着他,他就在那里把他们的病人治好了。
3 有法利赛人来试探耶稣,说:「人无论什么缘故都可以休妻吗?」
4 耶稣回答说:「那起初造人的,是造男造女,
5 并且说:『因此,人要离开父母,与妻子连合,二人成为一体。』这经你们没有念过吗?
6 既然如此,夫妻不再是两个人,乃是一体的了。所以, 神配合的,人不可分开。」
7 法利赛人说:「这样,摩西为什么吩咐给妻子休书,就可以休她呢?」
8 耶稣说:「摩西因为你们的心硬,所以许你们休妻,但起初并不是这样。
9 我告诉你们,凡休妻另娶的,若不是为淫乱的缘故,就是犯奸淫了;有人娶那被休的妇人,也是犯奸淫了。」
10 门徒对耶稣说:「人和妻子既是这样,倒不如不娶。」
11 耶稣说:「这话不是人都能领受的,惟独赐给谁,谁才能领受。
12 因为有生来是阉人,也有被人阉的,并有为天国的缘故自阉的。这话谁能领受就可以领受。」
耶稣为小孩祝福
(可10‧13-16;路18‧15-17)
13 那时,有人带着小孩子来见耶稣,要耶稣给他们按手祷告,门徒就责备那些人。
14 耶稣说:「让小孩子到我这里来,不要禁止他们;因为在天国的,正是这样的人。」
15 耶稣给他们按手,就离开那地方去了。

Divorce

1 When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went into the region of Judea to the other side of the Jordan.

2 Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

3 Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?”

4 “Haven’t you read,”he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’

5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

7 “Why then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”

8 Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning.

9 I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”

10 The disciples said to him, “If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry.”

11 Jesus replied, “Not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given.

12 For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”

The Little Children and Jesus

13 Then people brought little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked them.

14 Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

15 When he had placed his hands on them, he went on from there.

 

内容观察

1.法利赛人对耶稣提出什么问题?(7节)
2.耶稣如何回答法利赛人的提问?(8节)
 

思考与默想

 

3.耶稣为什么回答法利赛人说,是因为他们心硬?(参耶16:12)
 

个人感受

4.看到法利赛人硬着心来试探耶稣,你有什么感想?
 

决心与应用

5.你的内心有哪些需要除去的刚硬、顽梗?
6.为了以爱心来接纳家庭、职场和信仰群体中的人,你决定要怎么做?
无论甚么缘故,人休妻都合法吗(3节):法利赛人问这个问题并不是真的想知道耶稣的想法,而是为了从耶稣的回答中找话柄。
耶16:12“你们行恶比你们祖先更甚,看哪,各人随从自己顽梗的恶心行事,不听从我。

灵修指南

有一些法利赛人来找耶稣,想要以离婚的问题来试探。有关离婚的问题,在当时的社会中分为两派,有一派认为,只要有正当理由就可以离婚;另一派认为,无论如何都不可以离婚。因着这样的社会背景,法利赛人精心设计了一个陷阱题,想要借此找到耶稣的话柄,好陷害祂。不过,耶稣没有按着他们所预想的方式回答,反而向他们指出,神才是家庭之主。接着,法利赛人又引用摩西律法中有关离婚的规定来质问耶稣,对此,耶稣说,律法中之所以会这样规定,是因为人的心硬(8节)。说到底,刚硬的心就是家庭和信仰群体维持整全最主要的阻碍。如果我们怀有悖逆、不顺从神的心,我们就无法维系与人的关系。盼望我们借着顺从神的旨意和饶恕他人,建立及维系彼此相爱的群体。

内室祷告

求神使我明白是家庭和信仰群体的主,按祂的心意建造彼此相爱的健康群体。

 

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