讓福音的大能彰顯 (趙武夷長老)

27 Feb

讓福音的大能彰顯 (趙武夷長老)

上次我們談到教會今年的主題「興起發光」,今天我們要從另一個角度來看如何為主發光。
我們來看一位對初代教會帶來極大的影響的人物,為什麼他這麼有能力,雖然這是發生在兩千年前的事,但是神的道不會改變,人性也不會改變。在今天的經文中我們看到保羅心中的矛盾,他處於誇口、不誇口的兩難中,因為在當時的哥林多教會信徒信仰的純正性受到一些假使徒的影響,這些假使徒不傳正確的福音、吹噓自己的屬靈經歷、貶低保羅使徒的身分,所以保羅必須勸勉哥林多的信徒回到福音的正道上,而不是倚靠這些假的「明星」講員。保羅為了這些信徒的緣故,別無選擇而必須為自己辯護。我們可以在今天的經文中看到保羅事奉傳福音的能力所在,也是我們可以效法的。
一、 在每一天生活裡(1-6)
二 、在軟弱與順服中(7-9)
三 、在謙卑依靠主時(9-10)



神要保羅謙卑倚靠主,這就是保羅得力量的秘訣,這也是為什麼他在牢中,卻還能去安慰那些在牢外的弟兄姊妹的原因,福音就是神的大能,對保羅來講就是他自己生命的經歷。

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哥林多後書 12:1-10 (和合本)

  1. 我自誇固然無益,但我是不得已的。如今我要說到主的顯現和啟示。
  2. 我認得一個在基督裡的人,他前十四年被提到第三層天上去(或在身內,我不知道;或在身外,我也不知道;只有神知道。)
  3. 我認得這人(或在身內、或在身外,我都不知道,只有神知道)
  4. 他被提到樂園裡,聽見隱祕的言語,是人不可說的。
  5. 為這人,我要誇口;但是為我自己,除了我的軟弱以外,我並不誇口。
  6. 我就是願意誇口,也不算狂,因為我必說實話;只是我禁止不說,恐怕有人把我看高了,過於他在我身上所看見、所聽見的。
  7. 又恐怕我因所得的啟示甚大,就過於自高,所以有一根刺加在我肉體上,就是撒旦的差役要攻擊我,免得我過於自高。
  8. 為這事,我三次求過主,叫這刺離開我。
  9. 他對我說:「我的恩典夠你用的,因為我的能力是在人的軟弱上顯得完全。」所以,我更喜歡誇自己的軟弱,好叫基督的能力覆庇我。
  10. 我為基督的緣故,就以軟弱、凌辱、急難、逼迫、困苦為可喜樂的,因我什麼時候軟弱,什麼時候就剛強了。
2 Corinthians 12:1-10 (NIV)

  1. I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.
  2. I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows.
  3. And I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows—
  4. was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell.
  5. I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses.
  6. Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say,
  7. or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
  8. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.
  9. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
  10. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.