婚姻中的福音 (趙武夷長老)

03 Apr

婚姻中的福音 (趙武夷長老)

在以弗所書的第一章裡面,使徒保羅論述了福音就是經由耶穌基督的救贖,我們的過犯得以赦免,有了神兒女的名份。在人與人關係當中,夫妻關係可說是最為重要但也是最具挑戰的一種。在Gary Thomas的「神聖的婚姻」一書中他說到:「如果你想自由地服事耶穌,毫無疑問,保持單身是最好的選擇,婚姻會消耗你很多時間。但是,如果你想變得更像耶穌,我想不出有甚麼比結婚更好的方法了,在婚姻裡,你不得不面對一些你永遠不必面對的品格問題。」婚姻的確是操練我們屬靈品格最好的學校。今天我們要談的就是婚姻中的福音。



保羅從聖靈的啟示中得到了一個奧秘,丈夫與妻子聯合成為一體,就是預表了教會與基督的關係。夫妻的不完全、衝突與矛盾,唯有在耶穌基督的福音裡才能尋得答案,就是效法主耶穌的謙卑與順福,捨己的愛、福音是婚姻的好消息!


以弗所書 5:21-33 (和合本)

  1. 又當存敬畏基督的心,彼此順服。
  2. 你們做妻子的,當順服自己的丈夫,如同順服主;
  3. 因為丈夫是妻子的頭,如同基督是教會的頭,他又是教會全體的救主。
  4. 教會怎樣順服基督,妻子也要怎樣凡事順服丈夫。
  5. 你們做丈夫的,要愛你們的妻子,正如基督愛教會,為教會捨己,
  6. 要用水藉著道把教會洗淨,成為聖潔,
  7. 可以獻給自己,做個榮耀的教會,毫無玷汙、皺紋等類的病,乃是聖潔沒有瑕疵的。
  8. 丈夫也當照樣愛妻子,如同愛自己的身子,愛妻子便是愛自己了。
  9. 從來沒有人恨惡自己的身子,總是保養顧惜,正像基督待教會一樣,
  10. 因我們是他身上的肢體。
  11. 為這個緣故,人要離開父母,與妻子聯合,二人成為一體。
  12. 這是極大的奧祕,但我是指著基督和教會說的。
  13. 然而你們各人都當愛妻子,如同愛自己一樣;妻子也當敬重她的丈夫。
Ephesians 5:21-33 (NIV)

  1. Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
  2. Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.
  3. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
  4. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
  5. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
  6. to make her holy, cleansing[a] her by the washing with water through the word,
  7. and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
  8. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
  9. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—
  10. for we are members of his body.
  11. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
  12. This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.
  13. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.