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曠野路上的好消息 (王慕亮牧師)

22 May

曠野路上的好消息 (王慕亮牧師)

埃塞俄比亚的太監從非洲到耶路撒冷來禮拜，其虔誠的心是非常值得我們學習的。但非常可惜的是，這位不遠千里來禮拜的人，到耶路撒冷朝聖之後卻沒有真正禮拜到神。他看到了以色列有輝煌雄偉的聖殿，但他卻沒能遇見真神，可以說他的這次禮拜是失敗的禮拜。以至於，神還需要為他另外安排一場的特殊的聚會，即便當時是在曠野的路上。神特別差派腓利在曠野的路上追上他，對他傳講耶穌，他才真正認識了神，並且受洗，這才算是完成了一場真正的禮拜，最後聖經特別描述他是歡歡喜喜的回去。


耶穌說：「若不藉著我，沒有人能到父那裡去。你們若認識我，也就認識我的父。」這就是為什麼受逼迫而逃亡中的腓利卻比在耶路撒冷的拉比們更有平安，因為腓利有生命之道，有耶穌機度赦罪的好消息。


使徒行傳 8:26-39 (和合本)

  1. 有主的一個使者對腓利說：起來！向南走，往那從耶路撒冷下迦薩的路上去。那路是曠野。
  2. 腓利就起身去了，不料，有一個埃提阿伯（即古實，見以賽亞十八章一節）人，是個有大權的太監，在埃提阿伯女王干大基的手下總管銀庫，他上耶路撒冷禮拜去了。
  3. 現在回來，在車上坐著，念先知以賽亞的書。
  4. 聖靈對腓利說：你去！貼近那車走。
  5. 腓利就跑到太監那裡，聽見他念先知以賽亞的書，便問他說：你所念的，你明白麼？
  6. 他說：沒有人指教我，怎能明白呢？於是請腓利上車，與他同坐。
  7. 他所念的那段經，說：他像羊被牽到宰殺之地，又像羊羔在剪毛的人手下無聲；他也是這樣不開口。
  8. 他卑微的時候，人不按公義審判他（原文是他的審判被奪去）；誰能述說他的世代，因為他的生命從地上奪去。
  9. 太監對腓利說：請問，先知說這話是指著誰？是指著自己呢？是指著別人呢？
  10. 腓利就開口從這經上起，對他傳講耶穌。
  11. 二人正往前走，到了有水的地方，太監說：看哪，這裡有水，我受洗有甚麼妨礙呢？（有古卷在此有：
  12. 腓利說：你若是一心相信，就可以。他回答說：我信耶穌基督是神的兒子。）
  13. 於是吩咐車站住，腓利和太監二人同下水裡去，腓利就給他施洗。
  14. 從水裡上來，主的靈把腓利提了去，太監也不再見他了，就歡歡喜喜的走路。
Acts 8:26-39 (NIV)

  1. Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.”
  2. So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake (which means “queen of the Ethiopians”). This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship,
  3. and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the Book of Isaiah the prophet.
  4. The Spirit told Philip, “Go to that chariot and stay near it.”
  5. Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.
  6. “How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
  7. This is the passage of Scripture the eunuch was reading: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
  8. In his humiliation he was deprived of justice. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth.”
  9. The eunuch asked Philip, “Tell me, please, who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?”
  10. Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.
  11. As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water. What can stand in the way of my being baptized?”
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  13. And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him.
  14. When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing.