拉撒路,你在哪裏? (冉茂圻傳道)

14 Aug

拉撒路,你在哪裏? (冉茂圻傳道)

今天的經文記載了耶穌讓已經死去的拉撒路從死裡復活、走出墳墓的神蹟奇事,但是我們想問的是,拉撒路,你在哪裡? 這讓我想起一首在網路上有著非常高點擊量的歌 Faded,其中有幾句歌詞是 Was it all in my fantasy? Where are you now? Were you only imaginary? 正好回應了我們今天的問題,讓我們思想,「拉撒路,對於我們只是一個停留在聖經故事中的人物嗎?或者只是停留在我們的想象中嗎?」今天我們從約翰福音的經文,一起來尋找拉撒路。



我們都和拉撒路一樣,都是主所愛的,都經歷了主重生復活的大能,都承載為主見證,引人歸主的榮耀使命。所以,拉撒路並非只是停留在我們的想象中,他就在這裏,因為你我都是拉撒路!不要把我們有力的福音武器藏起來,讓我們大膽的為主分享見證。【约12:11】說:「因有好些猶太人為拉撒路的緣故,回去信了耶稣。」願我們都如同這句經文,有好些人為我們的緣故,回去信了耶穌。


約翰福音 12:1-11 (和合本)

  1. 逾越節前六日,耶穌來到伯大尼,就是他叫拉撒路從死裡復活之處。
  2. 有人在那裡給耶穌預備筵席,馬大伺候,拉撒路也在那同耶穌坐席的人中。
  3. 馬利亞就拿著一斤極貴的真哪噠香膏,抹耶穌的腳,又用自己的頭髮去擦,屋裡就滿了膏的香氣。
  4. 有一個門徒,就是那將要賣耶穌的加略人猶大,
  5. 說:「這香膏為什麼不賣三十兩銀子賙濟窮人呢?」
  6. 他說這話,並不是掛念窮人,乃因他是個賊,又帶著錢囊,常取其中所存的。
  7. 耶穌說:「由她吧!她是為我安葬之日存留的。
  8. 因為常有窮人和你們同在,只是你們不常有我。」
  9. 有許多猶太人知道耶穌在那裡,就來了,不但是為耶穌的緣故,也是要看他從死裡所復活的拉撒路。
  10. 但祭司長商議連拉撒路也要殺了,
  11. 因有好些猶太人為拉撒路的緣故,回去信了耶穌。
John 12:1-11 (NIV)

  1. Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
  2. Here a dinner was given in Jesus’ honor. Martha served, while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with him.
  3. Then Mary took about a pint[a] of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
  4. But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected,
  5. “Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.[b]”
  6. He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.
  7. “Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial.
  8. You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me.”
  9. Meanwhile a large crowd of Jews found out that Jesus was there and came, not only because of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.
  10. So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus as well,
  11. for on account of him many of the Jews were going over to Jesus and believing in him.