你要痊癒麼? (關國瑞牧師)

21 Aug

你要痊癒麼? (關國瑞牧師)

這個月是我們的宣教月,宣教就是要將耶穌寶貴的救恩傳揚出去,福音為什麼這麼寶貴,因為福音帶著耶穌復活的大能,而下個星期就是這個月的高潮:福音主日。神設立教會在地上的目的是甚麼呢?如果教會無法將神設立教會的目的帶出來,那麼教會就沒有存在的必要。教會的目的就是要告訴世人神愛他們。在今天的經文中,耶穌醫治了一個得病的人,在這世界上醫治心靈的病是比身體的病更重要的,這個世界有病需要得到醫治。



在神的時間表裡面沒有巧合,一切都是神巧妙的安排,因為在神沒有難成的事。或許經驗告訴你這件事不可能,但是你要相信人還是相信全能的神?我們要站起來,改變現狀,回應耶穌的話。


約翰福音 5:1-9 (和合本)

  1. 這事以後,到了猶太人的一個節期,耶穌就上耶路撒冷去。
  2. 在耶路撒冷,靠近羊門有一個池子,希伯來話叫作畢士大,旁邊有五個廊子;
  3. 裡面躺著瞎眼的、瘸腿的、血氣枯乾的許多病人。(有古卷在此有:等候水動;
  4. 因為有天使按時下池子攪動那水,水動之後,誰先下去,無論害甚麼病就痊愈了。)
  5. 在那裡有一個人,病了三十八年。
  6. 耶穌看見他躺著,知道他病了許久,就問他說:你要痊瘉麼?
  7. 病人回答說:先生,水動的時候,沒有人把我放在池子裡;我正去的時候,就有別人比我先下去。
  8. 耶穌對他說:起來,拿你的褥子走罷!
  9. 那人立刻痊愈,就拿起褥子來走了。
John 5:1-9 (NIV)

  1. Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals.
  2. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda[a] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.
  3. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.
  4. From time to time an angel of the Lord would come down and stir up the waters. The first one into the pool after each such disturbance would be cured of whatever disease they had.
  5. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
  6. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
  7. “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
  8. Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”
  9. At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,