病痛和灾害怎样开始?
一. 开始的时候神所造的每一样都是非常好的!
是的,神所造的人开始的时候,也是非常好的!创世记一章三十一节记着说,神看见每一样他所造的,看啊,都是非常好的(very good)!
二. 苦难和病痛是这样开始的!
1. 神在园中种了生命树和分别善恶知识的树.(创2:9)
2. 神命令那人说,园中任何树上有核的果子,他都可以吃.但是你绝对不可吃分别善恶树上的果子.因为你吃的时候,你必定会死.(创2:17)
3. 他们吃了分别树上的果子之后.神对女人说,我要大大增加你生养孩子的痛苦对亚当说,地因你受诅咒,你一生要劳苦作工才有吃的地会因你而长荆棘,...
你要流汗满脸才有东西吃,直到你归回尘土,因你是从尘土而来!(创3:11-19)
三. 违背神的命令成为灾难和疾病源头!
1. 若是你不遵守主你的神所吩咐的,也不小心跟着今日神所规定的而行,所有这些诅咒必会临到你身上,创28:15-29
并要将你困住.在城市里,在乡村里,你都会受苦主必定要用病菌使你受难,直到你要进去得着这地,在那里被毁灭.主必要用热病,天灾将你毁灭.
2. 所多玛和俄摩拉二城与它们周围的市镇因放纵自己去行淫和同性恋被烧灭.作世人将被地狱的永火烧的刑罚的榜样!(犹大书1:7)
四. 人看见疾病和灾难通常都认为是刑罚!
约翰福音九章一节到三节,有这样记载,耶稣看见一个生来就瞎眼的人.门徒问他.这是因他自己犯罪,或是因他父母犯罪的报应?
耶稣说,不是他自己犯罪,也不是他父母犯罪,乃是要藉着他来彰显神的工作.有时候病痛,苦难,确实是因人犯罪所得的刑罚!
马可福音2:3-5节记载,有人抬一个瘫子到耶稣那里.耶稣看见他们的信心,就对瘫子说,小子,你的罪赦了,治好了他!
五. 有些疾病和死亡是为了要叫人归荣耀给神!
拉撒路的病和死亡就是为了要叫人看见神的大能,好归荣耀给神!(约11:1-35)
拉撒路病了,而且死了.耶稣等到他被埋在坟幕里四日,才去叫他从死里活过来,就是为这个!
耶稣知道,这是彰显神的大能,最大的事!
在叫拉撒路复活的时候,耶稣非常伤心的哭.就是因为当日亲身在那里看见的犹太人,还是不肯信他是基督,是他们的救主.
最大的神迹也不能叫他们得着拯救!
六. 有些苦难是要建立人格引导他们实现永生的盼望.
使徒保罗说,我在苦难中也是欢乐的,因为苦难生坚定忍耐,坚定忍耐生人格,人格使人实现所盼望.(罗5:3-4)
七. 忍受试炼的人有福了.(雅1:12)
因为胜过试炼的人,要接受生命的冠冕,就是神应许给那些爱他的人的!
愿神赐福保守你从今直到永远! 零七年十二月十三日.
Sickness and disasters how it all begin?
A. Everything God had made was very good at the beginning! (Gen.1:31)
God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.
B. This is how suffering and hardship begins!
1. God planted the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the middle of the garden. (Gen.2:9)
2. God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.” 2:17
3. After they ate the fruit from the tree of the knowledge….
God said to the woman--> I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing….
And to Adam God said-->Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
It will produce thorns … By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground…Ge.3:11-19
C. Disobey God’s command has become the source of disaster & sickness!
If you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today,all
these curses will come upon you and overtake you: you will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country….
The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.
The Lord will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight
and mildew, which will plague you until you perish.
The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron…. (Deu.28:15-29)
In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion.
They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire. Jude 1:7
D. When comes to sickness and disaster, people think about punishment!
Jn.9:1-3--> Jesus saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents,
that he should be born blind?
Jesus answered, neither did this man sin, nor his parents:
but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
It is true some sickness are a result of sins committed!
Mk.2:3-5--> Some men came, bringing to him a paralytic, carried by 4 of them.
They made an opening in the roof above Jesus and lowered the mat the paralyzed man was lying on.
When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”
E. Some sickness and death are for the glory of God!
About the death of Lazarus was for the glory of God! (Jn.11:1-35)
Lazarus was sick and died of sickness. Jesus waited until he was buried in the tomb for 4 days.
This is so that Jesus resurrect him to show that he was the Christ!
Only Christ the Savior can perform such a miracle!
F. Some sufferings are to build character that leads to hope!
Ro.5:3-4 We rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character;
and character, hope.
G. Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial. (James 1:12)
Because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of Life that God has promised to those who love him.