马太福音第8章;路加福音7:11-17
耶稣基督的奇妙力量
耶稣展现祂大能的一个方式,是经由奇迹般的医治,包括让寡妇的儿子复活。本课旨在增强你对耶稣基督的能力的信心,祂能在我们的时代和你的生活中行奇迹。
奇迹是「藉神的能力而产生的不凡事件。……为了要显示奇迹,必须有信心」(经文指南, 「奇迹」 ,scriptures.ChurchofJesusChrist.org)。
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经文中记载的种种奇迹之中,你最喜欢的是哪些?为什么?
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你从这些奇迹中,对耶稣基督有了哪些认识?
救主的一生中,行了许多奇迹。当你在本课还有这一整周中,研读这些奇迹时,沉思你将如何回答以下问题:
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你对奇迹有了什么理解?
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关于奇迹,你有哪些疑问?
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你希望神在你的生活中行哪些奇迹?
你可以将自己的答案写在研读日记中。这周,在你研读耶稣基督所行的奇迹时,找出你问题的答案。
有个经文研读技巧能帮助你更认识耶稣基督,那就是不单看祂做了什么,还要透过祈祷沉思,祂的行为展现了祂什么样的品格。在你阅读时,不妨问些这样的问题「从救主所做所言中,我对于祂的动机、优先顺序及特质,有了怎样的认识?」
阅读 路加福音7:11-17 ,找出故事中教导你关于耶稣基督的细节。举例来说,留意 第13节 的哪些内容可以帮助你了解,祂为什么行这个奇迹。研读这则记事时,不妨也观看影片「拿因的寡妇」(2:22),影片可在ChurchofJesusChrist.org上取得。
1. Answer the following questions in your study journal:
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从救主行这个奇迹时的所做或所言中,你对祂的动机、优先顺序及特质,有了怎样的认识?
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你学到的事,如何能在你目前的生活中帮助你?
从以下奇迹中选择一项或多项来研读。继续留意你从这些记事中,对救主有哪样的认识。
马太福音8:1-4 ; 马可福音1:40-42耶稣医治麻疯病人。麻疯病人不被社会接受,因为麻疯病是一种痛苦、会传染,有时甚至会致命的疾病。大部分的人会避免靠近或接触他们。
马太福音8:5-8,13耶稣医治百夫长的仆人。百夫长是从前罗马军队中,带领约100名士兵的指挥官。在耶稣的时代,许多犹太人憎恨罗马士兵,因为宗教上差异,也因为士兵代表着征服了他们的罗马帝国。
2. Choose one of the three preceding accounts. Answer the following questions in your study journal based on that account.
马可福音5:1-13,18-20耶稣从一位住在坟墓堆里的人身上赶出恶鬼。有个人住在坟墓堆里,他大吼大叫并伤害自己。住在这个区域的人们用铁链也绑不住他,他们便躲着他,让他一个人住在坟墓堆里。
从以上三则记事中选出一个。根据记事,在研读日记中回答以下问题。
Many miracles happen every day in the work of our Church and in the lives of our members. Many of you have witnessed miracles, perhaps more than you realize.
(Dallin H. Oaks, “Miracles,” Ensign, June 2001, 6)
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从救主行这个奇迹时的所做或所言中,你对祂的动机、优先顺序及特质,有了怎样的认识?
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你学到的事,如何能在你目前的生活中帮助你?
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当你觉得需要救主的帮助时,你可以怎么做?
你有没有想过,在现代,救主是否还会行奇迹?虽然许多人没有经历过经文中记载的戏剧般奇迹,像是分开红海或是使死者复活,但重要的是要记住,奇迹今日仍在发生。救主宣告「我是奇迹之神;我要向世界证明我是昨日、今日、永远都一样的」( 尼腓二书27:23 )。
总会会长团达林 邬克司会长教导:
3. Answer at least two of the following questions in your study journal:
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关于邬克司会长所说的这段话,你有什么想法或疑问?
提交以下至少两个问题的回答。
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救主透过祂的教会事工行了哪些奇迹,作为复兴的一部分?
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你或你所爱的人,曾在你们的生活中见过什么奇迹?
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这些个人的奇迹,透露出哪些有关天父和耶稣基督的事?
不妨请学生想一想,在这堂课中他们对奇迹的认识,有何增长。也请学生留意,主在他们生活中的神奇影响。鼓励他们寻求来自圣灵的灵感,帮助他们找到他们对奇迹仍有的疑问的答案。
I was asked if I would visit a woman in the hospital whose doctors had told her she was going blind and would lose her sight within a week. She asked if we would administer to her and we did so, and she states that she was miraculously healed. … I said to her, “I didn’t save your sight. Of course, the Lord saved your sight. Thank Him and be grateful to Him.”
(Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley [1997], 343)
Miracles are not available for the asking. … The will of the Lord is always paramount. The priesthood of the Lord cannot be used to work a miracle contrary to the will of the Lord. We must also remember that even when a miracle is to occur, it will not occur on our desired schedule. The revelations teach that miraculous experiences occur “in his own time, and in his own way” ( D&C 88:68).
(Dallin H. Oaks, “Miracles,” Ensign, June 2001, 9)
We came to this earth that we might have a body and present it pure before God in the celestial kingdom. The great principle of happiness consists in having a body. The devil has no body, and herein is his punishment. He is pleased when he can obtain the tabernacle of man, and when cast out by the Savior he asked to go into the herd of swine, showing that he would prefer a swine’s body to having none. All beings who have bodies have power over those who have not.
(Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith [2007], 211)
Our Savior and Redeemer, Jesus Christ, will perform some of His mightiest works between now and when He comes again. We will see miraculous indications that God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, preside over this Church in majesty and glory.
(Russell M. Nelson, “Revelation for the Church, Revelation for Our Lives,” Ensign or Liahona, May 2018, 96)