有个地方我们叫“家” A Place we called “home”

礼拜天在教会学到的信息 Learned in Church on Sunday

2011年8月7日 August 7, 2011

讲员：弗雷德米切尔牧师 Speaker: Pastor Fred Mitchell

经文： 路加福音 9：57-62 Luke 9:57-62

路加福音 9：58  Luke 9：58

耶稣说：“狐狸有洞，天空的飞鸟有窝，只是人子没有枕头的地方。” Jesus said， “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the son of man have no place to lay his head.”

(一)              家是一个很温馨的地方。当我们出外时，我们常常会带着一两件熟悉的东西，像枕头或时钟，或一件能够提醒我们纪念家的东西。

人类与他们的家有一个特别的关系。家给他们一个熟悉与安全的感觉。可是当主耶稣在结束他一天的教导时，他将人群送走之后，他登上橄榄山祷告，山上就成为他的家。他低头躺在地上，抬头望着天上的星星。

(二)               为何主耶稣要离开他的天家，成为在地上无家可归的人呢？这是为了要赐我们天家。他从死里复活，回到父那里去，是为我们预备地方而去。（约翰福音14：2）

在这个世界上，有许多无家可归的人。他们住在暂时的居所或睡在公共场所。他们需要一个永久的家。在这个世界也有许多流浪者，他们不知道他们终于会回到天家去。我们需要关心无家可归的人。我们更需要关心那些活在黑暗里的人。他们需要知道他们能够找到光明，回到天家去。

1.   There is something comforting about a place called “home.” On a road trip, we would often take a familiar item from our home with us, such as a pillow or an alarm clock or something that reminds us of home.

Human beings have a special link with their home. Home gives them a sense of familiarity and security. But when our Lord Jesus sent the crowd home at the end of his teaching sessions, he would go up Mount Olives to pray, and made his home there, laying his head on the ground and starring at the stars in the sky.

2.    Why did Jesus leave his heavenly home and became homeless here on earth? It is so that he might give us our heavenly home. He rose again after he died and returned to his Father to prepare a place for us. (John 14:2)

There are many homeless people in this world. They live in temporary shelters or sleep on any public places. They need a permanent home. There are many wanderers in this world, not knowing whether they will finally return to a heavenly home. We need to care for the homeless. Even more, we need to care for those who are in spiritual darkness. They need to know that they can find the light and return to their heavenly Father.