Sunday Message

Luke 路加福音 11:14 – 32
Guest Speaker: Rev. Marc Andersen
14 耶稣赶出一个叫人哑吧的鬼，鬼出去之后，哑吧就说出话来；众人都希奇。15 内中却有人说：“他是靠着鬼王别西卜赶鬼。”16 又有人试探耶稣，向他求从天上来的神迹。17 他晓得他们的意念，就说：“凡一国自相纷争，就成为荒场；凡一家自相纷争，就必败落。18 若撒但自相纷争，他的国怎能站得住呢？因为你们说我靠着别西卜赶鬼。19 我若靠着别西卜赶鬼，你们的子弟赶鬼又靠着谁呢？这样，他们就要断定你们的是非。20 我若靠着神的能力赶鬼，这就是神的国临到你们了。21 “壮士披挂整齐，看守自己的住宅，他所有的都平安无事；22 但有一个比他更壮的来，胜过他，就夺去他所倚靠的盔甲兵器，又分了他的赃。23 “不与我相合的，就是敌我的；不同我收聚的，就是分散的。24 “污鬼离了人身，就在无水之地过来过去，寻找安歇之处；既寻不着，便说：‘我要回到我所出来的屋里去。’25 到了，就看见里面打扫干净，修饰好了；26 便去另带七个比自己更恶的鬼来，都进去住在那里，那人末后的景况比先前更不好了。”27 耶稣正说这话的时候，众人中有一个女人大声说：“怀你胎的和乳养你的有福了！”28 耶稣说：“是，却还不如听神之道而遵守的人有福。”29 当众人聚集的时候，耶稣开讲说：“这世代是一个邪恶的世代。他们求看神迹，除了约拿的神迹以外，再没有神迹给他们看。30 约拿怎样为尼尼微人成了神迹，人子也要照样为这世代的人成了神迹。31 “当审判的时候，南方的女王要起来定这世代的罪，因为她从地极而来，要听所罗门的智慧话。看哪，在这里有一人比所罗门更大！32 当审判的时候，尼尼微人要起来定这世代的罪，因为他们听了约拿所传的就悔改了。看哪，在这里有一人比约拿更大！【和合本】
14 Jesus was driving out a demon that was mute. When the demon left, the man who had been mute spoke, and the crowd was amazed.15 But some of them said, “By Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he is driving out demons.”16 Others tested him by asking for a sign from heaven.17 Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them: “Any kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and a house divided against itself will fall.18 If Satan is divided against himself, how can his kingdom stand? I say this because you claim that I drive out demons by Beelzebul.19 Now if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your followers drive them out? So then, they will be your judges.20 But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.21 “When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are safe.22 But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted and divides up his plunder.23 “Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.24 “When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’25 When it arrives, it finds the house swept clean and put in order.26 Then it goes and takes seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse than the first.”27 As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, “Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you.”28 He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”29 As the crowds increased, Jesus said, “This is a wicked generation. It asks for a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.30 For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of Man be to this generation.31 The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the people of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon’s wisdom; and now something greater than Solomon is here.32 The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and now something greater than Jonah is here 【NIV】.