バイブルクラスが行われました

 

この日（2016/06/04）のバイブルクラスは4名の出席で、ルカ福音書の13章の前半を学びました。

今日教えられたみ言葉のポイントは二つの小見出し、"Unless You
Turn to God"

と"Healing on the Sabbath"のとおりだと思います。

始めの個所は「神に目を向けなければ、死ぬことになる。」と記されていますが、これは旧・新約の聖書通しての黄金律ではないでしょうか。

神様に目を向けること、神様に真剣に向き合うこと、このことを古くから世界中で信仰と理解してきました。そして私たちあるいは聖書に記された信仰によれば死は罪とほぼ同義語です。したがって罪の反意語は単に徳のある良い行いではなく信仰であることが明らかです。

次に学んだポイントも"Healing on the Sabbath"安息日における癒し（回復）の主体は誰なのか、そしてその影響を被るべき客体の関係に改めて気づかされます。

イエスの前に導かれた18年間病気に苦しむ女に神の業が完成する時があてこそ安息日の意義に適っていることを。

 

次回のバイブルクラスは、いつもの第三土曜日ではなく6月25日の第四土曜日（午後3時から）開催です。

 

Luke 13The Message (MSG)

Unless You Turn to God

13 ^1-5 About that time
some people came up and told him about the Galileans Pilate had killed while
they were at worship, mixing their blood with the blood of the sacrifices on
the altar. Jesus responded, "Do you think those murdered Galileans were worse
sinners than all other Galileans? Not at all. Unless you turn to God, you, too,
will die. And those eighteen in Jerusalem the other day, the ones crushed and
killed when the Tower of Siloam collapsed and fell on them, do you think they
were worse citizens than all other Jerusalemites? Not at all. Unless you turn
to God, you, too, will die."

^6-7 Then he told them a story: "A man had an apple tree planted in his
front yard. He came to it expecting to find apples, but there weren't any. He
said to his gardener, 'What's going on here? For three years now I've come to
this tree expecting apples and not one apple have I found. Chop it down! Why
waste good ground with it any longer?'

^8-9 "The gardener said, 'Let's give it another year. I'll dig around it
and fertilize, and maybe it will produce next year; if it doesn't, then chop it
down.'"

Healing on the Sabbath

^10-13 He was teaching in one of the meeting places on the Sabbath. There
was a woman present, so twisted and bent over with arthritis that she couldn't
even look up. She had been afflicted with this for eighteen years. When Jesus
saw her, he called her over. "Woman, you're free!" He laid hands on her and
suddenly she was standing straight and tall, giving glory to God.

¹⁴ The
meeting-place president, furious because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said
to the congregation, "Six days have been defined as work days. Come on one of
the six if you want to be healed, but not on the seventh, the Sabbath."

^15-16 But Jesus shot back, "You frauds! Each Sabbath every one of you
regularly unties your cow or donkey from its stall, leads it out for water, and
thinks nothing of it. So why isn't it all right for me to untie this daughter
of Abraham and lead her from the stall where Satan has had her tied these
eighteen years?"

¹⁷ When
he put it that way, his critics were left looking quite silly and red-faced.
The congregation was delighted and cheered him on.