Misi Murid-Murid
Sila baca Kisah 1:8. Daripada memanjakan spekulasi rubuatan, apakah yang diharapkan untuk murid-murid lakukan?
Terdapat empat elemen dalam rangkap ini mengenai misi murid-murid:
1. Kurnia Roh Kudus. Roh Kudus selalunya aktif di antara umat Tuhan. Bagaimanapun, menurut para nabi, terdapat pemberian khas tentang Roh pada masa akan datang (Yesaya 44:3; Joel 2:28, 29). Sebagai mana Yesus sendiri telah diurapi oleh Roh, maka Roh Kudus itu sudahpun berkerja semasa dalam pelayananNya (Lukas 4:18-21) tetapi, tidak diberikan secara rasmi sehingga Yesus naik ke Syurga (Yohanes 7:39; Kisah 2:33).
2. Peranan sebagai saksi. Seorang saksi adalah akaun pertama. Murid-murid sesungguhnya layak untuk memberi kesaksian (Kisah 1:21, 22; 4:20; bandingkan dengan 1 Yohanes 1:1 – 3) dan sekarang mereka diutus untuk membahagikan kepada dunia pengalaman unik mereka bersama Yesus.
3. Pelan misi tersebut. Murid-murid memberi kesaksian pertama-tama di Jerusalem, kemudian di Judea, Samaria dan akhirnya sampai ke hujung bumi. Satu pelan prograsif. Jerusalem merupakan pusat kehidupan Yahudi beragama, tempat di mana Yesus ditolak dan disalibkan. Judea dan Samaria adalah kawasan jiran di mana Yesus melayani. Bagaimanapun, murid-murid tidak hanya membataskan pada kawasan tempatan semata-mata. Skop misi mereka adalah sejagat.
4. Orintasi misi tersebut. Pada zaman Perjanjian Lama, bangsa-bangsalah yang sepatutnya menjadi perhatian Tuhan (rujuk Yesaya 2:1-5) dan bukan Israel yang sepatutnya “membawa” Tuhan kepada bangsa-bangsa. Beberapa pengecualian (sebagai contoh, Yunus) tidak membatalkan peraturan umum. Sekarang strateginya berlainan. Yerusalem masih menjadi pusat, tetapi daripada tinggal dan menanamkan akar-akar di sana, murid-murid diharapkan untuk berpindah keluar ke paling hujung bumi.
Sila baca Lukas 24:44-48. Apakah mesej sama yang sepatutnya murid-murid khutbahkan?
Di dalam sepuluh hari Dia bersama-sama dengan murid-murid selepas kebangkitan (Kisah 1:3), Yesus memang telah menjelaskan begitu banyak kebenaran kepada mereka tentang kerajaan Tuhan, sekalipun masih banyak yang mereka tidak mengerti sebagai mana pertanyaan mereka terdapat dalam Kisah 1:6. Mereka biasa dengan nubuatan tetapi sekarang mereka melihatnya dalam terang yang baru. Cahayanya pantulan daripada salib dan kubur yang kosong (rujuk Kisah 3:17-19).
Sabbath School Lesson 1
Monday July 2
Monday July 2
The Disciples’ Mission
Read Acts 1:8. Instead of indulging in prophetic speculations, what were the disciples expected to do?
There are four important elements in this passage concerning the disciples’ mission:
1. The gift of the Spirit. The Spirit had always been active among God’s people. According to the prophets, however, there would be a special endowment of the Spirit in the future (Isa. 44:3; Joel 2:28, 29). As Jesus Himself was anointed with the Spirit, the Holy Spirit was already at work during the time of His ministry (Luke 4:18-21) but officially was not inaugurated until Christ’s exaltation in heaven (John 7:39, Acts 2:33).
2. The role of witness. A witness is a firsthand account. The disciples were fully qualified to give such a witness (Acts 1:21, 22; 4:20; compare with 1 John 1:1-3) and were now commissioned to share with the world their unique experience with Jesus.
3. The plan of the mission. The disciples were to witness first in Jerusalem, then in Judea and Samaria, and finally to the ends of the earth. It was a progressive plan. Jerusalem was the center of Jewish religious life, the place where Jesus had been condemned and crucified. Judea and Samaria were neighboring areas where Jesus also had ministered. The disciples, however, were not to limit themselves to this locale alone. The scope of their mission was worldwide.
4. The orientation of the mission. In Old Testament times, it was the nations that should be attracted to God (see Isa. 2:1-5), not Israel that should “take” God to the nations. The few exceptions (for example, Jonah) do not invalidate the general rule. Now the strategy was different. Jerusalem was still the center, but rather than staying and building roots there, the disciples were expected to move out to the uttermost ends of the earth.
Read Luke 24:44-48. What was the core message that the disciples should preach?
In the forty days He spent with the disciples after the resurrection (Acts 1:3), Jesus must have explained much truth to them about the kingdom of God, even if there was still much they didn’t understand, as their question in Acts 1:6 showed. They were familiar with the prophecies but could now see them in a new light, a light shed from the Cross and the empty tomb (see Acts 3:17-19).
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