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马可福音3:20-21 20 耶稣进了一个屋子，众人又聚集，甚至他连饭也顾不得吃。21 耶稣的亲属听见，就出来要拉住他，因为他们说他癫狂了。
为什么？ 为什么耶稣的家人会认为他疯了，以至于认为他们必须 “拉住他”？ 马利亚也是家庭亲属中的一员吗？似乎是的，尤其是如果这是一个与马太福音12：46 相同的故事的话。这一定深深地伤害了耶稣！他一直是个完美的顺从的儿子。他总是完美的兄弟。即使作为长子，他也不会像哥哥们有时会做的那样对弟弟们颐指气使。他从不取笑他们。他从不让他们做自己能做的事。他们为什么不相信他呢？因为熟悉会滋生蔑视。 他们认为他疯了。
C. S. 路易斯是这样说耶稣的：“在此，我希望大家不要像有些人常做的那样，对基督作一些极为愚蠢的判断。他们说：“我乐意承认耶稣是一位伟大的道德导师，但是我不承认他是上帝。”这种话我们不应当说。耶稣所说的话倘若出自一个凡人之口，你就不可能称他为伟大的道德导师，他不是疯子（和称自己为荷包蛋的人是疯子一样），就是地狱里的魔鬼。你自己需要选择，这个人要么那时是、现在仍是上帝的儿子，要么是疯子，甚至连疯子还不如。你可以把他当作傻瓜关押起来，把他当作魔鬼，向他吐唾沫，处死他；你也可以俯伏在他的脚下，称他为主、为上帝。但是，千万不要说他是伟大的人类导师这类的废话（这样说，你还以为是对他的抬举）。他没有给我们这种选择，也无意于做一位伟大的道德导师。“我认为他显然不是疯子，也不是魔鬼，所以，只能相信他那时是、现在仍是上帝，不管这显得多么奇怪、多么可怕、多么不可能。”（返璞归真，1952）
你不能相信耶稣只是一位好老师，或者一位好兄弟。他过去是，现在也是上帝之子。好老师不可能成为我们的救主。只有上帝之子才能成为我们的救世主。只有上帝之子的死才能为我们赎罪。请做出选择。骗子、疯子还是上帝之子？我想你知道马可会如何回答这个问题。
祈祷： 主耶稣，你是全能的神。你是万王之王，万主之主。如果你不是，我就没有救主！感谢你来到这个世界，甚至忍受了家庭的混乱，他们一开始并不接受你的本来面目。 阿门。
Mark 3:20-21: Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat. 21 When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.” (NIV)
Why? Why would Jesus’ family think that he was out of his mind to the point that they thought they had to “take charge of him?” Was Mary part of the family delegation as well? It would seem so, especially if this is a parallel story to Matthew 12:46. This had to hurt Jesus deeply! He was always the perfectly obedient son. He was always the perfect brother. Even as the oldest, he would not have lorded it over his brothers as older brothers can sometimes do. He never made fun of them. He never made them do work that he was able to do himself. Why did they not believe in him? Because familiarity breeds contempt. They thought he was out of his mind.
C. S. Lewis said this about Jesus. “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. Now it seems to me obvious that He was neither a lunatic nor a fiend: and consequently, however strange or terrifying or unlikely it may seem, I have to accept the view that He was and is God.” [Mere Christianity, 1952]
You cannot believe in Jesus as just a good teacher, or a good brother, for that matter. He was and is the Son of God. A good teacher cannot be our Savior. Only the Son of God can be our Savior. Only the death of God’s Son can make an atonement for our sins. So make your choice. Liar or lunatic or the Son of God. I think you know how Mark would answer that question.
Prayer: Lord Jesus, you are God almighty. You are the King of kings and the Lord of lords. If you were anything less, I would have no Savior! Thank you for coming into this world and even enduring the messiness of family who did not at first accept you for what you are. Amen.