Daily Devotion - Apr 21 - ?}|w?w‾P‥C?eAF-× God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray

慕安德烈每日靈修 God's Best Secrets by Andrew Murray 稱義與成聖 經文: 「如今卻蒙上帝的恩典，因基督的救贖，就白白稱義。」（羅馬書三：24） 前三卷福音書講到罪得赦免的救贖恩典，約翰則著重於耶穌活在我們裡面的新生命。保羅卻把這兩種真理巧妙結合，顯出福音的全備性。 羅馬書三章21節到五章11節，提到因信稱義，接著從五章12節到八章39節，提到與耶穌連接的新生命。羅馬書第四章看到亞伯拉罕就有這兩樣東西，「亞伯拉罕信上帝，這就算為他的義。」（3∼5節），他的信就算為他的義。「亞伯拉罕所信的，是那叫死人復活、使無變有的上帝。」（17節）首先，上帝因他信靠祂，就算他為義；接著又引導他相信這位上帝，是那叫死人復活的上帝。同樣地，上帝也要這樣訓練屬祂的兒女。 當我們內心的眼睛，從世界轉向耶穌時，就是救贖稱義的開端，逐漸信徒也開始明白重生的真義，知道耶穌現在已住在我們心中，我們需要做的就是，讓耶穌長久住在我們心中，讓祂動工掌權在這個人身上。 許多基督徒掙扎奮力地想過一個感恩順服的生活，結果卻失敗得很慘，那是因為他們不明白，要完全地將自己交託給上帝，由祂來保守他們裡面的新生命。基督徒明白亞伯拉罕所學的第一個功課：因信稱義；卻不領悟第二個功課：相信上帝是使死人復活的上帝，祂住在我們心裡面，要藉著耶穌每天更新我們的生命，賜給我們得勝力量，與豐盛的祝福。 基督徒的生命，是「本於信，以致於信」（羅一：17）赦罪的恩典只是救恩的開端，成聖的途徑讓我們更深刻明白，何謂住在耶穌裡面，也經歷到何謂耶穌住在我們裡面，凡事連於元首耶穌基督，使屬靈的生命更趨成熟茁壯。 CHRIST OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS Scripture: "Justified freely by His grace through Ike redemption that is in Christ Jesus."—ROM. iii. 24. The first three Evangelists spoke of redemption as a pardon of sin, or Justification, John spoke of it as a Life which Christ is to live in us, or Regeneration. In Paul we find both truths in their beautiful connection and harmony. So in Romans he first speaks of Justification, Rom. iii. 21-v. 11, Then he goes on from v. 12 to viii. 39 to speak of the Life that there is in union with Christ. In Rom. iv. he tells us that we find both these things in Abraham. First, vers. 3-5, "Abraham believed God, Him that justifieth the ungodly; his faith is reckoned for righteousness." Then, ver. 17, "Abraham believed God, Who quickeneth the dead." Just as God first of all counted to Abraham his faith as righteousness, and then led him on to believe in Him as the God Who can give life to the dead, even so with the believer. Justification comes at the commencement full and complete, as the eye of faith is fixed upon Christ. But that is only the be¬ginning. Gradually the believer begins to understand that he was at the same time born again, that he has Christ in him, and that his calling now is to abide in Christ, and let Christ abide and live and work in him. Most Christians strive by holding fast their faith in justifica¬tion to stir and strengthen themselves for a life of gratitude and obedience. But they fail sadly because they do not know, do not in full faith yield themselves to Christ, to maintain His life in them. They have learned from Abraham the first lesson, to believe in God Who justifies (he ungodly. But they have not gone on to the second great lesson, to believe in God Who quickeneth the dead, and daily renews that life through Christ, Who lives in them, and in Whose life alone there is strength and fulness of blessing. The Christian life must be "from faith to faith." The grace of pardon is but the beginning; growing in grace leads on to the fuller insight and experience of what it is to be in Christ, to live in Him, and to grow up in Him in all things as the Head. www.glorypress.com