Daily Devotion - Apr 22 - ?}|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 基督是我的生命 經文: 「那些受洪恩又蒙所賜之義的，豈不更要因耶穌基督一人在生命中作王嗎？」（羅馬書五：17）「這樣，你們向罪也當看自己是死的，向上帝在耶穌基督裡，卻當看自己是活的。」（羅馬書六：11） 保羅教導我們「稱義成聖」的生命，是由與耶穌「同釘十字架」開始。「豈不知我們這受洗歸入基督耶穌的人，是受洗歸入祂的死嗎？」（羅六：3）我們與祂同埋葬，也和祂同復活。正如同在亞當裡，眾兒女都算是死的，因此眾信徒在基督裡也算是死的。「我們的舊人與祂同釘十字架」，我們也與祂同復活，我們現在「向罪看自己是死的，向上帝卻看自己是活的。」 正如我們裡面的新生命，與耶穌復活的新生命有分，我們在基督裡向罪算是死的，也是靈裡的實際。藉著聖靈的啟示，我們真知道我們是與耶穌同釘十字架，也與祂同復活，如此我們就明白罪在我們身上是沒有權勢的，我們有如浴火重生的新人，向上帝是活著的。 不但在罪人身上，就是在信徒身上，也有老亞當的生命，這種老我的生命不明白與耶穌同在的意義。而那些被聖靈啟示，明白與耶穌「同死同復活」真理的信徒，就能大有信心地站在上帝話語磐石上：「罪不能再轄制你。」即使片刻也不容它掌權。「向罪算自己是死的，向上帝在耶穌裡算自己是活的。」這是真實的信心生活。 若你真正經歷到聖靈的大能，你才明白體會何謂「住在耶穌裡」，以及「耶穌住在我裡面」，同理，只有靠著聖靈大能的啟示，我們才能明白與耶穌「同死同復活」的真理。保羅說：「聖靈的律，在基督耶穌裡釋放了我，使我脫離罪和死的律了。」（羅八：2）他本來抱怨他真是苦啊，如何能脫離罪的權勢，接著他又說：「那隨從聖靈，不隨從肉體的，就能行出律法所要求的。」藉著聖靈的幫助，我們就可活出上帝兒女榮耀的自由。 求上帝開祂眾兒女的心眼，讓我們明白「耶穌內住」的生命，是何等不一樣，那是一種聖潔、得勝、豐盛的生活。我們向罪是死的，向上帝是活的。 CHRIST OUR LIFE Scripture: "Much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ." —ROM, v. 17."Reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto Cod in Christ Jesus."—ROM. vi. 11. R. V. We said that Paul teaches us now that our faith in Christ as our righteousness is to be followed by our faith in Him as our life from the dead. He asks (Rom. vi. 3), "Know ye not that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?" We were buried with Him, and raised from the dead with Him. Just as in Adam all his children died, so all believers in Christ actually died too in Him. "Our old man was crucified with Him," with Him we were raised from the dead. And now we are to count ourselves as actually "dead to sin and alive unto God." In very deed, just as the new life in us is an actual participation in and experience of the risen life of Christ, so our death to sin in Christ is also an actual spiritual reality. It is when, by the power of the Holy Ghost, we are enabled to see how really we were one with Christ on the cross in His death, and in His resur¬rection, that we shall understand that in Him sin has no power over us. We present ourselves unto God "as alive from the dead." Just as the old Adam lives in the sinner, even in the believer too, who does not know of the new death in Christ which he has died, even so the man who knows that he died in Christ and now is alive in Him, can confidently count upon the word, "sin shall not have dominion over you," not even for a single moment. "Reckon yourselves indeed dead to sin, and alive to God in Christ Jesus." This is the true life of faith. As what our Lord said about our being in Him and having Him living His life in us, could only come true as the full power of the Holy Spirit is experienced, so it is here too. Paul says (Rom. viii. 2), "The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death," of which he had been complaining that it had kept him in captivity. And he then adds "that the requirements of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." Through the Spirit we enter into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Oh that God might open the eyes of His children to see what the power is of Christ living in them for a life of holiness and fruitfulness, when they reckon themselves indeed dead unto sin and alive unto God in Christ Jesus. www.glorypress.com