Daily Devotion - Apr 8 - ¥q¥?‾u‥C?eAF-×(?e) Morning by Morning

司布真每日靈修(日) Morning by Morning 四月八日 經文: 「這些事既行在有汁水的樹上，那枯乾的樹，將來怎麼樣呢？」（路加福音廿三：31） 耶穌頂替我們站在罪人的位置，上帝並沒有憐恤顧惜。若我們沒有穿上耶穌公義的白袍，上帝也不會放過我們。喔，罪人們，耶穌被仇敵帶到各各他山，置祂於死地，我們這些罪人也命定下到地獄火湖。耶穌本是無辜，只是替世人頂罪，也不得寬免刑罰，何況本為有罪的人類，更是死有餘辜。 「以羅伊！以羅伊！拉馬撒巴各大尼？」（可十五：34）這是多麼悲慘悽厲的呼喊，翻出來是「上帝啊上帝，您為什麼離棄我？」那麼上帝會回答：「反輕棄我一切的勸戒，不肯受我的責備。你們遭災難，我就發笑。驚恐臨到你們，我必嗤笑。」（箴一：25、26）若上帝連祂的獨生愛子都不顧惜，讓祂死在十架上，我們這些受造的罪人，還有什麼餘地可容？ 當上帝說：「刀劍興起吧！擊殺那些抵擋我的人吧，讓他們嚐到那永遠的痛苦吧！」自以為義的罪人啊！那時，誰能站在你的位置為你說詞脫罪呢？耶穌曾被人唾棄，視為人間的渣滓，我們更是算不得什麼，是一條蟲，是糞土。 耶穌為世人的罪，所承受的羞辱、痛苦、折磨，簡直磬竹難書，無法三言兩語道盡。若你未認識救主而死，那將是終生遺憾，而且是很可怕的。朋友們，因著耶穌的刑罰，我們得平安，因著祂的鞭傷，我們得醫治，趕快來信靠主吧，祂要賜你永生。 Morning, April 8 Scripture: "If they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?"(Luke 23:31) Among other interpretations of this suggestive question, the following is full of teaching: "If the innocent substitute for sinners, suffer thus, what will be done when the sinner himself —the dry tree—shall fall into the hands of an angry God?" When God saw Jesus in the sinner's place, he did not spare him; and when he finds the unregenerate without Christ, he will not spare them. O sinner, Jesus was led away by his enemies: so shall you be dragged away by fiends to the place appointed for you. Jesus was deserted of God; and if he, who was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, how much more shall you be? "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" what an awful shriek! But what shall be your cry when you shall say, "O God! O God! why hast thou forsaken me?" and the answer shall come back, "Because ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh." If God spared not his own Son, how much less will he spare you! What whips of burning wire will be yours when conscience shall smite you with all its terrors. Ye richest, ye merriest, ye most self-righteous sinners—who would stand in your place when God shall say, "Awake, O sword, against the man that rejected me; smite him, and let him feel the smart for ever?" Jesus was spit upon: sinner, what shame will be yours! We cannot sum up in one word all the mass of sorrows which met upon the head of Jesus who died for us, therefore it is impossible for us to tell you what streams, what oceans of grief must roll over your spirit if you die as you now are. You may die so, you may die now. By the agonies of Christ, by his wounds and by his blood, do not bring upon yourselves the wrath to come! Trust in the Son of God, and you shall never die. www.glorypress.com