💜《神的心意-God’s Best Secrets》20220607『向世界死-Crucified to the World』— 慕安德烈 [Andrew Murray]

經文: 「但我斷不以別的誇口，只誇我們主耶穌基督的十字架；因這十字架就我而論，世界已經釘在十字架上；就世界而論，我已經釘在十字架上。」— [聖經·加拉太書 6章14節]

在加拉太書中，保羅清楚有力地表達他的信念與人生觀，他說他別無所誇，只誇耶穌的十字架，且說他「已與耶穌同釘十字架」，這不僅是指內在屬靈的真理而言，也是生活中與世界誘惑爭戰的實際經驗。耶穌曾說這世界恨惡祂，但祂卻已勝過這世界；保羅深知那釘死耶穌的世人，也是一樣恨惡他，但他既已與耶穌同釘十字架，這世界對他而言已無能為力，不能對他產生任何作用，而他也從世界的綑綁與權勢下被釋放出來。

今天的基督徒，與世界的關係卻是很奇怪的，他們知道不能犯世人所認定的罪，但卻與世界為友，盡情享受世界所提供的享樂，豈不知那愛肉體和眼目情慾的，更是世界的危險陷阱？

親愛的弟兄姐妹們，當世人將耶穌釘十字架，我們也同時與祂一起釘十字架；當耶穌在十字架上征服了世界與罪惡的勢力，我們也分享祂的得勝，得以勝過這世界和罪惡的權勢。耶穌現在呼召你，要你不計任何代價，不向罪惡妥協，不向誘惑屈服，不與世界為友，讓耶穌復活的生命覆庇你，過著得勝的生活。

一個被聖靈管理的基督徒，會學習做這樣一個宣告：「我已與耶穌同釘十字架，被釘十字架的耶穌現在活在我裡面。」如此，世界的罪惡與誘惑將不再對他產生任何影響力，他將擁有一個完全不一樣的生活。讓我們熱切地禱告，求上帝藉著聖靈向我們啟示：「榮耀的主耶穌，藉著十字架的道路，已將老我亞當的罪性釘死，世界對我不再產生任何作用。」

—《 神 的 心 意 》
[每日靈修 6月7日]
作者：慕安德烈
編輯：榮華興

『 Crucified to the World 』

Scripture: “Far be it from me to glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world hath been crucified unto me, and I unto the world.” — [Galatians 6:14]

What Paul had written in Galatians ii. is here in the end of the Epistle confirmed, and expressed still more strongly.

He speaks of his only glory being that in Christ he has in very deed been crucified to the world and entirely delivered from its power. When he said: “I have been crucified with Christ,” it was not only an inner spiritual truth, but an actual, practical experience in relation to the world and its temptations. Christ had spoken about the world hating Him, and His having overcome the world, Paul knows that the world which nailed Christ to the cross, had in that deed done the same to him. He boasts that he lives as one crucified to the world, and that now the world as an impotent enemy was crucified to him. It was this that made him glory in the cross of Christ. It had wrought out a complete deliverance from the world.

How very different the relation of Christians to the world in our day! They agree that they may not commit the sins that the world allows. But further they are good friends with the world, and have liberty to enjoy as much of it as they can, if they only keep from open sin. They do not know that the most dangerous source of sin is the love of the world with its lusts and pleasures.

O Christian, when the world crucified Christ, it crucified you with Him. When Christ overcame the world on the cross, He made you an overcomer too. He calls you now, at whatever cost of self-denial, to regard the world, in its hostility to God and His Kingdom, as a crucified enemy over whom the cross can ever keep you conqueror.

What a different relationship to the pleasures and attractions of the world the Christian has who by the Holy Spirit has learned to say: “I have been crucified with Christ; the crucified Christ liveth in me”! Let us pray God fervently that the Holy Spirit, through Whom Christ offered Himself on the cross, may reveal to us in power what it means to “glory in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified unto me.”

— God’s Best Secrets by Andrew Murray
「 7 June 」