💜《神的心意-God’s Best Secrets》20220621『與耶穌同死-Dead With Christ』— 慕安德烈 [Andrew Murray]

經文: 「我們若是與基督同死，就信必與祂同活。」— [聖經·羅馬書 6章8節]

上帝的兒女們為何很少有人經歷到耶穌復活的大能？這是因為他們不了解何謂與耶穌同死，或對這事實沒有信心。保羅清楚說到：「我們若是與基督同死，就信必與祂同活。」這是可以體驗的真理，叫我們可確知復活的能力在我們身上。「祂死是向罪死了，只有一次，祂活是向上帝活著。」(羅馬書 6章10節)，這是因為我們與祂同死，就堅信可以與祂同活。

接著保羅又向基督徒懇切呼籲：「這樣，你們向罪也當看自己是死的；向上帝在基督耶穌裡，卻當看自己是活的。」(羅馬書 6章11節)，這個「看自己是」是一個大膽活潑的信心舉動，且給我們一個確據，就是耶穌活在我們心中，這不是頭腦的一個認知，乃是聖靈在我們心中作見證，是實際可經歷到的；就是在每天的生活中，我們接受與耶穌同釘十字架的事實，同時經歷祂復活能力的運行。

如此我們就能接受並遵行上帝的命令：「不要容罪在你們必死的身上作王，使你們順從身子的私慾。罪必不能作你們的主，因你們不在律法之下，乃在恩典之下。」(羅馬書 6章12,14)，「你們既從罪裡得了釋放，就作了義的奴僕。你們既從罪裡得了(羅馬書 6章18,22節)釋放，作了上帝的奴僕，就有成聖的果子，那結局就是永生。」

羅馬書第六章整篇都在反覆闡釋開宗明義第一節的經文：「我們可以仍在罪中，叫恩典顯多嗎？」當然不，一切都在於接受耶穌受死復活的確據，叫我們可以脫離罪的轄制，將自己獻給義做器皿，只單單地為上帝而活。阿們。

—《 神 的 心 意 》
[每日靈修 6月21日]
作者：慕安德烈
編輯：榮華興

『 Dead With Christ 』

Scripture: “If we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him.” — [Romans 6:8]

The reason that God’s children live so little in the power of the resurrection life of Christ, is because they have so little understanding of or faith in their death with Christ. How clearly this appears from what Paul says: “If we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him”; it is the knowledge and experience that gives us the assurance of the power of His resurrection in us. “Christ died unto sin once; but the life that He liveth, He liveth unto God” (ver. 10). It is only because and as we know that we are dead with Him, that we can live with Him.

On the strength of this, Paul now appeals to his readers. “Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus” (ver. 11). The words “even so reckon yourselves” are a call to an act of bold and confident faith. Reckon yourselves to be indeed dead unto sin, as much as Christ is, and alive to God in Christ Jesus. The word gives us a Divine assurance of what we actually are and have in Christ. And this not as a truth that our minds can master and appropriate, but a reality which the Holy Spirit will reveal within us. In His power we accept our death with Christ on the cross as the power of our daily life.

Then we are able to accept and obey the command: “Let not sin reign in your mortal body; but present yourself unto God, as alive from the dead; for sin shall not have dominion over you” (vers. 12, 13, 14). “Being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness; present your members as servants to righteousness unto sanctification. Being now made free from sin, ye have your fruit unto sanctification” (vers. 18, 19, 22).

The whole chapter is a wonderful revelation of the deep meaning of its opening words: “How shall we, who died to sin, live any more therein ?” Everything depends upon our acceptance of the Divine assurance: if we died with Christ, as He died, and now lives to God, we too have the assurance that in Him we have the power to live unto God.

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