野人张四一是真的吗:第二十日　基 督 是 我 们 的 生 命

TWENTIETH DAY.  Christ Our Life.
第二十日　基 督 是 我 们 的 生 命
“Much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness, shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.”—ROM. v. I7.
“Reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.”—Rom. vi. II.
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 resurrection, 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.
“何况那些受洪恩又蒙所赐之义的，岂不更要因耶稣基督一人在生命中作王吗？”（罗五：17）
“你们向罪也当看自己是死的；向神在基督耶稣里，却当看自己是活的。”（罗六：11）。
我们说过，保罗教导我们在相信基督是我们的义之后，接着就必须相信他是使我们从死里复活的生命，于是他问说：“岂不知我们这受浸归入基督耶稣的人，是受浸归入他的死吗？”（罗六：3）我们是已经与他一同埋葬，一同从死里复活。正如在亚当里，所有他的子孙都死了；照样在基督里所有的信徒也实在是死了。 “我们的旧人和他同钉十字架，”而且我们也和他从死里一同活过来。现在我们要算自己是真正的“向罪死了……向神活着。”
事实上，我们里面那个新生命，是如何有分于并经历基督复活的生命；同样的，我们在基督里向罪而死也是一个真正的属灵实际。只有藉着圣灵的能力，我们才能看见，我们与基督在十字架上的死，以及与他在复活上的联合是何等的真实。这时我们才会明白，在他里面罪在我们身上再没有权势。我们且要“象从死里复活的人，”将自己献给神。
老亚当怎样活在罪人里面，甚至也活在信徒里面，（就是那些不知道在基督里那个“新的死”的信徒，）同样的，那些知道他在基督里是已经死了，而现今活在他里面的人，也能满有把握的倚靠这些话：“罪必不能作你们的主，”——甚至连片刻都不能！“你们向罪也当看自己是死的，向神在基督耶稣里，却当看自己是活的。”这就是真正信心的生活。
正如我们的主所说过的，当我们经历了圣灵全备的能力时，对于我们在他里面，及他的生命活在我们里面的经历才能成为真实。保罗说：“生命圣灵的律，在基督耶稣里释放了我，使我脱离罪和死的律了。”（罗八：2）这个罪和死的律会使他痛苦不已，因它会把他掳去。接着他又说：“使律法的义，成就在我们这不随从肉体，只随从圣灵的人身上。”藉着圣灵我们就进入神儿女荣耀的自由里。
哦，但愿神开他儿女们的眼睛，看见这是何等的能力，就是当他们“向罪看自己是死的，向神在基督耶稣里，却当看自己是活的”时，基督就要在他们里面活出一种神圣而满有果子的生活。
         

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