| 上帝的恩典 | |
| 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） | |
| 讓我們深入思想恩典寶座，對我們有何意義。因著耶穌在生命中作王，我們就可以勝過地上罪惡的權勢。 正如我們所知，得救後的生活不該起伏過大；上帝的心意是要祂的孩子們做個得勝者，而不是個軟弱的基督徒。當然，首要的條件，就是天天來到祂施恩寶座前蒙恩典。我們再看看下列的經文，就更清楚了，「律法本是外添的，叫過犯顯多，只是罪在那裡顯多，恩典就更顯多了。」（羅五：20）你看，過犯雖然多，恩典卻更大！因著讀經，我知道罪惡的勢力很大，但我確知，我心中的上帝，比罪的勢力更大。 「就如罪作王叫人死，照樣，恩典也藉著義作王，叫人因我們的主耶穌基督得永生。」（羅五：21）無論我心中惡魔的力量有多大，或是環境中罪惡的引誘有多強，我知道恩典的能力都大過這一切——「靠著愛我們的主，在這一切的事上，已經得勝有餘。」（羅八：37）這是聖經的保證，是的，那些讓耶穌在心中掌權作王的人，必過得勝的生活。 你有沒有注意到這點？那些飽得聖靈能力供應的信徒，都是天天來到施恩寶座前親近耶穌的人。喔！巴不得上帝的兒女，都能夠經歷到上帝的祝福與能力，並臨到信徒手中所作的每一件聖工上，使祂的名得榮耀。 | |
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| THE REIGN OF GRACE | |
| Scripture: "They that receive the abundance of grace shall reign in life through Jesus Christ."—ROM. v. 17. | |
| Let us once more think what the Throne of Grace can be to us. The grace that reigns through Jesus Christ enables us to gain the victory over sin in our life here below. Salvation does not, as many think, mean a life of falling and rising again. No, it is God's will that His children should be con¬querors in their life here upon earth. But on one condition—that they should day by day live in the abundance of grace that is to be obtained at the Throne of Grace. Let us read again the words in which the reign of grace is revealed to us. In the verses which follow on our text this point is made clear (Rom. v. 20, 21). "The law came in beside, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly." Is it not won¬derful, that although sin abounds, grace is always greater and more abundant than sin can ever be. I may, by reading God's Word, have an overpowering sense of the great power of sin, but I have also the assurance that grace, as the life-power of God within me, is far more abundant and powerful. Then these words follow: "As sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Whatever I may know or feel of the power of sin in the world, or in myself, I know too that grace is stronger, grace always has the victory over sin—"We are more than conquerors through Him that loved us." This is a sure word. They that receive the abundance of grace reign already in this life through Jesus Christ. Do you not see how everything depends on appearing daily before the Throne of Grace with a deep sense of need, but fully assured that abundant grace, as the power to conquer sin, will be given us ? Oh, that God's children would realize that the footstool of the Throne of Grace is the place where each one may experience that "God is able to make all grace abound unto us, that we, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound unto every good work!" | |
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