Category: Devotion

重生前是罪人，

重生後是聖徒。

靠著真理和聖靈，

聖徒得以逐漸成聖，

過程如同初生的嬰孩長大：

從自我像小孩–專靠己、愛世界，

到敬虔像大人–專靠主，愛天父，

日日更新，得勝又得勝。

「…在基督耶穌裡成聖、蒙召做聖徒的，以及所有在各處求告我主耶穌基督之名的人…。」(哥林多前書1:2)

You have been acquitted of your sin that came from the fall of Adam and Eve,

Because Jesus Christ has bore the death sentence on behalf of you on the cross.

However, is there still a fear of punishment after you received Jesus Christ’s salvation?

If yes, that’s because you haven’t seen that the just Judge, who has forgiven your sin, has become your Father God, who has opened His arms to welcome you into His royal family.

Today, ask Jesus Christ to open your eyes to see Father God’s loving smile to you.

Then, you know you will be right at home with His perfect peace.

As a result, you will fear Father God and want to please Him and run away from sins,

Because you love Him so much and don’t want to grieve Him anymore.

“Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love.” (1 John 4:18, NLT)

已經接受主耶穌救恩的你，是否仍擔心沒有做到宗教規條而受責罰呢？

如果是，那麼你還沒看到這位已經宣判你無罪的正直法官，已經變成你的天父上帝，

正敞開雙臂迎接你進入祂的國。

你想體會祂對你的愛嗎？

那麼就求主耶穌的聖靈打開你心靈的眼睛，使你看見天父上帝正以笑臉幫助你。

祂所賜的平安將使你確知自己已屬於祂。

你將因感恩而敬畏天父，因愛祂而甘願做祂喜悅的事，不做使祂傷心的事。

「愛裡沒有懼怕；愛既完全，就把懼怕除去。因為懼怕裡含著刑罰，懼怕的人在愛裡未得完全。」(約翰一書4:18)

主耶穌憐憫世人的軟弱，

原原本本地接納每個人。

因祂愛我而忍受十架羞辱，

復活來伴我走過苦難幽谷，

使我能靠主力量也與受苦的人同行。

「我們堅固的人，應該擔代不堅固人的軟弱，不求自己的喜悅。 我們各人務要叫鄰舍喜悅，使他得益處，建立德行。 因為基督也不求自己的喜悅，如經上所記：「辱罵你人的辱罵都落在我身上。」(羅馬書15:1-3)

敬畏順服你的師傅–主耶穌；

安靜你的心在聖靈裡；

站穩在聖經真理中；

然後用口說出真理抵擋擊敗仇敵。

「故此，你們要順服神。務要抵擋魔鬼，魔鬼就必離開你們逃跑了。」(雅各書4:7)

Surrender to your Master, Jesus Christ;

Rest your spiritual muscle in the Holy Spirit;

Stand your fighting stance firm in the Scripture of the Bible;

And then punch and kick the devil by speaking God’s truth.

“Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” (James 4:7)

活在當下，

不憑律法操課，不看人意，不靠經驗，

此刻聆聽聖靈聲音。

老我與基督死，

新我與主聯合復活，

必然要結出豐盛生命的果實。

「我的弟兄們，這樣說來，你們藉著基督的身體，在律法上也是死了，叫你們歸於別人，就是歸於那從死裡復活的，叫我們結果子給神。」(羅馬書7:4)

Mercy is that the deserved punishment is exempted.
Grace is that the undeserved gift is freely granted.

We are saved by God’s mercy.
We are justified by God’s grace.

The saved is freed from the bondage of sins and control of the devil.
The justified is restored to be God’s children and cannot be condemned by the devil.

Sins are cleansed by the word of God so that we are reborn with freedom.
Minds are renewed by the power of the Holy Spirit so that we are empowered to overcome the world and the devil.

The complete salvation definitely imparts deliverance and victory to life.

“He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.” (Titus 3:5-7)