2018年7月13日 星期五

哥林多後書5:16-21


5:16 所以,我們從今以後,不憑著外貌(原文是肉體;本節同)認人了。雖然憑著外貌認過基督,如今卻不再這樣認他了。
5:17
若有人在基督裡,他就是新造的人,舊事已過,都變成新的了。
5:18
一切都是出於上帝;他藉著基督使我們與他和好,又將勸人與他和好的職分賜給我們。
5:19
這就是上帝在基督裡,叫世人與自己和好,不將他們的過犯歸到他們身上,並且將這和好的道理託付了我們。
5:20
所以,我們作基督的使者,就好像上帝藉我們勸你們一般。我們替基督求你們與上帝和好。
5:21
上帝使那無罪(無罪:原文是不知罪)的,替我們成為罪,好叫我們在他裡面成為上帝的義。

16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:[a] The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin[b] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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    保羅說到耶穌基督是上帝與人和好的基礎,也就是說祂是上帝與人之間唯一的中保,也為唯有藉著耶穌基督,我們才能在上帝面前成為義,與上帝有正確合宜的關係!也因為這層關係,就有永生在我們身上。而這個永生,更可以藉著我們這些與上帝和好的人,傳遞出去!

    感謝上帝,他真的愛我們人類,為了讓我們與祂和好,建立正確合宜的關係,祂不惜犧牲祂的愛子耶穌基督!所以,耶穌基督的救恩,不只是耶穌基督的愛,更有天父的愛!祂樂意與人和好,雖然人犯罪得罪了祂,祂不願意人離開祂而滅亡!

    也因此,我們既然感受了天父的愛,我們更要成為基督的使者,傳和好的福音,使人與上帝和好!

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