Jul 07 【每日活水】远离罪,学像耶稣

 

约翰一书3:1~9

1 你看父赐给我们是何等的慈爱,使我们得称为神的儿女;我们也真是他的儿女。世人所以不认识我们,是因未曾认识他。 
2 亲爱的弟兄啊,我们现在是神的儿女,将来如何,还未显明;但我们知道,主若显现,我们必要像他,因为必得见他的真体。 
3 凡向他有这指望的,就洁净自己,像他洁净一样。
4 凡犯罪的,就是违背律法;违背律法就是罪。 
5 你们知道主曾显现,是要除掉人的罪,在他并没有罪。 
6 凡住在他里面的,就不犯罪;凡犯罪的,是未曾看见他,也未曾认识他。 
7 小子们哪,不要被人诱惑。行义的才是义人,正如主是义的一样。 
8 犯罪的是属魔鬼,因为魔鬼从起初就犯罪。神的儿子显现出来,为要除灭魔鬼的作为。 
9 凡从神生的,就不犯罪,因神的道存在他心里;他也不能犯罪,因为他是由神生的。
1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 
2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 
3 All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
4 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. 
5 But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. 
6 No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.
7 Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 
8 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. 
9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. 
 

内容观察

1.约翰不仅称信徒为“亲爱的”,还称他们为什么?(2节)

2.约翰说,对主有指望的人会怎样?(3节)

 

思考与默想

 

3.为什么有神的道存在他里面的人不能犯罪?(8~9节,参约8:44a)
 

个人感受

4.持续犯罪的人不仅不认识神,也是成为魔鬼儿女的证据,对此我有什么感想?
 

决心与应用

5.虽然成了神的儿女,但在我身上还有哪些没有解决的罪?

6.为了胜过这些罪,我决定要怎么做?

对他有这指望的(3节):人若认识并信靠没有罪且要除掉罪的耶稣基督,就会拥有学像耶稣的指望。
魔鬼从起初就犯罪 (8节): 魔鬼从诱惑始祖开始一直犯罪到现在。
神的道 (9节):原文为“神的种”,指信徒借着重生得到神的性情,如此必然结出义的果子。
约8:44a “你们是出于你们的父魔鬼,你们宁愿随着你们父的欲念而行。”

灵修指南

信耶稣的人就是神的儿女 (1~2节),儿女效法父母是理所当然的。信徒得以成为神的儿女,是因为没有罪的耶稣为我们在十字架上担当了一切刑罚。因此,成为神儿女的人就本能地渴望学像耶稣,洁净自己 (3节),并且,因为有神的道存在他的里面,罪就不再支配他的生命,他也不会持续犯罪。相反,那些活在罪中、随从欲念而行的人就如同是魔鬼的儿女 (8节,参约8:44a),违背神的心意而持续犯罪。因此,凡从神生的,就要警惕那些引诱自己犯罪的诱惑,也不要被假教师的诡计所迷惑而对罪产生误解 (7~9节)。这是为了活出合乎神儿女身份的生命,也是为了将来在神国作为神的儿女活出永恒的荣耀。盼望我们远离罪,每天活出圣洁,成为学像耶稣的神儿女。
 

内室祷告

求神让我远离罪,学像耶稣,作一个行义的神儿女

 

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