Aug09【每日活水】以认识耶稣基督为至宝

腓立比书3:1~16

真正的义
1弟兄们，我还有话说，你们要靠主喜乐。我把这话再写给你们，于我并不为难，于你们却是妥当。

2应当防备犬类，防备作恶的，防备妄自行割的。

3因为真受割礼的，乃是我们这以　神的灵敬拜、在基督耶稣里夸口、不靠着肉体的。

4其实，我也可以靠肉体；若是别人想他可以靠肉体，我更可以靠着了。

5我第八天受割礼；我是以色列族、便雅悯支派的人，是希伯来人所生的希伯来人。就律法说，我是法利赛人；

6就热心说，我是逼迫教会的；就律法上的义说，我是无可指摘的。

7只是我先前以为与我有益的，我现在因基督都当作有损的。

8不但如此，我也将万事当作有损的，因我以认识我主基督耶稣为至宝。我为他已经丢弃万事，看作粪土，为要得着基督；

9并且得以在他里面，不是有自己因律法而得的义，乃是有信基督的义，就是因信　神而来的义，

10使我认识基督，晓得他复活的大能，并且晓得和他一同受苦，效法他的死，

11或者我也得以从死里复活。

向着标竿直跑

12这不是说我已经得着了，已经完全了；我乃是竭力追求，或者可以得着基督耶稣所以得着我的。

13弟兄们，我不是以为自己已经得着了；我只有一件事，就是忘记背后，努力面前的，

14向着标竿直跑，要得　神在基督耶稣里从上面召我来得的奖赏。

15所以我们中间，凡是完全人总要存这样的心；若在什么事上存别样的心，　神也必以此指示你们。

16然而，我们到了什么地步，就当照着什么地步行。

No Confidence in the Flesh
1Further, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.

2Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh.

3For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—

4though I myself have reasons for such confidence.
If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more:

5circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee;

6as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.
7But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.

8What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ

9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.

10I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,

11and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.
12Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

13Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,

14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Following Paul’s Example
15All of us, then, who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you.

16Only let us live up to what we have already attained.

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内容观察

1.保罗说，怎样的人是真受割礼的？（3节）

2.保罗说，他把先前以为对自己有益的当作什么？（7—8节）

思考与默想

3.保罗为什么能够丢弃万事，看作粪土？

个人感受

4.看到保罗借着圣灵敬拜、以基督耶稣为夸耀、不依靠肉体，我有什么感想？

决心与应用

5.我何时曾以属世的事物为夸耀，依靠自己的肉体？

6.为了单单以耶稣基督为夸耀,并以认识祂为至宝,我决定要怎么做？

犬类（2节）：即“狗”。犹太人常蔑称外邦人为“狗”，而保罗以此讽刺那些自以为义的犹太人。作恶的（2节）：指自以为义之人。妄自行割的（2节）：指以为可以靠着割礼得救的人。真受割礼的（3节）：指割去心中的罪性和私欲，面向神的人。向着标竿（14节）：就像跑者全神贯注在赛跑上一样，基督徒当将眼光完全集中在耶稣基督身上。

灵修指南

保罗最后要腓立比教会信徒，防备教会内强调律法和割礼的“犹太主义者”。犹太主义者要求外邦人接受割礼，并以此作为得救的条件、又传播依靠肉体的错误教导，给腓立比教会的信徒带来巨大混乱，许多人因而离开福音的本质。保罗说，依靠肉体不能成为得救的条件，唯有借着神的灵敬拜、以基督耶稣为夸耀的，才是真受割礼的（3 节）。事实上，保罗是最可以依靠肉体的人，他却把自己先前以为有益的当作是有损的；不仅如此，他还丢弃万事，看作粪土，因为他以认识耶稣基督为至宝（7—8节）。同样地，我们也要以认识和传扬耶稣基督为至宝，而不是世上的夸耀和律法的行为。盼望我们明白这项真理、借着圣灵敬拜以耶稣基督为夸耀，并能向着标竿直跑。

内室祷告

愿我把肉体的夸耀当作是有损的，单单以耶稣基督为夸耀，并以认识祂为至宝。

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