Jan18【每日活水】不要从恩典中坠落了

 

加拉太书5:2~12

2我-保罗告诉你们,若受割礼,基督就与你们无益了。
3我再指着凡受割礼的人确实地说,他是欠着行全律法的债。
4你们这要靠律法称义的,是与基督隔绝,从恩典中坠落了。
5我们靠着灵,凭着信心,等候所盼望的义。
6原来在基督耶稣里,受割礼不受割礼全无功效,惟独使人生发仁爱的信心才有功效。
7你们向来跑得好,有谁拦阻你们,叫你们不顺从真理呢?
8这样的劝导不是出于那召你们的。
9一点面酵能使全团都发起来。
10我在主里很信你们必不怀别样的心;但搅扰你们的,无论是谁,必担当他的罪名。
11弟兄们,我若仍旧传割礼,为什么还受逼迫呢?若是这样,那十字架讨厌的地方就没有了。
12恨不得那搅乱你们的人把自己割绝了。
2Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.
3Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.
4You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
5For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope.
6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
7You were running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth?
8That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you.
9“A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough.”
10I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is throwing you into confusion, whoever that may be, will have to pay the penalty.
11Brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.
12As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!
 

内容观察

1.保罗对那些试图靠着律法和割礼称义的信徒有何警告?(3~4节)

2.保罗说自己若仍旧传割礼,与目前的处境会有什么不同?(11节)

 

思考与默想

 

3.保罗为什么说“恨不得那骚扰你们的人把自己阉割了”?
 

个人感受

4.看到保罗抵挡像面酵一样发起来的错误教导,抓住真理绝不妥协,我有什么感想?
 

决心与应用

5.阻碍我持守真理的绊脚石是什么?

6.为了持守福音真理,不要从恩典中坠落,我决定要怎么做?

 
所盼望的义(5节):信徒靠着信耶稣的信心已经得称为义,并要在耶稣再来时被宣判为义。受割礼不受割礼都没有功效(6节):基督徒是在基督里、靠着圣灵、本于信而被神称为义,而这与割礼与否完全无关。一点面酵(9节):以酵母的功用来比喻罪的扩散,指的是主张行律法才可以得救的错误教导。十字架绊倒人的地方(11节):指耶稣基督的福音真理中,有让人难以接受的部分。

灵修指南

律法主义者宣称,为了完全成就救恩,人需要按律法生活,而其中标志性的行为跟主张,就是标榜要接受割礼才能称义和得救。加拉太教会的信徒,就是因这样的错误教导而陷人混乱。对此保罗强调,实行这种错误教导将会使自己与基督隔绝,并从神恩典中坠落(4节)。保罗说,唯有在基督耶稣里使人发出仁爱的信心才能使人称义,除此以外的任何行为都不能带来救恩(6节)。并且,保罗严厉的谴责那些假教师,说他们必须受到惩罚(7,10节)。最后保罗甚至说,恨不得那骚扰信徒的人把自己阉割了。像这样,保罗在真理面前有着坚决的态度,坚定捍卫所传的福音,并且绝不与主张必须受割礼的错误教导妥协。这对于今天的信徒来说也是重要的,为了守护真理,传全备的福音,你决定要怎么做?
 

内室祷告

求神帮助我持守真理绝不妥协,勇敢承担捍卫福音的使命。

 

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