双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：7月26日 因信得救

7月26日

因信得救

当信主耶稣，你和你一家都必得救。

使徒行传16:31

信是一种与任何经历一样真实的体验。然而，许多人都在寻找更多的东西——某种能给他们肉身带来刺激的电击感，或其他壮观的感觉。许多人被误导，要去寻找这种属灵的感觉。但圣经说，人是“因信称义”，而不是凭感觉。人得救是因信基督在十字架上所完成的救恩，而不是靠肉体的感觉和宗教狂热。

但你会问我：“那感觉呢？难道在救赎信仰中，没有任何感觉吗？”当然，在救赎信仰中有感觉的存在，但我们不能因感觉而得救。无论什么感觉，都是救赎信仰的结果，但感觉从未使一个灵魂得救。

当我明白基督对像我这样的罪人的爱时，我会回应基督的爱，这爱是有感觉的。但基督的爱远超人感性的爱，是一种脱离自我的爱。圣经说：“爱既完全，就把惧怕除去”（约翰一书4:18）。爱基督的人对主有信心，他们也因此得胜一切惧怕。

当我明白基督以祂的死得胜死亡和罪恶时，我便不再惧怕死亡。圣经说：“儿女既同有血肉之体，他也照样亲自成了血肉之体，特要藉着死败坏那掌死权的，就是魔鬼”（希伯来书2:14）。惧怕是一种感觉，而在死亡面前，能够勇敢自信地胜过惧怕，这是另一种感觉和体验。但我要再说，不是勇敢和自信的感觉拯救了我们，而是基督拯救了我们，勇敢和自信源于我们对主的信。

今日祷告：

天父，我感谢祢！在耶稣里拯救了我。让我充满勇气和信心、喜乐和平安。让我在生活中体验圣灵的能力，结出圣灵同在的果子来；祷告奉耶稣的名，阿们。

July 26

BELIEVING IS AN EXPERIENCE

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,and thou shalt be saved…Acts 16:31

Believing is an experience as real as any experience,yet multitudes are looking for something more-some electric sensation that will bring a thrill to their physical bodies,or some other spectacular manifestation.Many have been told to look for such spiritual thrills,but the Bible says that“a man is justified by faith,”and not by feeling.A man is saved by trusting in the finished work of Christ on the cross and not by bodily sensations and religious ecstasy.

But you will say to me,“What about feeling?Is there no place in saving faith for any feeling?”Certainly there is room for feeling in saving faith,but we are not saved by it.Whatever feelings there may be are the result of saving faith,but feeling never saved a single soul.

When I understand something of Christ’s love for me as a sinner,I respond with a love for Christ,and love has feelings.But love for Christ is a love that is above the sensual accompaniments of human love.It is a love that is free from all self.The Bible says,“Perfect love casteth out fear”(1 John 4:18).And those who love Christ have a confidence in Him that raises them above all fear.

When I understand that Christ in His death gained a decisive victory over death and over sin,then I lose the fear of death.The Bible says,“Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood he also himself likewise took part of the same;that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death,that is,the devil”(Hebrews 2:14).Surely this is a feeling.Fear is a kind of feeling,and to overcome fear with boldness and confidence in the very face of death is feeling and experience.But again I say,it is not the feeling of boldness and confidence that saves us,but it is Christ who saves us,and boldness and confidence result from our having trusted in Him.

Pray for the Day:

Father,I thank You for Your salvation in Jesus.Fill me with boldness and confidence,joy and peace.Give me the experience of the power of the Holy Spirit in my life,and let me bear the fruit of that presence;in Jesus’Name,Amen.