双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：10月20日 全然圣洁

10月20日

全然圣洁

愿赐平安的神，亲自使你们全然成圣；又愿你们的灵，与魂，与身子，得蒙保守，在我主耶稣基督降临的时候，完全无可指摘。

帖撒罗尼迦前书5:23

上帝最关心的是你的本质。你的行为取决于你的本质，生活品质是成圣的目的和意图。

“你们是被拣选的族类，是有君尊的祭司，是圣洁的国度，是属神的子民，要叫你们宣扬那召你们出黑暗入奇妙光明者的美德”（彼得前书2:9）。“好叫你们行事对得起主，凡事蒙祂喜悦，在一切善事上结果子，渐渐的多知道神”（歌罗西书1:10）。

律法要求遵守一套规条，但律法只是未来之事的影儿。圣经说：“律法本是叫人知罪”（罗马书3:20）。

与律法相反，新约说：“基督在你们心里成了有荣耀的盼望”（歌罗西书1:27）。我们无法靠自己成圣，我们的成圣在于基督；我们无法变得圣洁，我们的圣洁在于基督。因此保罗写道：“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”（腓立比书3:9）。正如诗歌作者所说：

末日听见号角响起，那时我必在基督里；

穿戴救主雪白义袍，圣洁无瑕立宝座前。

穆迪说：“除了神的大能之外，圣洁生命的宁静之美是世界上最有影响力的美善力量。”

每日祷告：

父啊，求祢帮助我们常在耶稣里面，好叫我们在耶稣再来的日子，成为完全圣洁、无可指摘；奉耶稣的名祷告，阿们。

October 20

WHOLLY HOLY

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly;and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.1 Thessalonians 5:23

God is first of all concerned with what you are.What you do is the result of what you are.Quality of life is the purpose and intent of sanctification.

“Ye are a chosen generation,a royal priesthood,a holy nation,a peculiar people;that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of the darkness into his marvelous light”(1 Peter 2:9).“That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing,being fruitful in every good work,and increasing in the knowledge of God”(Colossians 1:10).

The Law required conformity to a set of rules,but the Law was a shadow of things to come.The Bible says,“By the law is the knowledge of sin”(Romans 3:20).

The New Testament,in contrast to the Law,says,“Christ in you,the hope of glory”(Colossians 1:27).There is no way that we,by ourselves,can generate sanctification.Our sanctification is Christ.There is no way we can be holy.Our holiness is Christ.

This caused Paul to write,“Not having mine own righteousness,which is of the law,but that which is through the faith of Christ,the righteousness which is of God by faith”(Philippians 3:9).It caused the hymn writer to say this:

When He shall come with trumpet sound,O may I then in Him be found;Dressed in His righteousness alone,Faultless to stand before the throne!

D.L.Moody said,“Next to the might of God,the serene beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence for good in the world.”

Pray for the Day:

Father,help us to abide in Jesus continuously,so that we will be blameless and pure on the day when Jesus returns;in Jesus’Name,Amen.