之四十：一生唯有欠一种债 –爱人[5月29日罗马书]

罗马书｜之四十：一生唯有欠一种债 –爱人

5月29日

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经文: 罗13:8-10

课题: 爱, 伦理道德, 人际医治, 基督的身体, 生命目的/荣神益人建国,

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福音是带有满足与归正全灵魂的功能，特别是叫一个人恢复“真正的被爱，也真实能爱人”的性情。事实上，我们生在罪中，原是昼夜受控告，被惧怕掌控而活。这样的性情是根本不能爱人，就算爱也是非常自私的爱。一旦在爱人中受到了挑战，我们的爱很容易会转为伤害或是仇恨。若我们深思我们的性情，我们在爱人方面是这么的自我与脆弱。但是，当主耶稣的福音临到我们时，那救赎的恩惠潜入我们的灵魂，从神的爱子为我们舍命，使我们发现自己是在万有当中最蒙爱的，之后这等爱是不断的渗透我们的整个心思、意念、情感、意志，好叫我们不只是留在因爱而感到好受，乃是因爱而牺牲。十字架的爱本是一个牺牲的爱。为何牺牲呢？因为在面对人的罪恶堕落时，这等爱是既不能隐藏，也不能置之不理，更是不能逃避救赎的使命。因为神是爱，当祂面对人类犯罪的现实，祂的对应就是牺牲。所以，当这等爱临到了我们的灵魂，天天试着要渗透我们全人，这牺牲的性情是怎能不产生呢？所以，保罗从福音明白了一个绝大的奥秘，就是基督的救赎是叫他活在一种无法还清的债，就是“爱人”的债。当我们说到欠债，我们堕落的想法总是只能以负面性质来思想，就是我们欠了别人的物质或是人情，所以换不清。但在福音里所说的债是因恩惠大得无穷，以至怎么换都换不清，一旦要“偿还”而去拯救扶持人的灵魂时，下面所产生的心弦不是“还完了”，乃是更多的爱在心中产生，以至无法停止那爱人的服侍。这就显明了神的爱本是无限的。没有一个人能领受而进入基督的爱之后只向往还清这爱。但今天在很多侍奉者的身上，我们看见他们因侍奉进到失望、疲累、不敢面对挑战、选择留在安逸。其实，那是因为我们在服侍中已经失去爱的精神，反倒进入完成责任的心态。事实上，爱是无限的，人的能耐与体力却是有限的。爱能叫一个人在临终前写信坚固主的门徒，为着选民忍受一切《提后2:10》，也宣告他离世的得胜《提后4:6-8》。在此，我们要明白，我们是否领会了福音的核心？或是我们在生活侍奉主当中常忽略福音核心的重要。今天，有很多信徒知道神就是爱，也认知神的爱是伟大无穷的，但是一旦说到要爱人，心里马上萎缩起来。他们保持一种“害怕不能爱而受控告”之心。其实，这是与一个全然蒙爱之心相反的。当圣经嘱咐我们在彼此相爱上要常以为亏欠，它没有不理会我们的罪性。神知道我们的罪性和罪性所带来的软弱，所以神赐下圣灵帮助我们，使我们能靠着对福音的认识不断领会彼此相爱之心，也拒绝那对人仇恨与冷淡之心。实际上，一个认识福音的人在处事待人中有可能会落入生气、失望、受伤、讨厌等，但因为不断寻求圣灵的帮助，终究会发现自己不能停止爱人。所以，我们今天不能只知道应该爱人，我们要反思与揣摩我们的心境，让圣灵对付我们，使我们领悟出怎么爱人。

Gospel carries the function to satisfy and reform the entire soul; in particular, it calls a person to restore the temperament of “truly loved, truly able to love others”. Actually, we are born in sin; we were originally accused day and night, and under the control of fear. Such temperament cannot love man at all, even if one loves, it is also an extremely selfish love. Once we are challenged in loving others, our love will turn into hurt or enmity easily. If we meditate about our temperament, we will know how self-centered and fragile we are in loving others. However, as Lord Jesus’s gospel comes upon us, the redeeming grace infiltrates our souls. From the sacrifice of God’s beloved son, we realize how loved we are among all nations. After that, the love continues to seep into our entire mindset, thoughts, emotions, and will, so that we will not remain in a state of feel-good because of the love, but to sacrifice for love. The love on the Cross is a sacrificial love. Why sacrificial? For this love can no longer be concealed nor ignored when it is in the face of sins and depravation of men, it all the more cannot escape the mission to redeem. For God is love, when He has to face the reality of men sinning, His response is thus sacrifice. Hence, when such love comes upon our souls, attempting to infiltrate our entire being daily, it rightly produces in us the disposition to sacrifice. Paul understood a super mystery from the gospel, that is God’s redemption caused him to live in a kind of unending debt -  the debt to “love one another”. When we talk about debts, the fallen mindset in us always think of it negatively, as if we owe someone certain material stuff or their kindness, thus we can never finish paying. But the debt mentioned in gospel is due to the magnificently big grace that we can never finish paying. When we want to “repay” by helping and redeeming souls, the resulting heart isn’t that of I have “fully paid”, but a greater love that is so overwhelming that we can never stop serving people out of love. This shows that God’s love is infinite, and there is none who enters into Christ’s love who only wishes to repay this love. But today, we see many minister workers feeling disappointed, tired; they are afraid to face challenges and thus choose to remain at comfort zones. Actually, that arises because we have already lost the spirit of love in the midst of serving, hence we enter into a state of merely fulfilling responsibilities. Love is infinite, yet men’s capability and strength are limited. Love may empowered a dying person to write letters that strengthen Lord’s disciples, endured all for the sake of the elect < 2 Ti 2:10>, and proclaimed the victory over death <2 Ti 4:6-8>. Have we truly received the core of the gospel? Have our living and serving always missed the importance of the gospel core? Today, many believers know God is love, and they know how great and understanding His love is. But as one mentions about loving others, their hearts withdraw immediately and maintain a heart of “afraid to love and thus feeling accused”. Actually, this is contrary to a greatly loved heart. When the bible instructs us to continue the debt to love one another, it does not ignore our sinful nature. God knows the weaknesses brought by our sinful nature, hence He gives us Holy Spirit to help us, so that we can keep receiving the heart to love one another through our knowledge in the gospel, and reject the heart of hatred and coldness towards men. In fact, a person who knows gospel will enter into anger, disappointment, dislikes, and hurts etc in dealing with people, but because he always seeks the help of the Spirit, he will love others unstoppably eventually. Hence, not only do we need to know we have to love, we also need to introspect and meditate on the states of our heart, so that Holy Spirit can deal with us and enables us to understand how can we love others.

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