第二週 我們蒙稱義的結果—在作我們生命的基督裏完滿的享受神
讀經：羅五1～11
【週 一】
壹 稱義是神照著祂義的標準稱許我們的行動；信徒的義不是他們在自己裏面所擁有的光景，乃是他們所聯於的一個人位，就是活的基督自己：
一 我們信入基督時，就蒙神赦罪，（徒十43，）神就能稱義我們；（羅三24，26；）這是藉著使基督成為我們的義，並給我們穿上基督作義袍。（賽六一10，路十五22，耶二三6，亞三4。）
【週 二】
二 生命是神救恩的目標，因此稱義乃是『生命的』稱義；我們藉著稱義，已經達到並符合神義的標準，所以現在神能將祂的生命分賜到我們裏面—羅五18。
貳 我們蒙稱義的結果，乃是在作我們生命的基督裏完滿的享受神—1～11節：
一 我們蒙稱義的結果具體化於六件美妙的事物—愛、（5、）恩典、（2、）和平、（1、）盼望、（2、）生命（10）和榮耀（2）—作我們的享受；這些經文也啟示三一神—聖靈、（5、）基督、（6、）和神（11）作我們的享受。
二 藉著基督救贖的死，神稱義了我們這些罪人，並使我們這些神的仇敵，與祂自己和好；（1，10～11；）不僅如此，『神的愛已經藉著所賜給我們的聖靈，澆灌在我們心裏』（5）：
【週 三】
1 我們也許遭受患難、貧窮和壓抑，但我們無法否認神的愛在我們裏面與我們同在；我們要留在生命（就是基督自己）這條線上，（約十四6上，）就需要保守自己在神的愛中，（猶20～21，）就是在神自己裏面。（約壹四8，16。）
2 我們需要將神所賜我們愛的靈如火挑旺起來，使我們能有火熱之愛的靈，好勝過今日召會的墮落；將我們的靈如火挑旺起來，就是建立不斷操練靈的習慣，使我們一直留在與我們靈中作為那靈之主的接觸裏—提後一6～7，四22。
三 『我們…因信得進入現在所站的這恩典中；』（羅五2；）我們既本於信得稱義，並站在恩典的範圍裏，就『藉著我們的主耶穌基督，對神有了和平』（1）：
1 『對』神有了和平，這意思是我們本於信得稱義而進入神的路還沒有走完，我們仍在進入神的路上；按照路加七章，主耶穌告訴那位因著赦免多而『愛得多』（47～48）的有罪女人，要得救，就『往平安裏走罷』。（50，直譯。）
2 我們一旦經過了稱義的門，就需要走平安（和平）的路；（羅三17；）我們將心思置於靈—藉著顧到我們的靈，使用我們的靈，注意我們的靈，憑我們的靈與神的靈交通而接觸神，以及在我們的靈裏行事為人並生活—我們的心思就成為平安，讓我們裏面感覺安息、釋放、明亮且舒適。（八6。）
【週 四】
參 在恩典的範圍裏，我們就有神作我們的誇耀和歡樂，使我們享受並歡樂；在神裏面誇耀，也就是『在患難中…誇耀，因為知道患難生忍耐，忍耐生老練，老練生盼望』—五3～4，11：
一 患難實際上是恩典的化身和恩典甜美的眷臨；拒絕患難就是拒絕恩典；恩典乃是神作我們的分，給我們享受，這恩典主要是以患難的形態眷臨我們，藉此神使萬有（一切人、事、情形、景況、環境）互相效力，叫我們得益處，就是叫我們更多得著基督，有祂作到我們裏面，使我們新陳代謝的變化，且模成基督的形像，並使我們被帶到完滿的兒子名分裏—林後十二7～9，羅八28～29。
【週 五】
二 患難帶進忍耐，忍耐產生老練，就是經過試驗的特性和蒙稱許的價值；（腓二19～22；）保羅說，『神…驗中了我們〔他和他的同工們〕，把福音託付我們；』（帖前二4；）神一直察驗、察看並試驗他們的心，好叫他們福音的講說不是出於他們自己，要討人喜歡，乃是出於神，要討神喜歡：
1 彼前一章七節說，我們信心所受的試驗『比那經過火〔試煉和苦難的火〕的試驗仍會毀壞之金子的試驗，更為寶貴』；未經鍛煉的金子受到鍛煉之火的燒，就得著容易被人稱許的品質—瑪三3。
2 主要我們付代價，經過火煉的試驗，得著祂作金的信，使我們為著祂身體的建造能有分於真金，就是基督自己作為神聖的生命連同神聖的性情；如此我們纔能成為純金的燈臺，好建造金的新耶路撒冷—啟三18，一20，二一18，23，彼後一4。
3 有些愛主的聖徒有一些生命和亮光，他們就因此以為自己適合為主作工；然而，他們未經鍛煉，缺少蒙稱許的品質；蒙稱許的品質，是忍受患難和試驗的結果；這品質使受服事的人感覺喜樂、甜美且舒適。
4 我們都必須禱告：『主，給我蒙稱許的品質；』主就會興起環境，這些環境會為我們產生蒙稱許的品質；雖然我們是基督的奴僕，但我們缺少蒙稱許的品質；這困擾神，破壞我們，也困擾聖徒們和神家裏的人；我們憑自己的亮光和恩賜幫助聖徒，卻因著缺少蒙稱許的品質而傷了他們—太二四45～51。
【週 六】
三 隨著這老練（或，蒙稱許的品質），我們有盼望，（羅五4，）並且我們因盼望神的榮耀而誇耀（2）：
1 雖然我們站在恩典中，行在平安裏，但我們還未完全在榮耀（神自己得著彰顯）裏；『我們這短暫輕微的苦楚，要極盡超越的為我們成就永遠重大的榮耀』—林後四17。
2 那全般恩典的神曾在基督耶穌裏召我們進入祂永遠的榮耀；此時此地，我們正在享受住在我們靈裏的基督作我們榮耀的盼望—彼前五10，帖前二12，西一27，腓三21。
3 主藉著天天聖別我們，正在領我們，祂許多的兒子，進榮耀裏去，（來二10～11，）並且我們藉著使我們的心一直轉向主，觀看那在耶穌基督面上之神的榮光，正天天被變化，從一種程度的榮耀，到另一種程度的榮耀。（林後三16～18，四6下。）
四 我們在受苦中享受基督時，就在祂的生命裏得救，為著完成神大能救恩的生機目標，就是產生並建造基督生機的身體，彰顯於眾地方召會，在其中我們享受主豐富的恩典，平安的神也要將撒但踐踏在我們的腳下，為著祂榮耀的彰顯，並展示祂的得勝—羅五10，十二5，十六1，4～5，16，20。
Week Two
The Result of Our Justification— the Full Enjoyment of God in Christ as Our Life
Hymns: E1131
Scripture Reading: Rom. 5:1-11
§ Day 1
I. Justification is Gods action in approving us according to His standard of righteousness; the believers righteousness is not a condition that they possess in themselves but a person to whom they are joined, the living Christ Himself:
A. When we believe into Christ, we receive Gods forgiveness (Acts 10:43), and God can justify us (Rom. 3:24, 26) by making Christ our righteousness and by clothing us with Christ as our robe of righteousness (Isa. 61:10; Luke 15:22; Jer. 23:6; Zech. 3:4).
§ Day 2
B. Life is the goal of Gods salvation; thus, justification is “of life”; through justification we have come up to the standard of Gods righteousness and correspond with it so that now He can impart His life into us—Rom. 5:18.
II. The result of our justification is the full enjoyment of God in Christ as our life—vv. 1-11:
A. The result of our justification is embodied in six wonderful things—love (v. 5), grace (v. 2), peace (v. 1), hope (v. 2), life (v. 10), and glory (v. 2)—for our enjoyment; these verses also reveal the Triune God—the Holy Spirit (v. 5), Christ (v. 6), and God (v. 11)—for our enjoyment.
B. Through the redeeming death of Christ, God has justified us sinners and has reconciled us, His enemies, to Himself (vv. 1, 10-11); furthermore, “the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us” (v. 5):
§ Day 3
1. Although we may be afflicted, poor, and depressed, we cannot deny the presence of Gods love within us; in order to stay on the line of life, which is Christ Himself (John 14:6a), we need to keep ourselves in the love of God (Jude 20-21), which is God Himself (1 John 4:8, 16).
2. We need to fan our God-given spirit of love into flame so that we can have a burning spirit of love to overcome the degradation of todays church; to fan our spirit into flame is to build up the habit of exercising our spirit continually so that we may stay in contact with the Lord as the Spirit in our spirit—2 Tim. 1:6-7; 4:22.
C. “We have obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand” (Rom. 5:2); since we have been justified by faith and stand in the realm of grace, “we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (v. 1):
1. Having peace “toward” God means that our journey into God through our being justified out of faith has not yet been completed, and we are still on the way into God; according to Luke 7, the Lord Jesus told the sinful woman, who “loved much” because she had been forgiven much (vv. 47-48) in order to be saved, to “go into peace” (v. 50, lit.).
2. Once we have passed through the gate of justification, we need to walk on the way of peace (Rom. 3:17); when we set our mind on the spirit—by caring for our spirit, using our spirit, paying attention to our spirit, contacting God by our spirit in communion with the Spirit of God, and walking and living in our spirit—our mind becomes peace to give us an inner feeling of rest, release, brightness, and comfort (8:6).
§ Day 4
III. In the realm of grace, we have God as our boast and exultation for our enjoyment and rejoicing; to boast in God is also to “boast in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces endurance; and endurance, approvedness; and approvedness,
hope”—5:3-4, 11:
A. Tribulation is actually the incarnation of grace and the sweet visitation of grace; to reject tribulation is to reject grace, which is God as our portion for our enjoyment; grace mainly visits us in the form of tribulation by which God causes all things (all persons, all matters, all situations, all circumstances, and all environments) to work together for good, which is our gaining more of Christ to have Him wrought into our being, so that we may be transformed metabolically and conformed to Christs image
and so that we may be brought into the full sonship—2 Cor. 12:7-9; Rom. 8:28-29.
§ Day 5
B. Tribulation issues in endurance, and endurance produces approvedness, which is tested character and approved worth (Phil. 2:19-22); Paul says that he and his co-workers had been “approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel” (1 Thes. 2:4); God proved, examined, and tested their hearts continually so that their speaking of the gospel was not of themselves to please men but of God to please Him:
1. First Peter 1:7 says that the proving of our faith is “much more precious than of gold which perishes though it is proved by fire,” the fire of trials and sufferings; when gold that is raw suffers the burning of the purifying fire, it acquires a quality that is easily approved by everyone—Mal. 3:3.
2. The Lord wants us to pay the price to gain Him as the golden faith through the fiery trials so that we may participate in the real gold, which is Christ Himself as the divine life with the divine nature for the building up of His Body; thus, we can become a pure golden lampstand for the building of the golden New Jerusalem—Rev. 3:18; 1:20; 21:18, 23; 2 Pet. 1:4.
3. Some of the saints who love the Lord think that they are suitable to work for the Lord because they have a certain amount of life and light, but they are raw and lack the quality of approvedness, an approved quality resulting from the endurance of tribulation and testing; this quality makes the people who are being ministered to feel happy, sweet, and comfortable.
4. We all must pray, “Lord, grant me approvedness”; the Lord will then raise up the circumstances that will produce approvedness for us; although we are the slaves of Christ, we lack approvedness; this troubles God, damages us, and also bothers the saints and the household of God; by our light and our gift we help the saints, but by our lack of approvedness we hurt them— Matt. 24:45-51.
§ Day 6
C. Along with approvedness, we have hope (Rom. 5:4), and we boast because of the hope of the glory of God (v. 2):
1. Although we stand in grace and walk in peace, we are not yet fully in glory, which is God Himself expressed; “our momentary lightness of affliction works out for us, more and more surpassingly, an eternal weight of glory”—2 Cor. 4:17.
2. The God of all grace has called us into His eternal glory in Christ Jesus; here and now we are enjoying Christ, who dwells in our spirit, as our hope of glory—1 Pet. 5:10; 1 Thes. 2:12; Col. 1:27; Phil. 3:21.
3. The Lord is leading us, His many sons, into glory by daily sanctifying us (Heb. 2:10-11), and we are daily being transformed from one degree of glory to another by keeping our hearts turned to the Lord to behold the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ (2 Cor. 3:16-18; 4:6b).
D. As we enjoy Christ in our sufferings, we are being saved in His life for accomplishing the organic goal of Gods dynamic salvation, which is the producing and building up of the organic Body of Christ expressed in the local churches, where we enjoy the rich grace of the Lord and where the God of peace crushes Satan under our feet for His glorious expression and for the display of His victory—Rom. 5:10; 12:5; 16:1, 4-5, 16, 20.
