请我们先祷告 主，我们接受你是光，求你再赦免我们的亏欠、错误、我们的不绝对、不忠心。我们真是都需要你的赦免！ 　 诗歌:237♫ 　 神的基督是我的义， 我的美丽，我的锦衣， 　 　 在宝座前服此盛装， 我能抬头欢乐歌唱。 　 　 借你救赎，我已脱去 我罪、我过、我耻、我惧； 　 　 审判大日我敢站立， 谁能控告你所称义？ 　 今日经节及注解： 罗五12～21 重点经节 罗3:22 罗2:24 罗5:17 就是神的义，借着信耶稣基督，归与一切信的人，并没有分别。 但因神的恩典，借着在基督耶稣里的救赎，就白白的得称义。 若因一人的过犯，死就借着这一人作了王，那些受洋溢之恩，并洋溢之义恩赐的，就更要借着耶稣基督一人，在生命中作王了。 　 生命供应 称义是什么？称义的意思就是神的义已经显明出来。虽然神的义存在了多少世代，却没有向我们显明；直到我们相信主，并呼求祂的名，然后神的义才向我们显示出来。神的义显示出来，就是显明出来。我们相信主耶稣，神的义就向我们显明出来。 照着我们的经历，不是神先称许我们，乃是我们先称许神。我们不知道神花了多少时间使我们确信祂的义。我们是悖逆的，并且说，"我不喜欢神。神不对。"在我们得救以前，我们都这样想。许多人顶撞神说，"神若是对的，为什么地上有这么多可怜的人？神若是对的，为什么国际间没有公理？"他们承认有神，但宣称祂不是义的。我们许多人能见证同样的事，承认我们以为神是错的，以为祂不是义的。然而，神一直忍耐我们，为我们作许多事，直到祂最终使我们确信祂的义。谁先称义谁？我们先称义神。当神使我们确信祂的义，我们就称义祂，并悔改流泪说，"神，赦免我。我是罪恶、不洁的。我需要你的赦免。"我们呼求主耶稣的名时，我们不但被摆在基督里面，也被摆在基督上面。现今我们在作我们平息处的基督上面，在这里神与我们能彼此称义。我们宣告："神，你是义的。我对你没有问题。" 然后神回答："亲爱的孩子，我对你也没有问题。"首先我们称许神，然后神称许我们。我们称义神，然后神称义我们。 因此，没有可夸的。我们没有人有什么可夸的。我们得称义，不是借着行的律，乃是借着信的律。（罗三27。）这信不是起源于我们，乃是出于活的基督。（罗马书生命读经，六七、七一至七二、七四页。） 　 问答: 1、 人如何能被称义？（参读罗三22注1第三段。） 2、 人被称义的结果是什么？（参读 罗五18注4。） 3、 人如何信耶稣？（参读 罗三22注1第二段。） 　 明天:凡基督所经历的，现今都成了我们的历史 Are You Right with Man and with God? 　 Let's Pray: Lord, we receive You as light. Forgive us again for our shortcomings and mistakes and for our not being absolute and our not being faithful. We really need Your forgiveness! 　 Hymn:295 　 1. God's Christ, who is my righteousness, My beauty is, my glorious dress; Midst flaming worlds, in this arrayed, With joy shall I lift up my head. 4. Bold can I stand in every way, For who aught to my charge shall lay? Fully, by Thee, absolved I am From sin and fear, from guilt and shame. 　 Today's Verses and Footnotes: Rom 5:12-21 Key Verses: Rom 3:22 　 Rom. 3:24 　 Rom. 5:17 　 　 Even the righteousness of God through the faith of Jesus Christ to all those who believe, for there is no distinction. Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus. For if by the offense of the one death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. 　 Life Supply: What is justification? Justification means that the righteousness of God has been manifested. Although the righteousness of God has existed for ages, it was not manifested to us until we believed in the Lord and called on His name. Then the righteousness of God was revealed to us. When God's righteousness is revealed, it is manifested. It is manifested to us when we believe in the Lord Jesus. According to our experience, it was not God who firstly approved us, but we who approved God. We do not know how much time God spent to convince us of His righteousness. We were rebellious and said, "I don't like God. God is not right." We all thought this way before we were saved. Many people speak against God saying, "If God is right, why are there so many poor people on the earth? If God is right, why is there no justice among the nations?" They admit that there is God, but claim that He is not righteous. Many of us can testify the same thing, confessing that we thought God was wrong, that He was not righteous. However, God has been patient with us, doing many things for us until He finally convinced us of His righteousness. Who justified whom first? We firstly justified God. When we were convinced by God of His righteousness, we justified Him and wept in repentance, saying, "God, forgive me. I'm so sinful and unclean. I need Your forgiveness." When we called on the name of the Lord Jesus, we not only were put into Christ but upon Christ. Now we are upon Christ as our propitiation place where God and we can justify one another. We declare, "God, You are righteous. I have no problem with You." Then God replies, "Dear child, I have no problem with you either." Firstly, we approved God; then God approved us. We justified God; then God justified us. Because of this, boasting is excluded. None of us has anything of which to boast. We have not been justified by the law of works, but by the law of faith (3:27). This faith does not originate with us; it is of the living Christ. (Life-Study of Romans, pp.57, 60-61, 63) 　 Questions: 1. How can man be justified? (See Rom. 3:22 note 1, paragraph 3) 2. What is the issue of justification? (See Rom. 5:18 note 2) 3. How do we believe in Jesus? (See Rom. 3:22 note 1, paragraph 2) 　 Tomorrow: Whatever Christ Passed through Has Become Our History