晨興聖言-羅馬書五至八章...(W4-2)

第四週.週二

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羅七2 『女人有了丈夫,丈夫還活著,就受律法約束,歸與丈夫;丈夫若死了,就脫離了丈夫的律法。』

六6  『知道我們的舊人已經與祂同釘十字架,使罪的身體失效,叫我們不再作罪的奴僕。』

羅馬七章二至六節啟示基督乃是新丈夫。重生的人,無論男女信徒,都得著基督作他們的丈夫,都是祂妻子的一部分。…我們信徒若不認識我們有了基督作丈夫,我們就是可憐的人,因為在實際上我們就像寡婦,像失去了丈夫的婦女。『寡婦』意味著可憐的光景。寡婦被剝奪並奪走了她所有的享受,她失去了人生的一切享受。當然所有的真基督徒都有基督作他們的丈夫,但可悲的是,許多人並不知道基督是他們的丈夫。(新約總論第十冊,五八頁。)

信息選讀

羅馬七章二至三節的頭一個丈夫不是肉體或律法,乃是六章六節裏那已經與基督同釘十字架的舊人。…因著墮落,我們是舊人;因著重生,我們是新人。作為舊人,我們是丈夫;作為新人,我們是妻子。(羅馬書生命讀經,一六六至一六七頁。)

羅馬七章二節至四節上半說,『女人有了丈夫,丈夫還活著,就受律法約束,歸與丈夫;丈夫若死了,就脫離了丈夫的律法。所以,丈夫活著,她若歸與別的男人,便叫淫婦;丈夫若死了,她就脫離了那律法,雖然歸與別的男人,也不是淫婦。我的弟兄們,這樣說來,你們藉著基督的身體,向著律法也已經是死的了。』這些經文給我們看見兩個丈夫。頭一個丈夫(舊丈夫),不是指肉體或律法,乃是指六章六節所說,已經與基督同釘十字架的舊人。七章二至四節所題到的第二個丈夫(新丈夫),乃是基督。

我們的舊人,就是舊丈夫,既與基督同釘十字架,(六6,)我們就脫離了他的律法,並且歸與新丈夫,就是那永活者基督。我們信徒有兩種身分。七章四節的頭一個『你們』,指在墮落罪人舊身分中的我們,離棄了原初作妻子倚靠神的地位,擅自取了作丈夫、作頭、向神獨立的地位。四節的第二個『你們』,指在重生新人新身分中的我們,恢復到我們原初作神真正妻子的正確地位,(賽五四5,林前十一3,)倚靠神,以祂為我們的頭。我們因為已經釘了十字架,就不再有丈夫的舊身分。現今我們已有,也是只有,正確妻子的新身分,以基督為我們的丈夫,不該再憑舊人活著,以舊人為我們的丈夫。

墮落的人既然離開作神妻子的正確地位,想要自己作丈夫,神就將他所無法遵守的律法頒賜給他。因此,神頒賜律法給人的本意,不是為著妻子,乃是為著丈夫,並且不是要人遵守,乃是要叫舊人被暴露。(羅七5,三20,五20。)因此,保羅說律法是『丈夫的律法』。(七2。)

我們都有舊丈夫,舊人。當我們浸入基督的死,我們就在祂的死裏與祂聯合為一,我們的舊人在祂的死裏已被釘死。藉著我們舊人的死,罪的身體便失效。因著律法本是為著舊丈夫(舊人),也是賜給舊丈夫,所以舊人的死也使我們藉著基督的身體向律法死了。(新約總論第十冊,五八至六○頁。)

參讀:新約總論,第三百篇。

WEEK 4 — DAY 2


Morning Nourishment

Rom. 7:2 For the married woman is bound by the law to her husband while he is living; but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law regarding the husband.

        6:6 Knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin as slaves.

Romans 7:2-6 reveals that Christ is the new Husband. As regenerated beings, both male and female believers have Christ as their Husband and are a part of His wife…If we the believers do not know that we have Christ as our Husband, we are pitiful persons, for in effect, we are like widows, females who have lost their husbands. The word widow connotes pitifulness. A widow has been stripped and robbed of all her enjoyment; she has lost everything of the enjoyment of human life. Surely all genuine Christians have Christ as their Husband, yet it is pitiful that many of them do not know Him as their Husband. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 3061)

Todays Reading

The first husband of Romans 7:2-3 is not the flesh or the law but the old man of Romans 6:6, which has been crucified with Christ. Because of the fall we are the old man, and because of regeneration we are the new man. As the old man, we were the husband; as the new man, we are the wife. (Life-study of Romans, pp. 136-137)

Romans 7:2-4a says, “For the married woman is bound by the law to her husband while he is living; but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law regarding the husband. So then if, while the husband is living, she is joined to another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, though she is joined to another man. So then, my brothers, you also have been made dead to the law through the body of Christ.” These verses show two husbands. The first husband (the old husband) is not the flesh or the law but the old man mentioned in 6:6, who has been crucified with Christ. The second husband (the new husband) mentioned in 7:2-4 is Christ.

Since our old man, who was the old husband, has been crucified with Christ (6:6), we are freed from his law and are joined to the new Husband, Christ, the ever-living One. As believers, we have two statuses. The first you in 7:4 refers to us in our old status as the fallen old man, who left the original position of a wife dependent on God and took the self-assuming position of a husband and head, independent of God. The second you in verse 4 refers to us in our new status as the regenerated new man, restored to our original and proper position as the genuine wife to God (Isa. 54:5; 1 Cor. 11:3), dependent on Him and taking Him as our Head. We no longer have the old status of the husband, for we have been crucified. We now have only the new status of the proper wife, in which we take Christ as our Husband, and should no longer live according to the old man, that is, no longer take the old man as our husband.

Because fallen man left his proper position as God’s wife and desired to be the husband, God gave him the law, which he cannot possibly keep. The law is intended not for the wife but for the husband, and the law was given not that it might be kept but that the old man might be exposed (Rom. 7:5; 3:20; 5:20). Paul thus refers to the law as “the law regarding the husband” (7:2).

We all had an old husband, the old man. When we were baptized into the death of Christ, we were identified with Him in His death, in which our old man was crucified and died. Through the death of our old man, the body of sin was annulled. Since the law was intended for and given to the old husband, the old man, the death of the old man also has made us dead to the law through the body of Christ. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3061-3062)

Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 300

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