Once Righteous，Always Righteous 一次稱義，永遠稱義

124 Once Righteous, Always Righteous

一次稱義，永遠稱義

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作者Joseph Prince

譯者Mary朗讀Mary

默想經文：

…to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness…

要止住罪過，除凈罪惡，贖盡罪孽，引進（或作彰顯）永義……（但以理書9:24）

You may have seen high-speed video footages of a caterpillar turning into a colorful butterfly. But have you ever seen a butterfly changing back into a caterpillar? Of course not! Why? Because it』s impossible!

或許你見過高速攝像機拍攝的毛毛蟲蛻變成彩蝶的錄像。可你見過蝴蝶又變回毛毛蟲的嗎？當然沒有！因為這是不可能的！

It』s the same with your salvation. Once you are saved, you are saved forever. The righteousness that you have in Christ is aneverlastingone—you cannot become unrighteous again. Once you are born again as a child of God, it is impossible for you to become 「unborn.」 Once you are a saint washed by the blood of Jesus, in God』s eyes, you cannot revert to your old, unsaved sinner state. Even if you fall into sin, you are still the righteousness of God in Christ because your justification is not by works, but by faith in Jesus Christ (Galatians 2:16).

你的救恩也是如此。你一旦得救，就永遠得救了。你在基督里所有的義是永恆的那一位——你不能再變成不義的。一旦你重生成為上帝的孩子，你就不可能變成「未重生的」；一旦你因著耶穌的寶血成為聖徒，在上帝的眼中，你就無法再變回老我的狀態，又成了沒得救的罪人。即使你跌倒犯罪，你在基督里仍然是義人，因為你稱義，不是因行律法，乃是因信耶穌基督（加拉太書2:16）。

Let』s come back to the butterfly. Once in a while,the butterfly may fly around and land on a rubbish heap, instead of a pretty,nice-smelling flower. But does that cause it to change back into a caterpillar?No, and it』s only a matter of time before it leaves the rubbish heap for the flowers. Likewise, when a Christian falls into sin, he doesn』t lose his righteousness and transform back into an unsaved sinner. No, he is still righteous and it is this consciousness of his righteousness in Christ that will empower him to leave that sin and overcome future temptations (Romans 5:17).

我們再回到蝴蝶的比喻上。蝴蝶偶爾也會飛在垃圾堆上，甚至會落在上面，而不是停在一朵馨香美麗的花兒上。可這就讓它變回毛毛蟲了嗎？不，它離開垃圾堆飛向花朵只是時間問題。同樣的，當一個基督徒跌倒犯罪，他不會失去他的義，變回沒得救的罪人。不，他依舊是義人，正是他意識到自己是基督里義人，力量得以加添，遠離罪，勝過未來的試探（羅馬書5:17）（「若因一人的過犯，死就因這一人作了王，何況那些受洪恩又蒙所賜之義的，豈不更要因耶穌基督一人在生命中作王么？」）。

Beloved, the more you believe that you have this everlasting righteousness from Jesus, the more you will live up to your new identity and reign in life!

上帝所愛的人，你越是相信自己擁有耶穌所賜的永義，就越是活出與你的新身份相稱的生命，在生命中作王！

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