重要的福音信息：基督替代了我们
罗马书五章6至11节
6因我们还软弱的时候，基督就按所定的日期为罪人死。
7为义人死，是少有的；为仁人死、或者有敢做的。
8惟有基督在我们还作罪人的时候为我们死，神的爱就在此向我们显明了。
9现在我们既靠着他的血称义，就更要借着他免去神的忿怒。
10因为我们作仇敌的时候，且借着神儿子的死，得与神和好；既已和好，就更要因他的生得救了。
11不但如此，我们既借着我主耶稣基督得与神和好，也就借着他以神为乐。
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约翰这句话，正好用来回应在他之前的二千年，以撒询问父亲亚伯拉罕的问题：「献祭的羔羊在哪里呢？」亚伯拉罕回答得很有智慧，他说：「神必亲自预备羔羊。」是的，无论是在昔日的摩利亚山，还是后来在各各他的山上，神都亲自预备了献祭的羔羊。
基督作了无人能作的事。祂为了我们的罪，承受了罪的刑罚，代替我们受死，偿还罪的赎价。
但祂后来却复活了，因此，祂除了代替我们而死，如今还用祂的生命来代替我们的生命。祂是永远活着的基督（罗五10），如今活在每个信徒心中，让每一个信徒都能为祂而活。
你还记得，当你接受基督的那刻，你的罪疚便得以赦除的奇妙解脱吗？你知道基督已代替你受了刑罚，并对祂为你所作的一切倍感欣慰。
如今，因着基督在你里面活着，你可以经历同样的喜乐。例如，当你面对试探的时候，你可以让基督为你克胜，让祂代替你面对和解决人生的问题。
祂已借着死打破了罪的权势；如今，你可以在每天的生活中，见证这种得胜罪恶的能力。
基督曾经死了，这是一个历史的事实；但你可以透过你每天的生活，去体验基督如今真正活着。
反思的经文：
「现在活着的不再是我，乃是基督在我里面活着。」（加二20）
GREAT WORDS OF THE GOSPEL CHRIST OUR SUBSTITUTE
Romans 5:6-11
6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die.
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
11 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
Message
One day just as Christ was about to begin His short public ministry, He was suddenly and publicly identified as 'the Lamb of God'. The story is well known. It was John the Baptist, Christ's forerunner who dramatically pointed to Jesus and said to his disciples and the crowd standing nearby, 'Look, there He is. The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.'
In some ways John's statement was an answer to a question asked 2000 years previously. Isaac questioned his father, 'Where is the Iamb for the sacrifice?' Abraham's answer was remarkable. 'God Himself will provide the Iamb.' In Jesus Christ God did just that. He had provided the sacrifice on Mount Moriah. He did it again on Mount Calvary.
Christ did what we could not do. He paid the price, the penalty for our sins. He was our substitute in death.
Then He rose again and now He can be our substitute in life as well as in death. He is the living Christ (Romans 5:10), and lives in the heart of every believer enabling that believer to daily live for Him.
Do you remember the wonderful release from the guilt of sin which came to you when you accepted Christ? You saw Christ as your substitute and were so glad to know what He had done for you.
Now with Christ in your life that same joy can be yours, for example as you deal with temptation. Let Christ handle it. Let him be your substitute in life in any problem you face. Leave it to him to resolve.
He has broken the power of sin by His death. Now let Him prove this to you in your life day by day.
Christ died. That is historical fact. Christ is alive. That can be a present experience to see what the living Christ can do in your daily life as you allow Him.
OUR VERSE FOR TODAY: 'I no longer live but Christ lives in me. '(Galatians 2:20)