罗马书［第15章］
Book of Romans 15
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罗马书［第15章|Book of Romans 15【福音的使者】
16/12/2021
引言:一个好东西必有见证代言人！
一、作个坚强担代的人（V1-3）
坚固的人既是坚强的人，坚强的人要能够担待不坚强的人的软弱。简单的比喻，坚强的妈妈要担待软弱的婴孩的软弱，甚至不求自己的快乐。事实上只有孩子快乐，妈妈才有真的快乐。你试试在思想中不断以这一个画面作例子，来思想下面这一段经文所要说的真理。对一个属灵的坚强人而言，就像孩子的母亲有无限的使命感，愿意去付出一切为建造孩子，作为福音的使者也要如此：
1.各人务必叫邻舍喜悦
【邻舍】代表我们周围常接触到的人，【喜悦】原文的意思有取悦、奉承、讨好、顺应。对一般人而言，人不为己天诛地灭。别人的事关我什么事？人都是以自我满足为中心，为什么我们要去取悦他人？如果你明白自己在基督里的身份和地位，我们是得着了基督的生命在我们里面，我们有了与众不同的新身份、新托付。
2.使他人得益建立德行： 我们有的最大益处，永生、圣灵、真理、应许，是可以透过我们的生命去祝福人，建立人，与人分享，以致他人蒙福，我们就更蒙福。因为神非常喜悦我们这样做。
3.如基督正是舍己为人： 基督代罪羔羊的身份我们都领受了，岂不知原来我们这些属基督，为基督而活的见证人、代言人，也是被赋予这样的使命与托付。
二、效法基督而荣耀神（V4-9）
这里三次说到荣耀神，什么是荣耀神？就是人所做的事情叫人看见而惊讶，为什么你和一般世人不同？原来是基督的生命彰显在人的生活中，以致人会说你的神真好，这就是荣耀神。一个最荣耀神的生活方式就是效法基督，学习基督处事为人的榜样。而基督如己已经不是以物质的肉身活在我们当中，因为祂的话就是我们的指引和依据。而其中三样品格要提醒我们：
1.忍耐
罪恶的世界有许多偏离真理，叫人难以接受的事实。包括基督徒在成圣的过程中也有很多叫人失望和悲哀的行径，我们如果是属基督的刚强人？愿意效法基督而荣耀神，我们就要继续忍耐。因为如果冲动、鲁莽行事，恐怕就会陷入血气的毁坏性的后果中。
2.安慰
神的话给人安慰，神也以各种方式赐安慰。感谢主，神亲自以自己话语和超自然的方式叫人得安慰。
3.接纳
忍耐是针对他人的问题，安慰是从神而来的力量。接纳则是对人和事情的好坏都无法改变时，我们只要能够接纳，相信神有更美的时间和带领，你就可以活出基督的荣耀，而不是怨天尤人。
三、外邦人的福音祭司（V0-16）
这里的外邦人应该是指非犹太裔基督徒，包括我们这些人，我们要与神的选民，主的百姓一同欢乐。既是要与神的选民一同敬拜赞美神。我们过往去以色列的时候就有这样的机会，如今因为疫情的关系已经有两年无法去以色列，但是我们可以祷告，祈求神开路，因为这是神的应许。
耶西的根、大卫的后裔，基督弥赛亚，我们的救主耶稣基督。祂是治理我们的主，我们因着信已经得到无以伦比的喜乐平安，且借着圣灵的能力大有盼望。保罗因此作了外邦人的福音祭司，我们不也是外邦人的福音祭司吗？
但是我们要继续祷告，福音虽然是从耶路撒冷传到外邦，但是有一天福音的终结是从外邦传回耶路撒冷。如今我们不但领受了福音大使命的托付，甚至我们还领受要把福音传回耶路撒冷。而且我们也被称为君尊的祭司，因此，将来我们必要成为把福音传回给选民的外邦福音祭司。
四、我们要还福音的债（V17-33）
1.神迹随行遍传福音（V17-24）
保罗是个大有学问的人，但是他说出来耶稣基督借着他所作的神迹奇事之外，别的他都不敢提。福音本是神的大能，要叫一切被捆绑的人得释放。是圣灵的大能让原本不信的外邦人成为福音的使者。保罗的信主是这样的神迹，他所传的福音也是这样的充满圣灵大能的神迹。
我们怎样经历救恩，很常神也要使用我们的经历去拯救许多有相同背景的人。
2.救济圣徒教会爱心（V25-33）
当年在耶路撒冷的信徒面对贫困与缺欠，保罗让外邦人的教会了解这需要，因此也激发了外邦教会在经济上去帮助，去救济耶路撒冷的信徒。外邦人的教会有机会做这事是非常美好的，因为我们所领受的福音是从他们而来，我们所蒙的祝福是因他们而得，因此我们就如同欠了他们的债，能够有机会帮助他们，这是何等恩典。
如今我们的教会就在作这事，感恩弟兄姐妹不断参与爱以色列基金的奉献，尤其在神的节期里，大家的奉献让教会得以不断的去祝福以色列。而祝福以色列的结果也带来神对我们教会，对弟兄姐妹们的祝福。
总结：福音使者的生命
坚强靠主荣耀神：活出生命树的生命！ 福音使者爱世人：活出布道者的使命！
Romans 15: Messenger of the Gospel
GK611 Morning Devotion
16/12/2021
Speaker: Rev. Tan
Introduction:
A good thing must have spokesman who testify!
1. Be a person who is strong and able to bear responsibility (V1-3)
A strong person is both a strong person and a strong person must be able to bear the weakness of the not so strong person. In a simple analogy, a strong mother has to bear the weakness of a weak baby, even without seeking her own happiness. The truth is that a mother can only be truly happy if her child is happy. Try to keep this image in your mind as an example to think about the truth of the following passage. For a spiritually strong person, just as the mother of a child has an infinite sense of mission and is willing to give everything to build up her child, so must she be as a messenger of the gospel.
(1) Each one must make his neighbour happy [Neighbors] represents the people we often come in contact with around us, and the original meaning of [please] is to please someone, flatter, curry favor, and conform. For people in general, people do not do anything for themselves. What do I care about other people's business? People are self-satisfied, so why should we try to please others? If you understand your identity and position in Christ, we are given the life of Christ in us, and we have a new identity, a new trust that is different.
(2) Building virtue for the benefit of others The greatest benefit we have, the eternal life, the Holy Spirit, the truth, the promise, is that we can bless people through our lives, build people up, share with people so that others are blessed and we are more blessed. Because God is very pleased with us for doing this.
(3) As Christ gave himself up for others
We have all received the identity of Christ's atonement, but do we not know that we, who are Christ's witnesses and advocates for Christ, are also entrusted with such a mission and commission?
2. Glorifying God by imitating Christ (V4-9)
Here we talk three times about glorifying God. It is when a person does something that people see and are amazed, why are you different from the rest of the world? It turns out that the life of Christ is manifested in the life of man, so that people will say, "What a good God you have, that is glorifying God. One of the most God-glorifying ways of life is to imitate Christ and learn from His example in dealing with people. And Christ as Himself is no longer living among us in a physical body, for His words are our guide and basis. And three of these qualities are to remind us.
(1) Patience.
The sinful world has many facts that deviate from the truth and are hard to accept. There are also many disappointing and sorrowful practices in the sanctification process, including those of Christians. If we are strong men of Christ, willing to glorify God by imitating Christ, we must continue to be patient. For if we act impulsively and recklessly, we are afraid that we will fall into the destructive consequences of blood.
(2) Comfort.
The word of God gives comfort, and God gives comfort in various ways. Thank the Lord that God Himself gives comfort in His own words and in supernatural ways.
(3) Receiving
Patience is for the problems of others and comfort is strength from God. Acceptance, on the other hand, is for when people and things are too good or bad to change, we just have to be able to accept and trust God for a more beautiful time and leadership so you can live out the glory of Christ instead of complaining.
3.Gospel Priests of the Gentiles (V10-16)
The Gentiles here would be non-Jewish Christians, including those of us who are to rejoice with God's elect, the Lord's people. Both are to worship and praise God with God's chosen people. We had such opportunities when we went to Israel in the past. Now we have not been able to go to Israel for two years because of the pandemic, but we can pray and ask God to open the way, because this is God's promise.
The root of Jesse, the descendant of David, the Christ Messiah, our Savior Jesus Christ. He is the Lord who rules over us, and by faith we have received unparalleled joy and peace, and have great hope through the power of the Holy Spirit. Paul thus became a priest of the gospel to the Gentiles, and are we not also a priest of the gospel to the Gentiles?
But let us continue to pray that although the gospel was preached from Jerusalem to the Gentiles, the end of the gospel will one day be preached from the Gentiles back to Jerusalem. Now we have not only been entrusted with the Great Commission of the gospel, but we have even been entrusted with the task of bringing the gospel back to Jerusalem. Moreover, we are also called royal priest, so that in the future we must become priests of the gospel to the Gentiles who will take the gospel back to the chosen ones.
4. We have to pay the debt of the gospel (V17-33)
(1) Miracles follow the Gospel (v17-24)
Paul was a learned man, but he did not dare to mention anything other than the signs and wonders that Jesus Christ did through him. The gospel is the power of God to set free all those who are in bondage. It was the power of the Holy Spirit that made the Gentiles, who were unbelievers, messengers of the gospel. Paul's conversion was such a miracle, and the gospel he preached was also such a miracle full of the power of the Holy Spirit.
How we experience salvation, very often God will use our experience to save many people of the same background.
(2) Relieve the Saints by the Love of the Church (v25-33)
Paul made the Gentile churches aware of this need, and thus inspired the Gentile churches to help financially to relieve the believers in Jerusalem. It is wonderful that the Gentile churches have the opportunity to do this, for it is from them that we have received the gospel, and it is through them that we have been blessed, and therefore we are as much in their debt as we are in theirs, and what a grace it is to have the opportunity to help them.
This is what our church is doing today, and we are thankful that brothers and sisters continue to participate in the Love Israel Fund offering, especially during God's feast days, and that everyone's offering allows the church to continue to bless Israel. And the result of blessing Israel also brings God's blessing to our church and to our brothers and sisters.
Conclusion: The Life of An Evangelist
Be strong in the Lord and glorify God: Live the life of the tree of life! Gospel messengers love the world: live the mission of evangelists!
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