我们在生活中怎样让割礼可以我身上执行呢?罗马书第6章12-13节,我们这个人要把肢体当作器具献给神。“所以,不要容罪在你们必死的身上作王,使你们顺从身子的私欲。也不要将你们的肢体献给罪作不义的器具;倒要像从死里复活的人,将自己献给 神,并将肢体作义的器具献给 神。”这里最后讲到了两个奉献,第一个是要把自己献给神,倒要像从死里复活的人,将自己献给神”。这也是平常我们讲的,比较容易明白的。接下来讲,“将肢体作义的器具献给 神”,讲到member of body,我们的手,我们的眼,我们的耳,我们的舌头,我们的肢体也要当成器具献给神,让神可以来使用。使徒行传7章51节,当司提反责备法利赛人和犹太人杀害耶稣的时候,特别引用了一句话,“你们这硬著颈项、心与耳未受割礼的人。”有没有想过割礼居然可以在心和耳朵行的?你就晓得这里割礼指的是割除我们一切不属于神的,割除一切旧造的。心和耳都可以行割礼,那举一反三,我们的眼睛,我们的舌头都需要行割礼,我们身上每一个member of body需要行割礼。
Memory Verse: 28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; 29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God. (Romans 2:28-29)
(一) 認識割禮的真諦
I Understand the true essence of circumcision
-你們在他裏面也受了不是人手所行的割禮,乃是基督使你們脫去肉體情慾的割禮(西2;11)
- In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting
Off the body of the sins[a] of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ (Colossians 2:11)
(A)外面肉身的割禮不是真割禮,受不受肉身的割禮:
(A) A circumcision that is outward in the flesh is not a true circumcision, to receive circumcision that is not in the flesh:
(a) 算不得什麼—重要是能“守神的誡命” (林前7:19)
(a) Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing - but “keeping the commandments of God is what matters” (1 Corinthians 7:19)
(b) 全無功效—“惟獨使人生發仁愛的信心、才有功效” (加5:6)
(b) Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but “faith working through love” (Galatians 5:6)
(c) 無關緊要—“要緊的是作新造的人” (加6:15)
(c) Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but “a new creation” (Galatians 6:15)
(B)真割禮是心裡的—“在乎靈,不在乎儀文” (羅2:29a)
(B) Circumcision is that of the heart – “in the Spirit, not in the letter” (Romans 2:29a)
(二) 真割禮的執行
II The execution of a true circumcision
(a) 基督藉著十架
(a) By Jesus through the cross
- “凡屬基督耶穌的人、是已經把肉體、連肉體的邪情私慾、同釘在十字架上了。” (加5:24)
- “And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires” (Galatians 5:24)