11月21日 成了
你所托付我的事，我已成全了。（约十七4）
耶稣基督的死，是神的心意在历史上表现出来。绝不可把耶稣的死视作殉道，以为是偶然之事，并且是可避免的。他的死，是他来世的原因。不要传讲神是父亲、因着他的爱赦免我们的道理。这个说法与耶稣基督所显明的神不符；若这样，便使十字架变得可有可无，而救赎更是多余的。神赦免罪恶，完全是因为基督的死。除了他儿子的死，神无法赦免罪，而耶稣也因他的死而被高举为救主。“耶稣……因为受死的苦，就得了尊贵荣耀为冠冕。”震撼宇宙最辉煌的胜利，就是基督在十字架上的话：“成了。”在救赎的大功上，这话是决定性的。
对神的爱有错误的观念，以致轻乎了神的圣洁，都与耶稣基督所启示的不符。千万不要以为耶稣因为同情可怜我们，就站在我们一方敌对神，也不要以为他因怜悯我们而为我们成为咒诅。耶稣基督成为咒诅，是出于至高者的命定。我们对这咒诅的体会，就是为罪自责；而神给我们羞耻与悔罪的恩赐，这是他极大的怜悯。耶稣基督恨透人所犯的罪，而加略山正量度出他的恨有多深。
祈祷◆主啊，对于住在我里面的基督，我所给予的滋养是何其不足；噢，主啊，赦免我。求你让我充满赦罪的感觉，以致我不单在你的救恩中得着喜乐，更为著这里的工作被你的灵所充满。
November 21 It Is Finished
“I have finished the work
which Thou gavest Me to do.” John 17:4
The Death of Jesus Christ is the
performance in history of the very Mind of God. There is no room for looking on
Jesus Christ as a martyr; His death was not something that happened to Him
which might have been prevented: His death was the very reason why He came.
Never build your preaching of forgiveness
on the fact that God is our Father and He will forgive us because He loves us.
It is untrue to Jesus Christ’s revelation of God; it makes the Cross
unnecessary, and the Redemption “much ado about nothing.” If God does forgive
sin, it is because of the Death of Christ. God could forgive men in no other
way than by the death of His Son, and Jesus is exalted to be Saviour because of
His death. “We see Jesus because of the suffering of death, crowned with glory
and honour.” The greatest note of triumph that ever sounded in the ears of a
startled universe was that sounded on the Cross of Christ – “It is finished.”
That is the last word in the Redemption of man.
Anything that belittles or obliterates the
holiness of God by a false view of the love of God, is untrue to the revelation
of God given by Jesus Christ. Never allow the thought that Jesus Christ stands
with us against God out of pity and compassion; that He became a curse for us
out of sympathy with us. Jesus Christ became a curse for us by the Divine decree.
Our portion of realizing the terrific meaning of the curse is conviction of
sin, the gift of shame and penitence is given us – this is the great mercy of
God. Jesus Christ hates the wrong in man, and Calvary is the estimate of His
hatred.
