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经文: 我靠耶和华的名，必剿灭他们。（诗篇一一八：12）
我们的主耶稣藉祂的死，换取统管我们全人的权利。祂的死和复活完成了我们灵、魂和体的成圣。上帝赐给信徒的新生本质必须确保主耶稣基督的权利。因为你是上帝的儿子，你必须征服自我中尚未降服基督的部份。不要满足，直至祂，这位以牺牲而作王，成为你心中统管一切的至高无上之主为止。罪在我们身上是完全没有权力的。因此，我们要奉耶稣之名去打一场合法的胜仗，只为了将罪逐出。我的身体是基督的一部份。我绝不能忍受向黑暗之王作任何降服。基督已为我的罪受苦，以祂的宝血拯救了我。我是否应该让我的记忆成为罪恶的仓库或让我的感情充满邪恶？我是否屈服于自己的错误判断，或使自己的意旨被罪之锁链捆绑？不，我属于基督，罪无权在我身上。基督徒啊，不要以为属灵的敌人永不会被毁灭而丧胆。靠你自己的能力是无法战胜它们的，但是藉着羔羊的血你能够且会得胜。到全能者处求取力量，并谦卑地等候上帝！祂必成为你的拯救，你也必因祂的恩典高唱凯歌。
Evening, April 6
Scripture: “In the name of the Lord I will destroy them.”(Psalm 118:12)
Our Lord Jesus, by his death, did not purchase a right to a part of us only, but to the entire man. He contemplated in his passion the sanctification of us wholly, spirit, soul, and body; that in this triple kingdom he himself might reign supreme without a rival. It is the business of the newborn nature which God has given to the regenerate to assert the rights of the Lord Jesus Christ. My soul, so far as thou art a child of God, thou must conquer all the rest of thyself which yet remains unblest; thou must subdue all thy powers and passions to the silver sceptre of Jesus’ gracious reign, and thou must never be satisfied till he who is King by purchase becomes also King by gracious coronation, and reigns in thee supreme. Seeing, then, that sin has no right to any part of us, we go about a good and lawful warfare when we seek, in the name of God, to drive it out. O my body, thou art a member of Christ: shall I tolerate thy subjection to the prince of darkness? O my soul, Christ has suffered for thy sins, and redeemed thee with his most precious blood: shall I suffer thy memory to become a storehouse of evil, or thy passions to be firebrands of iniquity? Shall I surrender my judgment to be perverted by error, or my will to be led in fetters of iniquity? No, my soul, thou art Christ’s, and sin hath no right to thee.
Be courageous concerning this, O Christian! be not dispirited, as though your spiritual enemies could never be destroyed. You are able to overcome them－not in your own strength－the weakest of them would be too much for you in that; but you can and shall overcome them through the blood of the Lamb. Do not ask, “How shall I dispossess them, for they are greater and mightier than I?” but go to the strong for strength, wait humbly upon God, and the mighty God of Jacob will surely come to the rescue, and you shall sing of victory through his grace.
