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经文: 谁能控告上帝所拣选的人呢？（罗马书八：33）
这是最蒙福的挑战，也是无法争辩的！被拣选之人的所有罪皆放在我们救恩的伟大元首身上，藉祂的赎罪而除去了。上帝的册子并不记载反对祂之百姓的罪；在基督里，他们永远称义了。当罪行被除去后，罪的刑罚也移去了。上帝忿怒的手不再击打基督徒，甚至没有一丝定罪的责备。信徒可能被天父责打，但是审判人的上帝除了对基督徒说：“我已赦免了你，你是无罪的。”以外，别无他言。基督徒是全不受任何刑罚，也不再有罪行。罪的权势也被移除了。虽然罪可能仍在我们的生命途上，以不停的争战来搅扰我们。但是对每个已与耶稣联合的心灵而言，罪是已被征服的敌人。倘若基督徒单单依靠上帝来获取胜利，没有一样罪是不能胜过的。在天国中，身穿白袍的人都是靠羔羊的宝血和他们所见证的道而得胜的（参阅启十二：11）。我们也能同样行。没有一种欲念会太有力，没有一种罪会太强烈以致侵袭我们。我们能藉基督的能力得胜。基督徒啊，你的罪已被处死了，它可能踢蹬挣扎，但却已注定死亡。上帝在它的额上已写上定罪的字样。基督已把罪钉死在祂的十字架了。现在就去把它毁灭，主将助你，活在赞美祂之中。到最后，罪恶及所有的罪行、羞辱和恐惧都将消灭。
Evening, July 27
Scripture: “Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect?”(Romans 8:33)
Most blessed challenge! How unanswerable it is! Every sin of the elect was laid upon the great Champion of our salvation, and by the atonement carried away. There is no sin in God’s book against his people: he seeth no sin in Jacob, neither iniquity in Israel; they are justified in Christ for ever. When the guilt of sin was taken away, the punishment of sin was removed. For the Christian there is no stroke from God’s angry hand－nay, not so much as a single frown of punitive justice. The believer may be chastised by his Father, but God the Judge has nothing to say to the Christian, except “I have absolved thee: thou art acquitted.” For the Christian there is no penal death in this world, much less any second death. He is completely freed from all the punishment as well as the guilt of sin, and the power of sin is removed too. It may stand in our way, and agitate us with perpetual warfare; but sin is a conquered foe to every soul in union with Jesus. There is no sin which a Christian cannot overcome if he will only rely upon his God to do it. They who wear the white robe in heaven overcame through the blood of the Lamb, and we may do the same. No lust is too mighty, no besetting sin too strongly entrenched; we can overcome through the power of Christ. Do believe it, Christian, that thy sin is a condemned thing. It may kick and struggle, but it is doomed to die. God has written condemnation across its brow. Christ has crucified it, “nailing it to his cross.” Go now and mortify it, and the Lord help you to live to his praise, for sin with all its guilt, shame, and fear, is gone.
“Here’s pardon for transgressions past,
It matters not how black their cast;
And, O my soul, with wonder view,
For sins to come here’s pardon too.”