灵命日粮 - 2005年4月14日
读经: 以赛亚书53章4-10节

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金句: 「他为我们的过犯受害。」（以赛亚书53章5节）

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全年读经: 诗篇10-12篇  

痛!那是悲惨、可怕又极其痛苦的痛。那是毫不留情、无法忍受和难以言喻的痛，正是耶稣承受着鞭子打在祂的背上，忍着肌肉被烧伤般的疼痛，一步一步地走上各各他山顶。这就是救主为了我们的罪所受的刑罚。
在这个粉饰太平的世界，我们经常觉得罪不是什么了不起的事。毕竟，我们所犯的罪并非滔天大罪。如果我们只是说了一些小谎或做出一点欺骗，又有什么伤害呢？如果我们只是饶舌一些或只是说了几句粗鲁的话，又会伤害到谁呢？这点小罪算什么呢？

罪的严重性是在于让耶稣承担了一切。是我们的罪让耶稣承受被钉十字架的痛苦，祂被挂在十字架上，最后恐怖地死去。

当然我们无法免除已经发生的事，痛苦也无法替代。但我们必须了解，如果我们继续有意识地犯罪，就是背叛耶稣和无视祂所受的痛苦。如果我们认为将耶稣推向痛苦的一方也无所谓，就可能为所欲为。在十字架的光环下犯罪，就如同祂所承受的极度痛苦，并没有让我们领悟到罪的可怕。

罪为什么不好？看它使耶稣如何就知道。JDB


看，从祂的头、手到脚，
所流露出的都夹杂着悲伤与爱；
那种悲伤与爱有交集吗？

还是荆棘使得皇冠更丰富？Watts
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Why Is Sin So Bad?



Read:Isaiah 53:4-10
He was wounded for our transgressions. —Isaiah 53:5


Bible In One Year: Psalm 10-12

Pain. Abject, horrible, excruciating pain. Unrelenting, unbearable, unspeakable pain. With each slash across Jesus' back and with every muscle-burning step up Golgotha's hill, our Savior received the punishment for our sin.

In our let's-make-everything-okay world we often look at sin and wonder, what's the big deal? After all, our sin isn't so bad. If we lie a little or cheat just a bit—what's the harm? If we gossip some or use coarse language a few times—whom will it hurt? What's so bad about sin?

It's bad because of what it put Jesus through. Yes, our sin was the reason for the torment Jesus suffered as He made His way to the cross—and as He hung on that cross and ultimately died a horrific death.

Of course we can never undo what has been done; that pain can never be reversed. Yet we must understand that if we continue to sin knowingly, we are in effect turning our back on Jesus and His pain. It's as if we're saying that it doesn't matter to us what we put Jesus through, we're going to do what we want. To sin in the light of the cross is to tell Jesus that even His intense suffering has not taught us about the awfulness of sin.

Why is sin so bad? Look what it did to Jesus. —Dave Branon


See, from His head, His hands, His feet,
Sorrow and love flow mingled down;
Did e'er such love and sorrow meet,
Or thorns compose so rich a crown? —Watts

Jesus took our sin so that we might have His salvation.