耶稣基督的生、死和复活 [这些带来了什么希望?]

在本期视频中，魏泰德牧师谈到了耶稣基督，聚焦在祂的生、死亡和复活，这是《圣经》的中心焦点，也是基督复临安息日会的第九条基本信仰。

这个信条是基督教的核心，因为基督在世上的生活，在十字架上的死亡，和荣耀的复活给了我们得救的希望。

起初，当上帝创造亚当和夏娃时，他们是完美的。不幸的是，当他们选择违背祂，罪就进入这个世界。值得感恩的是，上帝预备了一个拯救他们的计划。那就是：“我又要叫你和女人彼此为仇；你的后裔和女人的后裔也彼此为仇。女人的后裔要伤你的头；你要伤他的脚跟。”（创世记3:15）

这个美好的应许意味着上帝的儿子，耶稣基督，将来到地球，由童女所生，并承担我们人类的罪责。祂会替我们死在十字架上，为我们的罪受罚，使我们可以与上帝和好。祂承受了本属于我们的罪，把我们从罪中释放出来，让我们永远与祂生活在一起。

“在那永恒的岁月中，基督的十字架要作为得赎子民的科学与诗歌。在得了荣耀的基督身上，他们要看出被钉十字架的基督。他们永不忘记那位创造并托住无数世界的主，上帝的爱子、天庭的君王、基路伯与发光的撒拉弗所乐意尊重的神，曾屈尊虚己来救拔堕落的人类，他们永不忘记他曾担负罪的刑罚和羞辱，以至天父掩面不忍看他，直到这沦亡世界的祸患使他心碎，并在髑髅地的十字架上把他害死了。”（《善恶之争》651页）

但是在这个伟大的牺牲中，并非仅有耶稣。他与父上帝同在。约翰福音3:16“上帝爱世人，甚至将他的独生子赐给他们，叫一切信他的，不至灭亡，反得永生。”

上帝把祂儿子作为礼物赐给我们，使我们得永生。我们必须接受这份礼物，让祂改变我们的心。耶稣不仅为我们死，而且过着无罪的生活，成为我们的榜样。祂的生、死和复活救赎了我们，并向我们显明了爱的真谛。

基督复临安息日会基本信仰第9条宣称：“在基督完全顺从上帝旨意的生活中，在祂的受苦、受死与复活中，上帝为人准备了唯一的赎罪之法，使凡藉着信接受这项赎罪的人能得永生，并使全体受造之物更明白创造主无穷圣洁的爱。这项完全的赎罪，阐明了上帝律法的公义，及祂品德的恩慈，因其一面定我们的罪，一面为我们准备了赦免。基督的死是替代，也是赎罪，使人改变，也使人与上帝和好。基督的复活宣告上帝胜过了罪恶的势力，并保证那些接受救赎的人最后会战胜罪恶与死亡。它宣告耶稣基督是主。一切在天上的、地上的，在祂面前，无不屈膝。”

我们所事奉的神是多么奇妙、不可思议!他为我们提供了一条救赎之路。就如保罗所是：“死既是因一人而来，死人复活也是因一人而来。在亚当里众人都死了；照样，在基督里众人也都要复活。”（哥林多前书15:21-22）

更多这个信条的学习内容可访问网站www.adventist.org/life-death-and-resurrection-of-christ/，以及阅读怀爱伦的《历代愿望》。

作为一个呼吁，魏泰德牧师邀请你接受耶稣基督为你个人的救主。耶稣正等待着你的到来，祂要白白地饶恕那些到祂这里来的人。现在正是来就近祂的时候了。

In this episode, Pastor Ted Wilson talks about Jesus Christ. He focuses on His life, death, and resurrection, the central focus of the Scriptures and the ninth fundamental belief of the Seventh-day Adventists.

This belief is at the very heart of Christianity because Christ’s life on earth, death on the cross, and glorious resurrection give us hope of salvation.

In the beginning, when God created Adam and Eve, they were perfect. Unfortunately, when they chose to disobey Him, sin entered the world. Thankfully, God had devised a plan to save them. That is, “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel” (Genesis 3:15).

This beautiful promise signified that God the Son, Jesus Christ, would come to earth, be born of a virgin, and take on our humanity. He would die in our place, taking the penalty of our sin by dying on the cross that we could be reconciled. He suffered the condemnation that should have been ours to set us free from sin and allow us to live forever with Him.

“The cross of Christ will be the science and the song of the redeemed through all eternity. In Christ glorified they will behold Christ crucified. Never will it be forgotten that He Whose power created and upheld the unnumbered worlds through the vast realms of space, the Beloved of God, the Majesty of heaven, He Whom cherub and shining seraph delighted to adore—humbled Himself to uplift fallen man; that He bore the guilt and shame of sin, and the hiding of His Father’s face, till the woes of a lost world broke His heart and crushed out His life on Calvary’s cross” (The Great Controversy, p. 651).

But Jesus was not alone in this great sacrifice. He was with God the Father. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

God gave the gift of His Son so that we might have eternal life. We must accept this gift and allow Him to change our hearts. Not only did Jesus die for us but He also lived a sinless life that serves as an example for us to live by. His life, death, and resurrection gave us salvation and showed us what love really is.

The Seventh-day Adventist fundamental belief #9 states: “In Christ’s life of perfect obedience to God’s will, His suffering, death, and resurrection, God provided the only means of atonement for human sin, so that those who by faith accept this atonement may have eternal life, and the whole creation may better understand the infinite and holy love of the Creator. This perfect atonement vindicates the righteousness of God’s law and the graciousness of His character; for it both condemns our sin and provides for our forgiveness. The death of Christ is substitutionary and expiatory, reconciling and transforming. The bodily resurrection of Christ proclaims God’s triumph over the forces of evil, and for those who accept the atonement assures their final victory over sin and death. It declares the Lordship of Jesus Christ, before whom every knee in heaven and on earth will bow.”

What an amazing, incredible God we serve! He has provided a way for our salvation. As Paul put it, “For since by man came death, by Man (that is, Jesus) also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive” (1 Cor. 15:21, 22).

There’s so much to learn from this fundamental belief by visiting http://www.adventist.org/life-death-and-resurrection-of-christ/ and reading The Desire of Ages by Ellen G. White.

As an appeal, Pastor Wilson invites you to accept Jesus Christ as your personal Savior. Jesus is waiting for you with forgiveness freely available to all who come. Now is the time to come to Him.