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We owed a debt we could not pay, but Jesus paid the debt He did not owe.
我们欠了无法还清的罪债，无罪的耶稣替我们全付清。
You were dead in your transgressions and sins. Ephesians 2:1
你们死在过犯罪恶之中，祂叫你们活过来。-以弗所书2章1节
As a young man, my dad was traveling with a group of friends to an out-of-town sporting event when the tires of their car slipped on the rain-soaked roads. They had an accident—a bad accident. One of his friends was paralyzed and another was killed. My dad was declared dead and taken to the morgue. His shocked and grief-stricken parents came to identify him. But my dad revived from what turned out to be a deep coma. Their mourning turned to joy.
我父亲年轻的时候，曾与朋友们开车到外地参加一个体育活动。在路程中，车子却因雨天路滑而失控，酿成严重车祸。同行的友人中，有一位瘫痪，一位不幸丧命。我父亲则是被宣告不治，并被送到太平间。那时，我的祖父母在惊吓与哀伤中前去认尸，但我父亲却从重度昏迷中甦醒过来。祖父母的哀痛顿时变成了喜乐。
In Ephesians 2, the apostle Paul reminds us that apart from Christ we are “dead in [our] transgressions and sins” (v. 1). But because of His great love for us, “God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions” (vv. 4–5). Through Christ we have been brought from death to life.
在以弗所书2章，使徒保罗提醒我们，若是没有基督，我们便会“死在[我们的]过犯罪恶之中”（1节）。但上帝“既有丰富的怜悯，因祂爱我们的大爱，当我们死在过犯中的时候，便叫我们与基督一同活过来”（4-5节）。藉由基督，我们已经出死入生了。
So in every sense, we all owe our life to the Father in heaven. Through His great love, He has made it possible for those of us who were dead in sin to have life and purpose through His Son.
事实上，我们的生命是属于天父的。我们本应死在罪恶之中，但因着上帝对我们的大爱，使我们能藉由圣子耶稣，而拥有新的生命与目标。
Thank You, Father, for love that conquers sin, life that conquers death, and grace that has conquered my heart. May my life be a sweet aroma of praise to You.
天父，感谢祢，因爱胜过罪恶、
生命胜过死亡、恩典胜过我心。
愿我的生命成为甜美的馨香来赞美祢。
Ephesians 2:1-10New International Version (NIV)
2 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time,gratifying the cravings of our flesh[a] and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace,expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
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