问题50：基督的复活对我们意味着什么？
答：基督借着身体的复活，战胜了罪和死亡，使一切信靠祂的人都在今世获得新生命，并在来世获得永生。正如我们有一天要复活，这个世界有一天也会被复兴。但那些不信靠基督的人将被复活进入永死。
儿童版：基督战胜了罪和死亡，使一切信靠祂的人都在今世获得新生命，并在来世获得永生。

Question 50: What Does Christ’s Resurrection Mean for Us?
Answer: Christ triumphed over sin and death by being physically resurrected, so that all who trust in him are raised to new life in this world and to everlasting life in the world to come. Just as we will one day be resurrected, so this world will one day be restored. But those who do not trust in Christ will be raised to everlasting death.
For Kids: Christ triumphed over sin and death so that all who trust in him are raised to new life in this world and to everlasting life in the world to come.


歌谱 Lead Sheet

经文

《帖撒罗尼迦前书》4 章13 节至14 节：

　　论到睡了的人，我们不愿意弟兄们不知道，恐怕你们忧伤，像那些没有指望的人一样。我们若信耶稣死而复活了，那已经在耶稣里睡了的人，神也必将他们与耶稣一同带来。

注解

钟马田

　　到末日审判时，受造之物都将脱离败坏的辖制，得享「神儿女自由的荣耀」（罗8:21）。一切都将得着荣耀，包括自然界本身。在我看来，圣经所讲的永恒的样子似乎就是：人类活在这个被更新了的完美的世界中，这是神原本就计划好了的。我们称之为天堂。祂最初将亚当放在「天堂」里，随后亚当犯罪堕落，一切受造之物也一同堕落了。但在这个完美的世界中，男人和女人都要活在身体里，并且是以一个荣耀的身体活在一个荣耀的世界里，有神与他们同在。

默想

唐·卡森

　　耶稣基督的复活带来许多美妙的结果：首先，证明了耶稣是无罪的。有些人认为耶稣死在十字架上一定是罪有应得。罗马法庭判祂有罪，旧约本身主张凡挂在木头上的都在神的咒诅之下。但事实证明，祂不是一个因为自己的罪而死的人。相反，祂背负他人的罪孽，神如此喜悦这牺牲，所以神使祂从死里复活。因此，祂的复活是祂无罪的证明。耶稣临死前说「成了」的时候，铁证如山。神认定了，天父认定救赎之工完成了。天父通过使耶稣复活来证明祂无罪。

　　复活也体现出福音对于人实实在在的关怀。有些人认为人死后就成了虚无缥缈的灵魂，与肉体无关了。但基督教基要的真理包括新天新地，就是我们最终的归宿，是义人的居所。不会只有属天的存在，也有属世的存在。有新天，也会有新地，我们会有像基督一样复活的身体，这是《哥林多前书》15 章一个重大的论点。保罗认为，如果基督从死里带着复活的身体复活，有些地方很奇特、引人注目：复活的身体能够被触摸、与之握手、交谈、肉眼可见，祂也吃人的食物。而当我们在末后的日子复活时，我们也会有像祂一样复活的身体，这是我们最终的归宿。因此，在这世代的末了，祂的复活被称为全体复活中初熟的果子。所有人都将复活，或进入永生，或被定罪，因为我们本质上都是有血有肉的人。

　　而与这一同来到的是超越于今生的进入永生的异象。我们不应当认为基督教仅仅只是解决我们今生的问题，基督教终极的目的是超越今生的生命。当我们日渐衰老，头发一根根地掉光，得了关节炎和老年痴呆，我们都将面对衰老年岁的软弱，突然，复活对于我们来说实在是好得无比的事情。因为我们的指望不是活到七八十岁，甚至是九十岁，我们最终指望的是一个如同基督复活后的身体。祂是初熟的果子，我们已经蒙祂保守，我们也将跟随祂一起复活。我们在复活中与祂连结，住在新天新地中，那里是义人的居所。这就是为何《帖撒罗尼迦前书》4 章，这个关于复活的伟大章节，要用这样的话来作结：「你们当用这些话彼此劝慰。」

祷告

　　使人复活的神，求祢让我们牢记，死亡并不是我们的终点。救我们脱离应得的审判，使我们忠心，恳切劝人逃避祢将来的忿怒。我们在盼望中等候那将来的喜乐，就是我们借着基督的功劳得脱离忿怒，并要穿上复活的身体，治理一个更新的天地。阿们。

Scripture

1 THESSALONIANS 4:13–14

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.

Commentary

MARTYN LLOYD-JONES

The whole creation will have been delivered from the bondage of corruption and will be enjoying “the glorious liberty of the children of God” (Rom. 8:21). Everything will be glorified, even nature itself. And that seems to me to be the biblical teaching about the eternal state: that what we call heaven is life in this perfect world as God intended humanity to live it. When He put Adam in Paradise at the beginning Adam fell, and all fell with him, but men and women are meant to live in the body, and will live in a glorified body in a glorified world, and God will be with them.

Devotional

D.A. CARSON

The resurrection of Jesus Christ carries with it many, many wonderful implications. The first is that it vindicates Jesus. In other words, some people thought that if Jesus died on the cross, it could only be because he deserved it. He was declared guilty by a Roman court. And the Old Testament itself insists that anyone who hangs on a tree is under the curse of God. But as it turns out, he did not die as a damned man because of his own sin. Rather, he was bearing the sin of others, and that sacrifice so pleased God that God raised him from the dead. Thus, his resurrection is a form of vindication. It is proof positive that when Jesus said with his dying words, “It is finished,” God agreed. His Father agreed. The work of redemption had been accomplished, and the Father vindicates Jesus through the resurrection.

The resurrection also demonstrates the gospel’s concern for human beings embodied. In other words, some people think of our ultimate state as kind of ethereal spirit beings without any connection with bodies. But part of elementary, fundamental Christian truth is that in the new heaven and the new earth, the ultimate goal, the home of righteousness, there will not be just heavenly existence. It’s earthly existence. It’s a new heaven and a new earth, and we will have resurrection bodies like Christ’s. That’s one of the great arguments of 1 Corinthians 15. Paul argues that if Christ rose from the dead in a resurrection body—which, however strange in some ways and remarkable it was, could be touched and handled, could be spoken to, could be seen, and could actually eat human food—then when we, who are finally resurrected on the last day, come into that final state, we will have resurrection bodies like his resurrection body. That is our destination. So his resurrection is the firstfruit of what is often called a general resurrection at the end of the age. All human beings will be resurrected, whether to life or to condemnation, because we are essentially embodied people.

And with this comes also a vision of life and existence beyond this life. We should not think that Christianity merely sorts out some problems in our lives here. Rather, the ultimate goal is beyond this life. When we get older and more hairs fall out and arthritis kicks in, or we slink away into dementia, suddenly resurrection existence begins to look very good indeed because our hope is not to survive to seventy or eighty or even ninety. Our hope finally is a body like Christ’s resurrection body. And his is the firstfruit; ours has been secured by him, and we are coming along behind him to join him in resurrection existence: full-bodied resurrection existence in the new heaven and the new earth, the home of righteousness. That’s why 1 Thessalonians 4, the great resurrection chapter, ends with the words “Therefore encourage one another with these words.”

Prayer

Resurrecting God, make us mindful that death is not the end for us. Save us from the judgment we deserve, and make us faithful to implore others to flee from the wrath to come. We look in hope to the joy that will be ours when, saved from that wrath through the merits of Christ, we will be clothed with resurrected bodies to reign on a renewed earth. Amen.