1998感恩节
总题:持守身体的原则
第二篇 身体的原则(一)
Message Two The Principles of the Body (1)
读经:罗十二4~5,林前十二12~13,弗四3~6,西三4,10~11。
Scripture Reading: Rom. 12:4-5; 1 Cor. 12:12-13; Eph. 4:3-6; Col. 3:4, 10-11
壹 身体是一个─罗十二4~5,林前十二12~13,弗四4上,二16下:
I. The Body is one—Rom. 12:4-5; 1 Cor. 12:12-13; Eph. 4:4a; 2:16a:
一 主的恢复乃是恢复基督身体的一:
A. The Lord's recovery is the recovery of the oneness of the Body of Christ:
1 基督的身体只能在一里存在并生存。
1. The Body can exist and survive only in oneness.
2 主的负担是要恢复基督身体的一。
2. The Lord is burdened to recover the oneness of the Body of Christ.
3 这个一的实行已经失去了,但我们这些相当少数的圣徒,盼望满足主的心,恢复这个一。
3. The practice of this oneness has been lost, but we are a relatively small number of saints who wish to satisfy the Lord's heart to recover this oneness.
二 基督身体真正的一,乃是经过过程并终极完成的三一神,祂将祂自己与信徒调和─弗四4~6:
B. The genuine oneness of the Body is the processed and consummated Triune God, who mingles Himself with the believers—Eph. 4:4-6:
1 经过过程并终极完成的三一神将祂自己与祂所拣选并救赎的人,在他们的人性里与他们调和,这调和就是基督身体真正的一。
1. The processed and consummated Triune God mingles Himself with His chosen and redeemed people in their humanity, and this mingling is the genuine oneness of the Body of Christ.
2 因为基督的身体是这样的一个调和,这身体本身就是一。
2. Because the Body is such a mingling, the Body itself is the oneness.
三 基督身体的一,就是神圣三一的一;因此,基督身体的一乃是神圣的三一那扩大的─约十七21,23。
C. The oneness of the Body of Christ is the oneness of the Divine Trinity; hence, the oneness of the Body of Christ is the enlarged oneness of the Divine Trinity—John 17:21, 23.
四 基督身体的一是神圣的,也是神圣而生机的,满了生命。
D. The oneness of the Body of Christ is divine, and it is divinely organic, full of life.
五 我们是召会,要成为基督的身体,不是借着组织,乃是借着被我们里面作为一的三一神所点活、重生而活过来。
E. We are the church to be the Body of Christ not by being organized but by being enlivened, regenerated, and made alive with the Triune God as the oneness within us.
六 基督身体生机的一,乃是那灵的一─弗四3:
F. The organic oneness of the Body of Christ is the oneness of the Spirit—Eph. 4:3:
1 那灵是基督生机身体的素质。
1. The Spirit is the essence of the organic Body of Christ.
2 那灵是基督身体的一的实际;这一其实就是那灵自己。
2. The Spirit is the reality of the oneness of the Body of Christ; this oneness is actually the Spirit Himself.
七 众地方召会在宇宙一面,在道理上和实际上,都该是一个身体。
G. All the local churches are and should be one Body universally, doctrinally, and practically.
八 要保守基督宇宙身体的一,相调是最有帮助的─林前十二24下。
H. Blending is the most helpful thing in keeping the oneness of the universal Body of Christ—1 Cor. 12:24b.
九 保守一乃是基督徒行事为人主要的美德─弗四1~3。
I. The keeping of the oneness is the primary virtue of our Christian walk—Eph. 4:1-3.
贰 召会作基督的身体,完全是生命的事─约十七2,约壹五11~12,西三4:
II. The church as the Body of Christ is absolutely a matter of life—John 17:2; 1 John 5:11-12; Col. 3:4:
一 基督的身体,是由那在我们每一个人里面作生命、并与我们调和的基督所形成的─西三4,罗八10,6,11。
A. The Body is formed by Christ as life in each of us, mingled with us—Col. 3:4; Rom. 8:10, 6, 11.
二 我们每一个人里面的生命,不是肢体的生命,乃是身体的生命─罗十二4,弗五30。
B. The life in each of us is not a member life but a Body life—Rom. 12:4; Eph. 5:30.
三 我们里面的神圣生命,要求我们与所有其他的肢体有交通,并与他们联结─徒二42,约壹一3。
C. The divine life within us requires us to have fellowship with all the other members and be joined with them—Acts 2:42; 1 John 1:3.
四 神圣的生命带我们进入交通,并带我们进入联结一起的经历。
D. The divine life brings us into fellowship and into the experience of being joined together.
五 基督身体的一,乃是三一神在祂神圣的生命里,并借着祂神圣的生命而有的彰显。
E. The oneness of the Body of Christ is the expression of the Triune God in and by His divine life.
六 在身体里的一,乃是在神圣生命里生机的一,我们必须顾到这生命。
F. The oneness in the Body is an organic oneness in the divine life, and we must care for this life.
七 基督的身体是一个生机体,借着神圣生命的长大而建造起来─弗四16,西二19。
G. The Body of Christ is an organism built up by the growth of the divine life—Eph. 4:16; Col. 2:19.
叁 基督的身体既然就是基督,我们若要在身体里,就必须被作成基督─林前十二12,西三10~11:
III. Since the Body of Christ is Christ, if we would be in the Body, we must be made Christ—1 Cor. 12:12; Col. 3:10-11:
一 我们在基督里是一个身体,与祂有生机的联结─罗十二5。
A. We are one Body in Christ, having an organic union with Him—Rom. 12:5.
二 在身体里,基督是一切又在一切之内─西三10~11。
B. In the Body Christ is all and in all—Col. 3:10-11.
三 召会作基督的身体,乃是出于基督并与基督是一─创二22~23,弗五23~32。
C. The church as the Body of Christ comes out of Christ and is one with Christ—Gen. 2:22-23; Eph. 5:23-32.
四 在信徒里面只有一样东西能形成基督身体的一部分,那就是基督。
D. There is only one thing in a believer that forms a part of the Body of Christ—Christ.
五 身体乃是团体的基督─林前十二12:
E. The Body is the corporate Christ—1 Cor. 12:12:
1 基督与召会乃是一个奥秘,不仅包括基督自己,也包括身体的肢体,他们是基督的肢体,基督的许多部分,有基督作到他们里面。
1. Christ and the church are one mysterious, corporate Christ—the Body-Christ.
2 团体的基督,身体基督,不仅包括基督自己,也包括身体的肢体,他们是基督的肢体,基督的许多部分,有基督作到他们里面。
2. The corporate Christ, the Body-Christ, includes not only Christ Himself but also the members of the Body, who are the members of Christ, parts of Christ, having Christ wrought into their being.
六 神正在以基督构成我们,使我们能在实际上并在实行上成为基督的身体。
F. God is constituting us with Christ so that we can become the Body of Christ in reality and practicality.