1999国殇节
总题:新的复兴
总题:新的复兴
第四篇 过神人的生活(二)为着基督身体的实际,借着基督复活的大能,模成基督的死
Message Four Reaching the Life of a God-man— Conformed to the Death of Christ through the Power of the Resurrection of Christ for the Reality of the Body of Christ
读经:腓三10,一19~21上,罗八11,十二5,弗四12,16。
Scripture Reading: Phil. 3:10; 1:19-21a; Rom. 8:11; 12:5; Eph. 4:12, 16
壹 我们若要过神人的生活,就必须借着基督复活的大能,模成基督的死─腓三10:
I. If we would live the life of a God-man, we need to be conformed to the death of Christ by the power of His resurrection (Phil. 3:10):
一 模成基督的死,乃是以基督的死作为一个人生活的模子:
A. To be conformed to Christ's death is to take Christ's death as the mold of one's life:
1 基督之死的模子,是指基督不断的将祂人的生命治死,使祂得以凭父的生命活着的这个经历─约六57,五19,四34,十七4,五34,七18。
1. The mold of Christ's death refers to Christ's experience of continually putting to death His human life thatHemight live by the life of the Father (John 6:57; 5:19; 4:34; 17:4; 5:30; 7:18).
2 这样的生活原初只在一个人耶稣基督身上,但如今这种生活应当在许多蒙救赎并得重生,现今里面有神圣生命的信徒身上,一再的重复并复制─加二20:
2. Such a life was there originally just in an individual man, Jesus Christ, but now this life should be repeated, reproduced in many believers who have been redeemed and regenerated and who now possess the divine life within them (Gal. 2:20):
a 我们的生活应当模成基督之死的模子的形状,就是向我们人的生命死,而活神的生命─路九23,约十二25~26。
a. Our life should be conformed to the mold of Christ's death by our dying to our human life to live the divine life (Luke 9:23; John 12:25-26).
b 保罗一直过钉十字架的生活,就是在十字架下的生活,正如基督在祂为人的生活中所过的─林前十五31,林后四10~12:一 保罗跟从主耶稣的榜样,带着烙印,就是主生活的特征─加六17。二 “这是耶稣在祂被神性所丰富的人性里,再次活在地上!这是从前活在福音书里那奇妙、超绝、奥秘的神人,借着祂许多肢体中的一个,在使徒行传里继续活着。”(徒二八9注1。)─引用经文
b. Paul lived a crucified life continually, a life under the cross, just as Christ did in His human living (1 Cor. 15:31; 2 Cor. 4:10-12): (1) Paul followed the pattern of the Lord Jesus, bearing the brands, the characteristics of His life (Gal. 6:17). (2) "This was Jesus living again on the earth in His divinely enriched humanity! This was the wonderful, excellent, and mysterious God-man,who lived in the Gospels, continuing to live in the Acts through one of His many members!" (note 1, Acts 28:9).
3 基督的死是模子,我们是“面团”:
3. The death of Christ is the mold, and we are the "dough":
a 当我们得救时,我们成了由基督这细面所作成的“面团”─利二1,约十二24,林前十17。
a. When we were saved,we became "dough" made of Christ as the fine flour (Lev. 2:1; John 12:24; 1 Cor. 10:17).
b 神已经把我们都摆在基督之死的模子里,一天又一天,神一直在把我们塑造,模成这个死─罗六3~4。
b. God has put us all into the mold of Christ's death, and day by day God is molding us to conform to this death (Rom. 6:3-4).
二 我们乃是借着基督复活的大能,模成基督之死的模子的形状─腓三10,约十一25,弗一19~20,三16,歌二8~12:
B. It is by the power of Christ's resurrection that we are conformed to the mold of Christ's death (Phil. 3:10; John 11:25; Eph. 1:19-20; 3:16; S. S. 2:8-12):
1 基督复活的大能,就是使祂从死人中复活的复活能力─徒二24,弗一19~20。
1. The power of Christ's resurrection is the resurrection power which resurrected Him from among the dead (Acts 2:24; Eph. 1:19- 20).
2 我们首先接受祂复活的大能,然后借着这大能,我们以基督的死作我们生活的模子,过钉十字架的生活─腓三10:
2. We first receive the power of His resurrection and then, through this power, we live a crucified life by taking the death of Christ as the mold of our living (Phil. 3:10):
a 我们越认识基督复活的大能,就越模成祂的死;我们越模成祂的死,就越认识祂复活的大能。
a. The more we know the power of Christ's resurrection, the more we are conformed to His death, and the more we are conformed to His death, the more we know the power of His resurrection.
b 我们经历中的次序是:复活,死,复活─腓三10~11。
b. In our experience the sequence is resurrection, death, resurrection (Phil. 3:10-11).
三 这样向我们死,向神活的生活,乃是为使基督这第一个神人,得以成形在祂许多肢体,就是许多神人里面,为着建造祂生机的身体,使神的经纶得以完成─加四19,弗四12,16。
C. Such a life of dying to ourselves and living to God is for Christ, the first God-man, to be formed in His many members, the many Godmen, for the building up of His organic Body that the economy of God might be carried out (Gal. 4:19; Eph. 4:12, 16).
贰 基督身体的实际,乃是借着基督复活的大能而模成基督之死的团体生活─腓三10:
II. The reality of the Body of Christ is a corporate living of conformity to the death of Christ through the power of the resurrection of Christ (Phil. 3:10):
一 基督的生活乃是榜样(彼前二21),我们乃是这榜样的大量复制品─就是许多的神人,有基督的神性生命和祂在复活里拔高的人性生命。
A. The life of Christ is a model (1 Pet. 2:21), and we should be the mass reproduction of this model—the God-men who have both the divine life and the human life uplifted in Christ's resurrection.
二 当我们不凭天然的生命活着,而凭我们里面神圣的生命活着,我们就在复活里,其结果乃是基督的身体─林后一9。
B. When we live not by our natural life but by the divine life within us, we are in resurrection, and the issue of this is the Body of Christ (2 Cor. 1:9).
三 基督身体的实际,完全是在基督的复活生命里,并且要求信徒也在基督复活的生命里─罗八10,6,11,十二5:
C. The reality of the Body of Christ is absolutely in the resurrection life of Christ and requires the believers to be in the resurrection life of Christ (Rom. 8:10, 6, 11; 12:5):
1 任何合乎圣经,却是以天然的方式施行的事,都不是基督身体的实际。
1. Anything that is carried out scripturally but in a natural way is not the reality of the Body of Christ.
2 在复活里,意思是说,我们天然的生命被钉死,而我们这人里面神所造的部分,在复活里被拔高,在复活里与基督成为一。
2. To be in resurrection means that our natural life is crucified and that the Godcreated part of our being is uplifted in resurrection to be one with Christ in resurrection.
叁 基督身体的实际乃是被成全之神人所过的团体生活,他们是真正的人,但他们不凭自己的生命,乃凭经过过程的神活着;这经过过程之神的属性借着他们的美德彰显出来─加二20,腓三10,一19~21上,罗八4:
III. The reality of the Body of Christ is the corporate living by the perfected God-men, who are genuine men but are not living by their life, but by the processed God whose attributes are expressed through their virtues (Gal. 2:20; Phil. 3:10; 1:19-21a; Rom. 8:4):
一 基督身体的实际,乃是一班蒙神救赎的人被神作成神,就是神人,他们所过的生活不是凭自己,乃是凭他们里面的另一个生命─三一神经过过程并终极完成,好进入他们里面,并且以他们作祂的居所。
A. The reality of the Body of Christ is a group of God's redeemed who have been made God, the God-men, by God and who live a life not by themselves but by another life which is within them—the Triune God processed and consummated to enter into them and to take them as His dwelling place.
二 基督身体的实际,乃是许多圣徒,就是实际的神人之集大成的团体生活,他们都已经被他们里面经过过程并终极完成的神所救赎、重生、圣别并变化。
B. The reality of the Body of Christ is a corporate living which is the aggregate of many saints, actual God-men, who have been redeemed, regenerated, sanctified, and transformed by the processed and consummated God within them.
三 基督身体的实际乃是一个调和的生活:
C. The reality of the Body of Christ is a mingling living:
1 这乃是蒙重生、被变化、得荣耀的三部分神人,在基督的复活生命里,与三一神在永远联结里的调和。
1. It is the mingling in the eternal union of the regenerated, transformed, glorified tripartite God-men with the Triune God in the resurrection life of Christ.
2 “假如在我们中间有这样的生活(即使不是全部,至少也是部分),那么基督身体的实际就在我们中间了。这就是主在地方召会里之恢复的高峰,如同耶路撒冷城的锡安山。这样调和的生活作为基督身体的实际,要终极完成于新天新地里的新耶路撒冷,作神的扩增并彰显,直到永远。”(关于相调的实行,三八页。)
2. "If among us there is, if not in full at least in part, such a living, the reality of the Body of Christ is among us. This is the high peak of the recovery in the local churches like Mount Zion in the city of Jerusalem. Such a mingling living as the reality of the Body of Christ will consummate ultimately in the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and new earth as God's increase and expression for eternity" (The Practical Points concerning Blending, p. 37).