2000秋季长老
总题：完成神命定之路以建造基督生机身体所需要的真理、生活与工作
第六篇　基督的身体，神的国，以及地方召会的实行
Message Six The Body of Christ, the Kingdom of God, and the Practice of the Local Churches
读经：罗十二4~5，十四17，十六1~5上，16下，23
Scripture Reading: Rom. 12:4-5; 14:17; 16:1-5a, 16b, 23
壹　罗马四章为十二至十六章立下根基，在这末了五章，我们看见实行的身体生活、召会生活、和国度生活：
I.　Romans 4 lays the foundation for Romans 12—16, where we see the practical Body life, church life, and kingdom life:
一　称义使亚伯拉罕和他所有信的后裔能承受世界，并在地上施行神的管治权─四13。
A.　Justification enables Abraham and all his believing heirs to inherit the world and to exercise the dominion of God on earth—4:13.
二　神称义的目的，是要在无数的圣徒里面得着基督的复制，他们成了基督身体的肢体─十二4~5：
B.　The purpose of God's justification is to have a reproduction of Christ in millions of saints, who become the members of His Body—12:4-5:
1　这身体就成为神在地上的国─十四17。
1.　The Body then becomes the kingdom of God on earth—14:17.
2　所有的地方召会，乃是基督的身体作神国的彰显。
2.　All the local churches are expressions of the Body of Christ as the kingdom of God.
贰　基督的身体─罗十二4~5：
II.　The Body of Christ—Rom. 12:4-5:
一　基督徒生活的焦点、中心乃是基督的身体，这是神启示的高点，也是神不断工作的终极项目。
A.　The focus, the center, of the Christian life is the Body, which is the high point of God's revelation and the ultimate item of God's continual working.
二　罗马十二章是由生机的联结、联结的生命这个角度来论到基督的身体，这个生命不但把我们与基督联结在一起，也把我们与基督所有的肢体联结在一起─4~5节：
B.　Romans 12 speaks of the Body from the angle of the organic union, from the uniting life, from a life that unites us together, not only with Christ but with all the other members of Christ—vv. 4-5:
1　我们是在基督里的一个身体，与祂有生机的联结：
1.　We are one Body in Christ, having an organic union with Him:
a　这联结使我们在生命上与基督是一，并与祂身体上所有的肢体是一。
a.　This union makes us one in life with Christ and with all the other members of His Body.
b　身体不是一种组织，也不是一种社团，而完全是一个生机体，由我们在基督里有了生命的联结所产生的。
b.　The Body is not an organization or a society but is altogether an organism produced by the union in life that we have in Christ.
2　正确而生机的在身体里，意思是我们必须生机的与基督有联结：
2.　To be properly organic in the Body means that we must be organically united with Christ:
a　身体乃是在与基督生机的联结里合在一起的东西。
a.　The Body is something that is held together in the organic union with Christ.
b　身体的实际就是留在与基督生机的联结里。
b.　The actuality of the Body is the remaining in the organic union with Christ.
三　我们必须借着操练我们全人的三部分，来领略并实行身体生活─1~2，11节：
C.　We need to realize and practice the Body life by having all three parts of our being exercised—vv. 1-2, 11:
1　我们必须将身体献上，当作活祭─1节。
1.　We need to present our bodies a living sacrifice—v. 1.
2　我们必须借着心思的更新，使我们的魂变化─2节。
2.　We need to have our soul transformed by the renewing of our mind—v. 2.
3　我们必须灵里火热─11节。
3.　We need to be burning in spirit—v. 11.
四　我们若没有与基督有生机的联结，没有将身体献上，没有借着心思更新而使魂变化，也没有灵里火热，那么实际的说，我们乃是在基督身体之外，与基督的身体是分开的。
D.　If we do not have the organic union with Christ, and if we do not have our body offered, our soul transformed by the renewing of the mind, and our spirit burning, then, practically speaking, we are outside of the Body and apart from the Body.
叁　神的国─罗十四17：
III.　The kingdom of God—Rom. 14:17:
一　罗马十四章十七节证明，在召会时代，召会乃是神的国：
A.　Romans 14:17 proves that the church in the church age is the kingdom of God:
1　神的国乃是神掌权的范围，使祂能彰显祂的荣耀，以完成祂的定旨。
1.　The kingdom of God is the sphere in which God exercises His authority so that He may express His glory for the fulfillment of His purpose.
2　召会生活的实际就是国度的生活─太五~七。
2.　The reality of the church life is the kingdom life—Matt. 5—7.
二　罗马十四章十七节在三件事上，给了我们国度生活实际的精粹：
B.　Romans 14:17 gives us an extract of the reality of the kingdom life in three items:
1　对自己公义：
1.　Righteousness toward ourselves:
a　饥渴慕义的人，以及为义受逼迫的人有福了─太五6，10。
a.　Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness and those who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness are blessed—Matt. 5:6, 10.
b　我们要进诸天的国，就必须有超凡的义─20节
b.　In order to enter into the kingdom of the heavens, we need a surpassing righteousness—v. 20.
2　对人和平：
2.　Peace toward others:
a　我们的父是平安的神（或，和平的神），有和平的生命与和平的性情─罗十五33，十六20。
a.　Our Father is the God of peace, having a peaceful life with a peaceful nature—Rom. 15:33; 16:20.
b　国度之子，神的众子，乃是制造和平的人─太五9。
b.　The sons of the kingdom, the sons of God, are makers of peace— Matt. 5:9.
3　与神一同喜乐：
3.　Joy with God:
a　当人辱骂我们，逼迫我们，我们就有福了;这样的事发生，我们就要欢喜快乐─11~12节。
a.　We are blessed when others reproach and persecute us, and when this happens we are to rejoice and be glad—vv. 11-12.
b　这喜乐乃是在圣灵里的─罗十四17。
b.　This joy is in the Holy Spirit—Rom. 14:17.
肆　地方召会的实行─罗十六1~5上，9，16下，23：
IV.　The practice of the local churches—Rom. 16:1-5a, 9, 16b, 23:
一　罗马书开始于耶稣基督被标出为神的儿子，好大量复制出神的许多儿子作基督身体的肢体;罗马书结束于地方召会的实行，在许多地方作基督身体的彰显─一3~4，八29，十二4~5，十六1，16下。
A.　Romans begins with the designation of Jesus Christ to be the Son of God for the mass reproduction of the many sons of God as the members of the Body of Christ, and Romans ends with the practice of the local churches as the expression of the Body of Christ in many localities—1:3-4; 8:29; 12:4-5; 16:1, 16b.
二　地方召会是基督身体实际的彰显;神彰显在基督里，基督彰显在身体里，身体彰显在地方召会里─十二4~5，十六1，16下。
B.　The local churches are the practical expression of the Body of Christ; God is expressed in Christ, Christ is expressed in the Body, and the Body is expressed in the local churches—12:4-5; 16:1, 16b.
三　在罗马十六章所记载保罗的问安里，祂揭示出在某一地方召会里，以及在众召会之间，正确召会生活的重要指标：
C.　In his greetings recorded in Romans 16, Paul unveiled some crucial indicators of the proper church life both in a particular local church and among the churches:
1　服事召会─1~2节。
1.　Serving the church—vv. 1-2.
2　为着召会将我们的性命置于度外─3~4节。
2.　Risking our lives for the church—vv. 3-4.
3　在我们家中有召会─5节上。
3.　Having the church in our home—v. 5a.
4　绝不把召会看作是任何一个人的召会，而承认召会乃是基督的召会─16节下。
4.　Never considering the church as anyone's church but acknowledging that it is the church of Christ—v. 16b.
5　接待召会中的每一个人，也接待众召会─23节。
5.　Extending hospitality to everyone in the church and being a host to all the churches—v. 23.
四　我们必须受身体异象的支配，并跟随保罗的脚踪，（祂领头在众圣徒中间和众召会之间有关切的交通，）将众召会中的众圣徒，带到基督身体全体的相调生活中─1~23节。
D.　We must be governed by the vision of the Body and follow in the footsteps of Paul (who took the lead in the fellowship of concern among the saints and between the churches), by bringing all the saints in all the churches into the blending life of the entire Body of Christ—vv. 1-23.