2003夏季训练
总题:哥林多后书结晶读经
第七篇 靠着瓦器里宝贝超越的能力,活出钉死的生活,彰显复活的生命
Message Seven Living a Crucified Life for the Manifestation of the Resurrection Life by the Excellent Power of the Treasure in the Earthen Vessels
读经:林后四7~18
Scripture Reading: 2 Cor. 4:7-18
壹 林后三章和四章,是保罗属灵构成之准确而宝贵的记载:
I. Second Corinthians 3 and 4 are an accurate and precious record of Paul's spiritual constitution:
一 使徒们所供应的,乃是他们的构成;他们供应他们所是的,他们所成为的─参腓一20~21上。
A. What the apostles ministered was their constitution; they ministered what they were, what they had become—cf. Phil. 1:20-21a.
二 这意思是说,他们重新构成的所是成为他们的职事 ─参徒二十18。
B. This means that their reconstituted being became their ministry—cf. Acts 20:18.
贰 内住的基督,作为我们这些瓦器里的宝贝,乃是基督徒生活神圣供应的源头和超越的能力,使我们能过钉十字架的生活,使复活的生命得以显明─林后四7,腓四13:
II. The indwelling Christ as the treasure in us, the earthen vessels, is the divine source of the supply for the Christian life and the excellent power for us to live a crucified life for the manifestation of the resurrection life—2 Cor. 4:7; Phil. 4:13:
一 保罗说他和他的同工“被压太重,力不能胜,甚至连活命的指望都绝了,…叫我们不信靠自己,只信靠那叫死人复活的神”─林后一8~9。
A. Paul said that he and his co-workers "were excessively burdened, beyond our power, so that we despaired even of living…that we should not base our conf idence on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead"—2 Cor. 1:8-9.
二 事实上,需要有死亡、灰心、失望,复活才得以彰显出来─4节,七5~6。
B. Actually, resurrection requires death, discouragement, and disappointment in order to be manifested—v. 4; 7:5-6.
三 十字架的工作了结我们的己,使我们对复活的神有享受;这样的经历产生并形成职事─一4~6。
C. The working of the cross terminates our self that we may enjoy the God of resurrection; such experience produces and forms the ministry—1:4-6.
叁 使徒们在十字架的杀死下,活出复活的生命,为着完成他们的职事:
III. The apostles lived the resurrection life under the killing of the cross, for the carrying out of their ministry:
一 “身体上常带着耶稣的治死,使耶稣的生命也显明在我们的身体上”─四10:
A. "Always bearing about in the body the putting to death of Jesus that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body"—4:10:
1 就积极一面意义说,耶稣一直在杀死我们里面一切消极的事物,为要医治并点活我们─腓一19,参出三十23~25。
1. Jesus, in a positive sense, is always killing all the negative things within us in order to heal and enliven us—Phil 1:19; cf. Exo. 30:23-25.
2 我们早晨拒绝己并接受神到我们里面,一天当中就感觉到,有一个杀死的过程在我们里面进行着─参箴四18。
2. When we reject ourselves in the morning to receive God into us, we have the sense during the day that a killing process is going on within us—cf. Prov. 4:18.
二 “因为我们这活着的人,是常为耶稣被交于死,使耶稣的生命,也在我们这必死的肉身上显明出来”─林后四11:
B. "For we who are alive are always being delivered unto death for Jesus' sake that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal f lesh"—2 Cor. 4:11:
1 十字架的杀死,结果叫复活的生命显明;这种日常的杀死,是要在复活里释放出神的生命─林前十五31,林后四16。
1. The killing of the cross results in the manifestation of the resurrection life; this daily killing is for the release of the divine life in resurrection—1 Cor. 15:31; 2 Cor. 4:16.
2 耶稣的名称,含示使徒所过的生活,和主耶稣在地上所过的一样。主的生活是在十字架的杀死之下,使复活生命显明的生活;这样的生活,使主自己与祂的职事是一,祂的生活就是祂的职事─约六14~15,十二13,19,23~24。
2. The title Jesus implies that the apostles lived a life like the one the Lord Jesus lived on earth; the Lord's life was a life under the killing of the cross for the manifestation of the resurrection life, a life lived in such a way that His person was one with His ministry and His life was His ministry—John 6:14-15; 12:13, 19, 23-24.
三 “这样,死是在我们身上发动,生命却在你们身上发动”─林后四12:
C. "So then death operates in us, but life in you"—2 Cor. 4:12:
1 当我们在主死的杀死之下,祂复活的生命就借着我们分赐到别人里面─参书三17。
1. When we are under the killing of the Lord's death, His resurrection life is imparted through us into others—cf. Josh. 3:17.
2 产生并扩增召会的路,不是借着人的荣耀,乃是借着十字架的死,将神圣生命的火释放出来─路十二49~50,约二19,十二24~26:
2. The way for the church to come into being and to increase is not by human glory; it is by the death of the cross for the release of the f ire of the divine life—Luke 12:49-50; John 2:19; 12:24-26:
a 主像一粒麦子落在地里,借着死丧失了祂的魂生命,好在复活里释放出祂永远的生命给许多子粒。
a. The Lord, as a grain of wheat that fell into the ground, lost His soul-life through death that He might release His eternal life in resurrection to the many grains.
b 作为许多子粒,我们也必须借着死丧失我们的魂生命,好在复活里享受永远的生命。
b. As the many grains, we also must lose our soullife through death that we may enjoy eternal life in resurrection.
肆 使徒们乃是借着信心的灵,在复活里过钉十字架的生活,以完成他们的职事─林后四13,五7:
IV. It is by the spirit of faith that the apostles lived a crucified life in resurrection for the carrying out of their ministry—2 Cor. 4:13; 5:7:
一 我们必须像作诗的人,(诗一一六10上,)运用我们调和的灵,就是信心的灵,信并且说我们所经历于主的事,特别是祂的死和复活。─引用经文
A. We must exercise our mingled spirit, the spirit of faith, to believe and to speak, like the psalmist (Psa. 116:10a), the things we have experienced of the Lord, especially His death and resurrection.
二 信心不是在我们的心思里,乃是在我们那与圣灵调和的灵里;怀疑才是在我们的心思里─参来十一6。
B. Faith is in our spirit, which is mingled with the Holy Spirit, not in our mind; doubts are in our mind—cf. Heb. 11:6.
三 我们借着操练我们信心的灵,就顾念所不见永远荣耀的事,不顾念所见暂时苦楚的事─林后四18:
C. Through the exercise of our spirit of faith, we regard the unseen things of eternal glory, not the seen things of temporary aff liction—2 Cor. 4:18:
1 基督徒的生活乃是看不见之事的生活─来十一1。
1. The Christian life is a life of things unseen—Heb. 11:1.
2 主的恢复乃是将祂的召会从所见之事恢复到所不见之事─27节,彼前一8。
2. The Lord's recovery is to recover His church from things seen to things unseen—v. 27; 1 Pet. 1:8.
伍 “所以我们不丧胆,反而我们外面的人虽然在毁坏,我们里面的人却日日在更新”─林后四16:
V. "Therefore we do not lose heart; but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day"—2 Cor. 4:16:
一 外面的人是以我们的身体为其器官,以我们的魂为其生命和人位。里面的人是以我们重生的灵为其生命和人位,以我们更新的魂为其器官。
A. The outer man consists of the body as its organ with the soul as its life and person; the inner man consists of the regenerated spirit as its life and person with the renewed soul as its organ.
二 为要过钉十字架的生活,魂的生命必须被否认,(太十六24~25,)但魂的功用─心思、意志、情感,必须借着被征服,(林后十4~5,)得着更新并提高,而为灵所用;灵乃是里面之人的人位。─引用经文
B. In order to live a crucif ied life, the life of the soul must be denied (Matt. 16:24-25), but the functions of the soul—the mind, will, and emotion—must be renewed and uplifted by being subdued (2 Cor. 10:4-5) so that they can be used by the spirit, the person of the inner man.
三 我们外面的人,渐渐销毁磨损;但我们里面的人因复活生命新鲜的供应得着滋养,而日日在更新:
C. Our outer man is being consumed and worn out, but our inner man is being daily renewed by being nourished with the fresh supply of the resurrection life:
1 基督徒的生活乃是借着受苦的过程,日日被神的元素更新的生活─帖前三3,耶四八11:
1. The Christian life is a life of being renewed day by day with the divine element through the process of sufferings—1 Thes. 3:3; Jer. 48:11:
a 我们凭着十字架、圣灵、我们调和的灵、以及神的话得更新─林后四10,多三5,弗四23,五26。
a. We are renewed by the cross, the Holy Spirit, our mingled spirit, and the word of God—2 Cor. 4:10; Titus 3:5; Eph. 4:23; 5:26.
b 我们需要每早晨得复兴─太十三43,箴四18。
b. We need to be revived every morning—Matt. 13:43; Prov. 4:18.
c 我们该借着赦免人和寻求得赦免,而在新样的原则里来赴主的筵席─太二六29,五23~24,十八21~22,35。
c. We should come to the Lord's table in the principle of newness by forgiving others and seeking to be forgiven—Matt. 26:29; 5:23-24; 18:21-22, 35.
2 “我们这短暂轻微的苦楚,要极尽超越的为我们成就永远重大的荣耀”─林后四17:
2. "Our momentary lightness of aff liction works out for us, more and more surpassingly, an eternal weight of glory"—2 Cor. 4:17:
a 神所分派给我们的一切苦难只有一个目的,就是要更新我们;我们今天是在得更新,以成为新耶路撒冷的过程里─启二一2。
a. All the sufferings God has assigned to us have one unique purpose—to renew us; today we are in the process of being renewed to become the New Jerusalem—Rev. 21:2.
b 这重大的荣耀要成为妆饰好之新妇的荣美─11节。
b. The weight of glory will become the beauty of the adorned bride—v. 11.