2005国际华语
总题:主的恢复─生命、真理和一
总题:主的恢复─生命、真理和一
第一篇 恢复生命以完成神的定旨
Message One The Recovery of Life for the Fulfillment of God's Purpose
读经:创二9,弗四18,约壹一2,五11~12,罗八2,启二二1~2
Scripture Reading: Gen. 2:9; Eph. 4:18; 1 John 1:2; 5:11-12; Rom. 8:2; Rev. 22:1-2
壹 我们必须认识生命是什么─弗四18,启二二1~2,约十四6上,约壹一2,五12上,西三4上,罗八2上,林后三6下:
I. We need to know what life is—Eph. 4:18; Rev. 22:1-2; John 14:6a; 1 John 1:2; 5:12a; Col. 3:4a; Rom. 8:2a; 2 Cor. 3:6b:
一 生命不是热心;热心是我们虔诚的操练,而生命是基督活在我们里面─加二20上。
A. Life is not devotion; devotion is our exercise of piety, but life is Christ living in us—Gal. 2:20a.
二 生命不是好行为;好行为是我们的作为,而生命是基督从我们里面活出来─腓一21上。
B. Life is not good behavior; good behavior is our doing, but life is Christ lived out from us—Phil. 1:21a.
三 生命不是能力;能力是为着工作,而生命是为着生活─徒一8,约六57下。
C. Life is not power; power is for work, but life is for living—Acts 1:8; John 6:57b.
四 生命不是恩赐;恩赐是为着功用的才干, 而生命是在我们这人里面神圣的所是─罗十二6,约一13。
D. Life is not gift; gift is the ability for function, but life is the divine Being in our being—Rom. 12:6; John 1:13.
五 生命不是在知识上的成长;在知识上的成长是知识的增加,而生命是神的增长─西二19下。
E. Life is not the growth in knowledge; the growth in knowledge is the increase of knowledge, but life is the increase of God—Col. 2:19b.
六 生命不是我们人的生命;我们人的生命 (bios,白阿司,和psuche,朴宿克)是必死的,而生命(zoe,奏厄)是永远的─路八43下,二一4下,太十六25~26,约壹一2,诗九十2下。
F. Life is not our human life; our human life (bios and psuche) is mortal, but life (zoe) is eternal—Luke 8:43b; 21:4b; Matt. 16:25-26; 1 John 1:2; Psa. 90:2b.
七 生命是神的内容和神的流出;神的内容是神的所是,神的流出是祂自己作生命分赐给我们─弗四18下,启二二1。
G. Life is God's content and God's flowing out; God's content is God's being, and God's flowing out is the impartation of Himself as life to us—Eph. 4:18a; Rev. 22:1.
八 生命就是基督;基督是那是生命之神的具体化身,是神的彰显─西二9,约一18,来一3上。
H. Life is Christ; Christ is the embodiment of God, who is life, and Christ is the expression of God—John 14:6a; Col. 3:4a; 1 John 5:12a; Col. 2:9; John 1:18; Heb. 1:3a.
九 生命就是圣灵;圣灵是基督的实际,是那叫我们活的生命之灵─约十四16~17,林前十五45下,罗八2上,林后三6下。
I. Life is the Holy Spirit; the Holy Spirit is the reality of Christ and is the Spirit of life who gives life to us—John 14:16-17; 1 Cor. 15:45b; Rom. 8:2a; 2 Cor. 3:6b.
贰 生命是神首要且基本的属性─弗四18:
II. Life is the first and basic attribute of God—Eph. 4:18:
一 在神看来,惟有祂的生命是生命,惟有祂的生命才算是生命;因此,新约里提到神的生命,就把它看作惟一的生命─约一4,十10,十一25,十四6上,约壹五20下。
A. In the sight of God, only the life of God is life, and only His life can be counted as life; therefore, when the life of God is mentioned in the New Testament, it is treated as if it is the unique life—John 1:4; 10:10; 11:25; 14:6a; 1 John 5:20b.
二 神的生命是永远的,就是非受造的,无始无终,自有永有,永不改变─约三15,约壹一2,二25,五11。
B. The life of God is eternal; that is, it is uncreated, without beginning or ending, self-existing, ever-existing, and unchanging—John 3:15; 1 John 1:2; 2:25; 5:11.
三 神造人的心意是要人有分于生命树的果子,借此接受神永远的生命─创二7,9。
C. God's intention in His creation of man was that man would partake of the fruit of the tree of life and thereby receive the eternal life of God—Gen. 2:7, 9.
叁 生命乃是三一神分赐到我们里面,并活在我们里面─罗八2,10,6,11:
III. Life is the Triune God dispensed into us and living in us—Rom. 8:2, 10, 6, 11:
一 父神是生命的源头─约五26。
A. God the Father is the source of life—John 5:26.
二 子神是生命的具体化身─一4,约壹五11~12。
B. God the Son is the embodiment of life—1:4; 1 John 5:11-12.
三 灵神是生命的涌流─启二二1。
C. God the Spirit is the flow of life—Rev. 22:1.
四 身体是生命的丰满─弗一22下~23。
D. The Body is the fullness of life—Eph. 1:22b-23.
五 身体的建造乃是生命的长大─四16,西二19。
E. The building up of the Body is the growth of life—4:16; Col. 2:19.
六 新耶路撒冷乃是生命的城─启二二1~2,5。
F. The New Jerusalem is the city of life—Rev. 22:1-2, 5.
肆 生命乃是达成神定旨的路;神的愿望是要人在祂的形像上彰显祂,并有祂的管治权在祂里面施行管治,这愿望惟有借着神的生命才能实现─创一26,二9:
IV. Life is the way to fulfill God's purpose; God's desire for man to express Him in His image and rule in Him with His dominion can be realized only by God's life—Gen. 1:26; 2:9:
一 生命将信徒模成神长子的形像,并将我们带进荣耀里─罗八2,6,29~30,西三4。
A. Life conforms the believers to the image of the firstborn Son of God and brings us into glory—Rom. 8:2, 6, 29-30; Col. 3:4.
二 复活的生命赋与权柄─民十七8,启二十4。
B. Resurrection life gives authority—Num. 17:8; Rev. 20:4.
伍 主中心的恢复乃是要恢复我们里面神圣的生命,使神得着祂团体的彰显─罗八2,10,6,11,十二4~5:
V. The central recovery of the Lord is to recover the divine life within us that God may have His corporate expression—Rom. 8:2, 10, 6, 11; 12:4-5:
一 基督教堕落的时候,就把生命的事失去了─弗四18:
A. In the degradation of Christianity, the matter of life has been lost—Eph. 4:18:
1 没有神圣的生命,就不可能有神的彰显─创一26,二9。
1. Without the divine life there cannot be the expression of God—Gen. 1:26; 2:9.
2 我们在这里乃是为着恢复神圣的生命,使三一神得着团体的彰显─约一4,十10下,十一25,十四6,十七22。
2. We are here for the recovery of the divine life for the corporate expression of the Triune God—John 1:4; 10:10b; 11:25; 14:6; 17:22.
二 主乃是在恢复基督作我们的生命和一切,以及召会作祂的身体,祂的丰满─西三4上,二19。
B. The Lord is recovering Christ as life and everything to us and the church as His Body, His fullness—Col. 3:4a; 2:19.
三 主的恢复不是运动,乃是基督自己这生命的种子撒在我们全人里面─太十三3~4,19:
C. The Lord's recovery is not a movement; the recovery is Christ Himself as the seed of life sown into our being—Matt. 13:3-4, 19:
1 神的国乃是三一神成为肉体,种到祂所拣选的人里面,并在他们里面生长,发展成为国度─可四26~29。
1. The kingdom of God is the Triune God in His incarnation sown into His chosen people to grow and develop in them into a kingdom—Mark 4:26-29.
2 国度是基督的扩大,是基督这生命的种子撒在我们里面的繁增─路十七20~21,八5~8。
2. The kingdom is the enlargement of Christ, the multiplication of Christ as the seed of life sown into us—Luke 17:20-21; 8:5-8.
四 主要恢复召会回到起初─回到吃生命树─创二9,启二7,二二14。
D. The Lord wants to recover the church back to the beginning—back to the eating of the tree of life—Gen. 2:9; Rev. 2:7; 22:14.