2005冬季训练
总题:神的建造结晶读经
第三篇 生命与建造
Message Three Life and Building
读经:约十一25,十四2,罗八2,十二4~5,林前三6,9
Scripture Reading: John 11:25; 14:2; Rom. 8:2; 12:4-5; 1 Cor. 3:6, 9
壹 生命与建造是圣经基本且中心的启示:
I. Life and building are the basic and central revelation of the Bible:
一 生命是为建造,建造是本于生命─约十一25,十四2,林前三6,9:
A. Life is for building, and the building is of life—John 11:25; 14:2; 1 Cor. 3:6, 9.
1 生命是内容,建造是这内容的团体彰显。
1. Life is the content, and building is the corporate expression of the content.
2 神的目标是建造;生命是神得着建造的手续,并且生命维持建造─启二一2~3,9~10,二二1~2。
2. God's goal is the building; life is the procedure by which God obtains the building, and life maintains the building—Rev. 21:2-3, 9-10; 22:1-2.
3 生命是神自己,建造是三一神作生命在团体身体里的彰显─罗八2,6,10~11,十二4~5。
3. Life is God Himself, and building is the expression of the Triune God as life in a corporate Body—Rom. 8:2, 6, 10-11; 12:4-5.
二 主的恢复乃是恢复生命与建造,使我们被建造成为基督的身体─八2,十二4~5,林前十五45下,十二12,27,西三4,15,二19。
B. The Lord's recovery is the recovery of life and building for us to be built up as the Body—Rom. 8:2; 12:4-5; 1 Cor. 15:45b; 12:12, 27; Col. 3:4, 15; 2:19.
三 圣经中神圣启示的核仁乃是,神造了我们并救赎我们,目的是要把祂自己作到我们里面,作我们的生命,使祂得着团体的彰显─弗一7,二5,8,21~22,三16~21。
C. The kernel of the divine revelation in the Scriptures is that God created us and redeemed us for the purpose of working Himself into us to be our life for His corporate expression—Eph. 1:7; 2:5, 8, 21-22; 3:16-21.
贰 我们需要看见雅歌中所描绘的生命与建造:
II. We need to see life and building as portrayed in Song of Songs:
一 基督的佳偶借着活在基督的升天里,作复活里的新造,而在基督生命的丰富里成熟,使她成为神的建造及其保障,就是圣城─六4上,参创二8~12,18~24。
A. Through her living in Christ's ascension in resurrection, the lover of Christ becomes mature in the riches of the life of Christ so that she becomes the building of God and its safeguard, the holy city—6:4a; cf. Gen. 2:8-12, 18-24.
二 我们借着有分于雅歌所启示神圣罗曼史的四个阶段,得以成为神的居所,就是祂的圣所,至圣所─一2~3,二14,四8,六4,启二一9~10,16。
B. We become God's dwelling place, His sanctuary, the Holy of Holies, by participating in the four stages of the divine romance revealed in Song of Songs—1:2-3; 2:14; 4:8; 6:4; Rev. 21:9-10, 16.
三 成为神的圣所,乃是凭着基督的生命及其追测不尽的丰富而长大成熟,因而被建造(与基督身体的建造有关)─弗四12~16:
C. To become the sanctuary of God is to be built up (related to the building up of the Body of Christ) in the growth in the life of Christ with its unsearchable riches unto maturity—Eph. 4:12-16:
1 在旧约里,神的建造是由得撒和耶路撒冷所预表;在新约里,这建造乃是基督生机的身体─16节。
1. In the Old Testament the building of God is typified by Tirzah and Jerusalem; in the New Testament this building is the organic Body of Christ—v. 16.
2 至终,基督生机身体(也是基督的妻子─五25~32)的建造,要终极完成圣城新耶路撒冷,作至圣所的终极完成,就是神与祂赎民在永世里相互的住处─启二一2~3,16,22。
2. Ultimately, this building up of the organic Body of Christ, which is also Christ's wife (5:25-32), will consummate the New Jerusalem, the holy city as the consummation of the Holy of Holies, the mutual dwelling of God and His redeemed in eternity—Rev. 21:2-3, 16, 22.
四 借着十字架的对付,我们成为神的圣所;这圣所乃是至圣所,就是神自己─歌六4上:
D. Through the dealing of the cross, we become the sanctuary of God; this sanctuary is the Holiest of all, which is God Himself—S. S. 6:4a:
1 我们进到至圣所里面,就是进到神里面而成为圣所,也就是说,我们在生命和性情上成为神─来十19~20。
1. When we enter into the Holiest of all, we enter into God and become the sanctuary, that is, we become God in life and nature—Heb. 10:19-20.
2 约翰十四章二十三节和以弗所三章十七节证明,我们所追求的神正在使我们成为祂的复本;神使我们成为祂的复本,意思是使我们成为祂的居所,祂的至圣所─启二一16。
2. John 14:23 and Ephesians 3:17 prove that the God whom we are pursuing is making us His duplication; for God to make us His duplication means that He makes us His dwelling place, His Holy of Holies—Rev. 21:16.
3 爱基督的人至终要在生命和性情上(但不在神格上)成为神的复本;这是神成为人,为要使人成为神这神圣启示之高峰的应验。
3. The lovers of Christ eventually become duplications of God in life and nature but not in the Godhead; this is the fulfillment of God becoming man that man might become God—the high peak of the divine revelation.
叁 我们需要看见约翰福音中所启示的生命与建造:
III. We need to see life and building as revealed in the Gospel of John:
一 约翰福音启示,三一神正在将祂自己作为生命分赐到信徒里面,并且信徒由于这分赐的结果,成为神的建造,就是祂的扩展、扩大、和团体的彰显─一4,十10下,十一25,十四2~3,6。
A. The Gospel of John reveals that the Triune God is dispensing Himself as life into His believers and that the believers, as the result of this dispensing, become the building of God, His expansion, enlargement, and corporate expression—John 1:4; 10:10b; 11:25; 14:2-3, 6.
二 石头的意义,乃指一种变化的工作,为着神的建造─伯特利,神的家─产生材料─一42,51:
B. The significance of the stone is that it denotes a work of transformation to bring forth material for God's building—Bethel, the house of God—1:42, 51:
1 在基督里的信徒重生以后,就渐渐变化为建造召会的活石─太十六18,彼前二5。
1. The believers in Christ, after being regenerated, are being transformed into living stones for the building of the church—Matt. 16:18; 1 Pet. 2:5.
2 神的家表征基督借着召会而得扩增;召会是以信徒作为宝石,并以赐生命的灵作为油,所建造成的,成为扩大的神的家(伯特利),使雅各的梦得以应验,神永远的定旨得以完成─创二八10~22,弗一9,11,三11,提后一9。
2. The house of God signifies Christ increased with the church built up with the believers as precious stones and with the life-giving Spirit as the oil to be the enlarged house of God (Bethel) for the fulfillment of Jacob's dream and of God's eternal purpose—Gen. 28:10-22; Eph. 1:9, 11; 3:11; 2 Tim. 2:9.
三 主耶稣在祂的复活里更大的重建神的殿,使其成为团体的殿,就是基督奥秘的身体─约二19~22:
C. In His resurrection the Lord Jesus rebuilt God's temple in a larger way, making it a corporate one, the mystical Body of Christ—John 2:19-22:
1 在十字架上被拆毁的耶稣身体(就是殿),微小且软弱;但在复活里,基督的身体广大且有能─林前三16~17,弗一22~23。
1. The body of Jesus, the temple, that was destroyed on the cross was small and weak, but the Body of Christ in resurrection is vast and powerful— 1 Cor. 3:16-17; Eph. 1:22-23.
2 自从祂复活那一天,主耶稣一直在复活的生命里扩大祂的身体;祂仍然在复活的过程下,为着建造祂的身体作工─约二19~22。
2. Since the day of His resurrection, the Lord Jesus has been enlarging His Body in resurrection life; He is still working for the building of His Body under the process of resurrection—vv. 19-22.
3 基督是复活,是生命,(十一25,)祂变死亡为生命,使神的家得着建造;我们基督徒的生活乃是变死亡为生命的生活,使基督奥秘的身体得着建造─二1~21。
3. Christ, who is resurrection and life (11:25), changes death into life for the building of the house of God; our living as Christians is a life of changing death into life for the building up of the mystical Body of Christ—2:1-21.
四 父的家乃在于三一神经过成为肉体、钉十字架和复活,将祂自己作到信徒里面,好与他们完全调和,使祂能把他们建造成一个生机体,作祂的居所和彰显─十四2~3,23:
D. The Father's house is a matter of the Triune God, through incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection, working Himself into the believers in order to be fully mingled with them so that He may build them up as an organism for His dwelling and expression—14:2-3, 23:
1 父的家乃是经过过程并终极完成的神与蒙祂救赎、重生、并变化的选民,所构成的一个神圣且属人的合并─20节。
1. The Father's house is a divine and human incorporation of the processed and consummated God constituted with His redeemed, regenerated, and transformed elect—v. 20.
2 主的来,将神带到人里面;祂的去,将人带到神里面;借着这样的来和去,祂将神建造到人里面,并将人建造到神里面,借此建造神的家─一14,十10下,十四2~3。
2. The Lord's coming brought God into man, and His going brought man into God; by this coming and going, He builds up the house of God by building God into man and man into God—1:14; 10:10b; 14:2-3.
3 神的儿子主耶稣基督,凭着那灵并借着祂的死与复活,正在建造一个生机体,召会,就是祂的身体和父的家,是由三一神与蒙祂拣选并救赎之人调和而产生的─7~24节。
3. By the Spirit and through His death and resurrection, the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, is building an organism, the church, which is His Body and the Father's house, produced by the mingling of the Triune God with His chosen and redeemed people—vv. 7-24.
4 父的家乃是借着父和子同着那灵,不断的眷临蒙救赎的选民而得以建造起来─23节。
4. The Father's house is built up by the constant visitation to the redeemed elect of the Father and the Son with the Spirit—v. 23.
5 父的家分为三个阶段:神成肉体的阶段;基督与祂的信徒一同复活,建造成为召会的阶段;以及终极完成的阶段,就是新耶路撒冷─二19~21,启二一2~3,9~10。
5. The Father's house is in three stages: the stage of God incarnate, the stage of Christ resurrected with His believers to be built up as the church, and the consummate stage—the New Jerusalem—2:19-21; Rev. 21:2-3, 9-10.
6 我们都需要被那关于神与我们调和以产生相互居所的真理所滋养─约十五4~5。
6. We all need to be nourished by the truth concerning the mingling of God with us to produce a mutual dwelling place—John 15:4-5.