2007夏季训练
总题:约翰书信结晶读经
总题:约翰书信结晶读经
第十篇 实行神圣的爱
Message Ten The Practice of the Divine Love
读经:约壹二3~11,三14~18,四7~12,16~19,约贰5~6
Scripture Reading: 1 John 2:3-11; 3:14-18; 4:7-12, 16-19; 2 John 5-6
壹 神的爱就是神自己;爱是神内在的素质,是神的心─约壹四8,16:
I. The love of God is God Himself; love is the inward essence of God and the heart of God—1 John 4:8, 16:
一 神预定我们得神圣的儿子名分,乃是受神圣之爱的推动─弗一4~5。
A. God's predestination of us unto the divine sonship was motivated by the divine love—Eph. 1:4-5.
二 神将祂的独生子赐给我们,使我们在法理一面借着祂的死得救,不至灭亡,并在生机一面在祂的复活中得着永远的生命,乃是受神圣之爱的推动─约三16,约壹四9~10:
B. God's giving of His only begotten Son to us so that we may be saved from perdition judicially through His death and have the eternal life organically in His resurrection was motivated by the divine love—John 3:16; 1 John 4:9-10:
1 在神的爱里,神的儿子不仅用祂的血救我们脱离罪,更用祂的生命救我们脱离死─弗一7,启一5,罗五10。
1. In the love of God, the Son of God saves us not only from our sins by His blood but also from our death by His life—Eph. 1:7; Rev. 1:5; Rom. 5:10.
2 神爱我们,差祂的儿子,在祂法理的救赎里,为我们的罪作了平息的祭物,使我们在祂生机的救恩里,借着祂得生并活着─约壹二1~2,四9~10,约六57,十四19,加二20。
2. God loved us and sent His Son as a propitiation for our sins in His judicial redemption with the intention that we might have life and live through Him in His organic salvation—1 John 2:1-2; 4:9-10; John 6:57; 14:19; Gal. 2:20.
3 神超越的爱见于祂为我们的罪成为平息的祭物,也成为平息处,使我们与神相会而被神注入;神是爱,在平息、救赎、照耀的基督里,与我们相会,并对我们说话,使我们能被祂作为爱、怜悯、和恩典所注入,以显出祂光辉烈烈的荣耀─罗三24~25,来四16,出二五17,22。
3. God's excelling love is seen in His becoming a propitiatory sacrifice for our sins and the propitiation place for us to meet and be infused with God; God as love meets with us and speaks to us in the propitiating, redeeming, and shining Christ so that we can be infused with Him as love, mercy, and grace for His effulgent and radiant glory—Rom. 3:24-25; Heb. 4:16; Exo. 25:17, 22.
三 “我用慈绳(直译,人的绳)爱索牵引他们”─何十一4:
C. "I drew them with cords of a man, / With bands of love"—Hosea 11:4:
1 “慈绳(人的绳)爱索”这辞指明神用祂神圣的爱爱我们,不是在神性的水平上,乃是在人性的水平上;神的爱是神圣的,却是在人的绳里,也就是借着基督的人性,临到我们。
1. The phrase with cords of a man, with bands of love indicates that God loves us with His divine love not on the level of divinity but on the level of humanity; God's love is divine, but it reaches us in the cords of a man, that is, through Christ's humanity.
2 神所借以牵引我们的绳子,包括基督的成为肉体、人性生活、钉死、复活和升天;借着基督在祂人性里的这一切步骤,神在祂救恩里的爱才临到我们─罗五8。
2. The cords through which God draws us include Christ's incarnation, human living, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension; it is by all these steps of Christ in His humanity that God's love in. His salvation reaches us—Rom. 5:8.
3 在基督之外,神永远长存的爱,就是祂不变、征服人的爱,在我们身上就无法得胜;神不变的爱是得胜的,因为这爱是在基督里、同着基督、借基督、并为着基督的─5,8节,八35~39。
3. Apart from Christ, God's everlasting love, His unchanging, subduing love, could not be prevailing in relation to us; God's unchanging love is prevailing because it is a love in Christ, with Christ, by Christ, and for Christ—vv. 5, 8; 8:35-39.
贰 实行神圣的爱,乃是我们享受三一神这包罗万有之灵的结果,祂乃是作为膏油涂抹,在神圣生命的交通里,在我们里面运行并工作,以三一神一切所是,连同祂一切所作,并祂一切所得着和达到的,充满我们─约壹一3,二3~11,27:
II. The practice of the divine love is the outcome of our enjoyment of the Triune God as the all-inclusive Spirit, the One who is moving and working within us as the anointing in the fellowship of the divine life to saturate us with all that the Triune God is, with all that He has done, and with all that He has obtained and attained— 1 John 1:3; 2:3-11, 27:
一 我们若要经历并享受神圣的爱,并让这爱成为我们爱别人的爱,就需要不断的活在神圣的生命里,好在经历上认识神─3~6节,腓三10上。
A. If we would experience and enjoy the divine love and have it become the love by which we love others, we need to know God experientially by continuously living in the divine life—vv. 3-6; Phil. 3:10a.
二 神先爱我们,将祂的爱注入我们里面,并且在我们里面产生出爱来,使我们能用这爱爱祂,并爱众弟兄─约壹四19~21。
B. God first loved us in that He infused us with His love and generated within us the love with which we love Him and the brothers—1 John 4:19-21.
三 我们从神所接受的生命乃是爱的生命;基督曾在这世上活出神就是爱的生活,如今祂是我们的生命,使我们能在这世上活出同样爱的生活,与祂所是的一样─三14,五1,二6,四17。
C. The life which we have received from God is a life of love; Christ lived in this world a life of God as love, and He is now our life so that we may live the same life of love in this world and be the same as He is—3:14; 5:1; 2:6; 4:17.
四 我们天然的爱必须放在十字架上;神的爱与我们天然的爱有一个分别,就是天然的爱很容易被冒犯。
D. Our natural Jove must be put on the cross; one difference between God's love and our natural love is that it is very easy for our natural love to be offended.
五 我们必须是一个被基督的爱冲没并冲激的人;神圣的爱该象大水澎湃冲向我们,迫使我们情不自禁的向祂活着─林后五14。
E. We must be persons who are flooded with and carried away by the love of Christ; the divine love should be like the rushing tide of great waters toward us, impelling us to live to Him beyond our own control—2 Cor. 5:14.
六 弟兄相爱是旧诫命,也是新诫命:是旧诫命,乃因信徒从基督徒生活的开始就有了;是新诫命,乃因在基督徒的行事为人上,这诫命一再露出新的曙光,一再以新的亮光及新鲜的能力照耀─约壹二7~8,三11,23,参约十三34:
F. The commandment regarding brotherly love is both old and new; old, because the believers have had it from the beginning of their Christian life; new, because in their Christian walk it dawns with new light and shines with new enlightenment and fresh power again and again—1 John 2:7-8; 3:11, 23; cf. John 13:34:
1 主的诫命不仅仅是训谕;主的诫命乃是祂的话,是灵与生命作我们的供应─六63。
1. The commandments of the Lord are not merely injunctions; they are His words, which are spirit and life as a supply to us—6:63.
2 神的爱乃是祂内里的素质,主的话是以这神圣的素质供应我们,我们凭这素质爱祂并爱众弟兄。
2. God's love is His inward essence, and the Lord's words supply us with His divine essence, with which we love Him and love the brothers.
3 我们爱神和祂的儿女,该用神圣的爱,就是借着主的话传输给我们,并成为我们经历和享受的爱。
3. We should love God and His children with the divine love that is conveyed to us through the words of the Lord to become our experience and enjoyment.
七 我们在神的爱里彼此相爱的生活,乃是这爱在我们里面在其彰显上的成全与完成─约壹四11~12,二5。
G. Our living in which we love one another in the love of God is the perfection and completion of this love in its manifestation in us—1 John 4:11-12; 2:5.
叁 召会生活乃是弟兄相爱的生活─四7~8,约贰5~6,约十五12,17,启三7,弗五2,参犹12上:
III. The church life is a life of brotherly love—4:7-8; 2 John 5-6; John 15:12, 17; Rev. 3:7; Eph. 5:2; cf. Jude 12a:
一 基督的身体在爱里把自己建造起来─弗四16。
A. The Body builds itself up in love—Eph. 4:16.
二 神赐给我们的灵,就是蒙了重生的灵,乃是爱的灵;我们需要有一个火热的爱的灵,以征服今日召会的堕落─提后一7。
B. Our God-given, regenerated spirit is a spirit of love; we need a burning spirit of love to conquer the degradation of today's church—2 Tim. 1:7.
三 爱神并爱弟兄的,享受神圣的生命;不爱神和弟兄的,住在撒但的死中─约壹三14,参林后十一2~3。
C. The one who loves God and the brothers is enjoying the divine life; the one who does not love is abiding in the satanic death—1 John 3:14; cf. 2 Cor. 11:2-3.
四 “知识是叫人自高自大,惟有爱建造人”─林前八1下,参林后三6。
D. "Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up"—1 Cor. 8:1b; cf. 2 Cor. 3:6.
五 彼此相爱是我们属于基督的表记─约十三34~35。
E. Loving one another is a sign that we belong to Christ—John 13:34-35.
六 在召会中间好为首,乃与爱众弟兄相对─约叁9。
F. Loving to be first in the church is versus loving all the brothers—3 John 9.
七 正如主耶稣舍了祂的魂生命,使我们能得着神圣的生命,我们在实行身体的生活时,也需要舍去我们的魂生命并否认己,以爱弟兄并将生命供应给他们─约壹三16,约十11,17~18,十五13,弗四29~五2,林后十二15,罗十二9~13。
G. Just as the Lord Jesus laid down His soul-life so that we might have the divine life, we need to lose our soul-life and deny the self to love the brothers and minister life to them in the practice of the Body life—1 John 3:16; John 10:11, 17- 18; 15:13; Eph. 4:29-5:2; 2 Cor. 12:15; Rom. 12:9-13.
八 我们需要丧失我们的魂生命,不爱这世界及其享乐;反之,我们应当在弟兄相爱的召会生活中接受并彰显爱的神,以此为我们的喜乐、娱乐、消遣和快乐─约壹二15~17,太十六25~26,诗三六8~9,参提后三4。
H. We need to lose our soul-life by not loving the world with its pleasure; instead, taking in God and expressing God as love in the church life of brotherly love should be our joy, amusement, entertainment, and happiness—1 John 2:15-17; Matt. 16:25-26; Psa. 36:8-9; cf. 2 Tim. 3:4.
九 在召会生活中,弟兄相爱乃是实际的表现在顾到缺乏圣徒的需要,而没有任何自私的目的或外表自我的显扬;在与缺乏圣徒分享物质的东西时,主生命的恩典连同祂的爱,就在基督身体的众肢体之间涌流,并注入他们里面─约壹三17~18,太六1~4,罗十二13,林后八1~7。
I. Brotherly love in the church life is expressed practically in our caring for the necessities of the needy saints without any self-serving purpose or outward selfdisplay; in the sharing of material things with the needy saints, the grace of the Lord's life with His love flows among the members of the Body of Christ and is infused into them—1 John 3:17-18; Matt. 6:1-4; Rom. 12:13; 2 Cor. 8:1-7.
肆 约壹四章告诉我们怎样才能坦然无惧的站在基督的审判台前,秘诀就是要住在爱里面─16~18节,林后五10,14:
IV. First John 4 tells the secret of how to stand boldly before the judgment seat of Christ—abide in love—vv. 16-18; 2 Cor. 5:10, 14:
一 爱就是神自己,住在爱里面,就是过着习惯的用这爱爱别人的生活,使神能在我们身上得着彰显─约壹四16。
A. To abide in love is to live a life in which we love others habitually with the love that is God Himself so that He may be expressed in us—1 John 4:16.
二 完全的爱,就是因我们用神的爱爱人,而在我们里面得了成全的爱;这样的爱把惧怕驱除,不怕主再来时会受祂的刑罚─17~18节,参路十二46~47。
B. Perfect love is the love that has been perfected in us by our loving others with the love of God; such love casts out fear and has no fear of being punished by the Lord at His coming back—vv. 17-18; cf. Luke 12:46-47.
三 为着建造召会作基督生机的身体,在我们的所是和所作上,爱乃是极超越的路─林前十二31下~十三8上。
C. Love is the most excellent way for us to be anything or do anything for the building up of the church as the organic Body of Christ —1 Cor. 12:31b-13:8a. OUTLINE OF THE MESSAGES FOR THE SUMMER TRAINING JULY 2ND TO JULY 7TH, 2007 GENERAL SUBJECT: THE EPISTLES OF JOHN