2007秋季长老
总题:认识并照料召会
总题:认识并照料召会
第三篇 召会─神性与人性的调和
Message Three The Church—the Mingling of Divinity and Humanity
读经:约十四20,十五4~5,林前六17,弗四4~6,16
Scripture Reading: John 14:20; 15:4-5; 1 Cor. 6:17; Eph. 4:4-6, 16
壹 神性与人性的调和是圣经中深奥且中心的真理─林前六17,约十四20,十七21~23:
I. The mingling of divinity and humanity is a deep and central truth in the Scriptures—1 Cor. 6:17; John 14:20; 17:21-23:
一 神与人调和乃是神性与人性之元素的内在结合,以形成一个生机实体,但其元素在这结合里仍可区别─路一35。
A. The mingling of God and man is an intrinsic union of the elements of divinity and humanity to form one organic entity, yet the elements remain distinct in the union—Luke 1:35.
二 神独一的定旨乃是要将祂自己与我们调和,使祂成为我们的生命、性情和内容,我们成为祂团体的彰显─约十四20,十五4~5,弗一5,9,三11,16~21,四4~6,16。
B. God's unique purpose is to mingle Himself with us so that He becomes our life, our nature, and our content, and we become His corporate expression—John 14:20; 15:4-5; Eph. 1:5, 9; 3:11, 16-21; 4:4-6, 16.
三 神的旨意就是神人调和;神永远定旨的完成有赖于神性与人性的调和─一5,9,三11。
C. The will of God is the mingling of God with man, and the fulfillment of God's eternal purpose depends on the mingling of divinity and humanity—1:5, 9; 3:11.
贰 召会作为基督的身体,乃是基督这神与人调和者的扩大─路一31~ 35,弗一22~23,四16:
II. The church, as the Body of Christ, is the enlargement of Christ, who is the mingling of God and man—Luke 1:31-35; Eph. 1:22-23; 4:16:
一 召会的性质就是神调着人,人调着神;我们需要从神性与人性调和的观点,认识基督的身体─三14~四6。
A. The nature of the church is God mingled with man and man mingled with God; we need to understand the Body of Christ from the perspective of the mingling of divinity and humanity—3:14—4:6.
二 召会─基督的身体,乃是藉着神与人调和而产生的─林前十二13:
B. The church, the Body of Christ, came into being through the mingling of God with man—1 Cor. 12:13:
1 这调和从前只不过与头有关,现今扩大到包括身体。
1. Formerly, this mingling involved only the Head, but the mingling has been enlarged to include the Body.
2 在福音书里,神与人的调和产生元首;到了使徒行传,神与人调和的扩大产生基督的身体─弗一22~23,四15~16。
2. In the Gospels the mingling of God and man produced the Head; in Acts the enlargement of the mingling of God and man produced the Body of Christ—Eph. 1:22-23; 4:15-16.
三 在以弗所四章四至六节里的四个人位─身体、那灵、主、父神─主动的调和在一起:
C. In Ephesians 4:4-6 four persons—the Body, the Spirit, the Lord, and God the Father—are actively mingled together:
1 父具体化身在子里,子实化为那灵,那灵与众信徒调和。
1. The Father is embodied in the Son, the Son is realized as the Spirit, and the Spirit is mingled with the believers.
2 经过过程并终极完成的三一神,将祂自己与祂所拣选的人,在他们的人性里调和;这调和是基督身体真正的一四3节,约十七21~23。─引用经文
2. The processed and consummated Triune God mingles Himself with His chosen people in their humanity; this mingling is the genuine oneness of the Body of Christ—v. 3; John 17:21-23.
四 召会作为基督的身体,乃是一班让神与他们调和的蒙救赎并得重生之人─弗三16~17上,四4~6:
D. The church as the Body of Christ is a group of redeemed and regenerated people who allow God to be mingled with them—Eph. 3:16-17a; 4:4-6:
1 基督的身体乃是信徒与神调和并被基督构成的结果。
1. The Body of Christ is the issue of the believers being mingled with God and constituted with Christ.
2 关键点在于神是否与我们调和;每当我们里面有这调和,我们就有一些基督身体的实际─三16~17上,四16。
2. The crucial matter is whether God is mingled with us; whenever we have this mingling within us, we have some amount of the reality of the Body of Christ—3:16-17a; 4:16.
叁 在神性与人性的调和里,我们可以过素祭的召会生活─林前一2,五8:
III. In the mingling of divinity and humanity, we may live a meal-offering church life—1 Cor. 1:2; 5:8:
一 召会生活乃是人性为那灵所调抹、以那灵调抹、且联于那灵的生活─二4,12,三16,六17。
A. The church life is a life of humanity oiled by and with the Spirit and joined to the Spirit—2:4, 12; 3:16; 6:17.
二 我们需要藉着过素祭的召会生活而被调和在一起,成为一个身体─十二24:
B. We need to be blended together into one Body by living the meal-offering church life—12:24:
1 细面的素祭表征个人的基督与个别的基督徒;饼的素祭表征团体的基督,就是基督同祂的身体─召会─利二4,林前十二12,十17。
1. The flour meal offering signifies both the individual Christ and the individual Christian; the cake meal offering signifies the corporate Christ, Christ with His Body, the church—Lev. 2:4; 1 Cor. 12:12; 10:17.
2 素祭乃是预表那为着完成神经纶的调和─利二4,林前十17,十二24,约十二24。
2. The meal offering is a type of the blending for the fulfillment of God's economy— Lev. 2:4; 1 Cor. 10:17; 12:24; John 12:24.
3 我们要被调和在身体生活,就是素祭的召会生活里,就必须经过十字架,并凭着那灵,而为着基督身体的缘故,将基督分赐给人─林前一23,二4,六17,十二12~13。
3. In order to be blended in the Body life, the meal-offering church life, we have to go through the cross and be by the Spirit, dispensing Christ to others for the sake of the Body of Christ—1 Cor. 1:23; 2:4; 6:17; 12:12-13.
三 神渴望每个地方召会都是素祭,以满足祂,并且天天给圣徒完满的供应─徒二46~47,四33。
C. God desires that every local church be a meal offering to satisfy Him and fully supply the saints day by day—Acts 2:46-47; 4:33.
肆 父的家表征神将祂自己与祂的赎民调和,使他们成为祂的居所─约十四2~3,16~20,23:
IV. The Father's house signifies God mingling Himself with His redeemed people to make them His dwelling place—John 14:2-3, 16-20, 23:
一 父的家是一个表号,表征三一神与祂赎民的调和,作神与他们的居所─2节:
A. The Father's house is a sign signifying the mingling of the Triune God with His redeemed people to be a dwelling place for both God and them—v. 2:
1 神正将祂自己分赐到祂的子民里面,使祂自己与他们调和,为要把他们作成这样一个相互的居所─六57,七37~39。
1. God is dispensing Himself into His people and mingling Himself with them in order to make them such a mutual dwelling place—6:57; 7:37-39.
2 神与我们,我们与神调和在一起,成为一个住处,一个相互的住处─十五4。
2. God and we, we and God, are mingled together to become one abode, a mutual abode—15:4.
二 主耶稣基督正凭着那灵,藉着祂的死与复活来建造召会,就是祂的身体和父的家,由三一神与祂所拣选并救赎之人的调和所构成─十四2。
B. By the Spirit and through His death and resurrection, the Lord Jesus Christ is building the church, His Body and the Father's house, composed of the mingling of the Triune God with His chosen and redeemed people—14:2.
三 父的家乃是三一神─经过成为肉体、钉死、复活─将祂自己作到祂的信徒里面,为要完全与他们调和,好将他们建造为一个生机体,使祂得着居所和彰显;我们看见这事,乃是极为重要的。
C. It is of vital importance that we see that the Father's house is a matter of the Triune God—through incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection—working Himself into His believers in order to be fully mingled with them that He may build them up as an organism for His dwelling and expression.
四 神与我们调和,以产生相互的居所这个真理,需要成为我们的滋养。
D. We all need to be nourished with the truth concerning the mingling of God with us to produce a mutual dwelling place.
伍 新耶路撒冷乃是三一神与三部分人调和的终极完成─启二一2,林后十三14,帖前五23:
V. The New Jerusalem is the ultimate consummation of the mingling of the Triune God with the tripartite man—Rev. 21:2; 2 Cor. 13:14; 1 Thes. 5:23:
一 ‘十二’这数字代表新耶路撒冷,指明新耶路撒冷乃是三一神(三)与祂所造之人(四)的调和─启二一12,14,21,二二2。
A. The number twelve, which represents the New Jerusalem, indicates that the New Jerusalem is the mingling of the Triune God (three) with His creature man (four)—Rev. 21:12, 14, 21; 22:2.
二 新耶路撒冷是神性与人性的调和,作为经过过程并终极完成之三一神在人性里的扩展、扩大和彰显,直到永远─二一11。
B. The New Jerusalem is the mingling of divinity and humanity to be the expansion, enlargement, and expression of the processed and consummated Triune God in humanity for eternity—21:11.
三 新耶路撒冷是经过过程并终极完成的三一神,与祂所拣选、救赎、重生、变化、模成、并荣化之三部分人的调和;这个调和乃是基督的配偶,相互的居所,我们永远的定命,也是经过过程并终极完成之三一神的终极显出,作祂永远、团体的彰显─2~3,9~23节,二二17。
C. The New Jerusalem is the mingling of the processed and consummated Triune God with His chosen, redeemed, regenerated, transformed, conformed, and glorified tripartite people; this mingling is the counterpart of Christ, a mutual dwelling place, our eternal destiny, and the ultimate manifestation of the processed and consummated Triune God for His eternal, corporate expression— 21:2-3, 9-23; 22:17.