2010感恩节
总题:需要对主的恢复有新鲜的异象
第一篇 神的意愿、撒但的计谋以及主的恢复
Message One God's Will, Satan's Strategy, and the Lord's Recovery
读经:启四11,西一9、18,三4、10~11,弗四3~6、11~12、16
Scripture Reading: Rev. 4:11; Col. 1:9, 18; 3:4, 10-11; Eph. 4:3-6, 11-12, 16
壹 神是一位有定旨的神,有按着祂自己喜悦的意愿─启四11,弗三9~11,西一9:
I. God is a God of purpose, having a will according to His own pleasure—Rev. 4:11; Eph. 3:9-11; Col. 1:9:
一 神的意愿乃是神的愿望;神的意愿是神所想要作的─弗一9:
A. God's will is God's wish; God's will is what He wants to do—Eph. 1:9:
1 神的喜悦是出于祂的意愿,并且具体表现在祂的意愿里;所以祂的意愿在先─5节。
1. God's good pleasure is of His will and is embodied in His will, so His will comes first—v. 5.
2 神借着祂在基督里的启示,就是借着基督的成为肉体、钉十字架、复活并升天,使我们知道祂意愿的奥秘─9节,三9。
2. God has made the mystery of His will known to us through His revela?tion in Christ, that is, through Christ's incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension—v. 9; 3:9.
3 神乃是按祂意愿所决议的,行作万事;神的意愿指祂的目的,而神的决议,指祂的思量,要怎样完成祂的意愿或目的─一11。
3. God works all things according to the counsel of His will; God's will is His intention, and His counsel is His consideration of the way to accomplish His will, or intention—1:11.
二 歌罗西书是一卷论到神伟大、永远之旨意的书─一9,四12:
B. Colossians is a book concerning the great, eternal will of God—1:9; 4:12:
1 歌罗西书启示,神照着祂的愿望和心意,在全宇宙中,在创造中,在救赎中,在要来的世代,以及在永远里的旨意是什么。
1. Colossians reveals what God's will is according to His desire and intention in the whole universe, in creation, in redemption, in the coming age, and in eter?nity.
2 在歌罗西一章九节,神的旨意乃是神永远定旨的意愿,神关于基督之经纶的意愿─弗一5、9、11。
2. God's will in Colossians 1:9 is His will regarding His eternal purpose, regard?ing His economy concerning Christ—Eph. 1:5, 9, 11.
3 充分认识神的旨意,意思就是对神的计划有启示,使我们知道神在宇宙中计划要作的─启四11。
3. To have the full knowledge of God's will is to have the revelation of God's plan so that we may know what God plans to do in the universe—Rev. 4:11.
三 神的旨意是在基督里,集中于基督,并为着基督;在神的旨意中,基督是一切─西一9:
C. The will of God is concentrated in Christ and is for Christ; Christ is everything in the will of God—Col. 1:9:
1 在九节,神的旨意是指基督;神的旨意是深奥的,与我们认识、经历并活这位包罗万有、延展无限的基督息息相关,祂是神、人以及宇宙中一切正面事物的实际─二9、16~17。
1. In verse 9 God's will refers to Christ; the will of God is profound in relation to our knowing, experiencing, and living the all-inclusive, extensive Christ, who is God, man, and the reality of every positive thing in the universe—2:9, 16-17.
2 基督是居首位的,在凡事上都居第一位─一18。
2. Christ is the preeminent One, the One who has the first place in everything—1:18.
3 包罗万有、延展无限的基督,乃是神经纶的中心与普及,中心与圆周─15~27节,弗一10:
3. The all-inclusive, extensive Christ is the centrality and universality, the cen?ter and circumference, of God's economy—vv. 15-27; Eph. 1:10:
a 在神的经纶里,基督是一切;神要的是基督,并且祂只要基督,就是那奇妙、居首位、包罗万有的基督,祂是一切中的一切─太十七5,西三10~11。
a. In God's economy Christ is everything; God wants Christ and Christ alone—the wonderful, preeminent, all-inclusive Christ, who is all in all—Matt. 17:5; Col. 3:10-11.
b 神经纶的目的,乃是要将这位奇妙、包罗万有、延展无限的基督作到我们里面,作我们的生命和一切,使我们成为三一神团体的彰显─一27,三4、10~11。
b. God's intention in His economy is to work the wonderful, all-inclusive, extensive Christ into our being as our life and our everything so that we may become the corporate expression of the Triune God—1:27; 3:4, 10-11.
4 神的旨意是要包罗万有、延展无限的基督成为我们的分─一9、12。
4. The will of God is that the all-inclusive, extensive Christ be our portion—1:9, 12.
5 神的旨意乃是要我们认识基督、经历基督、享受基督、被基督浸透并得着基督作我们的人位和生命─三4。
5. God's will is that we know Christ, experience Christ, enjoy Christ, be sat?urated with Christ, and have Christ as our person and our life—3:4, 11.
四 神的旨意是要得着召会作基督的身体─一9、18,二19,三15:
D. God's will is to have the church as the Body of Christ—1:9, 18; 2:19; 3:15:
1 神的旨意乃是要为基督得着一个身体,作祂的丰满和彰显─罗十二2、5,弗一5、9、11、22~23,四16:
1. The will of God is to obtain a Body for Christ to be His fullness, His expres?sion—Rom. 12:2, 5; Eph. 1:5, 9, 11, 22-23; 4:16:
a 过身体的生活,就是“验证何为神……的旨意”─罗十二2、4~5。
a. To live the Body life is to "prove what the will of God is"—Rom. 12:2, 4-5.
b 如果我们是身体上正确的肢体,在召会生活里活动并尽功用,我们就会是在神旨意里的人─林前一1~2,弗一1,五17,罗十二2、4~5。
b. If we are proper members of the Body, acting and functioning in the church life, we will be persons in the will of God—1 Cor. 1:1-2; Eph. 1:1; 5:17; Rom. 12:2, 4-5.
2 召会是基督的身体,就是由三一神和祂所拣选并救赎之人所构成的实体─弗一22~23,四4~6。
2. The church is the Body of Christ, which is an entity constituted with the Triune God and His chosen and redeemed ones—Eph. 1:22-23; 4:4-6.
3 基督是身体的头,我们是祂身体的肢体─西一18上,二19,弗四15~16:
3. Christ is the Head of the Body, and we are the members of His Body—Col. 1:18a; 2:19; Eph. 4:15-16:
a 活在身体里,就是在头之下与众肢体团体的生活─15节,西二19。
a. To live in the Body is to live corporately with the members under the Head—v. 15; Col. 2:19.
b 我们要过身体的生活,就必须在头之下,并以头为我们的生命,为我们全人的主体和中心─一18上,二19。
b. To live the Body life, we must be under the Head and take the Head as our life, the principal object, and the center of our whole being—1:18a; 2:19.
4 身体以神的增长而长大;基督身体的长大在于我们里面神的增长,神的加添,神的增多─19节,弗四16。
4. The Body grows with the growth of God; the growth of the Body depends on the growth of God, the addition of God, the increase of God, within us—v. 19; Eph. 4:16.
贰 神的仇敌撒但,极其活跃地反对神的旨意,并作工拦阻神的定旨;他有三重抵挡召会的计谋─赛十四12~15,结二八12~19:
II. Satan, the enemy of God, is exceedingly active in opposing God's will and in working to frustrate God's purpose, and he has a threefold strategy against the church—Isa. 14:12-15; Ezek. 28:12-19:
一 撒但带进基督的代替品─约壹二18、22,四3:
A. Satan brings in substitutes for Christ—1 John 2:18, 22; 4:3:
1 这些代替品包括哲学、文化、律法、宗教和恩赐─西二8,三10~11,来八6,九23,十5~10,加三1~3、24,一15~16,二20,四19,林前一22~23,十二31。
1. These substitutes include philosophy, culture, the law, religion, and gifts—Col. 2:8; 3:10-11; Heb. 8:6; 9:23; 10:5-10; Gal. 3:1-3, 24; 1:15-16; 2:20; 4:19; 1 Cor. 1:22-23; 12:31.
2 敌基督者的原则是首先否认基督的一些所是,然后以别的顶替基督;敌基督者一面是反对基督,另一面是以一些事物代替基督,顶替基督─约壹二18、22,四3。
2. The principle of antichrist is first to deny something of what Christ is and then to replace Christ with something else; to be an antichrist is, on the one hand, to be against Christ and, on the other hand, to have something instead of Christ, something that replaces Christ—1 John 2:18, 22; 4:3.
3 己与基督相对,并寻求顶替基督─太十六16、23~25,加二20。
3. The self is versus Christ and seeks to replace Christ—Matt. 16:16, 23-25; Gal. 2:20.
二 撒但作工,分裂基督的身体;宗派、公会以及身体里的分裂,抹煞了基督团体的彰显─林前一10~13上,加五19~20。
B. Satan works to divide the Body of Christ; the sects, denominations, and divisions in the Body wipe out the corporate expression of Christ—1 Cor. 1:10-13a; Gal. 5:19-20.
三 撒但利用圣品阶级与平信徒制度,就是尼哥拉党的工作和教训,扼杀基督身体所有肢体的功用─启二6、15:
C. Satan kills the function of all the members of Christ's Body by the clergy-laity system—the works and the teaching of the Nicolaitans—Rev. 2:6, 15:
1 在启示录二章六节和十五节,“尼哥拉党”必定是指一班认为自己高过一般信徒的人;这就是以后天主教和更正教所遵循并建立的宗教阶级制度。
1. In Revelation 2:6 and 15 Nicolaitans refers to a group of people who esteem themselves higher than the common believers; this is the hierarchy adopted and established by Catholicism and Protestantism.
2 圣品阶级与平信徒制度的目标,是要废掉基督的身体,而以宗教来顶替─参弗四12~13、16。
2. The goal of the clergy-laity system is to annul the Body of Christ and to re?place it with a religion—cf. Eph. 4:12-13, 16.
叁 主的恢复是恢复基督作我们的中心、实际、生命和一切,恢复基督身体的一,恢复基督身体所有肢体的功用─西一18,二19,三10~11,弗四3~6、12,林前十四26:
III. The Lord's recovery is the recovery of Christ as our center, reality, life, and everything, the recovery of the oneness of the Body of Christ, and the recov?ery of the function of all the members of the Body of Christ—Col. 1:18; 2:19; 3:10-11; Eph. 4:3-6, 12; 1 Cor. 14:26:
一 神的心意完完全全是要恢复基督的人位─加一15~16,二20,四19:
A. God's intention is to have a recovery purely and wholly of the person of Christ—Gal. 1:15-16; 2:20; 4:19:
1 神在祂经纶中的目标,乃是要基督作一切─西三4、10~11。
1. God's goal in His economy is that Christ be everything—Col. 3:4, 10-11.
2 顶要紧的是,我们要看见,神只要基督,不要别的,并且在神眼中,除了基督,没有什么算得了数─一18,二9,三4、10~11,腓三7~10:
2. It is crucial for us to see that God wants nothing but Christ and that in the eyes of God nothing counts except Christ—1:18; 2:9; 3:4, 10-11; Phil. 3:7-10:
a 基督居首位乃是在三一神格里(二9,约十五26,西一18下~19,二9),在神的旧造里(一15下,来二14上),在神的新造里(西一18,林前十五20,罗八29,弗一20~23),并在神的高举里(徒二33上,弗一22下,腓二9上)。─引用经文
a. Christ is preeminent in the Triune Godhead (2:9; John 15:26; Col. 1:18b-19; 2:9), in God's old creation (1:15b; Heb. 2:14a), in God's new creation (Col. 1:18; 1 Cor. 15:20; Rom. 8:29; Eph. 1:20-23), and in God's exaltation (Acts 2:33a; Eph. 1:22b; Phil. 2:9a).
b 基督是信徒的一切─是神所分给我们的分(西一12,林前一2)、我们的生命(西三4上,加二20上,腓一20~21上,加四19,西二19下)、我们荣耀的盼望(一27)以及我们的需要和享受(约八12,六51、57下,林前十4,约二十22,加三27,约十五7上,西二16~17,太十一28)。─引用经文
b. Christ is everything to the believers—our God-allotted portion (Col. 1:12; 1 Cor. 1:2), our life (Col. 3:4a; Gal. 2:20a; Phil. 1:20-21a; Gal. 4:19; Col. 2:19b), our hope of glory (1:27), and our necessities and enjoyment (John 8:12; 6:51, 57b; 1 Cor. 10:4; John 20:22; Gal. 3:27; John 15:7a; Col. 2:16-17; Matt. 11:28).
c 基督是神圣的供备─神向着我们的能力(林前一24上),也是从神给我们的智慧,作我们的公义、圣别和救赎(24下、30)。─引用经文
c. Christ is the divine provision—God's power to us (1 Cor. 1:24a) and wisdom to us from God as our righteousness, sanctification, and redemp?tion (vv. 24b, 30).
d 基督是召会的一切─身体的头(西一18)、头的身体(林前十二12)、根基(三11)、房角石(弗二20)以及新人一切的肢体(西三10~11)。─引用经文
d. Christ is everything to the church—the Head of the Body (Col. 1:18), the Body of the Head (1 Cor. 12:12), the foundation (3:11), the cornerstone (Eph. 2:20), and all the members of the new man (Col. 3:10-11).
二 主渴望恢复基督身体的一─弗四3~6:
B. The Lord desires to recover the oneness of the Body of Christ—Eph. 4:3-6:
1 主的恢复是基于基督只有一个身体这真理─一22~23,四4、16。
1. The Lord's recovery is based upon the truth that Christ has only one Body—1:22-23; 4:4, 16.
2 基督的身体在宇宙中是独一无二的;因着这身体在宇宙中是独一无二的,这身体的交通在宇宙中也是独一无二的─太十六18,弗四4~6,徒二42,林前一9,林后十三14。
2. The Body of Christ is uniquely one universally; since the Body is uniquely one universally, the fellowship of the Body of Christ also is uniquely one univer?sally—Matt. 16:18; Eph. 4:4-6; Acts 2:42; 1 Cor. 1:9; 2 Cor. 13:14.
3 基督独一的身体显在许多地方,作众地方召会;一个宇宙召会─基督的身体─成了许多地方召会─基督身体在地方上的彰显─罗十二4~5,十六16,弗四4,启一4、11。
3. The unique Body of Christ is expressed in many localities as the local churches; the one universal church—the Body of Christ—becomes the many local churches—local expressions of the Body of Christ—Rom. 12:4-5; 16:16; Eph. 4:4; Rev. 1:4, 11.
三 主要恢复基督身体所有肢体的功用,好照着神命定的路,实行新约的经纶─弗四12、16,林前十四26:
C. The Lord wants to recover the function of all the members of the Body of Christ to practice the New Testament economy according to the God-ordained way—Eph. 4:12, 16; 1 Cor. 14:26:
1 所有的信徒都是基督的肢体、神的祭司、基督的枝子、主的奴仆─罗十二4~5,十五16,林前十二14~22,彼前二5、9。
1. All the believers are members of Christ, priests of God, branches of Christ, and slaves of the Lord—Rom. 12:4-5; 15:16; 1 Cor. 12:14-22; 1 Pet. 2:5, 9.
2 有恩赐的人,用生命的供应滋养圣徒,使圣徒在生命上长大,而成全圣徒作他们这些恩赐所作的,为着建造基督生机的身体─弗四11~16,徒二十20、31,六4,林前三2、6,彼前二2。
2. The gifted persons perfect the saints to do what they, the gifts, do for the organic building up of the Body of Christ by nourishing the saints with the life supply for their growth in life—Eph. 4:11-16; Acts 20:20, 31; 6:4; 1 Cor. 3:2, 6; 1 Pet. 2:2.
3 身体是由基督所有的肢体各按自己的度量尽功用,直接建造起来的─弗四16。
3. The Body is built directly by all the members of Christ functioning, each in his own measure—Eph. 4:16.