2013感恩节
总题:约翰的修补职事
第三篇 基督的牧养使召会成为一群,并成为父的家
Message Three The Shepherding of Christ for the Church as the One Flock and the Father's House
读经:约十10~11、15~17,十四2~3
Scripture Reading: John 10:10-11, 15-17; 14:2-3
壹 按照约翰福音,三一神作生命产生了召会;虽然约翰福音里没有用到“召会”这辞,却有许多经节含示召会─二16~22,三26~30,十16,十一52,十二24,十四2~3,十五5,十七11、21~23。
I. According to the Gospel of John, the Triune God as life brings forth the church; although the word church is not used, many verses allude to the church—2:16-22; 3:26-30; 10:16; 11:52; 12:24; 14:2-3; 15:5; 17:11, 21-23.
贰 基督是好牧人,为羊舍命,使羊在神圣的生命里成为一群,归一个牧人─十16:
II. Christ is the good Shepherd who laid down His life for the sheep so that, in the divine life, there will be one flock and one Shepherd—10:16:
一 主耶稣作好牧人,来使我们得生命,并且得的更丰盛─10~11节。
A. As the good Shepherd, the Lord Jesus came that we might have life and have it abundantly—vv. 10-11.
二 好牧人舍了祂属人的生命,为祂的羊成功救赎,使他们能有分于祂神圣的生命─11、15、17节。
B. The good Shepherd laid down His human life to accomplish redemption for His sheep that they may share His divine life—vv. 11, 15, 17.
三 主作好牧人,以祂自己并在祂自己这草场上喂养我们,借此牧养我们─9节:
C. As the good Shepherd, the Lord shepherds us by feeding us with Himself and in Himself as the pasture—v. 9:
1 牧养的工作就是喂养的工作─太九36,十四14~21。
1. The work of shepherding is the work of feeding—Matt. 9:36; 14:14-21.
2 草场象征基督是羊得喂养的地方─约十9:
2. The pasture signifies Christ as the feeding place of the sheep—John 10:9:
a 今天我们的草场就是复活的基督这位赐生命的灵─十一25,林前十五45下。
a. Today our pasture is the resurrected Christ as the life-giving Spirit— 11:25; 1 Cor. 15:45b.
b 在我们日常的基督徒生活当中,我们应当体认,我们是在草场上享受基督作为丰富的生命供应。
b. In our daily Christian life we should have the sense that we are in the pasture enjoying Christ as the rich supply of life.
四 主作好牧人,一直在神圣的生命里带领我们、引导我们并指引我们─约十14、27~30:
D. As the good Shepherd, the Lord is leading, guiding, and directing us in the divine life—John 10:14, 27-30:
1 主在生命里从里面牧养我们:
1. The Lord shepherds us in life from within:
a 我们里面有祂作我们的牧人,就是生命的牧人并在生命里的牧人─10节。
a. Inwardly we have Him as our Shepherd, a Shepherd of life and in life— v. 10.
b 活的基督是我们的牧者,不仅赐我们生命─祂就是我们的生命─10节,十一25,十四6,西三4。
b. As our Shepherd, the living Christ not only gives us life—He is our life— v. 10; 11:25; 14:6; Col. 3:4.
2 基督牧养我们,是借著作我们的生命并活在我们里面;祂活在我们里面,实际上就是祂的牧养。
2. Christ shepherds us by being life to us and by living in us; His living within us is actually His shepherding.
五 “成为一群,归一个牧人”,乃是在基督这好牧人的牧养之下成就的─约十16:
E. Under the shepherding of Christ as the good Shepherd, "there shall be one flock, one Shepherd"—John 10:16:
1 “一群”表征一个召会,基督的一个身体,就是主借着祂的死,把祂永远、神圣的生命分赐到众肢体里面所产生的─16~18节,弗二14~16,三6。
1. The one flock signifies the one church, the one Body of Christ, brought forth by the Lord's eternal, divine life, which He imparted into His members through His death—vv. 16-18; Eph. 2:14-16; 3:6.
2 主已使犹太信徒和外邦信徒在祂的牧养下合为一群─一个召会,就是基督的身体─约十10~18,弗二14~16,三6。
2. The Lord has formed the Jewish believers and the Gentile believers into one flock—the one church, the Body of Christ—under His shepherding—John 10:10-18; Eph. 2:14-16; 3:6.
3 主的羊已经得着神圣的生命,借此得以生活在一起成为一群。
3. The Lord's sheep have received the divine life, and by the divine life the sheep live together as one flock.
4 主作好牧人,使我们合为一群─约十16,路十二32,徒二十28,彼前五2~3,参赛四十11。
4. As the good Shepherd, the Lord causes us to flock together—John 10:16; Luke 12:32; Acts 20:28; 1 Pet. 5:2-3; cf. Isa. 40:11.
六 约翰二十一章说到牧养,是约翰福音的完成和总结;牧养乃是开启约翰福音的钥匙:
F. John 21, a chapter on shepherding, is the completion and consummation of the Gospel of John; shepherding is the key to the Gospel of John:
1 如果我们不认识牧养是什么,整卷约翰福音对我们就是空洞的;唯有我们牧养别人时,我们才能内在地认识约翰福音─三16,四10、14,十9~18,二一15~17。
1. If we do not know what shepherding is, the entire Gospel of John will be in vain to us; it is only when we shepherd others that we can know John in an intrinsic way—3:16; 4:10, 14; 10:9-18; 21:15-17.
2 约翰福音这卷书论到基督借着顾惜并喂养我们,来作我们的生命;顾惜人是使人快乐、愉快、舒适(太九10,路七34),喂养人是以包罗万有的基督供应人(太二四45~47)。─引用经文
2. The Gospel of John is a book on Christ coming to be our life by cherishing and nourishing us; to cherish others is to make them happy, pleasant, and comfortable (Matt. 9:10; Luke 7:34), and to nourish others is to feed them with the all-inclusive Christ (Matt. 24:45-47).
3 主在复活之后把使徒的职事与祂天上的职事合并,以照顾神的羊群,就是召会,结果带进基督的身体─约二一15~17。
3. After His resurrection the Lord incorporated the apostolic ministry with His heavenly ministry to take care of God's flock, the church, which issues in the Body of Christ—John 21:15-17.
叁 主耶稣在生命里牧养我们乃是为着父的家─经过过程并终极完成之三一神与祂所救赎、重生、变化之选民神人二性的合并─十四2~3:
III. The Lord Jesus is shepherding us in life for the Father's house—the divine and human incorporation of the processed and consummated Triune God with His redeemed, regenerated, and transformed elect—14:2-3:
一 我们需要看见约翰福音中所启示的生命与建造:
A. We need to see life and building as revealed in the Gospel of John:
1 生命是为建造,建造是本于生命─十一25,十四2。
1. Life is for building, and the building is of life—11:25; 14:2.
2 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,以及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。
2. 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 ex-pression—1:4; 10:10b; 11:25; 14:2-3, 6.
二 主耶稣在祂的复活里更大地重建神的殿,使其成为团体的殿,就是基督奥秘的身体─二19~22:
B. In His resurrection the Lord Jesus rebuilt God's temple in a larger way, mak-ing it a corporate one, the mystical Body of Christ—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—John 2:19-22.
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 the resurrection and the life (11:25), changes death into life for the building of the house of God; our living as Christians is a life of chang-ing death into life for the building up of the mystical Body of Christ—2:1-21.
三 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:
C. The Father's house is a matter of the Triune God, through incarnation, cru-cifixion, 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 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。
1. 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.
2 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。
2. 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.
3 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。
3. 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.