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约伯记生命读经 · 第12篇

神永远的经纶作为约伯记的答案

God’s Eternal Economy as the Answer to the Book of Job
1读经：约伯记10:2,8-9,13，以弗所书3:9。我们曾指出，约伯记的四十二章经文留给我们一个双重的问题，就是神创造人以及神对付祂选民的目的是甚么。这个问题的解答不在旧约里，乃在新约里。这个解答乃是神永远的经纶，要将祂自己分赐到祂所拣选的人里面。神经纶的十个主要项目神的经纶包含十个主要项目。头三项分别是：三一神的成为肉体；三一神在人性里在地上的生活；基督在十字架上那包罗万有的死，解决了宇宙中一切的难处，了结了宇宙中一切消极的事物。第四项是基督分赐生命的复活。在这复活里，基督在祂的人性里生为神的长子，为要在祂以后带进神许多的儿子；在这复活里，三一神在人性里成了赐生命的灵，为著神圣的分赐；在这复活里，所有在基督里的信徒也得了重生，成为神的儿子和基督的肢体。第五项是基督的升天，将终极完成的灵浇灌下来，以产生召会。其余的五项是神的召会、基督的身体、新人、经过过程并终极完成之三一神的生机体、以及新耶路撒冷。新约所揭示的其他项目，都直接或间接与这十个项目有关。分裂源自信徒
1Scripture Reading: Job 10:2, 8-9, 13; Eph. 3:9 We have pointed out that the forty-two chapters of the book of Job leave us with a twofold question concerning the purpose of God in creating man and the purpose of God in dealing with His chosen people. The answer to this question is found not in the Old Testament but in the New Testament. This answer is the eternal economy of God for His dispensing of Himself into His chosen people. THE TEN MAIN ITEMS IN THE ECONOMY OF GOD The economy of God consists of ten main items. The first three items are the incarnation of the Triune God, the living of the Triune God in humanity on earth, and the all-inclusive death of Christ which He died on the cross to solve all the problems and to terminate all the negative things in the universe. The fourth item is the life-dispensing resurrection of Christ, in which Christ in His humanity was begotten to be the firstborn Son of God to bring in many more sons after Him, in which the Triune God in humanity became the life-giving Spirit for the divine dispensing, and in which all the believers in Christ were regenerated to be sons of God and members of Christ. The fifth item is the ascension of Christ with the pouring out of the consummated Spirit to produce the church. The remaining five items are the church of God, the Body of Christ, the new man, the organism of the processed and consummated Triune God, and the New Jerusalem. All the other items unveiled in the New Testament are related to these ten main items either directly or indirectly. DIVISIONS RESULTING FROM THE BELIEVERS
强调神的经纶
STRESSING THINGS OTHER THAN
这十个项目以外的东西
THE TEN ITEMS IN GOD'SECON O MY
2甚么时候基督徒强调构成神的经纶这十个项目以外的东西，就会带进许多不同意见的派别，导致信徒中间的分裂。例如，有些人强调水浸；这是新约的教训，但不是神的经纶这十个项目中的一项。强调水浸不仅带进标榜水浸的公会（浸信会），更带进许多争论，如施浸该用何种的水，受浸者该后仰、前仆或向下，以及该在父、子、圣灵的名里施浸，还是在耶稣的名里施浸就可以。有的信徒争论长老治会等类的事，也有人争论召会聚会中可以用何种乐器。多年前有人告诉我，有一个弟兄会因著争论在他们的聚会中该用钢琴或风琴而分裂。这种光景在今天的基督教中非常普遍；几乎没有人持守神为著神圣分赐的永远经纶。
2Whenever Christians stress anything other than these ten items that constitute God'secon o my, many different schools of opinion are brought in, resulting in divisions among the believers. For example, some emphasize baptism by immersion, a New Testament teaching but not one of the ten basic items in God'secon o my. This emphasis has issued not only in a denomination devoted to baptism by immersion but also in disputes about the kind of water that should be used, about whether one should be baptized backward, forward, or downward, and about whether baptism should be in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit or simply in the name of Jesus. Other believers argue about matters such as presbytery (the management of the church by the elders) and about what kind of musical instruments, if any, may be used in the church meetings. Years ago I was told that a certain Brethren assembly was divided over the issue of whether a piano or an organ should be used in their meetings. This kind of situation is widespread among today's Christians. Hardly anyone holds to the eternal economy of God for the divine dispensing.
在主观并经历上
LEARNING THE ITEMS OF GOD'SECON O MY
学习神经纶的项目
SUBJECTIVELY AND EXPERIENTIALLY
3我们需要学习神经纶的项目，不单是客观、道理上的学习，更是主观、经历上的学习。我们需要思考如何经历这些项目。我们怎能经历基督的成为肉体、人性生活、钉十字架、复活和升天？怎能经历成为召会（基督的身体、新人、三一神之生机体）的一部分？怎能实际的在经历上成为永世里新耶路撒冷的一部分？
3We need to learn the items of God'secon o my not merely objectively, in a doctrinal way, but subjectively, in an experiential way. We need to consider how to experience all these items. How can we experience Christ'sin carnation, human living, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension? How can we have the experience of being a part of the church, the Body of Christ, the new man, and the organism of the Triune God? How can we, in a practical, experiential way, become a part of the New Jerusalem in eternity
一位独一的神
One Unique God
4我们若要在经历上认识这十个项目，就需要看见这些项目都是指著一位独一的神说的。我们只有一位神，但这位独一的神乃是三一的－父、子、灵。父、子、灵乃是一。父在子里；子在父里；灵在父和子里；父和子都在灵里。这三者不仅同时并存，更互相内在。没有人能彀将祂们分开。父、子、灵之间虽有分别，却不分开。因为父、子、灵同时并存，互相内在，所以父在那里，子和灵也都在那里。
4If we would know these ten items experientially, we need to see that they all refer to the one unique God. We have only one God, but this unique God is triune—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. The Father, the Son, and the Spirit are one. The Father is in the Son; the Son is in the Father; the Spirit is in both the Father and the Son; and both the Father and the Son are in the Spirit. The three not only coexist (exist together at the same time) but also coinhere (dwell in one another). No one can separate them. Among the Father, the Son, and the Spirit there is a distinction, but there is no separation. Because the Father, the Son, and the Spirit coexist and coinhere, when the Father is present, the Son and the Spirit also are present
三一神经过过程
The Triune God Being Processed
5在成为肉体之前，父、子、灵原是在永远里的一位神，尚未经过过程。但藉著经过成为肉体、人性生活、钉十字架、复活和升天，这位独一的神就经过了过程。这五个步骤乃是祂所经过之过程的五个阶段。藉著这五个阶段，这位独一的三一神就经过了过程，终极完成为今天的三一神。三一神终极完成为那灵今天三一神完全终极完成在那灵里。那灵乃是神圣三一的第三者。这终极完成的灵，实际上就是三一神的终极完成。作为包罗万有的灵，祂乃是三一神的终极完成和总和。我们得著祂，就得著子与父。那灵就是子，那灵也就是父。父、子、灵三者乃是包罗万有的灵。我们的神乃是终极完成的灵。我们的父、我们的主、我们的主人、我们的救赎主和我们的救主，就是赐生命的灵。这赐生命的灵是包罗万有、复合并终极完成的。现今祂就在我们里面。
5Before the incarnation the Father, the Son, and the Spirit were the one God in eternity, who had not yet been processed. But by passing through incarnation, human living, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension, this unique God was processed. These five steps were the five sections of His process. By passing through these five sections of His process, the unique Triune God was processed and consummated to be today's Triune God. The Triune God Being Consummated as the Spirit Today's Triune God is altogether consummated in the Spirit. The Spirit is the last of the three of the Divine Trinity. This consummated Spirit is actually the consummation of the Triune God. As the all-inclusive Spirit, He is the consummation, the aggregate, of the Triune God. When we receive Him, we receive the Son and the Father. This Spirit is the Son, and this Spirit is also the Father. All three—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit—are the all-inclusive Spirit. Our God is the consummated Spirit. Our Father, our Lord, our Master, our Redeemer, and our Savior is the life-giving Spirit. This life - giving Spirit is all - inclusive, compounded, and consummated. Even now He is within us.
照著灵作一切事
Doing Everything according to the Spirit
6新约嘱咐我们要由这灵重生，并藉这灵得著神圣的生命。然后我们需要凭著这灵生活行动，也要照著灵作一切事，以经历基督，享受父神，甚至享受三一神的丰满。只要我们照著灵作一切事，我们就能经历基督的成为肉体、人性生活、钉死、复活、升天和那灵的浇灌。这会使我们成为神的召会、基督的身体、新人、三一神的生机体，终极完成于新耶路撒冷。
6In the New Testament we are charged to be regenerated by this Spirit and to receive the divine life through this Spirit. Then we need to live, to walk, by this Spirit, and we need to experience Christ, to enjoy God the Father, and even to enjoy the fullness of the Triune God by doing everything according to the Spirit. As long as we do everything according to the Spirit, we can experience Christ'sin carnation, human living, death, resurrection, and ascension with the outpouring of the Spirit. This will cause us to be the church of God, the Body of Christ, the new man, and the organism of the Triune God, which will consummate in the New Jerusalem
7在我们的日常生活中，我们不该在善恶知识树的范围里，乃该在赐生命之灵的范围里。我们不该照著善恶作任何事，反该与主成为一灵，藉此照著灵作一切事。例如，我们需要在说话上与主成为一灵。我为主说话前，都有一个简单的祷告：『主，与我成为一灵，使我能与你成为一灵。主，在我的说话中说话，使我的说话成为你的说话。』这就是活在神永远经纶的分赐里。我们这样生活说话，就享受神圣的分赐，基督就在我们里面加多。基督在我们里面增长，我们也在基督里面增长。至终这增长要达到最完满的地步。假设你和配偶之间有了难处，你不该作甚么，因为你无论作甚么，都是在善恶知识树的范围里。你只要祷读加拉太二章二十节：『我已经与基督同钉十字架；现在活著的，不再是我，乃是基督在我里面活著。』不要注意难处或你的怒气，只要注意基督在你里面活著。我们在一切事上都该如此。
7In our daily living we should not be in the realm of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil but should be in the realm of the life - giving Spirit. We should not do anything according to good and evil. Instead, we should do everything according to the Spirit by being one spirit with the Lord. For instance, we need to be one spirit with the Lord in our speaking. Before I speak for the Lord, I pray one simple prayer: "Lord, be one spirit with me that I may be one spirit with You. Lord, speak in my speaking and make my speaking Your speaking." This is to live in the dispensing of the eternal economy of God. When we live and speak in this way, we enjoy the divine dispensing, and Christ increases within us. Christ grows in us and we grow in Christ. Eventually, this growth will reach the full extent. Suppose there is a problem between you and your spouse. You should not do anything, for whatever you do will be in the realm of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. You should simply pray-read Galatians 2:20: "I am crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me." Do not care for the problem or your anger — just care for Christ living in you. This should be our way in everything.
8约伯记里有许多空话、控告和表白的话。我们读这卷书，需要注意神的经纶。我们需要看见，神永远的经纶（也就是约伯所题之问题的解答）乃是要在祂的神圣三一－父、子、灵－里，将祂自己分赐出来，这分赐乃是藉著成为肉体、人性生活、钉十字架、复活、升天和那灵的浇灌，以产生召会、基督的身体、新人、以及三一神的生机体，带进新天新地里的新耶路撒冷，直到永远。
8The book of Job contains many vain words, words of accusation and vindication. As we read this book we need to be mindful of God'secon o my. We need to see that God's eternal economy, which is the answer to the question raised by Job, is to dispense Himself in His Divine Trinity—in the Father, in the Son, and in the Spirit—through incarnation, human living, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension with the outpouring of the Spirit to produce the church, the Body of Christ, the new man, and the organism of the Triune God, which will issue in the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and new earth for eternity