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约伯记生命读经 · 第31篇

神向约伯显现的目的

God’s Intention in His Appearing to Job
1读经：约伯记38:1-7;40:1-14;42:1-6。在本篇信息中，我要进一步说到神向约伯显现的目的。
1Scripture Reading: Job 38:1-7; 40:1-14; 42:1-6 In this message I would like to speak a further word concerning God'sin tent i on in His appearing to Job
暴露约伯
EXPOSING JOB
2神向约伯显现的目的是要暴露他，给他看见他实际上一无所是。神的显现也含示祂要帮助约伯认识，他是在错误的范围里。神问约伯许多关于宇宙（三八4～38）和动物（三八39～三九30）的问题，目的是要让约伯看见，他是一个留在自己里面的人，却思考远在他能力范围以外的宇宙和神。因此，神一次又一次的问约伯，好叫他安静下来。神似乎是说，『约伯，我正在作的事，是你不知道的。我要给你一个东西，不是在你的范围里，而是在别的范围里。』
2God'sin tent i on in appearing to Job was to expose him, to show him that he really was nothing. God's appearing also implied that He wanted to help Job to know that he was in the wrong realm. When God asked Job so many questions concerning the universe (38:4-38) and concerning the animals (38:39—39:30), His intention was to enable Job to see that he, a person who remained in himself, was considering things regarding the universe and God that were far beyond his capacity. Thus, God questioned Job again and again in order to silence him. God seemed to be saying, "Job, I am doing something that you do not know. I intend to give you something that is not in your realm but is in another realm
3在四十章十节神对约伯说，『你要以庄严佳美为妆饰，以尊荣光彩为衣服。』这里神实际上是问约伯关于他的庄严佳美，和他的尊荣光彩，目的要约伯领悟，他没有任何的庄严佳美和尊荣光彩。在十二至十三节神继续说，『见一切骄傲的人，将他制伏；把恶人践踏在他们所立之处。将他们一同藏在尘土中，把他们的脸捆在隐密处。』这里神告诉约伯，他该看看自己，领悟他虽然没有理由骄傲，却是骄傲的。不仅如此，神也指明约伯应当被制伏，该藏在尘土中，甚至埋葬在那里。
3In 40:10 God said to Job, "Deck yourself now with majesty and excellency,/And array yourself with honor and splendor." Here God was actually asking Job about his majesty and excellency and about his honor and splendor, with the intention that Job would realize that he did not have any majesty, excellency, honor, and splendor. In verses 12 and 13 God went on to say, "Look upon everyone who is proud; bring him down;/And tread down the wicked where they stand./Hide them in the dust together;/Bind their faces in the hidden place." Here God was telling Job that he should look at himself and realize that he was proud, even though he had no reason to be proud. Furthermore, God was indicating to Job that he should be abased, that he should be hidden in the dust and even buried there
约伯是在神圣启示的原始阶段
JOB BEING IN THE PRIMITIVE STAGE OF THE DIVINE REVELATION
4约伯是在神圣启示的原始阶段。神在祂的行动里要作的许多事，从成为肉体开始，约伯都一无所知。神在祂自己里面有许多事，但祂不能向约伯揭示。神不能向约伯说到这些事。
4Job was in the primitive stage of the divine revelation. Many things that God intended to do in His move, which began with the incarnation, Job knew nothing about. God had many things within Himself, but He could not unveil them to Job. God could not speak to Job about these things
5主耶稣对尼哥底母说到关于重生的话，也能应用在约伯身上：『我对你们说地上的事，你们尚且不信，若对你们说天上的事，你们如何能信？』（约三12。）约翰十六章十二至十三节启示，主耶稣甚至在祂能对门徒说的话上受到限制：『我还有好些事要告诉你们，但你们现在担当不了。只等实际的灵来了，祂要引导你们进入一切的实际；因为祂不是从自己说的，乃是把祂所听见的都说出来，并要把要来的事宣示与你们。』这些事后来有许多都向使徒保罗启示了。今天我们是跟随保罗来说神的经纶、神圣的分赐、包罗万有的灵作为经过过程并终极完成之三一神的完成这些事。然而，今天许多基督徒不明白这些事，甚至认为是无稽之谈。
5The word of the Lord Jesus to Nicodemus regarding regeneration can also be applied to Job's situation: "If I told you of the things on earth and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you of the things in heaven?" (John 3:12). As John 16:12 and 13 reveal, the Lord Jesus was even limited in what He could say to His disciples: "I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. But when He, the Spirit of reality, comes, He will guide you into all the reality; for He will not speak from Himself, but what He hears He will speak; and He will declare to you the things that are coming." Many of these things were revealed to the apostle Paul. Today, following Paul, we speak of such matters as God'secon o my, the divine dispensing, and the all-inclusive Spirit as the consummation of the processed and consummated Triune God. However, many of today's Christians do not understand these matters and even regard them as nonsense.
6神的行动，从成为肉体到新耶路撒冷的终极完成，与许多属灵的事有关，包括重生、更新、圣别、变化、得荣和改变形状。因为约伯是在神圣启示的原始阶段，所以他无法明白这些事。
6God's move from the incarnation to the consummation of the New Jerusalem involves many spiritual things, including regeneration, renewing, sanctification, transformation, glorification, and transfiguration. Because Job was in the primitive stage of the divine revelation, he could not understand any of these things
神渴望将约伯
GOD'S DESIRE TO BRING JOB
带到另一个范围里
INTO ANOTHER REALM
7约伯是在一个范围里，建立一个错误的东西。他在建立自己的完全、正直和纯正。他认为自己是完全正确的，他以他所建立的为傲，他也信靠这个，并引以为荣。那是他的外袍遮盖他的全人，是他的华冠作他的荣耀。
7Job was in the realm of building up something that was wrong. He was building up himself in his perfection, uprightness, and integrity. He thought that he was absolutely right. He was proud of what he had built up, and he trusted in that and glorified himself in that. That was his robe to cover his entire being, and that was his crown to be his glory
8事实上，约伯是错的。神在祂永远的经纶里，没有意思要建立这些东西。反之，神认为这些全数是拦阻，所以要把这些从我们身上剥夺，一点一点的销毁。当一切都被剥夺之后，你就看见神，祂就吸引你接受祂。于是你就有神的性情、生命、元素、素质、甚至祂的所是。这使你里面有新陈代谢的变化，把你从你现在为人的形状，变化成为另一种形状，就是神圣的形状。因著这变化，你就会返照神，就是彰显祂并将祂分赐给别人。
8Actually, Job was wrong. God in His eternal economy has no desire to build up these things. Rather, He considers all these things as frustrations and intends to strip them away from us, consuming them bit by bit. When everything is stripped away, then you will see God, and He will attract you to receive Him. Then you will have God's nature, life, element, essence, and even His being. This will cause a metabolic change within you to transform you from the present form of your human being to another form, the form of the divine being. As a result of this transformation, you will be a person reflecting God, that is, expressing Him and dispensing Him to others
9这就是神在约伯身上的目的，也是今天神在我们身上的目的。现在你和神可能在两个不同的范围里，因此神要把你从现在的范围迁移到祂的范围里，叫你不只与祂成为一，更成为祂的一部分。
9This was God'sin tent i on with Job, and this is His intention with us today. Now you and God may be in two different realms. But God wants to transfer you from your present realm into His realm, not only to make you one with Him but even to make you a part of Him.
10假设有人尝试和约伯谈论这些事，约伯可能会说，『你在说甚么？我从我的先祖那里学到许多关于神的事，我也注意我所学习的。但你却说我是在错误的范围里，还说神要在我里面建立祂自己的东西。你对我说到成为肉体、重生、变化，我不知道这些是甚么意思。』约伯没有能力接受这样的启示；在他的属灵辞典里没有这些辞。在原则上，今天许多基督徒的光景也是如此。神圣的启示已经赐下并写下，也被人解释出来。然而，许多信徒对于神的经纶或照著神的经纶而有的神圣分赐，却不明白。他们可能认为作基督徒就是相信神的儿子耶稣基督是我们的救主，为我们的罪流了宝血，藉著祂的死拯救我们；相信圣灵现今与我们同在，帮助我们有良好的行事为人，帮助我们行善，使神得荣耀；并且相信我们死后会上天堂。那些对基督徒的生活持守这种观念的人，很可能没有看见，作基督徒也包括圣别、变化、模成、神圣经纶的神圣分赐，以及新耶路撒冷作为经过过程、终极完成之三一神的扩大。你若要教导他们这些事，就必须用渐进的方式，从最基本的事物开始。
10Suppose someone had tried to talk to Job about all these things. If someone had done this, Job might have said, "What are you talking about? I have learned a lot about God from my forefathers, and I have been paying attention to what I have learned. Yet you say that I am in the wrong realm and that God intends to build up something of Himself in me. You speak to me about incarnation, regeneration, and transformation, but I do not know what any of these things mean." Job simply did not have the capacity to receive such a revelation. He did not have these terms in his spiritual dictionary. In principle, the situation is the same with many Christians today. The divine revelation has been given, it has been written, and it has been interpreted. Nevertheless, many believers have no understanding of the economy of God or of the divine dispensing according to the divine economy. They may think that being a Christian is simply a matter of believing that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is our Savior, who shed His blood for our sins and who has saved us through His death; that the Holy Spirit is now with us to help us to behave ourselves well and to do good that God may be glorified; and that we will go to heaven when we die. Those who hold this concept of the Christian life may not realize that being a Christian also involves sanctification, transformation, conformation, the divine dispensing of the divine economy, and the New Jerusalem as the enlargement of the processed and consummated Triune God. If you want to teach them about these matters, you must do so in a very gradual way, beginning with the most elementary things
旧造的范围
和新造的范围
THE REALM OF THE OLD CREATION AND THE REALM OF THE NEW CREATION
11我们都需要看见，今天有两个范围－旧造的范围和新造的范围。旧造的范围是天然事物的范围，新造的范围是神圣事物的范围。我们都生在旧造里，生在天然的领域里，但神要我们成为神圣的。为这缘故，我们需要一个大的迁移－从亚当迁到基督里。这迁移的头一面是重生。我们需要重生，然后需要更新。我们得更新时，我们这人的许多部分就被『剥皮』，由新的元素所顶替；这元素会使我们变化，至终模成神的长子基督的形像。（罗八29。）
11We all need to realize that today there are two different realms—the realm of the old creation and the realm of the new creation. The realm of the old creation is the realm of natural things, and the realm of the new creation is the realm of divine things. We were born into the old creation, into the natural sphere, yet God wants us to be divine. For this, we need a great transfer: We need to be transferred out of Adam into Christ. The first aspect of this transfer is regeneration. We need to be regenerated, and then we need to be renewed. As we are renewed, certain parts of our being will be "peeled off" and replaced by a new element that will cause us to be transformed and eventually conformed to the image of Christ, who is the firstborn Son of God (Rom. 8:29).
12我们也需要学习如何与别人谈到新造里的属灵事物。例如，你和一位信徒谈到变化成为神的长子基督的形像时，那位信徒可能会说，『我听过神的独生子，却没有听过神的长子。神的长子是谁？』我担心你们可能无法解释这事。你若教导别人这事，就需要告诉他们，当神成为肉体时，祂将神性带到人性里，在人性里生为神人。神的独生子有神性，没有人性；而神人耶稣有一部分，就是祂的人性，还没有成为神圣的。为要使祂的人性成为神圣的，祂必须在十字架上受死，然后复活。在复活里，祂在祂的人性里生为神的长子。（徒十三33，罗一3～4。）这样，祂的人性就成为神圣的了。我们也可以说，祂的人性『子化』了，意思就是，祂不仅在祂的神性里是神的儿子，也在祂的人性里成为神的儿子。
12We also need to learn how to talk to others about the spiritual things in the new creation. For example, suppose that you speak to a believer about being transformed into the image of Christ as the firstborn Son of God. That believer might say, "I have heard about the only begotten Son of God but not about the firstborn Son. Who is the firstborn Son of God?" I am concerned that you may not be able to explain this. If you would teach others concerning this, you need to tell them that when God was incarnated, He brought divinity into humanity and then was born in humanity to be the God-man. Whereas the only begotten Son of God had divinity but not humanity, the God-man Jesus had a part of His being—His humanity—which had not yet been made divine. In order for this to take place, He had to die on the cross and then be resurrected. In resurrection He was begotten, born, as the firstborn Son of God in His humanity (Acts 13:33; Rom. 1:3-4). In this way His humanity was deified. We may also say that His humanity was "sonized," meaning that He became the Son of God not only in His divinity but also in His humanity
信徒今天活在
THE BELIEVERS TODAY LIVING IN A TIME
神圣启示完成的时代里
AFTER THE COMPLETION OF THE DIVINE REVELATION
13就时间说，我们比约伯上算多了。我们在时间上越在后面，就越上算。我们若与挪亚同时，我们所认识的可能比约伯更少。但是在洪水之后，神还在往前。祂从挪亚往前到亚伯拉罕。我们相信约伯是在亚伯拉罕的时代，所以约伯所得的福分，乃是类似亚伯拉罕所得之福分的水平。今天我们得著了各样的福分。（弗一3。）神圣启示的渐进藉著保罗的著作，特别是加拉太、以弗所、腓立比和歌罗西这四卷书得以完成。在歌罗西一章二十五节，保罗清楚说到，他从神领受了使命，要完成神启示的话，特别是关于神经纶里的奥秘。这奥秘是关于基督和祂的身体，主要的点是基督在祂的身体里作荣耀的盼望。（26～27。）如今惟一能得著发展的，就是我们的盼望。这启示已经完成了，没有甚么可再发展了。今天我们甚么都有了。
13According to time, we are much better off than Job. The later we are in time, the better off we are. If we had been there with Noah, we probably would have realized even less than Job. But after the deluge, God was still moving on. He moved on from Noah to Abraham. We believe that Job was at the time of Abraham, so Job's blessing was on a level similar to that of Abraham's. Today we have received every blessing (Eph. 1:3). The progression of the divine revelation has been perfected and completed by Paul through his writing, especially the four books of Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians. In Colossians 1:25 Paul made it clear that he received a commission from God to complete God ' sword of revelation, especially regarding the mystery in God ' secon o my. This mystery concerns both Christ and His Body, with the main point being that Christ is within His Body as the hope of glory (vv. 26-27). Now, the only thing that can be developed is our hope. The revelation has been completed and will have no more development. Today we have everything.
14我们需要宝贝使徒的书信。在使徒行传，我们能看见神是终极完成的一位，在祂所变化的圣徒里面行动。但这还不如保罗十四封书信里所解释、发表、发挥的那么清楚。保罗的书信被列为书信的第一部分；末了的一部分，完成的一部分，乃是约翰的著作。我们必须研读保罗的十四封书信，也必须研读约翰约三封书信和启示录。藉著这二位使徒，神圣的启示
14We need to value the Epistles. In Acts we can see God's move as the consummated One in His transformed saints. However, it is not so clearly defined, explained, and developed as in the fourteen Epistles of Paul. Paul's Epistles were arranged as the first among all the Epistles. Then the last part, the consummating part, was written by John. We need to study Paul's fourteen Epistles and John'st hree Epistles and Revelation. It was by these two apostles that the divine revelation has been fully completed
15就完完全全的得著完成了。
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16感谢主，我们有神完成的话在我们手中。我非常感谢主，这么多年来，祂把我从世界分别出来，使我能专注于祂的话，特别是保罗的十四封书信、约翰约三封书信和启示录，这是何等的祝福！
16Thank the Lord that we have His word, the completed word, in our hands! I am very grateful to Him that through so many years He has kept me from the world that I could spend all my time on the Word, but mostly on the fourteen Epistles of Paul, the three Epistles of John, and Revelation. What a blessing
神所拣选的人
GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE
领略并经历基督，
REALIZING AND EXPERIENCING CHRIST
为著身体的完成和新妇的豫备
FOR THE CONSUMMATION OF THE BODY AND THE PREPARATION OF THE BRIDE
17只有神圣启示的这一部分－保罗的书信、约翰的书信和启示录，能完成神的经纶，使基督完完全全给神所拣选的人领略并经历。也许没有很多人，只有小部分人，少数人认识基督到这样的地步。但基督的身体藉此要得著完成，新妇也得以豫备好，基督这宇宙新郎回来的时候就到了。今天这还不可能。我们想想今天的情形，就看见没有一件事是豫备好的，能让基督回来。
17Only that part of the divine revelation which is found in the Epistles of Paul and of John and in Revelation will consummate God'secon o my to have Christ fully realized and experienced by God's chosen people. Perhaps not the majority but the minority, a small number, will realize Christ to such an extent. Then the Body can be consummated and the bride can be prepared. Then the time will be right for Christ as the universal Bridegroom to come back. But now it would be impossible. If we consider the situation today, we will see that nothing is ready for Christ's coming back
起来作得胜者，
RISING UP TO BE OVERCOMERS
顾到这二灵
BY TAKING CARE OF THE TWO SPIRITS
18我相信主要我们兴起来，激动起来。我祷告，求主给我们众人有负担，在这末后日子的末了部分，以很特别的方式往前去，按照我们所看见的经历基督，使我们实实在在的成为基督身体的一部分。我们必须相信，今天神是在祂的恢复中作事。主的恢复扩展到俄国，对我是很大的鼓励。这是一个新的开始，新的景象。我相信主也要在美国和欧洲各处作同样的事，因为这一带的国家，布满了挪亚的儿子雅弗的后裔。圣经指明，神的终极完成，原则上是藉著神在雅弗后裔中的行动而来到的。（创九26～27。）
18I believe that the Lord wants us to rise up, to be stirred up. I pray that the Lord will burden all of us to go on in a particular way in this last part of the latter days to experience Christ according to how we have seen Him that we may be actually the parts of Christ's Body. We have to believe that today God is doing something in His recovery. The spreading of His recovery in Russia has become quite an encouragement to me. It is a new start, a new scene. I believe that the Lord will do the same thing in the United States and in all of Europe because these nations are full of the descendants of Japheth, one of Noah'ss ons. The Bible indicates that God's consummation will, in principle, come through God's move among the descendants of Japheth (Gen. 9:26-27
19我们既看见了这个异象，每一个人就都要起来作得胜者，顾到这二灵－包罗万有、赐生命的灵，和我们重生之人的灵。神自己已经终极完成了，祂也将我们终极完成了。现在所需要的就是应用，这应用就是终极完成的灵。我们若在我们的灵里顾到这终极完成的灵，我们就会达到目标。
19Now that we have seen this vision, each one of us must rise up to be an overcomer by taking care of the two spirits—the all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit and our regenerated human spirit. God Himself has been consummated, and He has also consummated us. All that is needed now is the application, which is just the consummated Spirit. If we take care of Him in our spirit, we will make it