撒母耳记生命读经 · 第24篇

我们需要神将基督建造到我们里面

Our Need For God To Build Christ Into Us

1读经：撒母耳记下7:12-14a;以弗所书3:14,16-17;哥林多前书3:11-12;以

1Scripture Reading: 2 Sam. 7:12-14a; Eph. 3:14, 16-17; 1 Cor. 3:11-12; Eph. 4:4-6

弗所书4:4-6

2撒下七章是圣言中非常难懂的一段；很少基督徒对这一段有正确的看见。我研读这一章已有六十多年。我得到的第一个印象，乃是在这里看见神的爱与恩慈，要为大卫建立家室，而不要大卫为祂建殿。那只是一个青年人天然、属人的观念。我多年在弟兄会中间，他们极其注意撒下七章，并且加以传讲、教导并著述。然而，他们没有看见本章的内在意义，特别是神在十二至十四节上半，对大卫所说的话。藉著豫表而豫言的一章

2Second Samuel 7 is a very difficult portion of the Word to understand, and not many Christians have the proper view concerning it. I have been studying this chapter for over sixty years. My first impression was that here we see the love and kindness of God in wanting to build David a house instead of having David build a house for Him. That was merely the natural, human concept of a young man. I spent a number of years with the Brethren, who devoted a great deal of attention to 2 Samuel 7 and who preached and taught on it and published books about it. However, they did not see the intrinsic significance of this chapter, especially of God’sword to David in verses 12 through 14a. A CHAPTER OF PROPHECY THROUGH TYPOLOGY

3研读圣经的人都领悟，圣经中有两件事是不容易懂的，就是豫表和豫言。例如，启示录主要是一卷豫言的书，但其中也包含相当多的豫表。因此，启示录乃是豫言和豫表的结合。撒下七章也是如此，这一章说到一个大豫言，但这豫言乃是藉著豫表揭示出来的。可以说，撒下七章是一个豫表中的豫言。

3Those who study the Bible realize that two matters in the Bible are not easy to understand—typology and prophecy. The book of Revelation, for example, is mainly a book of prophecy, but this book also contains quite an amount of typology. Hence, Revelation is a combination of prophecy and typology. The situation is the same with 2 Samuel 7. This chapter conveys a great prophecy, but this prophecy is unveiled through typology. We may say that it is a prophecy in typology

以基督为独一的元素

BUILDING THE CHURCH WITH CHRIST

以建造召会

AS THE UNIQUE ELEMENT

4在撒下七章，大卫像我们许多人一样，有一个错误的观念，就是神需要人为祂建造甚么。有人听见这说法会问，既然今天我们都在努力建造召会，这样的观念怎么会有错？建造召会难道不是为神建造一点东西么？要回答这个问题，我们必须看见，表面上是我们在建造召会；事实上，乃是神以基督作独一的元素在建造召会。当我们准备要藉著为神说话来作一点建造的工作，祂可能会问我们说，『你想要建造我的殿么？你要用甚么材料来建造？』我们若说，我们是用基督来建造召会，神可能会问我们，我们有多少基督。这就暴露我们缺少基督。我们不仅需要名义上和知识上的基督，我们更需要真实的基督，就是在复活里，作为那灵的基督。我们都需要多而又多的基督。

4In 2 Samuel 7 David, like many of us, had the mistaken concept that God needed him to build something for Him. When some hear this they may wonder how this concept can be wrong since we today are endeavoring to build up the church. Is building the church not a matter of building something for God? To answer this question we need to realize that apparently we are the ones who are building the church, but actually God is the One who is building the church with Christ as the unique element. When we are about to do some building work by speaking for God, He may check with us, saying, “Do you intend to build My house? With what material will you build My house?” If we say that we are building up the church with Christ, God may ask us how much we have of Christ. This exposes our shortage of Christ. We need Christ not merely in name and in knowledge; we need the real Christ, Christ as the Spirit in resurrection. We all need more and more of Christ.

5我们可能有许多圣经的知识，也能彀教导别人圣经，但这不是建造召会的路。召会不是凭圣经的知识来建造，乃是以基督作独一的元素来建造。许多时候，我试著要以基督建造圣徒，之后我一直要问自己：『你将多少基督真实的供应圣徒？你只是供应关于神经纶的道理和高的真理呢，还是供应真实、真正的基督，就是在复活里作为那灵之基督的实际？』那时我必须承认我缺少基督，并且悔改，说，『主阿，赦免我。我仍然缺少你。我需要你作到我的里面。我需要你更多的构造到我里面。』

5We may have much knowledge of the Bible and be able to teach the Bible to others, but this is not the way to build up the church. The church is not built with the knowledge of the Bible. The church is built with Christ as the unique element. Many times, after trying to build up the saints with Christ, I have had to ask myself, “How much of Christ have you really ministered to the saints? Did you minister only doctrine and the high truths concerning God’secon o my, or did you minister the real Christ, the genuine Christ, the reality of Christ in resurrection as the Spirit?” Then I had to confess my shortage of Christ and repent, saying, “Lord, forgive me. I am still short of You. I need You to be wrought into me. I need more of You to be constituted into my being

INTO OUR INTRINSIC CONSTITUTION

到我们内在的构成里，好叫我们重新被构成

SO THAT WE MAY BE RECONSTITUTED

6在撒下七章，大卫要建造神的殿，但在这一章神要大卫看见，他需要神将基督建造到他里面。因此，撒下七章藉著豫表揭示一个豫言，给我们看见，我们无须为神建造甚么；我们作不到。我们无法凭自己，或凭圣经和神学的知识为神建造甚么。我们需要神将基督建造到我们里面，作我们内在的构成，使我们全人重新以基督来构成。结果，我们不仅得著改变，更从一种人变化成为另一种人。也许现在我们可以看见，撒下七章简单的说，就是指明神不需要我们为祂建造甚么。我们甚么也不是，甚么也没有，甚么也不能作。因此，我们所需要的乃是基督作到我们里面。

6In 2 Samuel 7 David wanted to build God’sho use, but in this chapter God wanted David to realize that he needed God to build Christ into him. Thus, 2 Samuel 7 is the unveiling of a prophecy through typology showing us there is no need for us to build something for God. We simply are not able to do this. We cannot build something for God with ourselves or with our knowledge of the Bible and theology. We need God to build up Christ into our intrinsic constitution so that our entire being will be reconstituted with Christ. As a result, we are not only changed, but we are transformed from one kind of person into another. Perhaps now we can see that 2 Samuel 7 simply indicates that God does not need us to build anything for Him. We are nothing, we have nothing, and we can do nothing. Therefore, we need Christ to be wrought into our being

神的经纶是要将祂自己

GOD’SECON O MY BEING TO WORK HIMSELF

在那作祂具体化身的基督里，

INTO US IN CHRIST

作到我们里面

AS HIS EMBODIMENT

7在这一点上，我们必须再来思考甚么是神的经纶。神的经纶乃是将祂自己在那作祂具体化身的基督里，作到我们里面。基督藉著死与复活，成了赐生命的灵。（林前十五45下。）现在我们必须让神将作为那灵的基督作到我们里面的各部分。神作得越多，我们就越能宣告：『在我，活著就是基督，』以及『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。』（腓一21，加二20。）

7At this point we need to consider once again what God’s economy is. God’s economy is to work Himself into us in Christ as His embodiment. Through death and resurrection Christ has become the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b). Now we need to let God work Christ as the Spirit into every part of our being. The more God does this, the more we will be able to declare, “To me, to live is Christ,” and “I am crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me” (Phil. 1:21; Gal. 2:20).

基督安家在我们心里

CHRIST MAKING HIS HOME IN OUR HEARTS

8在新约的经文中，说到基督要将祂自己建造到我们里面，最好的一处是以弗所三章十七节，这里保罗说，基督要安家在我们心里。这就是建造。今天最重要的问题，乃是有多少基督建造到我们里面？有多少基督不仅建造到你的灵里，也建造到你的心里，使祂在你的心里安家？

8The New Testament verse that best indicates that Christ is building Himself into us is Ephesians 3:17. Here Paul says that Christ is making His home in our hearts. This is building. What is of crucial importance today is the question concerning how much of Christ has been built into us. How much has Christ been built not only into your spirit but into your heart in order to make His home there

9我们的灵是我们全人的中心部分，由我们的心所包围；心主要由心思、情感和意志所组成。基督是在我们的灵里，但有多少基督安家在我们心里？我们的心大部分还是空的，没有被基督占有、充满并浸透。每一天我们的心都充满了别的东西。结果，基督就被监禁在我们的灵里。以弗所三章有力的指明，藉著基督使我们成为祂的家，三一神就将祂自己建造到我们里面。保罗向父屈膝祷告，愿祂照著祂荣耀的丰富，藉著祂的灵，用大能使我们得以加强到里面的人里，（14，16，）使基督安家在我们心里。这里我们看见神圣的三一：父是保罗祷告的对象；灵是那实施加强的一位；子基督是那安家在我们心里的一位。藉著将祂自己建造到我们里面，祂就使我们的心，我们内在的构成，成为祂的家。以经过过程并终极完成的

9Our spirit, the central part of our being, is surrounded by our heart, which is composed mainly of our mind, emotion, and will. Christ is in our spirit, but how much has Christ made His home in our heart? Most of our hearts are still vacant, not occupied, saturated, and soaked with Christ. Every day our hearts are filled with other things. As a result, Christ is imprisoned in our spirit. Ephesians 3 indicates strongly that the Triune God is building Himself into us in Christ’s making us His home. Paul bowed his knees to the Father and prayed that He would grant us, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit into the inner man (vv. 14, 16) so that Christ may make His home in our hearts. Here we have the Divine Trinity: the Father is the One to whom Paul prayed; the Spirit is the One who carries out the strengthening; and Christ the Son is the One who is making His home in our heart. By building Himself into our being, He makes our heart, our intrinsic constitution, His home. BUILDING THE CHURCH WITH THE PROCESSED

三一神建造召会

AND CONSUMMATED TRIUNE GOD

10在林前三章十二节保罗说，建造的材料有两类：一类是木、草、禾楷，乃是属人的、属世的；另一类是金、银、宝石，乃是宝贵的珍宝、经过变化的材料。我们若用木、草、禾楷，就是用来自我们天然背景的成就，或是天然的生活方式建造，就会损伤召会。（17。）我们应当用金、银、宝石－分别表征神、基督、那灵－建造召会。以这些材料建造召会，就是以经过过程并终极完成的三一神建造召会。当我们以经过过程并终极完成的三一神建造召会，事实上那不是我们在建造，乃是神藉著我们在建造，用我们作凭藉，把祂自己分赐、输供到人里面。

10In 1 Corinthians 3:12 Paul said that there are two categories of building material — wood, grass, and stubble, which are human and worldly, and gold, silver, and precious stones, which are precious treasures and transformed materials. If we build the church with wood, grass, and stubble —with the attainments that come from our natural background or with the natural way of living—we will mar the church (v. 17). We should build the church with gold, silver, and precious stones, signifying respectively God, Christ, and the Spirit. To build the church with these materials is to build the church with the processed and consummated Triune God. When we build the church with the processed and consummated Triune God, it is not actually we who are building. Rather, God is building through us, using us as a means to dispense and transmit Himself into people.

以三一神作源头、元素、

BUILDING THE CHURCH WITH THE TRIUNE GOD

11和素质建造召会在马太十六章十八节主耶稣说，『我要把我的召会建造…。』但召会如何得著建造？召会乃是以三一神来建造－以父为源头，以子为元素，以灵为素质。以弗所四章四至六节清楚指明这点。照著这几节经文，全召会，基督的身体，乃是用人为架构，并以三一神为源头、元素和素质，调和而成的。一面，有恩赐者成全圣徒，达到职事的工作，使身体能在爱里把自己建造起来。另一面，经过过程并终极完成的三一神作为源头、元素和素质，藉著将祂自己建造到我们里面而建造召会。我们为主作工时，必须有这个看见。光是向人陈明一些关于神经纶的知识，或其他神圣、属灵、属天的事物是不彀的。我们需要将三一神分赐到人里面。藉著我们的祷告、禁食、悔改和认罪，三一神就能充满我们，浸透我们，与我们调和，成为我们的源头、元素和素质。这样，我们就能与祂一同往前、一同作工。我们若被三一神充满，当我们说话时，祂就涌流出来，供应到人里面，成为他们的滋养。

11AS THE SOURCE, THE ELEMENT, AND THE ESSENCE In Matthew 16:18 the Lord Jesus said, “I will build My church.” But how is the church to be built? The church is built with the Triune God: with the Father as the source, with the Son as the element, and with the Spirit as the essence. This is clearly indicated in Ephesians 4:4-6. According to these verses, the whole church, the Body of Christ, is a mingling of the human frame with the Triune God as the source, the element, and the essence. On the one hand, the gifted persons perfect the saints unto the work of the ministry so that the Body may build up itself in love. On the other hand, the processed and consummated Triune God as the source, the element, and the essence is building the church by building Himself into our being. We need to have this realization as we are working for the Lord. It is not adequate simply to present to others some knowledge concerning God’secon o my and other divine, spiritual, and heavenly things. We need to dispense the Triune God into others. Through our prayer, fasting, repentance, and confession, the Triune God can fill us, saturate us, and mingle with us as our source, element, and essence. Then we can go with Him and work with Him. If we are filled with the Triune God, when we speak He will flow out and be ministered to others for their nourishment

12关于三一神将祂自己

12A PROPHECY CONCERNING THE TRIUNE GOD WORKING HIMSELF INTO US

作到我们里面，

TO MAKE US HIS HOME

使我们成为祂的家的豫言

13撒下七章是一个豫言，说到神自己要在祂新约的子民中间建造召会。基督是在实际上建造神的家，神的殿的一位。基督也是元素，是建造召会－神的家－的范围和凭藉。在本章神似乎是对大卫说，『大卫，到目前为止，你仍是空虚的。不要认为你该为我建殿。你必须领悟，你需要我将自己，作为父、子、灵建造到你里面。这样你就有家，那个家也是我的家。』

13Second Samuel 7 is a prophecy predicting that the church will be built up by God Himself among His people in the New Testament. Christ is the One who actually builds God’sho use, God’stem ple. Christ is also the element in which and with which the church as God’sho use is built. In this chapter God seemed to be saying to David, “David, thus far you are still vacant and empty. Do not think that you should do something to build a house for Me. You need to realize that you need Me to build Myself into you as the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. Then you will have a house, and that house will also be My house.”

14撒下七章的内在意义，乃是三一神在祂经过过程并终极完成的三一里，将祂自己作到祂所拣选的人里面。因此，撒下七章就是说到三一神将祂自己作到我们里面，使我们成为祂的家（基督同召会），并产生一个后裔（包罗万有的基督）。在这里我们看见家和后裔。基督是家，基督也是后裔。基督是元素，基督也是结果。基督乃是一切。这位基督是神的家，也是我们的家。因此，我们与神有一个相互的住处。基督住在我们里面，我们也住在祂里面。祂与我们，我们与祂，调和在一起成为一个实体。宇宙在等待这个。罗马八章告诉我们，整个宇宙正热切的等待，要看见三一神与三部分人调和的彰显；这是藉著祂的建造，这建造乃是凭祂自己、用祂自己、在祂自己里面、并为著祂自己。这是我们所需要的，也是宇宙所需要的。

14The intrinsic significance of 2 Samuel 7 is that the Triune God is working Himself in His processed and consummated Trinity into His chosen people. Therefore, 2 Samuel 7 is a chapter on the Triune God working Himself into us to make us His home (Christ with the church) and to produce a seed (the all-inclusive Christ). Here we have a house and a seed. Christ is the house, and Christ is also the seed. Christ is the element, and Christ is also the issue. Christ is everything. This Christ is both God’sho use and our house. Hence, we and God have a mutual abode. Christ abides in us, and we abide in Him. He and we, we and He, are mingled together as one entity. The universe is waiting for this. Romans 8 tells us that the whole universe is eagerly awaiting the expression of the Triune God mingled with the tripartite man through His building, which is by Himself, with Himself, in Himself, and for Himself. This is what we all need, and this is what the universe needs