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撒母耳记生命读经 · 第26篇

神在基督里，藉著新陈代谢变化的过程，

God’s Building Himself in Christ into Our Being
1将祂自己建造到我们里面读经：撒母耳记下7:12-14a;哥林多
1Through the Metabolic Process of Transformation Scripture Reading: 2 Sam. 7:12-14a; 2 Cor. 3:17-18
后书3:17-18
2在本篇信息中，我要就著撒下七章十二至十四节上半说一篇附加的话。许多读圣经的人不明白这三节圣经的意义。我们将会看见，这些经文说到神想要在祂的选民里面有所建造。因此，我在本篇信息里的负担，是要指出这几节经文，乃是用豫表的方式所说的豫言，说到神将祂自己建造到我们里面。
2In this message I would like to give an additional word on 2 Samuel 7:12-14a. Many readers of the Bible do not understand the significance of these verses. As we will see, these verses refer to the very thing that God intends to build up in His elect. Thus, my burden in this message is to point out that, as a prophecy given in the way of typology, these verses speak of God’s metabolic process of transformation.
主耶稣职事的两个时期
TWO PERIODS IN THE MINISTRY OF THE LORD JESUS
3新约清楚的揭示，主耶稣的职事有两个时期。首先，祂在地上尽职，直到祂为我们的罪死在十字架上，以了结旧造。然后，祂在复活里起来，又升到诸天之上。祂在那里成了执事，并且一直作执事，将一切属天的事物供应给我们。祂作这样一位执事，不是在肉体里，因为祂这末后的亚当在复活里已成了赐生命的灵。（林前十五45下。）现今祂不仅是我们的救赎主和拯救主，祂也是包3:17罗万有、赐生命的灵。因此，林后三章十七节宣告说，『主就是那灵。』
3The New Testament clearly reveals that there are two periods in the ministry of the Lord Jesus. First, He ministered on the earth until He died on the cross for our sins to terminate the old creation. Then He rose in resurrection and ascended to the heavens. There He became and still is the Minister of all the heavenly things to us. As such a Minister, He is not in the flesh, for in resurrection He as the last Adam became a life- giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b). Now He is not only our Redeemer and Savior; He is also the all - inclusive, life-giving Spirit. For this reason, 2 Corinthians declares, “The Lord is the Spirit.”
变化成为同样的形像，
TRANSFORMED INTO THE SAME IMAGE
从荣耀到荣耀
FROM GLORY TO GLORY
4基督就是那灵，所以祂能住在我们里面，我们也能在灵里与祂交通。我们该仰望祂、观看祂、并返照祂，将我们这人的三层－我们的灵、我们的心、我们的口－向祂敞开。这样，我们就自然而然像镜子一样返照祂，逐渐变化成为祂荣耀的形像，从荣耀到荣耀。结果我们将与祂有同样的形像；这完全是从主，就是从那灵来的。（林后三18。）主耶稣乃是藉著这个方式，使我们像祂，甚至使我们成为祂。当我们仰望祂，祂就将自己印到我们里面，我们就成为祂的返照。我们所返照的，不是别的，就是主自己。这就是新约所说的变化。变化是一种新陈代谢的过程变化是一种新陈代谢的过程，藉著将一些新的元素加到我们里面，并排除旧元素，而改变我们。一个人有健康的脸色，乃是藉著每天合式的吃、消化并吸收食物。这健康的外表不是因著化妆，而是滋养所产生的结果。这滋养引起新陈代谢的过程，使新的元素加进来，旧的元素被排除。同样，我们每天都需要接受属灵的滋养。这滋养会供应新的元素，并带走旧的东西。逐渐的，我们就长大、改变并成熟。这就是变化。神的经纶就是将祂自己作到我们里面，使我们经历属灵的消化和吸收这样一种新陈代谢的过程，而在生命上产生逐渐的、内在的改变。
4Because Christ is the Spirit, He can dwell in us, and we can fellowship with Him in our spirit. We should look to Him, behold Him, and reflect Him, opening to Him the three layers of our being—our spirit, our heart, and our mouth. Then we will spontaneously reflect Him as a mirror and gradually be transformed into His glorious image from glory to glory. As a result, we will have the same image that He has. This is altogether from the Lord, the Spirit (2 Cor. 3:18). In this way the Lord Jesus makes us like Him and even makes us Him. When we look unto Him, He impresses Himself into our being. Then we become His reflection. What we reflect is nothing less than the Lord Himself. This is what the New Testament calls transformation. TRANSFORMATION BEING A METABOLIC PROCESS Transformation is a metabolic process that changes us by adding some new element into our being and discharging the old element. This is illustrated by one’shaving a healthy complexion through the proper, daily eating, digesting, and assimilating of food. This healthy appearance is the result not of cosmetics but of nourishment. This nourishment causes a metabolic process in which a new element is brought in and the old element is discharged. In like manner, we need to receive spiritual nourishment day by day. This nourishment will supply a new element and then cause the old things to be carried away. Gradually, we will grow, change, and mature. This is transformation. God’secon o my is just to work Himself into us that we may experience such a metabolic process of spiritual digestion and assimilation that produces a gradual, intrinsic change in life.
神在基督里将祂自己建造
God’s building Himself in Christ
到我们里面，是一件生机的事
INTO US BEING AN ORGANIC MATTER
5神将祂自己建造到我们里面，完全是一件生机的事。为要产生这个建造，我们需要接受、消化并吸收生机的元素。我们属灵的食物和饮料，就是那生机的、是灵的基督，（约六51，57，七37～39，）祂就是赐生命的灵。这位基督不仅是客观的、历史上的基督。那位客观、历史上的救主，祂的生平记载在圣经里，但祂不会与我们有生机的关系。很可惜，许多基督徒只是客观的认识基督。圣经启示，基督来了，留在祂的门徒中间一段年日，然后祂经过死，进入复活；藉著这个过程，祂成了赐生命的灵。今天祂是那灵，是真实、真正、活著、同在的。因此，我们能说，祂是『现在』的基督。基督以祂自己当作属灵的食物
5God’s building Himself into our being is altogether an organic matter. In order for such a building to take place, we need to receive, digest, and assimilate an organic element. Our spiritual food and drink is the organic, pneumatic Christ (John 6:51, 57; 7:37-39), the Christ who is the life-giving Spirit. This Christ is not merely the Christ of history in an objective sense. A Christ who is only an objective, historical Savior, the One whose story is recorded in the Bible, would not be related to us organically. It is a tragedy that many Christians know Christ only in an objective way. The Bible reveals that Christ came and stayed with His disciples for a period of time. Then He passed through death and entered into resurrection, and through this process He became the life-giving Spirit. Today as the Spirit He is real, genuine, living, and present. Thus, we may say that He is the “now” Christ. CHRIST’S BUILDING THE CHURCH WITH HIMSELF
和属灵的饮料建造召会
AS THE SPIRITUAL FOOD AND SPIRITUAL DRINK
6当我们藉著吃祂、喝祂并呼吸祂而享受『现在』的基督，我们里面就产生新陈代谢的过程，就是属灵的消化和吸收。藉著这新陈代谢的过程，基督就构成到我们里面。这构成就是建造。因此，基督现今正将祂自己建造到我们里面，作我们内里的构成。这样建造的结果，就使我们成为一班特别的人－基督身体的肢体。每当我们聚在一起，就是神的召会。
6When we enjoy the “now” Christ by eating, drinking, and breathing Him, a metabolic process, a spiritual digestion and metabolism, takes place within us. Through this metabolic process Christ is constituted into our being. This constitution is the building. Christ, therefore, is building Himself into us as our inner constitution. The issue of such a building is that we become a very particular class of people—the members of the Body of Christ. Whenever we gather together we are the church of God.
7在马太十六章十八节主耶稣说，『我要把我的召会建造…。』现在我们能看见，基督是用甚么方式建造召会。祂建造祂的召会，乃是藉著用属灵的饮料供应我们，用属灵的食物𫗪养我们，这饮料和食物完全就是祂自己，也就是那灵。我们越藉著吃祂、喝祂、呼吸祂
7In Matthew 16:18 the Lord Jesus said, “I will build My church.” Now we can see by what way Christ builds the church. He is building His church by supplying us with spiritual drink and by feeding us with spiritual food, which are uniquely Himself as the Spirit. The more we enjoy Him by eating, drinking, and breathing Him, the more He builds His church
8而享受祂，祂就越建造祂的召会。
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召会得建造不是藉著外面的组织，乃是藉著里面的变化
THE CHURCH BUILT NOT BY OUTWARD ORGANIZATION BUT THROUGH INWARD TRANSFORMATION
9关于召会的建造，我们不信靠外面的组织；反之，我们专注于里面的变化，就是藉著属灵的新陈代谢而有的内里构成。在各种不同的聚会中，我们竭力将基督供应到圣徒里面，作他们属灵的食物和饮料。我们越这样接受基督，就越经历内里、属灵的新陈代谢。这种新陈代谢就是变化，而变化就是建造。
9Concerning the building up of the church, we do not trust in outward organization; rather, we pay our full attention to the inward transformation, that is, to the inner constituting by the spiritual metabolism. In different kinds of meetings, we endeavor to minister Christ into the saints as their spiritual food and drink. The more we receive Christ in this way, the more we will experience the inner, spiritual metabolism. This metabolism is transformation, and transformation is the building
10我们物质身体的一切肢体如何是生机的，照样，基督身体的一切肢体也是生机的。召会是一班变化过的人所长成的生机体，就是基督生机的身体。建造成为这一个生机体的路，就是长大；长大的路，就是吃喝、呼吸基督。不论我们的种族或国籍为何，我们都经历同样新陈代谢的过程，这过程每天产生变化，变化就等于建造。这是属灵的长大，也是属灵的建造。我们物质身体的一切肢体不仅是生机的，也是与身体分不开的，因为众肢体都生机的长在一起，成为一个身体。基督的身体也是同样的原则。我已经在召会中六十多年，所以我能彀作见证，我不能与召会分开。若没有召会，我就不能活，因为离开了召会，生命就没有意义。
10Just as every member of our physical body is organic, so every member of the Body of Christ is organic. The church is a group of transformed people who have grown into one organism, the organic Body of Christ. The way to be built up as this organism is to grow, and the way to grow is to eat, drink, and breathe Christ. No matter what our race or nationality may be, we are all undergoing the same metabolic process that day by day produces transformation, which equals building. This is the spiritual growth and also the spiritual building. Every member of our physical body is not only organic but also inseparably connected to our body, for all the members have grown together organically to be one body. The principle is the same with the Body of Christ. As one who has been in the church for over sixty years, I can testify that I cannot be separated from the church. Without the church I could not live, for apart from the church, life would have no meaning
耶和华用豫表对大卫所说的豫言
JEHOVAH’S PROPHECY TO DAVID in the way of typology
11召会－基督的身体－藉著属灵新陈代谢的过程而有的生机建造，事实上就是耶和华在撒下七章十二至十四节上半，用豫表对大卫所说的豫言。惟有藉著这种过程，人才能变化成为神的儿子，人性（人的后裔）才能成为神圣的（神的儿子）。当神告诉大卫，他的后裔要作神的儿子，神就用豫表对大卫豫言这事。这指明人的后裔要成为神的儿子。这就是今天我们正在经历的。因此，我们这些在基督里的信徒，乃是一班特别、奇特的子民。在神眼中，我们是神的珍宝。
11This organic building up of the church as the Body of Christ through the process of spiritual metabolism is actually what Jehovah prophesied to David in the way of typology in 2 Samuel 7:12-14a. It is only through this process that human beings can be transformed into sons of God. It is only through this process that something human — the human seed — can become divine—the sons of God. In typology God prophesied to David regarding this when He told David that his seed would be God’ss on. This indicates that a human seed would become a divine son. This is what we are experiencing today. Therefore, we, the believers in Christ, are a very particular and peculiar people. We are a precious treasure in the eyes of God.
四层的建造
FOUR LAYERS OF BUILDING
12我们需要对基督身体的建造有正确的领会。首先，按马太十六章十八节看，是主来建造。其次，是祂藉著有恩赐的人，就是使徒、申言者、传福音者、牧人和教师来建造。（弗四11。）然后，祂又藉著我们，就是被成全的圣徒来建造。（12。）这是三层的建造。至终，身体把自己建造起来，（16，）这是第四层的建造。这建造完全是藉著供应基督作每日的供应，作食物、水和呼吸的气。
12We need to have the proper understanding of the building up of the Body of Christ. First, according to Matthew 16:18, the Lord builds. Then He builds through the gifted persons, the apostles, prophets, evangelists, and shepherds and teachers (Eph. 4:11). He then builds the church through us, the perfected saints (v. 12). These are three layers of building. Eventually, the Body builds itself up (v. 16). This is the fourth layer. This is all by ministering Christ as the daily supply, as food, water, and breath
13我们无法建造召会，我们只能将基督供应给人。当人得著基督的滋养作供应，他们里面就有属灵的新陈代谢，将他们变化成为祂的形像，使他们成为祂。这样新陈代谢的变化，就是生长，也就是建造。这是主耶稣建造我们成为召会的路。
13We cannot build the church. We can only minister Christ to others. When they are nourished with Christ as their supply, a spiritual metabolism within them transforms them into His image and makes them just Him. Such a metabolic transformation is both the growth and the building up. This is the way the Lord Jesus builds us into the church
大卫的家室成为他的后裔
DAVID’SHO USE BECOMING HIS SEED
14这是新约正确的教训，这是建造正确召会的正确之路，这也是耶和华在撒下七章，当祂说祂要为大卫建立家室时，用豫表向大卫所豫言的。这家就是大卫的后裔。就属人的一面而言，我们无法解释大卫的家怎么会成为大卫的后裔。大卫的家能成为他的后裔，惟一的路是藉著神在基督里成为人，就是神人。基督是家、后裔、生命和食物；祂是一切。今天我们与祂合作，建造神的居所，也是大卫的居所，这是一个相互的住处。
14This is the proper teaching of the New Testament; this is the proper way to build the proper church; and this is the very thing that Jehovah prophesied to David in typology in 2 Samuel 7 when He said that He would build David a house. This house is the seed of David. Humanly speaking, we cannot explain how David’sho use could become David’s seed. The only way David’sho use could become his seed was by God in Christ becoming a man, the God-man. Christ is the house, the seed, the life, and the food. He is everything. Today we are cooperating with Him to build up God’s habitation and David’s habitation, a mutual abode