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以赛亚书生命读经 · 第5篇

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A Word Concerning Christ
作耶和华的苗、地的果子、罩盖和帐棚的话
As The Shoot Of Jehovah, The Fruit Of The Earth, The Canopy, And The Tabernacle
1读经：以赛亚书4:1-2，4-6。
1Scripture Reading: Isa. 4:1-2, 4-6
2以赛亚这个人很丰富，他的丰富不只在于描述事物，更在于描述基督。以赛亚题出了许多关于基督的点。在本篇信息中，我要进一步说到基督是耶和华的苗、地的果子、以及罩盖和帐棚。
2Isaiah is a rich person. He is rich not only in description but is particularly rich in Christ. Many points regarding Christ are raised by Isaiah. In this message I want to give a further word concerning Christ as the Shoot of Jehovah, the Fruit of the earth, and the canopy
基督的引进
THE USHERING IN OF CHRIST
3在前篇信息中，我用了『神人基督的引进』这说法，现在我想解释我为何用『引进』一辞来说到基督。要明白这点，我们需要来看以赛亚四章一节和二节，以及这两节之间的关联。一节说，『在那日，七个女人必拉住一个男人，说，我们吃自己的食物，穿自己的衣服，但求你许我们归在你名下，求你除掉我们的羞耻。』这些妇人感到羞耻，因为她们没有丈夫。她们没有男人带领她们，她们想归在一个男人的名下，使她们可以除去羞耻。我早年读到这节时，不明白它的意思。这话有什么意义？意义乃是：这话将神的审判与基督连接起来。就如二节所指明的，这些妇人所缺少的，不是领袖，乃是基督这位耶和华的苗和地的果子。二节启示，对这些逃脱的妇人，基督是耶和华的苗，必成为她们的华美荣耀，而基督是地的果子，必成为她们的夸耀光彩。这就是基督的引进。
3In the previous message, I used the expression the ushering in of the God-man, Christ, and now I would like to explain why I use the term ushering in with respect to Christ. In order to understand this, we need to consider Isaiah 4:1 and 2 and the connection between these verses. Verse 1 says, “Seven women will grasp/One man in that day,/Saying, We will eat our own bread/And wear our own clothes;/Just let us bear your name;/Take our reproach away.” These women are in reproach because they do not have a husband. They do not have a man to lead them, and they want to bear the name of a man so that their reproach might be taken away. When I read this verse in my early days, I wondered about its meaning. What is the significance of this word? Its significance is that it is a link between God’s judgment and Christ. As verse 2 indicates, the lack with these women is not that they are short of a leader but that they are short of Christ as the Shoot of Jehovah and as the Fruit of the earth. Verse 2 reveals that to these women who have escaped, Christ as the Shoot of Jehovah will be beauty and glory and Christ as the Fruit of the earth will be excellence and splendor. This is the ushering in of Christ
4现在我要进一步解释耶和华的苗与地的果子。
4Now I would like to go on to give a further explanation of the Shoot of Jehovah and the Fruit of the earth
基督是耶和华的苗
Christ as the Shoot of Jehovah
5按照四章二节，基督首先乃是耶和华的苗。『耶和华的苗』一辞，指基督的神性，指明生命的丰富与复苏。任何一棵植物的苗，都指明那棵植物的生命满有活力，正在长大并富有生产力。基督是耶和华的苗，原则也是一样的。祂是这样的苗，就把神圣生命的丰富、新鲜、活力、生长和生产力都具体化了。
5According to 4:2, Christ is first the Shoot of Jehovah. The term the Shoot of Jehovah, which refers to Christ’s deity, denotes the riches and the refreshing of life. A shoot out of any plant indicates that the life of that plant is vigorous, growing, and productive. The principle is the same with Christ as the Shoot of Jehovah. As such a Shoot, He embodies the riches, the refreshing, the vigor, the growth, and the productive power of the divine life.
基督是地的果子
Christ as the Fruit of the earth
6『地的果子』一辞，指基督的人性，也指明祂是从地长出的；这指出这产品乃是基督人性里所出产、传输并彰显的。当然，为使这繁殖发生，必须有神圣的生命。然而，人性也是需要的。假定我们的主没有藉著成为肉体来作人，只单单留在祂的神性里，从祂这果子又能产生出什么？答案是不可能有任何果子。我要强调，基督所出产一切不同的果子，都来自祂神圣的生命，就是耶和华的苗所表征的。但没有基督的人性，神圣的生命就不可能富有生产力，生出果子来。四福音给我们看见，基督所生出的一切果子，都来自神圣的生命，却是在基督的人性里产生的。所以，耶和华的苗指明神圣生命的丰富，地的果子指明这生命在人性里所出产的果子。
6The term the Fruit of the earth, which refers to Christ’s humanity and indicates that He grew up out of the earth, denotes the produce brought forth, carried out, and expressed in Christ’s humanity. Of course, in order for this reproduction to take place, there must be the divine life. However, humanity is also needed. Suppose our Lord did not become a man through incarnation but remained simply in His divinity. What could have been produced out of Him as a fruit? The answer is that there could not have been any fruit. I would emphasize the fact that all of Christ’s different kinds of fruits come out of the divine life, which is signified by the Shoot of Jehovah. But without Christ’s humanity, it would have been impossible for the divine life to be productive in bringing forth fruit. The four Gospels show us that all the fruit born by Christ came out of the divine life, but it was produced in Christ’s humanity. Therefore, the Shoot of Jehovah denotes the divine life in its riches, and the Fruit of the earth denotes the fruit produced by this life in humanity
神与人一同生活
GOD AND MAN LIVING TOGETHER
7基督作耶和华的苗和地的果子，指明祂是神人。在祂身上，神与人一同生活，如同一个。新约就是启示这件事：新约给我们看见神人一同生活，以神为里面的生命，以人为外面的果子。
7For Christ to be both the Shoot of Jehovah and the Fruit of the earth indicates that He is the God-man. In Him God and man live together as one. The New Testament is a revelation of this very thing: it shows us God and man living together, with God as the life inwardly and man as the fruit outwardly
8今天我们这些在基督里的信徒，同时需要神圣的生命和人的生命。我们若没有神圣的生命，就没有生命。我们若没有正确人的生命与神圣的生命相配，就没有果子。新约启示，我们这些蒙神拣选并预定的人，需要在我们的为人生活中彰显出神圣的生命。我们若这样作，在我们的经历中就会有基督作耶和华的苗和地的果子。
8As believers in Christ today, we need both the divine life and the human life. If we do not have the divine life, we do not have life. But if we do not have the proper human life to match the divine life, we will have no fruit. The New Testament reveals that, as those chosen and predestinated by God, we need to have the divine life expressed in our human living. If we have this, then in our experience we will have Christ both as the Shoot of Jehovah and as the Fruit of the earth
9基督作罩盖和帐棚
9CHRIST AS THE CANOPY AND THE TABERNACLE
10在四章，以赛亚说过基督是耶和华的苗和地的果子之后，接著就说这一位是罩盖和帐棚。『耶和华必创造日间的烟云，并夜间火焰的照亮，遮覆锡安山全境，且遮覆其所有的会众；因为荣耀必成为罩盖，遮覆一切。并且必有帐棚，白日成荫，可以避暑，并作避难所和藏身处，可以躲避狂风暴雨。』（赛四5～6。）基督不仅是苗和果子，祂更是罩盖，遮覆我们，且遮覆神的行动及一切与此有关的。
10In chapter four, after speaking of Christ as the Shoot of Jehovah and the Fruit of the earth, Isaiah goes on to refer to this One as a canopy and a tabernacle. “Jehovah will create over the entire region of Mount Zion and over all her convocations a cloud of smoke by day, and the brightness of a fiery flame by night; for over all, the glory will be a canopy. And there will be a tabernacle as a daytime shade from the heat and as a refuge and a cover from storm and rain” (vv. 5-6). Christ is not only the Shoot and the Fruit—He is also the canopy to cover us and to cover God’s move and everything related to it.
11神在地上有一个大行动，这行动牵涉到许多事。我们已经指出，基督是神圣三一行动大轮的中心与普及。作神行动之中心与普及的这位基督，也是遮覆这整个行动的罩盖。重点乃是：基督不只是神在地上伟大行动的实际，也是遮覆神行动以及与这有关之一切事物的罩盖。
11God has a great move on earth, and this move involves many things. As we have pointed out, Christ is the centrality and the universality of the great wheel of the move of the Divine Trinity. The Christ who is the centrality and universality of God’s move is also the canopy to cover the totality of this move. The crucial point is that in addition to being the reality of the great move of God on earth, Christ is also the canopy to cover God’s move and all that is involved with it
12以赛亚在五节说到罩盖，在六节说到帐棚。基督不仅是神行动里遮覆一切事物的罩盖，更是覆庇神选民的帐棚。作我们罩盖的神人基督，也作帐棚，白日成荫，可以避暑，并作避难所和藏身处，可以躲避狂风暴雨。
12In verse 5 Isaiah speaks of the canopy, and in verse 6 he speaks of a tabernacle. Christ is not only the canopy to cover all the things in God’s move but also a tabernacle to overshadow God’s chosen people. The God-man, Christ, who is our canopy, is also a tabernacle as a shade in the day to keep us from the heat and a refuge and a cover to keep us from any kind of storm and rain
13我能见证，在我开始释放以赛亚书生命读经的前两个月，我经历到基督是我的罩盖。这两个月是争战的月分－为能举行这次生命读经训练而争战。我领悟仇敌撒但不高兴看见在这世代末了，以赛亚书所启示的基督要向神的儿女揭示出来。所以，我开始为此争战。在这段争战期间，我以主耶稣作我的遮盖。我祷告说，『主，把我藏在你的宝血下。我把自己藏在你里面。主，我求你遮盖我，以及与我有关的一切。』今天我们都需要基督作这样一个罩盖，也需要基督作覆庇的帐棚，给我们遮荫避暑，并作避难所和藏身处，可以躲避狂风暴雨。
13I can testify in the two months prior to the time I began to give these messages on the life-study of Isaiah, I experienced Christ as my canopy. These two months were months of fighting—fighting to be able to carry out this life-study. I realized that the enemy, Satan, was not happy to see that, at the end of this age, the Christ revealed in Isaiah would be unveiled to God’s children. Therefore, I began to fight concerning this. During this time of fighting, I took the Lord Jesus as my covering. I prayed, saying, “Lord, hide me under Your precious blood. I hide myself in You. I ask You, Lord, to cover me and everything related to me.” Today we all need Christ as such a canopy, and we need Christ also as the overshadowing tabernacle to shade us from the heat and as a refuge and cover to protect us from any storm and rain
看见以赛亚书中丰富的基督
SEEING THE RICH CHRIST IN ISAIAH
14以赛亚书所启示的基督是极其丰富的。我们需要看见这位丰富的基督，并认识祂是耶和华的苗、地的果子、罩盖和帐棚。你也作基督徒许多年了，但在这之前，从未看见基督对我们之所是的这些项目。你曾看见神人基督在祂的神性里是耶和华的苗，在祂的人性里是地的果子吗？你曾听见基督是罩盖，遮覆神在地上一切的权益，也是帐棚，覆庇神子民不受任何事的打扰吗？基督徒知道神爱世人，将祂的独生子赐给他们，（约三16，）但少有人看见并认识以赛亚书所启示的基督。所以，我恳求你们花时间、花力气、花精力来研读这卷书，好看见并认识其中所启示奇妙的基督。
14The Christ revealed in the book of Isaiah is exceedingly rich. We need to see this rich Christ and know Him as the Shoot of Jehovah, the Fruit of the earth, the canopy, and the tabernacle. Perhaps you have been a Christian for many years, but before now you had not seen Christ in these items of what He is to us. Had you ever seen that Christ, the God-man, is the Shoot of Jehovah in His divinity and the Fruit of the earth in His humanity? Had you ever heard that Christ is the canopy that covers all God’sin te rest son the earth and a tabernacle that overshadows God’sp eople from everything that could bother them? Christians know that because God loved the world He gave His only begotten Son (John 3:16), but few, if any, see Christ and know Christ as He is revealed in Isaiah. Therefore, I urge you to spend your time, ability, and energy to study this book in order to see and know the wonderful Christ revealed in it.