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耶利米书生命读经 · 第17篇

神藉著祂的分赐而完成之经纶的完整图画

A Full Picture of God’s Economy by His Dispensing
1读经：15:10—17:27。在本篇信息中，我要简要的说到耶利米书中所陈明之神的经纶。在耶利米十五、十六、十七章，有一幅整图画。
1Scripture Reading: Jer. 15:10—17:27 In this message I would like to give a brief word concerning God ' secon o my as it is presented in the book of Jeremiah. In chapters fifteen, sixteen, and economy by His dispensing.
耶利米的失望
JEREMIAH'S DISAPPOINTMENT
2耶利米十五章十节至十六章九节记载了耶利米、他的母亲、和耶和华这三方的谈话。耶利米很有人性的说话，神也很有人性的说话，好像祂是人一样。在这谈话中，以及在耶和华进一步论到犹大的罪时，（十六10～十七27，）神的经纶被启示出来。
2Jeremiah 15:10—16:9 is a record of a conversation involving three parties: Jeremiah, his mother, and Jehovah. Jeremiah spoke in a human way, and God also spoke in a human way, speaking as if He were a human being. In this conversation and in Jehovah's further statement of Judah'ss ins (16:10—17:27), God'secon o my is revealed
3耶利米书启示神的确审判恶人，有时祂用某些恶人审判其他的恶人。这是十五章的光景。神要审判以色列人，祂差遣耶利米告诉他们，祂要用巴比伦人惩罚他们。他们的反应是逼迫耶利米，这使耶利米感到失望。在失望中，耶利米对他母亲说，『我的母亲哪，我有祸了，因你生我作为遍地相争相竞的人。我素来没有借贷取利，人也没有借贷与我，人人却都咒骂我。』（十五。）耶利米的母亲静默不语，但耶和华进来安慰并鼓励他，说，『我必叫你自由，使你得好处。灾祸苦难临到的时候，我必使仇敌央求你。人岂能将铜或铁，就是北方的铁，折断呢？』（11～12。）这里的『铁』是指巴比伦人。神向耶利米保证，祂要用巴比伦人惩罚以色列。耶利米听见这话，就恳求耶和华的眷顾，说，『耶和华阿，你是知道的。求你记念我，眷顾我，向逼迫我的人为我报仇。求你恒忍，不将我取去；要知道我为你的缘故，受了凌辱。』（15。）耶和华的回答，就是对耶利米进一步的任命，（19～21，）并且为著祂进一步的任命，将限制加在耶利米身上。（十六1～9。）末了，耶和华进一步论到犹大（就是以色列）的罪。
3The book of Jeremiah reveals that God surely judges the evil ones, and sometimes He uses certain evil ones to judge other evil ones. This was the situation in chapter fifteen. God was intending to judge the people of Israel, and He sent Jeremiah to tell them that He would use the Babylonians to punish them. They responded by persecuting Jeremiah, and this caused him to be disappointed. In his disappointment Jeremiah said to his mother, "Woe is me, my mother, because you bore me, / A man of strife and a man of contention to the whole land. / I have not lent with interest, / Nor have they lent to me; / Yet everyone 10 curses me " (15:10). Jeremiah ' smother was silent, but Jehovah came in to comfort and encourage him, saying, " Surely I will set you free for your good; / Indeed I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you / In a time of trouble and in a time of distress. / Can one break iron, / Iron from the north, or bronze?" (vv. 11-12). The word iron here refers to the Babylonians. God was assuring Jeremiah that He would use the Babylonians to punish Israel. After hearing this, Jeremiah petitioned Jehovah for His care, saying, "O Jehovah, You know; / Remember me and visit me, / And avenge me of my persecutors. / In Your longsuffering do not take me away; / Know that for Your sake I bear reproach" (v. 15). Jehovah answered with a further commission to Jeremiah (vv. 19-21) and also by placing restriction son Jeremiah for His further commission (16:1-9). Finally, Jehovah gave a further statement of Judah's (as Israel's) sins.
神经纶的重要方面
CRUCIAL ASPECTS OF GOD'SECON O MY
4在这段耶利米对耶和华说话，以及耶和华对耶利米说话的记载里，我们看见神经纶的一些重要方面。
4In this record of Jeremiah's speaking to Jehovah and Jehovah's speaking to Jeremiah, we see some crucial aspects of God'secon o my
得著神圣供应的滋养
Nourished with the Divine Supply
5在十五章十六节耶利米对耶和华说，『耶和华万军之神阿，我得著你的言语，就当食物吃了，你的言语，成了我心中的欢喜快乐；因我是称为你名下的人。』这指明神的言语适于给我们享受。神的言语使我们的心喜乐。
5In 15:16 Jeremiah says to Jehovah, "Your words were found and I ate them, / And Your word became to me / The joy and rejoicing of my heart, / For I am called by Your name, O Jehovah, God of hosts." This indicates that the word of God is good for us to enjoy. God'sword makes our heart joyful
6这里重要的，就是启示神的话是神圣的供应，作食物滋养我们。每种食物都有滋养的元素。神的话，神圣的供应，的确包含滋养的元素。这滋养与神圣的分赐，与神将自己分赐到我们里面有关。藉著作我们食物的话，神将祂的丰富分赐到我们里面的人里，滋养我们，使我们可以由祂的元素构成。
6What is crucial here is the revelation that God'sword is the divine supply as food to nourish us. Every kind of food has a nourishing element. God'sword, the divine supply, surely contains the element of nourishment. This nourishment is related to the divine dispensing, to God's dispensing Himself into us. Through the word as our food, God is dispensing His riches into our inner being to nourish us that we may be constituted with His element
栽于水旁的树
Trees Planted by Water
7神经纶的另一面启示在十七章七至八节。『倚靠耶和华，以耶和华为可倚靠的，那人必得祝福。他要像树栽于水旁，在河边扎根，炎热来到并不惧怕，叶子仍必青翠，在干旱之年毫无罣虑，而且结果不止。』这些经文指明，我们在基督里的信徒，是神所栽的树。这些经文也指明神好比水。神已将我们栽于祂自己这水河旁边。神不仅是我们的食物；祂也是我们的饮料，就是随著食物的水。我们饮于神这水，也是一件神分赐的事。当神将自己这水分赐到我们里面时，祂就以祂之所是的丰富元素供应我们，使我们可以由祂的神性构成。这样，我们人类就由神圣的性情构成。
7Another aspect of God'secon o my is revealed in 17:7 and 8. "Blessed is the man who trusts in Jehovah / And whose trust Jehovah is. / And he will be like a tree planted by water, / Which sends out its roots by a stream, / And will not be afraid when heat comes; / For its leaves remain flourishing, / And it will not be anxious in the year of drought / And will not cease to bear fruit." These verses indicate that we, the believers in Christ, are God's planted trees. These verses also indicate that God is likened to water. God has planted us by Himself as the river of water. God is not only our food; He is also our drink, the water that goes along with the food. Our drinking of God as water is also a matter of His dispensing. As He dispenses Himself into us as water, God is supplying us with the rich element of His being that we may be constituted with His divinity. In this way, we human beings are constituted with the divine nature
享受活水的泉源
Enjoying the Fountain of Living Waters
8十七章十三节说到耶和华是活水的泉源。在神的经纶里，祂的心意是要作祂选民活水的泉源，源头，给他们享受。顽梗的以色列得罪神到极点，甚至离弃祂这活水的泉源。（二13。）神渴望作活水的泉源给我们喝，使我们的干渴得解除，并使我们得满足。照著十七章，那些倚靠那滋养我们、滋润我们之神的人，至终要享受祂作活水的泉源。
8Jeremiah 17:13 speaks of Jehovah as the fountain of living waters. God'sin tent i on in His economy is to be the fountain, the source, of living waters to His chosen people for their enjoyment. Stubborn Israel offended God to the uttermost, even forsaking Him as such a fountain of living waters (2:13). God desires to be the fountain of living waters for us to drink that our thirst may be quenched and that we may be satisfied. According to chapter seventeen, eventually the one who trusts in the very God who nourishes us and who waters us will enjoy Him as the fountain of living waters.
9食物、水、神、和活水的泉源－这一切都是一。不仅如此，这些都是有关藉著神的分赐完成神的经纶这神圣思想的基本要点。当神藉著将自己分赐到我们里面，以完成祂的经纶时，祂是我们的食物、我们的水、我们活水的泉源。何等奇妙，在论到神惩治祂罪恶、邪恶百姓的一段话里，有这样一幅神藉著祂的分赐而完成之经纶的完整图画。
9The food, the water, the very God, and the fountain of living waters—all these are one. Moreover, these are basic points of the divine thought concerning the carrying out of God'secon o my by His dispensing. As God accomplishes His economy by dispensing Himself into us, He is our food, our water, and our fountain of living waters. How marvelous it is that in a portion of the Word concerned with God's chastisement of His sinful and evil people, we have such a full picture of God'secon o my by His dispensing
藉著享受祂、安息于祂、并满足于祂这活水的泉源，而遵守神的安息日
KEEPING GOD'S SABBATH BY ENJOYING HIM, RESTING IN HIM, AND BEING SATISFIED IN HIM as the fountain of living waters
10十七章十九至二十七节说到遵守耶和华的安息日。我们应当将这话联于前面关于神经纶的各点来看。我们都要学知，遵守神安息日的路，就是享受祂、安息于祂、并满足于祂这活水的泉源。我们不该在自己里面或出于自己来作甚么。相反的，我们只该简单的安息在这泉源里，享受这泉源。遵守神所命定的安息日，其意义就是接受这活水的泉源作我们的享受、安息和满足。我们不需要作甚么；我们只该满足于神所作、所成就的一切。
10In 17:19-27 we have a word about keeping Jehovah's Sabbath. We should consider this word in relation to the foregoing points regarding God'secon o my. We all need to learn that the way to keep God'sS abba this to enjoy Him, to rest in Him, and to be satisfied in Him as the fountain of living waters. We should not do anything in ourselves or of ourselves. Rather, we should simply rest in this fountain and enjoy this fountain. The significance of keeping the Sabbath ordained by God is to take this fountain of living waters as our enjoyment, rest, and satisfaction. There is no need for us to do anything; we should simply be satisfied with all that God has done and accomplished
11古时候，在安息日忙著工作的人，是那些离弃耶和华的人。他们离弃神，辛苦的为自己凿出池子。这样劳苦的人没有任何安息或满足。至终他们的池子成了破裂不能存水的。（二13。）然而，那些倚靠耶和华的人，光景完全不同。在安息日他们能说，『阿利路亚！我们又有一天可以安息在我们的神里面，并在祂里面得满足！因祂的安息和满足，我们也就在祂里面得满足。神与我们一同安息，我们也与祂一同安息，好来享受祂。』这是神的经纶。
11In ancient times, those who were busy laboring on the Sabbath were those who had forsaken Jehovah. Having forsaken God, they labored in hewing out cisterns for themselves. The ones who labored in this way did not have any rest or satisfaction. Eventually their cisterns became broken and could hold no water (2:13). However, with those who trusted in Jehovah the situation was entirely different. On the Sabbath they could say, "Hallelujah for another day for us to rest in our God and be satisfied in Him! We are satisfied in Him for His rest and satisfaction. God rests with us, and we rest with Him to enjoy Him." This is God'secon o my
来到耶利米书的果园，
COMING TO THE ORCHARD OF THE BOOK
摘成熟的果子
OF JEREMIAH TO PICK RIPE FRUIT
12我研读圣经已六十多年，学会了留意宝贵的东西。换句话说，我学会摘主话中的『果子』。为这缘故，在这卷生命读经的第一篇信息中，我指出我们可将读耶利米书比作从果园里的树木摘果子。摘果子时，我们不在意老枝或枯叶；我们在意成熟的果子。耶利米书全部五十二章里的『老枝』和『枯叶』，是要给我们看见『果子』，就是这卷书中所启示的基督。本篇信息所说到神经纶的各面，的确该看作成熟的果子。
12Through more than sixty years of studying the Bible, I have learned to pay attention to what is precious. In other words, I have learned to pick the "fruit" in the Word. For this reason, in the first message of this life- study, I pointed out that we may compare our reading of the book of Jeremiah to picking fruit from trees in an orchard. In picking fruit we do not care about old branches or dry leaves; we care for ripe fruit. The "old branches" and "dry leaves" in the fifty-two chapters of Jeremiah are there for the purpose of showing us the "fruit," that is, of showing us Christ as He is revealed in this book. The aspects of God'secon o my covered in this message should certainly be regarded as ripe fruit.
13我们来到二十三章时，会看见更多果子。五至六节说，『看哪，日子将到，我要给大卫兴起一个公义的苗；祂必掌王权，行事精明，在地上施行公理和公义。在祂的日子，犹大必得救，以色列必安然居住。祂的名必称为耶和华我们的义。』耶和华我们的义，是指在祂神性里的基督；公义的苗，是指在祂人性里的基督。这里所启示的基督，是那要作我们生命的一位。基督作我们的生命，是基于祂的救赎和神的称义。这生命一点不差就是基督这位耶和华作活水的泉源。在这泉源里，我们得著与神有关的一切，作我们的享受。
13We will see more fruit when we come to chapter twenty-three. Verses 5 and 6 say, "Behold, days are coming, / Declares Jehovah, / When I will raise up to David a righteous Shoot; / And He will reign as King and act prudently / And will execute judgment and righteousness in the land. / In His days Judah will be saved, / And Israel will dwell securely; / And this is His name by which He will be called, / Jehovah our righteousness." Jehovah our righteousness refers to Christ in His divinity, and a righteous Shoot refers to Christ in His humanity. The Christ revealed here is the One who will be our life. Christ's being our life is based upon His redemption and God's justification. This life is nothing less than Christ as Jehovah to be the fountain of living waters. In this fountain we have all things concerning God for our enjoyment