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利未记生命读经 · 第16篇

素祭的召会生活

The Meal Offering Church Life
1读经︰哥林多前书1:2,9,18,22-24,30;2:2-4,12;3:16;5:6-8;6:5,17,19;7:20,24,40;9:22,26-27;10:16-17,23-24,31;11:27-29;12:3,4,11,18,24,27;13:4-7;14:26,40;15:9-10;16:13。
1Scripture Reading: 1 Cor. 1:2, 9, 18, 22-24, 30; 4,12; 3:16; 5:6-8; 6:5, 17, 19; 7:20, 24, 40; 9:22, 26-27; 30; 2:2-4, 12; 3:16; 5:6-8; 6:5, 17, 19; 10:16-17, 23-24, 31; 11:27-29; 12:3, 4, 11, 18, 24, 27; 7:20, 24, 40; 9:22, 26-27; 10:16-17, 23-13:4-7; 14:26,40; 15:9-10; 16:13 24, 31; 11:27-29; 12:3, 4, 11, 18, 24, 27;
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213:4-7; 14:26,40; 15:9-10; 16:13
3哥林多前书给我们看见一种特别的召会生活。因为这里所启示的召会生活有许多面，我们很难用一个辞或一句短语，甚至一句话，摘述这召会生活。我们若在素祭这事上蒙到光照，看见这素祭描述主耶稣在地上的生活，就能看见哥林多前书所描述的召会生活与主耶稣的生活相符合。这生活乃是素祭的形成；哥林多前书所陈明的召会生活，可称为素祭的召会生活。
3The book of 1 Corinthians shows us a particular kind of church life. Since the church life revealed here has so many aspects, it is difficult for us to summarize this church life in a phrase or a clause or even a sentence. If we are enlightened concerning the meal offering, which describes the life of the Lord Jesus on earth, we will be able to see that the church life described in 1 Corinthians corresponds to the life of the Lord Jesus. This life was the formation of the meal offering, and the church life presented in 1 Corinthians may be called the meal offering church life
4我们己经看见，素祭包含四种元素︰面、油、乳香和盐。细面表征基督柔细的人性；油表征神的灵；乳香表征基督复活的馨香；盐表征基督的十字架，主观的对付我们生活中一切消极的事物。我们也看见，素祭不带酵或蜜。酵表征罪和一切消极的事物。蜜表征天然生命好的方面，包括天然的爱好。我们若读四福音，会看见素祭的四种成分乃是基督在地上之生活的成分，使祂成为真正的素祭。我们既是基督徒，就该过主耶稣所过同样的生活。这就是说，严格说来，基督徒的生活该是个素祭。
4We have seen that the meal offering contains four elements: fine flour, oil, frankincense, and salt. The fine flour signifies Christ’s fine humanity, the oil signifies the Spirit of God, the frankincense signifies the fragrance of Christ’s resurrection, and the salt signifies the cross of Christ, which, in a subjective way, deals with all the negative things in our life. We have also seen that the meal offering does not have either leaven or honey. Leaven signifies sin and all the negative things. Honey signifies the natural life in its good aspects, including natural affection. If we read the four Gospels, we will see that the four elements of the meal offering were the components of Christ’s life on earth and caused Him to be the real meal offering. As Christians, we should live the same kind of life the Lord Jesus lived. This means that, strictly speaking, the Christian life should be a meal offering
有最高人性的生活
A LIFE WITH THE HIGHEST HUMANITY
5我们的基督徒生活要成为素祭，就必须有最高人性的生活。这就是保罗嘱咐哥林多人要作『大丈夫』（林1前十六１３）的原因。按照哥林多前书的上下文，作大丈夫的意思就是我们有一种高超的、拔高的人性。
5In order for our Christian life to be a meal offering, it must be a life with the highest humanity. This is the reason Paul charged the Corinthians, saying, “Be a man” (1 Cor. 16:13). According to the context of Corinthians, to be a man means that we should have a high, uplifted humanity.
6我们若要有这样的人性，就要自我节制。这是保罗在九章二十六和二十七节的话所指明的。『所以我这样奔跑，不像无定向的；我这样斗拳，不像打空气；我乃是痛击己身，叫身为奴。』这两节启示保罗有高超的人性，他有强的、好的性格。他奔跑不像无定向的，斗拳不像打空气的，乃是攻克己身。他是一个真正的人，在他的为人生活中有高标准的道德。
6If we have such a humanity, we will exercise self- control. This is indicated by Paul’s word in 9:26 and 27. “I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so I box, not as beating the air; but I buffet my body and lead it as a slave.” These verses reveal that Paul had a high humanity and that he had a strong, excellent character. He did not run uncertainly or beat the air but exercised control over himself. He was a real man with a high standard of morality in his human living.
7林前十三章四至七节对爱有所描述。这描述实际上是给我们看见一个柔细的人性。四节说，『爱是恒久忍耐，又有恩慈；爱是不嫉妒；爱是不自夸，不张狂。』在我们软弱的人性里，我们的忍耐是很有限的，但爱是恒久忍耐。我们很容易嫉妒并贪心，但爱是不嫉妒。不仅如此，爱是不作不合宜的事，不求自己的益处，不轻易发怒，不计算人的恶，不因不义而欢乐。（林前十三5～6上。）反之，爱却与真理同欢乐，凡事包容，凡事相信，凡事盼望，凡事忍耐。（林前十三6下～7。）这里描述了一个柔细的人性和高超的人格。这指明哥林多前书是论到拔高之人性的书。在林前十六章十三节，保罗不是说，『要作英雄；』乃是说，『要作大丈夫。』从每一个角度和每一面来看，我们都该是大丈夫。从伦理的角度看，我们该是大丈夫；从自我节制的角度看，我们该是大丈夫；从智慧和爱的角度看，我们该是大丈夫。这就是有拔高的人性。在哥林多前书，我们看见真正的细面。
7First Corinthians 13:4-7 is a description of love. This description actually shows us a fine humanity. Verse 4 says, “Love suffers long, and is kind; love is not jealous; love does not brag, is not puffed up.” In our weak humanity, we have only limited patience, but love suffers long. Also, it is easy for us to be jealous and covetous, but love is not jealous. Furthermore, love does not behave unbecomingly, does not seek its own things, is not provoked, does not take account of evil, and does not rejoice over unrighteousness (vv. 5-6a). On the contrary, love rejoices with the truth, covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things (vv. 6b-7). Here we have a description of a fine humanity and of a high human character. This indicates that 1 Corinthians is a book concerned with the uplifting of humanity. In 16:13 Paul does not say, “Be a hero”; he says, “Be a man.” From every angle and from every side, we should be a man. From the angle of ethics, we should be a man. From the angle of self-control, we should be a man. From the angles of wisdom and love, we should be a man. This is to have an uplifted humanity. In the book of 1 Corinthians, we can see the genuine fine flour. This book surely presents the meal offering church life
8这卷书的确陈明了素祭的召会生活。
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9在素祭的召会生活里，头一项乃是柔细、拔高的人性。我们若要有正确的召会生活，就需要有强的性格。然而，这强的性格该是平衡的，因为不平衡的人性乃是偏倚的人性。所以，我们该刐刚强，也该柔软。在召会生活里，我们若刚强而不柔软，就会得罪人。虽然我们需要刚强也需要柔软，但我们不该太柔软。太软的人就像面条一样。有一句谚语说，我们能拿起一支竹，却不能拿起一根面条。圣徒若是太强或太软，就无法过正确的召会生活。我们需要平衡。为著召会生活，我们需要作有柔细、平衡、拔高之人性的人。
9In the meal offering church life, the first item is a fine, uplifted humanity. If we would have the proper church life, we all need to have a strong character. This strong character, however, should be balanced, for an unbalanced humanity is a biased humanity. Therefore, we should be strong and also soft. If in the church life we are strong without also being soft, we will offend others. Although we need to be soft as well as strong, we should not be too soft. Those who are too soft are like noodles. There is a proverb which says that we can liftup bamboo but we cannot liftup a noodle. We cannot have a proper church life if the saints are either too strong or too soft. We need to be balanced. For the church life, we need to be a man with a fine, balanced, uplifted humanity.
基督－神所给我们的那人
CHRIST—THE MAN GIVEN TO US BY GOD
10林前一章启示，基督是神所给我们的那人。二节说，主耶稣基督是『他们的，也是我们的。』基督是你们的，也是我们的。约翰三章十六节告诉我们，神爱世人－堕落的人类，将祂的独生子给了我们。现今基督是我们的，我们已经蒙召进入了神儿子我们主耶稣基督的交通。（林前一9。）我们现在可以享受祂、有分于祂、并彼此分享祂。
10Chapter one of 1 Corinthians reveals that Christ is the man given to us by God. Verse 2 says that the Lord Jesus Christ is “theirs and ours.” Christ is yours and mine. As John 3:16 tells us, God loved the world— fallen mankind—and gave His only begotten Son to us. Now Christ is ours, and we have been called into the fellowship of God’sS on, Jesus Christ our Lord (1 Cor. 1:9). We may now enjoy Him, participate in Him, and share Him with one another
11不仅如此，一章三十节说，『但你们得在基督耶稣里，是出于神，这基督成了从神给我们的智慧︰公义、圣别和救赎。』我们得在基督耶稣里乃是出于神，基督又成了给我们的智慧。这样一位基督已经赐给了我们。基督是神给我们的礼物。这礼物乃是一个人；祂是神的儿子，祂也是神人。并且神已经呼召我们进入了对这礼物的享受，又使这礼物对我们成了智慧︰公义、圣别和救赎。这是林前一章所启示的那人基督。
11Furthermore, 1:30 says, “Of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God: both righteousness and sanctification and redemption.” It is of God that we are in Christ Jesus, and Christ has become wisdom to us. Such a Christ has been given to us. Christ is God’sp resent, God’s gift, to us. This present is a person; He is the Son of God and also the God- man. God has also called us into the enjoyment of this gift and has made this gift to be wisdom to us, righteousness and sanctification and redemption. This is Christ as a man revealed in 1 Corinthians 1
神的灵
the Spirit of God
12素祭的第二种成分是油，表征神的灵。关于那灵，哥林多前书说了许多。保罗在二、三章说到神的灵。他在二章四节说，他说的话，讲的道，乃是『用那灵…的明证；』在十二节，他又告诉我们，我们已经领受『那出于神的灵，使我们能知道神白白恩赐我们的事。』然后在三章十六节他接著说，『岂不知你们是神的殿，神的灵住在你们里面么？』许多基督徒没有看见他们是神的殿，神的灵住在他们里面。你知道在你日常生活中，有一位住在你里面么？你领悟神的灵是以你作祂的居所么？那灵已经赐给了我们，现今祂就住在我们里面。保罗在六章十七节说，『但与主联合的，便是与主成为一灵。』这指明了主这灵与我们的灵调和。因著我们与主是一灵，我们就是祂的一部分。这不是说，我们成了那是敬拜对象之神的一部分；乃是说，我们在生活的经历中成了主的一部分。在我们的灵里，我们与神圣的灵是一。我们已经为那灵所调抹，甚至与那灵联合了。我们不仅领受了圣灵，我们已经与祂是一。
12The second element in the meal offering is the oil, which signifies the Spirit of God. First Corinthians has a great deal to say about the Spirit. Paul speaks of the Spirit of God in chapters two and three. In 2:4 he says that his speech and preaching were “in demonstration of the Spirit,” and in verse 12 he tells us that we have received “the Spirit which is from God, that we may know the things which have been freely given to us by God.” Then in 3:16 he goes on to say, “Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwells in you?” Many Christians do not realize that they are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in them. Do you know that in your daily life there is One who indwells you? Do you realize that the Spirit of God takes you as His dwelling place? The Spirit has been given to us, and now He dwells in us. In 6:17 Paul says, “He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.” This indicates the mingling of the Lord as the Spirit with our spirit. Since we are one spirit with the Lord, we are part of Him. This does not mean that we are part of God as an object of worship; it means that we are a part of the Lord in our life experience. In our spirit we are one with the divine Spirit. We have been oiled with the Spirit, and we have even been joined to the Spirit. Not only have we received the Holy Spirit— we are one with Him.
13我们若没有与那灵是一，就无法有召会生活。召会生活乃是为圣灵所调抹并有圣灵调抹之人性的生活。我们与圣灵是一，就需要留在这一的里面。
13If we were not one with the Spirit, we could not have the church life. The church life is a life of humanity oiled by the Holy Spirit and with the Holy Spirit. We are one with the Holy Spirit, and we need to remain in this oneness
在复活里的基督
CHRIST IN RESURRECTION
14在哥林多前书我们也有乳香，就是在复活里的基督。事实上，十五章整章是讲复活的事。所以，我们在这卷书里的确看见复活基督的馨香之气。有些基督徒被魔鬼欺骗，说没有死人的复活。保罗与他们争辩说，『若没有死人的复活，基督也就没有复活了；若基督没有复活，我们所传扬的，便是徒然，你们所信的，也是徒然，我们也就被发现是神的假见证人，因为死人若真不复活，我们就是妄证神叫祂所没有复活的基督复活了。因为死人若不复活，基督也就没有复活了。』（林前十五13～16。）在十五章九、十节，保罗说到他对复活基督的经历。首先，他在九节说到自己是『使徒中最小的。』然后在十节他说，『然而因著神的恩，我成了我今天这个人，并且神的恩临到我，不是徒然的；反而我比众使徒格外劳苦，但这不是我，乃是神的恩与我同在。』在这节里，神的恩等于复活，等于复活的基督。我们今天正在享受之神的恩，就是在复活里的基督。就保罗而论，他说，这不是我，乃是神的恩；意思就是说，这不是我，乃是在复活里的基督。
14In 1 Corinthians we also have the frankincense, that is, Christ in resurrection. In fact, one entire chapter, chapter fifteen, is devoted to the matter of resurrection. Therefore, in this book we surely have the fragrance of the resurrected Christ. Some of the Corinthians had been deceived by the Devil to say that there would be no resurrection of the dead. Paul argued with them, saying, “If there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then is our preaching vain; your faith also is vain; and we are found also false witnesses of God, because we witnessed concerning God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise if indeed the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised” (15:13-16). In 15:9 and 10 Paul speaks concerning his experience of the resurrected Christ. First, in verse 9 he refers to himself as “the least of the apostles.” Then in verse 10 he says, “But by the grace of God I am what I am; and His grace unto me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.” In this verse the grace of God equals resurrection; it equals the resurrected Christ. The grace of God which we are enjoying today is Christ in resurrection. With Paul we can say that it is not I but the grace of God, not I but Christ in resurrection
15保罗在五十八节给我们鼓励的话﹕『所以我亲爱的弟兄们，你们务要坚固，不可摇动，常常竭力多作主工，因为知道你们的劳苦，在主里面不是徒然的。』我们的劳苦不是徒然的，因为我们不是在自己天然的生命里劳苦，乃是在基督的复活里劳苦。我们在祂复活生命里为著祂的劳苦，绝不会是徒然的。
15In verse 58 Paul gives us a word of encouragement. “Wherefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.” Our labor is not in vain because we are laboring not in our natural life but in the resurrection of Christ. Our labor for the Lord in His resurrection life will never be in vain
留在我们于
REMAINING IN THE STATE
其中蒙召的身分里
IN WHICH WE WERE CALLED
16在七章保罗嘱咐信徒留在他们于其中蒙召的身分里﹕『弟兄们，你们各人是在甚么身分里蒙召，仍要与神一同留在这身分里。』（林前七24。）他用奴仆作比方。『你是一个奴仆蒙召么？不要在意；但即使你能自由，也宁可仍用奴仆的身分。因为一个奴21-仆在主里蒙召，就是属于主得自由的人。』（林前七21～22上。）保罗不是在作释放奴仆的工，乃是鼓励作奴仆的信徒留在奴仆的身分里，就是留在他们在其中蒙召的身分里，过一种能忍受奴役并胜过奴役的生活。奴仆特别有机会，证明复活的实际，并藉著过胜过一种奴役的生活来荣耀基督。这样的生活是何等的见证！对于婚姻生活，原则是一样的。保罗说，『妻子不可离开丈夫。』（林前七10下。）他在十二、十三节接著说，『倘若某弟兄有不信的妻子，妻子也情愿和他同住，他就不要离弃妻子；妻子有不信的丈夫，丈夫也情愿和她同住，她就不要离弃丈夫。』这要求有高超的人性。今天有许多离婚，原因就是人的人性太软弱了。要与难相处的丈夫或妻子同住，要求我们作『大丈夫，』且有拔高的人性。
16In chapter seven Paul charges the believers to remain in the state in which they were called. “Each one, brothers, in what state he was called, in this let him remain with God” (v. 24). He uses the slaves as an example. “Were you a slave when called? Let it not concern you; but, if even you are able to become free, use it rather. For he who was called in the Lord when a slave is the Lord’s freedman” (vv. 22a). Instead of doing a work of emancipation, Paul encouraged the believers who were slaves to remain in slavery, the state in which they were called, and live a life that can endure slavery and overcome it. The slaves have a particular opportunity to demonstrate the reality of resurrection and to glorify Christ by living a life that overcomes slavery. What a testimony such a living would be! The principle is the same with married life. Paul says, “A wife should not be separated from her husband” (v. 10). In verses 12 and 13 he goes on to say, “If any brother has an unbelieving wife and she consents to dwell with him, let him not leave her; and a wife who has an unbelieving husband and he consents to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband.” This requires a high humanity. The reason there are so many divorces today is that people’s humanity is too weak. To stay with a husband or wife who is difficult to live with and whom we may not like requires that we “be a man” and have an uplifted humanity.
17我认识一对夫妇，他们在得救以前决定离婚。他们不再相爱，就决定离婚。然而，他们听见福音，接受主耶稣，并且得救了。从那时起，他们有另一个人活在里面，拔高了他们的人性，改变了他们的性格。他们就放下离婚的念头，开始甜美的、在基督复活的馨香里活在一起。接触到他们的人，都能感觉到基督复活生命的馨香。保罗在林前七章的说法非常不寻常，也非常有智慧。他没有强迫一位弟兄与妻子同住，他乃是嘱咐圣徒留在他们于其中蒙召的身分里。结了婚的就不该离开自己的妻子或丈夫，因为离开自己的配偶实际上就是离开神。已婚的信徒要在神面前与他们的配偶同住。
17I knew a married couple who, before they were saved, decided to get a divorce. They did not love each other, and they were determined to be divorced. However, they heard the gospel, received the Lord Jesus, and were saved. From that time on, they had Christ as another person living in them, and He uplifted their humanity and changed their character. They dropped the idea of divorce and began to live together in sweetness, in the fragrance of Christ’s resurrection. Those who contacted them could sense the fragrance of the resurrection life of Christ. Paul’sway in 1 Corinthians 7 is very unusual and also very wise. He did not force a brother to stay with his wife. Rather, he charged the saints to remain with God in the state in which they were called. Those who are married should not leave their wife or husband, for to leave one’s spouse is actually to leave God. Married believers are to remain with their spouse in the presence of God
18这里的点乃是，圣徒不该期望改变他们的身分。关于这事，我们可用保罗作例子。他是一个生在罗马帝国里的犹太人。然而，他从不鼓励犹太人释放自己脱离罗马人。反之，他在罗马十三章嘱咐圣徒要服从罗马帝国的权柄。这指明他鼓励他们不要改变自己的身分，乃要留在他们于其中蒙召的身分里。
18The point here is that the saints should not expect to have a change in their status. Concerning this, we may take Paul as an example. He, a Jew, was born under Roman imperialism. However, he never encouraged the Jews to emancipate themselves from the Romans. On the contrary, in Romans 13 he charged the saints to be subject to the authorities of the Roman empire. This indicates that he encouraged them not to change their status but to remain in the state in which they were called
19这身分越差，人就越有机会活基督。那些作奴仆的人，当他们在奴役中的时候，能在复活里活基督。这就是作大丈夫。我们都能成为被那灵调抹而与那灵联为一灵的人，我们也能完全在复活里，彰显复活基督的馨香之气。
19The worse this state is, the more opportunity one has to live Christ. Those in slavery can live Christ in resurrection while they are in slavery. This is to be a man. We all can be men oiled with the Spirit and joined to the Spirit to be one spirit, and we can be fully in resurrection, manifesting the fragrance of the resurrected Christ
基督的十字架
the cross of Christ
20素祭的第四种成分－盐，也见于哥林多前书。保罗写信给哥林多人的时候，说到基督的十字架和钉十字架的基督。『犹太人是求神迹，希利尼人是寻求智慧，我们却是传扬钉十字架的基督。』（林前一22～23上。）保罗不是说他传扬得荣耀的基督，乃是说他传扬钉十字架的基督。保罗不是传扬神迹或智慧，他乃是传扬钉十字架的基督。
20The salt — the fourth element of the meal offering — can also be found in 1 Corinthians. In writing to the Corinthians, Paul spoke regarding the cross of Christ and the crucified Christ. “Jews indeed ask for signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified” (1:22-23a). Paul did not say that he preached Christ glorified; he said that he preached Christ crucified. Paul did not preach miracles or wisdom—he preached Christ crucified.
21钉十字架的基督就是不作任何事来救自己的基督。当主耶稣在十字架上的时候，『祭司长和经学家也是这样戏弄祂，彼此说，祂救了别人，不能救自己。以色列的王基督，现在可以从十字架上下来，叫我们看见就信。』（可十五31～32上。）无论人怎样向祂挑战，主耶稣仍留在十字架上，不作甚么来救自己。对哥林多人，保罗传扬这样一位钉十字架的基督。这对希利尼人为愚拙，他们夸自己的文化和智慧。今天的光景也是一样。人仍夸自己的文化和智慧，我们需要向他们传扬钉十字架的基督。
21The crucified Christ is a Christ who does nothing to save Himself. When the Lord Jesus was on the cross, “the chief priests with the scribes, mocking with one another, said, He saved others; himself he cannot save! Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe!” (Mark 15:31-32a). No matter how much He was challenged, the Lord Jesus remained on the cross, doing nothing to save Himself. To the Corinthians Paul preached such a crucified Christ. To the Greeks, who were proud of their culture and wisdom, this was foolishness. The situation is the same today. People are still proud of their culture and wisdom, and we need to preach the crucified Christ to them.
22林前一章十八节说，『因为十字架的话，对那正在灭亡的人为愚拙，对我们正在得救的人却为神的大能。』藉著福音的传扬，十字架的话就能拯救人。我们传福音若要有能力，就需要过钉十字架的生活。我们必须学习过钉十字架的生活，每天让十字架除去自己。我们可能在我们的婚姻生活中经历这事，因为每个妻子都是她丈夫的十字架，每个丈夫也都是妻子的十字架。这个安排是为叫我们被盐腌，这乃是出于主的主宰。
22First Corinthians 1:18 says, “The word of the cross is to those who are perishing foolishness, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” Through the preaching of the gospel, the word of the cross can save people. If we would have power in preaching the gospel, we need to live a crucified life. We must learn to live a crucified life, being crossed out every day. We may experience this in our married life, for every wife is a cross to her husband and every husband is a cross to his wife. This arrangement, which is for our salting, is of the Lord’s sovereignty.
23我们不仅在婚姻生活中被盐腌，也在召会生活中被盐腌。召会生活中的确有盐腌的事。一面，在召会生活中我们有喜乐；另一面，我们也有从盐腌而来的不愉快。在深处，弟兄们可能觉得自己被姊妹们用盐腌了，被除去了。姊妹们对弟兄们可能有同样的感觉。召会生活中有许多用盐腌的事。在哥林多前书，保罗不是教导我们要得荣耀，乃是教导我们要被钉十字架。没有十字架，就没有召会生活。没有盐就没有素祭。素祭必须加上盐。
23We are salted not only in our married life but also in the church life. There is such a thing as being salted in the church life. On the one hand, in the church life we have happiness. On the other hand, we also have the unpleasantness that comes from being salted. Deep within, the brothers may feel that they are being salted, crossed out, by the sisters. The sisters may have the same feeling about the brothers. In the church life a great deal of salting takes place. In 1 Corinthians Paul does not teach us to be glorified. He teaches us to be crucified. Without the cross, there is no church life. If there is no salt, there is no meal offering. The meal offering must be salted
对付酵－
DEALING WITH LEAVEN
犯罪和消极的事
THE SINFUL AND NEGATIVE THINGS
24我们已经指出，素祭中没有酵或蜜。哥林多前书同时对付了酵－犯罪和消极的事，以及蜜－天然的生命。五章六节下半至八节对付了酵。『岂不知一点面酵能使全团发起来么？你们要把旧酵除净，好使你们成为新团，正如你们是无酵的一样，因为我们的逾越节基督，已经被杀献祭了。所以我们守这节，不可用旧酵，也不可用恶毒邪恶的酵，只用纯诚真实的无酵饼。』这里我们看见召会生活中不容忍有酵。
24We have pointed out that in the meal offering there is neither leaven nor honey. In 1 Corinthians both leaven—the sinful and negative things—and honey— the natural life—are dealt with. In 5:6b-8 we have the dealing with leaven. “Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed our Passover, Christ, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice and evil, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” Here we see that leaven is not tolerated in the church life
对付蜜－天然的生命
DEALING WITH HONEY—THE NATURAL LIFE
25林前十五章十节指明，在保罗的经历中，蜜－天然的生命－受到对付。他在这节回想说，『我比众使徒格外劳苦，但这不是我，乃是神的恩与我同在。』保罗的劳苦不是凭著他，不是凭著天然的生命，不是凭著蜜。保罗当然不是一个性格软弱的人。他得救以前，性格非常强，带头逼迫圣徒。但他得救以后成为使徒，比其他使徒更劳苦。然而，他的劳苦不是在天然的生命里。
25First Corinthians 15:10 indicates that in Paul’s experience the honey, the natural life, was dealt with. Recall that in this verse he says, “I labored more abundantly than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God.” Paul’s labor was not by the I, not by the natural life, not by honey. Paul certainly was not a person with a weak character. Before he was saved he was very strong in character, taking the lead to persecute the saints. But after he was saved, he was made an apostle and he labored more than the other apostles. However, his labor was not in the natural life
26在召会生活里，天然的生命，天然的爱好该受到对付。这就是说，召会生活中不该有蜜。我们都喜欢天然并活天然的生命，但在召会生活中，不许可有天然的生命，天然的生命必须被治死。天然生命的蜜必须被盐杀死，被基督的十字架杀死。
26In the church life the natural life and the natural affection should be dealt with. This means that there should be no honey in the church life. We all like to be natural and live a natural life, but in the church life the natural life is not permitted. It must be put to death. The honey of the natural life must be killed by the salt, by the cross of Christ.
27我们不该在素祭里放酵或蜜。这就是说，我们在召会生活中不该有消极的事或天然的生命。
27We should not put any leaven or honey in the meal offering. This means that in the church life we should not have the negative things or the natural life
一个饼
ONE BREAD
28召会生活乃是林前十章十七节的一个饼所表征团体的素祭。『因著只有一个饼，我们虽多，还是一个身体，因我们都分受这一个饼。』这饼表征团体的生命。我们有分于主的桌子时，就享受这团体的生命。你是自己领受饼和杯么？当然不是！你是与众圣徒一同有分于饼和杯。这是交通的事。十章十六节说，『我们所祝福的福杯，岂不是基督之血的交通么？我们所擘开的饼，岂不是基督身体的交通么？』原因就在于此。因为这是交通的事，所以我们是团体的分受饼和杯。这团体的分受乃是召会生活的表征，也是召会生活的见证。
28The church life is a corporate meal offering signified by the one bread in 10:17. “Seeing that we who are many are one bread, one Body; for we all partake of the one bread.” This bread, or cake, signifies the corporate life. We enjoy this corporate life when we partake of the Lord’stable. Do you take the bread and the cup by yourself? Of course not! You partake of the bread and the cup with the saints. This is a matter of fellowship. This is the reason 10:16 says, “The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a fellowship of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a fellowship of the body of Christ?” Because this is a matter of fellowship, we partake of the bread and of the cup in a corporate way. This corporate partaking is a sign of the church life; it is also a testimony of the church life
29哥林多前书所说的一切，都与召会生活这团体的生活有关。按照这卷书，为著这团体的生活，我们需要作大丈夫，为圣灵所调抹，活在十字架下，过一种带著基督复活的乳香，却不带酵或蜜的生活。这就是作素祭的召会生活。整个召会生活乃是一个素祭。在这素祭里，上好的分是给神享受的，剩下的是给我们领受，作我们事奉神时日常的食物。所以，我们乃是素祭，作满足神并𫗪养人的食物。神要在每个地方都有素祭。祂渴望每个地方召会都是满足祂的素祭，并且每天给圣徒完满的供应。我们的饥饿得著满足，不仅是因著基督，也是因著召会生活。召会生活满足我们，因为召会生活是团体的素祭，
29All the points covered in 1 Corinthians are related to the church life, to the corporate life. According to this book, for this corporate life we need to be a man who is oiled with the Holy Spirit, who lives a life under the cross with the resurrection of Christ as the frankincense, and who does not have leaven or honey. This is the church life as a meal offering. The whole church life is a meal offering. In this meal offering the top portion is for God’s enjoyment, and the remainder is for us to take as our daily food in our service to God. We, therefore, are a meal offering as food for God’s satisfaction and for the nourishment of others. God wants to have a meal offering in every locality. He desires that every local church be a meal offering that satisfies Him and that fully supplies the saints day by day. Our hunger is satisfied not only by Christ but also by the church life. The church life satisfies us because the church life is a corporate meal