Books
马可福音生命读经 · 第41篇

奴仆救主为著祂救赎服事豫备（八）

The Preparation of the Slave-Savior for His Redemptive Service (8
1读经：马可福音十三章一至三十七节。我在本篇信息要进一步交通到马可十三章，这是很难懂的一章圣经。好多新约读者仅仅把马可十三章当作豫言。事实上，本章不仅是豫言，也是主耶稣对跟从祂的人所说豫备的话，这可由一节的『殿』与八节的『产难』所指明。基督是宇宙的顶替主耶稣在十一章洁净圣殿。（15～17。）实在说来，主是在定罪圣殿。主耶稣洁净圣殿后，就对付犹太教的首领，他们是一班特别关心圣殿的人。门徒也听见主对这些首领所说的一切话。主彻底的对付了圣殿与犹太教首领之后，就从殿里出来。十三章一节说，『耶稣从殿里出来的时候，有一个门徒对祂说，夫子，请看，何等的石头，何等的建筑！』这很强的指出，主的门徒还是被关于圣殿的传统观念所霸占，而圣殿是犹太教的记号或象征。门徒这样重视圣殿，意思是说，他们完全被老旧的宗教所占有。
1Scripture Reading: Mark 13:1-37 In this message I would like to give a further word on chapter thirteen, one of the most difficult chapters for us to understand. Many readers of the New Testament regard Mark 13 merely as a prophecy. Actually, this chapter is not merely a prophecy; it is also a word of preparation given by the Lord Jesus to His followers. Two indications of this are the word “temple” in verse 1 and the expression “birth pangs” in verse 8. CHRIST AS THE UNIVERSAL REPLACEMENT In chapter eleven the Lord Jesus cleansed the temple (11:15-17). In a very real sense, the Lord condemned the temple. After cleansing the temple, the Lord Jesus dealt with the leaders of Judaism, those who were especially concerned for the temple. The disciples heard all that the Lord said to those leaders. After such a thorough dealing with the temple and with the Jewish leaders, the Lord went out of the temple. Mark 13:1 says, “And as He was going out of the temple, one of His disciples says to Him, Teacher, behold, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!” This is a strong indication that the Lord’s disciples were still occupied with the traditional concept of the temple, which was a sign or symbol of the Jewish religion. For the disciples to still have such a regard for the temple meant that they were fully occupied with their old religion
2当主耶稣在地上时，神经纶的目的，乃是要从老旧事物的时代转向基督。神愿意以基督来顶替前一时代中的事物。故此，我们说神而人者基督乃是宇宙的顶替。基督作为宇宙的顶替，首先在变化山上启示出来。主把三个门徒带到山上，为了给他们看见，神在祂的经纶里，定意要以基督顶替一切。摩西或以利亚都没有地位，天然的人也没有地位，一切人事物都必须由基督这包罗万有者所顶替。主耶稣洁净圣殿，就是豫备要以祂自己来顶替老旧的事物。祂取消、废掉旧时代的事物，乃是为著铺路，好叫门徒能以祂作他们的顶替。祂豫备他们，为了把他们带到祂的死与复活里，使祂能作他们包罗万有的顶替。
2When the Lord Jesus was on earth. God’s in tent i on in His economy was to change the dispensation from the old things to Christ. It was God’s desire that Christ would replace the things of the former dispensation. This is the reason we say that Christ, who is both God and man, is the universal replacement. Christ as the universal replacement was first revealed on the Mount of Transfiguration. The Lord brought three of His disciples to the top of this mountain in order to show them that God in His economy intended to replace everything with Christ. There would be no place for Moses or Elijah, and no place for the natural man. Everything and everyone must be replaced by Christ, the all-inclusive One. When the Lord Jesus cleansed the temple, He was preparing to replace the old things with Himself. He was canceling, annulling, the things of the old dispensation in order to prepare the way for His disciples to take Him as their replacement. He was preparing them to be brought into His death and resurrection so that He might be their all-inclusive replacement.
产生新人
THE PRODUCING OF THE NEW MAN
3我们藉著基督的死与复活而以祂作我们的顶替，乃是从旧造里出来，并进入新造。神的经纶首先是产生旧造，然后从旧造生出新造。
3To take Christ as our replacement through His death and resurrection is to be brought out of the old creation and to enter into the new creation. God’secon o my is first to produce the old creation, and then to bring forth the new creation out of the old
4神的新造主要的就是新人。新人从旧造产生出来，是要经过一个出生的过程。十三章八节的『产难』是指生产新人的疼痛。从基督复活、升天，到祂再来，其中相隔的一段时间，是为了生产新人。我们相信我们现今活著，乃是快到新人生产期的末了。当我们回顾主升天之后十九个世纪多的历史，很容易看见，历世纪以来，有许多人为著新人的生产经历产难。犹太人、外邦人、与世界的各种文化、各种文明，都有分于这个产难，甚至所发生的战争也都是产难的一部分。这产难乃是为著一件事，就是生出新人。今天世界的局势连同其产难，都是为著新人的出生。这是我注意世界局势的原因。
4God’s new creation is mainly the new man. The producing of the new man out of the old creation involves the process of birth. The expression “birth pangs” in 13:8 refers to the travail involved in the birth of the new man. The period of time between Christ’s resurrection and ascension and His coming back is for the delivery of the new man. We believe that we are living toward the end of that period of time in which the new man is being delivered. Looking back upon more than nineteen centuries of history since the Lord’s ascension, it is easy for us to realize that throughout the centuries many have experienced the birth pangs for the delivery of the new man. The Jews, the Gentiles, and all the cultures and civilizations of the world have been part of these birth pangs. Even the wars that have taken place have been part of the birth pangs. These birth pangs are for one thing—the bringing forth of the new man. Today’s world situation with its birth pangs is for the birth of the new man. This is the reason I watch the world situation
传扬福音
THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL
与遭受逼迫
AND THE SUFFERING OF PERSECUTION
5你们知道已过十九个世纪以来发生了甚么事？从第一世纪到二十世纪以来，我们看见藉著传扬福音与遭受逼迫，新人正在生产出来。我们需要明白，为甚么新人是在逼迫中藉著传扬福音生出来的。人堕落以后，旧造就在神的仇敌撒但霸占的手下。神现今正在作工，要从祂的旧造里产生新人。但仇敌不愿意这样的事发生，就煽动万事万物来反对神的经纶，拦阻新人的出生；这就是逼迫的原因。从彼得在五旬节那天站起来传福音的时候开始，这逼迫就一直发生。逼迫首先来自犹太人同犹太宗教，然后又来自外邦人，包括罗马政治的统治者。历世纪以来，传福音的人受逼迫从未间断。
5Do you know what has been taking place for the last nineteen hundred years? The centuries from the first century until the twentieth have witnessed the delivery of the new man through the preaching of the gospel and the suffering of persecution. We need to understand why the new man is brought forth by the preaching of the gospel amid persecution. From the time of man’s fall, the old creation has been under the usurping hand of Satan, God’se ne my. God is now working to produce a new man out of His old creation. The enemy, however, is not willing to allow such a thing, and he is instigating everything and every matter to oppose God’secon o my in order to frustrate the birth of the new man. This is the reason for persecutions. From the time Peter stood up to preach the gospel on the day of Pentecost, this persecution has been taking place. Persecution first came from the Jews with their religion and then from the Gentiles, including the Roman rulers in their politics. Throughout all the centuries this persecution of those who preach the gospel has not ceased.
6过去一千九百多年，有两件事不断的进行，就是传福音与受逼迫。这些事从未间断，乃是出于主的主宰。一世纪又一世纪，向主忠信的人不惜代价的传扬福音，甚至不顾生死。同时，撒但却霸占旧造，连同旧人及其社会与文化，煽动起无数的逼迫。撒但反对神的经纶，结果怎样？结果撒但与世界都将一无所得。至终，新人要完全生产出来。新人经过漫长的出生过程之后，主耶稣就要回来，在圣徒被提的时候，接收这新人。这意思是说，主耶稣回来的时候，要有被提的事；这被提乃是新人最终的生产。如果我们看见这点，再去读马可十三章，我们就会从神的话得到新鲜的光。在本章，主使一班紧紧跟从祂的人，这样明白神的经纶。
6During the past nineteen hundred years, two things have been going on continually: the preaching of the gospel and persecution. It is sovereign of the Lord that these things have not ceased. Century after century, the Lord’s faithful ones have preached the gospel at any cost, even at the risk of their lives. Meanwhile, Satan, having usurped the old creation with the old man and his society and culture, has instigated a great deal of persecution. What will be the outcome of Satan’s opposition to God’secon o my? The outcome will be that neither Satan nor the world will gain anything. Ultimately, the outcome will be the full delivery of the new man. After the lengthy process for the birth of the new man, the Lord Jesus will come back to receive the new man at the time of the saints’ rapture. This means that when the Lord Jesus comes back, there will be a rapture, and this rapture will be the final delivery of the new man. If we see this and then read chapter thirteen of Mark again, we shall receive fresh light from the Word. In this chapter the Lord was bringing His close followers into such an understanding of God’secon o my
神经纶的中心点
THE CENTRAL POINT OF GOD’SECON O MY
7神经纶的中心点就是藉著基督的死与复活，产生新人。基督的死了结了旧造，祂的复活使新造有新生的起头。因此，进入基督的死与复活，就是进入旧造的了结，并有新造的新生起头。在这新生的起头里，我们享受包罗万有、宇宙的顶替，就-是神人基督那活的、奇妙的、绝佳的人位。当我们享受基督作宇宙的顶替时，祂就会成为我们的一切，因为祂将以祂自己来顶替一切。因这缘故，保罗说，在新人里『并没有希利尼人和犹太人、受割礼的和未受割礼的、化外人、西古提人、为奴的、自主的，惟有基督是一切，又在一切之内』。（西三11。）在新人里没有种族的区分；在新人里没有文化，也没有社会阶级。基督这宇宙的顶替是一切，又在一切之内。
7The central point of God’secon o my is the producing of the new man through Christ’s death and resurrection. The death of Christ has terminated the old creation, and His resurrection has germinated the new creation. Therefore, to be brought into Christ’s death and resurrection is to be brought into the termination of the old creation and the germination of the new creation. In this germination we enjoy the all inclusive, universal replacement, who is the living, wonderful, marvelous Person of Christ, the God-man. When we enjoy Christ as the universal replacement, He will become everything to us, for He will replace everything with Himself. This is the reason Paul says that in the new man “there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, freeman, but Christ is all and in all” (Col. 3:10-11). In the new man there are no racial differences. In the new man there is no culture or social rank. Instead, Christ, the universal replacement, is all and is in all.
8基督要顶替整个旧造，而成为整个新造。这事如何发生？惟有藉著基督的死与复活才有的。因此，我们必须被带进基督的死与复活，我们乃是在祂的复活里，享受祂作包罗万有、经过过程、内住、赐生命的灵。这位顶替一切者，兼有神人二性。今天，这奇妙的人位就是复合的灵，成为我们的享受，使神藉这新人得著彰显。我盼望我们都能蒙光照，看见这个与马可十三章八节『产难』有关的异象。要生产新人，必须有产难。生产是藉著福音而有的，而传扬福音总是带来逼迫。我们无论到那里去传福音，都该豫备好受逼迫。如果你们传福音，教导真理，从来没有受苦，总是受到热烈的欢迎，你们就必须查证一下，到底你们的活动是不是真出于主。如果你们的传讲与教导都是出于主的，你们就会受逼迫。因为生产新人必定会有产难。即使今天，这生产与产难还一直在进行著。
8Christ will replace the entire old creation, and He will be the whole new creation. How can this take place? It can take place only through Christ’s death and resurrection. Hence, it is necessary for us to be brought into the death and resurrection of Christ. In His resurrection we enjoy Him as the all-inclusive, processed, indwelling, life-giving Spirit. The Person who is this universal replacement is the One with both divinity and humanity. Today this wonderful Person is the compound Spirit to be our enjoyment so that God may have the new man for His expression. I hope that we shall all be enlightened to see the vision related to the words “birth pangs” in 13:8. These birth pangs are required for the delivery of the new man. The delivery takes place through the gospel, and the preaching of the gospel is always accompanied by persecution. Wherever we go to preach the gospel, we should be ready to suffer persecution. If you are preaching the gospel and teaching the truth, yet you never suffer anything but are always warmly welcomed, you need to question whether your activity is really of the Lord. If your preaching and teaching are of the Lord, you will face persecution. The reason for this is that the delivery of the new man always involves birth pangs. Even today, this birth with its birth pangs is still taking place
9进入基督的死与复活我们读马可十三章时，不应该偏离本章的要点。这里有一件重要的事，就是主告诉紧紧跟随祂的人，整个世界局势乃是为了产生一个新人。这新人惟有藉著基督包罗万有的死，和祂奇妙的复活才能产生。因此，我们需要进入祂的死与复活里。
9ENTERING INTO CHRIST’S DEATH AND RESURRECTION As we read chapter thirteen of the Gospel of Mark, we should not be distracted from the main point in this chapter. The crucial matter here is that the Lord was telling His close followers that the entire world situation is for the producing of a new man. This new man can be produced only through Christ’sa ll-inclusive death and His wonderful resurrection. This is the reason we need to be brought into His death and resurrection
10你们若研读彼得在五旬节传福音的记载，就会看见他强调主耶稣的死与复活这两件事。他告诉人说，他们所藐视并钉十字架的那位，神却尊重祂，叫祂从死人中复活。他们把祂钉在十字架上，神却使祂复活了。主的跟从者都是祂的见证人，特别是祂死与复活的见证人。
10If you study the account of Peter’sp reaching on the day of Pentecost, you will see that he emphasized the two matters of the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus. He told the people that the One they despised and crucified has been honored by God, for God raised Him from among the dead. They crucified Him, but God resurrected Him. The Lord’s followers were His witnesses. In particular, they were witnesses of His death and resurrection
11我们看见基督的死是旧造的了结，祂的复活是新造新生的起头。我们在新造里享受祂这包罗万有的一位，作为神所赐给我们宇宙的顶替。基督不仅是我们的救主，也是我们的生命和一切；祂不仅是我们的一切，也是神经纶里的一切。神的经纶就是要产生一个新人，在这新人里只有基督。在新人里，基督在各人之内，基督是每一个人，基督是一切；我们都需要看见这奇妙的异象。
11We have seen that Christ’s death was the termination of the old creation and that His resurrection was the germination of the new creation. In the new creation we enjoy Him, the all-inclusive One, as our universal replacement provided by God. Christ is not only our Savior—He is our life and everything to us. Not only is He everything to us; He is everything in God’secon o my. God’secon o my is to produce a new man, and in this new man there is nothing but Christ. In the new man Christ is in everyone, Christ is everyone, and Christ is everything. We all need to see this marvelous vision.
12关于神经纶的异象，我们要看见一件重要的事，就是我们需要进入基督的死与复活里，使我们能完满的享受祂作宇宙的顶替。今天，作我们顶替的基督，乃是包罗万有的灵。我们无意争辩神圣三一或那灵的道理。我们的目的只是要帮助信徒知道，我们需要进入基督包罗万有的死，使我们能在祂的复活里。这样，我们在祂的复活里就能有分于祂，并享受祂作赐生命的灵，作我们的顶替。这灵如今住在我们灵里；事实上，我们已经与祂成为一灵。（林前六17。）当我们活在这灵里，甚至活这灵的时候，祂就会使基督的死、复活和升天，成为我们的实际。
12Concerning the vision of God’secon o my, the crucial matter for us to see is that we need to enter into Christ’s death and resurrection so that we may participate in the full enjoyment of Him as the universal replacement. Today as our replacement Christ is the life-giving Spirit. It is not our intention to argue in a doctrinal way concerning the Trinity or the Spirit. Our aim is to help the believers know that we need to enter into the all-inclusive death of Christ so that we may be in His resurrection. Then in His resurrection we shall participate in Him and enjoy Him as the life-giving Spirit to be our replacement. This Spirit now dwells in our spirit. We have actually become one spirit with Him (1 Cor. 6:17). As we live in the Spirit and even live this Spirit, He will make Christ’s death, resurrection, and ascension real to us
世界局势的目的
THE PURPOSE OF THE WORLD SITUATION
13整个世界的局势是为了完成以色列复国，也是为著完成新人的出生。因为我们很清楚的看见这两件事，所以我们能看见政治家与政客所看不见的。他们不认识世界局势是为著以色列复国和新人的出生。感谢主，我们知道世上发生的事，目的是为著甚么。我们感谢祂，使我们能清楚看见世界的局势。
13The entire world situation is for the completion of the re-formation of Israel and also for the completion of the birth of the new man. Because we have a clear view concerning these two matters, we can see something that statesmen and politicians cannot see. They do not realize that the world situation is for the re-formation of Israel and the birth of the new man. Thank the Lord that we know the purpose for the things happening in the world. We thank Him for a clear view of the world situation
享受基督作我们的顶替
ENJOYING CHRIST AS OUR REPLACEMENT
14我们不仅知道世界局势与神经纶之间的关系，也知道我们这班信徒在那里。我们是在基督的死与复活里，享受祂作我们包罗万有的顶替。这意思是说，我们是在基督里。
14Not only do we know where the world is in relation to God’secon o my; we also know where we are as believers. We are in the death and resurrection of Christ, and we are in the enjoyment of Him as our all-inclusive replacement. This means that we are in Christ
15许多人谈论在基督里，却不完全明白这是甚么意思。在基督里就是藉著祂包罗万有的死与祂奇妙的复活，完满的享受祂作完整、宇宙的顶替。
15Many talk about being in Christ without having a full realization of what this means. To be in Christ is to be in the full enjoyment of Him as the entire, universal replacement through His all-inclusive death and His wonderful resurrection
16我们需要马可福音来帮助我们看见，藉著基督的死与复活，祂成了我们的顶替。新约的信徒不是在外表上进入基督的死与复活。我们从马可福音看见，代表我们的那些早期信徒，从一开始就跟从主。至终，他们与我们都经过一个过程，进入了基督包罗万有的死与复活里。
16We need the Gospel of Mark to help us see that Christ is our replacement through His death and resurrection. It was not in an external, outward way that the New Testament believers entered into the death and resurrection of Christ. From the Gospel of Mark we see that the early disciples, our representatives, followed the Lord from the very beginning. Eventually, they, and also we, passed through the process leading into Christ’sa ll-inclusive death and into His resurrection
17我们若看见基督包罗万有之死的异象，就会领悟，祂被钉十字架时，我们同著祂，也在祂里面，钉了十字架。照样，当祂复活的时候，我们在祂里面复活，也与祂一同升天。因此，我们现在能宣告：『阿利路亚，我在基督的复活与升天里，有分于享受祂作我的顶替！』作我们顶替的基督，乃是那内住、赐生命的灵，住在我们的灵里。我们凭这灵活著，这灵就在我们里面成为基督自己连同祂钉死、复活、并升天的实际，作我们完整、完满的享受。新人乃是这样生产出来的。愿我们都能看见这个异象：新人是藉著我们有分于基督并祂的死、复活和升天，而生出来的。
17If we see the vision of the all-inclusive death of Christ, we shall realize that when He was crucified, we were crucified with Him and in Him. Likewise, when He was resurrected, we were resurrected in Him. We also are in ascension with Him. Therefore, now we can declare, “Hallelujah, in Christ’s resurrection and ascension I am participating in the enjoyment of Him as my replacement!” As our replacement, Christ is the indwelling, life- giving Spirit in our spirit. As we live by this Spirit, the Spirit will become in us the reality of Christ Himself with His death, resurrection, and ascension as our complete and full enjoyment. It is in this way that the new man is delivered. May we all see the vision of the bringing forth of the new man through our participation in Christ and in His death, resurrection, and ascension