29我在本篇信息的负担是要我们看见,马可福音启示出一种完全照著神新约的经纶,且为著神新约经纶的生活。这种生活不只是公义、圣洁、属灵并得胜的。好多基督徒晓得我们应当过一种公义、圣别、属灵、并得胜的生活。但你们有没有听过,有一种照著神新约经纶的生活?马可福音陈明一位神人,祂一步一步照著神的经纶生活、行动、举止并工作。相反的,雅各书的著者没有完全照著,并为著神新约的经纶。雅各依然照著犹太人的一些传统与作法生活。马可福音记载主如何被各方面的人察验,然而没有人能挑出祂的不是。我们来看马可福音时,也无法从主的生活找出任何就著神经纶而言的过失、缺陷与短缺。祭司长、经学家、长老、法利赛人、撒都该人与希律党人,按著犹太人的律法与实行,并照著罗马的政治,尽所能的在主身上吹毛求疵。让我们照著新约经纶的度量,就是一个更严格的标准,来察验祂。我们若这样察验主,在祂身上也找不到缺点。祂不仅完成律法,祂更完成神的经纶。
29My burden in this message is that we would see that the Gospel of Mark reveals a life that is fully according to and for God’s New Testament economy. This life is not merely righteous, holy, spiritual, and victorious. Many Christians know that we should live a righteous, holy, spiritual, and victorious life. But have you ever heard of a life lived according to God’s New Testament economy? The Gospel of Mark presents the Person of the God-man, the One who lived, acted, moved, and worked step by step according to God’secon o my. The author of the Epistle of James, on the contrary, was not fully according to and for God’s New Testament economy. Instead, James continued to live according to certain Jewish traditions and practices. The Gospel of Mark records how the Lord was examined by different parties. But no one could find fault with Him. As we consider the Gospel of Mark, we also are not able to find any fault, defect, or deficiency in the Lord’s living related to God’secon o my. The chief priests, scribes, elders, Pharisees, Sadducees, and Herodians tried to find fault with the Lord Jesus according to Jewish law and practice, and according to Roman politics. Let us examine Him according to the measure of the New Testament economy, of a standard that is much more strict. If we were to examine the Lord in this way, we would not find any shortcoming with Him. He not only fulfilled the law—He fulfilled God’secon o my