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马可福音生命读经 · 第54篇

一种完全照著神新约经纶，并为著神新约经纶的生活（三）

A Life Fully According to and for God’s New Testament Economy (3
1读经：马可福音1:1,10-11;9:1-9，使徒行传1:18-24。神新约经纶的实质
1Scripture Reading: Mark 1:1, 10-11; 9:1-9; Acts 21:18-24 THE SUBSTANCE OF GOD’S NEW TESTAMENT ECONOMY
2我们在前篇信息指出，雅各书与马可福音之间有一项重大的不同。我们在雅各书看见一种不是完全照著神新约的经纶，也不是为著神新约经纶的生活。我们在马可福音看见一种完全照著神新约经纶，并为著神新约经纶的生活。事实上，马可福音所陈明的生活，乃是神新约经纶的实际、实质与模型。你们也许在想，我们说我们在马可福音看见一种生活，是神新约经纶的实质，这是凭著甚么理由说的。我们这样说，乃是因为主耶稣所活出的生活就是神的彰显。马可福音并没有表示，主耶稣的生活仅仅是遵守律法，或者祂作某件事，单单是因著律法的要求。不仅如此，马可福音并未显示主耶稣仅仅活出一种为善的生活。那么，主到底怎样生活？主耶稣乃是活神，并彰显神。祂无论作甚么，都是神从祂里面作出来，并藉著祂作出来。这意思是说，主耶稣所作的不是仅仅遵守律法，或是作就道德而言是好的事。主耶稣在祂一切所说、所作上，都活神并彰显神。
2In the foregoing message we pointed out an important difference between the Epistle of James and the Gospel of Mark. In James we see something of a life that is not fully according to and for God’s New Testament economy. In Mark we see a life that is fully according to and for God’s New Testament economy. In fact, the life presented in the Gospel of Mark is the reality, substance, and pattern of God’s New Testament economy. Perhaps you are wondering what our reason is for saying that in the Gospel of Mark we see a life that is the substance of God’s New Testament economy. We say this because the life the Lord Jesus lived was the expression of God. According to the Gospel of Mark, there is no indication that the Lord Jesus was living merely in a way to keep the law, that He did certain things simply because they were required by the law. Furthermore, the Gospel of Mark does not indicate that the Lord Jesus only lived a good life. How, then, did the Lord live? The Lord Jesus lived God, and He expressed God. Whatever He did was God’s doing from within Him and through Him. This means that all that the Lord Jesus did was not merely the keeping of the law or the doing of good in an ethical sense. The Lord Jesus was a Person who lived God and expressed Him in all that He said and did
活在神的国里
LIVING IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD
3我可以向你们保证，没有另一个生活像主耶稣的生活。世人的传记也许会表明自己是好人，或者曾尽力遵守神的律法。但主耶稣是惟一完全活神并彰显神的人。主当然没有干犯律法，祂也从未犯错。虽然如此，祂生活中的关键点还不是遵守律法，或是行作善事。关键点乃是祂活神并彰显神。主不是活在守律法或行善的国度里。祂完完全全活在另一个国度，就是神的国里。
3I can assure you that there has never been another life like that of the Lord Jesus. The biographies of other people may indicate that they were good or that they tried to keep the law of God. But the Lord Jesus is the only One who lived God and expressed Him in a full way. Of course, the Lord never broke the law, and He never did anything wrong. Nevertheless, the crucial matter regarding His life was not that He kept the law or that He did good. The crucial point is that He lived God and expressed Him. The Lord’s living was not in the kingdom of law-keeping or of doing good. He lived altogether in another kingdom, the kingdom of God
4你们活在神的国里么？我们可以说，我们活在神的国里，但实际上，我们每天活在另一个范围内。我们可能不是活在神的国里，而是活在律法、伦理、或道德的国度里。历世纪以来，许多圣徒活在这些国度里，而没有活在神的国里。
4Do you live in the kingdom of God? We may say that we live in the kingdom of God, but we may live in another realm in a practical way day by day. Instead of living in the kingdom of God, we may live in the kingdoms of law, ethics, or morality. Throughout the centuries, many saints have lived in these kingdoms and not in the kingdom of God.
5从卫斯理约翰的时代以来，基督徒特别常常谈论圣别。有人以为圣别是所谓无罪的完全；也有人以为圣别与衣著等类的规条有关。神的国里没有这等规条，这些是属于另一个国度，也许是善的国度。活在神国里的人有神作他们的生命，他们也活神。神活在他们里面，也藉著他们而活，并且从他们里面活出来。结果，他们所活出的生活就单单彰显神的自己。神才是真正的圣别、道德与伦理。因此，人以神作生命并且活祂，就活出一种高于道德、伦理的生活。产生基督身体的生活
5Especially since the time of John Wesley, there has been much talk among Christians concerning holiness. Some regard holiness as a matter of so-called sinless perfection. Others think that holiness is related to regulations concerning such matters as the style of dress. Regulations such as these are not in the kingdom of God. They belong to another kingdom, perhaps the kingdom of good. Those who live in the kingdom of God have God as their life, and they live Him. God lives in them, through them, and out of them. As a result, they live a life that expresses nothing other than God Himself. God is the real holiness, morality, and ethics. Therefore, to have God as life and to live Him is to live in a way that is higher than human morality or ethics. THE LIFE THAT PRODUCES THE BODY OF CHRIST
6只有活神，并彰显神的生活，才能产生基督的身体。其他的生活总是破坏基督的身体。召会历史中的分裂，主要不是因著罪恶，而是因著神自己以外的好事物。如果基督徒只顾神自己，且都以祂作生命并且活祂，那么信徒中间就不会有分裂。我们若单单顾到神自己，就不会产生分裂，因为神是一。保罗在以弗所四章四至六节论到一个身体、一位灵、一主、以及一位神与父。我们若看见以弗所四章的一，就知道如何保守基督身体的一，这一实际上就是三一神自己。如果我们都有神作我们的圣别、公义和一切，我们中间就不会产生分裂。然而，我们若有神以外的东西，分裂就来了。我们在神以外所有的任何东西，都是分裂的因素。
6Only the kind of life that lives God and expresses Him produces the Body of Christ. Any other way of living always damages the Body. Throughout its history the church has been divided not mainly by evil things, but primarily by good things that are not God Himself. If all Christians would care only for God Himself and for having Him as life and living Him, there would not be any divisions among believers. The reason there would be no divisions if we all cared only for God Himself is that God is one. In Ephesians 4:4-6 Paul speaks of the one Body, the one Spirit, the one Lord, and the one God and Father. If we see the oneness in Ephesians 4, we shall know how to keep the oneness of the Body of Christ, a oneness that is actually the Triune God Himself. If we all have God as our holiness, righteousness, and everything to us, there will not be any divisions among us. However, if we have something other than God, there will be divisions. Anything that we have other than God Himself is a factor of division
7在神的恢复里，祂的意愿乃是把我们带回祂新约的经纶。神新约经纶的模型可以在主耶稣的生活中找到，这是马可福音所陈明的。即使连保罗的著作也没有把一个完整的模型摆给我们，因为保罗自己至少也有一次偏离了神新约的经纶。所以，连保罗也不是神经纶的完整模型。
7It is God’sin tent i on in His recovery to bring us back to His New Testament economy. The pattern for God’s New Testament economy is found in the life of the Lord Jesus, as presented in the Gospel of Mark. Not even the writings of Paul present us a complete pattern, because at least once Paul himself was distracted from the New Testament economy of God. Hence, not even Paul is a complete pattern of God’secon o my.
雅各与基督徒的完全
JAMES AND CHRISTIAN PERFECTION
8在行传二十一章，我们看见保罗偏离神新约经纶的情形。他在耶路撒冷被一些人说服，而重返律法，履行一些律法的要求。这发生在保罗写罗马书和加拉太书以后，保罗在这两封书信中，曾严厉的禁止再以旧约的方式遵守律法。
8In chapter twenty-one of Acts we see a situation in which Paul was distracted from God’s New Testament economy. He was convinced by some in Jerusalem to return to the law and fulfill certain of its requirements. This took place after Paul had written the Epistles to the Romans and the Galatians. In those Epistles Paul spoke strongly against continuing to keep the law in the Old Testament manner
9保罗写完这些书信后，最后一次前往耶路撒冷。行传二十一章十八节说，保罗『去见雅各，长老们也都在那里』。二十节说，他们向保罗指出：『犹太人中信主的有多少万，并且都为律法热心。』他们听见人说，保罗『教训一切在外邦的犹太人背弃摩西，对他们说，不要给孩子行割礼，也不要遵行规例』。（21。）然后，雅各和一些人就这样劝告保罗：『你就照著我们所告诉你的行罢。我们这里有四个人，都有愿在身；你带这些人去，与他们一同行洁净的礼，替他们缴费，叫他们得以剃头，这样，众人就可知道，先前所听说你的事都是虚的，反而你自己却是按规律而行，遵行律法。』（23～24。）行传二十一章十八节并不是说，保罗去见长老，雅各也在那里。这节乃是说，保罗去见雅各，长老们也都在那里。这指明雅各是耶路撒冷召会的核心人物，并且他的影响力极大。雅各怎能在信徒中有那么强烈且中心的影响力？也许是因为他太敬虔、太虔诚了，并且他强调基督徒实行的完全。没有一件事比一个人的完全更吸引人。即使保罗这么属灵的人，他在这方面也不如雅各这样吸引人。今天，雅各若与我们在一起，我们会毫无疑问的被他基督徒的完全所吸引。
9After writing those books, Paul went to Jerusalem for the last time. Acts 21:18 says that Paul went in “to James, and all the elders were present.” According to verse 20, they pointed out to Paul “how many thousands there are among the Jews who have believed, and are all zealous for the law.” They had been instructed concerning Paul that he was “teaching all the Jews throughout the nations apostasy from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children, nor to walk according to the customs” (v. 21). Then James and the others went on to give Paul this advice: “Therefore do what we tell you: Four men are with us who have a vow on themselves; take these and be purified with them, and pay their expenses that they may shave their heads; and all will know that there is nothing to the things of which they have been instructed concerning you, but that you yourself also walk orderly, keeping the law” (vv. 23-24). Acts 21:18 does not say that Paul went in to see the elders and James was present. This verse says that Paul went in to James and the elders were present. This indicates that James was the central figure in the church in Jerusalem and that he exercised a strong influence. How could James have become such a strong and central influence among the believers? It probably was because he was so godly and pious, and he emphasized practical Christian perfection. Nothing attracts people more than one’s perfection. Even one as spiritual as Paul was not as attractive as James in this regard. If James were with us today, no doubt we would be attracted by his Christian perfection
10让我把倪弟兄于一九三二年告诉我的话，讲给你们听，来说明人是如何受他们所认为完美事物的吸引。那时，倪弟兄的头发比当时中国人的头发稍微长一点。有一天，他对我说，『李弟兄，我若把头发剪得短一点，会有更多的人接受我的职事。』这是因为当时中国人非常保守，他们不愿接受任何现代的事物。对他们来说，一个绅士应当留短头发。倪弟兄在这件事上若符合他们完美的标准，他们可能就会接受他的职事。
10As an illustration of how people are attracted to what they consider perfect, let me relate something Brother Nee told me in 1932. Brother Nee wore his hair a little longer than was customary among the Chinese at that time. One day he said to me, “Brother Lee, if I were to cut my hair shorter, more of the people would receive my ministry.” Because the Chinese people at the time were very conservative, they were not willing to accept anything they regarded as modern. To them, a gentleman should wear his hair quite short. Certain ones would have been open to receive Brother Nee’s ministry if he met their standard of perfection in this matter.
11基督徒很容易受一班实行基督徒完全之人的吸引。譬如，一个弟兄若是和顺、谦卑、温柔的，讲话总是仁慈、满有爱心；你岂不受他吸引？你岂不很容易受他的影响？我用这个来说明，指出人是如何受行为完全的影响。我们若看见行为完全能吸引人，就会明白雅各在耶路撒冷之影响力的性质。雅各是敬虔、公义的，并且就某一面说，他是圣别的。他的确有某种基督徒实行之完全的度量。虽然如此，我们在雅各身上却没有看见一种活在神国里的生活。活神并彰显神的人
11Christians are easily attracted to those who seem to practice Christian perfection. For example, suppose a certain brother is gentle, humble, and meek, and always speaks in a kind, loving way. Would you not be attracted to him? Would it not be easy for you to be influenced by him? I use this as an illustration to point out how people are attracted by perfection. If we see that perfection attracts people, we shall be able to understand the nature of James’ influence in Jerusalem. James was godly, righteous, and, in a certain sense, holy. He certainly had a measure of practical Christian perfection. Nevertheless, with James we do not see the life of someone living in the kingdom of God. THE ONE WHO LIVED GOD AND EXPRESSED HIM
12整本新约中只有一个人是完全、彻底、并绝对照著神新约经纶而活的，这个人就是主耶稣。
12In the entire New Testament there is only one person who lived fully, wholly, and absolutely according to the New Testament economy of God, and this person was the Lord Jesus
13当我年轻时，人教导我要以耶稣为模范，并跟从祂。我多多少少也教导别人要这样作。然而多年来，我不明白我们怎样才能以耶稣作模范来跟从祂。你晓得怎样以耶稣作你的模范么？你晓得怎样跟从祂么？当我问基督教的教师和牧师这一点时，他们就指出主耶稣是温和的，祂从来不生气。但后来我读圣经时，发现主耶稣至少在一个场合生过气。那是当祂『看见殿里有卖牛羊鸽子的，并有兑换银钱的人坐在那里，就拿绳子作成鞭子，把众人连羊带牛都赶出殿去，倒出兑换银钱之人的钱币，推翻他们的桌子』。（约二14～15。）这样一来，我对于别人教导我要怎样跟从主耶稣的方式，产生了疑问。我开始对这种领会与教导失去信心；我现在才晓得，以耶稣作我们的模范是一种天然的领会与教导。
13When I was young, I was taught to take Jesus as my example and to follow Him. To a certain extent, I taught others to do the same thing. However, for years I wondered how we could take Jesus as our example and follow Him. Do you know how to take Jesus as your example? Do you know how to follow Him? When I asked certain Christian teachers and pastors about this, they pointed out that the Lord Jesus was gentle and that He was never angry. Eventually I learned from reading the Scriptures that at least on one occasion the Lord Jesus was angry. This was the occasion when “He found in the temple those selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers sitting there. And having made a whip of cords, He drove them all, both the sheep and the oxen, out of the temple, and He poured out the coins of the moneychangers and overturned the tables” (John 2:14-15). This made me question what I had been taught about the way to follow the Lord Jesus. I began to lose my trust in what I now realize is a natural understanding and teaching about taking Jesus as our example.
14我们在马可福音看见，主耶稣不是仅仅活出一种合乎人类道德，或遵守律法的生活，祂的生活乃是把父神当作祂的生命活出来。这种生活比活律法，或者活人的道德更为高超。神的心愿是祂能从我们里面彰显出来。祂不愿意我们单单活出一种道德的生活，或是照著律法的生活。祂愿意看见我们以祂作生命并且活祂，而祂自己就从我们里面彰显出来。我们在马可福音看见一幅图画，描绘一种不是属于律法，也不是仅仅属于道德
14In the Gospel of Mark we see that the Lord Jesus did not live a life merely of human morality or of keeping the law. Instead, He lived God the Father as His life. This kind of living is much superior to a life of living the law or human morality. God’s desire is that He be expressed from within us. He does not want to see us merely living a life that is moral or a life that is according to the law. He wants to see Himself expressed from within us as we take Him as our life and live Him. In Mark we have the portrait of a life not of the law nor merely of morality, but of the One who lived God and expressed Him.
15的生活，乃是活神并彰显神的生活。
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16我们在下一篇信息将看见，主耶稣是活神并彰显神的那一位，祂以父神作内里神圣的素质，并以灵神作外面的能力。所以，祂是凭里面神圣的素质，并凭身上神圣的能力，而过祂的生活。这意思是说，祂乃是过神的生活。马可福音就是启示这种生活。
16In a forthcoming message we shall see that as the One who lived God and expressed Him, the Lord Jesus had God the Father as His inner divine essence, and God the Spirit outwardly as His power. He, therefore, lived His life by the divine essence that was within Him and by the divine power that was upon Him. This means that He lived a life of God. This kind of living is revealed in the Gospel of Mark
17主耶稣在地上时，是过著神的生活。对祂来说，旧约的事已经过去。祂的生活是全新的，因为祂里面有父神，身上有灵神。因此，祂的生活绝对与神自己有关，并且完全照著神新约的经纶。我们为著这种生活，该说阿利路亚！这种生活是神新约经纶的实际、实质与模型。这种生活产生基督的肢体，构成祂的身体来彰显三一神。
17All the while He was on earth, the Lord Jesus lived a life of God. With Him, the things of the Old Testament had passed away. His life was altogether new, for He had God the Father within Him and God the Spirit upon Him. His life, therefore, was absolutely related to God Himself and was fully according to God’s New Testament economy. Hallelujah for such a life! This life is the reality, substance, and pattern of God’s New Testament economy. It is the life that produces the members of Christ to form His Body to express the Triune God