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马可福音生命读经 · 第58篇

一种完全照著神新约经纶，并为著神新约经纶的生活（七）

A Life Fully According to and for God’s New Testament Economy (7
1读经：马可福音1:1,14-15;4:1-20,26-29。我们在马可福音看见，有一个人过著一种照著神新约经纶的生活。这卷书并没有启示主耶稣这奇妙人位以外的任何事物。
1Scripture Reading: Mark 1:1, 14-15; 4:1-20, 26-29 In the Gospel of Mark we see a Person living a life according to God’s New Testament economy. This book does not reveal anything other than the Lord Jesus as this wonderful Person
霸占我们注意力的事
MATTERS THAT OCCUPY OUR ATTENTION
2现在让我们列出一些人类有史以来，霸占人注意力的事：文化、宗教、伦理、道德、性格改良、哲学、合乎圣经、属灵、圣别和得胜。这十项涵括所有人（包括外邦人、犹太人与基督徒）的思想、想法与观念。世界各处的人，他们的心思都被文化、宗教、伦理、道德、性格改良和哲学所占据。此外，基督徒也可能被合乎圣经、属灵、圣别和得胜所占据。基督教教师写了许多书，论到要如何合乎圣经、属灵、圣别并得胜。
2Let us now list a number of matters that have occupied people’sat tent i on throughout human history: culture, religion, ethics, morality, the improvement of character, philosophy, being scriptural, being spiritual, being holy, and being victorious. These ten items cover the thoughts, ideas, and concepts of all people, including Gentiles, Jews, and Christians. People everywhere have their minds occupied with culture, religion, ethics, morality, the improvement of character, and philosophy. In addition, Christians may be occupied with being scriptural, spiritual, holy, and victorious. Many books have been written by Christian teachers on how to be scriptural, spiritual, holy, and victorious
3照马可福音来看，主耶稣并没有教导文化、宗教、伦理、道德、性格改良或哲学。祂也没有帮助人要更加合乎圣经、属灵、圣别或得胜。正如我们已过一篇信息曾指出的，主耶稣没有活在律法或伦理的国度里；祂完全活在另一种范围里－神的国里。
3According to the Gospel of Mark, the Lord Jesus did not teach culture, religion, ethics, morality, improvement of character, or philosophy. Neither did He help people to be more scriptural, spiritual, holy, or victorious. As we pointed out in a foregoing message, the Lord Jesus did not live in the kingdom of law or that of ethics; He lived altogether in another realm—the kingdom of God
撒种者将自己
THE SOWER SOWING HIMSELF
作为生命的种子撒出去
AS THE SEED OF LIFE
4主耶稣是一位活在神国度里的人，祂怎样生活？祂作甚么？我们在马可四章看见，主是撒种者，将祂自己当作种子撒到人里面。祂特别将祂自己撒到彼得和其他门徒里面。主耶稣要将祂自己当作种子撒到人里面，并不容易。撒种在土壤里很容易，但是主把活的种子撒到人里面，却不容易。这种困难可以用父母要生病的孩子吃药所面对的问题来说明。因著孩子也许会大力抵抗，父母可能要将他按住，然后撬开他的口，好将药灌到他里面。照样，主耶稣可能需要使用天使作祂的帮手，将祂自己当作种子撒到我们里面。我们或者需要被摆在困难的环境中，才会向主敞开，接受祂这神圣的种子。赞美祂，虽然有困难，但祂已经撒到我们里面！
4As the One who lived in the kingdom of God, how did the Lord Jesus live? What did He do? In chapter four of Mark we see that the Lord was a Sower and that He sowed Himself as the seed into people. In particular, He sowed Himself into Peter and the other disciples. It was not an easy matter for the Lord Jesus to sow Himself as a seed into human beings. To sow seed into soil is easy, but for the Lord to sow living seed into people was difficult. This difficulty can be illustrated by the problem parents sometimes face in getting medicine into a sick child. Because a child may strongly resist, the parents may have to hold him down and open his mouth in order to put the medicine into him. In a similar way, the Lord Jesus may have had to use angels as helpers in sowing Himself as the seed into us. It may have been necessary for us to be put into a difficult situation before we opened to the Lord to receive Him as the divine seed. Praise Him that in spite of the difficulty, He has been sown into us!
5马可福音显示主耶稣以这一种方式生活并工作，而把祂自己当作种子撒到人里面。马可福音不是一卷文化、宗教、伦理、道德、性格改良或哲学的书；也不是一卷教训我们要合乎圣经、属灵、圣别并得胜的书。马可福音乃是一卷陈明撒种者的书，祂将自己当作生命的种子撒到我们里面，而这生命乃是照著神新约经纶生活的。甚至是在主恢复中的圣徒，也有可能被如何合乎圣经、属灵、圣别并得胜所占据。你不愿意圣别么？你不愿意属灵、得胜么？基督徒所写的一些强调需要圣别、属灵并得胜的书，或许会引用圣经节来支持他们的教训。然而，马可福音完全没有来摸这范围。这卷福音书没有教训我们要怎样圣别、属灵并得胜。反之，马可福音陈明主是那将自己撒到门徒里面的一位。紧紧跟随主的人，与祂相处了三年半之久。祂在那段期间，必定教导他们许多事。但非常奇怪，马可福音并没有任何话暗示这些事。我们在这卷书中反而看见，主耶稣不断将祂自己撒到彼得和其他门徒里面。在一章，主看见彼得与他弟兄安得烈在撒网，就呼召他们；他们受了祂的吸引，就撇下一切跟从祂。（16～18。）也许就是在那个时候，主开始把种子撒到彼得里面。
5The Gospel of Mark shows the Lord Jesus living and working in such a way as to sow Himself as seed into people. Mark is not a book of culture, religion, ethics, morality, improvement of character, or philosophy. Neither is it a book teaching us to be scriptural, spiritual, holy, and victorious. Instead, the Gospel of Mark is a book presenting the Sower sowing Himself into us as the seed of a life that lives according to God’s New Testament economy. It is possible that the thoughts even of the saints in the Lord’s recovery may be occupied with the matters of how to be scriptural, spiritual, holy, and victorious. Do you not want to be holy? Do you not want to be spiritual and victorious? Books written by Christians emphasizing the need to be holy, spiritual, and victorious may quote verses from the Bible to support their teachings. However, the Gospel of Mark does not touch this field at all. This Gospel does not teach us how to be holy, spiritual, and victorious. Instead, the Gospel of Mark presents the Lord as the One sowing Himself into the disciples. The Lord’s close followers spent three and a half years with Him. During those years, He must have taught them many things. It is surprising that in the Gospel of Mark we do not find a hint concerning this. In this book we see that the Lord Jesus was continually sowing Himself into Peter and the other disciples. In chapter one the Lord saw Peter and his brother Andrew fishing. The Lord called them and, attracted by Him, they left all and followed Him (vv. 16-18). It may be that the Lord’ss owing of the seed into Peter began at that time
6主将自己撒到彼得里面彼得在甚么时候得救？这是不容易回答的问题。彼得是在马可一章蒙召时得救的么？你们若说他当时还没有得救，我要问：『彼得怎么会尚未得救就已蒙召？圣经启示，我们一蒙召，就得救了。』但我们若说彼得在马可一章蒙召时就得救了，我们会希奇，他为甚么没有一点得救的表现？那时，彼得自私、天然；他总是在自己里面，没有一点得救的表现。
6THE LORD’SS OWING HIMSELF INTO PETER When was Peter saved? This is a difficult question to answer. Was Peter saved when he was called in chapter one of Mark? If you say that he was not saved then, I would ask, “How could Peter have been called without being saved? The Bible reveals that once we are called, we are saved.” However, if we say that Peter was saved when he was called in Mark 1, we may wonder why he did not show any signs of being a saved one. Peter was selfish and natural. He was always in himself, not giving any indication that he had been saved.
7彼得得救可能是在他岳母得医治的时候，或是在他宣告耶稣是基督的时候，或是当他看见主耶稣在山上改变形像的时候。但彼得在这些光景中，都没有显出他已经得救了。彼得告诉主耶稣，即使别人否认祂，他也绝对不会否认祂。（十四29，31。）这可能是一种表示，指出彼得当时已得救了。然而不久以后，彼得却三次否认主耶稣；事后他出去哭了。（72。）也许他是那个时候得救的。要断定彼得甚么时候得救，的确很困难。从马可一章到主耶稣在复活里来到门徒那里，向他们吹气，并对他们说，『你们受圣灵，』（约二十，）其间是一长段撒种的时间。我相信在马可一章，主呼召彼得，彼得跟从了主时，主就开始将祂自己撒到彼得里面。这个撒种持续到复活的基督向门徒吹气的时候，那时门徒聚集在关起门的房间里，我信主在那时的撒种就完成了。有一点可以证明，就是在行传一章，彼得成了另一个人。他不再天然了。行传一章的彼得的确带著蒙主拯救的记号。我在这里的点是说，主耶稣是撒种者，经过漫长的过程，将祂自己撒到彼得和其他门徒里面。
7Perhaps Peter was saved when his mother-in-law was healed, or when he declared that Jesus is the Christ, or when he saw the Lord Jesus transfigured on the mountain. But in none of these situations does Peter give any indication of being saved. Peter told the Lord Jesus that even if the others would deny Him, he would never deny Him (14:29, 31). This might be a sign that Peter was saved by that time. However, soon afterward Peter denied the Lord Jesus three times. Then he went out and wept (14:72). Perhaps that was when he was saved. It certainly is difficult to determine the time Peter was saved. From chapter one of Mark until the time the Lord Jesus in resurrection came to the disciples, breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit” (John 20:22) was a long time of sowing. I believe 22 that the Lord’ss owing of Himself into Peter began in Mark 1 when the Lord called him and he followed the Lord. This sowing continued until the resurrected Christ breathed on the disciples who had come together in a closed room. I believe that the Lord’ss owing was complete at that time. One proof of this is that in chapter one of Acts Peter is a different person. No longer is he natural. In Acts 1 Peter truly bears the signs of having been saved by the Lord. My point here is that the Lord Jesus as the Sower went through a lengthy process to sow Himself into Peter and the other disciples.
8在你们的经历中，主岂没有花费时间将祂自己撒到你们里面？我题出这个问题，并不是指道理上的得救、重生、称义或和好。我乃是指我们在经历上有没有享受神的救恩。有人会以为主用三年半的时间，来完成将祂自己撒到彼得里面的过程，这未免太漫长了。但对主来说，这不算长。因为对祂来说，千年如一日。（彼后三8。）马可福音不是强调主教导并训练门徒，而是给我们清楚看见，主怎样将祂自己撒到他们里面。主从一章到十六章，将种子撒到门徒的『土壤』里，甚至无论到那里，都带著这土壤，不断的将祂自己撒到土壤里面。
8In your experience has it not taken the Lord time to sow Himself into you? In asking this question I am not referring to salvation, regeneration, justification, or reconciliation in a doctrinal way. I am speaking concerning our enjoyment of God’s salvation experientially. Some may think that for the Lord to take three and a half years to accomplish the sowing of Himself into Peter was too long. However, to the Lord this is not long at all, for to Him a thousand years are as one day (2 Pet. 3:8). Instead of emphasizing the Lord’ste aching and training of the disciples, the Gospel of Mark gives us a clear view of how the Lord was doing the work of sowing Himself into them. From chapter one through chapter sixteen the Lord was sowing the seed into the “earth” of the disciples. He even brought this earth with Him wherever He went, all the while sowing Himself into it.
基督在我们里面
CHRIST IN US
9神新约的经纶，不是要改良我们的文化、宗教、伦理、道德、性格或哲学，这是极其重要的点。新约的经纶也不仅仅在于帮助我们改良，使我们更合乎圣经、更属灵、更圣别、更得胜。神新约的经纶乃是将祂自己撒到我们里面，使我们能过一种照著祂经纶的生活。
9The crucial point is that God’s New Testament economy is not a matter of improving our culture, religion, ethics, morality, character, or philosophy. Neither is the New Testament economy of God merely a matter of helping us to improve in being more scriptural, spiritual, holy, and victorious. God’s New Testament economy is to sow Himself into us so that we may live a life according to His economy
10神在祂的经纶里，将祂的儿子耶稣基督这奇妙的人位撒到你们里面，这对你们来说，仅仅是一种道理么？主在你们里面岂不是一个又真又活的人位么？有些基督徒反对耶稣基督实际住在信徒里面的事实。据他们说，基督是在诸天之上，是圣灵代表祂在我们里面。但从神的话，从我们的经历来看，我们晓得耶稣基督不只在诸天之上，也在我们里面。祂这照著神新约经纶而生活的生命，就住在我们里面。
10Is it merely a doctrine to you that God in His economy is sowing a wonderful Person, Jesus Christ the Son of God, into you? Is the Lord not a real and living Person within you? Some Christians oppose the fact that Jesus Christ actually dwells in the believers. They claim that He is in the heavens and is represented in us by the Holy Spirit. But from the Word of God and our experience we know that Jesus Christ is not only in the heavens but is also in us. He dwells in us as the life that lives according to God’s New Testament economy
将注意力集中在
FOCUSING ON
基督这奇妙的人位上
THE WONDERFUL PERSON OF CHRIST
11我们若看见这异象，这异象就会控制我们，并拯救我们脱离文化、宗教、伦理、和其他使我们偏离神新约经纶的事物。主花了很长的时间，救我脱离这些事，特别是脱离属灵、圣别与得胜的霸占。我相信我们中间有许多人还渴望要合乎圣经、属灵、圣别并得胜。也许就在今天你还这样祷告：『哦，主阿，赐给我得胜的一天。主阿，昨天我没有得胜，我恳求今天我能得胜。』只要我们这班寻求主的人没有蒙拯救脱离这些事，我们就会在经历基督这奇妙的人位，并享受一种绝对照著神新约经纶的生活上，受到打岔。在婚礼当中，牧师常常会照著以弗所五章嘱咐妻子要服从丈夫，丈夫要爱妻子。我不晓得有没有人成功的履行了这个嘱咐。有那一位丈夫能说，他凭著自己能爱妻子，如同基督爱召会？有那个妻子能说，她完全服从丈夫？神的经纶不在于丈夫努力去爱妻子，也不在于妻子尽所能的服从丈夫。我们要强调一个事实：神的经纶乃是将耶稣基督撒到我们里面。当基督照著神新约的经纶，活在一个已婚的弟兄里面，他就不必尽力去爱妻子，因为他会自然而然的爱她。照样，基督若活在一个已婚的姊妹里面，她会自然而然的服从丈夫。最重要的一件事，乃是要被基督充满。
11If we have seen this vision, it will control us and deliver us from culture, religion, ethics, and the other items that may distract us from God’s New Testament economy. It took the Lord a long time to rescue me from these things, especially from the preoccupation with being spiritual, holy, and victorious. I believe that many among us still aspire to be scriptural, spiritual, holy, and victorious. Perhaps even today you prayed, “O Lord, give me a victorious day. Yesterday, Lord, I was not victorious. I ask that today I shall be victorious.” As long as we who seek the Lord are not rescued from these things, we shall be frustrated in experiencing the wonderful Person of Christ and enjoying the life that is absolutely according to God’s New Testament economy. Often in a wedding ceremony the minister, according to Ephesians 5, will charge the wife to submit to her husband and the husband to love his wife. I do not know of anyone who has succeeded in fulfilling this charge. What husband can say that in himself he is able to love his wife as Christ loved the church, and what wife can claim to be fully submissive to her husband? It is not God’secon o my that husbands try to love their wives and wives endeavor to submit to their husbands. We wish to emphasize the fact that God’secon o my is to sow Jesus Christ into our being. When Christ lives in a married brother according to God’s New Testament economy, there will be no need for him to try to love his wife, for he will love her spontaneously. Likewise, if Christ lives in a married sister, she will automatically submit to her husband. The vital matter is to be filled with Christ.
12本篇信息前面所说到的十项，可以分成两大领域：文化、宗教、伦理、道德、性格改良与哲学属一个领域；属灵、合乎圣经、圣别并得胜属另一个领域。今天大多数基督徒都落在其中一个领域当中。因此，我的负担在于指引出一条脱离这两大领域的路，好进入一个完全不同的领域里，就是神的儿子耶稣基督。我们在这个领域里，就是在神的国里。让我举例说明，有一位姊妹曾经努力要服从丈夫，却服从不来；因此她很受困扰，就和我交通她的情形。我鼓励她要忘掉如何尽力服从，而要转去注意基督。我虽然有两、三次与她这样交通，但她还是没有得到帮助。我们最后一次交通这件事时，我对她说，『你需要放弃服从丈夫的念头，而注意基督。你要赞美主。』她则问我，她努力要服从丈夫，但失败了，她怎能赞美主？我告诉她，先有赞美，然后才有得胜。然而，她的观念是先有得胜，才能赞美。我接著与她交通，在这件事上基督是她的救主。至终，她蒙了光照，得到帮助，不注意服从而注意基督了。
12The ten items covered earlier in this message may be divided into two fields: culture, religion, ethics, morality, improvement of character, and philosophy are in one field, and being spiritual, scriptural, holy, and victorious are in another field. Most of today’s Christians are in one of these fields. Therefore, my burden is to direct the way out of both fields into a different field—the Son of God, Jesus Christ. When we are in this field, we are in the kingdom of God. As an illustration, let me tell you about a certain sister who tried very hard to submit to her husband. Bothered by the fact that she was not able to submit, she spoke with me about her situation. I encouraged her to forget about trying to submit and turn her attention to Christ. I spoke with her about this two or three times, but she still did not receive any help. The last time we talked about this matter, I said to her, “You need to give up the thought of submitting to your husband and pay attention to Christ. You need to praise the Lord.” She asked me how she could praise the Lord when she was defeated in her efforts to submit to her husband. I told her that praise should come first and that victory would follow. However, her concept was that victory should come before praise. I went on to speak to her concerning Christ being her Savior in this matter. Eventually, the light shone upon her, and she was helped to focus on Christ and not on submission
照著神的经纶而活
LIVING ACCORDING TO GOD’SECON O MY
13许多圣徒还在意要属灵、合乎圣经、圣别并得胜。我们已经看见，这些事都不是神的经纶。神的经纶是要将一个又真、又活、又即时的人位撒到我们里面。因这缘故，新约告诉我们，主藉著复活成了赐生命的灵。（林前十五45。）主这位撒种者，已将祂自己作为赐生命的灵撒到我们里面。我们里面的赐生命之灵，就是那撒到我们里面的种子。
13Many saints are still concerned with being spiritual, scriptural, holy, and victorious. As we have seen, these things are not God’secon o my. God’secon o my is to sow into us a Person who is real, living, and present. This is the reason that the New Testament tells us that through resurrection the Lord has become a life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45). The Lord as the Sower has sown Himself as the life-giving Spirit into us. The life-giving Spirit within us is the seed that has been sown into our being
14最近，我们看见马可福音陈明一种完全照著神新约的经纶，并为著神新约经纶的生活。这种生活不是文化、宗教、伦理、道德、性格改良、或人的哲学。这种生活也不仅仅是合乎圣经、属灵、圣别并得胜。我相信主恢复里的圣徒会过这种生活，并且在聚会中为这样的生活作见证。
14Recently we have seen that the Gospel of Mark presents a life that is fully according to and for God’s New Testament economy. This life is not a matter of culture, religion, ethics, morality, improvement of character, or human philosophy. Neither is this life merely a matter of being scriptural, spiritual, holy, and victorious. I believe that the saints in the Lord’s recovery will live this kind of life and in the meetings will give testimonies concerning it
15神的经纶并不在意耶稣基督以外的任何事物，我们对这个事实要有深刻的印象。神新约的经纶乃是要将这人位撒到我们里面，使我们过一种完全照著神新约经纶的生活。赞美主，基督这活的人位已经撒到我们里面！如今我们可以照著神新约的经纶而生活。但愿我们都为这种生活祷告，并且更多交通到这样的生活。
15We need to be impressed with the fact that in His economy God does not care for anything other than Jesus Christ. God’s New Testament economy is to sow this Person into our being so that we may live a life that is fully according to God’secon o my. Praise the Lord that the living Person of Christ has been sown into us! Now we can live according to God’s New Testament economy. May we all pray concerning this life and have more fellowship regarding it