马可福音生命读经 · 第65篇

一种完全照著神新约经纶，并为著神新约经纶的生活（十四）

A Life Fully According to and for God’s New Testament Economy (14

1读经：马可福音1:14-18;4:26;9:1-8;10:23-25，罗马书14:17。我们在上一篇信息看过在马可福音中主尽职时的背景。我们看见，祂在受浸时把宗教和文化的事物全都了结了；然后祂尽职事时，就将祂自己这国度的种子撒到神所拣选的人里面。这种子发展成为神的国。一面，神的国是为著完成神永远的定旨；另一面，神的国是为著我们的享受。现在我们要继续来看，神所拣选的人怎样是土壤，让基督这国度的种子撒在其中，以发展成为神的国。

1Scripture Reading: Mark 1:14-18; 4:26; 9:1-8; 25; Rom. 14:17 10:23-25 In the foregoing message we considered the background of the Lord’s ministry in the Gospel of Mark. We saw that in His baptism He terminated the things of religion and culture. Then in His ministry He sowed Himself as the seed of the kingdom into God’s chosen people. This seed develops into the kingdom of God. On the one hand, the kingdom of God is for the fulfillment of God’s eternal purpose; on the other hand, the kingdom of God is for our enjoyment. Let us now go on to see how God’s chosen people are the “soil” into which Christ as the seed of the kingdom is sown to develop into the kingdom of God.

土壤为著生长基督以成为神的国

SOIL TO GROW CHRIST into the kingdom of God

2神所拣选的人就是土壤，为著生长基督以成为神的国。然而神的子民堕落了。照马可福音记载的事例所描绘的图画，他们患病、受玷污、瘫痪、枯干、败坏、耳聋、口哑、眼瞎，甚至在属灵上是死了的。神命定祂的子民作土壤，使基督这种子能撒在其中，并使祂生长，以发展成为神的国。但这『土壤』患病了，受了玷污、瘫痪、且枯干了。土壤败坏了，又瞎、又聋、又哑，甚至被鬼附了。我们得救以前，正是这种土壤。

2God’s chosen people are the soil to grow Christ into the kingdom of God. However, God’sp eople have become fallen. According to the picture portrayed by the cases recorded in Mark, they were sick, contaminated, paralyzed, withered, corrupt, deaf, dumb, blind, and even spiritually dead. God’sp eople had been destined by Him to be the soil in which Christ would be sown as a seed and in which He would grow for the development of the kingdom of God. But this “soil” became sick, contaminated, paralyzed, and withered. The soil was corrupt, blind, deaf, dumb, and even demon-possessed. Before we were saved, we all were this kind of soil

3主耶稣在马可一章开始收集土壤。一章十四至十五节告诉我们，耶稣来到加利利，传扬神的福音，说，『时期满了，神的国已经临近了。你们要悔改，相信福音。』紧接著，就记载主耶稣呼召四个门徒：西门、安得烈、雅各与约翰。（１６～２０。）我们在上一篇信息曾指出，主耶稣传扬福音，是将祂自己这种子撒到人里面。我们在十六至二十节看见其中四人，主收集他们作土壤，又将祂自己这国度的种子撒在他们里面。

3In chapter one of the Gospel of Mark the Lord Jesus began to gather the soil. In 1:14 and 15 we are told that Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has drawn near. Repent and believe in the gospel!” Immediately after this we have the record of the Lord’s calling four of His disciples: Simon, Andrew, James, and John (1:16-20). In the foregoing message we pointed out that the Lord preached the gospel by sowing Himself as the seed into people. In 1:16-20 we see four of those whom the Lord gathered to be the soil into which He sowed Himself as the seed of the kingdom.

跟从主

following the Lord

4当主在一章十六至二十节聚集门徒时，祂要门徒作甚么？十六节告诉我们，西门和安得烈『在海里撒网；他们本是渔夫』。耶稣对他们说，『来跟从我，我要使你们成为得人的渔夫。』（１７。）他们就立刻撇下网，跟从了祂。（１８。）主耶稣稍往前走，又看见雅各和约翰在船上补网。祂呼召他们，『他们就把父亲西庇太和雇工撇在船上，跟从耶稣去了。』（２０。）我们在这里看见，四个门徒撇下他们的网、船、父亲、甚至海。他们撇下了一切，为了跟从耶稣。

4When the Lord gathered the disciples in 1:16-20, what did He want them to do? Verse 16 tells us that Simon and Andrew were “casting a net in the sea, for they were fishermen.” Jesus said to them, “Come after Me, and I will make you become fishers of men” (v. 17). Immediately, they left their nets and followed Him (v. 18). Going on a little further, the Lord Jesus saw James and John in a boat mending the nets. He called them, and “leaving their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, they went after Him” (v. 20). Here we see that these four disciples left their nets, their boat, their father, and even the sea. They left everything to follow Jesus

5我年轻时读福音书，并不明白跟从耶稣是甚么意思。我对于主的话－『跟从我』，有很深刻的印象。以后我受教导说，跟从耶稣的意思就是作耶稣所作的。譬如，耶稣爱人，我们也当爱人；耶稣是温柔、仁慈的，我们也当温柔、仁慈。起先，我对于这样的领会表示赞同；但至终，我发现这样跟从耶稣，可以比作教导猴子模倣人行动。一只猴子可以受训练像人一样坐下、起立、行走，但那不过是模倣。虽然如此，许多基督徒努力要这样模倣而跟从基督。这样领会跟从耶稣是错误的，我们应该弃绝。然而，我们仍有这一个问题：跟从主耶稣到底是甚么意思？我们曾经强调一个事实，当主耶稣呼召门徒时，祂收集他们作土壤，好使祂能将自己这种子撒进去。所以，我们可以说，跟从耶稣就是被放在祂的『口袋』里，为著让祂将祂自己撒到我们里面。

5When I read the Gospels as a youth, I wondered what it meant to follow Jesus. I was very impressed with the Lord’swords, “Follow Me.” Later I was taught that to follow Jesus meant to do whatever Jesus did. For example, Jesus loved people, and we also should love others. Jesus was gentle and kind, and we also should be gentle and kind. At first I agreed with this understanding of the meaning of following the Lord Jesus. But eventually I discovered that to follow Jesus in this way can be compared to teaching a monkey to act like a man. A monkey may be trained to sit, stand, and walk like a man. However, this is nothing more than mere imitation. Nevertheless, many Christians try to follow Christ in the way of imitating Him. This understanding of following Jesus is mistaken, and we should repudiate it. But we are still left with the question concerning what it means to follow the Lord Jesus. We have emphasized the fact that when the Lord Jesus called the disciples, He gathered them to be the soil into which He would sow Himself as the seed. Therefore, we may say that to follow Jesus is to be put in His “pocket” for the purpose of His sowing Himself into us

医治土壤神所拣选的

THE HEALING OF THE SOIL Chosen by God

6我们已经看见，在马可福音里，主耶稣收集土壤放在自己口袋里，为要将祂自己撒到土壤里面。但是照马可福音所记载的事例来看，土壤的光景相当可怜。主怎能使用患病、受玷污、败坏的土壤？有人也许以为祂应该将这无用的土壤丢弃不用；但主不能将神所拣选，在创立世界以前所豫定的人丢弃。实在说来，主耶稣没有选择的余地。门徒已经被标出、被豫定了。祂怎能弃绝门徒？父在创立世界以前已经拣选了他们，而主来是要实行父神的旨意。所以，门徒这土壤的光景虽然这么可怜，祂还是不能丢弃他们。那么，主能为这土壤作甚么？正如马可福音所指明的，祂必须医治这土壤，使其成为好土。

6We have seen that in Mark the Lord Jesus gathered the soil and put it into His pocket in order to sow Himself into it. But according to the cases recorded in the Gospel of Mark, this soil was in a pitiful condition. How could the Lord use soil that is sick, contaminated, and corrupt? Some may think that He should cast such useless soil away. But the Lord cannot cast away those who were chosen by God and predestinated before the foundation of the world. In a very real sense, the Lord Jesus did not have a choice. The disciples had been marked out, predestinated. How could He reject them? The Father had chosen them before the foundation of the world, and the Lord had come to do the will of God the Father. Therefore, He could not cast aside the disciples, even though as soil they were in such a pitiful condition. What, then, could the Lord do about the soil? As the Gospel of Mark indicates, it was necessary for Him to heal this soil and turn it into good soil.

藉著死与复活

Through Death and Resurrection

7我们已经看见，照马可福音所记，土壤的光景相当可怜，要怎样才能得医治？正确医治土壤的路，在于使其经过死与复活的过程。在原则上，这也是我们身体得医治的路。我们感谢主，祂创造人的身体时，命定了这个原则。否则，人一旦生病，就不能康复。然而，我们的身体有死与复活的原则，就是老旧的死去，新的东西兴起。藉著这种新陈代谢的基本生命原则，人体的疾病就得到医治。

7We have seen that, according to the Gospel of Mark, the soil was in a pitiful condition. How could it be healed? The proper way to heal the soil is for it to pass through a process of death and resurrection. In principle, this is the way healing takes place in our physical bodies. We thank the Lord that in His creation of man’s body He ordained such a principle. Otherwise, once a person became ill, he would not be able to recover. However, in our bodies there is the principle of death and resurrection, the principle of the dying out of what is old and the rising up of something new. Diseases are healed in man’s body through this basic life principle in which old things die out and new things are produced

8我们若明白这个原则，就会看见主耶稣如何医治这些祂要将自己当作国度的种子撒在其中的土壤。神所拣选的人类土壤被玷污而变作无用了。但父神既然拣选了这土壤，而主耶稣就不能将其丢弃。父甚至豫定了这土壤，将其标出；而主必须有办法来医治这土壤。我们已经看见，跟从主耶稣就是被放在祂的『口袋』里。但主怎样医治祂口袋里的土壤？祂医治土壤，乃是藉著将土壤带到十字架上，使其死了，然后再将土壤带进复活里。在主的死里，我们都被了结；也就是说，在祂的死里，我们都死了。然后在祂的复活里，我们也都复活了。所以，我们在主的死里死了，又在主的复活里起

8If we understand this principle, we shall see how the Lord Jesus heals the soil into which He sows Himself as the seed of the kingdom. The human soil that had been chosen by God became contaminated and useless. But because God the Father had chosen this soil, the Lord Jesus could not cast it away. This soil had even been predestinated, marked out, by the Father. The Lord must have some way to heal this soil. As we have seen, to follow the Lord Jesus is to be put in His “pocket.” But how does the Lord heal the soil that is in His pocket? He heals the soil by bringing it to the cross and causing it to die out and then bringing it into resurrection. In the Lord’s death we died out; that is, in His death we were made dead. Then in His resurrection we were resurrected. Therefore, we died in the Lord’s death and rose in His resurrection. In this way the soil is healed

9来。这样，土壤就得了医治。

10主耶稣在马可一章呼召彼得、安得烈、雅各和约翰，他们就开始跟从祂。事实上，他们是盲目的跟从主，不知道自己要往那里去，或者在作甚么。彼得犯了许多错误，这指明他不知道正在发生甚么事。但主耶稣却知道祂要在门徒身上作甚么。

10In chapter one of Mark, the Lord Jesus called Peter, Andrew, James, and John, and they began to follow Him. Actually, they followed the Lord blindly, not knowing where they were going or what they were doing. The fact that Peter made many blunders indicates that he did not know what was happening. The Lord Jesus, however, knew what He intended to do with the disciples.

11主收集门徒作土壤以后，就把自己当模型摆在他们面前。彼得和其他的门徒三年多之久观察主所说、所作的。至终，主耶稣将门徒与一切神所拣选的人，都带到十字架上。祂带他们经过死与复活以后，他们就得了医治。因这缘故，我们说，跟从基督的人（就是神所拣选的土壤），在基督的死与复活里得了医治。马可福音中所有的医治都是表号，指向这真正的医治，这种医治是藉著基督的死与复活而发生的。

11After gathering the disciples as the soil, the Lord presented Himself to them as a pattern. For more than three years, Peter and the other disciples observed what the Lord said and did. Eventually, the Lord Jesus brought the disciples, and all those chosen by God, to the cross. After He brought them through death and resurrection, they were healed. This is the reason we say that in Christ’s death and resurrection His followers, as the soil chosen by God, were healed. All the healings in the Gospel of Mark are signs pointing to this real healing, the healing that takes place through Christ’s death and resurrection

门徒成为好土

The Disciples Becoming Good Earth

12我们来到行传一章，就看见彼得、安得烈、约翰和雅各，以及其他一百二十人，都不再患病了。他们不再发烧、受玷污、瘫痪、枯干、眼瞎、耳聋、或口哑，因为他们藉著主的死与复活，得了医治。我们在上一篇信息与本篇信息交通了四件事：主尽职时的背景；主是撒种者，将祂自己这种子撒出去；门徒是神所拣选的土壤；土壤的得医治。神所拣选的人藉著基督的死与复活得了医治，结果就得了恢复，成为好土。他们成为马可四章八节和二十节所说的『好土』。主撒种的完成

12When we come to chapter one of Acts, we see that Peter, Andrew, John, and James, with the remainder of the one hundred twenty, were no longer sick. They were no longer sick with a fever, contaminated, paralyzed, withered, blind, deaf, or dumb. They all had been healed through the Lord’s death and resurrection. In the foregoing message and in this message we have covered four matters: the background of the Lord’s ministry, the Lord as the Sower sowing Himself as the seed, the disciples as the soil chosen by God, and the healing of the soil. As a result of being healed through Christ’s death and resurrection, the chosen people of God were recovered and became good soil. They became the “good earth” spoken of in Mark 4:8 and 20. THE COMPLETION OF THE LORD’SS OWING

13主耶稣藉著祂的死与复活，不仅医治了土壤，也释放出神的生命，将其分赐到土壤里。祂里面神圣的生命藉著祂的死释放出来，这生命又藉著祂的复活分赐到土壤里。所以，主的死与复活乃是祂将祂自己这种子撒到门徒里面的完成。这撒种开始于马可一章，而在本福音书中一直继续，直到在十六章完成。经过一章又一章，主耶稣不断将自己撒到门徒里面。这在第四章很清楚的启示出来。我们在这一章看见，祂这位撒种者来撒国度的种子。当主耶稣复活时，这撒种就完成了。门徒那时成了另一种的土壤，就是好土，而开始长出基督。我们在使徒行传开头几章，看见门徒乃是生产基督的好土。

13Through His death and resurrection the Lord Jesus not only healed the soil, but He also released God’s life and imparted it into the soil. Through His death the divine life in Him was released, and through His resurrection this life was imparted to the soil. Hence, the Lord’s death and resurrection were the completion of His sowing Himself as a seed into His disciples. This sowing began in chapter one of Mark and continued throughout this Gospel until it was completed in chapter sixteen. In chapter after chapter the Lord Jesus was sowing Himself into His disciples. This is clearly revealed in chapter four where we see that as the Sower He came to sow the seed of the kingdom. When the Lord Jesus was resurrected, this sowing was completed. The disciples then became another kind of soil, the good soil, and they began to grow Christ. In the early chapters of the book of Acts we see that the disciples were good soil producing Christ.

杂草重新出现

THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE WEEDS

14然而，门徒成为好土而且开始长出基督这个事实，并不意谓『杂草』不会2再在他们里面生长了。我们在加拉太二章看见，有些杂草又开始在彼得里面长出来了。杂草复生，原因在于彼得仍然在旧宗教的影响之下。

14However, the fact that the disciples became good soil and began to grow Christ does not mean that the “weeds” could not grow in them again. In Galatians we see that certain weeds had begun to grow again in Peter. The reason the weeds came back was that Peter was still under the influence of the old religion.

15事实上，在行传十章，杂草就想要在彼得里面长出来。照那章所记，彼得看见属天的异象，这异象与种子撒到外邦人里面这事有关。神定意要使用彼得，在另一种土壤，就是外邦人的土壤中，撒下国度的种子。起初，彼得不愿顺服这个异象；他这样拒绝，指明除了麦子以外，还有一些东西在他里面生长。老旧宗教的杂草，正在他里面生长。我们在行传二十一章看见，彼得是受了雅各的影响。当我们思考行传二十一章和加拉太二章，就会看见有许多杂草在彼得里面生长。我们必须自问，到底有多少杂草在我们里面生长？杂草是甚么意思？杂草就是指基督以外的东西在我们里面生长，顶替了基督。在我们的经历中，杂草也许包括文化、宗教、伦常、道德、哲学、性格改良，以及努力要属灵、合乎圣经、圣别并得胜。

15Actually, the weeds were trying to grow in Peter in Acts 10. According to this chapter, Peter saw a heavenly vision, a vision related to the sowing of the seed into the Gentiles. God intended to use Peter to sow the seed of the kingdom into another kind of soil, into Gentile soil. At first Peter refused to obey the vision. This refusal indicates that something was growing in Peter instead of wheat. The things of the old religion, the weeds, were growing in him. In chapter twenty-one of Acts we see that Peter was under the influence of James. When we consider Acts 21 together with Galatians 2, we see that many weeds were growing in Peter. We need to ask ourselves how many weeds are growing in us. What do we mean by weeds? A weed is something other than Christ that is growing in us to replace Christ. In our experience these weeds may include culture, religion, ethics, morality, philosophy, improvement of character, and the effort to be spiritual, scriptural, holy, and victorious

16许多圣徒在这个职事之下已经多年了，但他们还受自己文化和宗教背景的影响。因著这种影响，他们没有清楚看见神新约的经纶。这种影响和不清楚，拖延主的再来，因为这些事拦阻国度在我们里面的发展。

16Many of the saints who have been under this ministry for years are still under the influence of their cultural and religious background. Because of this influence, the view of God’s New Testament economy has not been made clear to them. This influence and this lack of clarity delay the Lord’s coming back because it frustrates the development of the kingdom within us

OUR NEED FOR A CLEAR VIEW

我们需要清楚看见神的国

CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF GOD

17我们在这里要再题一个问题：神的国是甚么？与传统的领会相反，国度不仅是神管治人的范围，也不仅是我们得以进入其中享受永远生命的范围。有许多基督徒对于永远的生命没有正确的领会，他们以为永远的生命是一种永福。我们需要从新约来清楚认识神的国。

17At this point we should once again ask this question: what is the kingdom of God? Contrary to the traditional understanding, the kingdom is not merely a realm where God rules over people and a realm which we enter to enjoy eternal life. Many Christians do not have a proper understanding even of what eternal life is. They think that eternal life is some kind of everlasting blessing. We need to have a clear view from the New Testament concerning the kingdom of God

18在新约里，神的国不是物质的范围，在其中神运用祂的权柄来执行祂的行政，使我们能进入其中，得享永福；这不是新约里国度的观念，我们应该丢弃这种观念。新约所启示神的国，乃是说国度是一个人位，不是物质的范围。这个人位就是神的儿子主耶稣基督，祂是三一神的具体化身。这位三一神的具体化身，来成为国度。祂在马可四章说，国度如同撒种的在撒种。撒种的与种子都是主自己。主耶稣来将祂这国度的种子撒到神所拣选的人里面。祂尽职事时，并没有将任何祂这国度种子以外的东西撒出去。

18In the New Testament the kingdom of God is not a material realm in which God exercises His authority to carry out His governmental administration so that we may enter this realm to enjoy an eternal blessing. This is not the concept of the kingdom in the New Testament, and we should drop this concept. What is revealed in the New Testament regarding the kingdom of God is that the kingdom is a Person, not a material realm. This Person, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is the embodiment of the Triune God. This One who is the embodiment of the Triune God came to be the kingdom. In Mark 4 He says that the kingdom is like a sower sowing the seed. Both the Sower and the seed are the Lord Himself. The Lord Jesus came to sow Himself as the seed of the kingdom into God’s chosen people. In His ministry He did not sow anything other than Himself as the seed of the kingdom