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路加福音生命读经 · 第60篇

人救主的神人生活 ( 一 )

The Man-Savior’s God-Man Living (1)
1读经：希伯来书2:14上，16-17上，腓立比书2:6-8，约翰福音1:1，14，5:30，6:38。本篇信息的题目是『人救主的神人生活。』你有没有思想过这件事？你知不知道主耶稣在地上时，祂的生活是神人的生活？祂的生活不仅是人的生活，祂的生活乃是神人的生活。
1Scripture Reading: Heb. 2:14a, 16-17a; Phil. 2:6-8; John 1:1, 14; 5:30; 6:38 The title of this message is “The Man-Savior’s God- man Living.” Have you ever considered this matter? Have you ever realized that when the Lord Jesus was on earth, His living was a God-man living? His living was not merely that of a man; rather, His living was the living of a God-man
关于神救恩的一些问题神需要成为肉体
SOME QUESTIONS CONCERNING GOD’SS ALVATION The Need for God’sIn carnation
2神要拯救我们，就必须在一个人里面生活三十三年半。你有没有想过这件事？神创造宇宙只用六天，第七天就安息了。那么，神要拯救我们，为甚么需要在一个人里面，在地上生活这么多年？主不仅成为一个人，祂还在地上过为人生活三十三年半之久。我得救后不久，就开始思想神拯救我们的作法。我对自己说，『神是全能的，如果祂愿意，祂能把我们从地狱抓出来，带到天上，藉此拯救我们。祂为甚么要成为一个人，并且在地上生活？』
2In order to save us, God had to live in a man for thirty-three and a half years. Have you ever thought about this? In creating the universe God used only six days, and on the seventh day He rested. Why, then, did God need to live on earth in a man for so many years in order to save us? Not only did the Lord become a man; He lived on earth as a man for thirty- three and a half years. Shortly after I was saved, I began to consider God’sway of saving us. I said to myself, “God is almighty. If He wanted to, He could save us by snatching us out of hell and bringing us to heaven. Why did He become a man and live on earth
3主的为人生活是真实的。真实的为人生活不在高阶层，乃在中下阶层。主耶稣所过的为人生活不在社会的高阶层，祂乃是贫寒家庭里的一员，从事木匠的工作，生活在社会的低阶层。祂虽然是大卫王室的后裔，却生在贫寒之家，在低阶层里生活了三十年。到了三十岁，祂出来尽职事，尽职了三年半。神既是全能的，祂为甚么不用创造宇宙那样的作法来拯救我们？神在创造时只需要说话，一样东西就产生了。比方祂说，『要有光，』就有了光。（创一3。）诗篇三十三篇九节论到创造：『祂说有，就有；命立，就立。』既然神是这样创造诸天和地，祂要拯救我们，为甚么必须在地上生活三十三年半？
3The Lord’s human living was genuine. Genuine human living is found not with the upper class but with the middle and lower classes. The Lord Jesus did not live His human life as part of the upper class of society. Instead, He was a member of a poor family and worked as a carpenter, living in the lower class of society. Even though He was a royal descendant of the family of David, He was born into a poor family and lived among the lower class for thirty years. At the age of thirty, He came forth to minister and ministered for three and a half years. Since God is almighty, why did He not save us in the same way He created the universe? In His creation, God simply had to speak, and a certain matter came into being. For example, He said, “Let there be light,” and there was light (Gen. 1:3). Concerning creation, Psalm 33:9 says, “He spake, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.” Since God created the heavens and the earth in this way, why was it necessary for Him to live on earth for thirty-three and a half years in order to save us?
基督救赎的应用
The Application of Christ’s Redemption
4另一个问题是关于基督救赎的应用。人救主在一千九百多年前，就完成了救赎；祂为甚么不立刻将这已经完成的救赎，应用在所有祂所拣选的人身上，免得给仇敌机会作那么多的恶事？
4Another question we have concerns the application of Christ’s redemption. The Man-Savior accomplished redemption more than nineteen hundred years ago. Why did He not immediately apply this accomplished redemption to all His chosen people and thereby not give the enemy the opportunity to do so many evil things
5看看从基督完成救赎到现今的光景。不错，基督教已经扩展到全世界，但实际上少有生命。在已过的十九个世纪，神似乎没有多少成就。历年来，神一直在作工，但是反对和攻击非常多。神的仇敌撒但一再攻击神的选民。这样的事为甚么发生？主为甚么不立刻应用祂的救赎？如果祂这样作，可能连千年国也不需要了。应用救赎以后，一切都变成新的了；立刻会有新天新地，新耶路撒冷，所有神的赎民就都会在那里。你有没有想过这样的事？你想不想知道，为甚么在救赎的完成与救赎的应用之间有这样的问隔，我能作见证，我思考这些事已经不只五十年了。
5Consider the situation from the time Christ accomplished redemption until now. Yes, Christianity has spread throughout the world, but actually there is little life. It seems that during the past nineteen centuries God has not accomplished very much. God has been working throughout the years, but there has been a great deal of opposition and attack. Satan, God’se ne my, has attacked God’s chosen people again and again. Why does this happen? Why did the Lord not apply His redemption immediately? If He did this, there might not be the need even for the millennium. After the application of redemption, everything would become new. There would be a new heaven, a new earth, and the New Jerusalem, where all God’s redeemed ones would be. Have you ever considered matters such as these? Have you ever wondered why there is such a gap between the accomplishment of redemption and the application of redemption? I can testify that I have been thinking about these things for more than fifty years
主的为人生活
The Lord’s human living
6在我基督徒生活开始的时候，我不明白神为甚么不快速的拯救我们，就像祂作创造工作那样快法。我问牧师，他告诉我，因为我们是人，所以我们的救主必须成为人。在创造里，神当然不需要成为人。但是在救恩里，祂的确需要成为人。神创造人比祂成为人要来得容易。在创造人时，神毫无困难，祂只是作了创造的工作。然而祂成为人却遭到一些困难。在创造里，神不过是作了一些事，但在救恩里祂不仅是作了一些事－祂乃是成为一个人。
6At the beginning of my Christian life, I wondered why God did not save us in a fast way, in a way like His work in creation. When I asked my pastor about this, he told me that because we are human beings it was necessary for our Savior to become a man. In creation, of course, there was no need for God to become a man. But in salvation it certainly was necessary for Him to become a man. It was easier for God to create man than it was for Him to become a man. In creating man God had no difficulty; He simply did the work of creation. But God became involved with certain difficulties when He became a man. In His creation God merely did certain things. But in His salvation He not only did things— He became a man
7当我思想神成为肉体来为我们成功救恩时，我晓得神要拯救我们，需要成为人，这是合逻辑的。但我还不明白，祂为甚么需要在地上生活三十三年半。祂为甚么不成为一个大人，只在地上住留短暂的时间，也许一个月，然后就上十字架完成救赎？祂为甚么成为一个婴孩，需要一天一天的长大？路加二章四十节说，『那孩子渐渐长大，刚强起来，充满智慧，又有神的恩在祂身上。』在这里我们看见，主耶稣是正常的长大，并不是短时间就长到完满的身量。此外，主耶稣不是只传几天道，然后就为救赎我们而死；祂乃是尽职三年半，然后才上十字架完成救赎。
7As I considered God’sin carnation for our salvation, I realized that it was logical for God to become a man in order to save us. But I still did not understand why He needed to live on earth for thirty-three and a half years. Why did He not become a man, stay on earth for a short period of time, perhaps a month, and then go to the cross to accomplish redemption? Why did He need to become a baby growing day by day? Luke 2:40 says, “And the little child grew and became strong, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon Him.” Here we see that the Lord Jesus grew in a normal way; He did not grow to full stature in a short period of time. Furthermore, instead of preaching for only several days and then dying for our redemption, the Lord Jesus ministered for three and a half years before going to the cross to accomplish redemption.
8四福音有很长的篇幅记载主的生活和职事。比方说，马太福音有二十八章。马太不是仅仅说到主耶稣降生，为救赎我们而死，然后复活，他还记载许多别的事。我们在福音书里看见，人救主不是神奇的长大；相反的，祂是正常的长大。但为甚么必须这样？我们因为堕落有罪，需要主耶稣为我们死。祂为了拯救我们来替我们死。但祂为甚么需要在三十三年半的一生中，遭遇这么多的事？事实上，祂只有在十字架上的末了三小时，是为著代罪受苦。在前三小时，祂不是代罪受苦，乃是到了后三小时，神来审判作我们代替的人救主，『那时约到正午，遍地都黑暗了。』（路二三44。）祂在十字架上前三小时的受苦既不是为著我们的罪，那祂为甚么需要受苦？我多年来想在书籍中找这些问题的答案，但得不到完满的答案。经过五十多年亲自、直接的研读圣经，尤其是已过十年，我们一直进行新约生命读经，结果我们得到这些问题完满的答案。
8In the four Gospels we have a lengthy record of the Lord’s life and ministry. The Gospel of Matthew, for example, contains twenty-eight chapters. Instead of simply telling that the Lord Jesus was born and that He died for our redemption and was resurrected, Matthew records many other matters. In the Gospels we see that the Man-Savior did not grow up miraculously; on the contrary, He grew up in a normal way. But why was this necessary? Because we were fallen and sinful, we needed the Lord Jesus to die for us. He suffered a vicarious death for our salvation. But why did He need to suffer so many things during the thirty-three and a half years of His life? Actually, only the last three hours on the cross were hours of vicarious suffering. During the first three hours He did not suffer vicariously. During the second period of three hours, God came in to judge the Man- Savior as our Substitute, “and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour” (Luke 23:44). Why, then, did He need to suffer during His first three hours on the cross, since that suffering was not for our sins? For years I tried to find answers to these questions in books, but I failed to do so in full. Answers in full to these questions came only as a result of more than fifty years of personal, direct study of the Word, especially during the last ten years in which we have been carrying on the Life-study of the New Testament, a study that will be completed with the book of Acts
神拯救我们的作法
God’sway of saving us
9我们来比较一下拯救人的两种可能作法。第一种，假定神仅仅伸手，把罪人从地狱抢出来，把他带到天上。这种救法很容易。第二种，神所采取的作法，就困难多了。按照这个作法，神必须成为一个人，在地上过为人的生活。
9Let us compare two possible ways of saving people. First, suppose God simply stretches forth His hand, snatches a sinner out of hell, and brings him to heaven. This way of saving a person would be easy. The second way, the way taken by God, is much more difficult. According to His way, God became a man and lived a human life on earth.
10神藉著成为肉体，将神圣属性带到人性美德里，充满、复兴、恢复、圣别并变化这些美德。想想看，要这样把人的美德拔高、变化，需要多少时间。神在祂的救恩里，不是仅仅将人从地狱抢出来，把他们带到天上，这位施救的神，为著拯救我们，成为一个人，在地上过一种生活，使祂彀资格拯救我们。这种生活也成了人救主大能救恩的基本因素。使人救主彀资格的程序，需要很长的时间。神救恩的第一步是成为一个人，生活在地上，死在十字架上，并且复活。第二步，人救主进到得救的人里面，活在我们里面，长在我们里面，并在我们身上重复祂的生活。
10Through His incarnation God brought the divine attributes into the human virtues, filling, restoring, recovering, sanctifying, and transforming them. Consider how much time it required for man’s virtues to be uplifted and transformed in this way. In His salvation, God does not simply snatch people out of hell and bring them into heaven. Rather, for our salvation the saving God became a man and lived the kind of life on earth that qualified Him to save us. This life also became the basic factor of the Man-Savior’s dynamic salvation. The procedure that qualified the Man-Savior required a long period of time. The first step of God’ss alvation was to become a man, live on earth, die on the cross, and be resurrected. In the second step, the Man-Savior comes into the saved ones, lives in us, and grows in us, repeating His life in us
11主不仅逐渐长大在信徒里面，祂也逐渐扩展到全世界。主不是突然扩展到各地，乃是逐渐从一地扩展到另一地。起初，祂的扩展只在地中海区域，至终祂扩展到北美和中国。有一天祂进到你我里面来。一九二五年，人救主进到我里面。从那时起，祂一直在我里面活著，并且在我里面长大。主进到我们里面，并且活在我们里面，藉以拯救我们，对于这事我们要怎么说呢？我们可以说，这是生命里的救恩。不过，『生命里的救恩』一辞，已经被一些圣经教师用坏了；他们用这辞，实际上却不充分认识在生命里得救的意义。（罗五10。）按照圣经，生命就是神自己进到我们里面，活在我们里面。
11Not only does the Lord grow gradually in the believers; He has also been spreading gradually throughout the world. Instead of suddenly spreading everywhere, the Lord has spread gradually from place to place. At first, His spread was only in the area of the Mediterranean Sea, and eventually He spread to North America and to China. One day, He came into me and you. Fifty-nine years ago, in 1925, the Man-Savior came into me. From that time onward, He has been living in me and growing in me. How shall we speak of the Lord’ss aving us by coming into us and living in us? We may say that this is salvation in life. However, the term “salvation in life” has been damaged by some Bible teachers who actually do not know adequately what it means to be saved in life (Rom. 5:10). According to the Bible, life is God Himself coming into us to live in us. It takes time for us to be saved in this way
12我们要这样得救，就需要花时间。神人的生活
12the living of a God-man
13人救主经历漫长的过程，不是为著把我们从地狱抢救出来，乃是为著施行大能的救恩。『大能的救恩』这辞，意思就是指著神成为人，过人的生活来彰显神。虽然祂过人的生活，但祂不是彰显人，祂是彰显神。当人救主在地上过这样的生活，天使与鬼魔能彀作见证，祂是人，过著为人的生活，为著彰显神。这是人救主的神人生活。四福音就是告诉我们，这一位如何过著神人的生活。
13The Man-Savior went through a long process not to save us by snatching us out of hell, but to carry out His dynamic salvation. The term “dynamic salvation” means that God became a man and lived a man’s life to express God. Although He lived a man’s life, He did not express man—He expressed God. As the Man-Savior lived such a life on earth, the angels and demons could testify that He was man living a human life for the expression of God. This is the Man-Savior’s God-man living. The four Gospels tell us of the One who lived the life of a God-man.
14在路加二章四十至五十二节，我们看见人救主长大并长进。当祂十二岁的时候，祂按著规矩，在逾越节同父母上耶路撒冷去。（路二41～。）路加也告诉我们，主耶稣在约三十岁的时候开始尽职事。（路三23）只有路加福音告诉我们，主耶稣在十二岁和二十岁时所发生的事，因为路加陈明主耶稣是一个真正、典型的人。我们在路加福音看见，主是一个真实的人，正常的人；祂不是一个不可思议的人。主是很正常的长大成人。末了，祂在三十岁时成熟了，可以尽神圣的职事。按照旧约，利未人必须三十岁才能完全进入事奉。照样，人救主也是在完全长成时，才开始尽职事。人救主的生活是神人的生活。主耶稣在地上时，所活的乃是神人。这生活是圣经记载的一件事实。我们感谢主，我们能彀研读福音书中所记载主的神人生活。我越研读四福音，越释放有关的信息，就越深信主耶稣真是神人。
14In Luke 2:40-52 we see the Man-Savior growing and advancing. When He became twelve years old, He went with His parents to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover according to custom (vv. 41-42). Luke also tells us that the Lord Jesus began His ministry when 42 He was about thirty years old (3:23). Only in the Gospel of Luke are we told what happened to the Lord Jesus at the ages of twelve and thirty. The reason is that Luke presents the Lord Jesus as a genuine and typical man. In the Gospel of Luke we see that the Lord was a real man, a normal man; He was not a magical person. The Lord grew in a normal, human way. Eventually, at the age of thirty, He had come to maturity for the divine ministry. According to the Old Testament, a Levite had to be thirty years of age before he could enter fully into the priesthood. Likewise, the Man - Savior was fully grown when He entered into His ministry. The Man-Savior’s living was a God-man living. When He was on the earth, the Lord Jesus lived a God-man. This living is a fact recorded in the Bible. We thank the Lord that we can study the account of the Lord’s God-man living recorded in the Gospels. The more I study the four Gospels and the more messages I give on them, the more convinced I become that the Lord Jesus truly was the God-man.
彰显神的人
A MAN EXPRESSING GOD
15我们已经看见，人救主过的不是彰显人的生活。祂过著人的生活，但这生活彰显神。因此，主的生活乃是神人的生活。在祂所过的生活里，神藉著人得著了彰显。我们用过手和手套的例证，显示神怎样藉著人救主的人性得著彰显。手套盛装手并彰显手。当手套里的手活动时，手套也活动。但手套活动时，不是彰显手套，乃是彰显手。同样的，主耶稣在地上过的是人的生活，但祂不是彰显人，乃是彰显神。祂过的是彰显神的生活。人看见祂是看见一个真正的人。然而，他们在祂身上所看见的乃是神的彰显。他们不是看见一个彰显人的人，乃是看见一个彰显神的人。
15We have seen that the Man-Savior did not live a life expressing man. He lived a man’s life, yet this life expressed God. Hence, the Lord’s living was a God-man living. He lived a life in which God was expressed through man. We have used the illustration of a hand and a glove to show how God was expressed through the Man- Savior’s humanity. A glove contains the hand and expresses the hand. When the hand in the glove moves, the glove also moves. But as the glove moves, it does not express the glove; it expresses the hand. In a similar way, the Lord Jesus lived on earth as a man, but He did not express man; He expressed God. He lived a life expressing God. When people saw Him, they saw a genuine man. Nevertheless, what they saw in Him was the expression of God. They did not see a man expressing man; they saw a man expressing God
16论到在主耶稣身上神的彰显，约翰说，『我们也见过祂的荣耀，正是从父而来独生子的荣耀。』（约一14。）荣耀就是神的彰显。当门徒看见主的荣耀，他们就是看见神的彰显。
16Concerning the expression of God in the Lord Jesus, John says, “We beheld His glory, glory as of an only begotten from a father” (John 1:14). Glory is the expression of God. Therefore, when the disciples saw the Lord’s glory, they saw the expression of God
17使徒约翰是雷子之一。（可三17。）他大胆又急躁，但他被人救主吸引，跟从了祂。他和他的兄弟雅各是第二班被主耶稣吸引的人。（第一班人是彼得和安得烈。）当主呼召约翰和雅各时，他们『正同他们的父亲西庇太在船上补网。』（太四21。）但是他们被主吸引，就撇下船和父亲，跟从了祂。(太四22。)以后的三年半，他们看到这位神人的生活，不过他们不明白所看见的。然而到了人救主复活以后，他们的眼睛得开启，就开始明白人救主的神人生活。约翰写他的福音书时，年纪已经老迈，可能九十多岁了。他见证神成为肉体，他们见过祂的荣耀。有一个人与他们一同生活行动，他们在这人身上看见神的荣耀。当祂在肉体与他们同在时，他们不明白主是一个人，过著人的生活来彰显神。但等到祂复活以后，他们就明白他们所看见的，乃是神在拿撒勒人耶稣身上得著彰显。福音书记载人救主神人生活的历史。现今这历史需要写到我们这人里面。我们在下一篇信息会看见，神渴望在我们身上复制人救主和祂的神人生活。
17The Apostle John was one of the sons of thunder (Mark 3:17). Although he was bold and impetuous, he was attracted to the Man-Savior and followed Him. He and his brother James were the second group attracted to the Lord Jesus. (The first group was composed of Peter and Andrew.) When the Lord called John and James, they were “in the boat with Zebedee their father mending their nets” (Matt. 4:21). But they were attracted to the Lord and left the boat and their father and followed Him (Matt. 4:22). For the next three and a half years they saw the God-man’s living, although they did not understand what they were seeing. But after the Man-Savior’s resurrection, their eyes were opened, and they began to understand the Man - Savior’s God-man living. When John wrote his Gospel, he was very old, probably in his nineties. He testified that God became flesh and that they beheld His glory. A man was living and walking with them, and in this One they saw the glory of God. When He was with them in the flesh, they did not understand that the Lord was a man living a human life to express God. But after His resurrection they came to realize that they had seen God expressed in Jesus the Nazarene. The Gospels record the history of the Man - Savior’s God-man living. Now this history needs to be written into our being. In a forthcoming message we shall see that God’s desire is to reproduce in us the Man-Savior and His God-man living.