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路加福音生命读经 · 第68篇

禧年（五）

Jubilee (5)
1读经：利未记25:10-12，19-22，马太福音11:28，腓立比书4:5-7，9，路加福音15:23，哥林多前书5:8，以弗所书3:8，腓立比书1:19，哥林多后书12:9，13:14。
1Scripture Reading: Lev. 25:10-12, 19-22; Matt. 11:28; Phil. 4:5-7, 9; Luke 15:23; 1 Cor. 5:8; Eph. 3:8; Phil. 1:19; 2 Cor. 12:9; 13:14
2我们在已过的信息里已经有过禧年的定义，以及禧年的福分。现在我们要来看禧年的生活，我们所说禧年的生活，意思就是在禧年里过的生活。我们要看见，这是一种在美地上安息的生活，（利二五10～12，太十一28，腓四5～7，9，）也是享受美地丰富的生活。（利二五19～22，路十五23，林前五8，弗三8，
2In the foregoing messages we have covered the definition of the jubilee and the blessings of the jubilee. Now we shall begin to consider the living of the jubilee. By the living of the jubilee we mean the kind of life that lives in the jubilee. As we shall see, this is a life of resting in the good land (Lev. 25:10-12; Matt. 11:28; Phil. 4:5-7, 9) and of enjoying the riches of the good land (Lev. 25:19-22; Luke 15:23; 1 Cor. 5:8; Eph. 3:8; Phil. 1:19; 2 Cor. 12:9; 13:14
3腓一19，林后十二9，十三14。）
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人堕落的结局
THE RESULT OF MAN’S FALL
4我们来看在禧年里这两方面的生活以前，我要再说到人的堕落。圣经清楚的启示，人已经堕落了。按照神的定旨，人受造是要盛装神并彰显祂。人要达成这定旨，必须将神接受进来作他的生命，然后继续享受神作他生命的供应。人只有接受神作生命，享受神作他生命的供应，才能过彰显神的生活。我们在别的信息里常常指出，这是整本圣经清楚的启示。
4Before we consider these two aspects of living in the jubilee, I would like to give a further word concerning man’s fall. The Bible reveals clearly that man has become fallen. According to God’s purpose, man was made to contain God and express Him. In order for man to fulfill this purpose, it was necessary for man to take God in as his life and then continue to enjoy God as his life supply. Only by taking God as life and enjoying God as his life supply can man live a life to express God. As we have often pointed out in other messages, this is the clear revelation in the Bible as a whole
5神所创造的人并没有达成神的定旨，反被神的仇敌诱骗，带离神的定旨。人犯罪得罪了神，并且堕落了。不信主的人当然对人的堕落及其结局没有清楚的领会。就连许多清楚人堕落的基督徒，对堕落的结局或后果，也没有充分的领会。但我们需要对这事实有深刻的印象：人堕落的结局包括两件事，第一，人失去了神；第二，人落到辖制、奴役、被掳中了。在整个人类的历史中，人一直没有神，一直在辖制中。几千年来，人一直在奴役中，失去了作他产业的神。每一个民族、种族、国家都是这样。
5Instead of fulfilling God’s purpose, the man created by God was seduced by God’se ne my and carried away from God’s purpose. Man sinned against God and became fallen. Unbelievers , of course , do not have a clear understanding of man’s fall and its result. Even many Christians who are clear about man’s fall do not have an adequate understanding of the issue, or the result, of the fall. Therefore, we need to be impressed with the fact that the issue of man’s fall involves two things: first, man’s losing of God; second, man’s falling into bondage, slavery, captivity. Throughout the history of mankind, man has been without God and has been in bondage. For thousands of years man has been in slavery, having lost God as his possession. This is true of every people, race, country, and nation
人生的苦难
the sufferings in human life
6那些挣扎努力要享受生活的人，特别是青年人，可能梦想有一天地上会有『天堂，』会有『乌托邦。』我从前曾有过这种梦想，但以后我醒悟过来，领悟人生不过是充满了各种的苦难。结了婚的人有难处，未结婚的人难处即使不是更多，可能也一样多。就著难处和苦难而言，很难说结婚好，还是不结婚好。因为信徒渴望得知如何过喜乐的婚姻生活，所以在基督教书店里，论婚姻的书很受欢迎。任何一个结了婚，知道婚姻生活难处的人，都想知道如何才能有喜乐的婚姻。但青年人不知道婚姻生活里会有多少难处。我题这一点，乃是举一个人生苦难的例子。另一个例子是财富所引起的难处。渴想发财的人也许不领悟，财富会引起麻烦。我认识一位在已过二十年变得相当富有的弟兄，但是他的财富使他大受苦难。因著财富引起的麻烦和苦难，许多富有的人寿命不长。他们的财富使他们心力交瘁并软弱。
6Those, especially young people, who are struggling to enjoy life may dream that one day there will be heaven on earth, that a time is coming when there will be a Utopia. I once had this kind of dream, but I woke up from it and realized that human life is filled with all kinds of suffering. Those who are married have problems, but those who are not married may have just as many problems, if not more. As far as problems and sufferings are concerned, it is difficult to say whether it is better to be married or unmarried. Because believers are eager to learn how to have a happy married life, books on marriage are popular in Christian book stores. Surely any married person, knowing the problems of married life, would like to know how to have a happy marriage. The young people, however, do not know how many problems there can be in married life. I mention this to give one example of the sufferings in human life. Another example is the problem caused by riches. Those who desire to be rich may not realize that riches can cause trouble. I know of a certain brother who has become quite rich in the past twenty years, but his riches have caused him great suffering. Because of the trouble and sufferings brought about by wealth, many rich people do not have a long life. They are exhausted and weakened by their riches.
7最近我在报上看到一篇文章，说到一个中国人，曾经在中国作过大学校长。这个人现在一百岁了。他一百岁时，许多从前的学生设宴庆祝他的生日。他在筵席中说，他感谢神，他不是富翁，因为他若富有，就不会活到一百岁。按照他的领会，没有财富是他活到一百岁的重要因素。我们这里的点乃是，人生是苦难的。财富与贫穷都是苦难的原因。贫穷的人有罣虑，但富有的人罣虑可能更多。另一种人的苦难，是身为国家领袖的人所经历的。一个国家的总统或领袖所必须肩负的担子，非常沉重，比普通人大得多。身体不好的人不该谋求政治高位，因为他身上的压力会很大。这又说明了人生是苦难的。
7Recently I read an article in the newspaper about a Chinese man who was once the president of a college in China. This man is now one hundred years of age. When he reached the age of one hundred, many of his former students held a feast in honor of his birthday. During the feast he said that he thanked God that he was not a rich man, because if he had been wealthy, he would never have lived to reach the age of one hundred. According to his understanding, the lack of riches was an important factor in his living to the age of one hundred. The point we are making is that human life is a life of suffering. Both riches and poverty are causes of suffering. Those who are poor may have anxiety, but those who are rich may have even more anxiety. Another kind of human suffering is that experienced by those who are the leaders of countries. The president or head of a country must bear a very heavy burden, a burden much greater than that borne by an ordinary person. Anyone who is not in good health should not seek a high political office because the pressure on him will be great. This is another illustration of the fact that human life is a life of suffering.
寻求安息与享受
seeking rest and enjoyment
8你知道受苦是甚么意思？你知道苦难的意义么？苦难的真义有两面，就是没有安息，没有享受。神创造人，使人对安息与享受有胃口，有渴望。神创造人带著这样的渴望，因为神的心意是要人不断的寻求祂。所以，每个人都在寻求安息与享受。要安息就需要满足。人若没有满足，就不会有安息。我们从经历中知道，我们只有在满足的时候才能安息。不仅如此，满足也来自享受。因此，我们若没有享受，就没有满足；若没有满足，就没有安息。每个人对安息与享受都满了饥渴。没有安息与享受，就是在受苦。一位弟兄想要结婚，原因就是寻求安息与享受。他认为只有在妻子身上才能找到安息，他以为婚姻会提供他安息与享受。同样的，姊妹想要有丈夫，乃是因为她认为婚姻生活是她能安息的『卧榻。』
8Do you know what it means to suffer? Do you know the significance of suffering? The real significance of suffering is twofold: to suffer is to have no rest, and to suffer is to have no enjoyment. God created man with the appetite, the aspiration, for rest and enjoyment. God created man with such an aspiration because God’sin tent i on was that man would continually seek after Him. Therefore, every human being is seeking rest and enjoyment. Rest requires satisfaction. If a person does not have satisfaction, he cannot have rest. From experience we know that we can rest only when we are satisfied. Furthermore, satisfaction comes from enjoyment. Hence, if we do not have enjoyment, we do not have satisfaction; and if we do not have satisfaction, we do not have rest. Everyone is hungering and thirsting for rest and enjoyment. To be without rest and enjoyment is to suffer. The reason a brother desires to get married is that he is seeking rest and enjoyment. He thinks that he cannot find rest in anyone other than a wife. He regards marriage as something that will provide rest and enjoyment. Likewise, a sister desires a husband because she thinks that married life will be a “couch” on which she may rest
9为甚么我们需要结婚？因为我们想要安息、满足和享受。然而，你在婚姻生活里经历了多少真正的安息、满足和享受？许多人能见证，在婚姻生活里，苦难可能大于安息与满足，难处可能大于享受。甚至卧室应当开窗或关窗的问题，也可能引起婚姻生活的苦难。一对夫妇可能为这样的事争论。虽然人结婚是因为需要安息、满足和享受，但真正的安息、满足和享受并不在婚姻生活里。我们已经看过富人与穷人一样有人生的苦难。比方说，一个银行存款很多的人可能担心通货膨胀。他在银行里有了数万元的存款，这反而叫他为金钱罣虑。在人生的每一方面，都可能是『亏』大于『盈。』这就是说，我们对一件事不论作怎样的选择，结果都可能是亏多于盈。不论我们结婚或不结婚，富有或贫穷，都可能是亏大于盈。
9Why do we need marriage? We need marriage because we want rest, satisfaction, and enjoyment. However, how much real rest, satisfaction, and enjoyment do you experience in your married life? Many can testify that in married life the suffering may be greater than the rest and satisfaction and that the troubles may be greater than the enjoyment. Suffering in married life may be caused even by the issue of whether the bedroom window should be open or closed. A husband and wife may argue over a matter such as this. Although people get married because they need rest, satisfaction, and enjoyment, the real rest, satisfaction, and enjoyment are not found in married life. We have seen that the rich, as well as the poor, have their sufferings in life. For example, someone with a large savings account may worry about inflation. Even though he has thousands of dollars in the bank, he may still be anxious about money. In every area of human life the “debit” side may be greater than the “credit” side. This means that whatever choice we make regarding a particular matter, the result may be more debit than credit. Whether we are married or unmarried, rich or poor, the debit may be larger than the credit.
10没有得救的人，不论结婚或不结婚，富有或贫穷，他的定命都是沉沦。这就是人需要神救恩的原因；这就是人需要福音的原因。人没有神的救恩，不管光景如何，都要沉沦。受过教育有教养的人，和未受教育没有教养的人，都要沉沦。因为他们都在走下坡路，所以都不会有安息。他们何等需要听见福音的传讲，听见禧年号角的响声！堕落的人类已经失去了神，并且落在辖制中。想想以色列人在埃及的光景，所有的以色列人都是在辖制之下。埃及法老是高高在上，但他也是在辖制之下。以色列人和埃及人都失去了神，都在辖制中。同样的，今天堕落的人类都是在辖制中。富有的、贫穷的、受过教育的、未受教育的、已婚的、未婚的，都是在辖制中。只有当我们得著神，我们才不再在辖制中，因为神是我们的释放，我们的自由，甚至是我们的解放。因为堕落的人已经失去了神，并且落在辖制中，所以人没有真正的安息或享受。这是人堕落的结局，后果。
10The destiny of every unsaved person whether married or unmarried, rich or poor, is hell. This is why people need God’ss alvation; this is why they need the gospel. Without God’ss alvation, a person is going downward to hell, no matter what his situation may be. Those who are educated and cultured and those who are uneducated and uncultured are all going downward to hell. Because they are on this downward way, they cannot have any rest. How they need to hear the preaching of the gospel, the sounding out of the jubilee! Fallen mankind has lost God and is in bondage. Consider the situation of the children of Israel in Egypt. All the Israelites were under bondage. It may seem that Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, was superior, but he also was in bondage. Both the Israelites and the Egyptians had lost God and were in bondage. Likewise, today fallen mankind is in bondage. The rich and the poor, the educated and the uneducated, the married and the unmarried—all are in bondage. Only when we have God are we no longer in bondage, for God is our release, our liberty, even our liberation. Because fallen man has lost God and is in bondage, he does not have the real rest or enjoyment. This is the result, the issue, of man’s fall
一幅神如何拯救人
A PICTURE OF HOW GOD SAVES MAN
脱离堕落结局的图画
FROM THE ISSUE OF MAN’S FALL
11旧约的一些豫表，显示神如何拯救人脱离堕落的结局。在这些豫表中，第一个是逾越节。
11Certain types in the Old Testament show how God saves man from the issue of the fall. The first of these types is the feast of the Passover
逾越节
the feast of the Passover
12当以色列人在埃及的时候，他们是在辖制中，没有安息，没有满足，没有享受。但是神来搭救他们，拯救他们脱离堕落的光景。神藉著逾越来拯救祂的百姓。圣经里将这逾越称作节期。逾越节是以色列人每年所守七个节期中的头一个。（利二三。）『节』含示假期，是安息、满足和享受的时候。假期没有劳苦，乃是享受的日子。在所有的国家，假期一到，人就放下工作，这是安息、满足和享受的时候。逾越节对以色列人就是这样的时候，神的选民息了劳苦，享受神作他们的满足。
12When the children of Israel were in Egypt, they were in bondage. They had no rest, no satisfaction, and no enjoyment. But God came in to rescue them, to save them from their fallen situation. God saved His people by the Passover. In the Bible the Passover is called a feast. The feast of the Passover was the first of the seven annual feasts observed by the children of Israel (Lev. 23). The word “feast” implies a holiday, a time of rest, satisfaction, and enjoyment. A holiday is a day without labor, a day of enjoyment. In all nations, when a holiday comes, people cease from work and have a time of rest, satisfaction, and enjoyment. The feast of Passover was such a time for the children of Israel. It was a time for God’s chosen people to rest from their labor and to enjoy God as their satisfaction.
旷野里的生活
Life in the Wilderness
13神带以色列人出埃及，过红海，进入旷野。在旷野的那些年间，他们不必殷勤作工。他们那四十年作了甚么？可以说，他们过了一段很长的假期。他们四十年之间不必劳苦，他们与神一同安息。他们不耕种，不收割，只拾取吗哪。他们所拾取的并不是劳苦的结果，乃是神的恩赐。所以，以色列人是与神一同安息，享受神的恩赐。这在历史上是绝无仅有的：两百多万人四十年之久不作工，不耕种。这四十年间，以色列人天天与神一同安息。
13God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt, through the Red Sea, and into the wilderness. During the years in the wilderness, the people did not have any industry or employment. What, then, did they do for forty years? We may say that they had a very long holiday. For forty years, they did not labor; instead, they rested with God. They did not sow or reap but simply gathered the manna. Furthermore, what they gathered was not the result of their labor but was something of God’s gift. Therefore, the children of Israel rested with God and enjoyed His gift. It is unique in history that a people numbering more than two million spent forty years without industry or farming. During these forty years, the children of Israel rested with God day by day
14我们看以色列人在旷野的历史，就看见他们实际上不知道如何与神一同安息，或享受祂的恩赐。他们还想要劳苦，就是为自己作点事。这样的劳苦得罪神。以色列人进入旷野以后，应当甚么都不作，只管赞美主，享受主，与主一同安息。然而，他们还挣扎努力要为自己作点甚么。每当他们这样劳苦的时候，就引起难处。
14As we consider the history of the children of Israel in the wilderness, we see that actually they did not know how to rest with God or enjoy His gifts. They still tried to labor, that is, to do something for themselves. This labor was offensive to God. After coming into the wilderness, the children of Israel should have done nothing except praise the Lord, enjoy Him, and rest with Him. However, they still struggled to do something for themselves. Whenever they labored in this way, they caused problems
美地
The Good Land
15在旷野四十年的假期之后，以色列人被带进美地，神赐给每家一分地，他们就在那一分地上安息。他们在那一分地上生活，享受地，从地得著满足。美地表征神作我们的分。诗篇十六篇五节论到神是我们的分，说，『耶和华是我的产业，是我杯中的分。』所以，我们在其上安息，享受，并因其而满足的那真正的地，乃是神自己。神是那真正流奶与蜜之地。当然，这位神以后是耶稣基督，至终是赐生命的灵。那位是耶稣基督，又是赐生命之灵的神，乃是我们那流奶与蜜的美地。我能作见证，我的基督正流出奶与蜜。基督是我们的分；祂是我们的安息、满足和享受。
15After the forty-year holiday in the wilderness, the children of Israel were brought into the good land. God gave a portion of the land to each family, and the people rested on their portion of the land. They lived on that portion, enjoyed it, and received satisfaction from it. The good land is a type of God as our portion. Concerning God being our portion, Psalm 16:5 says, “The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup.” Therefore, the real portion of the land on which we rest, which we enjoy, and with which we are satisfied is God Himself. God is the real land flowing with milk and honey. Of course, eventually this God is Jesus Christ and ultimately, the life-giving Spirit. The very God who is Jesus Christ and the life-giving Spirit is our good land flowing with milk and honey. I can testify that my Christ is flowing with milk and honey. Christ is our portion; He is our rest, satisfaction, and enjoyment
需要禧年作逾越节的重复
The Need for the Jubilee as a Repetition of the Passover
16虽然如此，许多以色列人在那地的生活并没有安息与享受，他们的生活方式叫他们贫穷。他们先卖了土地，至终卖了自己。他们再次经历人堕落的两种结局：失去享受并受辖制。这叫神必须按照利未记二十五章的豫表设立禧年。禧年实际上是逾越节的重复。以色列人藉著逾越节得释放脱离辖制，进入安息与享受。但是有些人进入对神的享受以后，又变得贫穷，失去一切。因此，需要禧年作逾越节的重复。
16However, many of the children of Israel did not live on the land in the way of rest and enjoyment. On the contrary, they lived in such a way that they became poor. First they sold their land; eventually they sold themselves. Once again they experienced the two results of man’s fall: the loss of enjoyment, and bondage. This made it necessary for God to set up the year of jubilee, according to the type in Leviticus 25. Actually the jubilee was a repetition of the Passover. By the Passover the children of Israel were delivered from bondage into rest and enjoyment. But some, after entering into the enjoyment of God, became poor again and lost everything. Hence, there was the need for the jubilee as the repetition of the Passover
17在禧年时要宣告自由。『你要将第五十年分别为圣，并在遍地向一切居民宣告释放。这一年是给你们的禧年；各人要归回自己的产业，各人要归回本家。』（利二五10，另译。）这释放就是从辖制得自由，得解放。根据利未记二十五章十节，当禧年的时候，人能归回自己的产业和本家。这表征甚么？这表征归回安息、满足和享受，就是归回逾越节所把人带进的情形和光景里。逾越节曾把他们带进一种情形和光景里，使他们得著神作他们的美地，给他们安息并享受。但他们失去了这产业，又落在辖制里，他们的光景就像以色列人在埃及的光景。所以，需要禧年作逾越节的重复，向一切失去产业，并在辖制里的人宣告自由。在禧年的时候，人能归回他们的产业和他们的家，好得著安息、满足和享受。这是利未记二十五章的豫表所描绘的图画。我们在下一篇信息会看得更完全，这豫表乃是描绘基督徒生活该有的光景。基督徒的生活是自由和释放的生活，满了安息、满足和享受的生活。
17In the year of jubilee there was the proclamation of liberty: “And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family” (Lev. 25:10). This liberty was a release; it denoted freedom, liberation from bondage. According to Leviticus 25:10, in the year of jubilee a person could be returned to his own possession and to his own family. What does this signify? This signifies a return to rest, satisfaction, and enjoyment, a return to the condition and the state into which the people had been brought by the Passover. The Passover had brought them into a condition and state where they could possess God as their good land for their rest and enjoyment. But they lost this possession and fell into bondage again. Their condition became like that of the children of Israel in Egypt. Therefore, there was the need of the jubilee as the repetition of the Passover to proclaim liberty to all those who had lost their possession and who were in bondage. In the year of jubilee the people could be returned to their possession and to their family in order to have rest, satisfaction, and enjoyment. This is the picture portrayed in the type in Leviticus 25. As we shall see more fully in the following message, this type is a picture of what the Christian life should be. The Christian life is a life of liberty, freedom, and release, a life full of rest, satisfaction, and enjoyment