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路加福音生命读经 · 第8篇

对在人性里带著神性之人救主的豫备（六）

The Preparation Of The Man-Savior In His Humanity With His Divinity (6
1读经：路加福音三章二十一至二十二节。在本篇信息里，我们要继续看人救主的就职。（路三1～22。）人救主就职进入祂的职事，乃是经由施浸者约翰的介绍，（路三1～20，）然后受浸（路三21，）并受膏。（路三22。）我们需要特别注意人救主受浸与受膏的意义。
1Scripture Reading: Luke 3:21-22 In this message we shall continue to consider the inauguration of the Man-Savior (3:1-22). In His inauguration into His ministry, the Man-Savior was introduced by John the Baptist (3:1-20). Then He was baptized (v. 21) and anointed (v. 22). We need to pay particular attention to the significance of the baptism and anointing of the Man-Savior
人救主的受浸将自己摆在一边以彰显神
THE BAPTISM OF THE MAN-SAVIOR Putting Himself Aside to Express God
2施浸者约翰将人救主浸在水里，这事实指明甚至人救主也必须受浸。主耶稣受浸，就是说，祂将自己摆在一边。祂让自己摆到死里，使神能彀不以天然的作法，乃以复活的作法来尽职。因此，以人的身分说，主耶稣必须将自己摆在一边，好叫祂可以活神。我们若要对人救主受浸的意义有正确的领会，就需要进一步来看最高标准的道德是甚么。最高标准的道德实际上就是神所创造，带著神所造之人性美德的人，（创一，）加上表征神作我们生命，带著神一切神圣属性的生命树（创二）的结果。最高标准的道德是甚么？最高标准的道德是神所造的人加上生命树的结果。
2The fact that John the Baptist baptized the Man-Savior with water indicates that it was necessary even for Him to be baptized. For the Lord Jesus to be baptized means that He put Himself aside. He allowed Himself to be put into death so that He might minister not in a natural way, but in the way of resurrection. Therefore, as a Man it was necessary for the Lord Jesus to put Himself aside in order that He might live God. If we would have a proper understanding of the significance of the baptism of the Man-Savior, we need to consider further what is the highest standard of morality. The highest standard of morality is actually the result of the God-created man (Gen. 1) with the human virtues created by God plus the tree of life (Gen. 2), a tree that signifies God as life to us with all His divine attributes. What is the highest standard of morality? The highest standard of morality is the result of the God-created man plus the tree of life
3在神所创造的人里面有人性美德。这些美德是照著神的形像，按著神的样式造的，尤其是照著神的爱、光、圣、义造的。按照创世记二章，这位神所创造，带著人性美德的人，被安置在生命树跟前。生命树表征是生命的神，带著祂神圣的属性。当生命树加到神所造的人里，结果就是最高标准道德的生活。主耶稣受浸，好使祂可以过彰显神属性的为人生活。我们若看见这个，就会了解不仅堕落的人需要被摆在一边，连神照著祂形像所创造的人也需要被摆在一边，使他可以过彰显神的生活。因此，不论我们是那一种人，我们若要过彰显神的生活，就需要被摆在一边。
3In the man created by God there were the human virtues. These virtues are in God’s image and according to His likeness. In particular, these virtues are according to God’s love, light, holiness, and righteousness. According to chapter two of Genesis, this God - created man with his human virtues was placed in front of the tree of life. The tree of life signifies God as life with His divine attributes. When the tree of life is added to the God-created man, the result is a living in the highest standard of morality. The Lord Jesus was baptized in order that He might live a human life expressing God’s attributes. If we see this, we shall realize that not only does fallen man need to be set aside, but even the man created by God in His image needs to be set aside so that he may live a life that expresses God. Therefore, no matter what kind of person we may be, if we would live a life to express God, we need to be put aside.
4主耶稣虽然是完全且完美的人，祂还需要被摆在一边，为要过彰显神的生活。受浸的意思就是被摆在一边，被了结且被埋葬，使我们不凭自己，乃凭神生活。我们若这样被摆在一边，就能过一种有神圣属性彰显在人性美德中的为人生活。
4Although the Lord Jesus was a complete and perfect Man, He needed to be put aside in order to live a life that expressed God. To be baptized simply means to be put aside, to be terminated and buried so that we may live not by ourselves but by God. If we are set aside in this way, we shall be able to live a human life with the divine attributes expressed in the human virtues
在罪之肉体的样式里
In the Likeness of the Flesh of Sin
5主耶稣是完美的人，有人性一切的美德，但祂却是在罪之肉体的样式里。当然，主耶稣没有堕落人类的性情，但祂的确有堕落人类的样式、外形或外表。保罗在罗马八章三节说，基督在罪之肉体的样式里来。祂没有罪的性情，却有罪之肉体的样式、外表、形状。这罪之肉体的样式必须受审判、被了结并被埋葬。这是人救主受浸的另一个原因。
5The Lord Jesus was a perfect Man, a Man with all the human virtues, yet He was nevertheless in the likeness of the flesh of sin. Of course, the Lord Jesus did not have the nature of fallen mankind; however, He did possess the likeness, the outward form or appearance, of fallen mankind. In Romans 8:3 Paul says that Christ came in the likeness of the flesh of sin. He did not have the nature of sin, but He had the likeness, the appearance, the form, of the flesh of sin. It was necessary for this likeness of the flesh of sin to be judged, terminated, and buried. This was another reason for the baptism of the Man-Savior
人类的代表
The Representative of Mankind
6当主耶稣三十岁出来尽职时，祂在两方面作了人类的代表。祂一面代表神所创造的人，另一面在外表上代表堕落的人。你晓得当主耶稣来受约翰的浸时，祂是代表神所创造的人，又在外表上代表堕落的人么？我们要强调主耶稣没有堕落之人真实的性情这个事实，但祂的确有堕落之人的外表。因此，在真实的性情上，祂代表神所创造的人；在外表、样式（不是性情）上，祂也代表堕落的人。在祂真实的人性上，祂代表神所创造的人；在外表上，祂代表堕落了的人。我们已经看见，堕落的人实在需要受审判、被了结并被埋葬。我们也看见，甚至神所造的人也必须被摆在一边，为要过一种人性美德彰显神圣属性的生活。为此，甚至神所创造善良、完全、完美的人，也必须被摆在一边。这是主耶稣这位神人在约翰福音里说，祂从自己不能作甚么的原因。祂在约翰五章十九节说，『子从自己不能作甚么，惟有看见父所作的，子才能作。』祂在约翰五章三十节又说，『我从自己不能作甚么：』主在约翰八章二十八节宣告：『我不从自己作甚么。』
6When the Lord Jesus came out to minister at the age of thirty, He was the representative of mankind in two aspects. On the one hand, He represented the God-created man; on the other hand, in appearance He represented fallen man. Have you ever realized that when the Lord Jesus came to be baptized by John, He represented the God - created man and, in outward appearance, the fallen man? We would emphasize the fact that the Lord Jesus did not have the actual nature of fallen man, but He did have the appearance of fallen man. Therefore, in actual nature He represented the God - created man, and in appearance, likeness, but not in nature, He also represented fallen man. In His actual human nature He represented the man created by God; in appearance He represented the man who had become fallen. We have seen that fallen man certainly needs to be judged, terminated, and buried. We have also seen that even the God-created man must be set aside in order to live a life in which the human virtues express the divine attributes. For this, even a good, complete, and perfect God-created man must be set aside. This is the reason that the Lord Jesus as the God-man said in the Gospel of John that He did not do anything by Himself. In John 5:19 He said, “The Son can do nothing from Himself except what He sees the Father doing.” In John 5:30 He said again, “I can do nothing from Myself.” In John 8:28 the Lord declared, “I do nothing from Myself.”
7为要在为人生活里彰显神，主开始尽职的时候，就藉著受浸将自己摆在一边。祂是完美且完全的人，但祂不愿凭著自己生活，却凭著在祂里面的父神生活。这件事很要紧，我们都需要看见。
7In order that He might express God in His human living, at the beginning of His ministry the Lord put Himself aside through baptism. He was a perfect and complete Man, but He would not live by Himself. Instead, He lived by God the Father who was in Him. This matter is crucial, and we all need to see it
我们需要被了结且被埋葬
Our Need to Be Terminated and Buried
8主就职的第一方面就是祂被摆在一边。在我们对神的事奉上，这原则适用于每一个人。我们若要进入一项对神的事奉，就需要被摆在一边；就是说，我们需要被了结且被埋葬。我们是神所创造的人，又是堕落过的人，我们需要被了结。人救主就职进入祂为著神职事的第一方面，乃是被摆在一边。我们也需要在死水里被了结且被埋葬。
8The first aspect of the Lord’s inauguration was for Him to be set aside. This principle applies to all of us in our service to God. If we would enter into a particular service to God, we need to be set aside; that is, we need to be terminated and buried. Both as a God-created man and as a fallen man, we need to be terminated. The first aspect of the Man-Savior’s inauguration into His ministry for God was for Him to be set aside. We also need to be terminated and buried in the waters of death
人救主的受膏
THE ANOINTING OF THE MAN-SAVIOR
9主耶稣受浸以后，立刻为神所膏：『圣灵以彷佛鸽子的形体，降在祂身上，又有声音从天上出来，说，你是我的爱子，我喜悦你。』（路三22。）施浸者约翰给主耶稣施浸以后，父神就差遣祂的圣灵降在这位受浸的人身上。因此，神的灵降在被了结且被埋葬的人身上，使祂就职进入祂为著神的活的职事里。
9Immediately after the Lord Jesus was baptized, He was anointed by God: “The Holy Spirit descended in bodily form as a dove upon Him; and a voice came out of heaven, You are My beloved Son, in You I delight” (v. 22). After John the Baptist had baptized the Lord Jesus, God the Father sent His Holy Spirit upon this baptized Man. Hence, the Spirit of God descended upon a terminated and buried Man to inaugurate Him into His living ministry for God
素质中的圣灵与能力中的圣灵
The Holy Spirit in Essence and in Power
10在一章三十五节，耶稣由圣灵成孕，是素质的，与耶稣神圣的所是，神圣的人位有关。在耶稣的成孕里，圣灵神圣元素的素质是不能改变，也不曾离开的。然而，这里圣灵降在耶稣身上，是经纶的，与耶稣的职事、工作有关。圣灵的能力是为著耶稣的职事，（路四14，18，太十二28，）按情况的需要是会离开的。当耶稣在十字架上为罪人受死担罪时，神就是在经纶上弃绝并离开祂。（太二七46。）能力中的圣灵在这里降在祂身上以前，祂从出生起就有了素质中的圣灵；当能力中的圣灵降在祂身上时，祂已经同素质中的圣灵生存著。
10The Holy Spirit’s conceiving of Jesus in 1:3 5 is essential, related to the divine Being, the divine Person, of Jesus. The essence of the Holy Spirit’s divine element in the conception of Jesus is unchangeable and cannot be removed. However, the Holy Spirit’s descending upon Jesus here is economical, related to the ministry, the work, of Jesus. The power of the Holy Spirit for the ministry of Jesus (4:1, 14, 18; Matt. 12:28) is removable according to the condition of need for it. It was in this economical way that God forsook Jesus and left Him when He was carrying the sinners’ sin in dying for them on the cross (Matt. 27:46). Before the Holy Spirit in power descended upon Him, He already had the Holy Spirit in essence from His birth. Furthermore, while the Holy Spirit in power was descending upon Him, He was existing with the Holy Spirit in essence.
圣灵与主人位、工作的关系
The Holy Spirit in Relation to the Lord’s Person and Work
11在这一点上，我要再说一点关于主耶稣的人位和工作的事。主的人位是祂的所是，祂的生存；祂的工作是祂的职事或祂的职任。所以，主耶稣有人位和职事两面的讲究。就著祂的人位说，祂从成孕时就有圣灵作祂内在的素质，这是为著主的所是，为著祂生存的灵。当祂在童女马利亚的腹中成孕时，祂就由圣灵构成，作神所是的内在素质。因此，祂出生就有圣灵作祂的素质。换句话说，祂出生就有素质的灵为著祂的人位，所是，生存。主耶稣在地上生活三十年，是凭著圣灵作祂人位的内在素质。到了三十岁，祂出来工作，尽职，完成祂的职任。为著祂的职事，神进一步需要圣灵，不是素质的，乃是经纶的。祂受浸以后，圣灵以彷佛鸽子的形体，降在祂身上。这是圣灵在经纶上降在主身上，为要藉著主的职事完成神的经纶。
11At this point I would like to say a further word concerning the Person of the Lord Jesus and His work. The Lord’s Person is His being, His existence, and His work is His ministry or His office. Therefore, with the Lord Jesus there is the matter of His Person and the matter of His ministry. For His Person He had the Holy Spirit as His intrinsic essence from the time of His conception. This is the Spirit for the Lord’s being, for His existence. He was constituted of the Holy Spirit as the intrinsic essence of His being when He was conceived in the womb of the virgin Mary. Hence, He was born with the Holy Spirit as His essence. In other words, He was born with the essential Spirit for His Person, being, existence. For thirty years the Lord Jesus lived on earth by the Holy Spirit as the intrinsic essence of His Person. Then at the age of thirty He came forth to work, to minister, to fulfill His office. For His ministry He needed the Holy Spirit in a further way, not essentially but economically. After He was baptized, the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily form as a dove. This was the Holy Spirit coming upon the Lord economically for the carrying out of God’secon o my through the Lord’s ministry
圣灵的两面在主耶稣身上
Two Aspects of the Holy Spirit With the Lord Jesus
12我们要看见圣灵这两面─素质的一面和经纶的一面，这是非常重要的。圣灵素质的一面是为著主耶稣的人位，所是，生存。那灵经纶的一面是为著主的工作，职事和职任。我能作见证，五十多年来我一直研读圣经，目的是要了解圣灵这两面。一九三四年，我负责编辑『基督徒报。』我为那分报写了一些文章，论到圣灵的两面─内里一面为著生命，外在一面为著工作。但是最近几年，我才清楚看见圣灵内里的一面（我们可以称之为那灵的内住），乃是素质的灵，是为著素质，所是，生存；而圣灵外在的一面（降在我们身上的灵），乃是经纶的灵；是为著工作，事奉。外在的一面不是为著生存的素质，乃是经纶的，关系到我们为著神的工作与职事，以及我们所履行的职任。
12It is very important that we see these two aspects of the Holy Spirit — the essential aspect and the economical aspect. The essential aspect of the Holy Spirit is for the Person, the being, the existence, of the Lord Jesus. The economical aspect of the Spirit is for the Lord’s work, ministry, and office. I can testify that for more than fifty years I have been studying the Bible for the purpose of understanding these aspects of the Holy Spirit. In 1934 I was given the responsibility of editing the paper entitled The Christian. For that paper I wrote some articles on the two aspects of the Holy Spirit—the inward aspect for life and the outward aspect for work. However, only in recent years have I seen clearly that the inward aspect of the Holy Spirit, which we may call the indwelling of the Spirit, is a matter of the essential Spirit, the Spirit for essence, being, existence, and that the outward aspect of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit coming upon us, is the economical Spirit for work, for service. The outward aspect is not a matter of essence for existence; it is a matter of economy related to the work and ministry we render to God and the office we fulfill.
在信徒身上
With the Believers
13原则上，圣灵的两面在我们身上，和在主耶稣身上是一样的。在祂身上有素质的一面为著祂的人位，也有经纶的一面为著祂的职事。在我们身上也有那灵素质的一面，为著我们重生信徒的生存；还有那灵外在的一面，为著我们基督徒的工作。
13In principle, both aspects of the Holy Spirit are the same with us as they were with the Lord Jesus. With Him there was the essential aspect for His Person and the economical aspect for His ministry. With us, there is also the essential aspect of the Spirit for our existence as regenerated believers, and there is the outward aspect of the Spirit for our Christian work
14多年来我无法充分明白或解释，那由圣灵成孕，又凭那灵生活了三十年的主耶稣，为甚么受浸的时候还需要那灵降在祂身上。祂受浸的时候，祂里面岂不是已经有那灵？祂里面必定已经有那灵。那为甚么那灵又降在祂身上？这确实不是指明有两位灵：一位住在主耶稣里面，一位降在祂身上。既然只有一位灵，（弗四4，）这一位灵如何能住在主耶稣里面，又降在祂身上？这问题的答案就在于明白这一位灵有两面，素质的一面与经纶的一面。
14For many years I was not able to understand or explain adequately why the Lord Jesus, who was conceived of the Holy Spirit and who lived by the Spirit for thirty years, still needed the Spirit to descend upon Him at the time of His baptism. When He was baptized, did He not already have the Spirit within Him? Certainly He already had the Spirit inwardly. Then why did the Spirit descend upon Him? This definitely does not indicate that there are two Spirits, one who indwelt the Lord Jesus and one who descended upon Him. Since there is only one Spirit (Eph. 4:4), how could this one Spirit both indwell the Lord Jesus and descend upon Him? The answer to this question lies with understanding that with the one Spirit there are two aspects, the essential aspect and the economical aspect
为著生存与为著职事
For Existence and for Ministry
15经过多年研读圣经与其他的著作，我们蒙了光照，看见圣灵素质与经纶这两面。因此，我们有把握说，内住的灵是素质的，是为著所是，为著生存。那灵外在的一面是经纶的，是为著履行职任，将完成神经纶的职事实施出来。这经纶的一面不是为著生存，所是；乃是为著工作，职事。为著圣灵这两面赞美主！在路加三章二十一、二十二节我们看见，主耶稣这位人救主藉著两个步骤，就职进入神的职任和职事。这两个步骤就是在水里受浸并为圣灵所膏。主耶稣由施浸者约翰施浸以后，父神就差遣圣灵，为著主的职事，在经纶上降在主身上。人救主就是这样正式就职。
15Through years of study not only of the Bible but also of other writings, we have been enlightened to see the essential and economical aspects of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, we have the confidence to say that the indwelling Spirit is essential; it is a matter of essence for being, for existence. The outward aspect of the Spirit is economical; it is for the fulfilling of an office and the carrying out of the ministry that accomplishes God’secon o my. This economical aspect is not for existence, for being. Rather, this aspect of the Holy Spirit is for work, for ministry. Praise the Lord for these two aspects of the Holy Spirit! In Luke 3:21 and 22 we see that the Lord Jesus as the Man-Savior was inaugurated into His office and ministry by two steps. These two steps are baptism in water and the anointing of the Holy Spirit. After the Lord Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, God the Father sent the Holy Spirit upon the Lord economically for His ministry. It was in this way that the Man-Savior was inaugurated