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民数记生命读经 · 第14篇

成军（十三）

Being Formed into an Army (13)
1读经：民数记7:1,87-88;8:12;6:14-17。在本篇信息中，我们说到民数记六至九章所启示神圣的供备。
1Scripture Reading: Num. 7:1, 87-88; 8:12; 6:14-17 In this message I would like to give a word concerning the divine provisions revealed in chapters six through nine
2民数记五章一节至九章十四节，可视为有关成军这段记载中一段插进的话。这段插进的话包括两类事情—神的要求和神的供备。首先有神的要求，然后有祂的供备。五、六章可视为神的要求，包括不同的对付、试验、以及对拿细耳人最高的要求。这一切都是神对祂赎民的要求，为将他们编组成为祂的军队。七、八章和九章上半可视为神圣的供备。现在我们来看神的供备里所包括的项目。
2Numbers 5:1 through 9:14 is a section which may be considered an insertion in the record about the formation of the army. This insertion includes two kinds of matters—God’s requirement and God’spr o vision. First we have God’s requirement and then we have His provision. Chapters five and six may be considered God’s requirement, which includes different dealings, a testing, and the highest requirement of the Nazarite. All these are God’s requirements over His redeemed people in order to form them into His army. Chapters seven and eight and the first part of chapter nine may be considered the divine provision. Let us now consider the items which are included in God’spr o vision
膏经过过程且完成之
THE OINTMENT A Type of the Processed and Consummated Triune God
三一神的豫表
3在这几章里，神圣供备的第一项是膏，是为膏抹帐幕及其一切器具和祭坛、并祭坛的一切用具。（民七1。）膏豫表经过一切过程之后完成的三一神。在全本圣经里，这膏是神为祂的赎民所豫备最大的供备之一。
3The first item of the divine provision in these chapters is the ointment for the anointing of the tabernacle and all its furnishings and the altar with all its utensils (7:1). The ointment typifies the consummated Triune God after passing through all the processes. In the entire Bible this ointment is one of the greatest provisions God has prepared for His redeemed
4到民数记七章的时候，帐幕和祭坛已经由神藉著祂的子民建造起来，并且属于神。但若没有受膏，帐幕和祭坛还是与神自己分开的，也与神的生命，神的性情，或神所成就、得著、并达到的事没有关系。我们受膏，意思就是得著经过过程的三一神在我们里面并在我们身上，甚至与我们调和。我们可以用油漆木器为例。木器涂上好几层油漆之后，就与油漆调成为一。木制的器具漆过了油漆，就看不见木头，只看见油漆的性质、素质、成分、特性、外表、颜色和彰显，因油漆已经涂在木器上，与本器调成为一了。我们为神所膏，意思就是我们『涂上』了祂，神自己已经放在我们里面和我们身上了。
4By the time of Numbers 7, the tabernacle and the altar had been built up by God through His people and belonged to God. But without being anointed, the tabernacle and the altar were still separate from God Himself, having nothing to do with God’s life, God’s nature, or anything God had accomplished, obtained, and attained. For us to be anointed means that the processed Triune God is put into us and upon us, even mingled with us. We may use the painting of a wooden article as an illustration. After several coats of paint have been applied to the article, it becomes fully one with the paint. The article may be wooden, but after it is painted, we no longer see the wood; instead, we see the nature, the essence, the element, the character, the appearance, the color, and the expression of the paint, for the paint has been applied to the wooden article and has become one with it. For us to be anointed by God means that we are ‘‘painted’’ with Him, that God Himself is put in us and on us.
5在帐幕和祭坛造好之后，神进来用膏『涂』这两样东西；膏豫表神自己，但不是原来的神，乃是完成的神。在已过的永远里，神是全然完全的，但祂不是完成的。祂有神圣的性情，但没有属人的性情。然而，照著祂的心意，在要来的永远里，祂这位神不仅带著神圣的性情，也带著属人的性情。因为在已过的永远里，神不是完成的，所以祂需要进到时间里，就是两个永远之间的桥梁上，经过许多过程，好成为完成的。神在成为人以前，在创世记十八章曾以人的形状临到亚伯拉罕。大约两年前，有某宗派的杂志承认，这临到亚伯拉罕的一位就是耶稣。神像朋友一样来对亚伯拉罕说话。亚伯拉罕给主摆上一餐，祂也吃了。这位神吃亚伯拉罕摆上给祂的食物。亚伯拉罕也给祂拿来水，祂就洗脚。主要离开时，并没有很快的走开。亚伯拉罕陪伴祂，与祂同行，送祂一程。亚伯拉罕不是向这位祷告，乃是像朋友一样和祂谈话。根据创世记十八章，神早在成为肉体以前，就以人的形状向亚伯拉罕显现过。关于主的身位这样的事，我们无法领略。主耶稣在祂复活那天晚上，以物质的身体回到祂的门徒那里。（路二四37～43，约二十19～29。）门没有开，祂就忽然站在他们当中。（约二十。）『他们却惊惶害怕，以为看见了灵。』（路二四37。）主对他们说，『看我的手，我的脚，这就是我自己；摸我看看，灵没有肉没有骨，你们看我是有的。』（路二四39。）说了这话，『就把手和脚给他们看。』（路二四40。）然后祂问他们，有甚么吃的没有，他们便递给祂一片烧鱼，『祂接过来，在他们面前吃了。』（路二四41～43。）我们有限的心思无法领略，主耶稣带著骨肉的身体，如何能进入关了门的屋子。这是基督奇妙的身位。
5After the making of the tabernacle and the altar, God came in to ‘‘paint’’ these two items with an ointment, a type of Himself not as the original God but as the consummated God. In eternity past God was altogether perfect, but He was not completed. He had the divine nature but not the human nature. However, according to His intention, in the coming eternity He, the very God, will be a God not only with the divine nature but also with the human nature. Because in eternity past, God was not completed, He needed to come into time, a bridge between the two eternities, to pass through many processes in order to be completed. Before God became a man, He came to Abraham in Genesis 18 in the form of a man. Approximately two years ago, a certain denominational journal recognized that this one who came to Abraham was Jesus. God came and spoke to Abraham like a friend. Abraham served the Lord a meal, and He ate it. The very God ate the food served to Him by Abraham. Also, Abraham brought Him water, and He washed His feet. When the Lord was leaving, He did not leave quickly. Accompanying Him, Abraham walked with Him and saw Him off. Abraham did not pray to this man but talked to Him as a friend. According to Genesis 18, God appeared to Abraham in the form of a man long before He became incarnated. Things like this concerning the Lord’s person we cannot comprehend. In the evening of the day of His resurrection, the Lord Jesus came back to His disciples in a physical body (Luke 24:37-43; John 20:19-29). Without the opening of any door, He suddenly stood in their midst (John 20:19). ‘‘They were startled and became frightened 19 and thought they beheld a spirit’’ (Luke 24:37). The Lord said to them, ‘‘See My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself; handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you behold Me having’’ (v. 39). After speaking this word, ‘‘He showed them His hands and His feet’’ (v. 40). Then He asked them if they had anything to eat, and when they handed Him part of a broiled fish, ‘‘He took it and ate before them’’ (vv. 41-43). Our limited mind cannot comprehend how the Lord Jesus, with a body of flesh and bones, could suddenly come into a room where the doors were shut. This is the wonderful person of Christ.
6在已过的永远里，神没有物质的身体。祂需要经过一些过程，使祂自己完成，这样祂就能成为完成的。祂已经是完全的，但祂想要的不仅是完全，更是要经过过程，好要成为完成的。祂不要永远仅仅是神；祂要成为神人。在已过的永远里，祂是神，但祂不是神人。因此，在时间里祂经过了许多过程，为要达到完成，成为完成的。
6In eternity past God did not have a physical body. He needed to go through some processes to get Himself consummated so that He could be completed. He was already perfect, but He wanted to be not only perfect but also processed in order to be completed. He did not want to be merely God for eternity; He wanted to be a God-man. In eternity past He was God, but He was not a God-man. Therefore, in time He has gone through many processes in order to be consummated and completed
象征完成之神的膏
The Ointment Symbolizing the Completed God
7完成或终极完成的神由膏所象征，这膏复合了四种香料和橄榄油。（出三十22～25。）约壹二章二十、二十七节题起这膏。在这些经节里，用动名词膏油涂抹这辞描述膏的运行。你将膏涂在脸上，就使膏运行。我们可以说，出埃及三十章有膏，约壹二章有膏油涂抹的运行。我们里面有这膏油涂抹，膏的运行。膏不是一样东西，乃是一个人位—完成的神。我们里面的膏是经过过程、复合、完成的三一神，就是经过了必需的过程为要成为完成的神。这是神为祂的赎民所豫备最大的供备。
7The completed, or consummated, God is symbolized by the ointment, which was compounded with four spices and olive oil (Exo. 30:22-25). This ointment is mentioned in 1 John 2:20 and 27. In these verses the word anointing, a gerund, is used to describe the moving of the ointment. When you apply cream to your face, you cause the cream to move. We may say that in Exodus 30 we have the ‘‘cream,’’ the ointment, and in 1 John 2 we have the moving of the cream, the anointing. We have this anointing, the moving of the ointment, within us. The ointment is not a thing but a person—the completed God. The ointment within us is the processed, compounded, consummated Triune God, the God who has passed through the necessary processes in order to be completed. This is the greatest provision God has prepared for His redeemed people
那灵
The Spirit
8在圣经里，神的灵最后一个称呼是『那灵。』（启二二17。）完成的神就是那灵。约翰七章三十九节下半说，『那时还没有那灵，因为耶稣尚未得著荣耀。』耶稣得著荣耀的时候，也就是祂进入复活的时候，（路二四26，）三一神得著了完成，成为那灵。因此，那灵是经过过程、完成的三一神。我们来看看那灵所包含的。那灵里面有神性，就是神圣的性情。那灵包括人性，就是属人的性情。这就是说，那灵包括成为肉体的成分。成为肉体是太大的事！神在童女腹中成孕，留在那里九个月。神圣的成孕是奇妙过程的一部分。在成孕之后，是主的出生和为人生活。主耶稣生活在木匠家里三十年之久。然后祂出来尽职三年半，经过各种的苦难。在祂钉十字架时，祂成就了包罗万有的死。然后祂经过死，从死出来，进入复活。在复活里，祂这末后的亚当成了赐生命的灵，（林前十五45，）这赐生命的灵如今就是那灵—经过过程之三一神的完成。如今祂豫备好来作膏涂抹我们。祂是三一神、主耶稣基督、圣灵、和那灵。在祂里面有神、人、救赎、生命的分赐、和复活的大能。何等奇妙的神圣供备！如今我们的神就用这供备膏抹我们。祂用复合的灵，经过过程之三一神的完成，来膏抹我们。
8In the Bible, the last title given to the Spirit of God is ‘‘the Spirit’’ (Rev. 22:17). The completed God is the Spirit. John 7:39b says, ‘‘The Spirit was not yet, because Jesus was not yet glorified.’’ When Jesus was glorified, that is, when He entered into resurrection (Luke 24:26), the Triune God was consummated and completed to become the Spirit. The Spirit, therefore, is the processed, consummated, and completed Triune God. Let us consider what the Spirit comprises. Within the Spirit is divinity, the divine nature. The Spirit also includes humanity, the human nature. This means that the Spirit includes the element of incarnation. How great a thing was the incarnation! God was conceived within a virgin’s womb and stayed there for nine months. The divine conception was part of a marvelous process. This conception was followed by the Lord’s birth and human living. For thirty years the Lord Jesus lived in the home of a carpenter. Then He came forth to minister for three and one-half years, passing through all kinds of sufferings. In His crucifixion He accomplished an all - inclusive death. Then He walked through death, came forth from death, and entered into resurrection. In resurrection He, the last Adam, became a life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45), and this life-giving Spirit is now the Spirit —the consummation of the processed Triune God. Now He is ready to be applied to us as the ointment. He is the Triune God, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, and the Spirit. Within Him are God, man, redemption, the impartation of life, and the power of resurrection. What a wonderful divine provision! Our God is now anointing us with this provision. He is anointing us with the compounded Spirit, the consummation and completion of the processed Triune God.
9我能见证，我豫备自己为主说话时，通常祷告说，『主，用你自己作素质的灵充满我，并且将你自己作经纶的灵浇灌在我身上。主阿，在我的说话中与我是一灵，使你在我的说话中说话。』每当我这样祷告的时候，我就得著加强、坚定、注入，并且里外被完成的三一神所充满。
9I can testify that when I am preparing myself to speak for the Lord, I usually pray, ‘‘Lord, fill me with Yourself as the essential Spirit and pour Yourself upon me as the economical Spirit. O Lord, in my speaking be one spirit with me so that You speak in my speaking.’’ Whenever I pray like this, I am strengthened, confirmed, infused, and filled inwardly and outwardly with the consummated Triune God
受膏成为神人
Anointed to Become God-men
10神在祂新约的经纶里，不要我们仅仅作好人—祂要我们作神人，就是与经过过程之三一神调和的人。膏，完成的三一神，越涂抹我们，我们就越成为神人。我们可以再用油漆为例。木器在上漆以前，与油漆没有关系。但木器涂上了油漆，就成为上漆的木器。牠不再仅仅是木器，而是涂了油漆的木器。同样，我们正在涂上经过过程的三一神。我们越被祂涂抹，用祂涂抹，我们就越与祂调和，成为神人。
10In His New Testament economy, God does not want us merely to be good men—He wants us to be God-men, those who are mingled with the processed Triune God. The more the ointment, the completed Triune God, is applied to us, the more we become God-men. Once again, we may use painting as an illustration. Before a wooden article is painted, it has nothing to do with the paint. But when the paint is applied to the wooden article, it becomes a painted article. It is no longer merely a wooden article; it is now a wooden article to which paint has been applied. In like manner, we are being painted with the processed Triune God. The more we are painted by Him and with Him, the more we are mingled with Him to become God-men
将自己献给主，
OFFERING OURSELVES TO THE LORD
接受祂的供备
TO RECEIVE HIS PROVISION
11神既为我们豫备了这样大的供备，我们该作甚么？我们该将自己献给主，以接受祂的供备。虽然神为我们豫备了这供备，但我们可能没有来到祂面前，或者我们来到祂面前，而没有将自己献给祂，并使自己服从祂。我们将自己献给主，意思就是降服于祂。我们必须藉著将自己献给主，服从并降服于祂，而接受神圣的供备。我们该祷告：『主，感谢你。你为我豫备了一切。如今我降服于你。』这就是将我们自己献给祂。
11Since God has prepared such a great provision for us, what should we do? We should offer ourselves to the Lord to receive His provision. Although God has prepared this provision for us, we may not come to Him, or we may come to Him without offering ourselves to Him and submitting ourselves to Him. To offer ourselves to the Lord means that we surrender to Him. We must receive the divine provision by offering ourselves to the Lord, submitting and surrendering to Him. We should pray, ‘‘Thank You, Lord. You have prepared everything for me. Now I surrender to You.’’ This is to offer ourselves to Him.
12在民数记七章，首先有神一面的膏抹，然后有我们一面的献上。神已经过过程，成为涂抹我们的膏。我们要接受这膏的涂抹，就需要甘愿降服于主，将全人交在祂手中，并且说，『主阿，你喜欢作甚么，就作甚么。』主喜欢用祂自己涂抹我们里里外外，使祂自己与我们成为一。
12In Numbers 7 we first have the anointing on God’ss i de and then the offering on our side. God has been processed to become the ointment that is to be applied to us. To receive the application of this ointment, we need to be willing to surrender to the Lord, placing our entire being into His hands and saying, ‘‘O Lord, do whatever You like to do.’’ The Lord likes to paint us with Himself within and without, making Himself one with us
基督是各种祭的顶替与完成
CHRIST AS THE REPLACEMENT FOR AND CONSUMMATION OF ALL THE OFFERINGS
13我们将自己献给主，享受祂的供备之后，基督对我们就是便利的，作各种祭的顶替与完成。在旧约里，有许多不同种类的祭，但今天我们只有一种，乃是包罗万有的祭—包罗万有的基督。将我们自己献给神是神的第二种供备，包罗万有的基督是第三种神圣的供备。
13After we offer ourselves to the Lord to enjoy His provision, Christ is available to us as the replacement for and consummation of all the offerings. In the Old Testament there are many different kinds of offerings, but today we have one, all-inclusive offering—the all- inclusive Christ. The offering of ourselves to God is God’s second provision, and the all-inclusive Christ is the third divine provision
14为著我们实际的经历和享受，基督主要的是三种祭—赎罪祭、燔祭、和平安祭。我们是为神所膏且将自己献给祂的人，需要按手在作我们赎罪祭的基督身上。当我们藉著献上自己进入神的供备，我们觉得被定罪。在我们的良心里，我们觉得自己在许多事上是不义的，在许多方面是缺乏、错误、和不洁的。在这样的时候，我们需要按手在基督身上，以祂为我们的赎罪祭。每当我们这样作的时候，我们就知道自己蒙了救赎、遮罪、和赦免，我们里面就有了平安。这时我们渴望为神而活。然而，我们领悟自己在这点上是失败的，我们在自己里面无法为祂而活。但我们按手在其上的一位，也是我们的燔祭。因此，在我们的经历中，赎罪祭成了燔祭。然后我们能祷告：『主耶稣！在绝对为神而活且向神而活上，我与你是一。』我们享受基督作我们的赎罪祭与燔祭之后，就不再有定罪、责备、或自责。反之，我们有平安。如今我们享受基督作我们丰盛的平安祭。这平安成为我们与神之间的交通，在这交通中我们与神彼此享受基督。
14For our practical experience and enjoyment, Christ is mainly three kinds of offerings—the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offering. As those who are being anointed by God and who offer themselves to Him, we need to lay our hands upon Christ as our sin offering. Whenever we enter into God’spr o vision through our offering of ourselves, we feel condemned. In our conscience we feel that we are unrighteous in many things. We sense that in various ways we are lacking, wrong, and unclean. At such a time we need to put our hands on Christ and take Him as our sin offering. Whenever we do this, we know that we are redeemed, propitiated, and forgiven, and we have peace within. At this juncture we desire to live for God. However, we realize that we have failed in this and that in ourselves we cannot live for Him. But the One on whom we have laid our hands is also our burnt offering. Thus, in our experience, the sin offering becomes the burnt offering. Then we can pray, ‘‘O Lord Jesus! I am one with You in living for God and living to God absolutely.’’ After enjoying Christ as our sin offering and burnt offering, we no longer have condemnation, rebuking, or conviction. Instead, we have peace. We now enjoy Christ as our abundant peace offering. This peace then becomes a fellowship between us and God in which we and God enjoy Christ in mutuality
享受基督作可吃、可喝、并可进入的一位
ENJOYING CHRIST AS THE EDIBLE, DRINKABLE, AND ENTERABLE ONE
15随著赎罪祭、燔祭、和平安祭，我们有一筐子饼、糕、薄饼、和奠祭。饼、糕、和薄饼豫表在不同方面作我们食物供应的基督。奠祭也是基督的豫表。基督是真奠祭，已经浇灌出来满足神，也满足我们。基督是饼、糕、和薄饼，是可吃的；祂是奠祭，是可喝的。我们的基督不仅是可吃可喝的，祂也是可进入的。藉著吃喝祂，我们就进入祂里面，祂也进入我们里面，成为我们的所是。我们的基督是可进入的！如今我们在祂里面，祂也在我们里面。
15Along with the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offering, we have a basket of bread, cakes, wafers, and the drink offering. The bread, the cakes, and the wafers typify Christ in different aspects as our food supply. The drink offering is also a type of Christ. As the real drink offering, Christ has been poured out to satisfy God and also to satisfy us. As the bread, the cakes, and the wafers, Christ is edible, and as the drink offering, He is drinkable. Our Christ is not only edible and drinkable —He is also enterable. By eating and drinking Him, we enter into Him, and He enters into us to become our very being. Our Christ is enterable! Now we are in Him, and He is in us
16基督徒的生活是每天有分于神圣供备的生活。这就是说，我们不该凭自己和天然的力量努力过基督徒的生活。表征天然力量的毛发必须剃除，（民八7，）指明我们天然的力量必须割除。我们不该倚靠自己天然的力量，只该有分于并享受一切神圣的供备。民数记六至九章所启示神圣供备的最后一项是逾越节。在以下的信息中，我们要来看九章一至十四节关于逾越节的记载。
16The Christian life is a life of daily partaking of the divine provisions. This means that we should not try in ourselves and in our natural strength to live the Christian life. The hair, which signifies the natural strength, must be shaved off (8:7), indicating that our natural strength must be cut off. Instead of relying on our natural strength, we should simply partake of and enjoy all the divine provisions. The last item of the divine provisions revealed in Numbers 6 through 9 is the Passover. In the following message we will consider the record concerning the Passover in 9:1-14