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约翰福音生命读经 · 第10篇

基督的扩增和无限量的基督

The Increase of Christ and the Immeasurable Christ
1我年轻的时候，圣经中有好些事令我感到困惑，其中有一件就在约翰三章里。虽然这一章圣经是那么高，说到重生的事，但我觉得从二十二节起，突然间又变得非常低。二十二节说，『这事以后，耶稣和门徒到了犹太地，同他们在那里居住并施浸。』我年轻时读到这节，认为无此需要；在我看来，这样的记载没有必要。我对二十三节也有同样感觉，那里说，约翰在靠近撒冷的哀嫩施浸，因为那里水多。我也因二十四节感到困惑，那里说那时约翰还没有下在监里。我就问说，『这些话到底在说甚么?前面讲过了属天、属灵的事，这里为何要题说诸如下监一类的事?』这事的原因在二十六节。『他们来到约翰那里，对他说，拉比，从前同你在约但河外，你所见证的那位，看哪，祂正在施浸，众人都往祂那里去了。』为甚么约翰把这些话都写在他的福音书里?目的是要揭露狐狸尾巴。这尾巴是甚么?这就是：谁要得到群众和跟随者。今日人们的态度是说，『这些是跟随我的，所有这些人都是我的跟随者。为甚么有些人会到你那里去？』我们今天所见到的，在施浸者约翰的时代已经有了。
1When I was young, many things in the Bible bothered me, one of which is in John chapter three. Although this chapter is so elevated, speaking about the rebirth, it seemed to me that suddenly, beginning at verse 22, it became rather low. Verse 22 says, “After these things, Jesus and His disciples came into the land of Judea; and there He stayed with them and baptized.” When I read this verse as a young man, I thought that there was no need for it. It seemed to me that such a record was unnecessary. I felt the same about verse 23, which says that John was baptizing in Aenon near Salim because there was much water there. I was also bothered by verse 24, which says that John had not yet been thrown into prison. I asked, “What is all this about? After the mention of heavenly and spiritual things, why are things such as imprisonment mentioned?” The reason for this appears in verse 26. “And they came to John and said to him, Rabbi, He who was with you across the Jordan, of whom you testified, behold, He is baptizing and all are coming to Him.” Why did John include all of these verses? Simply for the purpose of exposing the tail of the fox. What is this tail? It is the matter of who will have the crowd and the following. Today people’s attitude is, “This is one who follows me. All of these are my following. Why should some of them go to you?” What we find today was also present in the time of John the Baptist
2约翰的回答开始于二十七节。『约翰回答说，若不是从天上赐的，人就不能得到甚么。我曾说，我不是基督，不过是奉差遣在祂前面来的，你们自己可以给我作见证。』（约三27～。）如果我那时在场，我会对约翰说，『弟兄，果真如此，你就该回家，不再施浸了。因为你所见证的那一位现今在施浸，你就该停止施浸。你若继续施浸，你必会下监。』约翰是很好的，但是他不清楚。问题是耶稣已经上场了，约翰还在那里。约翰应该退去，让主耶稣占有整个戏台。只该有一个主角，不该有两个。当我年轻时，我不领会为何约翰要下监。以后我逐渐了解，他之所以下监，是因为他不从戏台上退去。
2John’s reply begins in verse 27. “John answered and said, A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven. You yourselves testify of me that I said, I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before Him” (vv. 27-28). If I had been there, I would have said to John, “Brother, if this is the case, you should go 28 home and not baptize anymore. Since the One of whom you testified is now baptizing, you should stop your baptizing. If you continue to baptize, you will surely be cast into prison.” John was good, but he was not clear. The problem was that after Jesus came upon the scene, John was still there. John should have withdrawn and allowed the Lord Jesus to occupy the whole scene. There should have been only one main figure, not two. When I was young, I did not understand why John was cast into prison. Later I came to realize that he was put into prison because he did not withdraw from the scene.
壹 基督的扩增
I. THE INCREASE OF CHRIST
3不过，约翰说，『娶新妇的，就是新郎；新郎的朋友站著听祂，因著新郎的声音就欢喜快乐；所以我这喜乐满足了。祂必扩增，我必衰减。』29-（约三29～30。）大多数的基督徒，特别是基督教的教师，错解了三十节。甚么是基督扩增，你衰减?那就是说，你必须从台上退去，从被人跟随这事上退去，让基督成为台上惟一的人物，并得著一切的跟随者。所有的跟随者都该到基督那里去；没有一个该到施浸者约翰或别人那里去。由于约翰未将这事清楚向他的门徒交待，以致他们为他嫉妒。当约翰的门徒看见众人都到耶稣那里去时，他们就不开心。他们似乎说，『为甚么这些人不跟我们的老师，而去跟耶稣?』你看见这里的点么?约翰若从台上退去，就不会有问题了。他若告诉他所有的门徒去跟随主耶稣，自己不再接受人的跟随，那就不会有难处了。
3Nevertheless John said, “He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices with joy because of the bridegroom’s voice. This joy of mine therefore is made full. He must increase, but I must decrease” (vv. 30). Most Christians, especially most of the Christian teachers, misinterpret verse 30. What does it mean for Christ to increase and for you to decrease? It means that you must withdraw from the scene and from having the following and allow Christ to be the only figure on the scene and to have all the following. All the following should go to Christ; none of it should go to John the Baptist or to anyone else. Since John did not make this matter clear to his disciples, they were jealous on his behalf. When John’s disciples saw that all the people went to Jesus, they were unhappy. They seemed to say, “Why do these people not follow our teacher, but they go to Jesus?” Do you see the point? If John had withdrawn from the scene, there would have been no problem. If he had told all of his disciples to go to the Lord Jesus, no longer accepting a following for himself, there would have been no difficulty.
一 基督来作娶新妇的新郎
A. Christ Coming as the Bridegroom for the Bride
4不过，当约翰回答他的门徒时，他也向他们清楚说，他并不是基督，或是来娶新妇的新郎，他只是新郎的朋友。他清楚的告诉他们，基督是来娶新妇的新郎。人不该跟随他，他们该跟随基督，好叫祂得著新妇。
4However, in answering his disciples John made the matter clear to them that he was not the Christ, or the bridegroom who came for the bride; he was only the friend of the bridegroom. He told them clearly that Christ was the bridegroom who came for the bride. People should not follow him; they should follow Christ so that He might have His bride
二 所有重生的人成为一，作神所赐给基督的新妇
B. All the Regenerated Ones Becoming One as the Bride of Christ Given Him by God
5约翰是在圣灵的感动下写他的福音书。由他的话我们能看见，所有重生而跟随基督的人，都是祂的扩增。三十节的扩增就是二十九节的新妇，这新妇乃是所有重生之人活的组成。这就是说，本章所讲的重生，不仅将神的生命带进信徒里面，并除灭他们肉体中撒但的性情，更使他们为著基督的扩增，成为团体的新妇。除灭信徒里面的蛇性，并使他们成为基督的新妇，这两点在约翰所写的启示录中，有完满的发展。启示录主要的就是启示古蛇撒但如何完全被除去，（启二十2，10，）以及基督的新妇，新耶路撒冷，如何完全产生出来。（启二一2，10～27。）
5John wrote his gospel under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. By his words we can see that all the regenerated followers of Christ are His increase. The increase in verse 30 is the bride in verse 29, and the bride there is a living composition of all the regenerated people. This means that in this chapter on regeneration, regeneration is not only to bring the divine life into the believers and annul the satanic nature in their flesh, but also to make them the corporate bride for Christ’s in crease. The last two points, to annul the serpentine nature in the believers and to make them the bride of Christ, are both fully developed in John’s writing of Revelation. The book of Revelation mainly reveals how Satan as the old serpent will be fully eliminated (Rev. 20:2, 10), and how the bride of Christ as the New Jerusalem will be fully produced (Rev. 21:2, 10-27).
6虽然大多数的基督徒都熟悉约翰三章的重生，但很少人看见每一个重生的人都该是基督扩增的一部分，这扩增就是祂的新妇。重生是为著基督的扩增，是为著产生新妇。重生是为叫你成为基督新妇的一部分。约翰三章是讲重生，为著基督的扩增。许多基督徒只看见重生本身，并未看见重生的目的。重生是单为叫你有永远的生命么?不是！不只这么多。重生乃是为著把我们建造到新妇里，这新妇就是基督的扩增。原先我们都是小蛇，有蛇的性情。因著重生，蛇性就被了结。这在上篇信息里我们已经看得非常清楚。再者，在重生里我们都因神的生命有了新生的起头。由于我们的蛇性已经被了结，并且我们因神的生命得了新生的起头，我们就都是新妇的一部分。到底你是一个带有蛇性的人，还是基督新妇的一部分?我们乃是新妇的一部分！我们是基督扩增的一部分。约翰福音是一本讲基督扩增的书。基督作新郎需要一个新妇，祂就是为了这目的而来。祂来是为著祂的扩增。祂怎样得到祂的扩增?乃是藉著进到我们里面，使我们成为祂自己的一部分。我们都是基督的一部分。我们是基督的各部分，组合起来就是基督的新妇，祂的扩增。救恩与重生都是为著这目的，为著这个作基督扩增的新妇。
6Although most Christians are familiar with regeneration in John 3, very few see that each regenerated person should be a part of the increase of Christ, which is His bride. Regeneration is for the increase of Christ. It is for the producing of the bride. Regeneration is for you to be a part of the bride of Christ. John 3 is a chapter of regeneration for the increase of Christ. Many Christians only see regeneration itself. They do not see the purpose of regeneration. Is regeneration just for you to have eternal life? No! It is for something more. Regeneration is for us to be built into the bride, which is the increase of Christ. Originally we all were little serpents with a serpentine nature. By regeneration, the serpentine nature has been terminated. We saw this clearly in the last message. Furthermore, in regeneration we all have been germinated with the divine life. Since our serpentine nature has been terminated and since we have been germinated with the divine life, we are all a part of the bride. Are you a serpentine person or are you a part of the bride of Christ? We are parts of the bride! We are parts of the increase of Christ. The Gospel of John is a book about the increase of Christ. Christ as the bridegroom needs a bride. He came for this purpose. He came for His increase. How will He obtain His increase? By entering into us and making us a part of Himself. We all are parts of Christ. As parts of Christ composed together, we are the bride of Christ, His increase. Both salvation and regeneration are for this purpose, for the bride as the increase of Christ
三 基督的新妇是祂的扩增
C. The Bride of Christ Being His Increase
7基督的新妇就是基督的扩增。所有重生的人都是基督的扩增，这扩增就是那成为基督配偶的新妇。新妇就是召会，是所有重生之人的组成。所有重生的人，被组合为团体的新妇来与基督相配。没有重生，基督就得不到新妇作祂的扩增。
7The bride of Christ is the increase of Christ. All of the reborn people are the increase of Christ, and this increase is the bride which becomes the counterpart of Christ. The bride is the church, the composition of all the regenerated people. All those who are regenerated are composed together as the corporate bride to match Christ. Without regeneration, Christ cannot have a bride as His increase
8新妇是基督的扩增，正如夏娃是亚当的扩增一样。亚当刚被造时，是个单身汉。在他单身的情况下，就没有扩增。于是神从亚当取出一根肋骨，用以建造一个女人，来作亚当的配偶。（创二21～24。）她一与亚当联结，就成了亚当的扩增。于是亚当有了扩增，不再是单独一个了。
8The bride as the increase of Christ is like Eve who was the increase of Adam. When Adam was first created, he was single—a so-called bachelor. In Adam’s single state, there was no increase. After God took a rib out of Adam and built a woman with it, this woman was married to Adam (Gen. 2:21-24). Once she was joined to Adam, she became the increase of Adam. Adam then had an increase and was no longer single.
9基督也是单身，所以祂造了一个新妇作祂的扩增。但谁是基督的扩增，基督的新妇?只有那些经过重生，有祂作生命的人才是。我们藉著重生，有了神的神圣生命，就是基督自己，于是我们成了基督团体新妇的肢体。同一位作者约翰，后来在启示录中说，基督的新妇，羔羊的妻，就是新耶路撒冷。（启二一2，9～10。）甚么是新耶路撒冷?那就是所有藉著那灵的重生而再生之人的组成。假若你已重生，你就是基督扩增的一部分，就是基督团体新妇的肢体；今天，这乃是召会，将来要总结于新耶路撒冷。我们如何能成为基督的扩增?我再重复一遍，基督的扩增是藉重生而产生的。例如，当我们由父母而生时，我们乃是亚当的扩增。你们知不知道，亚当每天都在扩增?你们曾否想过今天亚当有多大?约六千年前，亚当独自在伊甸园中的时候，他是一个单身汉。但历世历代以来，亚当已经得了许多后裔。所有这些后裔都是他的扩增。今天，单以活著的人计算，亚当便已扩增到三十亿人了。亚当已扩增成这样一个大亚当了。赞美主，基督也在扩增，但祂并不藉著我们第一次的出生而扩增。我们第一次的出生是亚当的扩增，我们第二次的出生才是基督的扩增。当你生了一个孩子，那是另一个为亚当的扩增而生出来的人；然而，你必须为著另一个可能性感谢主：这出生了一次的人，也可以重生成为基督的扩增。按理，你所有的儿女如何是亚当的扩增，也都能重生成为基督的扩增。
9Christ also was single, and so He made a bride to be the increase of Himself. But who is the increase, the bride, of Christ? Only those who are regenerated with Him as life. Through regeneration we possess the divine life of God which is Christ Himself, thus becoming members of the corporate bride of Christ. Later, the same writer, in the book of Revelation, says that the bride of Christ, the bride of the Lamb, is the New Jerusalem (21:2, 9-10). What is the New Jerusalem? Again, it is the composition of all those who have been born again through the regeneration of the Spirit. If you have been regenerated, you are part of the increase of Christ, a member of the corporate bride of Christ, which is the church today and which will consummate in the New Jerusalem in the future. How can we become the increase of Christ? We repeat once again that the increase of Christ is produced through regeneration. For example, when we were born of our parents, we were the increase of Adam. Do you realize that Adam is increasing every day? Have you ever thought of how large Adam is today? About six thousand years ago, when Adam was alone in the garden of Eden, he was single, a bachelor. However, down through the generations, Adam has acquired many descendants. All his descendants are his increase. Today, counting only the living ones, Adam has increased to about three billion people. Adam has increased to be such a big Adam. Praise the Lord that Christ is increasing also. But He is not increased by our first birth. Our first birth is for the increase of Adam; our second birth is for the increase of Christ. When you have a child, that is another person for the increase of Adam. However, you must thank the Lord for another possibility: this once-born one may also be born again for the increase of Christ. Potentially, all of your children can be born again into the increase of Christ as well as into the increase of Adam
10你是亚当的扩增，还是基督的扩增?从前，我们只能说我们不过是亚当的扩增，如今感谢主，我们藉著重生已经成为基督的扩增了。可是，我们也必须有把握说，我们生活、行动、作事，不是凭著亚当的生命，乃是凭著基督的生命。只要我们凭我们人的生命活著，我们就仅是亚当的扩增。惟有我们凭著神的神圣生命生活行事，我们才是基督的扩增。这样，我们就成为新妇作基督的配偶。
10Are you the increase of Adam, or are you the increase of Christ? Formerly, we had to say that we were just the increase of Adam. Now, thank the Lord, we are the increase of Christ through regeneration. However, we must also make sure that we live, walk, and do things, not by the life of Adam, but by the life of Christ. As long as we live by our human life, we are merely the increase of Adam. It is only as we live and walk by God’s divine life that we are the increase of Christ. Then we shall be the bride as the counterpart of Christ.
11正如妻子与丈夫是一体，我们与基督也是一灵。（林前六17。）妻子如何是丈夫的扩增，照样，我们作基督的新妇，也是祂的扩增。我们藉著第二次出生得了基督作生命，由于这事实，我们乃是基督的扩增。因此，重生的最终结果，是叫基督得著新妇作祂的扩增。基督藉我们的重生得著扩增，因为藉著重生，基督在我们里面得以繁殖。我们这些重生的人，就是祂的繁殖。夏娃能成为亚当的扩增，因为她是用亚当的肋骨构成，与亚当成为一体，成了亚当的一部分。同样的原则，我们能成为基督的扩增，因为我们在属灵上是用基督的生命构成，而与基督成为一灵，成了基督的一部分。正如夏娃出自亚当并归于亚当，与亚当成为一，因而成了亚当的扩增；照样我们也是出自基督，并要归于基督，与基督成为一，因而成了祂的扩增。这扩增就是祂藉著重生而在我们里面的繁殖。所有有分于这繁殖的人都是神赐给基督的。
11As a wife is one flesh with her husband, so we are one spirit with Christ (1 Cor. 6:17). As the wife is the increase of the husband, so we, as His bride, are the increase of Christ. Due to the fact that we have Christ as life through the second birth, we are the increase of Christ. Therefore the ultimate result of regeneration is that Christ has a bride as His increase. Christ is increased through regeneration because by regeneration He is reproduced in us. We, the regenerated people, are His reproduction. Eve could be the increase of Adam because she was constituted with the rib of Adam and became one flesh with Adam, a part of Adam. In the same principle, we can be the increase of Christ because we are spiritually constituted with the life of Christ and have become one spirit with Him, a part of Him. As Eve came out of Adam and returned to be one with Adam, thus becoming Adam’sin crease, so we also have come out of Christ and will return to be one with Him, thus becoming His increase. This increase is just His reproduction in us through regeneration. All the people who participate in this reproduction are given to Christ by God
四 为基督作工者衰减
D. The Worker for Christ Decreasing
12我们必须让基督扩增。我们都必衰减。所有跟随的人都该就祂而去。倘若今天所有基督教的传道人和带领人都说，『主阿，让跟随我的人都跟随你，好叫你能扩增而我衰减，』那就没有难处了。有些人似乎说，『祂必扩增，我必衰减，但我必须保有我的跟随者。』只要你保留你的跟随者，你就永远不会衰减，祂也不会扩增。扩增或衰减全根据跟随者的去留。这些跟随者属于谁?今日的问题乃是：每一个传道人都有他自己的跟随者。许多人以为我们和他们一样；因为根据他们的观念，每一个为主作工的人必须保有他的跟随者。我们说我们不保有跟随者，他们不会相信我们。愿主怜悯我们。我们需要主的怜悯，叫我们不保留跟随者在我们手下。倘若我们还要保留，我们迟早会下到监里。让跟随的人都就了祂去。祂必扩增，我们都必衰减。
12We must let Christ increase. We all must decrease. The entire following must go to Him. If all of today’s Christian preachers and leaders would say, “Lord, let my following be Yours that You may increase and that I may decrease,” there would be no problem. Some people seem to say, “He must increase, and I must decrease, but I must hold my following.” As long as you hold your following, you will never decrease and He cannot increase. The increase or the decrease all depends upon the following. To whom does the following belong? This is the problem today: every preacher has his own following. Many think that we are the same as they are because, according to their concept, every worker must maintain his following. When we say that we do not keep a following, they do not believe us. May the Lord have mercy upon us. We need His mercy not to keep a following under our hand. If we do, sooner or later, we shall be cast into prison. Let the following go to Him. He must increase, and we all must decrease
贰 无限量的基督
II. THE IMMEASURABLE CHRIST
13约翰三章三十一至三十六节，使许多繙译圣经的人受困扰。他们不知道将这些经节放在何处。有一种译本甚至将这些话放在另一处。有些译者辩论，这些话是施浸者约翰说的，还是主耶稣，或写这福音书的约翰说的。有不少假设被人题起过。但是靠著主的怜悯，我们看出这些经节就该放在现在的地方，因为这正好承接著三十节的语意。三十节说基督必扩增，我们都必衰减。为甚么?因为基督是无限且包罗万有的。这些经节启示一位无限的基督。祂就是那微小的耶稣，生在马槽，长在拿撒勒一个穷木匠家里。祂没有外面的美丽和吸引力，祂非常受限制。然而，祂是包罗万有，无限量的。祂高过诸天，阔过宇宙。祂是一切，一切也都是为著祂。我们来读这些经节，看看如何揭开这位无限量的基督：『那从上头来的，是在万有之上；那出于地的，是属于地，他所说的，也是属于地。那从天上来的，是在万有之上。祂将所见所闻的见证出来，只是没有人领受祂的见证。那领受祂见证的，就盖上印，证明神是真的。神所差来的，就说神的话，因为祂赐那灵是没有限量的。父爱子，已将万有交在祂手里。信入子的人有永远的生命；不信从子的人不得见生命，神的震怒却停留在他身上。』这些经节启示，我们所信入的这位基督是无限的，是不可测度的。
13John 3:31-36 bothers many translators of the Bible. They do not know where to place these verses. One version even puts them in another place. Some translators have argued whether these words were spoken by John the Baptist, by the Lord Jesus, or by John, the writer of the gospel. Several suppositions have been made. But, by the Lord’s mercy, we have come to see that these verses should be where they are, because they continue what has transpired up to verse 30. Verse 30 says that Christ must increase and that we all must decrease. Why? Because Christ is unlimited and all-inclusive. These verses reveal an unlimited Christ. He was the little Jesus who was born in a manger and raised in Nazareth in the house of a poor carpenter. He had no outward beauty or attractiveness and He was very limited. Nevertheless, He is all-inclusive, immeasurable. He is higher than the heavens and broader than the universe. He is everything, and everything is for Him. Let us read these verses and see what they unfold of the immeasurable Christ. “He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth is of the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all. What He has seen and heard, of this He testifies, and no one receives His testimony. He who receives His testimony has sealed that God is true. For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for He gives the Spirit not by measure. The Father loves the Son, and has given all into His hand. He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.” These verses reveal that the Christ in whom we believe is unlimited and immeasurable
一 从上头来的
A. Coming from Above
14那时基督只不过是在地上一个有形的人，但祂是从上头来的。祂在地上，但祂的源头是在上头。因此祂是在万有之上。
14Christ by then was a person on earth physically. But He was One coming from above. He was on earth, but His source was above. So, He is above all
二 从天上来的
B. Coming from Heaven
15基督既是从上头来的，因此祂也就是从天上来的。天在地之上。祂是在地上，祂的源头却是天。
15As Christ is a person from above, so He is also from heaven. Heaven is above earth. He was on earth, yet His source was heaven
三 在万有之上
C. Being above All
16基督是在万有之上。这话中的『万有』一辞，主要的不是指一切事或物，乃是指所有的人。基督是在所有的人之上，特别是在施浸者约翰之上。那时，约翰与主耶稣是在争竞的地位上。耶稣和约翰都在收门徒。在约翰门徒的眼中，约翰和主耶稣是平等的。但这是不对的。所以三十一节告诉我们，基督是在万有之上的那一位。祂是在你我和任何人之上。
16Christ is above all. In this portion of the Word, the word “all” does not mainly mean all things or matters, but all people. Christ is above all people, especially John the Baptist. At that time, John was in a position of rivalry with the Lord Jesus. Both Jesus and John accepted disciples. In the eyes of John’s disciples, John was on the same level as the Lord Jesus. But that was not right. Therefore, verse 31 tells us that Christ is the One who is above all. He is above you, me, and everyone else.
四 从天上来却仍旧在天
D. Being from Heaven yet Still in Heaven
17基督是从天上来的，但祂在地上时却仍旧在天上。（约三13。）祂是宇宙性的，祂是无限量的。
17Christ was from heaven; yet while He was on earth He was still in heaven (3:13). He is universal; He is immeasurable
五 传神的话并且没有限量的赐那灵
E. Ministering the Words of God and Dispensing the Spirit without Measure
18三十四节说，『神所差来的，就说神的话，因为祂赐那灵是没有限量的。』在这节里，我们看见两件事，那就是主耶稣将神的话服事给祂的子民，以及祂将那灵无限量的赐给他们。有些译本将这节经文的意思繙错了，说父神赐那灵给子是无限的。然而，你若研读最好的古卷，就会看见这里是说，子赐那灵给神的子民是没有限量的。主耶稣服事给人的，乃是活的话和无限量的灵。在地方召会中，我们只需要两件东西：活的话和无限量的灵。今天，召会的元首基督，仍在供应这两件东西。我信祂特别将供应活话的负担给了我们。虽然我们将这话说了出来，供应这话的却不是我们。我们讲说，但供应的乃是祂。祂将祂丰富的话在我们的讲说里供应出去。祂是神圣的说话者，神圣的分赐者。祂供应人丰富的话，又将活的灵没有限量的分赐给人。祂是供应活话以滋养祂众肢体的那一位。祂也是分赐那灵给祂的众肢体，使他们能充分尽功用的那一位。没有别人能作这事。祂是包罗万有的那灵，也是包罗万有的基督，祂是无限的。在末后的日子，主将用祂丰富的话和活的灵表白祂的道路。主在那里?那里有丰富的话和活的灵，那里就有祂。再没有别的东西可视为祂同在的象征。我们的聚会若没有话语的丰富，又没有那灵的活泼，却声称是在主的名里聚会，那是毫无意义的；那是虚空的，这样说是没有印证或实际支持的。我们无须声称我们是召会。只要我们有丰富的话和活的灵，那就表白我们是召会。主耶稣在那里，那里就有丰富的话和活的灵。
18Verse 34 says, “For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for He gives the Spirit not by measure.” In this verse we see two things: the Lord Jesus ministers the words of God to His people, and He gives the Spirit to God’s people without measure. Some versions render this verse incorrectly, saying that God the Father gives the Spirit to the Son without measure. However, if you study the best manuscripts, you will see that it means that the Son gives the Spirit without measure to God’sp eople. The Lord Jesus ministers the living Word and the immeasurable Spirit. In the local churches we need just two things — the living Word and the immeasurable Spirit. Today, as the Head of the church, Christ is still ministering these two things. I believe that He has especially burdened us with the ministry of the living Word. Although we speak the Word, it is not we who minister the Word. We speak, but He ministers. He ministers His rich Word in our speaking. He is the divine speaker and the divine dispenser. He ministers the rich Word and dispenses the living Spirit without measure. He is the One who ministers the living Word to nourish all of His members. He is the One who dispenses the Spirit into all His members in order that they might function in a full way. No one else can do this. He is the all-inclusive Spirit and the all-inclusive Christ. He is unlimited. In these last days the Lord is going to vindicate His way by means of the rich Word and the living Spirit. Where is the Lord? He is wherever there is the rich Word and the living Spirit. Nothing else can be considered as signs of the Lord’s presence. If we meet without the riches of the Word and without the livingness of the Spirit and yet claim to meet in the name of the Lord, our claim is meaningless. It is vanity. There is no confirmation, no reality, to back up what we say. There is no need for us to claim that we are the church. As long as we have the rich Word and the living Spirit, that is the vindication that we are the church. Where the Lord Jesus is, there you will find the rich Word and the living Spirit.
19人常常谈论并争论召会的事；至终，那些谈论并争论召会之事的人，大多害怕题到召会了。他们只好闭囗，连召会这辞都不愿使用。他们说，『不要谈召会了。召会是一件麻烦的事。』就召会而论，人很难说甚么是对，甚么是错。甚么是召会?召会是基督的扩增，以及一切首领的衰减。甚么时候你看到领头的人扩增，而基督被囚禁了，那就不是召会。在召会中，基督是日益扩增，而领头的人却在衰减。召会是基督的身体。我们知道大祭司的膏油是浇在他的身上，流到他的衣襟，（诗一三三2，）指明那丰富的、活的灵不是恩赐或神迹的事，乃是生命里膏油涂抹的事。（诗一三三3。）在召会中，基督这包罗万有的元首，赐生命的灵，是没有限量的。我喜欢听众圣徒自由的祷告。但召会的元首若收回了膏油，而我们仍试著要祷告，会发生甚么事?祂若收回了膏油，那我们即使用尽力量，也无法活泼的祷告；我们只能非常枯燥、形式化的祷告。这些日子，我因著听到圣徒的祷告得了滋润，因为那些祷告满了膏油的涂抹。这膏油的涂抹来自包罗万有的元首。只要我们有这膏油的涂抹，我们就是身体。膏油浇在亚伦的衣服上，意思就是浇在基督的身体上。你若豫先安排谁在某次聚会中祷告，那就是组织，不是身体。组织无需膏油的涂抹，无需那无限量的灵。一个聚会从始至终充满了祷告，就证明有元首的同在，证明全身是在祂无限量之灵的膏抹下。不需要人要求我们祷告两个半小时，因为若是这样，那仅是我们的作为，而不是元首的作为。召会在那里?谁是召会?甚么是召会?那灵在那里，那里就有召会。
19People often talk and argue about the church. Eventually, most of the people who talk and argue about the church are afraid to say anything about it. They just shut their mouths and become unwilling to even use the term church. They say, “Don’t talk about the church. The church is a troublesome thing.” It is difficult for people to say what is right or wrong as far as the church is concerned. What is the church? The church is Christ increasing and all the leaders decreasing. Whenever you see that the leaders are increasing and that Christ is imprisoned, that is not the church. The church is something in which Christ is continually increasing and the leadership decreasing. The church is the Body of Christ. We know that the ointment of the high priest was poured upon his body and flowed down to his skirt (Psa. 133:2), indicating that the rich, living Spirit is not a matter of gift or miracles, but a matter of the anointing in life (Psa. 133:3). In the church, Christ, as the all-inclusive Head, gives the Spirit of life without measure. I like to hear the saints praying freely. But what would happen if the Head withheld the anointing and we still tried to pray? If He recalled the anointing, although we might try our best to pray, we would be unable to pray in a living way. We could only pray in a very dry and formal way. In these days I have been watered by listening to the prayers of the saints because those prayers have been filled with the anointing. This anointing comes from the all-inclusive Head. As long as we have the anointing, we are the Body. The ointment was poured out upon Aaron’s garments, meaning that it was poured upon the Body of Christ. If we have to arrange ahead of time for people to pray in a certain meeting, that is an organization, not the Body. An organization does not need the anointing, the immeasurable Spirit. A meeting which is filled with prayer from beginning to end would be a proof of the presence of the Head, proving that the whole Body is under the anointing of His immeasurable Spirit. There would be no need for someone to ask us to pray for two and a half hours, for that would be our doing, not the doing of the Head. Where is the church? Who are the church? What is the church? Where the Spirit is, there is the church
20召会的另一个表征就是话。你若读使徒行传，你会看见在早期召会中有灵和话，但不是白纸黑字的字句。在使徒行传里，召会有活的话，有满了生命、亮光、膏油涂抹并滋润的话。召会有活且即时的话，就是主今日的说话。那里有活的话，那里就有召会。
20Another sign of the church is the Word. If you read the book of Acts, you will see that in the early days of the church there were the Spirit and the Word. But it was not the Word in black and white letters. In Acts the church had the living Word, the Word full of life, light, anointing, and watering. The church has the living and instant Word, the Word that the Lord speaks today. Where there is the living Word, there is the church.
21赞美主，自从祂将我们兴起来，祂的圣言一直活活的向我们开启。日子一天一天的过去，我相信这话将更多向我们开启。我们不需要外面的东西，因为主的同在是在召会中。祂活的灵和活的话是在召会中。这证明何处是召会，也见证召会的头是无限的基督。保有一班跟随者在我们的控制之下，乃是亵渎。所有的追随只该就了祂去。我们越放走我们的跟随者，圣经就越多向我们开启，身体也越多得著膏油涂抹。弟兄姊妹们，现在正是主为祂在地上的道路表白的时候，不只在美国，也要在全地。祂的圣言将比从前更多向祂的身体开启。那灵的膏抹将七倍的加强。（启一4。）这包罗万有的基督、活的话和加强的灵，要表白召会的道路。不然，世人就难以知道谁是召会，那里是召会，以及甚么是召会。阿利路亚，我们是重生的人！我们已经为著祂的扩增得著了重生。祂的扩增是为著包罗万有的基督。约翰三章有三个重点：重生、扩增（就是基督的新妇）、以及包罗万有的基督。
21Praise the Lord that since the day that He raised us up, His holy Word has been open to us in a living way. As the days go by, I believe that the Word will open to us more and more. We do not need the outward things, because the presence of the Lord is in the church. His living Spirit and His living Word are in the church. This proves where the church is and it also testifies that the Head of the church is the unlimited Christ. It is blasphemy to keep a following under our control. All the following must go to Him. The more we let go of our following, the more the Bible will be open to us, and the more the anointing will be on the Body. Brothers and sisters, now is the time that the Lord is going to vindicate His way on the earth, not only in this country, but throughout the world. His divine Word will be open to His Body more than ever before. And the anointing of the Spirit will be intensified sevenfold (Rev. 1:4). The all-inclusive Christ, the living Word, and the intensified Spirit will vindicate the way of the church. Otherwise, it is difficult for people to know who, where, and what is the church. Hallelujah, we are regenerated people! We have been regenerated for His increase. His increase is for the all-inclusive Christ. John chapter three has three main points: regeneration, the increase, which is the bride of Christ, and the all-inclusive Christ
六 父所爱的
F. Loved of the Father
22父爱子，（约三35，）子是父爱的对象。父在爱中使子在万有之上，也使祂成为一切的一切。子的包罗万有，乃是父爱的事。
22The Father loves the Son (3:35). The Son is the object of the Father’s love. In love, the Father has made the Son to be above all and to be all in all. The Son’sa ll- inclusiveness is a matter of the Father’s love
七 父将万有交给祂
G. With All Given by the Father
23三十五节也说，父已将万有交在祂手里。这里的『万有，』主要的也不是指所有的事或物，乃是指所有的人。父已将所有的人都交给子。父从未将任何人交给施浸者约翰，乃是将祂所拣选的人全交给祂的儿子。没有一个神所拣选的人属于施浸者约翰或任何基督教的工人。约翰和所有基督教工人都不该接受任何一个神的子民。父神已将祂所有的选民交给子。每一个人都必须就了祂去。祂在万有之上，并高过万有。万有都已交给祂了。万有必须在祂手下。八信入这位基督就有永远的生命三十六节说，『信入子的人有永远的生命。』在约翰三章我们看见基督的身位和工作。祂一切的所是和所作都是为叫我们得救并重生，好使我们成为祂的新妇，作祂的扩增。哦，祂是这样奇妙的一位，祂已完成了这样奇妙的工作！所以，我们必须信入祂。藉著信入祂，我们就得到神的赦免，并有神圣的生命，就是永远的生命。藉著信入这样的一位，我们就得到神的赦免，因祂的救赎，从神的定罪中得著释放，又因那灵的重生得到永远的生命，就是神那非受造的生命。故此，我们就从神而生，并蒙拯救脱离撒但的邪恶权势，而迁入神的国里。否则，我们将继续被撒但毒害，并仍在神的定罪之下，最终也逃不过祂的震怒。从前，我们是被神的仇敌撒但毒害的蛇，在神的审判下已被定罪；但如今，感谢主，藉著祂的死与复活，我们已经蒙拯救并重生成为祂新妇的一部分。因此，我们是祂的扩增，祂的繁殖，就是祂的新妇，祂的配偶。
23Verse 35 also says that the Father has given all into His hand. Again the “all” here does not mainly mean all things or all matters, but all people. The Father has given all people to the Son. The Father never gave anyone to John the Baptist. He has given all His chosen people to His Son. None of the chosen people of God belong to John the Baptist or to any Christian worker. John and all the Christian workers should not accept any of the people of God. God the Father has given all His elect to the Son. Everyone must go to Him. He is above all, and over all. All have been given to Him. All must be under His hand. H. Believing in This Christ to Have Eternal Life Verse 36 says, “He who believes in the Son has eternal life.” In John 3 we see both the Person and work of Christ. All that He is and all that He does is for us to be saved and regenerated that we might be His bride as His increase. Oh, He is such a wonderful One and He has accomplished such a marvelous work! Therefore, we must believe in Him. By believing in Him we receive the forgiveness of God and have the divine life, which is the eternal life. By believing in such a One, we receive God’s forgiveness, the release from God’s condemnation through His redemption, and eternal life, the uncreated life of God, through the Spirit’s regeneration. Thus, we are born of God and are delivered from the evil power of Satan and translated into the kingdom of God. Otherwise, we shall remain poisoned by Satan and continue under the condemnation of God which will eventually bring His wrath to us. Formerly, we were serpents poisoned by Satan, the enemy of God, and condemned already under the judgment of God. But now, thank the Lord, by His death and resurrection, we have been saved and regenerated to be parts of His bride. Therefore, we are His increase, His reproduction, which is His bride, His counterpart.
九 不信从这位基督的就在神的震怒之下
I. Disobeying This Christ to Be under the Wrath of God
24若有人不信从这位基督，他将留在神的震怒之下，以至于沉沦。但我们并非不信从的人，乃是相信的人。我们永不灭亡。我们已经蒙拯救，脱离神的定罪，以及撒但的蛇性；我们也已经藉神永远的生命得著重生，成为包罗万有之基督的新妇，作祂宇宙的扩增。
24If anyone disobeys this Christ, he will remain under the wrath of God unto perdition. But we are not the disobeying ones, but the believing ones. We shall never perish. We have been saved from God’s condemnation and from Satan’s serpentine nature and we have been regenerated with God’s eternal life to be the bride of the all-inclusive Christ as His universal increase