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约翰福音生命读经 · 第13篇

垂死人的需要-生命的医治

The Need of the Dying—Life’s Healing
壹 耶稣返顾
I. JESUS COMING BACK TO THE PLACE
脆弱人之地
OF THE WEAK AND FRAGILE PEOPLE
1耶稣回到加利利的迦拿,就是脆弱人之地。(约四43~46。)迦拿是在加利利,一个被人藐视的地方,(约七,52,)象征低下、卑贱的世界,住著软弱、脆弱的人。在那里主曾行了祂第一件神迹,将死亡的水变为生命的酒。如今祂旧地重游,要行第二件神迹;这件神迹在生命的原则上与前次是一致的,就是变死亡为生命。贰垂死的脆弱人
1Jesus returned to Cana of Galilee, the place of the weak and fragile people (John 4:43-46). Cana is in Galilee, a despised place (7:41, 52), which signifies the world of a low and mean condition where the 41 weak and fragile people are. The Lord was here once during the first sign to change the death water into life wine. Now He comes back to the same place to do the second sign, which in the principle of life corresponds with the first sign—to change death into life. II. THE WEAK AND FRAGILE PEOPLE DYING
2这事例是九个事例中的第三个,启示垂死的人需要医治。这事例说到一个大臣的儿子快要死了。人类首先需要重生,其次需要满足,第三需要医治。我们多多少少都需要医治。就某种意义说,我们都在活著;但就另一种意义说,我们都在渐渐死去。一个刚出生的婴儿,他母亲会想到他是在渐渐长大,其实这婴儿是在渐渐死去。地上每个人都在渐渐死去。你若年轻,还不到三十岁,也许不觉得你是在渐渐死去。但是到了六、七十岁,你就领悟你是在渐渐死去。七十年的人生可比作七十块钱,活一年就等于花一块钱。你活到六十岁,就花了六十块钱。你到了六十九岁,就是说你只剩下一块钱了。这一块钱花去了,你就到了尽头。所以,表面看来人是在活著,实际上却是在死去。这就是我不要我的儿孙为我庆生的缘故,因为生日告诉我,我是在渐渐死去。请告诉我,你的年岁是在增加,还是在减少?我们活著的日子是越过越少。我不愿作过了七十岁的人,我希望不要再老,但是没有办法。我们都需要医治。我们已经重生;我们可以日复一日接触主这活的灵,作我们的满足。此外,我们还需要医治。我们都病了,是快要死的人。我们是堕落的人,软弱、脆弱、垂死,需要主的医治。你若得著主耶稣的医治,你的死就要变成活。让我告诉你们我向主私下的祈祷。我告诉主说,『主阿,你来的时候近了。求你恩待我,让我不见死。主,我要面对面和你相会。让我活到你来。』阿利路亚,祂即将来临!当祂来临时,祂就要施行医治。当祂还在途中时,就在医治我们的灵、魂、身体。倘若你要健康,就需要享受耶稣的医治。耶稣是真正的保健食品店,来就耶稣,接触祂,并享受祂。你若不断有分于耶稣,就会得到上好的食物,真正的保健食品。我们何等需要神圣生命的医治!
2This case, the third among the nine, reveals the dying people’s need of healing. This case concerns the son of a royal official who was about to die. Mankind firstly needs regeneration, secondly satisfaction, and thirdly healing. We all need a certain amount of healing. In a sense, we are living; in another sense, we all are dying. When a baby is newly born, his mother would think that he is growing. Actually the baby is dying. Everyone on earth is dying. If you are young, still under thirty years of age, you may not have the sense that you are dying. However, when you reach the age of sixty or seventy, you realize that you are dying. A life span of seventy years may be likened to seventy dollars. Each year that is lived is the equivalent of spending a dollar. Once you have lived sixty years, you have spent sixty dollars. When you reach the age of sixty-nine, it means that you have only one dollar left. Once that dollar has been spent, you will be exhausted. So, human beings are apparently living, but actually dying. This is why I do not ask my children or grandchildren to celebrate my birthday, for my birthday tells me that I am dying. Tell me, is your age increasing or decreasing? The longer we live, the less time we have to live. I do not want to reach the age of seventy. I would like to stay back, but I cannot do it. We all need healing. We have been regenerated and, day by day, we may contact the Lord, the living Spirit, for our satisfaction. In addition to this, we need healing. We are all sick and dying people. We are fallen people, weak and fragile, who are dying and who need the Lord’she al ing. If you have the healing of the Lord Jesus, your dying will become living. Let me share with you my secret prayer to the Lord. I have told the Lord, “Lord, the time of Your coming is near. Do me a favor—keep me from seeing death. Lord, I want to see You physically face to face. Keep me living until You come.” Hallelujah, He is coming! While He is coming, He is healing. While He is on His way, He is healing our spirit, soul, and body. If you want to be healthy, you need to enjoy the healing of Jesus. Jesus is the real health food store. Come to Jesus, contact Him, and enjoy Him. If you participate in Jesus continually, you will have the best food, the real health food. How we need the healing of the divine life!
3罗马八章十一节说,『然而那叫耶稣从死人中复活者的灵,若住在你们里面,那叫基督从死人中复活的,也必藉著祂住在你们里面的灵,赐生命给你们必死的身体。』我们若让内住的灵在我们里面安家,这内住的灵必用复活的生命浸透我们这垂死且必死的身体。我们必死的身体要因神圣的生命而点活、活过来、得医治。罗马八章启示,我们的灵、魂、体都可以接受神圣的生命。我们相信主耶稣时,祂这赐生命的灵,便进到我们的灵中。因为祂是赐生命8:2的灵,所以这灵在罗马八章二节称为生命之灵,意即那神圣的灵就是生命。当我们呼求主耶稣的时候,这位是生命的神圣之灵,便进到我们灵中,使我们的灵活过来。故此,我们的灵是生命。(罗八10。)我们把我们魂的心思置于灵,我们的心思也就成了生命。(罗八6。)我们若让内住的灵有地位,那灵便会将祂自己从我们的灵中,经过我们的魂,扩展到我们的身体,使我们必死的身体成为充满生命的身体。最终,这神圣的生命就成了四重的生命:圣灵中的生命,充满我们灵的生命,浸润我们魂的生命,和渗透我们身体的生命。我们全人-灵、魂、体-都要被神圣的生命充满、浸润并渗透。这就是医治。每当神圣的生命进入我们这人的一部分,便医治那一部分。这就是说,神圣的生命将我们那一部分的死亡变为生命。死亡被生命吞灭了-这就是医治。我们需要重生、满足和医治。找们很多人,特别是姊妺们,需要在情感上得医治。姊妹们不平衡的情感需要医治,因为她们在情感上有毛病。为甚么你们姊妹这么容易哭?可能是因为你们情感上有毛病。你们需要医治。弟兄们不平衡的心思和固执的意志需要医治。为甚么你们弟兄的意志如此固执?你们一旦决定要作一件事,地上就没有一事能使其改变。那是一种病态,一种毛病。我们需要医治。赞美主!祂在施行医治。不瞒你们说,今天早上我就藉著我亲爱的妻子得了一些医治。我的妻子不是治病的,但她是调配属天良药的人。我们都需要医治。这种医治就是变化。我们在心思、情感、和意志上越得医治,我们就越被变化。
3Romans 8:11 says, “And if the Spirit of the One who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who indwells you.” If we allow the indwelling Spirit to make His home in our being, this indwelling Spirit will saturate our dying, mortal body with resurrection life. Our mortal body will be enlivened, quickened, and healed with the divine life. Romans 8 reveals that our spirit, soul, and body all may receive the divine life. When we believe in the Lord Jesus, He, as the life-giving Spirit, comes into our spirit. Since He is the life-giving Spirit, the Spirit in Romans is called the Spirit of life, meaning that the divine Spirit is life. When we called on the Lord Jesus, this divine Spirit who is life came into our spirit and enlivened it. Therefore, our spirit is life (Rom. 8:10). When we set the mind of our soul upon the spirit, our mind also becomes life (Rom. 8:6). If we give ground to the indwelling Spirit, the Spirit will spread Himself from within our spirit through our soul into our body, making our mortal body a body full of life. Eventually, this divine life becomes a fourfold life: the life in the divine Spirit, the life that fills our spirit, the life that will saturate our soul, and the life that will permeate our body. Our whole being— spirit, soul, and body — will be filled, saturated, and permeated with the divine life. This is healing. Whenever the divine life enters into a part of our being, it heals that part. This means that the divine life changes the death of that part of our being into life. Death is swallowed up by life—this is healing. We need regeneration, satisfaction, and healing. Many of us, particularly the sisters, need healing in our emotions. The sisters need healing in their unbalanced emotions, for there is a kind of sickness in their emotions. Why do you sisters cry so easily? Probably because of the sickness in your emotions. You need healing. The brothers need healing in their unbalanced mind and in their stubborn will. Why are you brothers so stubborn in your will? Once you make up your will, nothing on earth can change it. That is a disease, a sickness. We need healing. Praise the Lord that He is healing! To tell you the truth, even this morning I received some healing through my dear wife. My wife was not the healer, but she was the dispenser of the heavenly medicine. We all need healing. This healing is the transformation. The more we are healed in our mind, emotion, and will, the more we are transformed.
参 凭赐生命的话,并藉信而施的医治
III. HEALING BY THE LIFE-GIVING WORD
THROUGH BELIEVING
4虽然那大臣恳求主下去医治他的儿子,(约四47,49,)主却仅仅说话,那孩子就痊愈了。耶稣对他说,『去罢,你的儿子活了。那人信耶稣对他所说的话,就去了。』(约四50。)大臣相信从主口中出来的话。当他听见他的奴仆说他儿子活了,他和他全家就都信了。(约四51~53。)我们要为赐生命的话高喊阿利路亚!我们喜爱赐生命的话;不是那死的字句,乃是那是灵的话。主不过说了赐生命的话,那垂死的孩子便得了医治。主今天还在说医治的话。当垂死的人藉信接受这话,他们便得到生命的医治。赐生命的话一传输到我们里面,不管我们是否觉得,我们绝不会一样了。赐生命的话带给我们生命真正的改变。垂死的人藉信接受了主的话,而得著生命的医治,就原则说,这就是变死亡为生命。死亡那叫人死的能力,被生命胜过了。为著祂医治的生命,并为著那医治我们一切疾病的赐生命的话,我们赞美主!死亡的源头是知识树,生命的源头是生命树。我们一出生就生在死的疾病里,主那生命的话医治了我们的死亡。我们所需要的就是接受并相信祂赐生命和医治的话。大臣的儿子得医治的事例,表征我们无须在肉身上接触主;只要我们有主的话就彀了。即使我们没有得到主肉身的同在,只要我们有祂的话和祂的作为就彀了;此外不需要甚么。我们有主的话,便要得救并被主充满。祂的话足能医治并拯救我们。
4Although the royal official begged the Lord to come down and heal his son (4:47, 49), the Lord simply spoke the word, and the boy was healed. “Jesus said to him, Go, your son is living. The man believed the word which Jesus said to him and went his way” (4:50). The royal official believed the word out of the mouth of the Lord. When he learned from his slaves that the boy was living, he and his whole household believed (4:51-53). Hallelujah for the life-giving word! We love the life-giving word, not the word in dead letters, but the word that is the Spirit. The Lord simply spoke the life- giving word, and the dying boy was healed. Today the Lord is still sending forth His healing word. When the dying people receive this word through believing, they are healed with life. Once the life-giving word has been transfused into us, whether or not we are conscious of it, we can never be the same. The life-giving word brings about a real change in our life. When dying people receive the word through believing and are healed with life, this, in principle, is changing death into life. Death’s deadening power is overcome by life. Praise the Lord for His healing life and for the life-giving word that heals all our sicknesses! Death is of the source of the tree of knowledge, and life is of the source of the tree of life. We were born into the sickness of death. The Lord’sword of life heals our death. All we need is to receive and believe in His life- giving and healing word. The case of the healing of the son of the royal official signifies that there is no need for us to contact the Lord physically. As long as we have the Lord’s word, it is sufficient. Even though we do not have the Lord’s physical presence, as long as we have His word and work, it is good enough, and nothing more is needed. When we have the word of the Lord, we shall be saved and filled with the Lord. Just His word is enough to heal and save us.