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约翰福音生命读经 · 第23篇

死人的需要－生命的复活（一）

The Need of the Dead— Life’s Resurrecting (1
1叫拉撒路从死人中复活，无疑的是美妙的事例。在这事例中，我们看见一个死了的人，埋葬了四天，已经开始发臭了，然而他却复活了。为甚么另外三卷福音书没有记载这美妙的事例呢?这件事真是太奇妙了，但是其他的福音书竟然只字未题。因为这复活的事例与其他三卷福音书的目的不合，只适合于约翰福音的目的。马太、马可和路加的目的并非生命，约翰乃是生命的福音。所以，圣灵就留下这事例给约翰。这证明约翰福音是一卷生命的书。
1The case of raising Lazarus from the dead is certainly a wonderful case. Here we see the case of a man who had died, who had been buried for four days, and who had begun to stink. Nevertheless, he was resurrected. Why do the other three Gospels give us no record of this wonderful case? Although this case is marvelous, the other Gospels say nothing about it. This case of resurrection does not fit in with the purposes of the other three Gospels; it only suits the purpose of the Gospel of John. Matthew, Mark, and Luke are Gospels with purposes other than life. John is the Gospel on life. Therefore, the Holy Spirit kept this case for John. This proves that the Gospel of John is a book of life
壹 死人及其需要
I. THE DEAD AND HIS NEED
2在约翰十一章一至四节，我们看见死人及其需要。拉撒路不但病了，还死了。（约十一14。）因此，他所需要的不是医治，乃是复活。在主的救恩里，祂不仅医治病人，也赐生命给死人。所以，祂仍然留住原地两天，直等到那病人死了。（约十一6。）主不改造人，也不规正人，却重生人，叫人从死里复活。因此，九个事例中，第一个是重生，末一个是复活。这启示基督作我们生命的各方面，如其他七个事例所揭示的，都是在重生与复活的原则里。这最后一个事例，是真正变死亡为生命。在我们看基督使拉撒路从死人中复活这事以前，必须看见约翰福音启示两件事。在积极一面，启示基督来作我们的生命。神的儿子就是神的话，也就是神的彰显。祂是神的彰显，成为肉体来作我们的生命。这个中心思想在整本约翰福音的每一章中都可以看到。在消极一面，这卷书也给我们看见，宗教厉害的与作生命的基督为敌，连犹太人的犹太宗教也是如此。你若仔细读这卷书，就会看见那健全、真正的宗教如何反对作生命的基督。在这卷福音书的前十章，我们的主所遭遇的惟一反对就是来自犹太教。宗教反对祂、弃绝祂、否认祂、并且逼迫祂。最终，到十章的末了，祂被迫离弃宗教。祂弃绝了圣殿、圣城和犹太宗教一切美好的事物，来到了新的立场。
2In 11:1-4 we see the dead and his need. Lazarus was not only sick but also dead (11:14). Thus, he did not need healing but resurrecting. In the Lord’ss alvation He does not merely heal the sick; He also gives life to the dead. So He remained two days until the sick one had died (11:6). The Lord does not reform people or regulate them; He regenerates people and raises them out of death. Hence, the first of the nine cases is on regeneration and the last is on resurrection, revealing that all of the different aspects of Christ as life to us, as unveiled in the other seven cases, are in the principle of regeneration and resurrection. This last case is the actual changing of death into life. Before going into the matter of Christ raising Lazarus from the dead, we must realize that the Gospel of John reveals two things. On the positive side, it reveals that Christ came to be our life. The Son of God is the Word of God, which is the expression of God. As the expression of God, He came in the flesh to be our life. This central thought is found in every chapter throughout the entire Gospel. On the negative side, this book also shows that religion, even the Jewish religion of Judaism, is very much against Christ as life. By reading this book carefully, you will see how even the sound and genuine religion opposes Christ as life. Within the first ten chapters of this Gospel, the only opposition our Lord met came from the Jewish religion. Religion opposed Him, rejected Him, repudiated Him, and persecuted Him. Eventually, at the end of chapter ten, He was forced to desert religion. He forsook the temple, the holy city, and all the good things of the Jewish religion and came to a new standing.
3从一至十章，我们在每一章里都看见宗教与基督相对。在一章，我们看见宗教期望一位伟大的首领来临。宗教在等候所谓的弥赛亚、以利亚、或是神所应许的那申言者。然而，基督不是来作伟大的首领，乃是作神的小羔羊来完成救赎，并且带著小鸽子以产生变化的石头，为著神的建造。因此，甚至在这卷福音书的头一章，我们就看见宗教走错路的征兆，宗教所走的不是生命的路。宗教和生命之间，有极大的差别。我们在二章看见，宗教想要毁灭生命，因为宗教想要毁灭耶稣。但耶稣是神圣的生命，祂要使自己从毁灭中复活。生命不但能抗拒毁灭，并且能使自己从死的毁坏中复活。在三章我们看见尼哥底母，一个上流人物，对主耶稣持有宗教的观念，称呼祂为拉比，又看祂是从神那里来作教师的。这一切观念都是宗教的。在四章我们看见，甚至一个可怜、卑贱、不道德、下流的撒玛利亚妇人，也持有宗教观念。在她和主谈话之间，她开始谈到敬拜神。虽然撒玛利亚人的宗教不算正统，但那也是宗教。撒玛利亚人有宗教的传统和产业。在五章我们看见，宗教已全面的敌对生命。这是由于主耶稣在安息日点活了那软弱的人。在犹太人看来，祂干犯了安息日的规条；结果，他们开始敌对祂。实际上，他们开始十分反对主。藉此我们能看见，宗教的规条如何敌对主作那些有需要者的生命。那作我们生命的主是一回事，那带著规条的宗教是另一回事。作生命的基督，和带规条的宗教绝不能并行。
3In every chapter from chapter one through chapter ten we can see one point concerning religion versus Christ. In chapter one we see that religion was expecting a great leader to come. Religion looked for the so-called Messiah, Elijah, or the promised prophet. However, Christ did not come as a great leader, but as the little Lamb of God to accomplish redemption and with a little dove to produce the transformed stones for God’s building. Thus, even in the first chapter of this Gospel we find an indication that religion takes the wrong way, a way other than the way of life. There is a great discrepancy between religion and life. In chapter two we see that religion will try to destroy life, for religion will try to destroy Jesus. But Jesus as the divine life will raise Himself out of that destruction. Life not only can withstand destruction, but can raise Himself up out of the destruction of death. In chapter three we see that Nicodemus, a high- class man, held a religious concept of the Lord Jesus, addressing Him as rabbi and referring to Him as a teacher sent from God. All such concepts are religious. In chapter four we see that even a poor, mean, immoral, low-class Samaritan woman held a religious concept. At a certain point in her conversation with the Lord she began to speak about the worship of God. Although the religion among the Samaritans was not orthodox, it was a religion. The Samaritans had a religious tradition and inheritance. In chapter five we see religion’s opposition to life fully aroused. This was due to the fact that the Lord Jesus enlivened the impotent man on the Sabbath day. To the Jews, it seemed that He broke their regulations about the Sabbath. Consequently, they began to oppose Him. In fact, they began to be very much against the Lord. By this case we can see how the rules and regulations of religion are in opposition to the Lord as life to the needy. The Lord who is our life is one thing, but religion with all of its rules and regulations is another. Christ as life and religion with its regulations can never go together
4我们在六章也看见宗教的事。当人看见耶稣用五饼二鱼给群众吃饱，他们就说，『这真是那要到世上来的申言者。』（约六14。）他们准备强逼主作他们的王。（约六15。）那是宗教观念。主耶稣离开他们退去了，因为祂仍旧要作供人食用的小饼。
4We also see something of religion in chapter six. When the people saw that Jesus had fed the multitude with five loaves and two fishes they said, “This is truly the prophet who is to come into the world” (6:14). They were about to force the Lord to be their King (6:15). That was a religious concept. The Lord Jesus withdrew from them, for He wanted to remain as the small bread, good for people’s food.
5在七章我们看见另一个宗教观念。那些过宗教节日的人在谈论耶稣，但耶稣站著高声呼喊，要他们转离干枯的宗教，来就活水的泉源。在八章我们看见更多宗教的事。那些宗教的经学家和法利赛人想要陷害主，以宗教的方式问祂，如何对付奸淫的妇人。但主以生命的方式来答覆，暴露他们固守宗教的愚蠢，并使他们羞惭得无话可说。在九章，宗教加强反对生命。在五章，主当安息日点活一个软弱的人；在九章，祂使一个瞎子看见。祂故意在安息日行这件事。为甚么主耶稣不在安息日以前或以后到瞎子那里去?祂故意这样作，要打破死宗教的死仪式。这事激起了宗教反对生命。主故意在宗教的犹太人眼前干犯安息日的规条。那瞎子得著视力了，但法利赛人由于他们的反对倒成了瞎眼的。犹太人认为耶稣十分反对他们的宗教，因为祂干犯了他们宗教的规条。因此他们对主非常气愤，开始反对祂。他们甚至将主所治好的人从公会中革除。（约九34。）他们将那瞎子赶出会堂，就是将他从犹太宗教中革除。主就把握机会告诉他们，犹太教不过是暂时看管羊群的羊圈。既然草场豫备好了，羊群就要从羊圈中释放出来，被带进草场。主耶稣让他们知道，他们既将那瞎子从他们的宗教中革除，那只羊就从圈里得了释放，被带进基督这活的草场。在十章末了，主从犹太宗教的羊圈中走了出来。在这卷福音书的前十章，我们看见宗教和生命之间的交战、争斗。最后，主离弃了那宗教，从其中走了出去。祂现今在那里?祂是在宗教之外，祂和宗教毫不相干。现今，在祂新的立场中没有宗教元素，所有宗教元素都已排除了。
5We see another religious concept in chapter seven. The people at the religious feast were discussing Jesus, but Jesus stood and cried, asking them to turn from their dry religion and come to the source of living water. We see more of religion in chapter eight. The religious scribes and Pharisees tried to trap the Lord by asking Him, in their religious way, how to deal with an adulterous woman. But the Lord answered in the way of life, exposing their folly in holding on to their religion and silencing them with shame. The opposition of religion to life is strengthened in chapter nine. In chapter five the Lord enlivened an impotent man on the Sabbath. In chapter nine, He gave sight to a blind man. He purposely did this on the Sabbath day. Why did not the Lord Jesus go to the blind man before or after the Sabbath day? He did it purposely to break the dead rituals of dead religion. That stirred religion’s opposition against life. The Lord purposely broke the Sabbath regulation before the eyes of the religious Jews. The eyes of the blind man received sight, but the eyes of the Pharisees received blindness due to their opposition. The Jews thought that Jesus was very much against their religion because He broke the regulations of their religion. Hence, they became very angry with the Lord and began to oppose Him. They even excommunicated the man who had been healed by the Lord (9:34). When they cast the blind man out of their synagogue, they excommunicated him from their Judaistic religion. Then the Lord took the opportunity to tell them that Judaism was nothing other than a sheepfold which keeps the sheep for awhile. Now that the pasture is ready, the sheep will be released from the fold and brought into the pasture. The Lord Jesus let them know that since they had excommunicated the blind man from their religion, a sheep was released from that fold and brought into Christ as the living pasture. At the end of chapter ten, the Lord walked out of the fold of the Jewish religion. In the first ten chapters of this Gospel we see the fighting, the struggle, between religion and life. Eventually, the Lord deserted that religion and went outside of it. Where is He now? He is outside of religion. He has nothing to do with it. Now, in His new standing, there is no religious element. All the elements of religion have been excluded.
贰 人意见的阻挠
II. FRUSTRATION OF HUMAN OPINIONS
6现在我们来看最后一个事例。这事例不是在犹太教的羊圈中，乃是在羊圈外。当主离开了耶路撒冷，祂到了伯大尼一个兄弟两个姊妹的家中，他们都很爱主。在祂来到之前，这家发生了一件事：那名叫拉撒路的弟弟患了重病，两姊妹就打发人去送信给主－这就是向主祷告的意思。（约十一3。）祷告没有甚么错，你若在难处中，就必须送信给主。任何时候你都可以通知祂。你可以将任何情况通报给祂。但祂要怎么作，就在于祂了。
6Now we come to the last case. This case is not in the Judaistic fold; it is outside of it. After the Lord went out of Jerusalem, He went to a home in Bethany of one brother and two sisters who loved Him very much. Before He came, something happened in this home. The brother, Lazarus, became seriously ill, and the sisters sent a message to the Lord, which means that they prayed to Him (11:3). There is nothing wrong with prayer. If you are in trouble, you must send a message to the Lord. At any time you can send a word to Him. You may send Him the information about any situation. But what He would do is up to Him
7十一章有非常特别的目的：给我们看见除了宗教的反对之外，人的意见也是生命最大的阻挠。在前面各章中，生命所面临的问题都是宗教的。我们已经看见，在每一章中，生命都受到宗教的反对。然而，十一章没有宗教，却有另一种阻挠－从人意见来的阻挠。照著这章所启示的，到底甚么是主复活能力的阻挠呢？那就是人的意见。这章生动的描绘出，人的意见如何阻挠了主复活的生命。一旦人的意见被征服，复活的生命就得彰显。这不是在宗教里的事，乃是在召会，伯大尼的家里，那是召会生活的小影。在耶路撒冷，你是在宗教中；在伯大尼，你就是在地方召会里。在耶路撒冷，有宗教；在地方召会，就有人意见的问题。从一至十章，作生命的基督充分被启示了出来，同时，宗教也被暴露了。现在到了十一章，作复活生命的基督被表明了，但人的意见同时也揭示了。在召会中虽没有宗教的问题，但有另一种障碍，就是人意见的障碍。主是复活的生命，但祂却被意见所阻碍。在这章里充满了人的意见。马大和马利亚认为主应当立刻就来。这是她们的意见。但主行事从不根据任何人的意见，祂行事总是照著祂自己的定意。他们认为主应当立刻就来，但主却故意多耽搁了两天。
7Chapter eleven serves a very specific purpose: it shows us that besides the opposition of religion, human opinions are the strongest frustration to life. Throughout the foregoing chapters, the problem that life faced was with religion. As we have seen, in every chapter life was opposed by religion. However, there is no religion in chapter eleven. But there is another kind of frustration— the frustration from human opinion. What is revealed in this chapter that frustrates the resurrection power of the Lord? It is the human opinions. This chapter vividly portrays how the human opinions frustrate the Lord’s resurrection life. Once human opinions are subdued, resurrection life is manifested. This is not a matter in religion, but in the church, at the home in Bethany, which is a miniature of the church life. In Jerusalem, you are in religion; in Bethany, you are in the local church. In Jerusalem you have religion; in the local church you have the problem of human opinions. In chapters one through ten, Christ as life is fully revealed and, at the same time, religion is exposed. Now, in chapter eleven, Christ as the resurrection life is unfolded, but, at the same time, human opinions are brought to the surface. Although there is no problem of religion in the church, there is nevertheless another kind of hindrance, the hindrance of human opinion. The Lord is the resurrection life, but He is hindered by the opinions. This chapter is filled with human opinions. Martha and Mary considered that the Lord should have come immediately. This was their opinion. But the Lord never acts on the basis of anyone’so pin i on; He always acts according to His own will. They thought that the Lord should come immediately, but the Lord purposely stayed away for two more days
8主是复活，生死对祂都不是问题。祂要吞灭死亡是很容易的。死亡对我们可能是个问题，但对基督却不成问题。祂是复活，祂能胜过并吞灭死亡。然而，当我们来应用祂作复活时，却面临人意见的问题。在本篇信息里，我要使你们对我们的意见这件事有深刻的印象。在地方召会中，我们的意见使我们看不见基督的复活。
8The Lord is the resurrection and the life and death is no problem to Him. It is easy for Him to swallow up death. Death may be a problem to us, but it is not a problem to Christ. He as resurrection can overcome death and swallow it up. However, when we come to applying Him as resurrection, we face the problem of human opinions. In this message I want to impress you with this matter of our opinions. The problem in the local church life which keeps us from seeing the resurrection of Christ is our opinion.
9你若仔细读这章，你会看见连拉撒路的死也是神所安排的。神在祂的主宰里豫备了环境，让耶稣的跟随者死了。神的主宰权柄安排了这么一个死亡的局面，为要揭示基督复活的大能。没有死，就没有路来彰显复活，复活需要死亡。没有死亡，如何能彰显复活?为著拉撒路的死，我们需要赞美主。马大和马利亚若明白，没有死亡就无法彰显复活，她们看见兄弟死了，就会赞美主。她们会知道，这死亡会彰显主的复活。若是这样，就不会有人的意见了。我们可以将这事应用到地方召会里的情况。在地方召会里总有人死了，总有些人或有些事死了。每当负责人看见这死的光景，他们会很为难的对主说，『主阿，这不是你的召会么？你不爱召会么?你不知道召会中有些事在发死么?主，你快来阿！』这是很好的祷告，但这是照著人意见的祷告。你越这样祷告，主就离得越远。祂要延迟祂的到来，为要耗尽人的意见。当我首次看见这一章的亮光时，我笑起来了。以前我从来没有看见这一章有这么多的意见。即使没有人去告诉主，主当然也知道拉撒路病了，祂也确知应该如何处理这事。然而，他们打发人将消息告诉祂了，祂却不为所动。主有时是不容易被激动的。在祷告聚会中，你也许说，『主阿，我们推动你的手，』但你越想要推动祂的手，祂越不肯动。主绝不会依照你的意见被推动。当祂听见了消息，祂仍无动于衷，未被激动。祂在所在之地仍住了两天。
9If you read this chapter carefully, you will see that even the death of Lazarus was provided by God. In His sovereignty, God prepared the environment which allowed Jesus’ follower to die. God’s sovereignty provided such a death situation in order to unfold Christ’s resurrection power. Without death there is no way to express resurrection. Resurrection needs death. How could resurrection be manifested without it? We need to praise the Lord for the death of Lazarus. If Martha and Mary had seen that resurrection can never be manifested without death, they would have praised the Lord when they saw their brother dying. They would have known that this death would manifest the Lord’s resurrection. In such a case, there would have been no human opinion. We may apply this to situations in the local church. There is always someone dying in the local church. Someone or something is always dying. Whenever the responsible ones see such a death situation, they are troubled and say to the Lord, “O Lord, isn’tt his Your church? Don’tY ou love the church? Don’tY ou know that something in the church is dying? Lord, come quickly.” This is a good prayer, but it is a prayer according to human opinion. The more you pray like this, the more the Lord will stay away. He will delay His coming in order to exhaust the human opinion. When I first saw the light in this chapter, I was laughing. I had never seen how many opinions there were in this chapter. Surely the Lord knew that Lazarus was sick and He knew exactly how to handle the situation, even if they had not sent any news to Him. However, they sent the news to Him, but He was not moved by it. Sometimes it is very difficult to move the Lord. In a prayer meeting you may say, “Lord, we move Your hand,” but the more you try to move His hand, the more His hand refuses to be moved. The Lord will never be moved according to your opinion. When He heard the news, His heart was hard and unmoved. He remained where He was for another two days
一 门徒的意见
A. The Disciples’ Opinion
10在十一章八至十六节，我们看见门徒的意见。当拉撒路生病的消息传来的时候，主的心不为所动。门徒必定很希奇、迷惑。你可以想像得到门徒是何等失望。两天之后，主忽然表示要去看拉撒路。祂说，『我们的朋友拉撒路睡了，我要去叫醒他。』（约十一11。）门徒马上对祂说，『主阿，他若睡了，就必好了。』（约十一42。）在这里我们看见了门徒属人的意见。当主不想去的时候，他们感到希奇；当主决定要去时，他们却认为不必去了。主一表示要去探望拉撒路，所有的门徒都表示他们的意见了。他们告诉主说，去会有危险，因为犹太人要拿石头打祂。（约十一8。）这是人的意见，与主的旨意总是相反的。然而，主一旦决定了要去探望拉撒路，就没有人能使祂改变。最终，门徒同意去了，却抱著殉道者的态度，怕受犹太人的逼迫。因为其中有一个人说，『我们也去和祂同死罢。』（约十一16。）多少时候，在地方召会中的光景也正是这样，满了意见。
10In 11:8-16 we see the disciples’ opinion. When the news came about Lazarus’ sickness, the Lord’she art was not moved. The disciples must have been puzzled and perplexed. You can imagine how disappointed the disciples were. After two days, the Lord suddenly expressed the desire to see Lazarus. He said, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going that I may awaken him out of sleep” (11:11). The disciples immediately said to Him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover” (11:12). Here we see the disciples’ human opinion. When the Lord did not want to go, they were puzzled, and when the Lord was about to go, they thought that it was not necessary to go. Once the Lord expressed His desire to go and see Lazarus, all of the disciples expressed their opinions. They told the Lord that it was dangerous to go because the Jews sought to stone Him (11:8). This is human opinion, which always contradicts the Lord’s will. However, once the Lord made up His mind that He was going to see Lazarus, no one could change it. Eventually, the disciples agreed to go, but with a martyr’s attitude fearing the Jews’ persecution, for one of them said, “Let us also go, that we may die with Him” (11:16). Many times in every local church the situation is exactly like this. There are plenty of opinions
二 马大的意见
B. Martha’sO pin i on
11当主到达时，马大是头一个迎接祂的。（约十一20。）但主还没来得及说话，马大就开口表示她另一个意见了。她说，『主阿，你若早在这里，我兄弟就不会死。』（约十一21。）她抱怨主来得太迟了。主对她说，『你兄弟必然复活。』（约十一23。）意思是要叫他立刻活过来。但马大说，『我知道在末日复活的时候，他必复活。』（约十一24。）马大解释主这话，把现今的复活延后到末日去。这是怎样的解经！有些基要教训的知识真是破坏人，阻挠人享受主现今复活的生命！于是主耶稣对她说，『我是复活，我是生命；信入我的人，虽然死了，也必复活；凡活著信入我的人，必永远不死。』（约十一25～。）主似乎告诉她：『这与时间无干。时间对于我不成问题。没有甚么事太晚，也没有甚么事太早。只要我在这里，不会出错的，因我要使你的兄弟复活。』主就问马大说，『你信这话么?』马大回答说，『主阿！是的；我信你是基督，是神的儿子，就是那要来到世界的。』（约十一27。）她所答的并非主所问的，她根本不清楚主在说甚么。她为老旧、先入为主的知识所遮蔽，不能了解主新的话语。人的老知识、老意见，总是人洞晓主新启示的遮蔽。
11When the Lord came, Martha was the first one to meet Him (11:20). But before the Lord could say anything, Martha opened her mouth and gave forth another opinion: “Lord, if You were here, my brother would not have died” (11:21). She was complaining that the Lord had come too late. The Lord said to her, “Your brother shall rise again” (11:23). This means that the Lord would raise him immediately. However, Martha said, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection in the last day” (11:24). Martha expounded this word of the Lord so as to postpone the present resurrection to the last day. What an expounding of the divine word! What devastating knowledge of fundamental teaching that frustrates people from enjoying the Lord’sp resent resurrection life! Then the Lord Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me, even if he should die, shall live; and every one who lives and believes in Me shall by no means die 26 forever” (11:25-26). The Lord seemed to be telling her, “It is not a matter of time. There is no problem of time with Me. Nothing is too late, and nothing is too early. As long as I am here, everything will be all right, for I will raise up your brother.” Then the Lord asked Martha, “Do you believe this?” Martha replied, “Yes, Lord; I have believed that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world” (11:27). What she answered absolutely was not what the Lord asked. She was not clear about what the Lord was saying. Her old, preoccupying knowledge prevented her from understanding the Lord’s new word.
12马大就像今天许多基督徒一样，有许多知识和道理。马大说，『我知道在末日复活的时候，他必复活。』这听起来很合乎圣经，也很正确。接著主就问她，相信不相信祂会使拉撒路复活。她就说，『我信你是基督，是神的儿子。』她信主是基督，是神儿子的一套道理。她也信主在末日要使所有死了的圣徒复活的道理。她有所有的知识，却不是主所教训活的知识。她所有的不同意见都是由于她有各种知识。今天，很多基督徒有意见，是因为他们有很多教训。当有人和他们谈到内里的生命，他们就立刻发表他们的意见。知识太多，道理太多，就生出无穷的意见来。在马大说了她信主是基督，是神的儿子之后，就去叫她的妹妹马利亚。马大说，『夫子来了，叫你。』（约十一28。）然而，在圣经里我找不到一句话说主叫马利亚来。这是马大的题议，是她擅自的主张。我们在马大身上，再一次看见了一个满有自己意见的人。她在意见上非常活跃，以致她不能缄默。或许你也很爱主，但是像马大一样，你也不能缄默。
12Martha is like many Christians today who have a great deal of knowledge and doctrine. Martha said, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection in the last day.” This sounds quite scriptural and correct. Then the Lord asked her if she believed that He would raise Lazarus up, and she said, “I have believed that You are the Christ, the Son of God.” She believed in a certain kind of doctrine that the Lord is the Christ and the Son of God. She believed in the doctrine that the Lord will raise up all of the dead saints in the last day. She had all the knowledge, but it was not the living knowledge that the Lord taught. All of her different opinions were due to the fact that she had all the knowledge. Today, many Christians have opinions because they have so many teachings. When someone talks with them about the inner life, they immediately begin to share their opinions. Too much knowledge and too many doctrines breed endless opinions. After Martha said that she believed the Lord to be the Christ, the Son of God, she went away and called her sister Mary. Martha said, “The Teacher is here and is calling you” (11:28). However, I cannot find a word saying that the Lord had called for Mary. That was Martha’s suggestion. It was her self-assuming opinion. Again we see in Martha a person who was so full of her own opinions. She was so active in her opinion that she could never be silent. Perhaps you also love the Lord very much, but, like Martha, you cannot be silent
三 马利亚的意见
C. Mary’sO pin i on
13马利亚听了马大的话，就来到主那里。她重述了马大先前对主说的话：『主阿，你若早在这里，我兄弟就不会死。』（约十一32。）这也是意见，是对主的抱怨。
13Mary came to the Lord at Martha’sword. She reiterated what Martha first told the Lord: “Lord, if You were here, my brother would not have died” (11:32). This also is an opinion, a complaint against the Lord
14主从不辩驳；祂也不接受她们的意见。她们根本不懂得，只要有主同在，一切都会很好。她们不明白这一点；因为她们很伤心，甚至哭泣。因这缘故，主灵里悲愤，又受搅扰。（约十一33。）祂并不是因拉撒路的死而悲愤，乃是因那些伤心的人没有一个认识祂是现今的复活；祂是为此而忧愁。于是主就问她们把拉撒路放在那里。她们对祂说，『主阿，来看。』（约十一。）这个回答很好。这是最好的意见。当召会有了问题，不要多谈，只要说，『主阿，来看。』这时候，主因同情他们为拉撒路的死而伤心，也就哭了。
14The Lord never argued; neither did He accept their opinion. They simply did not understand that as long as the Lord was present everything would be all right. They could not realize this, for they were very sorrowful and even weeping. For this reason, the Lord groaned in His spirit and was troubled (11:33). He did not groan over the death of Lazarus, but over the fact that not one of the sorrowful ones knew that He was the present resurrection, and He was troubled by this. Then the Lord asked them where they had put Lazarus. They said to Him, “Lord, come and see” (11:34). This answer was very good. That opinion was 34 the best. When the church has a problem, do not talk so much. Simply say, “Lord, come and see.” At this juncture, the Lord wept in sympathy with their sorrow over Lazarus’s death.
四 犹太人的意见
D. The Jews’ Opinion
15在十一章三十六至三十八节，我们看见犹太人的意见。他们以为，主哭（约十一35）是为爱拉撒路的缘故。但有人就问，主为甚么不能使拉撒路不死?（约十一。）因这意见，加上犹太人不知道主能使拉撒路复活，以致主又悲愤起来。
15In 11:36-38 we see the Jews’ opinion. They thought that the Lord wept (11:35) because He loved Lazarus. But some questioned why the Lord could not have kept Lazarus from dying. Those opinions plus the Jews’ ignorance of the Lord’s ability to raise Lazarus from 37 the dead caused the Lord to groan again.
五 马大又一次的意见
E. Martha’sO pin i on Again
16当主来到坟墓前，祂就吩咐他们把石头挪开。马大又一次以她的意见来阻挠主。她说，『主阿，他已经臭了，因为这是第四天了。』（约十一39。）她觉得挪开石头没有用。在这一章里，没有宗教的事物，却有很多意见阻挡了主。虽然主在召会中是人的生命，祂却在召会人身上遇到许多意见，就像祂遇到门徒、马大、马利亚、和她们犹太朋友的意见一样。
16When the Lord came to the tomb, He told them to take away the stone. Once again, Martha frustrated the Lord with her opinion. She said, “Lord, by now he smells, for it is the fourth day that he has been there” (11:39). She felt that there was no use in moving the stone. In this chapter there is nothing religious, but there are many opinions standing in the Lord’sway. Although the Lord is life to the people in the church, He meets a great number of human opinions from the people in the church. It is just like His meeting the opinions of the disciples, Martha and Mary, and their Jewish friends
六 属于知识树的意见与生命树相对
F. Opinions Belonging to the Tree of Knowledge vs. the Tree of Life
17所有的意见都出自人的心思，所以都属于知识树，与生命树相对。生命树实在就是主自己作我们的享受。我们坚持自己的意见，就不能享受主作我们复活的生命。我们的意见被征服，我们就很容易进入对主自己完满的享受。
17All opinions come out of man’s mind. So they all belong to the tree of knowledge, which is versus the tree of life. The tree of life is actually the Lord Himself for our enjoyment. When we stay with our opinions, we are kept away from the enjoyment of the Lord as our resurrection life. When our opinions are subdued, it is easy for us to enter into the full enjoyment of the Lord Himself
参 生命的复活
III. LIFE’S RESURRECTING
一 赐生命给死人
A. Giving Life to the Dead
18主是复活，赐生命给死人。祂是复活，祂是生命。在复活里，这生命便分赐给死人，使他们从死里复活。这就是生命的复活。
18The Lord as resurrection gives life to the dead. He is the resurrection and the life. In resurrection, this life is imparted into the dead to raise them up from death. This is life’s resurrecting
19二需要人的服从与合作
19B. Needing Man’s Submission and Cooperation
20在这里有一点我们必须看清，就是主能使拉撒路从死里复活。然而，因为祂不断的被人的意见阻挠，就不能作甚么。祂被阻挠直到他们被征服的时候。最终，马大以相当服从的态度被征服了。主有复活的生命，复活的大能，但需要我们的合作，需要我们的服从。甚么是我们的服从?那就是放弃我们的意见。你必须弃绝你的意见，让主说话。当祂告诉我们：『把石头挪开，』我们就该挪开。我们必须服从、合作，并与祂配合。我们该听从祂的话，与祂合作，并和复活的大能配合。主既能使死人复活，祂为何自己不去将石头挪开?因为祂复活的大能需要我们的合作。他们一挪开了石头，主就大声喊著说，『拉撒路，出来！』（约十一41～。）拉撒路就从死里复活了。他听见了永活主的声音，就活过来，从死人中复活了。在拉撒路从坟墓里出来之后，还需要人的合作。拉撒路的手脚是裹著裹尸布，脸上也包著手巾。所以耶稣对他们说，『解开，让他走！』（约十一44。）他们必须从复活的拉撒路身上解开捆绑。他们如此作了，复活的工作就完成了。我们也必须和主合作，释放别人脱离他们的捆绑。当主在召会中叫人从死里复活时，我们需要和祂合作，好释放他们脱离属地的捆绑。藉著这种合作，召会就成了主作生命的见证。主可以亲自将石头从洞口挪开，并且解开拉撒路的捆绑，但祂没有这样作。祂宁愿要求我们和祂合作。然而，在我们能彀和祂合作之前，必须先放弃我们的意见，照著主的旨意行动。在召会生活中，我们必须放下我们的意见，服从主的话并工作，且与祂复活的大能合作。
20We must see one point here. The point is that the Lord was able to raise up Lazarus from death. However, He could not do anything because He was continually frustrated by human opinions. He was frustrated by those opinions until the time came when they were subdued. Eventually, Martha was subdued with a certain amount of submission. The Lord has the resurrection life, the resurrection power, but it needs our cooperation. It needs our submission. What is our submission? It is simply the giving up of our opinion. You must forsake your opinion and allow the Lord to speak. When He tells us, “Move this stone,” we should simply move it. We must submit, cooperate, and coordinate with Him. We need to submit to His word, cooperate with Him, and coordinate with the resurrection power. Why did the Lord, who was able to raise the dead, not remove the stone by Himself? Because His resurrection power requires our cooperation. Once they had removed the stone, the Lord cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” (11:41-43), and Lazarus was raised from the dead. 43 He heard the voice of the living Lord, was quickened, and was raised from the dead. After Lazarus came out of the tomb, there was still the need for human cooperation. Lazarus’s hands and feet were bound with the burial clothes and his face was bound about with a handkerchief. Therefore Jesus said to them, “Loose him and let him go” (11:44). They had to remove the bandages from the resurrected Lazarus. They did it and the work of resurrection was completed. We too must work by cooperating with the Lord to release others from the bondage of their bandages. When the Lord raises up people from their death in the church, we need to cooperate with Him in order to release them from their earthly bondage. By this kind of cooperation the church becomes the testimony of the Lord as life. The Lord could have moved the stone from the cave and He could have removed the bandages from Lazarus, but He did not do it. He would rather ask us to cooperate with Him. However, before we can cooperate with Him, we must first give up our opinions and act according to His will. In the church life, we must drop our opinions, submit to the Lord’sword and work, and cooperate with His resurrection power.
21这是每个人在地方召会中都必须学习的严肃功课。尤其是像马大和马利亚这种领头和负责的人，必须学习放下自己的意见，将自己和自己的意见降服主，和祂并祂复活的大能合作。任何一个地方召会中领头的人，若放下自己的意见，服从主的话，并和主复活的大能合作，那个召会必要看见复活的生命。这是这一章主要启示的一部分，就是放下人的意见，以及爱主的人和主复活的大能合作。主今天还在等候机会，要彰显祂复活的大能，但祂不容易得到服从、合作和配合。我们在地方召会中领头的人，或许会照著我们的意见，忙于祷告求主作一些事。我们必须放下自己的意见，将每一个意见交托祂考虑，并和祂合作。祂要你将石头挪开，你就挪开；祂叫你作某件事，你就作。这样你就会看见复活的生命，也会看见复活的大能。这是约翰十一章的部分启示。大多数人只看见了拉撒路从死人中复活的故事；他们没有看见这一章的启示，就是在宗教之外，在地方召会中，基督作生命这事受到从人意见来的阻挠。
21This is a serious lesson that everyone in the local churches must learn. Especially the Marthas and the Marys—the leading ones, the responsible ones—must learn to drop their opinions, submit themselves and their opinions to the Lord, and cooperate with Him and with His resurrection power. If in any local church the leaders drop their opinions, submitting them to the Lord’s word, and cooperate with the Lord’s resurrection power, that church will see resurrection life. This is a part of the major revelation of this chapter which is the submission of human opinions and the cooperation of the lovers of the Lord with His resurrection power. The Lord today is still waiting for an opportunity to express His resurrection power, but it is difficult for Him to obtain the submission, cooperation, and coordination. As leaders in the local churches, we may be busy praying and asking the Lord to do things according to our opinion. We have to drop our opinions, submit every opinion for His consideration, and cooperate with Him. When He asks you to remove the stone, remove it. When He tells you to do a certain thing, do it. Then you will see resurrection life. You will see resurrection power. This is a part of the revelation of John 11. Most people have seen only the story of Lazarus being raised up from the dead. They have not seen the revelation in this chapter, which is that outside of religion, in the local churches, the frustration to Christ as life comes from our human opinions.
三 实际变死亡为生命
C. The Actual Changing of Death into Life
22叫死人复活实在就是变死亡为生命。这事例的意义与变水为酒的意义是一样的。在这事例中马大的意见阻挠了主复活的大能，就如在那神迹中，马利亚的意见阻挠了主变水为酒一样。马利亚的意见一被征服，主变化的能力就得以彰显。马大的意见被征服，主复活的大能就奏效了。
22To resurrect the dead actually is to change death into life. The significance of this case is the same as that of the sign of changing water into wine. As Mary’so pin i on in that sign frustrated the Lord’s changing of water into wine, so Martha’so pin i on in this case frustrated the Lord’s resurrection power. Once Mary’so pin i on was subdued, the Lord’s changing power was manifested. When Martha’so pin i on was subdued, the Lord’s resurrection power prevailed