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罗马书生命读经 · 第33篇

罗马五至八章的基本要点

THE BASIC POINTS IN CHAPTERS 5-8
1在本篇信息中，我们要来看罗马五至八章的一些基本要点。
1In this message we shall consider some of the basic points in Romans 5 through 8
两个事实和两种经历
TWO FACTS AND TWO EXPERIENCES
2五章下半论到我们在亚当里的事实。我们从前在亚当里，这乃是事实，没有人能否认这点。每个人不是现今在亚当里，就是从前在亚当里。六章论到我们现今在基督里的事实。因此，我们可称罗马五章为『在亚当里』，称罗马六章为『在基督里』。请记得，这两件事是事实，一件是已往，另一件是现在。从前我们在亚当里，但现今我们在基督里。这现今的事实美好多了！
2The last part of chapter five deals with the fact that we have been in Adam. It is a fact that we once were in Adam; no one can deny this. Every human being either is in Adam or was in him. Chapter six deals with the fact that we are now in Christ. Thus, we may entitle Romans 5, “In Adam,” and Romans 6, “In Christ.” Remember, these two things are facts, one past and the other present. We were in Adam, but now we are in Christ. How much better is this present fact
3七章论到在肉体里的经历。这不仅仅是事实，更是经历。因此，我们可在七章上面写著：『在肉体里』。八章论到我们在灵里的经历。很难断定这是圣灵或我们人的灵，因为这是指调和的灵。所以，我们可在八章上面写著：『在灵里』。五、六章有两个事实，在亚当里和在基督里的事实；七、八章有两种经历，在肉体里和在灵里的经历。在肉体里的经历，是在亚当里之事实的经历。五章所启示在亚当里的事实，在肉体里得以经历，如七章所描述的。我们若只有五章，没有七章，就会有我们这样死沉的事实，却没有经历。同样，八章在灵里的经历，是六章所启示在基督里之事实的经历。换句话说，在基督里的事实，惟有在灵里才能经历。
3Chapter seven deals with the experience in the flesh. This is not merely a fact, but an experience. Hence, over chapter seven we may write, “In the flesh.” Chapter eight deals with our experience in the spirit. It is difficult to determine whether this is the Holy Spirit or our human spirit because it refers to the mingled spirit. Therefore, over chapter eight we may write, “In the spirit.” In chapters five and six we have two facts, the facts of being in Adam and in Christ. In chapters seven and eight we have two kinds of experiences, the experience in the flesh and the experience in the spirit. The experience in the flesh is the experience of the fact of being in Adam. The fact of being in Adam revealed in chapter five is experienced in the flesh as described in chapter seven. If we had only chapter five without chapter seven, we would have the fact that we were so dead, but not the experience. Likewise, the experience in the spirit in chapter eight is the experience of the fact of being in Christ revealed in chapter six. In other words, the fact of being in Christ can be experienced only in the spirit
在亚当里
IN ADAM
4在亚当里有三件主要的事：罪、死、以及被构成罪人。（五19。）在亚当里，我们承受罪，在死的作王之下，（12，14，）并且构成了罪人。当然。我们也在神的定罪之下。我们或善或恶都算不得甚么。即使我们是顶好的人，在亚当里我们仍是在神定罪之下的罪人。在亚当里我们承受罪，在死的作王之下，并且构成了在神定罪之下的罪人。这些乃是事实。我们甚至在出生以前，就都被定罪。这是我们的情形。
4In Adam there are three main things: sin, death, and being constituted sinners (5:19). In Adam, we inherited sin, were under the reign of death (5:12, 14), and were constituted sinners. Of course, we were also under God’s condemnation. Whether we were good or evil means nothing. Even if we were the best person, in Adam we were still sinners under God’s condemnation. In Adam we inherited sin, were under the reign of death, and were constituted sinners under God’s condemnation. These are facts. We all were condemned even before we were born. This was our case.
在基督里
IN CHRIST
5赞美主，我们有第二个事实，在基督里的事实！因著我们在基督里，结果我们有恩连同义。（五17。）在亚当里我们有罪；在基督里我们有恩连同义。我们所有的不单是义，也不单是恩，乃是恩连同义。恩连同义与罪相对。在亚当里，我们承受罪。在基督里，我们接受恩连同义之恩赐。恩和义一同作工，因为恩是藉著义作工。不但如此，在基督里有永远的生命代替死。我们甚至能在这永远的生命中作王。（17。）虽然死曾作王管辖我们，（14，）但如今我们能在生命中作王。不仅如此，在基督里我们不在神的定罪之下；我们乃在祂的称义之下。在基督里我们都得称义了。
5Praise the Lord that we have the second fact, the fact of being in Christ! As a result of being in Christ, we have grace with righteousness (5:17). In Adam we had sin; in Christ we have grace with righteousness. What we have is not righteousness alone or grace alone but grace with righteousness. Grace with righteousness is versus sin. In Adam, we inherited sin. In Christ we have received grace with the gift of righteousness. Grace and righteousness work together because grace works through righteousness. Furthermore, in Christ we have eternal life instead of death. We can even reign in this eternal life (5:17). Although death once reigned over us (5:14), now we can reign in life. Moreover, in Christ we are not under God’s condemnation; we are under His justification. In Christ we all have been justified
6也许你会问你如何能在基督里。我们不疑惑我们在亚当里。但我们如何能在基督里？乃是藉著浸入祂，（六3，）并藉著信入祂。（约三15。）浸入基督包括信入祂。因此，我们藉著信并藉著浸而在基督里。你相信基督时，实际上就是信入祂。同样，浸入水里乃是一个表号，指明我们浸入基督。神已将我们放在基督里，（林前一30，）我们都必须相信并倚靠这事实。阿利路亚，我们在基督里！我们已从亚当迁到基督里。今天我能放胆见证，我不再在亚当里│我在基督里。因为我在基督里，祂的死、祂的复活、和祂的一切所是，就都成了我的。凡祂所作的都是我的，因为我在祂里面。想想挪亚的例子。方舟带同里面的八个人，经过了许多事。凡方舟所经过的，也是那八个人的经历，因为他们在方舟里。这是我们在基督里的清楚豫表。基督是我们的方舟，而我们这些复活的人在祂里面。（八这数字表征复活。）凡基督所得著、所达到的，凡祂所是的，现今都是我们的。祂的死是我们的，祂的复活是我们的，祂的生命也是我们的。基督的死了结了宇宙中每样消极的事物，而祂的死是我们的。没有甚么像死这样了结人。人若问你是否死了，你该刚强的回答：『是的，二千年前我就死了。（罗六6。）基督在十字架上的死为我清理了一切，并且完全了结我。我已经死了。』赞美主，我们都死了！我们一面与基督同死，另一面与祂同复活。（8，11。）我们复活了，我们活著，并且我们在基督复活的样式里与祂联合生长。（5。）我们都必须相信这些事实，承认这些事实，并且照著这些事实来算自己。
6Perhaps you are asking how you can be in Christ. We have no doubt about our being in Adam. But how can we be in Christ? It is by being baptized into Him (6:3), and by believing into Him (John 3:15). Being baptized into Christ includes believing into Him. Hence, we are in Christ by believing and by being baptized. When you believe in Christ, you actually believe yourself into Him. Likewise being baptized into the water is a sign indicating that we are being baptized into Christ. God has put us into Christ (1 Cor. 1:30), and we all must believe this fact and reckon on it. Hallelujah, we are in Christ! We have been transferred out of Adam into Christ. Today I can testify boldly that I am no longer in Adam—I am in Christ. Because I am in Christ, His death, His resurrection, and all that He is have become mine. Whatever He has done is mine because I am in Him. Consider the example of Noah’s ark. The ark with the eight persons aboard passed through many things. Whatever the ark passed through was also the experience of those eight persons, because they were in the ark. This is a clear type of our being in Christ. Christ is our ark, and we, the resurrected people, are in Him. (The number eight signifies resurrection.) Whatever Christ has obtained and attained and whatever He is now is ours. His death is ours, His resurrection is ours, and His life is ours. Christ’s death has terminated every negative thing in the universe, and His death is ours. Nothing terminates a person like death. If someone asks whether or not you are dead, you should strongly reply, “Yes, I died two thousand years ago (6:6). Christ’s death on the cross cleared up everything for me and terminated me absolutely. I am dead.” Praise the Lord that we all are dead! Having died with Christ on the one hand, on the other hand we are resurrected with Him (6:8, 11). We are resurrected, we are living, and we are growing together with Christ in the likeness of His resurrection (6:5). We all must believe these facts, recognize them, and reckon ourselves according to them.
7我们若站在这些事实上，就会将自己献给神作奴仆，并将我们的肢体献上作义的兵器，以至于圣别。（13，19。）我们的旧人钉了十字架，我们在基督耶稣里向神是活的，当我们倚靠这事实，并将自己连同我们所有的肢体都献给神作义的兵器，就为神圣的生命开路，使其在我们里面自由作工。这神圣的生命要将神一切的所是灌输到我们这人里面。这就是圣别。这不是在十字架上客观的救赎；这是神在我们这人里面主观、圣别的工作。
7If we stand on these facts, we may present ourselves to God as slaves and present our members as weapons of righteousness unto sanctification (6:13, 19). When we reckon upon the fact that our old man has been crucified and that we are alive to God in Christ Jesus and when we present ourselves with all of our members as weapons of righteousness to God, the way is open for the divine life to work within our being in a free way. This divine life will transfuse all that God is into our being. This is sanctification. This is not the objective redemption on the cross; it is God’s subjective, sanctifying work in our very being
在肉体里
IN THE FLESH
8我们领悟我们已经与基督同死以后，也必须看见我们与律法不再有关。因为我们死了，我们就得著释放，脱离律法。（七6。）不要回到律法去。回到律法去，意思就是定意行善。每当你定意行善，就是回到律法去。你若祷告：『神阿，帮助我从现在起谦卑，』你就是回到律法去。虽然你向神祷告，但你不是到神那里去，乃是到律法那里去。请想想看，一个丈夫为不爱妻子而悔改，他定意从现在起要爱妻子，并求主帮助他爱妻子。这祷告指明他正回到律法去。我能向你保证，他不能爱她。他越想要爱她，就越不能爱她。他会发觉自己在罗马七章里，就是在他所愿意的，他反不作，他所不愿意的，他倒去作的情形里。（19。）你也许愿意爱妻子，但你作不到。你也许定意绝不发脾气，但至终你发脾气比从前更甚。为甚么？因为你到律法那里去，就是到错误的源头去。你还没有领悟，你是完全没有指望、无可救药的人。我们需要拒绝自己，并对自己说，『己阿，我不信靠你。己阿，不要定意作甚么。你不能作甚么。』每当作丈夫的受试诱，定意要爱妻子时，他该立刻说，『撒但，离开我罢。我绝不这样尝试。反而我要拒绝己。我的己必须离开。』
8After we realize that we have died with Christ, we must also see that we no longer have anything to do with the law. Because we are dead, we are freed, discharged, from the law (7:6). Do not go back to the law. To go back to the law means to make up your mind to do good. Whenever you make up your mind to do good, you are returning to the law. If you pray, “O God, help me to be humble from now on,” you are going back to the law. Although you are praying to God, you are not going to God; you are going to the law. Consider a husband who repents for not loving his wife. He makes up his mind to love his wife from now on and asks the Lord to help him love his wife. This prayer indicates that he is going back to the law. I can assure you that he will not be able to love her. The more he tries to love her, the more he will fail to love her. He will find himself in Romans 7, in the situation of not doing what he wills to do, but of doing what he does not will to do (7:19). Although you may will to love your wife, you cannot do it. You may will never to lose your temper, but eventually you lose your temper more than ever. Why? Because by going to the law you are going to the wrong source. You have not yet realized that you are an utterly hopeless and helpless case. We need to reject ourselves and say to the self, “Self, I don’t trust in you. Self, don’t makeup your mind to do anything. You are not able to do anything.” Whenever a husband is tempted to make up his mind to love his wife, he should immediately say, “Satan, get away from me. I will never try this. Instead, I shall reject the self. My self must go.”
9不要定意行善。保罗说，『立志为善由得我，只是行出来由不得我。』（18。）保罗继续说，『因为我所愿意的善，我反不作；我所不愿意的恶，我倒去作。』（19。）所以，在下一节里他下结论：『若我去作所不愿意的，就不是我行出来的，乃是住在我里面的罪行出来的。』（20。）正如我们所指出的，这是保罗得救以前的经历，但几乎所有的基督徒得救以后都这样经过。我们若没有这样的经历，就不会被暴露到极点，也不会领悟我们是何等无可救药。也许今天你就曾定意行善。立志很自然，很容易。你对主冷淡时，不会定意为祂行善。但你一得著复兴，回到主面前，立刻就定意行善。每次你定意行善，你就为自己制定诫命，就是自定的律法。这些不是摩西颁赐的律法，乃是自己制定的律法。然而，原则是一样的。无论是摩西颁赐的律法，或自定的律法，最终都会把你暴露出来。许多年前我常常祷告：『主阿，我不要对妻子发脾气。我要作好丈夫，一直爱妻子。主，帮助我爱她。』照著我的经历，这样的祷告从来没有得著答应。事实上，我越为发脾气祷告，我就越发脾气。你若不这样祷告，也许一两周不发脾气。但你若为这事祷告，不久以后就会发脾气。已过的年间，许多姊妹到我这来说，她们为著要对丈夫和孩子有好的态度而祷告，但就在她们祷告那天，她们的态度比从前更坏。在我早年尽职时，人问我这样的问题，我和他们一样。按道理说，我告诉他们，这是要帮助他们认识他们的所是。这对我们仅仅是道理；直到有一天，我们不得不领悟，我们完全没有良善。我们一旦看见这点，就绝不会再定意行善；反而我们会到罗马八章去。
9Do not make up your mind to do good. Paul said, “To will is present with me, but to do the good is not” (7:18). Paul went on to say, “For the good which I will, I do not; but the evil I do not will, this I practice” (7:19). Therefore, in the next verse he concluded, “But if what I do not will, this I do, it is no longer I that do it but sin that dwells in me” (7:20). As we pointed out, this was Paul’s experience before he was saved, but nearly all Christians pass through it after they are saved. If we do not have such an experience, we shall not be exposed to the uttermost and shall not realize how hopeless we are. Perhaps even today you have made up your mind to do good. It is so natural, so easy, to will. When you were somewhat cold toward the Lord, you did not make up your mind to do good for Him. But after you are revived and come back to the Lord, you immediately make up your mind to do good. Every time you make up your mind to do good, you make a commandment, a self-made law, for yourself. These are not the laws given by Moses; they are the laws enacted by the self. Nevertheless, the principle is the same. Whether it is a law given by Moses or a law made by the self, you will end up being exposed. Many years ago I used to pray, “O Lord, I don’t want to lose my temper with my wife. I want to be a good husband and love my wife all the time. Lord, help me to love her.” According to my experience, I have never received an answer to such a prayer. In fact, the more I prayed about losing my temper, the more I lost it. If you do not pray in this way, you may not lose your temper for a week or two. But if you pray about it, you will lose your temper very soon afterward. In the past years many sisters have come to me and said that they prayed about having a good attitude towards their husbands and children, but that on the very day they prayed, their attitudes were worse than ever. When people asked me such questions in the early years of my ministry, I was the same as they were. Speaking doctrinally, I told them that this was to help them to know what they are. This is merely doctrine to us until one day we are forced to realize that we are absolutely no good. Once we see this, we shall never again make up our mind to do good. Instead, we shall go to Romans 8.
在灵里
IN THE SPIRIT
10在罗马八章，我们发现非常简单的事。忘掉定意行善罢。心思该是服从的妻子，却擅自作丈夫。在七章保罗清楚说，『我自己用心思服事神的律。』（25。）这样的心思太独立了。心思该是女人，却擅自作男人。在八章我们看见，我们该简单的照著灵而行。（4。）但我们的心思如何？心思必须置于灵。（6。）我们需要照著灵而行，并且将我们的心思置于灵。这就彀了。不要定意行善，或祷告主帮助你行善。忘掉所有这样的宗教观念罢。我们需要照著灵行动、举止、为人，并且不断将我们的心思置于灵。这样我们就会有自由，而内住的基督也会将生命分赐到我们这人的每一部分，甚至分赐到我们必死身体的软弱肢体里。（11。）然后我们的全人就会被神圣的生命注入。这不是行善、遵守律法、或成就律法要求的事。这是生命从我们的灵活出来的事。这生命所作的，比成就律法义的要求更多。当我们照著调和的灵举止、行动、为人，并且将我们的心思置于灵，不让心思凭自己行动、作任何事情，我们就享受内住基督生命的分赐。我们就享受神的救恩，以及来自被祂的生命浸透的圣别。
10In Romans 8 we find something very simple. Forget about making up your mind to do good. The mind should be a submissive wife, but it presumes to be the husband. In chapter seven Paul said clearly, “With the mind I myself serve as a slave the law of God” (v. 25). Such a mind is too independent. The mind should be a female, but it presumes to be a male. In chapter eight we see that we should simply walk according to the spirit (8:4). But what about our mind? The mind must be set upon the spirit (8:6). We need to walk according to the spirit and set our mind upon the spirit. This is sufficient. Do not make up your mind to do good or pray that the Lord will help you to do good. Forget all such religious concepts. We need to walk, behave, and have our being according to the spirit and continually set our mind upon the spirit. Then we shall have freedom, and the indwelling Christ will impart life into every part of our being, even into the weak members of our mortal body (8:11). Our whole being will then be infused with the divine life. This is not a matter of doing good, of keeping the law, or of fulfilling the requirements of the law. It is a matter of life lived out of our spirit. This life will do even more than fulfill the righteous requirements of the law. When we behave, walk, and have our being according to the mingled spirit and when we set our mind upon the spirit, not allowing the mind to act on its own to do anything, we enjoy the imparting of life by the indwelling Christ. We enjoy the salvation of God and the sanctification that comes from being saturated with His life