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罗马书生命读经 · 第36篇

得释放脱离死（二）

BEING FREED FROM DEATH (2)
1在本篇信息中，我们要来看罗马五至八章说到死这件事的几处经文。
1In this message we need to consider several verses in chapters five through eight of Romans that cover the matter of death
死进入并作王
DEATH ENTERING AND REIGNING
2罗马五章十二节说，『这就如罪是藉著一人入了世界，死又是藉著罪来的，于是死就遍及众人，因为众人都犯了罪。』罪入了世界，意思是罪进到人性里。罪藉著一人亚当入了人类。不但如此，死又是藉著罪来的。罪先来，死跟著。那里有罪，那里就有死。十七节说，『因一人的过犯，死就藉著这一人作了王。』死不但入了世界，死也作了王。甚至今天，死就像王一样掌权。
2Romans 5:12 says, “Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin; and so death passed to all men because all have sinned.” For sin to enter into the world means that it has entered into humanity. Through one man, Adam, sin entered into mankind. Furthermore, through sin death entered. Sin came first and death followed. Wherever there is sin, there is death. Romans 5:17 says, “By the offense of the one, death reigned through the one.” Death has not only entered the world; it reigns. Even today death reigns like a king
死，罪的工价
DEATH, THE WAGES OF SIN
3六章二十三节说，『因为罪的工价乃是死，惟有神的恩赐，在我们的主基督耶稣里，乃是永远的生命。』工价是我们作工所得的报酬。你若作罪的工作，就要得死的工价。这就是说，死是你作罪的工作所得的报酬。例如，你也许发脾气。这是罪的工作，作这工作的报酬就是死。人加班时，就得更高的工价。同样，你若犯一点罪，就得一点报酬，但你若犯许多罪，就要得额外的报酬。罪藉著诫命杀了我们在七章十一节，保罗说，『因为罪藉著诫命得著机会，诱骗了我，并且藉著诫命杀了我。』照著本节，罪作两件事：诱骗我们，并杀我们。杀就是置于死地。因此，说罪杀了我们，意思就是罪将我们置于死地。这是藉著律法而发生的，因为罪藉著诫命得著机会。就一面说，罪利用律法杀了我们。你得救以前，或你在灵里被激起寻求主以前，可能经常发脾气，而不觉得被杀死。原因是你没有定意不再发脾气。但你得救或被激起寻求主以后，你就祷告：『主阿，我知道我是寻求你的人，我不该发脾气。这破坏我在家人和朋友中间为著你的见证。所以，我定意从现在起，绝不要再发脾气。』你这样祷告，就为自己制定关于发脾气的严格律法。这新律法是你的第十一条诫命。摩西颁布十条诫命，但你制定另一条诫命，关于不发脾气的诫命。然而，你制定这样的律法以后又发脾气时，你的脾气就杀死你。牠利用你自定的律法将你置于死地。你若早晨发了脾气，也许整天都被杀死。但你已往发脾气时，不觉得被杀死，因为你从前没有制定关于发脾气的律法。
3Romans 6:23 says, “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Wages are something we receive in payment for work we have done. If you do the work of sin, you will receive the wages of death. This means that death is the pay received for your work of sin. For example, you may lose your temper. This is a work of sin, and the payment for doing this work is death. When people work overtime, they receive higher wages. Likewise, if you sin a little, you receive little pay, but if you sin a great deal, you will receive extra pay. SIN KILLING US THROUGH THE COMMANDMENT In 7:11 Paul says, “For sin, taking occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.” According to this verse, sin does two things: it deceives us and it kills us. To kill something is to put it to death. Thus, to say that sin kills us means that sin puts us to death. This happens through the law, for sin takes occasion through the commandment. In a sense, sin takes advantage of the law to kill us. Before you were saved or before you were stirred up in spirit to seek the Lord, you might have lost your temper frequently without being aware of any killing. The reason for this is that you had not made up your mind not to lose your temper any more. But after you were saved or were stirred up to seek the Lord, you prayed, “O Lord, I know that as one who is seeking You, I should not lose my temper. This damages my testimony for You among my family and friends. Therefore, I am making up my mind that from now on I will never lose my temper again.” In praying this way you make a strict law for yourself regarding losing your temper. This new law is your eleventh commandment. Moses gave ten commandments, but you make another commandment, the commandment about not losing your temper. However, when you lose your temper after making such a law, your temper kills you. It takes advantage of your self-made law to put you to death. If you lose your temper in the morning, you may be killed for the whole day. But when you lost your temper in the past, you did not sense the killing because you had not made a law about losing your temper.
4这例证表明我们需要谨慎，不要为自己制定律法。我们越制定律法，就越被杀死。请记得，罪总是利用诫命将我们置于死地。
4This illustration shows that we need to be careful about making laws for ourselves. The more laws we make, the more we shall be killed. Remember, sin always takes advantage of the commandment to put us to death
那属这死的身体
THE BODY OF THIS DEATH
5在七章二十四节保罗宣告：『我是个苦恼的人！谁要救我脱离那属这死的身体？』本节保罗说到『这死』，就是罗马七章所说明的死。我们要知道本章所启示并解释的死是甚么，乃是很重要的。每当我们定意遵守律法，我们肉体中就有个东西兴起来，与我们心思中善的律交战，打败我们、掳掠我们、并杀死我们。我们若没有定意遵守诫命，我们肉体中的这元素乃是静止的。但每当我们定意行善以讨神喜悦，这元素就被激起，并且似乎说，『甚么！你要行善讨神喜悦么？让我给你看见你作不到。我要击败你并杀死你。』因此，肉体中的罪就兴起来，打败我们、掳掠我们、并杀害我们。这使我们受保罗所谓『这死』的苦。罗马七章的问题不是火湖或魔鬼，而是『属这死的身体』。我们有一个身体，里面有一个可怕的东西称作『这死』。我们要存在，就需要身体。但我们的身体不再是纯洁的身体，乃是可怕的身体，属这死的身体。每当我们定意行善以讨神喜悦，这身体里就有个东西起来杀死我们。
5In Romans 7:24 Paul declares, “Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this death?” In this verse Paul speaks of “this death,” which is the very death defined in Romans 7. It is important to know what is the death revealed and explained in this chapter. Whenever we make up our mind to keep the law, something in our flesh rises up, fights against the law of good in our mind, defeats us, captures us, and kills us. If we do not make up our mind to keep the commandments, this element in our flesh remains dormant. But whenever we make up our mind to do good in order to please God, this element is stirred up and seems to say, “What! Do you intend to do good to please God? Let me show you that you can’t do it. I’ll defeat you and kill you.” Thus, sin in the flesh rises up, defeats us, captures us, and slays us. This causes us to suffer what Paul calls “this death.” In Romans 7 the problem is not hell or the Devil; it is “the body of this death.” We have a body which has in it an awful thing called “this death.” In order to exist, we need a body. Yet our body is no longer a pure body, but a terrible body, a body of this death. Whenever we decide to do good in order to please God, something in this body rises up to kill us.
罪与死的律
the law of sin and of death
6我们从七章二十四节往前到八章二节里罪与死的律。虽然我们很难找著辞句表达这律是甚么，却很容易照著经历领会牠。例如，我们在使用家庭电器时，很容易应用电，但我们很难说明电。我们不打算说明罪与死的律，反而要从经历的观点来谈论。我们没有人喜欢发脾气，我们领悟这样作非常不合宜。但假定你被激起爱主，并且定意不再发脾气。一天早晨你为此祷告，并且定意绝不要再发脾气。不久以后，你的妻子为难你，并使你生气。虽然你想要压抑你的怒气，至终你却发了脾气。似乎你越想要制止你的脾气，牠就发得越厉害。你无意也不想发脾气，但你终究还是发了脾气。这是来自你里面罪的律的工作。压制脾气就像拍皮球：你越往下拍，牠就弹得越高。这是定律。罪藉著律法作工，死就立刻随著。你一发脾气，死就进来杀死你。所以，因著发脾气，你就被死的律杀死。因为死的律杀死了你，你就无法祷告、交通或作见证。你若试著祷告、交通或作见证，你会觉得空洞、虚空，你的话也没有生命。这就是罪与死的律作工的结果。罪与死是两项，但牠们只有一个律。罪的律就是死的律，死的律就是罪的律。这是八章二节说到罪与死的律的原因。罪作工带进死，死就随著罪作工。这两样总是并行的。每样罪，甚至一点点软弱，也带进死。
6From 7:24 we go on to the matter of the law of sin and of death in 8:2. Although it is difficult to find terminology to express what this law is, it is easy to understand it according to experience. For example, it is easy to apply electricity in using household appliances, but it is difficult to define electricity. Instead of attempting to define the law of sin and death, we shall talk about it from the standpoint of experience. None of us likes to lose our temper. We realize that it is very unbecoming to do so. But suppose you are stirred up to love the Lord and you make up your mind not to lose your temper again. One morning you pray about this and decide never again to lose your temper. Immediately afterward, your wife gives you a difficult time and makes you angry. Although you try to suppress your anger, eventually you lose your temper. It seems that the more you try to hold in your temper, the stronger it is when it is released. You had no intention or desire to lose your temper, but you lost it anyway. This comes from the working of the law of sin within you. Suppressing your temper is like pressing down a rubber ball: the more you press it down, the higher it rises. This is a law. When sin works by the law, death follows immediately. As soon as you lose your temper, death comes in to kill you. Thus, by losing your temper you are killed by the law of death. Because the law of death has killed you, you cannot pray, fellowship, or testify. If you should try to do any of these things, you feel that you are hollow and empty and that your words are lifeless. This is the result of the working of the law of sin and of death. Sin and death are two items, but they have just one law. The law of sin is the law of death, and the law of death is the law of sin. This is the reason that 8:2 speaks of the law of sin and of death. Sin works to bring in death, and death works to follow sin. These two always go together. Every sin, even a little weakness, brings in death
将心思置于肉体
SETTING THE MIND ON THE FLESH
7八章六节说，『心思置于肉体，就是死。』心思置于肉体，意思是运用心思来思想肉体的事。例如，将你的心思置于属世的风尚或报纸的广告，就是将心思置于肉体的事。同样，思想你妻子或丈夫的软弱，就是将心思置于肉体。这结果就是死。
7Romans 8:6 says, “The mind set on the flesh is death.” To set the mind on the flesh means to exercise the mind to consider the things of the flesh. For example, to set your mind on worldly fashions or advertisements in the newspaper is to set it on things of the flesh. Likewise, to consider the weaknesses of your wife or husband is to set the mind on the flesh. The result of this is death.
8当然，将心思置于肉体所引起的死，不是那种使你肉身死去并埋在坟墓里的死。不，这死有其他的征兆，如黑暗和不妥贴。你里面觉得不妥贴和不安息，那就是死的表记。不满足是另一个征兆。可能你早晨亲近主的时候，非常因主得满足，但早餐以后，你将心思置于报纸上的广告。你越思想牠们，里面就越觉得不满足。这不满足乃是死的表记。软弱是另一个表记。我们都知道，软弱的终点就是死。人软弱到不能再呼吸的地步，就死了。那是软弱的极点。因此，软弱是死的表显。死的另一个表记是枯干，你里面觉得枯干，没有被滋润的感觉，你就在死里。这一切项目－黑暗、不妥贴、不满足、软弱和枯干－是里面属灵死亡的表记。每当你将心思置于肉体的事，你就会觉得一种或多种死的表记。被这样的事充满，就是被死充满。每当你苦于里面的死时，那些在灵里的人就能觉得。他们会立刻察觉你被死充满。你的祷告指明这点。你也许祷告，但在你的祷告中没有生命，反而有死；没有滋润，反而有枯干。
8The death caused by setting the mind on the flesh is not, of course, the kind of death that causes you to die physically and be buried in the grave. No, this death has other symptoms, such as darkness and uneasiness. When you feel uneasiness and unrest within, that is a sign of death. Dissatisfaction is another symptom. Perhaps in your time with the Lord in the morning you are very satisfied with the Lord, but after breakfast you set your mind on the advertisements in the newspaper. The more you consider them, the more dissatisfaction you are conscious of within. This dissatisfaction is a sign of death. Weakness is another sign. As we all know, the ultimate point of weakness is death. When someone is weak to the extent that he can no longer breathe, he dies. That is the consummation of weakness. Hence, weakness is an expression of death. Another sign of death is dryness. When you feel dry within, with no sense of being watered, you are in death. All these items—darkness, uneasiness, dissatisfaction, weakness, and dryness — are signs of inward spiritual death. Whenever you set your mind upon fleshly things, you will be conscious of one or more of these signs of death. To be filled with such things is to be filled with death. Whenever you are suffering from inward death, those in the spirit will be able to sense it. They will realize immediately that you are filled with death. Your prayers indicate this. You may pray, but there will be no life in your prayers; instead, there will be death. Instead of watering, there will be dryness.
那灵安家在我们里面
THE SPIRIT MAKING HOME IN US
9八章九节说，『但神的灵若住在你们里面，你们就不在肉体里，乃在灵里了。』正如我们曾指出的，这里的『住』字，原文不是通常指住留的字。这里的原文，与房子一辞同字根。牠表达的思想不是停留在一处一段时间，乃是安家在一处，定居在那里。那灵若安家在你里面，你就不再在肉体里，乃在灵里了。
9Romans 8:9 says, “But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.” As we have pointed out, the Greek word rendered “dwells” is not the usual word for “abide.” The Greek word here has the same root as the word for house. It conveys the thought, not of staying in a place for a certain time, but of making your home in a place, of settling down there. If the Spirit is making home in you, you are no longer in the flesh, but in the spirit
我们的身体是死的，
OUR BODY BEING DEAD
灵却是生命
BUT OUR SPIRIT BEING LIFE
10在八章十节保罗说，『但基督若在你们里面，身体固然因罪是死的，灵却因义是生命。』因为是生命的基督在我们的灵里，我们的灵就是生命。然而，因为基督局限在我们的灵里，我们的身体就仍是死的。生命的范围限于我们的灵。生命还未扩展到我们的身体里；所以，身体仍是死的。照著以弗所二章和约翰五章，堕落的人是死的。以弗所二章五节指明，我们得救以前，不但是罪恶的，也是死的。约翰五章二十五节说，『我实实在在的告诉你们，时候将到，如今就是了，死人要听见神儿子的声音，听见的人就要活了。』本节不是指那些肉体死了并埋葬的人，乃是指活的死人，那些灵里死了的人。你若读约翰五章，就会看见二十八节是指那些肉身死了并埋葬在坟墓里的人。但在二十五节，主乃是说到灵里死了，而肉身活著的人。在本篇信息中，我们是论到活的死人，不是论到那些肉身死了并埋葬了的人。所有未得救的人都是死的。因为他们的身体已被蛇毒化，他们的身体就是死沉的。撒但那古蛇已将他的毒素注射到我们的身体里，并使其成为死沉的。这死沉的身体也使我们的魂和灵死沉。所以，未得救的人在体、魂、灵上死了。他们全人的每一部分都死了。一九三七年我在中国内地旅行时，有一次停在一条溪边；溪里满了随波逐流的枯叶，树叶中间有一些逆流而上的小鱼。满了生命的鱼，不像漫无目的随流而下的枯叶，乃是逆流而上，有确定的目的。我看见了，就很受感动，甚至呼喊：『这里有生命和死亡。』所有未得救的人，就像枯叶：他们漫无目的的随著世代的潮流而下。他们好像那些叶子，混乱而没有次序。但我们在基督里的信徒，就好像逆著这世代的潮流而上的鱼，有确定的目的。不仅如此，我们不是混乱的，乃是井然有序。我们越有生命，就越有秩序和规律。我们越有死亡，就变得越混乱。今天社会这样混乱的原因，就是满了死人，满了那些体、魂、灵死了的人。我们需要传扬福音，给他们机会听见主的声音。我们听见福音，并呼求主耶稣的名，圣灵立刻进入我们的灵里，将我们的灵点活。这样，我们死沉的灵就成为活的。基督既在我们的灵里，我们的灵就是生命。
10In Romans 8:10 Paul says, “And if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is life because of righteousness.” Because Christ, who is life, is in our spirit, our spirit is life. However, because Christ is confined in our spirit, our body remains dead. The sphere of life is limited to our spirit. Life has not yet spread into our body; therefore, the body remains dead. According to Ephesians 2 and John 5, a fallen person is dead. Ephesians 2:5 indicates that before we were saved, we were not only sinful, but also dead. John 5:25 says, “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear shall live.” This verse does not refer to those who are physically dead and buried; it refers to the living dead, to those dead in spirit. If you read John 5, you will see that verse 28 refers to those who are physically dead and buried in the tomb. But in verse 25 the Lord is speaking of people who are spiritually dead, yet physically alive. In this message we are concerned with the living dead, not with those who are physically dead and buried. All the unsaved people are dead. Because their body has been poisoned by the serpent, their body has been deadened. Satan, the old serpent, has injected his poison into our body and has caused it to become deadened. This deadened body has also deadened our soul and our spirit. Therefore, the unsaved people are dead in body, soul, and spirit. Every part of their being is dead. As I was traveling through the interior of China in 1937, I stopped by a creek which was full of dried leaves that were carried along by the current. Among the leaves some little fish were swimming upward against the current. Unlike the dried leaves that were being carried aimlessly downstream, the fish, full of life, were swimming upstream with a definite purpose. When I saw that, I was so impressed that I even shouted, “Here is life and death.” All the unsaved people are like the dried leaves: they are being carried aimlessly along by the current of the age. Like those leaves, they are confused and without order. But we, the believers in Christ, are like the fish swimming against the current of the age with a definite purpose. Moreover, we are not in confusion, but in a good order. The more life we have, the more we are in order and regulated. But the more death we have, the more confused we become. The reason today’s society is such a confusion is that it is filled with dead people, with those who are dead in body, soul, and spirit. We need to sound out the gospel and give them an opportunity to hear the voice of the Lord. When we heard the gospel and called on the name of the Lord Jesus, immediately the Holy Spirit came into our spirit and enlivened it. In this way our deadened spirit was made alive. Now that Christ is in our spirit, our spirit is life.
11但我们的体和心思如何？我们的体和心思也许仍是死的。许多人有死的心思，因为他们不让他们灵里内住的基督扩展到他们的心思里。我读报纸的时候，非常谨慎，只读关于国际事件的新闻。我若读其他的新闻，就是将我的心思置于肉体，我的心思立刻就是死。我们需要让内住的基督从我们的灵扩展到我们的心思里。我们若让祂这样扩展，至终，生命甚至会分赐到我们必死的身体里。这样，灵与心思将会是生命，身体也会被点活。罗马八章十一节指明这点：『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。』
11But what about our body and mind? Both our body and mind may still be in death. Many have a mind of death because they do not allow the indwelling Christ in their spirit to spread into their mind. When I read a newspaper, I am very careful to read only the news about international affairs. If I read other news items, I set my mind upon the flesh, and my mind is death immediately. We need to allow the indwelling Christ to spread from our spirit into our mind. If we allow Him to spread in this way, eventually life will be imparted even into our mortal body. Then the spirit and the mind will be life, and the body also will be enlivened. Romans 8:11 indicates this: “But if the Spirit of Him Who raised Jesus from among the dead dwells in you, He Who raised Christ Jesus from among the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit Who indwells you
罪之肉体
THE FLESH OF SIN
12罪因著进入我们的身体，已使其成为堕落的肉体。所以，在六章六节身体称为『罪的身体』。这身体也称为『罪之肉体』，（八3，）因为牠被罪败坏了。罪的身体和罪之肉体是指同样的东西。在败坏的身体，罪之肉体里，有许多私欲。在七章十七节保罗说，『其实，不是我行出来的，乃是住在我里面的罪行出来的。』明确的说，罪住在我们的肉体里，因此使其成为罪之肉体。
12By entering into our body, sin has caused it to become the fallen flesh. Therefore, in 6:6 the body is called “the body of sin.” It is also called “the flesh of sin” (8:3) because it has been corrupted by sin. Both the body of sin and the flesh of sin refer to the same thing. In the corrupted body, the flesh of sin, are so many lusts. In 7:17 Paul says, “So now it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.” To be specific, sin dwells in our flesh, thereby causing it to become the flesh of sin
死的功效
THE EFFECTS OF DEATH
13这内住的罪是死的原因。那里有罪，那里也就有死。罗马五至八章所描述的死，主要不是使人肉身死去的死，乃是今天杀害他们的死。这死在我们身上作致死的工作。许多人在祷告上软弱，在聚会中尽功用的事上消沉，原因就是死在作工。有些弟兄和姊妹不一。这个不一来自死。你若无法开口以活的方式作见证，就是因著死的致死、作工。你若不在死之下，就会一直滔滔不绝、祷告、赞美、尽功用、并作见证。不但如此，你会与众圣徒是一。只要你不是这样，即使你很良善、很对、又合乎圣经，你还是死的。
13This indwelling sin is the cause of death. Wherever sin is, there death is also. The death described in Romans 5 through 8 is not mainly the death that causes people to die physically, but the death that kills them today. This death is doing a deadening work upon us. The reason so many are weak in prayer and low in functioning in the meetings is the working of death. Some brothers and sisters are not one. This lack of oneness comes from death. If you cannot open your mouth to testify in a living way, it is because of the deadening, the working, of death. If you were not under death, you would be bubbling, praying, praising, functioning, and testifying all the time. Furthermore, you would be one with all the saints. As long as you are not like this, you are dead, even though you may be good, right, and scriptural.
14正如我们曾指出的，罗马八章六节说，心思置于肉体，就是死。这里的死不是那种使人肉身死去并埋葬的死，乃是使他们终日死沉的死。你作许多事时，也许精力充沛，但在祷告时，你却下沉且没有生命。这就是说，在你身体里的死，将其影响和致死的能力扩展到你的心思和灵里。有一次倪弟兄说话时，请姊妹们告诉他马太福音有几章。她们好不容易才告诉他正确的数字。倪弟兄立刻说，『你们无法告诉我马太福音有几章。但我若问你们有几件旗袍，你们就能告诉我准确的数字。你们不但能告诉我数字，也能告诉我颜色和式样。』许多基督徒发觉很难记住圣经的经文，但他们很容易就能记住关于财产的细节。这指明他们的心思死沉了。心思一死沉，就只适于肉体和属世的事，却不适于属灵的事。我们需要让内住的基督从我们的灵扩展到我们这人所有内里的部分。我们该祷告：『主耶稣，我要让你在我里面扩展。我要你在我里面有自由的通道。』你若这样作，你的心思就会成为清明的，你的记忆就会成为敏锐的。自然而然，你会很容易记住圣经的经文。
14As we have pointed out, Romans 8:6 says that the mind set on the flesh is death. The kind of death here is not that which causes people to die physically and to be buried; it is the death that deadens them all day long. In doing many things, you may be full of energy, but in praying you are low and lifeless. This means that the death in your body has spread its influence and deadening power into your mind and spirit. Once while Brother Nee was speaking, he asked the sisters to tell him how many chapters there are in the Gospel of Matthew. They had difficulty giving the correct number. Immediately Brother Nee said, “You cannot tell me how many chapters there are in Matthew. But if I ask you how many long gowns you have, you are able to give me the exact number. Not only can you tell me the number, but also the color and the style.” Many Christians find it difficult to remember verses in the Bible, but they can easily remember so many details about their possessions. This indicates that their minds have been deadened. When the mind has been deadened, it is good for fleshly and worldly things, but not for spiritual things. We need to allow the indwelling Christ to spread from our spirit to all the inward parts of our being. We should pray, “Lord Jesus, I will let You spread in me. I want You to have a free course within me.” If you do this, your mind will become sober and your memory keen. Spontaneously it will be easy for you to remember verses in the Bible.
15死向内作工，从我们的身体到我们的灵；但生命向外作工，从我们的灵到我们的身体。死的工作方向是从圆周到中心，而生命的工作方向是从中心到圆周。所以，死和生命以相反的方向作工。死从圆周到中心作工时，就使我们的心思和灵死沉。
15Death is working in an inward direction from our body to our spirit, but life works in an outward direction from our spirit to our body. The direction of death’s work is from the circumference to the center, whereas the direction of life’s work is from the center to the circumference. Therefore, death and life work in opposite directions. As death works from the circumference to the center, it deadens our mind and spirit
得释放脱离死的路
THE WAY TO BE FREED FROM DEATH
16我们看过如何得释放脱离罪、脱离律法、并脱离肉体。现在我们必须找出如何得释放脱离死。死在我们里面的根据地是肉体。逃离死并得释放脱离死，惟一的路就是避难在我们的灵里。我们的肉体是死的根据地，而我们的灵是我们的避难所。我们需要逃进这避难所并逃离死。死与生命相对，生命也与死相对。死在我们的肉体里，生命在我们的灵里。没有甚么能把死赶走，或把死吞灭，正如没有甚么能把黑暗赶走一样。然而，光来了，黑暗就消失了。不需要花力气把黑暗赶走，或吩咐牠消失；只要让光进来。光越进来，黑暗就越消失。同样的原则适用于生命与死相对这件事。凭著我们的努力，我们无法把死赶走，或把牠吞灭。惟有生命能吞灭死亡，而生命就在我们的灵里。每当生命进来，死就消失。
16We have seen how to be freed from sin, from the law, and from the flesh. Now we must find out how to be freed from death. Death’s base in us is the flesh. The only way to escape from death and to be freed from it is to take refuge in our spirit. Our flesh is the base of death, and our spirit is our refuge. We need to flee into this refuge and escape from death. Death is versus life, and life is versus death. Death is in our flesh, and life is in our spirit. Nothing can chase death away or swallow it up, just as nothing can drive darkness away. However, when light comes, darkness vanishes. There is no need to expend effort to drive darkness away or to command it to disappear. Simply allow the light to come in. The more the light comes in, the more the darkness disappears. The same principle applies to the matter of life versus death. By our effort we cannot drive death away or swallow it up. Only life can swallow death, and life is in our spirit. Whenever life comes in, death vanishes.
17死就是撒但，生命就是基督。不要让你自己与肉体中的撒但联合，乃要一直留在你的灵里，以基督作生命。然后你会看见，作你生命的基督，在你里面会有自由的通道，扩展到你这人的每一部分。至终，祂会浸透你的每一部分。这就是生命的点活。生命会点活你的心思、情感和意志，甚至分赐到你必死的身体里。因此，你这人的每一部分就都是生命。灵是生命，心思将是生命，身体也将是生命。这事发生时，死这最后的仇敌就会被吞灭。
17Death is Satan and life is Christ. Do not let yourself be associated with Satan in the flesh, but always stay in your spirit with Christ as life. Then you will see that Christ, who is your life, will have a free course within you to spread into every part of your being. Eventually, He will saturate every part of you. This is the enlivening, the quickening, of life. Life will enliven your mind, emotion, and will and even be imparted into your mortal body. Thus, every part of your being will be life. The spirit is life, the mind will be life, and the body also will be life. When this happens, death, the last enemy, will be swallowed up
死是最后的仇敌
DEATH BEING THE LAST ENEMY
18死不但是神最后的仇敌，也是我们最后的仇敌。最后的仇敌不是罪、律法或肉体，乃是死。在神眼中，没有甚么像死这样可憎。甚至罪也不像死这样可憎。神恨恶死过于恨恶罪。罪违反神的所作，死却羞辱神的所是。罪抵挡神的公义，死却羞辱神的所是。假定小男孩在泥泞里玩，变得很脏。无论他多脏，我们仍会爱他，愿意和他一起玩。然而，假定小男孩死了，装了棺材。虽然他也许完全干净，但我们不会想和他在一起；反而我们会逃走，不是因为他脏，乃是因为他死了。许多基督徒惧怕不洁，却不关切死亡；我因这事实感到困扰。但我要再说，神恨恶死过于恨恶罪。在豫表里，人若被不洁之物玷污，很容易在短期内就得著洁净。但他若摸了死的东西，就需要较长的期间，至少七天，才得著洁净。这指明在神眼中，死比罪更严重。
18Death is not only God’s last enemy; it is our last enemy too. The last enemy is not sin, the law, or the flesh; it is death. In the eyes of God nothing is as abominable as death. Not even sin is as abominable as death. God hates death even more than sin. Sin is against what God does, but death insults what God is. Sin opposes God’s righteousness, but death insults God’s very being. Suppose a little boy plays in the mud and becomes very dirty. No matter how dirty he may be, we still will love him and be willing to play with him. However, suppose the little boy dies and is laid out in a coffin. Although he may be fully clean, we will not want to be with him. Instead, we will flee, not because he is dirty, but because he is dead. I am troubled by the fact that so many Christians fear uncleanness, but are not concerned about deadness. But, to repeat, God hates death more than sin. In typology, if a person was contaminated by an unclean thing, he could be cleansed rather easily and in a short period of time. But if he touched any dead thing, it took him a longer period of time, at least seven days, to be made clean. This indicates that in the eyes of God death is more serious than sin.
顾到灵里的生命
CARING FOR LIFE IN THE SPIRIT
19在聚会中尽功用而犯错，比死沉而一点不犯错要好。犯错不像死沉这样严重。你若不尽功用，你也许是对的，但你是死的对。我宁愿看见你活的错，也不愿看见你死的对。我不是鼓励你犯错；但有时候，我们更好是关切活过于关切对。我们需要认识死的征兆，好知道我们是死的还是活的。在约翰福音里，主耶稣对所有向祂题出的问题，不回答对错。例如，撒玛利亚妇人说，『我们的祖宗在这山上敬拜，你们倒说，敬拜的地方必须在耶路撒冷。』（四20。）她问主耶稣关于敬拜的正确地方：在撒玛利亚的山上，或在耶路撒冷？主耶稣回答说，『时候将到，如今就是了，那真正敬拜父的，要在灵和真实里敬拜祂，因为父寻找这样敬拜祂的人。』（23。）主耶稣似乎说，『敬拜神是生命的事，而生命乃是在灵里。这不是在这山上或在耶路撒冷敬拜神的问题。在灵里敬拜神的时候到了。』我们在约翰九章看见另一个例子。主的门徒看见一个生来瞎眼的人，就问祂：『拉比，是谁犯了罪，叫这人生来就瞎眼？是这人，还是他父母？』（2。）主回答说，『不是这人犯了罪，也不是他父母犯了罪，乃是要在他身上显明神的作为。』（3。）在约翰福音这卷生命的书里，没有对错的答案，只有生命。
19It is better to make a mistake in functioning in the meetings than to be dead and not make any mistakes at all. To be wrong is not as serious as to be dead. If you do not function, you may be right, but you are right in a dead way. I would rather see you livingly wrong than dead right. I do not encourage you to make mistakes. But sometimes it is better to be more concerned about being living than about your being right. We need to recognize the symptoms of deadness to know whether we are dead or alive. In the Gospel of John the Lord Jesus does not give yes-or-no answers to the questions addressed to Him. For example, the Samaritan woman said, “Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men must worship” (John 4:20). She was asking the Lord Jesus concerning the proper place of worship. Was it in the mountain in Samaria or in Jerusalem? The Lord Jesus answered, “But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and reality; for the Father seeks such to worship Him” (John 4:23). The Lord Jesus seemed to be saying, “Worshipping God is a matter of life, and life is in the spirit. It is not a question of worshipping God on this mountain or in Jerusalem. The hour has come to worship God in the spirit.” We find another example in John 9. Seeing a man blind from birth, the Lord’s disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?” (John 9:2). The Lord replied, “Neither has this man sinned nor his parents, but that the works of God might be manifested in him” (v. 3). In John, the book of life, there are no yes-or-no answers; instead, there is life
20在约翰七章，主肉身的兄弟题议祂上耶路撒冷去。（3～4。）主对他们说，『我的时候还没有到，你们的时候却常是方便的。…你们上去过节罢，我现在不上去过这节，因为我的时候还没有到。』（6，8。）但十节说，『然而祂兄弟上去过节以后，祂也上去了，但不是明去，似乎是暗去的。』这里我们看见主照著生命回答并行动。
20In John 7 the Lord’s brothers in the flesh suggested that He go up to Jerusalem (vv. 3-4). The Lord said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.…You go up to the feast; I am not going up to this feast, because My time has not yet fully come” (vv. 6, 8). However, verse 10 says, “But when His brothers had gone up to the feast, then He also went up, not publicly, but as in secret.” Here we see that the Lord answered and acted according to life
21我们都熟悉约翰十一章里拉撒路的记载。拉撒路的姊妹打发人报消息给主说拉撒路病了，请祂来时，祂拒绝了。祂听见拉撒路病了，『就在所居之地，仍住了两天。』（6。）门徒期望主耶稣往拉撒路那里去，祂没有去。但他们定意不去时，主说，『我们再往犹太去罢。』（7。）在这一切事例中，我们看见主耶稣所作的，始终是生命的事。
21We are all familiar with the record of Lazarus in John 11. When Lazarus’ sisters sent the Lord the news that Lazarus was ill and asked Him to come, He refused. Having heard that Lazarus was sick, “He remained then two days in the place where He was” (v. 6). When the disciples expected the Lord Jesus to go to Lazarus, He did not go. But when they had made up their minds not to go, the Lord said, “Let us go into Judea again” (v. 7). In all these cases we see that what the Lord Jesus did was always a matter of life.
22创世记二章有两棵树，生命树与善恶知识树。善恶也就是对错的事。是非、对错、善恶，这些乃是来自知识树的源头。我们需要忘记是非的观念，并留在我们的灵里；这是得释放脱离死的路。得释放脱离死的路，不是作某些事，乃是留在灵里。我们若留在灵里，就会照著灵行事为人。我们会使我们全人照著灵，我们会在灵里思想、表达自己、并作每件事。这样就不会有死。这是得释放脱离死并胜过最后仇敌的路。任何仍留在我们这人里面的死，在神眼中都是可憎的，我们必须消除牠。我们必须从肉体中死的根据地逃进我们的灵，就是基督－我们的生命－所在的地方。我们需要留在灵里，并照著灵行动。我们这样作，就会得释放脱离死。
22In Genesis 2 there are two trees, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Good and evil are also a matter of yes or no. Yes and no, right and wrong, good and evil, these come from the source of the tree of knowledge. We need to forget about the concept of yes or no and stay in our spirit. This is the way to be freed from death. The way to be freed from death is not a matter of doing certain things; it is to stay in the spirit. If we stay in the spirit, we shall walk and behave according to the spirit. We shall have our whole being according to the spirit, and we shall think, express ourselves, and do everything in the spirit. Then there will be no death. This is the way to be freed from death and to overcome the last enemy. Any death that still remains in our being is an abomination in the eyes of God, and we must eliminate it. We must escape from the base of death in the flesh into our spirit, where Christ, our life, is. We need to stay in the spirit and behave according to the spirit. If we do this, we shall be free from death