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罗马书生命读经 · 第45篇

在生命里得救脱离己的样式（二）

SAVED IN LIFE FROM SELF-LIKENESS (2)
1罗马一章四节说，耶稣基督『按圣别的灵说，是从死人的复活，以大能标出为神的儿子』。基督的神性和神儿子的荣耀，都隐藏在祂的肉体里。没有人有眼光能穿透祂的肉体，看见祂是神荣耀的儿子。但祂经过了死与复活的过程以后，就标出为神的儿子，也就是标明并显明为神的儿子。
1Romans 1:4 says that Jesus Christ “was designated the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness out of the resurrection of the dead.” Christ’s divinity and glory as the Son of God were concealed in His flesh. No one had vision that could penetrate through His flesh to see that He was the glorious Son of God. But after He had passed through the process of death and resurrection, He was designated the Son of God, that is, He was marked out and manifested to be the Son of God
按圣别的灵标出
DESIGNATED ACCORDING TO the Spirit of holiness
2这标出乃是按圣别的灵。这里圣别的灵，与三节的肉体相对；三节说基督按肉体是大卫的后裔。三节的肉体怎样是说到基督在这肉体里的人性，照样，四节的灵不是指神圣灵的人位，乃是指基督神圣的素质。基督这神圣的素质，就是灵神自己，（约四24，）就是基督的神性，是圣别的，满了圣别的性情和品质。所以基督在肉体里，按这圣别、神圣的素质，藉著死与复活，得著标出或标明。基督藉著祂的复活，成为神的长子，不但在祂的灵里，也在祂的肉体里，满了神圣别的素质。在祂死而复活以前，神的圣别是在基督的灵里，但这圣别的素质还没有显明在祂的肉体里；换句话说，还没有渗透祂的肉体。藉著死与复活，神圣别的素质就浸透主耶稣物质的身体。
2This designation was according to the Spirit of holiness. The Spirit of holiness here is in contrast to the flesh in verse 3, which speaks of Christ as the seed of David according to the flesh. As the flesh in verse 3 refers to the human essence of Christ, so the Spirit in this verse does not refer to the Person of the Holy Spirit of God, but to the divine essence of Christ, which is “the fulness of the Godhead” (Col. 2:9). This divine essence of Christ, being God the Spirit Himself (John 4:24), is of holiness, full of the nature and quality of being holy. Therefore, in the flesh Christ was designated or marked out through resurrection according to this holy and divine essence. Through His resurrection, Christ became the firstborn Son of God, full of the essence of God’s holiness, not only in His spirit, but also in His body. Before His death and resurrection the holiness of God was in Christ’s spirit, but this holy essence had not been manifested in His flesh. In other words, it had not permeated His flesh. It was through death and resurrection that God’sho ly essence saturated the physical body of the Lord Jesus
万有效力，为要
ALL THINGS WORKING
新陈代谢的变化我们
TO TRANSFORM US METABOLICALLY
3罗马八章二十九节说，『因为神所豫知的人，祂也豫定他们模成神儿子的形像，使祂儿子在许多弟兄中作长子。』二十九节开始于『因为』一辞，指明这节是二十八节的继续；二十八节说，神使万有都互相效力，叫我们得益处。我们会看见，神使万有都互相效力，为要使我们标出为神的儿子。
3Romans 8:29 says, “Because whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He should be the firstborn among many brothers.” The fact that verse 29 begins with the word “because” indicates that it is a continuation of verse 28, which says that God causes all things to work together for good. As we shall see, God causes all things to work together for our designation as sons of God.
4我们看过，基督按圣别的神圣素质，藉著死与复活的过程，标出为神的儿子。我们是得救的人，有神的儿子在我们的灵里。我们得救那一刻，祂就撒在我们里面。神的儿子再次隐藏在人性里，这次是在我们人的生命里，在我们的人性里，在我们的肉体里。没有疑问，神的儿子这圣别的神圣素质是在每位信徒里面，但这圣别的神圣素质隐藏并局限在我们天然的人里。为这缘故，神使万有都互相效力，叫我们得益处。这样，我们就经过过程，也就是新陈代谢的被变化。我们的妻子或丈夫、我们的儿女、和我们的环境，对于这种的过程都是上好的。主耶稣藉著死与复活经过过程，现今我们也藉著万有互相效力经过过程。万有互相效力，为要新陈代谢的变化我们。基督是在我们灵里生机的种子，生机的素质，必须弥漫并浸透我们全人。至终我们的人性要被这神圣的素质浸透。这浸透是圣别，也是一种标出。生机的元素在我们里面作工，用圣别的神圣素质，（实际上就是神的儿子自己，）弥漫并浸透我们，藉此变化我们。
4We have seen that Christ was designated the Son of God according to the divine essence of holiness through the process of death and resurrection. As saved ones, we have the Son of God in our spirit. At the very moment we were saved, He was sown into us. Once again, the Son of God is concealed in humanity, this time in our human life, in our humanity, in our flesh. There is no doubt that the Son of God as the divine essence of holiness is within every believer. But this holy essence is concealed and confined within our natural man. For this reason, God causes all things to work together for good on our behalf. In this way we are processed, that we are transformed metabolically. Our wife or husband, our children, and our environment are all the best for this processing. The Lord Jesus was processed through death and resurrection, and now we are being processed through the working together of all things. All things are working together to transform us metabolically. Christ as the organic seed, the organic essence, in our spirit must permeate and saturate our whole being. Eventually our humanity will be saturated with this divine essence. This saturation is sanctification and also a type of designation. An organic element is working within us to transform us by permeating and saturating us with the divine essence of holiness, which is actually the Son of God Himself
生机的变化
ORGANIC TRANSFORMATION
5这不是仅仅外面的改变。外面改变的观念是伦常、宗教的。神圣的观念不是在外面改正我们，乃是用基督自己这圣别的素质，在里面并生机的变化我们。这属灵新陈代谢的过程与弥漫和浸透有关。无论我们领悟不领悟，新陈代谢的过程都在我们这人里面进行。例如，我们吃过饭后，我们的胃就开始生机的在食物上作工，加以消化，使食物能被吸收。无论我们有没有感觉，无论我们同意不同意，这事都在进行。同样的原则，无论我们知道不知道，我们都在经过神圣别的过程。我们留在召会生活里越久，我们越与召会站在一起，我们就越被圣别。至终，藉著这圣别的过程，我们都要在新耶路撒冷里。
5This is not a mere outward change. The concept of outward change is ethical and religious. The divine concept is not to correct us outwardly; it is to transform us inwardly and organically with Christ Himself as the holy essence. This process of spiritual metabolism involves permeation and saturation. Whether we realize it or not, a metabolic process is taking place within our being. For example, after we eat a meal, our stomach begins to work on the food organically to digest it so that it can then be assimilated. This takes place whether we sense it or not and whether we agree with it or not. In the same principle, we are all undergoing the process of God’s sanctification, whether we are conscious of it or not. The longer we stay in the church life and the more we stand one with the church, the more we are sanctified. Eventually, through this sanctifying process, we shall all be in the New Jerusalem.
6你不需要迫切祷告求主变化你。这样迫切的祷告也许帮助你属灵的消化，实际上却不影响浸透的过程。只要留在召会生活里，至终你就会变化成为宝石。
6There is no need to pray desperately that the Lord will transform you. Such a desperate prayer may help your spiritual digestion, but it does not actually affect the process of saturation. Simply stay in the church life, and eventually you will be transformed into precious stone.
模成以得荣
CONFORMATION FOR GLORIFICATION
7要得救脱离我们己的样式，脱离己的彰显，我们就需要模成以得荣。要清楚看见这事，我们需要将一章四节联于八章二十九节。如我们在前一篇信息中所指出的，一章四节有原型的形成，但八章二十九节有『大量生产』的工作。一章四节有神儿子单个的标出，而八章二十九节有众子团体的浸透、圣别、标出和模成。二者的原则都是一样的。关于主耶稣，在祂死而复活以前，圣别的灵就在祂里面了。这圣别的灵是圣别的神圣素质。藉著死与复活的过程，这圣别的素质浸透并弥漫主的人性，包括祂的肉体。我们在主耶稣里的信徒，灵里也有圣别的神圣素质，就是圣别的灵，基督。因为这圣别的素质仍隐藏在我们的人性里，我们就需要经过在神主宰安排之下的过程，使这素质能浸透我们全人。为著完成这过程，我们需要许多事互相效力，叫我们得益处。在召会生活里，我们帮助彼此经过过程。你们对我都是过程的一部分，我对你们也是过程的一部分。要经过过程，我们就彼此需要。若没有主的怜悯和恩典，我们很难彼此担就。赞美主，我们一同使彼此经过过程，好被标出为神的儿子！许多年前我遇见某位弟兄时，他在天然方面相当恩慈、仁爱。数年后，我留意他里面发生了真实的改变。经过多年的经过过程后，今天这位弟兄不但是恩慈的人，也是被弥漫并浸透的人。藉著在召会生活里经过过程，这位弟兄里面就起了这样的改变。
7To be saved from our self-likeness, from the expression of the self, we need conformation for glorification. To see this matter clearly we need to join 1:4 with 8:29. As we pointed out in the foregoing message, in 1:4 we have the formation of the prototype, but in 8:29, the work of “mass production.” In 1:4 we have the designation of the Son of God individually, whereas in 8:29 we have the saturation, sanctification, designation, and conformation of the many sons collectively. The principle in each case is the same. Concerning the Lord Jesus, the Spirit of holiness was within Him before His death and resurrection. This Spirit of holiness is the divine essence of holiness. Through the process of death and resurrection, this holy essence saturated and permeated the Lord’s humanity, including His flesh. As believers in the Lord Jesus, we also have the divine essence of holiness, which is the Spirit of holiness, the very Christ, in our spirit. Because this holy essence is still concealed within our humanity, we need to pass through a process under God’ss ove reign arrangement that will enable this essence to saturate our entire being. For the completion of this process, we need many things to work together for our good. In the church life we are helping to process one another. You all are part of the process to me, and I am part of the process to you. In order to be processed, we need one another. Apart from the Lord’s mercy and grace, it would be difficult for us to bear one another. Praise the Lord that together we are processing one another in order to be designated sons of God! When I met a certain brother many years ago, he was quite kind and loving in a natural way. Some years later, I noticed that a real change had taken place within him. Today, after many years of being processed, this brother is not only a kind man, but a permeated and saturated man. Such a change has taken place in this brother through his being processed in the church life
8我们没有人能留在召会生活里而依然不变，因为在召会里我们经过圣别、变化和标出的过程。我们渐渐变化并模成神儿子的形像，不是按教训、规条或形式，乃是按圣别的灵。这神圣的素质，就是神的儿子自己，在我们里面生机的作工，弥漫并浸透我们全人，藉此变化我们。
8None of us can stay in the church life and remain the same, for in the church we are undergoing the process of sanctification, transformation, and designation. We are being transformed and conformed to the image of the Son of God, not according to teachings, regulations, or forms, but according to the Spirit of holiness. This divine essence, which is the very Son of God Himself, is working within us organically to transform us by permeating and saturating our whole being.
领许多的儿子进荣耀里去
BRINGING MANY SONS INTO GLORY
9希伯来二章十节说，神要领许多的儿子进荣耀里去。这一节指明我们在得荣耀的路上，因为现今父正带领我们进荣耀里去。十一节表明父领许多儿子进荣耀里去的路：『因那圣别人的，和那些被圣别的，都是出于一；因这缘故，祂称他们为弟兄，并不以为耻。』那圣别人的，是基督，是神的长子；那些被圣别的，是信基督的人，是神的许多儿子。说祂和我们都是出于一，指父是源头。神的长子和祂许多的儿子，都在复活里为同一位父神所生。（徒十三33，彼前一3。）所以，长子和许多儿子同有一个源头、一个生命、一个性情和一个素质。因为祂这长子，和我们这许多儿子，都有同样神圣的生命和性情，所以祂称我们为弟兄，并不以为耻。因此，希伯来二章十二节题到基督说，『我要向我的弟兄宣告你的名。』
9Hebrews 2:10 says that God is bringing many sons into glory. This verse indicates that we are on our way to be glorified, for right now the Father is leading us into glory. Verse 11 shows the way the Father is bringing the many sons into glory: “For both He Who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brothers.” He who sanctifies is Christ as the firstborn Son of God, and those who are being sanctified are the believers in Christ as the many sons of God. To say that He and we are all of one refers to the Father as the source. Both the firstborn Son and the many sons of God are born of the same Father in resurrection (Acts 13:33; 1 Pet. 1:3). Therefore, the firstborn Son and the many sons have one source, one life, one nature, and one essence. Because both He, the firstborn Son, and we, the many sons, are the same in the divine life and nature, He is not ashamed to call us brothers. Thus, verse 12, speaking of Christ, says, “I will declare Your name to My brothers
10那圣别人的，乃是领许多的儿子进荣耀里去的一位。祂藉著圣别我们，带领我们进荣耀里去。基督圣别我们，不是在外面调整我们，也不是使我们模成某些外面的规条。反之，祂乃是藉著作我们里面圣别的素质来圣别我们。今天基督是圣别的灵，就是在我们这人里面生机作工之圣别的神圣素质。祂用这圣别的素质浸透我们，藉此圣别我们。这包含属灵的新陈代谢的过程。藉著这样圣别我们，祂就领我们这许多的儿子进荣耀里去。那圣别人者自己，就是在我们里面作工的圣别元素。虽然我们也许不觉得基督在我们里面作工，然而祂的确在作工，用圣别的素质浸透我们这人。祂一层又一层，一部分又一部分，用祂自己弥漫我们。
10The Sanctifier is the One who is bringing the many sons into glory. He is leading us into glory by sanctifying us. Christ does not sanctify us by adjusting us outwardly nor by making us conform to certain external regulations. On the contrary, He is sanctifying us by being the holy essence within us. Christ today is the Spirit of holiness, the very divine essence of holiness working organically within our being. He sanctifies us by saturating us with this holy essence. This involves a process of spiritual metabolism. Through sanctifying us in this way, He is bringing us, the many sons, into glory. The Sanctifier Himself is the sanctifying element that is working within us. Although we may not be conscious of Christ’s working within us, He is nonetheless working to saturate our being with the sanctifying essence. Layer by layer and part by part, He is permeating us with Himself
11神圣别的素质不可能根除
11GOD’SHO LY ESSENCE IMPOSSIBLE TO ERADICATE
12我们留在召会生活里越久，我们得著的弥漫和浸透就越多。一旦这圣别的素质浸透了你，就不可能根除，因为这素质已生机并新陈代谢的弥漫你这人。甚至你的退后也不能根除那弥漫你的圣别素质；牠是不能磨灭的。你在召会生活里被圣别的素质浸透以后，若又退后，你这退后的人多少还是已被神圣别的元素浸透。你无法取消神在你里面所作的。因著在召会生活里一段时期，你已在『诊所』里接受了『注射』。你接受『注射』以后，也许后悔圣别的元素已注射到你里面。但后悔太迟了。无论你作甚么，那注射到你里面神圣别的素质都会留在你里面。无论你去那里，这素质，这圣别的元素，都会留在你里面。为著主这样生机的作工在我们里面，赞美祂！为著模成我们好使我们得荣耀的圣别过程，赞美祂！
12The longer we stay in the church life, the more permeation and saturation we receive. Once this holy essence has saturated you, it is impossible to eradicate it, for it has permeated your being organically and metabolically. Not even your backsliding can eradicate the holy essence that has permeated you; it is indelible. If you become a backslider after having been saturated with the essence of holiness in the church life, then you will be a backslider who has been somewhat saturated with the holy element of God. You simply cannot undo what God has done within you. By being in the church life for a period of time, you have been in a “clinic” where you have received an “injection.” After receiving the “injection,” you may regret that the element of holiness has been injected into you. But it is too late for regrets. No matter what you do, the element of God’sho ly essence that has been injected into you will stay with you. No matter where you may go, this essence, this sanctifying element, will remain in you. Praise the Lord for working within us in such an organic way! Praise Him for the process of sanctification which conforms us for glorification!