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罗马书生命读经 · 第64篇

藉著接枝的生命变化并模成（一）

Transformation And Conformation By The Grafted Life (1
1在前面几篇信息里，我们看过三一神的分赐与接枝的生命。在本篇信息中，我们要来看接枝生命的功能。我们要有这样的看见，就必须求主除去所有遮蔽我们、使我们无法真正明白这卷书的帕子。我们也许一再的读罗马书，却可能不知道自己被层层的帕子遮蔽。许多读罗马书的人没有看见八章中三一神生命的分赐与接枝的生命，甚至连三部分的人也没有看见，因为他们被蒙蔽了。因此，我们需要除去帕子，然后来读这卷书，就像从未读过一样。
1In recent messages we have seen the matter of the dispensation of the Triune God and the matter of the grafted life. In this message we shall consider the function of the grafted life. In order to see this, we need to ask the Lord to remove all the veils that keep us from receiving a true understanding of this book. We may read the book of Romans again and again, but we may not know that we are covered by layer upon layer of veils. Because many readers of this book are veiled, they do not see the dispensation of the life of the Triune God, the grafted life, nor even the tripartite man in Romans 8. Therefore, we need to be unveiled and then come to this book as if we had never read it before
我们的定命
OUR DESTINY
2接枝的生命与变化并模成基督的形像有关。保罗在十二章二节说到变化：『不要模倣这世代，反要藉著心思的更新而变化。』这世界─撒但的系统，是由各种不同的世代所组成，每一个世代都有其模样和时尚。撒但的诡计乃是将我们模成现今这世代。虽然保罗在消极方面题到撒但模成的目标，但他在这里并没有说到变化的目标是甚么。他只劝戒我们要藉著心思的更新而变化。变化的目标是在罗马八章。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。』我们这些蒙召且得称义的人，神早已定好我们的定命。在创立世界以前，神就豫定我们模成祂儿子的形像。这意思是说，模成基督的形像是我们的定命，也是我们的目的地。你知不知道我们要往那里去？我们的目的地乃是神儿子的形像。我们的定命不是天堂，乃是模成神儿子的形像。
2The grafted life is related to transformation and conformation to Christ. In 12:2 Paul speaks of transformation: “And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind.” The world, the satanic system, is composed of various ages, each with a certain pattern and style. Satan’s design is to conform us to this present age. Although Paul mentions Satan’s goal of conformation on the negative side, he does not here speak of the object of transformation. He simply exhorts us to be transformed by the renewing of the mind. The goal of transformation is in Romans 8. Verse 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.” As the called and justified ones, our destiny has been determined beforehand by God. Before the foundation of the world God predestinated us to be conformed to the image of His Son. This means that conformation to Christ is our destiny and also our destination. Do you know where we are going? Our destination is the image of the Son of God. Our destiny is not heaven—it is to be conformed to the image of the Son of God
3我们若要明白变化和模成的意义，就需要看见罗马书说到一种特别的生命─接枝的生命。接枝的生命就是调和的生命，这生命乃是两种生命调和在一起所产生的。在十一章二十四节保罗所说的接枝，是两棵橄榄树的接枝，而不是两种截然不同树木的接枝。因此，罗马书里所题到的接枝乃是两棵同种树木的接枝；不同的是，一棵是栽种的橄榄树，另一棵是野橄榄树。
3If we would understand the significance of transformation and conformation, we need to realize that the book of Romans speaks of a particular kind of life—a grafted life. A grafted life is a mingled life, a life which is the product of the mingling together of two lives. In 11:24 Paul speaks of the grafting of two olive trees, not of two entirely different kinds of trees. Hence, the grafting in Romans is that between two trees of the same family. The difference is that one is a cultivated olive tree and that the other is a wild olive tree.
4在五章保罗开始说到生命。他在十节说，我们要在基督的生命里得救。不仅如此，根据十七节，我们也要在生命中作王。在六章四节保罗说到在生命的新样中生活行动。在八章他题到在基督耶稣里的生命之灵。（2。）然后继续说，我们的灵是生命，（10，）并且心思置于灵乃是生命，（6，）还有那叫耶稣从死人中复活者的灵，渴望赐生命给我们必死的身体。（11。）在这几节里所说的生命，都是接枝的生命。
4In chapter five of Romans, Paul begins to speak about life. In verse 10 he says that we shall be saved in Christ’s life. Furthermore, according to 5:17, we shall reign in life. In 6:4 Paul speaks of walking in newness of life. In chapter eight he mentions the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus (v. 2). He goes on to say that our spirit is life (v. 10), that the mind set on the spirit is life (v. 6), and that the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from among the dead desires to impart life into our mortal bodies (v. 11). The life spoken of in all these verses is a grafted life
相似生命的接枝
THE GRAFTING OF SIMILAR LIVES
5我们已经指出，接枝的生命就是调和的生命。只有两种相似的生命接在一起，接枝才有功效。神照著祂的形像，按著祂的样式造人，（创一26，）这个事实证明，人的生命和神圣的生命是相似的。神特意这样造人，为使人的生命与神圣的生命非常相近。我们可以再用手套来说明。手套不论在形状上、样式上和功能上，都与手一样。否则，手就不能伸进手套里。我们都是手套，是按著神圣之手的样式造的。为著神照著自己的形像，按著自己的样式造了我们，我们真要敬拜神。赞美祂，使我们成为器皿来盛装祂！神特意这样来创造我们，好将祂的儿子放在我们里面。因著人的生命和神圣的生命相似，所以这两种生命就能彀摆在一起。这就是说，神圣的生命能彀和人的生命『成为婚配』。我们在得救的那日，就归与基督。（罗七4。）因此，作基督徒不仅是得救或重生的事，更是与基督成为婚配。罗马八章所说的生命乃是接枝的生命，是两种不同却相似的生命调和在一起。变化和模成乃是藉著这样一种接枝的生命而得以进行。我从五十多年基督徒的年日中得知，这变化我并将我模成神儿子形像的生命，乃是一种接枝的生命。
5We have pointed out that a grafted life is a mingled life. This grafting can be effective only if the lives to be grafted are similar. That there is a similarity between the human life and the divine life is proved by the fact that God created man in His image and according to His likeness (Gen. 1:26). He did this purposely so that the human life would be very much like the divine life. Once again we use a glove as an illustration. In form, in likeness, and in function the glove is the same as the hand. Otherwise, the hand could not fit into the glove. We are all gloves made according to the likeness of the divine hand. How we need to worship God for making us in His image and according to His likeness. Praise Him for making us vessels to contain Him! God created us in this way intentionally so that He could put His Son into us. Because the human life and the divine life are similar, it is possible for them to be put together. This means that the divine life and the human life can be “married.” On the day we were saved we were married to Christ (Rom. 7:4). Hence, to be a Christian is not only a matter of salvation or regeneration, but also of being married to Christ. The life in Romans 8 is a grafted life, a mingling of two different yet similar lives. Transformation and conformation are by such a grafted life. Through my more than fifty years as a Christian, I have learned that the life which is transforming me and conforming me to the image of the Son of God is a grafted life.
适合进到我们里面
QUALIFIED TO COME INTO US
6自从神照著祂的形像，按著祂的样式造了我们那时起，我们就豫备好，可以将祂接受到我们里面作生命。我们有灵，可以接受祂；我们也有魂，可以彰显祂。虽然我们已豫备好，神却还没有豫备好。神还不适合进到人里面。为著能适合进到人里面，祂必须穿上人性；也就是说，神必须成为肉体。在旧约时代，神可以临到申言者，但是神不能进到他们里面。今天许多基督徒只知道神怎样临到人身上，却不知道神怎样进到他们里面。真正说来，他们还是旧约的信徒。
6From the time God created us in His image and according to His likeness, we were ready to receive Him into us as life. We had a spirit to receive Him and a soul to express Him. Although we were ready, God was not yet ready. He was not yet qualified to come into man. In order to become qualified for this, He had to put on humanity; that is, He had to be incarnated. In Old Testament times, God could come upon the prophets, but He could not come into them. Many Christians today only know how God comes upon people, not how He enters into them. In a very real sense, they are Old Testament believers
7新约启示我们，藉著基督的成为肉体，神就进到人性里面。祂通过一道窄门为童女所生，且生在伯利恒的马槽里，而进到人类里面。三十年之久，祂生活在一个木匠的家里。有一天祂出来，开始尽祂的职事。没有人能认出这个人就是神自己。表面看来，祂一无所有，可是当祂接触一些年轻的加利利渔夫，对他们说，『来跟从我』时，他们就跟从了祂。祂是那么有吸引力，使跟从祂的人，因著爱祂而忘记自己。他们被祂吸引，因为祂身上好像有磁力。他们与祂同在有三年半之久，那段时光实在太美好了。但是有一天，祂突然告诉门徒说，祂要钉十字架，离开他们。这话深深搅扰他们，尤其是彼得。然后主告诉他们，祂去是与他们有益的，否则实际的灵就不能进到他们里面。（约十六7。）到那时为止，主只是在他们中间，还没有进到他们里面。主复活以后，就能彀在他们里面，他们也能彀在主里面。（十四20。）虽然如此，彼得和其他的门徒，也许宁愿要主留在他们中间，而不让祂离开，使祂能在复活里进到他们里面。当我还是一个年轻的基督徒时，我常常盼望，我能活在主耶稣在地上的那个时期。我真想亲眼看见祂，亲耳听见祂，更能亲手摸摸祂的肉身。我甚至为此向主抱怨，问祂为甚么不使我生在祂在地上的那个时候，好让我能亲身活在祂面前。那时我还没有领悟，基督在我里面，远胜于祂与我同在。你们喜欢主的肉身在你们中间，还是喜欢主成为那灵在你们里面？你们口里也许宣告说，你们喜欢祂在你们里面，但在你们里面也许更喜欢和祂的肉身同在，就像祂和早期的门徒同在一样。如果主耶稣忽然以肉身的形态出现，我们必定会非常惊讶。这证明我们喜欢在我们中间的基督，胜于喜欢在我们里面的基督。然而，基督若还只是在我们中间，祂的生命就不能与我们的生命接枝在一起，因为祂不在我们里面。祂可以在我们中间行神迹，但我们却依然故我，没有改变，没有变化。我们可以拥抱祂，但我们无法接枝到祂里面。因此，基督为了使我们能与祂调和，祂更喜欢在我们里面。祂要我们住在祂里面，好使祂也能住在我们里面。（约十五4。）这就是产生接枝生命的调和；这生命会变化我们，将我们模成基督的形像。
7The New Testament reveals that through the incarnation of Christ, God came into humanity. He entered into mankind through a narrow gate, having ─ been born of a virgin in a manger in Bethlehem. For thirty years He lived in the home of a carpenter. One day He came forth to begin His ministry. No one could recognize that this man was God Himself. Contacting some young fishermen in Galilee, He said, “Follow Me,” and they followed Him, although He seemingly had nothing. He had such drawing power that His followers were beside themselves with love for Him. They were drawn to Him because there was something magnetic about Him. They had a marvelous time the three and a half years they were with Him. However, one day He suddenly told His disciples that He was going to leave them by being crucified. This word deeply troubled them, especially Peter. Then the Lord told them that it was profitable for them that He go away. Otherwise, the Spirit of reality could not come to be in them (John 16:7). Up until that time, the Lord had only been among them; He had not yet come into them. After His resurrection, He could be in them, and they could be in Him (John 14:20). Nevertheless, Peter and the other disciples probably preferred to have the Lord remain among them rather than have Him go so that in resurrection He could come into them. When I was a young Christian, I used to wish that I had been alive when the Lord Jesus was on earth. I wished that I could have seen Him, heard Him, and touched Him in the flesh. I even complained to the Lord about this and asked Him why He had not caused me to be alive during the time He was on earth so that I could have physically been in His presence. I did not yet realize that it is far better to have Christ in me than just to have Him with me. Do you prefer to have the Lord among you physically or in you as the Spirit? With your mouth you may claim that you prefer to have Him in you, but within you, you probably prefer to have Him with you, as He was with the early disciples. If the Lord Jesus would suddenly appear in a physical way, we would be amazed. This proves that we prefer a Christ among us to a Christ in us. However, if Christ were still just among us, His life could not be grafted together with ours, because He would not be in us. He could perform miracles among us, but we would remain the same, without change or transformation. We could embrace Him, but we could not be grafted into Him. Therefore, in order that we may be mingled with Him, Christ prefers to be in us. He wants us to abide in Him so that He may abide in us (John 15:4). This is the mingling that produces the grafted life. It is this life that transforms us and conforms us to the image of Christ.
8为著能彀适合进到我们里面，基督必须经过成为肉体、人性生活、钉十字架、复活和升天的过程。不仅如此，作为那灵，祂必须降临在我们身上。此外，只剩下一件事，就是我们凭信呼求祂。当我们说，『哦，主耶稣！我相信你，』祂那适合的生命就进到我们这豫备好的生命里面，这两种生命就联合在一起。这样，我们的生命
8In order to be qualified to enter into us, Christ had to pass through incarnation , human living, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension. Furthermore, as the Spirit, He had to descend upon us. Then the only thing remaining is for us to call upon Him in faith. When we say, “O Lord Jesus, I believe in You,” His qualified life enters into our prepared life, and the two lives are joined. In this way our life is grafted into His
9就接枝到祂的生命里面。
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两种复杂的生命
TWO COMPLICATED LIVES
10你可能作了多年的基督徒，却不晓得基督徒的生命是接枝的生命，是神圣生命与属人生命调和的生命。神圣的生命和属人的生命都是复杂的。神圣的生命实际上就是基督自己。基督是神，是万有的创造者。有一天，祂成为肉体，穿上了人的性情。神性与人性能彀调和在一起，成为一个单位，这是何等的奥秘！基督成为肉体以后，又经过人性生活、钉十字架、复活和升天的过程。这一切的元素如今都包含在神圣的生命里。这生命有杀死一切消极事物的能力，同时又有复活的大能，可以使人重生、使人有新生的起头、将人变化并模成。这复杂且适合的生命，就是我们相信主耶稣时所接受的生命。
10Perhaps you have been a Christian for many years without realizing that the Christian life is a grafted life, a mingling of the divine life with the human life. Both the divine life and the human life are complicated. The divine life is actually Christ Himself. As God, Christ is the Creator of all things. One day, He was incarnated and took on human nature. What a mystery that divinity and humanity could mingle together as one unit! Following incarnation, Christ passed through human living, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension. All these elements are now included in the divine life. This life has power to kill all negative things; it also has the resurrection power to generate, germinate, transform, and conform. This complicated and qualified life is the very life we received when we believed in the Lord Jesus
11但是，与这美妙的神圣生命调和的属人生命又如何？我们这受造的生命已经堕落、败坏，变为黑暗、属世、甚至属撒但的。因此，这生命满了邪恶、消极、鬼魔的元素。
11But what about the human life with which such a marvelous divine life is mingled? Our created life has become fallen, corrupted, darkened, worldly, and satanic. It is thus filled with evil, negative, demonic elements.
12约翰三章十六节告诉我们，神爱世人。（『世人』，原文与『世界』同字。）多年来我一直不解，圣经为甚么不说神爱人类。原来在神眼中，堕落的人已经成了世界。这就是说，堕落、败坏、属世并属撒但的人类，就是撒但的系统。我们得救以前，都是这系统的一部分。这系统虽然邪恶，但圣经仍然宣告说，神爱世人。神爱世人的原因，乃是由于世人里面有神照著祂的形像，按著祂的样式所造的生命，能以盛装祂自己作生命。神圣的生命与属人的生命都是复杂的。神圣的生命是复杂在积极一面，属人的生命却是复杂在消极一面。根据神的经纶，神渴望将在消极一面复杂的属人生命，接枝到祂这在积极一面复杂的生命里面。当我们信入神的儿子，并且呼求主的名，那在积极一面复杂的生命就进到我们里面，而我们这在消极一面复杂的生命就接枝到其中。
12John 3:16 tells us that God loved the world. For years I could not understand why the Bible does not say that God loved mankind. In the eyes of God, fallen man has become the world. This means that the fallen, corrupted, worldly, and satanic mankind is the system of Satan. Before we were saved, we were part of this system. As evil as this system is, the Bible still declares that God loved the world. The reason God loves the world is that in it there is the life which He created in His image and according to His likeness to contain Himself as life. Both the divine life and the human life are complicated. The divine life is complicated in a positive sense, whereas the human life is complicated in a negative sense. According to His economy, God desires to graft this human life that is complicated in a negative sense into His life that is complicated in a positive sense. When we believed into the Son of God and called on the name of the Lord, the life that is complicated positively entered into us, and our life that is complicated negatively was grafted into it
了结、复活并拔高
TERMINATED, RESURRECTED, AND UPLIFTED
13在前一篇信息里我们指出，照著神所命定的法则，低等的生命无法征服高等的生命，但高等生命却能吞灭低等生命消极的方面。神圣的生命就像一颗万灵丹。在这颗万灵丹里包含了基督钉十字架的杀死能力，能彀治死我们属人生命的消极元素。不仅如此，基督的复活更把我们属人生命里所有正确的元素复苏并拔高了，这些元素乃是照著神的形像，按著神的样式造的。神创造了人，具有心思、情感和意志。然而，因著人的堕落，我们里面的这些部分就受到败坏。当神圣的生命进到我们里面，而我们接枝到这神圣的生命里面时，这神圣生命所包含的杀死能力，就了结我们心思、情感和意志里的败坏。然后，神圣的生命也使当初照著神的形像，按著神的样式所造，以完成祂定旨的那些元素复活。因此，神圣的生命并没有废掉神原初所创造的，反之，乃是使我们受造的生命复活，并将其拔高。
13In the foregoing message we pointed out that, according to the principle ordained by God, the lower life cannot subdue the higher life, but the higher life swallows up the negative aspects of the lower life. The divine life is like an all-inclusive dose of medicine. Included in this dose is the killing power of the crucifixion of Christ that puts to death the negative elements of our human life. Furthermore, Christ’s resurrection power resurrects and uplifts all the proper elements in our human life, the elements which God created in His image and after His likeness. God created man with a mind, emotion, and will. However, all these parts of our being became corrupted through the fall. When the divine life enters into us and we are grafted into this life, the killing power it contains terminates the corruption in our mind, emotion, and will. Then it resurrects the elements originally created by God in His image and after His likeness for the fulfillment of His purpose. The divine life does not annul what has been created by God. On the contrary, it resurrects our created life and uplifts it
14圣经教师也许会说，我们这些与基督同钉十字架的人，必须弃绝自己的魂。但是，我们越想弃绝魂，魂就越与我们同在。例如，在我们得救之后，我们的情感可能变得非常柔软。根据我的经历，当我越否认我的魂，带著其心思、情感和意志时，我发现我的心思越敏捷，情感越活跃，意志越刚强。在得救之前，我的意志像水母一样，而现在却十分刚强。我们如何解释这现象？难道我们没有钉死并否认我们的心思、情感和意志么？不，这些的确已经钉在十字架上，也被否认了。然而请记得：圣经告诉我们，我们不仅与基督同钉十字架，并且也与基督一同复活。钉十字架和埋葬并不是结束。我们的魂一旦钉在十字架上，并且埋葬，牠就复活了，因为牠已经接枝到神圣的生命里。因著神圣的生命和属人的生命已经接枝在一起，所以神圣生命里的杀死能力就钉死我们，并且神圣生命里的复活大能也拔高我们。我们与基督同钉十字架是完成在一千九百多年以前，今天却是藉著我们里面神圣的生命来实化并经历。复活也是如此。钉十字架的功效和复活的大能，都包含在包罗万有、赐生命的灵里面。我们相信主耶稣，接枝到祂包罗万有的生命里面以后，这生命的各种成分就一直在我们里面作工。我们越告诉主耶稣我们爱祂，我们越将自己献给祂来盛装祂，我们越花时间在主的话和交通中与祂同在，神圣生命的成分就越作工来了结我们，并且使我们复活。这就使我们的心思清明、情感热切、意志坚刚。我们属人生命败坏的元素就被钉死并埋葬，但积极的元素却在复活里被拔高。因此，现在活著的，不再是我们，乃是基督在我们里面活著。（加二20。）这给我们看见接枝生命的功能。这生命的功能乃是产生变化，其结果是模成基督的形像。我们在里面经历钉十字架、埋葬和复活，就要被变化并模成基督的形像。变化和模成乃是接枝的生命内里运行的结果。
14Teachers of the Bible may say that as those who have been crucified with Christ, we must reject our soul. However, the more we try to reject the soul, the more it is present with us. For example, after we are saved, we may become very tender in our emotion. According to my experience, the more I denied my soul with its mind, emotion, and will, the more I discovered that my mind had become keener, my emotion more active, and my will stronger. Before I was saved, I was like a jellyfish, but now my will is extremely strong. How can we explain this phenomenon? Have our mind, emotion, and will not been crucified and denied? Yes, they have. Remember, the Bible says not only that we have been crucified with Christ, but also that we have been resurrected with Him. Crucifixion and burial are not the end. Once our soul has been crucified and buried, it is resurrected, for it has been grafted into the divine life. Because the divine life and the human life have been grafted together, the killing power in the divine life crucifies us, and the resurrection power in it uplifts us. Our crucifixion with Christ, accomplished more than nineteen hundred years ago, is realized and experienced today through the divine life within us. The same is true of resurrection. Both the effectiveness of crucifixion and the power of resurrection are included in the all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit. From the time we believed in the Lord Jesus and were grafted into His all - inclusive life, the various ingredients of this life have been working within us. The more we tell the Lord Jesus that we love Him, the more we offer ourselves to Him to contain Him, and the more time we spend with Him in the Word and in fellowship, the more the ingredients of the divine life work to terminate us and to resurrect us. This causes our mind to become sober, our emotion to become warm, and our will to become strong. The corrupted element of our human life is crucified and buried, but the positive element is uplifted in resurrection. Hence, it is no longer we who live, but Christ who lives in us (Gal. 2:20). Here we see the function of the grafted life. The function of this life is to bring about the transformation which results in conformation to Christ. As we inwardly experience crucifixion, burial, and resurrection, we are transformed and conformed to the image of Christ. Transformation and conformation are the result of the inward working of the grafted life.