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哥林多前书生命读经 · 第24篇

需要在生命中长大（一）

GROWTH IN LIFE NEEDED (1)
1读经：哥林多前书三章一至九节。保罗在林前一、二章的基本思想乃是，基督是神惟一的中心，也是众圣徒的分。从三章开始，保罗说到召会。他讲到召会时，是以非常有意义、有益处、并赐生命的方式，以𫗪养、栽种、并浇灌好叫人生长的方式来写。在三章九节他说，召会是神的耕地，神的建筑。保罗虽然在本章没有用召会一辞，却非常美妙的说到召会。保罗不是在道理上，甚至不是在生命的道理上写到召会，乃是在生命的经历上写到召会。
1Scripture Reading: 1 Cor. 3:1-9 Paul’s underlying thought in chapters one and two is that Christ is God’s unique center and also the portion of the saints. Beginning with chapter three, Paul speaks regarding the church. When he comes to the church, he writes in a very meaningful, profitable, and life-giving way, in the way of feeding, planting, and watering for growth. In 3:9 he says that the church is God’s farm and God’s building. Even though Paul does not use the word church in this chapter, he speaks about the church in a wonderful way. Paul writes of the church not in the way of doctrine, not even the doctrine of life, but in the way of the experience of life
2属灵的，属魂的，与属肉的在三章一节保罗说，『弟兄们，我从前对你们说话，不能把你们当作属灵的，只能当作属肉的，当作在基督里的婴孩。』这里保罗非常坦率的告诉哥林多人，他从前对他们说话，不能把他们当作属灵的，只能当作属肉的。属灵的人乃是不照著肉体行事，也不照著魂行动，只照著灵生活的人；他这灵是由神的灵所调和的灵。他乃是由这样一个调和的灵所管理、支配、引导、推动并带领的。
2SPIRITUAL, SOULISH, AND FLESHY In 3:1 Paul says, “And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshy, as to infants in Christ.” Here Paul is very frank in telling the Corinthians that he could not speak unto them as to spiritual, but as to fleshy. A spiritual man is one who does not behave according to the flesh or act according to the soulish life, but lives according to the spirit, that is, his spirit mingled with the Spirit of God. Such a one is dominated, governed, directed, moved, and led by such a mingled spirit
3『属肉的』这说法比三节『属肉体的』更强、更重，指肉体更粗鄙的方面。属肉的是指由肉体造成的；属肉体的是指受到肉体性情的影响，有分于肉体的特性。在本节，使徒把哥林多信徒当作完全是属肉的，由肉体造成的，根本就是肉体。这是何等强的辞句！然后在三节，使徒定罪他们嫉妒争竞的行为是属肉体的，是在肉体性情的影响之下，有分于肉体的特性。本书清楚启示，一个信徒可能是三种人当中的一种：属灵的人，活在灵里，在圣灵的涂抹之下；（罗八4，加五；）属魂的人，活在魂里，受魂，天然生命的支配；（林前二14；）属肉的和属肉体的人，属于肉体，活在肉体里，在肉体性情的影响之下。主渴望所有信徒都能取用祂的恩典，成为头一种人─属灵的人。这是本书的目标─激励哥林多那些属魂的、属肉的和属肉体的信徒，渴慕在生命中长大，成为属灵的。（二15，三1，十四37。）我们已蒙神所召，有分于基督的交通，（一9，）这位基督现今乃是赐生命的灵，（十五45，）并且我们已与祂成为一灵；（六17；）因此我们惟有活在灵里，在圣灵的引导下，才能经历并享受祂。我们若活在魂里，或活在肉体里，就偏离目标，无法有分于并享受祂了。
3The term fleshy is a stronger expression than fleshly in verse 3, and it refers to aspects of the flesh that are more gross. Fleshy denotes made of flesh; fleshly denotes being influenced by the nature of the flesh, partaking of the character of the flesh. In verse 1 the apostle considers the Corinthian believers to be totally of the flesh, made of the flesh, and just the flesh. What a strong word! Then in verse 3 the apostle condemns their behaving in jealousy and strife as fleshly, being under the influence of their fleshly nature and partaking of the character of the flesh. This book reveals clearly that a believer may be one of three kinds of men: a spiritual man, living in his spirit under the anointing of the Holy Spirit (Rom. 8:4; Gal. 5:25); a soulish man, living in his soul 25 under the direction of the soul, the natural life (2:14); or a fleshy and fleshly man, of the flesh and living in the flesh under the influence of the nature of the flesh. The Lord desires that all His believers may take His grace to be the first kind of man—a spiritual man. This is the goal of this book—to motivate the Corinthian believers who are soulish, fleshy, and fleshly to aspire to the growth in life that they may become spiritual (2:15; 3:1; 14:37). As we have been called by God into the fellowship of Christ (1:9), who is now the life-giving Spirit (15:45), and as we are one spirit with Him (6:17), we can experience and enjoy Him only when we live in our spirit under the leading of the Holy Spirit. When we live in the soul or in the flesh, we are missing the mark of participating in Him.
4在基督里的婴孩在三章一节保罗说到哥林多的信徒是在基督里的婴孩。虽然他们接受了生命中一切初期的恩赐，一无所缺，（一，）但他们接受以后，并没有在生命里长大，反倒仍旧是在基督里的婴孩，不是属灵的，乃是属肉的。使徒在这里点出他们的缺欠和需要，就是在生命里长大成熟，而完全长成。（二6，西一28。）
4INFANTS IN CHRIST In 3:1 Paul refers to the believers at Corinth as infants in Christ. Although they had received all the initial gifts in life and were lacking in none of them (1:7), they had not grown in life after7 receiving them, but rather remained as infants in Christ, not spiritual but fleshy. The apostle here points out their deficiency and indicates their need, that is, to grow in life to maturity, to be full grown (2:6; Col. 1:28).
5在林前三章二节保罗继续说，『我给你们奶喝，没有给你们干粮，因为那时你们不能吃，就是如今还是不能。』给人奶喝或食物吃，就是𫗪养人。𫗪养与教训不同，𫗪养是生命的事，教训是知识的事。使徒供应给哥林多信徒的，似乎是知识，其实是奶（还不是干粮），这必定滋养了他们。奶主要的是为著婴孩；干粮是为著长大的人。（来五12。）哥林多的信徒不能吃干粮，这事实指明他们没有在生命里长大。在林前三章三节保罗继续说，『因你们仍是属肉体的。因为在你们中间有嫉妒、争竞，你们岂不是属肉体，照著人的样子而行么？』嫉妒、争竞是肉体性情的表现和特征。因此，嫉妒、争竞表明在肉体里的人是属肉体的，照著人的样子而行。每个堕落的人都是肉体。（罗三20，加二16。）因此，照著人的样子就是照著肉体。
5In verse 2 Paul goes on to say, “I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not then able to receive it. But neither yet now are you able.” To give milk to drink or food to eat is to feed others. Feeding refers to the matter of life. This differs from teaching, which refers to knowledge. What the apostle ministered to the Corinthian believers seemed to be knowledge. Actually it was milk (not yet solid food), and it should have nourished them. Milk is mainly for infants, whereas solid food is for the mature (Heb. 5:12). The fact that the Corinthian believers could not receive solid food indicates that they were not growing in life. In verse 3 Paul continues, “For you are still fleshly. For whereas there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly and walking according to man?” Jealousy and strife are expressions, characteristics, of the nature of the flesh. Hence, they characterize those who are in the flesh, those who are fleshly. Every fallen human being is the flesh (Rom. 3:20; Gal. 2:16). Therefore, to walk according to man is to walk according to the flesh
6哥林多的信徒嫉妒争竞，是照著堕落之人的肉体而行，不是照著神所重生之人的灵而行；因此他们就成为属肉体的，而不是属灵的，是照著人而行，不是照著神而行。
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7林前三章四节说，『有的说，我是属保罗的，另有的说，我是属亚波罗的；你们岂不是属肉体的人么？』这里的人是指属肉体的人，堕落天然的人，世界上的人。我们不该照著天然的人而行，乃该照著调和的灵而行。然而，哥林多人说他们是属保罗的，或属亚波罗的，就是照著堕落天然的人而行。他们不是照著在他们重生之人灵里的那灵生活行动。在八节保罗宣告：『栽种的和浇灌的都是一样。』这里保罗似乎在说，『我和亚波罗都是一样。我与亚波罗是一，亚波罗与我也是一。为甚么你们想要把我们分开？为甚么你们有些人说，你们是属他的，又有些人说，你们是属我的？这样说就是分裂。亚波罗和我在神所赐的职事上是一。我栽种了，他浇灌了，但我们都有分于这一个职事。不但如此，各人要照自己的劳苦，得自己的赏赐。我们是神的同工，你们是神的耕地，神的建筑。』
7Verse 4 says, “For whenever one says, I am of Paul, and another, I of Apollos, are you not men?” The word men here refers to men of the flesh, to fallen natural men, to men in the world. Instead of walking according to the natural man, we should walk according to the mingled spirit. However, in saying that they were of Paul or of Apollos, the Corinthians were walking according to the fallen natural man. They were not living and behaving according to the Spirit in their regenerated human spirit. In verse 8 Paul declares, “Now he who plants and he who waters are one.” Here Paul seems to be saying, “I and Apollos are one. I am one with Apollos, and Apollos is one with me. Why do you try to divide us? Why do some of you say that you are of him and others say that you are of me? To speak in this way is to be divisive. Apollos and I are one in the God- given ministry. I planted and he watered, but we both share in the one ministry. Furthermore, each shall receive his own reward according to his own labor. We are God’s fellow - workers, and you are God’s farm, God’s building.”
植物需要生长
PLANTS NEEDING GROWTH
8在三章一至九节我们看见，保罗将所有在基督里的信徒，都看作需要生长的植物。植物最需要的就是生长。哥林多信徒并不缺生命中初期的恩赐─永远的生命和圣灵，但他们非常缺生命的长大。初期的恩赐赐下，目的是为著生长并发展。今天许多基督徒不领悟，他们接受了生命中初期的恩赐，并且他们急切需要在生命里长大。信徒中间最被忽略的事，就是为著生命长大的初期恩赐。我盼望我们中间许多人，尤其是年轻人，会领悟他们里面有神圣的生命和圣灵作初期的恩赐，并且这些恩赐需要生长并发展。
8In 3:1-9 we see that Paul regarded all the believers in Christ as plants which need growth. The most necessary thing for a plant is growth. The Corinthian believers were not lacking in the initial gifts in life— the eternal life and the Holy Spirit—but they were desperately short in the growth in life. The initial gifts were given for the purpose of growth and development. Many Christians today do not realize that they have received the initial gifts in life and that they urgently need the growth in life. The matter most neglected among believers is the initial gifts for the growth in life. I hope that many among us, especially the young ones, will realize that they have the divine life and the Holy Spirit within them as the initial gifts and that these gifts need growth and development
9哥林多的信徒接受了生命初期的恩赐作种子。这就是说，种子已经撒在他们里面，他们这人就是种子要在其中生长的土壤。但他们虽然接受了种子，却仍需要在生命里长大，以发展他们所接受的恩赐。
9The Corinthian believers had received the initial gifts of life as the seed. This means that the seed had been sown into their being, and that their being was the earth in which the seed would grow. But although they had received the seed, they still needed the growth in life for the development of the gifts they had received
初期的恩赐
the initial gifts
与神奇的恩赐
AND THE MIRACULOUS GIFTS
10许多基督徒谈论恩赐，却不留意初期的恩赐。一章七节的恩赐与十二、十四章的恩赐不同。这两章的恩赐不是初期的恩赐。十二、十四章所说的乃是神奇的恩赐与成熟的恩赐。真正的说方言是神奇的恩赐。例如，巴兰的驴说人话，的确是神迹。虽然那可称为恩赐，但那的确不是生命中初期的恩赐。信徒也许对神奇恩赐的表显感到惊奇，但他们也许认为永远的生命和圣灵这些初期的恩赐非常普通，不值得多留意。然而，虽然神奇恩赐的根源是在于神，实际上却没有初期的恩赐那么重要。毫无疑问，巴兰的驴说方言是出于神。但这神奇的事并没有在生命上给驴或巴兰多少帮助。
10Many Christians talk about gifts, but they do not pay attention to the initial gifts. The gifts in 1:7 are different from those in chapters twelve and fourteen. The gifts in these chapters are not the initial gifts. Rather, in chapters twelve and fourteen we have both miraculous gifts and mature gifts. Genuine tongues- speaking is a miraculous gift. For example, it certainly was a miracle for Balaam’s donkey to speak a human language. Although that may be called a gift, it certainly was not the initial gift in life. Believers may be amazed at the manifestation of a miraculous gift, but they may consider the initial gifts of eternal life and of the Holy Spirit very common and not worthy of much attention. However, even though the miraculous gifts have their source in God, they actually do not count as much as the initial gifts. No doubt, it was of God that Balaam’s donkey spoke in tongues. But this miraculous occurrence did not render either the donkey or Balaam very much help in life.
11今天许多基督徒宝贵神奇的恩赐过于初期的恩赐。倘若每个信徒都说方言，即使所谓的方言不是真实的，有些人也会很高兴。我能由经历见证这事。一九六三年，我应邀访问一个五旬节派团体。在一次聚会后，这团体的领头人和他的妻子想要叫一位中国弟兄说方言。那妻子告诉他不要说英语或国语，但要发出别的声音。这位弟兄晓得要脱离那情况，他必须说点甚么。他记得马来语的几个辞，就用那语言说出他记得的一些辞。这五旬节派团体的领头人和他的妻子立刻拍手，很高兴这位弟兄说了方言。次日我向那对夫妇指出真正发生的事，进而就著这种实行质问他们。不但如此，在这同一个五旬节派团体的一次聚会中，有一个女子说了简短的方言，然后有一位年轻人繙了很长的话。后来那团体的领头人承认，那年轻人所繙的方言不是真实的。于是我问他，我们有这样一位丰富的基督可供应给人，为甚么要从事于这些实行。他对我的问题无话可答。五旬节派信徒忽视初期的恩赐，而崇尚神奇的恩赐，许多基要派的基督徒不留意恩赐，却留意道理。因此，在五旬节派信徒与基要派信徒中间严重的忽略初期的恩赐，就是神圣的生命和圣灵的恩赐。今天许多基督徒中间的情况何等可怜！这使我有负担强调初期恩赐的绝顶重要。我们都需要看见，这些恩赐是撒在我们里面的种子，并且这些恩赐需要发展并培养。在这封书信里，保罗一直要发展并培养哥林多信徒所接受的初期恩赐。他完全领悟哥林多的信徒是婴孩，迫切需要长大。他仍然只能用奶𫗪他们，但他渴望用干粮供应他们。
11Many Christians today appreciate miraculous gifts more than the initial gifts. Some would be pleased if every believer spoke in tongues, even if the so - called tongues are not genuine. I can testify of this from experience. In 1963 I was invited to a certain Pentecostal group. After one of the meetings, the leader of this group and his wife tried to get a particular Chinese brother to speak in tongues. The wife told him not to speak either English or Chinese, but to make other sounds. The brother realized that in order to get out of that situation he had to say something. Remembering a few words in the Malay language, he uttered some words he remembered in that language. Immediately the leader of this Pentecostal group and his wife clapped their hands and rejoiced that this brother had spoken in tongues. The next day I pointed out to that couple what had actually happened and went on to question them about this practice. Furthermore, in one of the meetings of this same Pentecostal group, a woman gave a short word in tongues. Then a young man gave a long interpretation of that word. Later the leader of the group admitted that the interpretation given by the young man was not genuine. I then asked him why he engaged in these practices when we have such a rich Christ to minister to others. He had nothing to say in response to my question. Pentecostal believers ignore the initial gifts in favor of miraculous gifts, and many fundamental Christians pay their attention not to gifts but to doctrine. Thus, among both Pentecostalists and fundamentalists there is a serious neglect of the initial gifts, the gifts of the divine life and the Holy Spirit. How pitiful is the situation among so many Christians today! This causes me to be burdened to emphasize the crucial importance of the initial gifts. We all need to see that these gifts are the seed sown into us and that these gifts need to be developed and cultivated. In this Epistle Paul is seeking to develop and cultivate the initial gifts received by the Corinthian believers. He fully realized that the believers at Corinth were infants and desperately in need of growth. He could still feed them only with milk, but his desire was to supply them with solid food.
12藉著生命的供应而长大我愿意再指出，我们阅读或研究圣经时，需要进入作者的灵。在林前
12GROWING THROUGH THE SUPPLY OF LIFE Once again I wish to point out that when we read or study the Bible, we need to get into the spirit of the
13三章，保罗灵里的负担是要帮助哥
13writer. In 1 Corinthians 3 the burden in Paul’s spirit
14林多的信徒领悟他们所有的，以及他们所需要的。他们有神圣的生命和圣灵，并且他们需要长大─在生命里长大，并在圣灵里长大。但这些信徒怎样才能长大？他们若要长大，就需要得著浇灌。
14was to help the believers at Corinth realize what they had and what they needed. They had the divine life and the Holy Spirit, and they needed growth— growth in life and growth in the Holy Spirit. But how could these believers grow? If they were to grow, they needed to be watered
15虽然圣徒可以浇灌别人，但生长惟有来自神自己。如保罗所说，『我栽种了，亚波罗浇灌了，惟有神叫他生长。可见栽种的算不得甚么，浇灌的也算不得甚么，只在那叫他生长的神。』因为生长惟独来自神自己，浇灌别人的人就必须帮助他们接触神。事实上，接触神本身就是浇灌。因此，得著浇灌最好的作法就是接触神。你若能帮助较软弱的人或年轻人与神有些接触，那会带进真正的浇灌。这样的浇灌就会将生命的成分供应给那些已经得著神圣生命的人。这些成分加给他们时，他们就会得著更多的生命供应。自然而然，他们就会长大。肥料怎样帮助植物自然而然的长大，在基督里的信徒照样也因著接受更多的生命供应而长大。许多在灵恩运动或五旬节派运动里的人，不关心生命或生命里的长大。他们大多数人甚至不领会生命是甚么。他们不留意发展信徒里面神圣的生命，反而留意追求神奇的恩赐。结果，许多强调说方言这样恩赐的人，在生命上极不成熟。保罗在哥林多前书里所强调的非常不同。这卷书启示基督是神经纶惟一的中心，也是我们的分给我们享受。这奇妙的一位现今是住在我们灵里赐生命的灵。我们需要不断运用我们的灵与祂成为一灵。我们越这样接触主，就越得著浇灌、供应并滋养。然后我们自然而然会长大。我感谢主，全世界众召会里许多圣徒都在经历生命里真正的长大。我们在主的恢复里所需要的，以及主在我们中间所寻求的，乃是更多在生命里的长大，更多初期恩赐的发展。
15Although the saints may water others, growth comes only from God Himself. As Paul says, “I planted, Apollos watered, but God made to grow; so that neither is the one who plants anything nor the one who waters, but the One Who makes to grow, God.” Because growth comes from God alone, those who water others must help them contact God. Actually, contacting God is itself the watering. Thus, the best way to be watered is to contact God. If you can help a weaker one or a young one have some contact with God, that will bring in the genuine watering. The watering will then supply the ingredients of life to those who already possess the divine life. As these ingredients are added to them, they will have an additional supply of life. Then spontaneously they will grow. Just as fertilizer helps plants to grow in a spontaneous way, so the believers in Christ also grow spontaneously by receiving an additional supply of life. Many of those in the charismatic movement or the Pentecostal movement do not care for life or for the growth in life. Most of them do not even understand what life is. Instead of concentrating on the development of the divine life within the believers, they give their attention to the pursuit of miraculous gifts. As a result, many who emphasize things such as speaking in tongues are extremely immature in life. Paul’s emphasis in 1 Corinthians is very different. This book reveals that Christ is the unique center of God’secon o my and also our portion for our enjoyment. This wonderful One is now the life-giving Spirit dwelling in our spirit. Continually we need to exercise our spirit to be one spirit with Him. The more we contact the Lord in this way, the more we are watered, supplied, and nourished. Then spontaneously we shall grow. I thank the Lord that many of the saints in the churches throughout the world are experiencing the genuine growth in life. What we need in the Lord’s recovery, and what the Lord is seeking among us, is more growth in life, more development of the initial gifts
16我们看过，在三章一节保罗指明哥林多的信徒是在基督里的婴孩。当然，他们真正得救了，但他们是属肉体的，甚至是属肉的，不是属灵的。他们展现婴孩的标记：不能吃干粮，只能喝奶；满了嫉妒、争竞，照著人的样子而行；并高举属灵大汉，引起分裂。哥林多的情况与见于今天许多信徒中间的情况相同。几乎每个基督徒团体中，都有一些领头人这样被高举，以致引起分裂。不但如此，许多基督徒不能吃干粮，只能喝少量的奶。保罗知道哥林多的信徒需要𫗪养、浇灌、以及更多的生命供应。他们需要得著干粮的𫗪养，（2，）他们需要不断得著浇灌，（6～7，）并且他们需要更多来自神的生命供应，使他们能在生命里长大。这些是我们今天在召会生活里所需要的事。我们需要得著干粮的𫗪养。我们也需要浇灌别人，并且自己也需要得著浇灌。我们看过，甚至我们中间最年幼、最软弱的人也能浇灌圣徒。但在浇灌别人时，我们不该想要解决他们的难处，或试图帮助别人长大，以致僭越了神的工作。我们只该花时间与别人一同接触神，然后别人会得著浇灌，并且神会藉著更多的生命供应使他们长大。愿我们都看见，急切的需要乃是在生命里长大。愿我们的生活产生生命的长大，也愿我们尽栽种、𫗪养和浇灌的功用，并将真正的长大交给神。
16We have seen that in 3:1 Paul indicates that the believers at Corinth were infants in Christ. They, of course, had been genuinely saved, but they were fleshly and even fleshy, not spiritual. They exhibited the signs of infancy: not able to receive solid food, but only milk; being full of jealousy and strife and walking according to man; and exalting spiritual giants to cause divisions. The situation in Corinth was the same as that found among many believers today. In almost every Christian group certain leaders are exalted in such a way as to cause division. Furthermore, many Christians are not able to receive solid food, but only a small amount of milk. Paul knew that the Corinthian believers needed feeding, watering, and the additional supply of life. They needed to be fed with solid food (v. 2), they needed to be watered continually (vv. 6-7), and they needed the additional supply of life from God so that they could grow in life. These are the very things we need in the church life today. We need to be fed with solid food. We also need to water others and to be watered ourselves. We have seen that even the youngest and weakest among us is able to water the saints. But in watering others we should not try to solve their problems or presume to do God’s work by trying to help others grow. Instead, we should simply take time to contact God together. Then others will be watered, and God will give them growth through the additional life supply. May we all see that what is urgently needed is the growth in life. May we live in a way which produces the growth in life, and may we function by planting, feeding, watering, and also by leaving the actual growth to God.
17神的同工在八节保罗说，栽种的和浇灌的都是一样。同节他继续说，『但将来各人要照自己的劳苦，得自己的赏赐。』对于在神的耕地上，劳苦、栽种或浇灌之基督的执事，赏赐乃是一个激励。
17GOD’S FELLOW-WORKERS In verse 8 Paul says that he who plants and he who waters are one. In the same verse he goes on to say, “Each one shall receive his own reward according to his own labor.” The reward is an incentive to the ministers of Christ who labor by planting or watering on God’s farm.
18在三章九节保罗说，『因为我们是神的同工。』这指明神也是工人。当基督的执事，神的同工，在神的耕地上工作时，神也在工作。何等的权利和荣耀，人竟能成为神的同工，在神的耕地上与神一同工作，生长基督！
18In 3:9 Paul says, “For we are God’s fellow-workers.” This indicates that God is also a worker. While the ministers of Christ, His fellow-workers, are working on His farm, He also is working. What a privilege and glory that men can be God’s fellow-workers, working together with God on His farm to grow Christ