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哥林多前书生命读经 · 第40篇

对付滥用自由（三）

Dealing with the abuse of freedom
1读经：哥林多前书六章十三至二十节。
1In foods and in the body (3) Scripture Reading: 1 Cor. 6:13-20
两组难处
TWO GROUPS OF PROBLEMS
2保罗写这封书信来对付哥林多信徒不同的难处时，他一定仔细考虑过先后的顺序。这个顺序的排列不是随便、无意义的；反之，这个顺序满了意义。首先，保罗对付属魂的意欲和愿望；第二，对付属肉体的情欲；第三，对付要求权益的事；第四，对付在神所命定的饮食和婚姻上，滥用自由。我们将要看见，保罗在林前七章继续对付婚姻生活，并在八、九、十章对付吃祭偶像之物。这六个对付乃是一组，其中每一件都是生活的事。魂、肉体、权益、自由、婚姻、吃，都与为人生活有关。从十一到十六章，保罗对付另外五个难处。在十一章，他对付蒙头和主的晚餐。蒙头与基督的作头有关，而主的晚餐与召会作基督的身体有关。在十二、十三、十四章，保罗对付属灵的恩赐；在十五章，他说到复活的教训；在十六章，他说到末了一件事，就是物质的餽送。这五件事形成另一组，是关于神行政之属灵的事。我们越思想这卷书信中保罗对付难处的顺序，就越看见这顺序真有意义。我们将要看见前六个难处是一组，与为人生活有关；后五个难处是另一组，与属灵的事，特别是与神在地上的权益有关。
2As Paul was writing this Epistle, he must have been exercised to consider in what sequence he should deal with the different problems among the believers at Corinth. The order in which Paul deals with the problems is not careless or insignificant. On the contrary, the sequence is full of significance. First, Paul deals with the soulish desires and aspirations; second, with the fleshly lusts; third, with the claiming of rights; and fourth, with the abuse of human freedom in the God-ordained matters of eating and marriage. As we shall see, Paul goes on in chapter seven to deal with married life and in chapters eight, nine, and ten, to deal with the eating of meat sacrificed to idols. These six dealings form a group. Every matter in this group is a matter of life. The soul, the flesh, rights, freedom, marriage, and eating are all related to human living. In chapters eleven through sixteen Paul deals with five other problems. In chapter eleven he deals with head covering and the Lord’stable. Head covering is related to Christ as the Head, and the Lord’stable is related to the church as Christ’s Body. In chapters twelve, thirteen, and fourteen Paul deals with spiritual gifts; in chapter fifteen he covers the doctrine of resurrection; and in chapter sixteen he comes to the last matter, the giving of material things. These five matters form a second group and are all related to spiritual things concerning God’sad ministration. The more we consider the sequence in which Paul deals with problems in this Epistle, the more we realize the significance of this sequence. We shall see that the first six problems are a group related to human life and that the last five are a group related to spiritual things, in particular related to God’sin te rest son earth
3我们研读哥林多前书的一种方法，就是追溯到这卷书所对付十一个难处的顺序。这样的研读不是单单照著白纸黑字来读圣经，而是要看见光，光才带来生命。当我们在主的话里看见光并得著生命时，我们就会长大。
3One way to study 1 Corinthians is to trace the sequence of the eleven problems dealt with in this book. This is not merely to study the Bible according to the black and white letters; it is to see the light which brings in life. When we see light in the Word and receive life, we shall grow
守节
keeping the feast
4在五至六两章中，保罗对付粗鄙的罪，对付要求权益的事，也对付滥用人类的自由。但是他对付这些事情时，使用了一些绝佳的辞和发表，是新约别卷书中看不到的。以五章八节为例，保罗说，『所以我们守这节。』我们看过这里的节指除酵节，是逾越节的延续。（出十二15～20。）这节期共有七日，即一段完全的期间，表征我们基督徒生活的整个期间，从悔改之日到被提之日。这指明整个基督徒的生活都该是这样的节期，这样享受基督作我们的筵席。虽然守除酵节是这么要紧的事，但大部分基督徒却不太留意保罗所说的这段话。他们只注意保罗吩咐，作妻子的，要服从自己的丈夫；作丈夫的，要爱他们的妻子。无论是信徒或非信徒，这些观念早就是他们天然领会的一部分。中国人早在几千年前就奉行了。如果你用圣经中的这些话教导有道德的中国人，说作妻子的当服从自己的丈夫，作丈夫的要爱自己的妻子，他们可能会说，他们早就知道，并且也这样实行了。基督徒注意到服从和爱的经文，但有谁充分注意保罗所说的守节？圣经学校、神学院的教师会教导他们的学生守节的意义并如何守节么？我怀疑有那一位教授会教学生这些事。此外，我也不信有人曾告诉你们，你们的身体是基督的肢体、与主联合成为一灵、以及你们的身体是圣灵的殿，到底是甚么意思。真可悲！今天的基督徒都从这些重要的事岔出去了。我们的宗教背景的影响，也使我们受拦阻。因此，我们必须进入林前六章十五、十七和十九节。我们不能再轻忽这些经节；这些乃是圣经中最有深度的一些经文。
4In chapters five and six Paul deals with the matters of gross sin, the claiming of rights, and the abuse of human freedom. But when he deals with these things, he uses certain excellent expressions and utterances to present matters that are not covered elsewhere in the New Testament. For example, in 5:8 Paul says, “Let us therefore keep the feast.” We have seen that this feast refers to the feast of unleavened bread as a continuation of the Passover (Exo. 12:15-20). It lasted seven days, a period of completion, signifying the entire period of our Christian life, from the day of our conversion to the day of rapture. This indicates that the entire Christian life should be a feast, an enjoyment of Christ as our banquet. Although keeping the feast of unleavened bread is a matter of great importance, most Christians pay little attention to Paul’sword concerning it. Instead, they concentrate on Paul’s commands for wives to submit themselves to their husbands and for husbands to love their wives. These concepts are already part of the natural understanding both of believers and of unbelievers. The Chinese began to practice these things thousands of years ago. If from the Bible you teach certain ethical Chinese that wives should submit to their husbands and that husbands should love their wives, they may tell you that they already know these things and practice them. Although Christians pay attention to verses about submission and love, who pays adequate attention to Paul’sword about keeping the feast? Do the professors in Bible schools and seminaries teach their students what it means to keep the feast and how to keep the feast? It is doubtful that any professor instructs his students concerning these things. Furthermore, I doubt that anyone has ever told you what it means for your body to be a member of Christ, to be joined to the Lord as one spirit, or for your body to be the temple of the Holy Spirit. How sad that today’s believers have been distracted from these crucial matters! We also have been hindered by the influence of our religious background. Thus, there is the need for us to get into verses 15, 17, and 19. We can no longer afford to neglect such verses; these are some of the deepest verses in the Bible.
5分赐生命给我们必死的身体在十三至十四节保罗说，『食物是为肚腹，肚腹是为食物；但这两样，神都要废掉。可是身体不是为淫乱，乃是为主，主也是为身体。并且神已经使主复活，也必藉著祂的能力，使我们复活起来。』我们的身体是为主造的，并且我们里面的主也是为我们身体的。神已经使主的身体复活，并命定我们的身体要有分于主这在复活里荣耀的身体，（腓三21，）并要复活，成为不朽坏的。（林前十五52。）那就是我们身体的得赎。（罗八23。）
5LIFE IMPARTED TO OUR MORTAL BODIES In 6:13 and 14 Paul says, “Foods are for the belly, and the belly for foods; but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. And God has raised up the Lord and will raise up us through His power.” Our body was created for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. God has raised up the Lord bodily, and our body will participate in the Lord’s glorious body in resurrection (Phil. 3:21) and be raised incorruptible. This will be the redemption of our body.
6行传二章二十四节题到复活的基督时，说，『神却将死的痛苦解除，叫祂复活了，因为祂不能被死拘禁。』罗马六章九节说，『知道基督既从死人中复活，就不再死，死也不再作主管辖祂了。』在林后四章十四节，保罗清楚的说，那叫主耶稣复活的，也必叫我们复活：『知道那叫主耶稣复活的，也必叫我们与耶稣一同复活，并且叫我们与你们一同站在祂面前。』还有，在约翰六章三十九至四十节，主耶稣也应许我们说，在末日要叫我们复活。甚至现今，那住在我们里面复活基督的灵，也赐生命给我们的身体，（罗八11，）使其成为基督的肢体，（林前六15，）成为神的殿，为祂的圣灵所居住。（19。）我们若要明白今天主如何为我们的身体，以及将来神如何叫我们的身体复活，就需要明白罗马八章十一节。这节说，『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。』这是圣经中最重大的经文之一，在此我们看见，那叫耶稣从死人中复活的神，藉著祂内住的灵，分赐生命给我们必死的身体。这可以成为所有寻求主之人现今的经历。如果你真心寻求主，奇妙的事会在你里面发生，就是复活之神的灵一直把生命分赐到你的身体里。这种生命的分赐可以用电的输送来说明。电流实际上就是运行的电。你看看会所的电表，就知道电一直传输到会所里面。我们在会所聚集祷告、交通时，电就一直流进建筑物里面。同样的原则，基督复活生命属天的电，也一直流进我们必死的身体里。一天过一天，我们寻求主，我们就能有充分的把握，神圣的电流正在我们里面流通。这个电流就是复活的生命，藉著内住的灵分赐到我们里面。
6Speaking of the resurrected Christ, Acts 2:24 says, “Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.” According to Romans 6:9, “Christ having been raised from among the dead dies no more; death lords it over Him no more.” In 2 Corinthians 4:14 Paul says clearly that the One who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up: “Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.” Furthermore, in John 6:39 and 40 the Lord Jesus promises that He will raise us up in the last day. But even today the Spirit of the resurrected Christ gives life to our body, thereby making it a member of Christ and a temple of God indwelt by the Holy Spirit. If we would understand how the Lord today is for our body and how in the future God will resurrect our body, we need to understand Romans 8:11. This verse says, “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.” In this verse, one of the greatest verses in the Bible, we see that through the indwelling Spirit of the very God who raised up Jesus from among the dead, life is imparted into our mortal body. This may be the present experience of all who seek the Lord. If you truly seek the Lord, something marvelous is taking place within you: the Spirit of the resurrecting God is imparting life into your body. This imparting of life may be illustrated by the transmission of electricity. The current of electricity is actually electricity in motion. If you look at the electric meter in the meeting hall, you will realize that electricity is being transmitted into the building. As we meet in the hall to pray and fellowship, electricity is flowing into the building. In the same principle, the heavenly electricity of Christ’s resurrection life is flowing into our mortal bodies. As we seek the Lord day by day, we can have the full assurance that the divine current is flowing within us. This current is the resurrection life imparted into us through the indwelling Spirit.
7我常常在身体疲累的时候，经历这个传输。许多次我身体非常疲累，还得为主说话。但当我正说的时候，那灵就灌输到我里面，复活的基督成了我生命的供应。结果，我的灵刚强了，我软弱、疲惫的身体也被点活了。
7I often experience this transmission when I am physically tired. Many times I must speak even when my body is very tired. But while I am speaking, the Spirit is infused into me, and the resurrected Christ becomes my life supply. As a result, my spirit is strengthened and my weak, tired body is enlivened
生机的与基督联结
UNITED WITH CHRIST ORGANICALLY
8在林前六章十五节保罗说，『岂不知你们的身体是基督的肢体么？』要注意，保罗在这里不仅说，我们是基督的肢体，他乃是宣告，我们的身体是基督的肢体。这段经文的主题是对付在食物和身体上滥用自由，所以保罗关切的乃是信徒的身体。因我们与基督生机的联结，（17，）并因基督住在我们灵里，（提后四22，）安家在我们心里，（弗三17，）我们全人，包括我们洁净过的身体，就成了祂的肢体。林前六章十七节指明我们与基督生机的联结。与主成为一灵，就是进入与主生机的联结里，生机的与祂联结。这个生机的联结使我们的身体能成为基督的肢体。基督住在我们的灵里，并从我们的灵扩展遍及我们里面的人，因而安家在我们心里。不仅如此，按照罗马八章十一节，祂想要从我们里面，把祂自己这生命分赐到我们物质的身体里。因此，基督从我们的灵扩展到我们的魂，再从我们的魂扩展到我们的身体。这样，我们的身体就成了祂的肢体。这事很深奥、很奥秘、也很抽象。但6赞美主！我们有林前六章坚定的话，把这样奥秘的事启示出来！要紧的是，我们要挖到这话的深处。
8In verse 15 Paul says, “Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ?” Notice that here Paul does not say merely that we are members of Christ; he declares that our bodies are members of Christ. The subject of these verses is the abuse of freedom in foods and in the body. Thus, Paul’s concern is the believers’ body. Because we are organically united with Christ and because Christ dwells in our spirit (2 Tim. 4:22) and makes His home in our heart (Eph. 3:17), our entire being, including our purified body, becomes a member of Him. Verse 17 indicates that we are organically united with Christ. To be one spirit with the Lord is to enter into an organic union with Him, to be united with Him organically. This organic union makes it possible for our bodies to be the members of Christ. Christ indwells our spirit, and from our spirit spreads throughout our inner being, thereby making His home in our hearts. Furthermore, according to Romans 8:11, from our inner being He seeks to impart Himself as life into our physical body. Therefore, Christ spreads from the spirit to the soul and from the soul to the body. In this way our bodies become His members. This matter is deep, mysterious, and abstract. But praise the Lord for the solid word in 1 Corinthians revealing such a mysterious matter! It is crucial that we dig into this word.
9在六章十七节保罗说，『但与主联合的，便是与主成为一灵。』我要再一次强调，这是指信徒藉著信入主，（约三15～16，）与祂有生机的联结。这样与复活之主的联结，只能在我们的灵里。因为基督是赐生命的灵，（林前十五45，）现今与我们的灵同在。（提后四22。）
9In 6:17 Paul says, “He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.” I wish to emphasize once again that this refers to the believers’ organic union with the Lord through believing into Him (John 3:15-16). Such a union with the resurrected Christ can only be in our spirit, for Christ today is the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45) and is now with our spirit (2 Tim. 4:22
一个实际的三方面
three aspects of one reality
10我们已经看见，保罗在林前六章十五、十七和十九节，说到三件极重要的事：我们的身体是基督的肢体，我们与主联合成为一灵，以及我们的身体是圣灵的殿。就著事实和实行来说，这三者就是一；这三者的关键都在于十七节。如果我们没有在灵里与主联合，我们这犯罪、满了情欲的身体，就不可能成为基督的肢体。有关6:14这事的另一个重点，就是保罗在六章十四节所说的话：『神…也必藉著祂的能力，使我们复活起来。』我们已经指出，甚至现今，那住在我们灵里复活基督的灵，也赐生命给我们的身体。这个生命的分赐，使我们的身体成为基督的肢体和圣灵的殿。你曾否想过，我们的身体如何能成为基督的肢体，成为圣灵的殿？关键就在于复活基督内住的灵，把生命分赐到我们必死的身体里。既然这是关键，我们就必须操练并实行，经历主作那内住在我们灵里赐生命的灵。这就是实际与主成为一灵。我们若操练自己这样来经历并享受，就会为主开门，让祂分赐生命给我们物质的身体。这样，我们的身体就会充满基督复活的生命，成为基督的肢体。我们的身体一旦成了内住之基督的肢体，就自然而然成了圣灵的殿，圣灵的居所。所以，在我们的经历里，我们的身体是基督的肢体，我们与主是一灵，以及我们的身体是圣灵的殿，这三件事乃是一个实际的三方面。
10We have seen that in verses 15, 17, and 19 Paul covers three crucial matters: that our bodies are the members of Christ; that we are joined to the Lord as one spirit; and that our body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. In actuality and practicality these three are one. The key to all three is in verse 17. Apart from being joined to the Lord in our spirit, it is impossible for our bodies, which are sinful and lustful, to become the members of Christ. Another crucial matter related to this is Paul’sword in that the Lord “will raise up us through His power.” We have pointed out that even now the Spirit of the resurrected Christ who dwells in our spirit gives life to our body. This impartation of life makes our bodies the members of Christ and a temple of the Holy Spirit. Have you ever wondered how our bodies can become the members of Christ and the temple of the Holy Spirit? The key is that the indwelling Spirit of the resurrected Christ imparts life into our mortal bodies. Since this is the key, we must exercise and practice to experience the Lord as the life-giving Spirit dwelling in our spirit. This is to practice being one spirit with the Lord. If we exercise ourselves to experience this and enjoy it, we shall open the door for the Lord to impart life to our physical bodies. Then our bodies will be full of the resurrection life of Christ and will become the members of Christ. When our body becomes a member of the indwelling Christ, it automatically becomes the temple, the dwelling place, of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, in our experience the three matters of our bodies being members of Christ, of being one spirit with the Lord, and of our body being the temple of the Holy Spirit are three aspects of one reality.
11保罗对付哥林多信徒难处的方式，不是肤浅的或表面的；反之，他的对付相当深入、深奥。保罗对付不同的难处，是要把我们带回神经纶的中心异象，就是三一神作为包罗万有赐生命的灵，住在我们的灵里。如今，那灵就是经过过程的三一神，住在我们全人里面。信徒中间所发生的一切难处，都是由于缺少对内住之灵的经历。我再说，基督徒所以有难处，是由于他们缺少对这包罗万有、赐生命、内住之灵的经历。为这缘故，保罗最终就带我们回到我们灵里的这位灵。
11The way Paul deals with the problems among the Corinthian believers is not shallow or superficial. On the contrary, it is deep and profound. As Paul deals with the different problems, he brings us back to the central vision of God’secon o my—to the Triune God as the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit dwelling in our spirit. The Spirit today is the processed Triune God indwelling our whole being. All the problems among the believers are caused by the shortage of the experience of this indwelling Spirit. To repeat, Christians have problems because they lack the experience of the all-inclusive, life-giving indwelling Spirit. For this reason, Paul eventually brings us back to this Spirit in our spirit
在我们的身体上荣耀神
GLORIFYING GOD IN OUR BODY
12在六章二十节保罗说，『因为你们是重价买来的。这样，就要在你们的身体上荣耀神。』在我们的身体上荣耀神，就是让住在我们里面的神，（约壹四13，）占有、浸透我们的身体。这样，我们就能在身体上彰显神。当主从我们的灵，经过我们的魂，扩展到我们的身体时，我们就能在身体上荣耀神。所以在身体上荣耀神，就是使我们的身体与三一神是一。这是照著神经纶的中心异象，明白保罗在林前六章二十节所说的话。我们不要认为哥林多前书是一卷肤浅对付召会难处的书。在本书中，保罗的确对付了许多难处，但同时他也带我们进到神经纶的中心异象里，因为他把我们带回到那灵，就是经过过程之三一神的终极完成。你若进入这些经文的深处，你的生活、你的职事、以及你在召会中的服事，就会有极大的转变。你里面的人，你整个的召会生活，也会彻底的改变。愿我们都在这些经节上好好祷告，直到我们里面有这样的改变。
12In 6:20 Paul says, “For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.” The way to glorify God in our body is to have our body occupied by God and thoroughly saturated with Him. Then we shall express Him in our body. As the Lord spreads from our spirit, through our soul, and into our body, we glorify God in our body. Thus, to glorify God in our body is to have our body one with the Triune God. This is to understand Paul’sword in verse 20 according to the central vision of God’secon o my. We should not think that 1 Corinthians is a shallow book dealing with problems in the church. Yes, in this book Paul does deal with many problems. But at the same time he brings us into the central vision of God’secon o my, for he brings us back to the Spirit as the ultimate consummation of the processed Triune God. If you get into the depths of these verses, your life, ministry, and service in the church will be affected in a revolutionary way. Your inner being and your entire church life will be radically changed. May we all pray about these verses until such a change takes place within us