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哥林多后书生命读经 · 第18篇

联结、受膏、受印、

Attached, Anointed, Sealed,
1被掳获、被征服、被帅领，好撒播基督的香（二）读经：哥林多后书1:21-22;2:14-16。
1Captured, Subdued, And Led To Scatter The Incense Of Christ (2) Scripture Reading: 2 Cor. 1:21-22; 2:14-16
2保罗是一个为著召会活基督的榜样。根据他在哥林多后书所说的话，我们若要为著召会活基督，就需要联结、受膏、受印、被掳获、被征服、被帅领，好撒播基督的香。保罗在林后二章十四节说，『感谢神，祂常在基督里，在凯旋的行列中帅领我们，并藉著我们在各处显扬那因认识基督而有的香气。』保罗在这节圣经里用了两个隐喻：凯旋行列中的俘虏，以及带著香的人，在这样的行列中撒香。使徒是带著香的人，在基督得胜的职事里，如同在凯旋的行列中，散放那因认识基督而有的香气。使徒是基督凯旋行列中的俘虏，也是基督职事里这样带著香的人。保罗已经联结、受膏、受印、被掳获、被征服并被帅领，好撒播基督的香。我们也需要经历这些事，好叫我们能撒播基督的香。
2Paul is a pattern of living Christ for the church. According to his word in 2 Corinthians, if we would live Christ for the church, we need to be attached, anointed, sealed, captured, subdued, and led to scatter the incense of Christ. In 2:14 Paul says, “But thanks be to God, Who always leads us in triumph in the Christ, and manifests through us the savor of the knowledge of Him in every place.” In this verse Paul uses two metaphors: captives in a triumphal procession and incense-bearers scattering incense in such a procession. As incense-bearers, the apostles scatter the savor of the knowledge of Christ in His triumphal ministry as in a triumphal procession. The apostles are such incense-bearers in the ministry of Christ and captives in the train of His triumph as well. Paul was attached, anointed, sealed, captured, subdued, and led to scatter the incense of Christ. We also need to experience all these matters so that we may scatter the incense of Christ
撒香
scattering incense
3林后一章二十一至二十二节，二章十四至十六节，实在太好了。这五节经文里有许多奇妙的真理。根据一章二十一至二十二节所说，我们必须坚固的联于基督，必须为神所膏，也必须接受那灵为印记。不仅如此，根据二章十四至十六节，我们需要被掳获、被征服、并被帅领。这些都是叫我们撒播我们救主的香，就是我们最爱者的香。当我尽职时，我不仅仅是教师或传道人，更是撒播我主之香的人。我因著爱主而癫狂，我渴望撒播祂的香。在主恢复里的每一个人，都必须是撒播基督之香的人。不论我们到那里，我们这班人都该撒播这香。
3Second Corinthians 1:21 and 22 and 2:14-16 are wonderful verses. In these five verses there are a number of marvelous truths. According to 1:21 and 22, we must be firmly attached to Christ, we must be anointed by God, and we must be sealed with the Spirit. Furthermore, according to 2:14-16, we need to be captured, subdued, and led. All this is that we may scatter the incense of our Savior, the incense of the One whom we love to the uttermost. In my ministry I am not merely a teacher or a preacher—I am one scattering the incense of my Lord. I am beside myself with love for Him, and I desire to scatter His incense. Every one in the Lord’s recovery must be a person scattering the incense of Christ. Wherever we go we should scatter this incense
4有些人不明白，为甚么在美国有许多基督徒愿意接受我的职事。原因是我一直在撒播基督的香，这是我惟一的职业，惟一的专业。我在属天大学里主修的功课，就是撒播基督的香。我盼望在将来的年日里，我们中间会有许多人，特别是青年人，兴起来撒播基督的香。年轻人，你们应当渴慕撒播基督的香。关于这事，你需要说，『靠著主的恩典，不论我去那里，我都要成为一个撒播基督之香的人。』
4Some have wondered why a number of Christians in this country have been willing to receive my ministry. The reason is that I am scattering the incense of Christ. This is my unique occupation, my unique profession. My major in the heavenly university was scattering the incense of Christ. I expect that in the years to come many among us, especially the young people, will rise up to scatter Christ’s in cense. Young people, your aspiration should be to scatter the incense of Christ. Regarding this, you need to say, “By the Lord’s grace, I shall become one who scatters the incense of Christ wherever I go.”
5我相信在未来十年里，今天的青年人当中有许多要成为撒播基督之香的人。我相信还有彀多的时间让青年人长大，给主使用。因为基督徒还没有成熟，所以新妇还没有豫备好迎接主来。在新妇成熟，豫备好迎接主以前，主不会来迎娶新妇。在新妇豫备好之前，主会不断的执行神的行政，推动祂天上的职事，来加快我们成熟的过程。我们无法一夜之间就成熟。凡是有生命之物，都需要时间才能长大。要制造成百上千的人造花，一天的时间可能就彀了，但真花要长大却需要时间。我信在新妇长大并成熟所需要的时间内，许多青年人会撒播基督的香。在要来的年日里，主可能会带一些人到不同的地方去。不论我们去那里，我们都该撒香。我能见证，主的恢复所遭遇的反对，实际上乃是一种积极的表号，表明这恢复实在是出于主的，是祂在地上的行动。阿利路亚，我们在主的恢复里！我们正在长大并被兴起，好撒播基督的香。团体的联于那受膏者
5I believe that in the next ten years many of today’s young people will become those who scatter the incense of Christ. I believe there will still be time for the young people to grow up and be used by the Lord. Because of the immaturity of Christians, the bride is not yet ready for the Lord’s coming. The Lord will not come for the bride until she is mature and ready for Him. Until the bride is prepared, the Lord will continue to execute God’s government and carry on His heavenly ministry to hasten the process of our maturing. We cannot mature overnight. Anything of life needs time to grow. It is possible to make hundreds of artificial flowers in a day, but genuine flowers need time to grow. I believe that during the time required for the bride to grow and mature, many young people will scatter the incense of Christ. In the years to come, the Lord may lead certain ones to different places. Wherever we may go, we should scatter the incense. I can testify that the opposition to the Lord’s recovery is actually a positive sign. It is a sign that the recovery truly is of the Lord and that it is His move on earth. Hallelujah, we are in the Lord’s recovery! We are growing up, and we are being raised up to scatter the incense of Christ. ATTACHED CORPORATELY TO THE ANOINTED ONE
6保罗在一章二十一节说，『然而那把我们同你们，坚固的联于基督，并且膏了我们的，就是神。』保罗不是单独的联于基督，他乃是说，使徒与所有其他的信徒一同联于基督。二十一节的『同』原意是『与…一同』。使徒与其余的信徒一同联于基督那受膏者。这证明保罗不是单独的；他虽然是最大的使徒，但他仍然需要所有其他的信徒。他乃是与在哥林多的信徒一同联于基督。因此，他的联于基督不是个人的，乃是团体的。我们所联于的那一位，乃是神的受膏者基督。圣经启示，神所有的膏油都已经浇在神的受膏者身上。离了基督就没有膏油，没有膏油涂抹。当膏油浇在基督身上时，受膏的过程就完成了。除了在基督这受膏者身上的膏油以外，再没有膏油了。神不再施膏。今天神所作的，乃是将我们一同联于这位受膏者。因为我们已经联于祂，我们就联于膏抹。为这缘故，膏抹是紧跟著联结的。神已经把我们联在一起，也已经膏了我们。我们联于基督之后，自然也就受了膏。
6In 1:21 Paul says, “But He Who firmly attaches us with you unto Christ and has anointed us is God.” Paul was not attached to Christ in an individualistic way. Rather, he says that the apostles were attached with all the other believers. The Greek word rendered “with” in verse 21 means together with. Together with the rest of the believers, the apostles have been attached to Christ, the anointed One. This proves that Paul was not individualistic. Even though he was the greatest apostle, he still needed all the other believers. It was with the believers in Corinth that he was attached to Christ. Hence, he was attached to Him corporately, not individualistically. The One to whom we have been attached is Christ, God’s anointed One. The Bible reveals that all the ointment of God has been poured out upon God’s anointed One. Apart from Him, there is no ointment, no anointing. When the anointing was poured upon Christ, the process of anointing was completed. There is no ointment other than that which is on Christ, the anointed One. God does not do any more anointing. What He does concerning us today is to attach us together to this anointed One. Because we have been attached to Him, we are attached to the anointing. For this reason, the anointing follows the attaching. God has attached us, and He has also anointed us. After we are attached, we are anointed spontaneously.
7你知道为神所膏是甚么意思？这意思就是，我们被摆进三一神一切的丰富里面。三一神的丰富如今乃是膏油，而这膏油已经浇在基督身上。当我们联于基督时，我们也就受膏了。我们是这样受膏的。我们被摆进对三一神一切丰富实际的享受中。
7Do you know what it means to be anointed by God? It means that we are put into all the riches of the Triune God. The riches of the Triune God are now the ointment, and the ointment has been poured out upon Christ. When we are attached to Christ, we are under the anointing. In this way, we are anointed. We are put into the practical enjoyment of all the riches of the Triune God
被主占有
POSSESSED BY THE LORD
8保罗在一章二十二节接著说，神也印了我们，又赐那灵在我们心里作质。二十一节的膏就是印。神既叫我们与基督一同受了膏，也就在基督里印了我们。这印是神加在我们身上的标记。这标记可以比喻为一个人的签名。我每次买一本新书的时候，立刻会写上我的名字。我每一本书上都有我的签名。在我的书上签名，说明神印我们的意义。我们若要活基督，就必须联于祂，并且享受神的施膏。然后这施膏要成为印记，指明我们是被主占有的。如今我们既然受膏，又被印了，就不再属于撒但或世界，甚至也不属于我们自己。我们乃是属于主，属于神的受膏者基督。阿利路亚，我们是属于祂的。我们若要活基督，首先必须有基督。原则上，用钱也是这样。我们要用钱，首先需要有钱。如果我们欠了债，银行的户头里没有钱，就无钱可用。照样，如果我们没有基督，就不可能活基督。但因著我们已经联于那受膏者，为三一神的丰富所膏，并且神又印了我们，我们就有所需要的属灵财富，可以开『支票』，从我们属灵银行的帐户提领丰富。我们能活基督，是因我们有基督；我们有基督，是因我们已经联于基督，受了膏，也得了印记。保罗是为著召会活基督之人的榜样，他已经联于基督，已经受膏，也已经受印。他是这样的一位，有许多洋溢的丰富可为著召会取用。
8In 1:22 Paul goes on to say that God has also sealed us and given the pledge of the Spirit in our hearts. The anointing in verse 21 is the sealing. Since God has anointed us in Christ, He has also sealed us in Him. This seal is a mark placed upon us by God. This mark can be compared to a person’s signature. Whenever I purchase a new book, I immediately write my name in it. Every book belonging to me bears my signature. Writing my signature in a book illustrates what it means to be sealed by God. If we would live Christ, we must be attached to Him and enjoy the anointing. Then this anointing will become a seal indicating that we are possessed by the Lord. Now that we have been anointed and sealed, we no longer belong to Satan or the world. We do not even belong to ourselves. We belong to the Lord, to Christ, God’s anointed One. Hallelujah, we are His! In order to live Christ, we must first have Christ. The same is true in principle with spending money. Spending money requires that we have money to spend. If we are in debt and have no money in our account, then we do not have any money to spend. Likewise, if we do not have Christ, we cannot possibly live Him. But because we have been attached to the anointed One, anointed with the riches of the Triune God, and also sealed, we have the spiritual wealth required to write “checks” and draw on the riches from our spiritual bank account. We can live Christ because we have Christ, and we have Christ because we have been attached, anointed, and sealed. Paul, the pattern of a person who lives Christ for the church, was attached, anointed, and sealed. Such a one has an abundance of riches to use for the church.
完全被掳获并征服
FULLY CAPTURED AND SUBDUED
9我们虽然已经联于基督，受了膏，也得了印记，但是我们还需要完全被基督掳获。你岂不是至少有一部分还没有被主掳获么？也许你里面还有相当大的一部分没有被祂掳获。一个只局部给基督掳获的弟兄，也许会自言自语说，『明天又是主日。我不想去参加召会的聚会，但是又不得不去。我真后悔成了基督徒。我既然得救了，就知道躲不开主。我想摆脱祂，却摆脱不了。基督不会放过我的。不仅如此，我的妻子很爱主，很热心的过召会生活。她把孩子们都带到召会里。我情愿作别的事，也不想参加明天的聚会，可是我被家人否决了，他们都要我去参加聚会。因此，我在这件事上身不由己。我明天不得不去聚会，受苦受难。』一个只被基督掳获一点点的人，就是这种态度。
9Although we have been attached, anointed, and sealed, we still need to be captured by Christ in full. Is it not true that at least part of your being has not yet been captured by the Lord? Perhaps a rather large percentage of your inner being has not yet been captured by Him. A brother who has been partially captured by Christ may say to himself, “Tomorrow is the Lord’s Day once again. I don’t want to go to the church meeting, but it is necessary for me to go. I’m sorry that I became a Christian. Now that I have been saved, I know that I can’t escape from the Lord. I would like to get away from Him, but it is impossible. Christ will not let me go. Furthermore, my wife loves the Lord and is fervent for the church life. She brings all the children to the church. I would much rather do something else instead of attending the meeting tomorrow, but I am overruled by my family. They all want me to attend the meeting. Therefore, I have no choice in this matter. I must go to the meeting tomorrow to suffer and feel miserable.” This is the attitude of one who has been captured by Christ only to a very limited degree
10除非我们被基督掳获，否则我们不能活基督。我实在学了这个秘诀。你们不要认为我总是心甘情愿的被主掳获。有时候我这个人也有点不愿意被祂掳获。我知道如果我们要被主掳获，实在需要恩典。每当你感觉到你里面有一部分不愿意被主掳获时，要记得你已经联于祂、受膏且受印了。有时候，当我感觉到里面有这种不愿意的倾向时，就回想我已经联结、受膏且受印的这个事实。我就知道，我的定命乃是被掳获、被征服，叫我可以活基督。只有被基督掳获、被基督征服的人，才能为著召会活基督。这是我们的命定。末了，我们在这件事上不能有选择、偏好或意见；我们必须被掳获、被征服。你被主征服了么？我知道有一些作妻子的最终被自己的丈夫征服了。几年时间下来，她们愿意承认丈夫是头。可是被丈夫征服远不如被基督征服来得好。基督总是温和的，但祂也是坚刚、坚持的。祂需要等多久，就能等多久，直等到我们心甘情愿的被祂征服。如果今天我们不愿意被祂征服，祂可以再等一年或是更久。如果在今世我们不被祂征服，祂知道我们在来世或在新耶路撒冷里终必被征服。至终，我们都要被主征服。但最好是今天就被主征服。今天就被主征服才是有智慧的，并且大有益处。即使稍微等一段时间才降服主，都会使我们受亏损。
10Unless we have been captured by Christ, we cannot live Him. I surely have learned this secret. Do not think that I am always willing to be captured by the Lord. Sometimes a part of my being is not pleased to be captured by Him. I have learned that if we would be captured, we need grace. Whenever you sense that part of you is not willing to be captured by the Lord, remember that you have been attached, anointed, and sealed. Sometimes when I sense such an unwillingness within me, I recall the fact that I have been attached, anointed, and sealed. Then I realize that it is my destiny to be captured and subdued so that I may live Christ. Only those who have been captured by Christ and subdued by Him can live Him for the church. This is our destiny and, ultimately, concerning this we have no choice, preference, or opinion. We must be captured and subdued. Have you been subdued by the Lord? I know of some wives who eventually were subdued by their husbands. After a period of years, they were willing to recognize the husband as the head. But to be subdued by one’s husband is not nearly as good as being subdued by Christ. Christ is always gentle, but He is strong and persistent. He is able to wait as long as necessary until we are willing to be subdued by Him. If we are not willing to be subdued today, He may wait for another year or even longer. If we are not subdued in this age, He knows we shall be subdued in the next age, or in the New Jerusalem. Eventually we all shall be subdued by the Lord. It is much better to be subdued today. It is wise and also very profitable to be subdued now. To wait even a short time before we are subdued may cause us to suffer loss.
11我能见证，我并不后悔被基督征服。我年轻的时候，有一分好差事，收入也很多。有一天，基督要我放下工作，全时间事奉祂。我有许多问题，主告诉我只要单单信祂。我对主说，只要祂看顾我的妻子儿女，我愿意为祂挨饿。主鼓励我，把妻子儿女信托给祂看顾。但是我担心，一旦我放下工作事奉主，我的家人会有怎样的遭遇。我知道主是全能的一位，但我仍然觉得，由我来照顾自己的家比较稳当。我跟主挣扎了很长一段时间。我不明白祂既然有意叫我事奉祂，为甚么还要把妻子儿女赐给我。但是不久之后，我向主投降了。这大约是五十年以前的事，现在我能见证，主百倍的回报了我。我的重点是：每当主要求我们作甚么，祂必定会为那件事供应我们。活基督不仅仅是一个要求而已，这个要求还含示应许。新约的每一项要求都含示主要供应我们所需要的，好符合那项要求。祂要求我们越多，祂供应我们也越多。我们若要活基督，首先需要被主掳获，然后需要被祂征服。如果我当时继续工作，没有放下职业全时间事奉主，那就表明我还没有被掳获、被征服。如果是那样的话，我就不能给主使用，来兴起主恢复里的众召会。这许多的召会能不能兴起来，就在于一个人是不是被主掳获、被主征服。主藉著你所能作的，也在于你是否愿意被主掳获、被主征服。因此，被基督掳获并征服是一件非常有意义的事。
11I can testify that I do not regret being subdued by Christ. When I was young, I had a good job with a good income. Then one day Christ came in to require me to give up my job and serve Him full time. However, I had a number of questions. The Lord told me simply to believe in Him. I said to the Lord that I was willing to suffer hunger for Him as long as He would take care of my wife and children. The Lord encouraged me to trust my wife and children to His care. Nevertheless, I was concerned about what would happen to my family if I left my job to serve the Lord. I realized that the Lord is the almighty One, but still I felt it was safer to have the family in my own care. I struggled with the Lord for a long time. I wondered why He had provided me with a wife and children if it was His intention that I serve Him. But after a while, I gave in to the Lord. This was nearly fifty years ago, and I can testify that the Lord has rewarded me a hundredfold. My point here is that whenever the Lord demands that we do something, He will most assuredly supply us for that matter. To live Christ is not only a demand; it is a requirement that implies a promise. Every demand in the New Testament implies that the Lord will supply what we need to meet that demand. The more He demands of us, the more He will supply us. In order to live Christ, we must first be captured by the Lord and then subdued by Him. If I had stayed with my job and not left it to serve the Lord full time, that would have been a sign that I had not been captured and subdued. If that had been the situation, I could not have been used by the Lord for the raising up of churches in His recovery. Whether or not so many churches could be raised up depended upon the capturing and subduing of one person. What the Lord is able to do through you also depends on your willingness to be captured and subdued by Him. Therefore, it is a very significant matter to be captured and subdued by Christ
蒙基督帅领
LED BY CHRIST
12保罗能对主说，『主耶稣，感谢你；你已经使我联于你；你也膏了我、印了我、掳获我、征服我，现在我豫备好，接受你的帅领。』这样，主就能在祂凯旋的行列中帅领保罗。保罗作为使徒，不是照著自己的选择、偏好或口味作甚么事。相反的，他实在是接受主的帅领。不论主怎样带领，保罗都接受。对于主的带领，保罗没有选择的余地。正如二章十四节的隐喻所指明，保罗看自己是个俘虏，已经被摆在基督凯旋的行列中，庆祝基督的得胜。这样一个被掳获的人，有甚么选择？俘虏是无可选择的。因为保罗这个俘虏愿意受帅领，所以他不论往那里去，都是主的帅领。保罗在亚西亚一带往来，并不是要推行福音工作。不，他在各处的行程乃是基督行列的行动。基督凯旋的行列不断前进，经过小亚细亚，再往前到马其顿和亚该亚。保罗在神帅领的行列中，庆祝神儿子的得胜。我不信我来美国是一种宣教工作。这也是基督行列的行动，是主在祂的恢复里庆祝祂的得胜。我是个被掳获、被征服、被帅领的人，我是这个行列里的俘虏。赞美主！在主的恢复里庆祝基督得胜的行列，已经来到了美国。我们因著联于基督、受膏、受印、被掳获、被征服、被帅领，就能撒播基督的香。这样撒播基督的香，其实就是活基督。我们所活的这位基督有香，甚至就是这香。因此，当我们撒播基督的香时，就是撒播基督自己。
12Paul could say to the Lord, “Thank You, Lord Jesus, that You have attached me, anointed me, sealed me, captured me, and subdued me. Now I am ready to be led by You.” Then the Lord could come in to lead Paul in His triumphal procession. As an apostle, Paul did not do anything according to his own choice, preference, or taste. On the contrary, he was truly led by the Lord. Paul took the Lord’s leading, no matter what it was. Concerning the Lord’s leading, Paul did not have any choice. As the metaphor in 2:14 indicates, he considered himself a captive who had been placed in Christ’s triumphal procession, a procession celebrating Christ’s victory. How could such a captured one have any choice? There is no choice for captives. Because Paul, a captive, was willing to be led, wherever he went was the Lord’s leading. Paul did not travel in Asia Minor to carry on a work of evangelization. No, his travel was a move in Christ’s procession. Christ’s triumphal procession was advancing through As i a Minor and onward to Macedonia and Achaia. Paul was in a procession led by God to celebrate the victory of God’sS on. I do not believe that my coming to this country was any kind of missionary work. It also was a move in Christ’s procession, the Lord’s celebration of His victory in His recovery. As one captured, subdued, and led, I am a captive in this procession. Praise the Lord that the procession celebrating Christ’s victory in the recovery has come to this country! By being attached, anointed, sealed, captured, subdued, and led, we scatter the incense of Christ. This scattering of the incense is actually to live Christ. The Christ we live has incense, and He even is this incense. Therefore, when we scatter the incense of Christ, we scatter Christ Himself.
13撒播基督这香是有功效的，这是生死攸关的事。对于神所拣选的人来说，撒香就叫他们活；但是对于另一些人，却叫他们死。这是一件非常严肃的事，保罗说，『对这些事，谁彀资格？』（二16。）我们赞美主，我们能成为一班撒播基督之香的人。当我们联于基督、受膏、受印、被掳获、被征服、被帅领时，我们就撒播基督的香。
13This scattering of Christ as the incense has an effect: it is a matter of life or death. For those who have been chosen by God, the scattering of the incense is unto life. But to others, it is unto death. This is a very serious matter, and Paul asks, “Who is sufficient for these things?” (2:16). We praise the Lord that it is possible for us to be those who scatter the incense of Christ. When we have been attached, anointed, sealed, captured, subdued, and led, we shall scatter the incense of Christ