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以弗所书生命读经 · 第18篇

召会是基督的身体

THE CHURCH BEING THE BODY OF CHRIST
1以弗所一章二十二至二十三节说，『将万有服在祂的脚下，并使祂向著召会作万有的头；召会是祂的身体，是那在万中充满万有者的丰满。』二十二节的『向著』和十九节的『向著』，都是指明基督向著召会的传输。甚至我们这些在召会生活中的人，也不完全知道基督和召会之间所发生的是甚么。从五旬节那日起，传输就一直在进行著。
1Ephesians 1:22 and 23 say, “ And He subjected all things under His feet, and gave Him to be Head over all things to the church, which is His Body, the fullness of the One Who fills all in all.” The words “to” in verse 22 and “toward” in verse 19 both indicate a transmission from Christ to the church. Even those of us in the church life do not know fully what is taking place between Christ and the church. Since the day of Pentecost a transmission has been going on
一个继续不断的传输
A CONTINUAL TRANSMISSION
2这个传输不是一次永远的。按我们的想法，我们以为某些事情是一次永远的。就以与基督同钉十字架为例，凡强调圣经客观教训的人都宣称，我们与基督同钉十字架是一次永远的。就一面的意义说，我同意，因为基督只一次受死，不需要再死。不仅如此，祂已经一次而永远的复活了，不需要再复活。凡祂为我们所完成的一切，都是一次而永远的完成了。然而，当我们应用祂所作成的事时，就不是一次而永远的；反之，乃是仍在继续的。根据加拉太二章二十节，保罗与基督同钉十字架似乎是一次2永远完成的。但根据林后四章，他是一直在基督的死之下。所以，一面说，基督的死是一次永远的；但另一面说，基督的死在我们基督徒的一生中是继续不断的。照样，在基督身上所运行的能力使祂从死人中复活，在诸天界里坐在神自己的右边，将万有服在祂的脚下，并使祂向著召会作万有的头，乃是一次运行而永远完成的。然而，基督作万有的头是向著召会的，并且在祂身上所运行的浩大能力乃是向著我们这信的人。这神圣的能力不是一次永远传输给召会的；反之，这神圣的能力乃是继续不断传输的。这个传输开始于五旬节那日，今天仍然在继续著。甚至现在这个传输也是向著召会的。电安装在我们的会所里，是一次就永远完成的，但现在电是继续不断的传输到这房子里。照样，作头的基督所完成的一切，是继续不断的传输给祂的身体。神圣的能力要继续不断的传输给召会，直到永世也不终止。
2This transmission is not once for all. According to our thinking, we consider that certain things take place once for all. Take, for example, the matter of being crucified with Christ. Those who emphasize the objective teachings of the Bible claim that our crucifixion with Christ took place once for all. In a sense I agree, because Christ died once and does not need to die again. Furthermore, He has been resurrected once for all and does not need to be resurrected again. Whatever He accomplished for us, He accomplished once for all. However, the application of what He has done is not once for all. Rather, it is still continuing. According to Galatians 2:20, it seems that Paul’s co - crucifixion with Christ happened once for all. But according to Corinthians 4 he was continually under the death of Christ. There fore, on the one hand, Christ’s death is once for all; but on the other hand, it is a matter that continues throughout our Christian life. In like manner, the power that operated in Christ in raising Him from the dead, in seating Him at the right hand of God in the heavenlies, in subjecting all things under His feet, and in giving Him to be Head over all things operated once for all. Nevertheless, Christ is Head over all things to the church, and the surpassing greatness of the power that operated in Him is toward us who believe. The divine power is not transmitted to the church once for all; on the contrary, it is transmitted continually. This transmission began on the day of Pentecost, and it is still continuing today. Even now this transmission is to the church. Electricity was installed in our meeting hall once for all, but now electricity is being transmitted into the building continually. Likewise, all that Christ has accomplished as the Head is continually being transmitted to His Body. The divine power will continue to be transmitted to the church for eternity; it will never cease.
在新造里成为身体
BEING THE BODY IN THE NEW CREATION
3自从我到美国以来，就听见基督徒谈论身体以及身体的职事。这种谈论使我很受搅扰，因为我知道人们根本不知道自己所说的是甚么。他们所谓身体的职事，不过是以几个传道人代替一个传道人。身体不是组织，乃是生机体，由所有重生的信徒所构成，为著头的彰显和活动。基督的身体乃是那成为肉体、钉死、复活、升天、并降到召会来之基督所产生的。按著我们天然的生命，我们不彀资格作身体的一部分。相反的，我们只配被了结并埋葬，好叫我们得以复活。就著天然一面说，甚至我们的灵也不彀资格作基督的一部分。在基督钉死并复活之前，基督的身体并不存在。祂有许多跟从者，但是祂没有身体。基督的身体不能从成为肉体的基督身上产生；要一直到祂被钉十字架，了结肉体、天然的人、和整个旧造，才产生基督的身体。基督藉著祂的钉十字架，结束这一切之后，就进入复活，使一些新的东西有新生的起头。所以，基督的身体乃是在祂复活之后出现的。在我们天然的生命和旧造里，我们不是身体；但是在藉著基督复活的生命而有新生起头的新造里，我们是身体。
3Since coming to this country, I have heard Christians talking about the Body and the Body ministry. This talk has troubled me very much, for I realize that people simply do not know what they are talking about. What they mean by Body ministry is having several preachers instead of one. The Body is not an organization; it is an organism constituted of all the regenerated believers for the expression and activities of the Head. The Body is the issue of the incarnated, crucified, resurrected, and ascended Christ who has descended to the church. According to our natural life, we are not qualified to be part of the Body. On the contrary, we are qualified only to be terminated and buried so that we can be resurrected. By nature, not even our spirit is qualified to be part of Christ. Before Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection, the Body of Christ was not in existence. He had a number of followers, but He did not have the Body. The Body of Christ could not come forth from the incarnated Christ until He had been crucified to terminate the flesh, the natural man, and the entire old creation. After terminating all these things through His crucifixion, Christ entered into resurrection to germinate something new. Therefore, it was after His resurrection that the Body of Christ came into being. In our natural life and in the old creation, we are not the Body. But we are the Body in the new creation germinated by Christ’s resurrection life
4藉著成为肉体，创造的神成了一个人，名叫耶稣。虽然神在耶稣里面生活、运行、动作，但还无法有身体，因为那时耶稣还不是头。只有在祂升到诸天之后，神才使祂向著召会作万有的头。基督藉著祂包罗万有的死，了结了旧造，包括我们的旧人、肉体、和天然的人。在钉十字架之后，基督将旧造与祂一同带进坟墓里，并埋在那里。当祂带著新造进入复活后，祂将旧造留在坟墓里，然后升到诸天，成为万有之上的头。把太空船从地球送上月球要用巨大的力量，何况叫基督从地上升到第三层天，岂不需要更大的能力么？乃是神超越浩大的能力，使基督从死人中复活，使祂在诸天界里坐在神宝座的右边，并且将万有服在祂的脚下，使祂向著召会作万有的头。现在这能力正传输到召会里。
4By incarnation God the Creator became a man named Jesus. Although God was living, moving, and acting in Jesus, there was no way to have the Body, for at that time Jesus was not the Head. Only after He had ascended into the heavens did God give Him to be the Head over all things to the church. By Christ’sa ll-inclusive death, the old creation, including our old man, our flesh, and our natural being, was terminated. After crucifixion, Christ brought the old creation with Him into the tomb and buried it there. When He entered into resurrection with the new creation, He left the old creation in the tomb. Then He ascended to the heavens and was given to be the Head over all things. It took tremendous power to send a spacecraft from the earth to the moon. But how much greater was the power required to cause Christ to ascend from the earth to the third heaven! It was the surpassing greatness of God’s power that raised Christ from among the dead, seated Him at God’sr ight hand in the heavenlies, subdued all things under His feet, and gave Him to be the Head over all things to the church. Now this power is being transmitted to the church.
5我们已经指出，在五旬节那日，钉死、复活并升天的基督，已被立为万有的头，开始将祂所成就、所达到、并所得著的一切都传输给召会。从那日起，这传输没有停止过；指明这传输有开始，却没有终止。三一神经过了一切美妙的步骤─创造、成为肉体、钉死、复活和升天之后，就带著祂所成就的一切，进到召会里。因此，身体，召会，乃是一个天然成分和旧造都已结束，且完全在复活和升天里的实体。基督的身体这个在复活和升天里的生机体，完全是在新造里，与旧造无分无关。你若仍旧照著旧人、天然的人或肉体而活，你就不是身体的一部分。身体的每一部分都是属于新造。很多谈论身体和身体职事的人，不过是天然的、属肉体的；他们不在复活里。我们都必须看见，身体是在基督升天时出现的。祂既升到神的右边，就不断将祂所达到的传输到召会里。召会乃是这样产生的。
5As we pointed out, on the day of Pentecost, the crucified, resurrected, and ascended Christ, who was given to be Head over all things, began to transmit all that He had accomplished, attained, and obtained to the church. Since that day, this transmission has not ceased. This indicates that this transmission has a beginning but that it has no ending. After all the wonderful steps taken by the Triune God—creation, incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension—He came into the church with all His accomplishments. Thus, the church, the Body, is an entity altogether in resurrection and ascension with both the natural elements and the old creation terminated. The Body, an organism in resurrection and ascension, is wholly in the new creation and has nothing to do with the old creation. If you still live according to the old man, the natural man, or the flesh, you are not part of the Body. Every part of the Body is of the new creation. Many who talk about the Body and the Body ministry are natural and fleshly; they are not in resurrection. We all need to see that the Body came into existence when Christ ascended. Having ascended to the right hand of God, He continually transmits His attainments into the church. It is in this way that the church comes into existence
两个创造
TWO CREATIONS
6对我们这信的人来说，有两个创造：旧造和新造。我们必须承认，旧造仍然留在我们身上。我真是恨恶这个残余物，巴不得把牠甩掉。然而，有些基督徒不因旧造苦恼，反而欣赏旧造。你真的恨恶旧造、肉体、和天然的人么？我不信。我若是责备你太天然、太属肉体，你会被冒犯。但我若称赞你，说你很好、很不错，你会感觉受奉承。这很强的证明，你仍然爱旧人。你若恨恶你的肉体和天然的人，你受责备时，就不会受搅扰，反而会满了感谢。
6With us who believe, there are two creations, the old creation and the new creation. We must admit that the old creation still remains with us. How I hate this remainder and desire to strip it off! Some Christians, however, are not troubled by the old creation; instead, they appreciate it. Do you truly hate the old creation, the flesh, and the natural man? I doubt it. If I rebuke you for being natural and fleshly, you will be offended. But if I praise you and tell you how nice and good you are, you will feel flattered. This is a strong proof that you still love the old man. If you hate your flesh and your natural man, it will not trouble you to be rebuked. On the contrary, you will be thankful
从升天基督的传输产生身体
The Transmission from the Ascended Christ Producing the Body
7我们已经看见，在基督钉十字架以前，基督的身体还没有产生；乃是在祂升天之后，有些东西从升天的基督传输到信徒里面的时候，基督的身体才产生。这就是说，升天基督的传输产生身体。
7We have seen that the Body of Christ did not come into existence before Christ’s crucifixion, but after His ascension, when something from the ascended Christ was transfused into the believers. This means that the transmission of the ascended Christ produces the Body
8我们在召会生活中，在事奉或交通中所说的一切，必须出于这传输。我们的说话若是出自这传输，我们的说话就是属身体的；若不是出自这传输，就不是属身体的。在身体里没有一样是天然的，没有一样是属肉体的，没有一样是属旧造的。我们都需要看见这异象。我们需要把这几节一读再读，直到主在这一点上光照我们。当我们看见异象时，我们会说，『身体实在和天然的人无分无关。身体是从升天基督的传输来的。』赞美主，在召会生活中，属天的传输正在我们众人里面进行！
8Everything we speak in the church life, in the ministry, or in fellowship must issue from this transmission. If our speaking is of the transmission, then our speaking is of the Body. If it is not of the transmission, it is not of the Body. In the Body there is nothing natural, nothing of the flesh, and nothing of the old creation. We all need to see this vision. We need to read these verses again and again until light shines on us concerning this. When we see the vision, we shall say, “Surely the Body is nothing of the natural man. The Body comes from the transmission of the ascended Christ.” Praise the Lord that in the church life the heavenly transmission is taking place in us all!
经历传输
EXPERIENCING THE TRANSMISSION
9当我在基要派基督教时，我未曾经历这传输。当我和灵恩派基督教有来往时，我看到一些奇怪的事，但是我没有看见这传输。经过多年的经历和比较，我才看见正当的召会生活不是基要派，也不是灵恩派；召会生活完全是神圣传输的事。你可能非常基要，却是死的，很少有升天的基督传输到你里面。你可能不知道也不在意这样的传输。
9When I was in fundamental Christianity, I did not experience this transmission. During my involvement with Pentecostal Christianity, I saw some strange things, but I did not see this transmission. Through years of experience and by making comparisons, I have come to see that the proper church life is neither fundamental nor Pentecostal; it is entirely a matter of the divine transmission. You may be very fundamental and yet be dead, having little of the ascended Christ transmitted into you. You may neither know about nor care about such a transmission
10在基要派基督教里，我受教导要正直的分解神的话。弟兄会的教师一直指出甚么道理是错误的。最终我才发现，我越分解神的话，我就变得越死。我有六年多一直受这影响；后来主给我看见，我虽然有许多知识，却是死的。我立刻为我的死沉悔改。次日早晨我爬到一个山顶上，在那里痛哭，甚至大声悔改认罪。那天我发现基督徒生活不在于是否合乎基要派教训，乃在于经历传输。几年后，我开始和灵恩运动有来往，以为这会帮助我得著属灵的能力。有一个灵恩派的领头传道人教我如何说方言，我也说了一年多。然而，我越说方言，似乎越少经历这传输。所以我放弃了灵恩运动，回到传输的路。现今我在这条路上已有四十多年了，我每天不断的接受更多的传输。
10In fundamental Christianity I was taught to cut straight the Word of God. The Brethren teachers were constantly pointing out what doctrines were wrong. Eventually I came to realize that the more I cut straight the Word, the more dead I became. After I had been under this influence for more than six years, the Lord showed me that although I had a great deal of knowledge, I was dead. I immediately repented for my deadness. The next morning I climbed to the top of a mountain, and there I wept and even shouted out my confession and repentance. That day I discovered that the Christian life depends not on being fundamental, but on the experience of the transmission. Several years later, I became involved with the Pentecostal movement, which I thought would help me to obtain spiritual power. I was taught by one of the leading Pentecostal preachers how to speak in tongues, and I did so for more than a year. However, the more I spoke in tongues, the less of the transmission I seemed to experience. Therefore, I gave up the Pentecostal movement and came back to the way of transmission. I have been in this way for more than forty years, and I am receiving more of the transmission every day
11在我们得救的那日，属天的能力就已安装在我们灵里。我们现在所需要的是继续不断的传输，而不是另一次安装。我们若敞开我们的心，洁净我们的心和良心，且让我们的心思清明、情感火热、意志服从，我们就会经历这传输，得著能力和丰富。这样，我们就不在天然的人里，而在复活和升天里。当我们享受传输时，我们可能不知身在何处，因为我们完全与基督是一，很难说我们是在地上还是在天上。
11On the day we were saved, heavenly power was installed in our spirit. What we need now is a continual transmission, not another installment. If we open our heart, purify our heart and conscience, and allow our mind to become sober, our emotion to be fervent, and our will to be made submissive, we shall experience the transmission and have the power and the riches. Then instead of being in the natural man, we shall be in resurrection and ascension. When we are enjoying the transmission, we may not know where we are, for we are utterly one with Christ. It may be hard to say whether we are on earth or in the heavens.
12当基督传输到我们里面时，这传输使我们与基督联结，并使我们与祂成为一。举例说，会所的灯是联于从发电厂传输来的电。不仅如此，神圣的传输是取用不竭的。我们越说，就越有可说的。我们越服事，就越有供应能取用。我们过召会生活，是在这传输里；身体尽功用，也是在这传输里。我再说，属天的传输是向著召会的。藉著这传输，这身体是实在、真实、活泼、且进取的。
12When Christ is transmitted into us, the transmission joins us with Christ and makes us one with Him. For example, the lights in the meeting hall are connected to the electrical transmission from the power plant. Furthermore, the divine transmission is inexhaustible. The more we speak, the more we have to say. The more we minister, the more supply we have to draw from. It is in this transmission that we have the church life and the Body functions. Once again I say, the heavenly transmission is to the church. By means of the transmission, the Body is real, genuine, living, and aggressive
基督的丰满
THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST
13二十三节说，这身体是『那在万有中充满万有者的丰满』。基督的身体就是祂的丰满。基督的丰满出自对基督丰富的享受。（三8。）藉著享受基督的丰富，我们就成了祂的丰满而彰显祂。这是那在万有中充满万有者的丰满。基督是无限的神，没有任何的限制；祂大到一个地步，在万有中充满万有。这样一位伟大的基督，需要召会作祂的丰满，使祂得著完全的彰显。乃是在这样的传输里，基督的身体是那在万有中充满万有者的丰满，因为这位在万有中充满万有的基督就在这传输里。这传输把我们联于充满万有的基督。召会乃是这样成为充满万有之基督的丰满。
13Verse 23 says that the Body is “the fullness of the One Who fills all in all.” The Body of Christ is His fullness. The fullness of Christ issues from the enjoyment of the riches of Christ (3:8). Through the enjoyment of Christ’s riches, we become His fullness to express Him. This is the fullness of the One who fills all in all. Christ, who is the infinite God without limitation, is so great that He fills all things in all things. Such a great Christ needs the church to be His fullness for His complete expression. It is in the transmission that the Body of Christ is the fullness of the One who fills all in all, because the Christ who fills all in all is in the transmission. The transmission connects us to the all-filling Christ. In this way the church becomes the fullness of the all- filling Christ
享受基督的丰富，
ENJOYING THE RICHES OF CHRIST
过正当的召会生活
AND HAVING THE PROPER CHURCH LIFE
14我们不该把这事仅仅当作教训，乃要把这事付诸实行。你若这样实行，每次你读神的话，你就会享受基督的丰富。藉著传输，圣经成了另一本书。哦，基督的丰富是何等追测不尽！在这传输中，基督那追测不尽的丰富成了我们的享受。当这些丰富成为我们的享受时，这些丰富也成为我们属灵所是的构成成分。这就产生了身体，作那在万有中充满万有之基督的丰满。
14We should not take this as a mere teaching, but put it into practice. If you practice this, you will enjoy the riches of Christ every time you read the Word of God. By means of the transmission, the Bible becomes another book. Oh, how unsearchable are the riches of Christ! In the transmission the unsearchable riches of Christ become our enjoyment. As these riches become our enjoyment, they also become the constituents of our spiritual being. This produces the Body as the fullness of the Christ who fills all in all
15这传输把我们联于升天的基督。在这传输里，我们享受照著圣经所记载的基督。凡我们在圣经里所读到的，藉著传输，对我们都成为真实的。这样，基督的丰富就成了我们的享受。我爱以弗所一章里这两句特别的话：『向著我们这信的人』，以及『向著召会』。神圣的能力已一次永远的安装到我们里面，但这能力乃是继续不断的传输到我们里面。在这传输里，我们享受基督，并且有正当的召会生活。藉著享受这传输，我们就豫尝被提。有时当我享受这神圣的传输，我就在一种狂喜之中，喜乐得要跳起来。这享受美妙到一个地步，好像我已经被提了。有时我不太敢读圣经，因为在其中所启示之基督的丰富实在广大、无可测量；这样丰富的享受使我欣喜若狂。藉著这样的传输，我们就成为身体，就是那在万有中充满万有者的丰满。
15The transmission connects us with the ascended Christ. In this transmission we enjoy Christ according to what is recorded in the Bible. Whatever we read in the Bible becomes real to us through the transmission. In this way the riches of Christ become our enjoyment. I love two particular phrases found in Ephesians 1: toward us who believe,” and, “to the church.” The divine power has been installed into us once for all, but it is continually being transmitted into us. In this transmission we enjoy Christ and have the proper church life. By enjoying the transmission we have a foretaste of the rapture. Sometimes as I enjoy the divine transmission, I am in such an ecstasy that I want to leap for joy. The enjoyment is so marvelous that it seems I have already been raptured. Sometimes I hardly dare read the Bible because the riches of Christ revealed in it are so vast and immeasurable. I am beside myself with this rich enjoyment. By means of such a transmission, we are the Body, the fullness of the One who fills all in all