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以弗所书生命读经 · 第34篇

被充满，成为神一切的丰满

To Be Filled Unto All The Fullness Of God
1使徒保罗在以弗所三章十九节说，『使你们被充满，成为神一切的丰满。』当基督安家在我们心里，当我们满有力量，能和众圣徒一同领略基督的量度，并藉著经历，认识祂那超越知识的爱，我们就要被充满，成为神一切的丰满。这一切的丰满都居住在基督里面。（西一19，二9。）基督藉著祂的内住，不断的把神的元素分赐到我们里面。我们能被神充满到这样的程度，也能达到这样的标准，甚至成为神一切的丰满。这样，我们就完成神的目的，使召会成为神的彰显。神的丰富在神里面，乃是神的丰富；但神的丰富彰显出来，就成了祂的丰满。（约一16。）我们说到神的丰满，就是含示神所是的丰富成了祂的彰显。
1In 3:19 the Apostle Paul says, “That you may be filled unto all the fullness of God.” When Christ makes His home in our hearts and when we are strong to apprehend with all the saints the dimensions of Christ and to know by experience His knowledge-surpassing love, we shall be filled unto all the fullness of God. All this fullness dwells in Christ (Col. 1:19; 2:9). Through His indwelling, Christ continually imparts the very element of God into our being. We can be filled with God to such a measure and can attain such a standard, even unto all the fullness of God. In this way we fulfill God’sin tent i on that the church should be the expression of God. When the riches of God are in God Himself, they are His riches. But when the riches of God. are expressed, they become His fullness (John 1:16). When we speak of the fullness of God, we imply that the riches of all that God is have become His expression
召会是新陈代谢构成的
THE CHURCH METABOLICALLY CONSTITUTED
2我们进到三章十九节的深处，就看见神的丰满乃是召会。以弗所三章不是说到召会的组织，也不是说到召会的形成，乃是说到召会的构成。召会不是组织成的，也不是形成的，乃是藉著我们对基督丰富的享受和经历，在我们里面新陈代谢的构成的。为著召会实际的得以构成，我们需要得以加强到里面的人里。然后基督必须安家在我们心里；祂必须占有我们里面之人的各部分，并且以祂的丰富浸透这些部分。然后我们需要在爱里生根立基；生根是为著长大，立基是为著建造。在此之后，我们必须领略基督的量度；这就是在祂平面和垂直的宇宙度量上，来经历祂。随著这个，我们也在经历上认识基督那超越知识的爱。这一切经历的结果，乃是我们最终被充满，成为神一切的丰满。所以，被充满，成为神一切的丰满，乃是三章所描述对基督更深、更高、更丰富之经历的结局、结果。
2When we get into the depths of 3:19, we see that the fullness of God is the church. Chapter three of Ephesians is not concerned with the organization of the church nor with the formation of the church, but with the constitution of the church. The church is neither organized nor formed; it is metabolically constituted in us through our experience and enjoyment of the riches of Christ. In order for the church to be constituted in a practical way, we need to be strengthened into our inner man. Then Christ must make His home in our hearts; He must occupy all the parts of our inner being and saturate them with His riches. Then we need to be rooted and grounded in love, rooted for growth and grounded for building. Following this, we must grasp the dimensions of Christ. This is to experience Christ in His universal dimensions both horizontally and vertically. Along with this, we come to know in our experience the knowledge- surpassing love of Christ. As a result of all these experiences, we are eventually filled unto all the fullness of God. Therefore, being filled unto the fullness of God is the outcome, the result, of all the deeper, higher, and richer experiences of Christ described in Ephesians 3
召会最高的定义
THE HIGHEST DEFINITION OF THE CHURCH
3召会最高的定义就是，召会是神的丰满。有些人或许对这种说法感到困扰，并且希奇这个宣告如何才能实现。保罗在二十一节说，『愿在召会中，并在基督耶稣里，荣耀归与祂。』根据上下文，二十一节的召会就是十九节的神的丰满。当我们在经历中被充满，成为神一切的丰满时，召会就实际的出现。到了这时，保罗才说，『愿在召会中…荣耀归与祂。』这荣耀就是神的彰显。因此，在神的丰满里有神的彰显。所以，神的丰满就是作神彰显的召会。
3The highest definition of the church is that the church is the fullness of God. Some may be troubled at such a statement and may wonder how this claim can be substantiated. In verse 21 Paul says, “To Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus.” According to the context, the church in verse 21 is the very fullness of God in verse 19. When in our experience we are filled unto all the fullness of God, the church comes into being in a practical way. It is at such a time that Paul says, “To Him be the glory in the church.” This glory is the expression of God. Hence, in the fullness of God there is the expression of God. Therefore, the fullness of God is the church as God’sex press i on.
4十九节有些繙译是说，『被神一切的丰满所充满。』照这个译法，神的丰满就成了充满我们的元素和素质。但这是对这节错误的了解。保罗在这里是说，我们要被充满，成为神一切的丰满，也就是说，我们要被充满，成为神的彰显。
4Some translations of verse 19 say, “filled with all the fullness of God.” According to this rendering, the fullness of God would have to be the element, the essence, with which we are filled. But this is a mistaken understanding of this verse. Here Paul is saying that we shall be filled unto all the fullness of God, that is, we shall be filled to be the expression of God
丰富和丰满
THE RICHES AND THE FULLNESS
5当我开始说到基督的丰富和基督的丰满之间的不同时，有些人想用约翰一章十六节和我争辩，这节说，『从祂的丰满里我们都领受了，而且恩上加恩。』他们说，『约翰一章十六节宣称，我们从祂的丰满里都领受了。这丰满岂不是基督的丰富么？你怎么能把基督的丰富和基督的丰满加以区分？』当基督和祂的门徒在地上时，你说那是神的丰富与祂同在，还是神的丰满与祂同在？若是丰富与祂同在，而丰满没有与祂同在，那必定有所缺乏，并不完全。譬如，有个玻璃罐子装著几颗好吃的糖果。这罐子装有一些糖果的丰富，但并不丰满。然而，当罐子装满糖果后，就不仅有丰富，也有丰满。若是罐子只装了一部分，罐子就不会是糖果的彰显。因为丰满就是彰显，所以没有丰满就没有彰显。惟有罐子装满了糖果，才有丰满作丰富的彰显。当主耶稣来的时候，祂无疑的是将神一切的丰富一同带来。然而，与祂同来的不仅是神的丰富，也是神的丰满。这就是为甚么约翰一章十六节说，从祂的丰满里我们都领受了；这一节不是说，我们领受了祂的丰富。当你从装满了糖果的罐子里拿一颗糖，你就是从罐子的丰满里领受了糖果，而不是从罐子的丰富里领受的。
5When I first began to speak on the difference between the riches of Christ and the fullness of Christ, some tried to argue with me by quoting John 1:16, “For of His fullness we all received, and grace upon grace.” They said, “John 1:16 declares that of His fullness we have all received. Isn’tt his fullness the riches of Christ? How then can you make a distinction between the riches of Christ and the fullness of Christ?” When Christ was on earth with His disciples, would you say that the riches of God were there with Him or that the fullness of God was there with Him? If the riches had been with Him but the fullness had not, something would have been lacking; there would have been no completion. For example, suppose a glass jar contains just a few pieces of delicious candies. The jar contains some riches of the candies but not the fullness. However, after the jar is filled with the candies, it will have not only the riches but also the fullness. If the jar remains only partly filled, there will not be in the jar the expression of the candies. Because the fullness is the expression, without the fullness there can be no expression. Only when the candies fill the jar to the brim will there be the fullness as the expression of the riches. When the Lord Jesus came, He no doubt brought all the riches of God with Him. However, with Him there were not only the riches of God, but there was also the fullness of God. This is the reason John 1:16 says that we all have received of His fullness; it does not say that we have received of His riches. If you take a piece of candy from a jar filled with candies, you will be receiving candy, not from the riches of the jar, but from its fullness.
6丰满乃是丰富的完全。『丰满』这辞原文的意思就是完满。因此，把这辞繙作『完满』也是对的。约翰一章十六节的『从』字，原文的意思是『出自』或『出于』。因此，出于基督的丰满，就是出于神一切丰富的完满，我们都领受了。我通常在晚上休息以前享受一杯蛋白质的饮料，最好是满满的一杯。当我喝这么满满的一杯，我就有分于杯中蛋白质饮料的丰满。当基督来临时，祂不只是充满神一部分的丰富，祂乃是充满到极点。因此，神所是的丰满、完满，与基督同在。这丰满、这完满，就是神的彰显。主耶稣像杯子，神的丰富像蛋白质饮料一样充满祂，使祂成为神一切的丰满。门徒不是仅仅从神的丰富里领受了，乃是从祂的丰满里领受了。
6The fullness is the completion of the riches. In Greek the word for “fullness” means completion. Hence, it is correct to render this Greek word as “completeness.” The Greek word translated “of” in John 1:16 means “out from” or “out of.” Thus, out of the fullness of Christ, the completeness of all the riches of God, we have all received. Before retiring at night, I often enjoy a glass of protein drink, preferably a glass filled to the brim. As I drink from such a full glass, I partake of the fullness of the protein drink in the glass. When Christ came, He did not come only partially filled with the riches of God. On the contrary, He was filled to the brim. Hence, the fullness, the completeness of what God is, was present with Him. This fullness, this complete ness, is the expression of God. The Lord Jesus was like the glass, and the riches of God with which He was filled unto all the fullness of God were like the protein drink. The disciples received not merely of the riches of God, but of His fullness.
新陈代谢的吸收基督的丰富
METABOLICALLY ASSIMILATING THE RICHES OF CHRIST
7在新约里，丰满是丰富达到完满而有的彰显。这说明为何保罗在三章八节说到基督那追测不尽的丰富，又在一章二十三节和四章十三节说到基督的丰满。基督的丰富乃是基督的所是、所有、以及祂所完成、所达到、并所得著的一切。基督的丰满乃是我们享受祂这些丰富的结果并流出。当我们享受基督的丰富时，这些丰富就给我们新陈代谢的吸收到里面，然后将我们构成基督的丰满─基督的身体，就是召会，作祂的彰显。所以，一章二十三节基督的丰满，就是三章十九节神的丰满。神的丰满乃是信徒藉著经历基督的丰富，而有新陈代谢之构成的流出。为要新陈代谢的吸收基督，我们必须得以加强到我们里面的人里。我们也必须有基督安家在我们心里，也就是说，让基督用祂一切的所是，占有、得著、并新陈代谢的浸透我们里面的各部分。然后我们就会为著生命的长大而生根，并且为著建造而立基。不仅如此，我们也会满有力量，能以在经历上领略基督的一切宇宙量度。同时，我们会藉著我们的经历，认识基督那超越知识的爱。当我们经历基督到这个地步时，我们就会被基督的丰富所充满，而成为神一切的丰满。这一切都是为著实际的构成召会作基督的身体，使祂得著彰显。
7In the New Testament the fullness is the expression through the completeness of the riches. This is the reason that in 3:8 Paul speaks of the unsearchable riches of Christ and then in 1:23 and 4:13 speaks of the fullness of Christ. The riches of Christ are the various aspects of what Christ is, and the fullness of Christ is the result, the issue, of our enjoyment of these riches. As we enjoy the riches of Christ, these riches are assimilated into our being metabolically. Then they constitute us into the fullness of Christ, into the Body of Christ, the church, as His expression. Therefore, the fullness of Christ in 1:23 is the very fullness of God in 3:19. The fullness of God is the issue of the believers’ being constituted metabolically through their experience of the riches of Christ. In order to assimilate Christ metabolical ly, we need to be strengthened in to our inner man. We also need Christ to make His home in our heart, that is, to occupy, possess, and metabolically saturate every part of our inward being with all that He is. Then we shall be rooted for the growth in life and grounded for the building. Furthermore, we shall become strong to grasp Christ experientially in all His universal dimensions. Along with this, we shall know through our experience the knowledge - surpassing love of Christ. When we have experienced Christ to such an extent, we shall be filled with the riches of Christ unto all the fullness of God. All this is for the constituting of the church in a practical way as the Body of Christ for His expression.
需要得著异象
THE NEED FOR A VISION
8我们都需要得著异象，看见召会是如何构成的。我们何等需要得以加强到里面的人里！我们全人的每一部分都需要得以加强到里面的人里。我们里面的人没有一部分该留在软弱的光景中。我们必须得著加强，使内住的基督能将祂自己扩展到我们整个人，并且安家在我们里面的各部分里。当基督在我们里面扩展，祂就用祂的一切所是，新陈代谢的浸透我们里面之人的每一范围。然后我们在爱里生根立基，我们就领略基督的量度，并且认识祂那超越知识的爱。至终，我们就被充满，成为神的丰满，也就是召会。这是关于召会何等高的启示！我们在这样一个异象的光中看见，把召会当作物质的建筑物，举行『礼拜』的地方，乃是完全错误的。把召会单单看作『艾克利西亚』，就是蒙神呼召出来之人的聚集，也是不充分的。虽然今天许多基督徒用『基督的身体』这个辞，但是很少人清楚认识这辞所表征的是甚么。基督的身体就是基督的彰显。基督的身体也是基督的丰满，就是神的丰满。神的这丰满能以实际的出现，乃是藉著我们得以加强到里面的人里，藉著基督安家在我们心里，藉著我们在爱里生根立基，藉著我们领略基督无法测度的量度，并藉著我们认识祂那超越知识的爱。当我们被基督的一切丰富所充满，并被基督的一切所是新陈代谢的浸透时，我们就成为神的丰满。这当然是召会最高的定义。
8We all need to see the vision of how the church is constituted. How we need to be strengthened into our inner man! Every fiber of our being needs to be strengthened into our inner man. Not one part of our inward being should remain in a weak condition. We need to be strengthened so that the indwelling Christ can spread Himself throughout our being and make His home in our inward parts. As Christ spreads within us, He saturates every area of our inner being metabolically with all that He is. Then we are rooted and grounded in love, we lay hold of the dimensions of Christ, and we know His love that surpasses knowledge. Then, ultimately, we are filled unto the fullness of God which is the church. What a high revelation of the church this is! In the light of such a vision we see that it is utterly wrong to regard the church as a material building where “services” are held. It is also not adequate to view the church merely as the ekklesia, the gathering together of God’scall ed-out people. Although many Christians today use the term “the Body of Christ,” few have any clear realization of what this term signifies. The Body of Christ is the expression of Christ. It is also the fullness of Christ, which is the fullness of God. This fullness of God comes into existence in a practical way by our being strengthened into the inner man, by Christ making his home in our hearts, by our being rooted and grounded in love, by our grasping the dimensions of the immeasurable Christ, and by our knowing Him as the knowledge-surpassing love. When we have been filled with all the riches of Christ and metabolically saturated with all that Christ is, we become the fullness of God. Surely this is the highest definition of the church
9惟有得著这样的异象，我们才真知道召会是甚么。虽然以弗所一、二章给了我们召会的定义，但是这个定义并不充分。我们需要三章给我们看见，召会是如何生机的、新陈代谢的以活的基督之丰富构成的。到了三章，召会才真正、实际的出现。正如我们所看过的，在这一章里，召会的出现乃是作神的彰显，也就是说，作神的丰满。保罗乃是在这时候，才能发出高的赞美，甚至颂赞说，『愿在召会中…荣耀归与祂。』现今召会已经实际出现了，基督能在召会中得著荣耀了。这样的召会，不仅是蒙神呼召出来之人的聚集，乃是神真实的丰满。
9Only by receiving such a vision do we truly know what the church is. Although chapters one and two of Ephesians give us a definition of the church, this definition is still not adequate. We need chapter three to show us how the church is constituted organically and metabolically with the riches of the living Christ. Not until chapter three does the church come into existence actually and in a practical way. As we have seen, in this chapter the church comes into being as the expression of God, that is, as the very fullness of God. It is at this point that Paul is able to sound a high praise, even a doxology: “To Him be the glory in the church.” Now that the church has come into existence in a practical way, Christ can be glorified in the church. Such a church is not merely a gathering of God’s called - out people; it is the actual fullness of God.
异象的功效
THE EFFECT OF THE VISION
10我们都需要这样的异象，这样的启示。我们若看见这异象，我们全人将会改变。我们若被这异象充满，然后出去为神说话，我们就必定是神所差遣的，也是祂的发言人。我们将是今天的使徒和申言者。这异象揭示了主建造祂召会惟一的路。只有当我们看见这异象，主在地上才有路完成召会的建造。在十九个多世纪的基督教历史中，到底为主完成了甚么？看看今天的光景，几乎没有人看见以弗所三章的异象。愿主给我们负担祷告说，『主，怜悯我，我需要看见这异象，我需要看见神的丰满及其如何出现。主，给我看见身体的构成，给我看见召会如何能实际的构成。』一旦你看见了这异象，你就会成为不一样的人。你会成为使徒和申言者。无论你往那里去，你都是一个受差遣的人；每逢你讲说这异象时，你就是神的发言人，为神的经纶讲论基督。我能见证，我到美国是带著这异象和这独一的负担来的。与我在一起多年的人能见证，我没有改变我的观念或话语。我从不同的方面、不同的角度，讲说这惟一的一件事─神的经纶乃是将祂自己分赐到祂所拣选的人里面，使他们成为基督的彰显。正如我们在本篇信息里所看见的，这个彰显就是神的丰满。被充满，成为三一神的彰显在以弗所三章论到神经纶的结果带来神丰满的这些经节中，我们看到了三一神。父（14）答应并成就使徒藉著灵（16）的祷告，使基督（子17）安家在我们心里；这样，我们就被充满，成为三一神的丰满。这是三一神分赐到我们全人里面，使我们能成为祂的彰显。
10We all need such a vision, such a revelation. If we see this vision, our being will be changed. If we are filled with this vision and then go forth to speak for God, we shall surely be God’ss ent ones and His spokesmen. We shall be today’s apostles and prophets. This vision unfolds the unique way for the Lord to build up His church. Only when we see this vision will the Lord have a way to accomplish on earth the building up of the church. After more than nineteen centuries of Christian history, what has been accomplished for the Lord? Consider today’s situation. Hardly any have seen the vision in chapter three of Ephesians. May the Lord burden us to pray, “Lord, have mercy on me. I need to see this vision. I need to see the fullness of God and how it comes into existence. Lord, show me the constitution of the Body. Show me how the church can be constituted in a practical way.” Once you have seen this vision, you will become a different person. You will be an apostle and a prophet. Wherever you go, you will be a sent one, and whenever you speak this vision, you will be God’s spokesman speaking Christ for God’secon o my. I can testify that I came to this country with this vision and with a unique burden. Those who have been with me over the years can testify that I have not changed my concept nor my speaking. In various aspects and from various angles, I have spoken just one thing—that God’secon o my is to dispense Himself into His chosen people to make them the expression of Christ. As we have seen in this message, this expression is the fullness of God. FILLED UNTO THE EXPRESSION OF THE TRIUNE GOD In these verses in chapter three of Ephesians concerning the economy of God resulting in the fullness of God, we see the Triune God. The Father (v. 14) answers and fulfills the apostle’spray er through the Spirit (v. 16) so that Christ, the Son (v. 17), may make His home in our hearts. Thus, we are filled unto the fullness of the Triune God. This is the dispensing of the Triune God into our entire being that we may become His expression
11根据以弗所三章，三一神不是道理上争辩的题目；祂乃是为著将祂自己分赐到信徒里面，使他们被充满，成为丰满，不仅是父的丰满，也不仅是子的丰满，或灵的丰满，乃是神的丰满。保罗祷告，求父藉著祂的灵加强我们，使基督能安家在我们心里，以致完全占有我们里面的人，结果使我们被充满，成为三一神的彰显。何等荣耀！何等奇妙！这就是神的经纶，这也是神新约的启示、我们的职事和主的恢复。
11According to Ephesians 3, the Triune God is not to be the object of doctrinal debate; He is for the dispensing of Himself into the believers so that they may be filled unto the fullness, not only of the Father, nor only of the Son, nor only of the Spirit, but of God. Paul prayed that the Father would strengthen us through His Spirit so that Christ might make His home in our hearts and thereby fully occupy our inward being with the result that we might be filled unto the expression of the Triune God. How glorious and how marvelous! This is God’secon o my, God’s dispensation. This is also God’s New Testament revelation, our ministry, and the Lord’s recovery
召会作神团体的丰满
THE CHURCH AS THE CORPORATE FULLNESS OF GOD
12我们已经看见，神的丰满就是神的彰显。根据约翰一章十六节，神的丰满随同基督而来，祂是神丰满的具体表现。（西二9，一19。）在基督身上，这彰显是个人的。所以，这彰显必须扩大、扩展，从个人的成为团体的。召会今天要团体的成为神的丰满。在召会中，神不是藉著个别的人得著彰显；祂乃是藉著身体，藉著信徒同被基督的丰富洋溢的充满，而得著团体的彰显。所以，神的丰满是具体化在召会中。召会作神丰满的具体表现，乃是三一神的彰显。这就是今天在主恢复中的召会。
12We have seen that the fullness of God is the expression of God. According to John 1:16, the fullness of God came with Christ who is the embodiment of God’s fullness (Col. 2:9; 1:19). With Christ, the expression was an individual matter. This expression, therefore, needed to be enlarged, to be expanded, from an individual matter to a corporate matter. The church today is to be the fullness of God in a corporate way. In the church God is not expressed through an individual; He is expressed corporately through the Body, through the believers who have together been filled to the brim with the riches of Christ. Therefore, the fullness of God is embodied in the church. The church as the embodiment of the fullness of God is the expression of the Triune God. This is the church in the Lord’s recovery today.