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腓立比书生命读经 · 第40篇

藉著接受神的话，有分于那灵全备的供应，

To Participate in the Bountiful Supply of the Spirit and Enjoy the Riches of Christ
并享受基督的丰富（二）
by Receiving the Word of God (2
1读经：腓立比书1:19-21;2:12-16，歌罗西书3:16，以弗所书5:18-19;6:17-18。歌罗西三章十六节说，『当用各样的智慧，让基督的话丰丰富富的住在你们里面，用诗章、颂辞、灵歌，彼此教导，互相劝戒，心被恩感歌颂神。』这里保罗说，基督的话该住在我们里面，定居在我们里面。这含示基督的话是活的。某样东西要住在我们里面，或定居在我们里面，就必须是活的。
1Scripture Reading: Phil. 1:19-21; 2:12-16; Col. 3:16; Eph. 5:18-19; 6:17-18 Colossians 3:16 says, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God.” Here Paul says that the word of Christ should dwell in us, inhabit us. This implies that the word of Christ is living. In order for something to dwell in us or to inhabit us, it must be living
活的人位
A LIVING PERSON
2保罗在这一节的发表，指明基督的话很像一个活的人位。保罗几乎将基督的话人位化了；他告诉我们，要让基督的话住在我们里面，好像这话是个活的人位。基督的话实际上就是基督这活的人位。不仅如此，照著新约，基督这活的人位就是那灵。耶稣是这人位的名字，而这人位的实际就是那灵。为这缘故，每当我们呼求主耶稣的名，来临的乃是那灵。我们也曾指出，话与灵是一。因此，基督的话住在我们里面时，那灵就定居在我们里面。
2Paul’sex press i on in this verse indicates that the word of Christ is very much like a living person. Paul almost personifies the word of Christ; he tells us to let this word inhabit us, as if it were a living person. The word of Christ is actually the living Person of Christ. Moreover, according to the New Testament, the living Person of Christ is the Spirit. Jesus is the name of this Person, and the reality of this Person is the Spirit. For this reason, whenever we call on the name of the Lord Jesus, it is the Spirit who comes. We have also pointed out that the Word and the Spirit are one. Hence, when the word of Christ dwells in us, the Spirit inhabits us
用各样的智慧
IN ALL WISDOM
3在歌罗西三章十六节保罗告诉我们，当『用各样的智慧』，让基督的话丰丰富富的住在我们里面。你曾否想过，用各样的智慧让基督的话住在你里面，是甚么意思？我们若要领会这发表的意思，就必须区别智慧与知识。知识主要与心思的功用有关，而智慧与我们灵的功用有关。这就是说，倘若要用各样的智慧让基督的话住在我们里面，我们就需要运用我们的灵。我们若用心思记忆这话，这话就会在知识上住在我们里面。背圣经是与知识有关的心思的功用，不是与智慧有关的灵的功用。用各样的智慧让这话住在我们里面，就是指藉著我们运用灵，尽可能的让这话住在我们里面。智慧比知识更深、更细、且更深奥，乃是来自运用灵。
3In Colossians 3:1 6 Paul tells us to let the word of Christ dwell in us richly “in all wisdom.” Have you ever considered what it means for the word of Christ to dwell in you in all wisdom? If we would understand the meaning of this expression, we must differentiate between wisdom and knowledge. Knowledge is related primarily to the function of the mind, whereas wisdom is related to the function of our spirit. This means that if the word of Christ is to dwell in us in all wisdom, we need to exercise our spirit. If we use our mind to memorize the Word, the Word will then dwell in us in knowledge. Memorizing Bible verses is a function of the mind related to knowledge, not a function of the spirit related to wisdom. For the Word to dwell in us in all wisdom refers to its indwelling every way possible through the exercise of the spirit. Wisdom is deeper, finer, and more profound than knowledge. It comes from the exercise of the spirit.
4知识与智慧之间的不同，可用婚姻生活来说明。假定一位弟兄的妻子在发怨言，甚至责备他。他若还击，与她争论，就会运用心思同其知识。这样，就没有智慧。但假定他妻子发怨言的时候，他呼求主耶稣的名，并且祷告。这就是智慧。争论与知识有关，但祷告与智慧有关。祷读和歌唱也与智慧有关。这位弟兄也可以运用他的灵，分享他最近在召会聚会中所听见对人有帮助的见证，藉此展现智慧。这里的点是，知识与运用心思有关，而智慧与运用灵有关，是以祷告、祷读、歌唱、和见证为凭藉。保罗在歌罗西三章十六节说到让基督的话丰丰富富的住在我们里面时，他没有题到读主的话；读是运用心思。他乃是题到智慧；智慧含示运用灵。运用灵所产生的结果乃是智慧，但运用心思所得著的乃是知识。
4The difference between knowledge and wisdom can be illustrated in married life. Suppose a brother’s wife is murmuring and even rebukes him. If he fights back by reasoning with her, he will exercise his mind with its knowledge. In this, there is no wisdom. But suppose while his wife is murmuring, he calls on the name of the Lord Jesus and prays. This is wisdom. To reason is related to knowledge, but to pray is related to wisdom. Pray-reading and singing may also be related to wisdom. The brother may also show wisdom by exercising his spirit to share a helpful testimony he heard recently in a church meeting. The point here is that knowledge involves the exercise of the mind, but wisdom involves the exercise of the spirit by such means as praying, pray- reading, singing, and testifying. When Paul speaks in Colossians 3:16 of letting the word of Christ dwell in us richly, he does not mention reading, which is an exercise of the mind. Rather, he mentions wisdom, which implies the exercise of the spirit. What issues from the exercise of the spirit is wisdom, but what comes through the exercise of the mind is knowledge
彼此教导，互相劝戒
teaching and admonishing one another
5在本节保罗也说到『用诗章、颂辞、灵歌，彼此教导，互相劝戒，心被恩感歌颂神』。这里保罗不是说到普通的教导和劝戒，乃是说到用诗章、颂辞、灵歌来教导和劝戒。不但如此，保罗指明让基督的话丰丰富富的住在我们里面，乃是藉著歌唱。我们也可以藉著歌唱来教导并劝戒。
5In this verse Paul also speaks of “teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace” in our hearts to God. Here Paul does not speak of teaching and admonishing in an ordinary way, but of teaching and admonishing in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Furthermore, Paul indicates that it is by singing that we let the word of Christ dwell in us richly. We may also teach and admonish by singing
向主歌唱
SINGING TO THE LORD
6因为我们许多人生在基督教里，长在基督教里，甚至是由基督教所构成，所以我们必须承认，至少在某种程度上，我们仍在基督教宗教的影响之下，尤其是我们聚在一起聚会的方式。新约没有一处告诉基督徒，我们该聚在一起，只是安静的坐著，等候某人开始聚会。照著诗篇，以色列人每年三次来在一起过节，他们的聚会不是在圣殿里才开始，乃是在锡安山脚下就开始了。他们登山时，唱著上行之诗。（诗一二○～一三四。）同样，召会的聚会不该到会所里才开始，而该在我们家里或在来聚会的路上开始。聚会该是我们日常生活的展览，是我们在家里、在学校里、或在工作里生活的展览。聚会该满了歌唱和赞美，因为我们天天都歌唱并赞美主。我喜欢一首诗歌的副歌：『这是我见证，是我诗歌，赞美我救主，终日欢乐！』（诗歌二六五首。）但你在那里能找著终日赞美主的基督徒？许多唱这首诗歌的基督徒，并没有在日常生活中赞美他们的救主。但我们的日常生活该满了向主的歌唱。
6Because many of us were born into Christianity, raised in Christianity, and even constituted of Christianity, we must admit that, at least to some extent, we are still under the influence of the religion of Christianity, especially in the way we gather together for the meetings. Nowhere in the New Testament are Christians told that we should gather together and sit quietly, waiting for someone to start the meeting. According to the book of Psalms, when the children of Israel came together for the feasts three times a year, they began their meetings not in the temple, but at the foot of Mount Zion. As they ascended the mountain, they psalmed the songs of ascent (Psalms 120 through 134). Likewise, the church meetings should begin not in the meeting hall, but either in our homes or on our way to the meeting. The meeting should be an exhibition of our daily life, of the way we live at home, at school, or at work. The meeting should be full of singing and praising because we sing and praise the Lord day by day. I appreciate the chorus of the hymn, “This is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all the day long.” But where can you find a Christian who praises the Lord all day long? Many Christians who sing this hymn do not praise their Savior in their daily living. But our daily life should be filled with singing to the Lord.
7我们许多人多年读圣经，却不晓得我们能藉著歌唱来接受神的话。你有否实行，不但藉著读，也藉著唱，来接受圣经节？基督徒受教导要查考圣经，研读圣经，却没有受教导要歌唱圣经。我们感谢主恢复祷读主话。现今我们必须往前到唱读神的话。我们需要藉著歌唱，用各样的智慧，让基督的话丰丰富富的住在我们里面。这不是我的教导；这是使徒保罗在歌罗西三章十六节所给的嘱咐。多年来我们一直读歌罗西书，却没有充分留意藉著歌唱接受神的话。许多基督徒宣称自己合乎圣经，但他们没有完全合乎圣经，反而可能是流于形式和宗教。唱神的话的确是合乎圣经的。我们不但应当在聚会中唱神的话，在我们的日常生活中更该如此。我们尤其应当在家里唱神的话。你独自在房间里或同别人在餐桌旁，要唱神的话。唱神的话是运用灵绝佳的路。祷告是运用灵，但歌唱更是运用灵绝佳的路。
7Many of us have read the Bible for years without realizing that we can receive the Word of God by singing. Is it your practice to take a verse of the Bible not only by reading, but also by singing? Christians have been taught to study the Bible and to read it, but not to sing it. We are thankful for the recovery of pray-reading the Word. Now we must go on to sing-read the Word of God. We need to let the word of Christ dwell in us richly in all wisdom by singing. This is not my teaching; it is the charge given by the apostle Paul in Colossians 3:16. Even though we have been reading Colossians for years, we have not paid adequate attention to taking the Word by singing. Many Christians claim to be scriptural. But instead of being wholly scriptural, they may be formal and religious. It certainly is scriptural to sing the Word of God. We should sing the Word not only in the meetings, but especially in our daily life. In particular, we should sing the Word at home. When you are alone in your room or with others at the dining table, sing the Word of God. Singing the Word is an excellent way to exercise the spirit. To pray is to exercise the spirit, but to sing is an especially good way to exercise the spirit
8圣经最长的一卷是诗篇，包含一百五十篇。写这卷书不仅仅是为著研读，更是为著歌唱，甚至是为著颂咏。颂咏比歌唱更高。在歌罗西三章十六节，保罗题到诗章、颂辞、灵歌。灵歌通常很短；颂辞中等长度；诗章通常是较长的作品。我们需要歌唱、颂咏神的话。颂咏比歌唱更高、更深、且更深奥。
8The longest book of the Bible is the book of Psalms, containing one hundred fifty psalms. This book was composed not merely for reading; it was written for singing, even for psalming. Psalming is more elevated than singing. In Colossians 3:16 Paul mentions psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Spiritual songs are usually short; hymns, of medium length; and psalms are usually longer compositions. We need to sing and psalm the Word of God. Psalming is higher, deeper, and more profound than singing
9藉著歌唱被话浸透我们若真渴望被活的话浸透，使我们活基督，就需要跟随保罗在歌罗西三章十六节所提倡的实行。这就是说，我们必须让基督的话丰丰富富的住在我们里面，不是单单凭著来自心思的知识，乃是凭著来自我们灵的各样智慧，包括歌唱和颂咏。哦，我们需要歌唱并颂咏神的话！歌唱神的话比读神的话更好，颂咏神的话又比歌唱神的话更好。颂咏神的话包括默想这话，并享受这话。我们颂咏神的话时，就思想这话，默想这话，并享受这话，因此给这话更多的机会浸透我们。我们若只读神的话，我们所读的那段话就不太有机会深入我们里面，并浸透我们这人。但我们若歌唱神的话，特别是颂咏这话，就将我们全人更完全的向话敞开，并给这话机会深入我们，并浸透我们。例如，我们若唱诗篇第一篇，就会享受这篇短诗里的丰富。让我们不单在聚会中歌唱并颂咏神的话。让我们天天来到话跟前，用我们全人歌唱并颂咏这话。在歌唱并颂咏神的话时，让我们运用我们的声音、我们的心思、我们的心、和我们的灵。不但如此，我盼望从现在起，在召会的聚会中，会将更多的地位给自然的歌唱神的话一事。可能在某个聚会中，我们会歌唱或颂咏以弗所书。毫无疑问，我们若花整个聚会这样作，就会摸著这封书信里的丰富。
9SATURATED WITH THE WORD BY SINGING If we sincerely desire to be saturated with the living Word so that we may live Christ, we need to follow the practice advocated by Paul in Colossians 3:16. This means that we must let the word of Christ inhabit us in a rich way, not by mere knowledge from the mind, but by every kind of wisdom from our spirit, including singing and psalming. Oh, we need to sing and psalm the Word of God! To sing the Word is better than reading it, and to psalm the Word is even better than singing it. Ps alming the Word includes musing upon it and enjoying it. As we psalm the Word, we dwell upon it, muse on it, and enjoy it, thereby giving more opportunity for the Word to saturate us. If we only read the Word, there is little opportunity for the portion we read to sink into us and saturate our being. But if we sing the Word, and especially if we psalm it, we open our being more fully to the Word and give it the opportunity to sink into us and saturate us. For example, if we sing Psalm 1, we shall enjoy the riches found in this short psalm. Let us sing and psalm the Word of God not only in the meetings. Let us come to the Word daily to sing and psalm it with our whole being. In singing and psalming the Word of God, let us exercise our voice, our mind, our heart, and our spirit. Furthermore, I hope that from now on in the church meetings more place will be given to spontaneous singing of the Word. Perhaps in a certain meeting we shall sing or psalm the whole book of Ephesians. No doubt, if we spend an entire meeting to do this, we shall touch the riches in this Epistle.
10在歌罗西三章十六节保罗没有题到读，反而强调唱，这是令人惊讶的。我们可能读神的话，而没有运用我们的灵，没有接触神。但藉著祷告、歌唱和颂咏，我们就被带进那灵里。要接受生命的话，并且被基督的元素所浸透，上好的路就是唱神的话。
10It is surprising that in Colossians 3:16 Paul does not mention reading. Instead, he emphasizes singing. It is possible to read the Word without exercising our spirit and without contacting God. But by praying, singing, and psalming, we are ushered into the Spirit. The best way to receive the word of life and to be saturated with the element of Christ is to sing the Word
在灵里被充满
FILLED IN SPIRIT
11以弗所五章十八至十九节是与歌罗西三章十六节平行的。在这两节里保罗说，『不要醉酒，醉酒使人放荡，乃要在灵里被充满，用诗章、颂辞、灵歌，彼此对说，从心中向主歌唱、颂咏。』请注意在歌罗西三章十六节保罗告诉5:18我们，让基督的话丰丰富富的住在我们里面，但在以弗所五章十八节他告诉我们，要在灵里被充满。我们将两处经文放在一起，就看见我们应当在灵里被基督的话充满。这两段话有相同的目标─我们应当使我们的灵被主的话充满。
11Ephesians 5:18-19 is parallel to Colossians 3:16. In these verses Paul says, “Do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled in spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and psalming with your heart to the Lord.” Notice that in Colossians 3:16 Paul tells us to let the word of Christ dwell in us richly, but in Ephesians he tells us to be filled in spirit. When we put these verses together, we see that we should be filled in spirit with the word of Christ. These two portions of the Word have the same goal — that we should have our spirit filled with the Word.
12我们可将我们的灵比作需要汽油的汽车，并将话，圣经，比作加油站。我们觉得虚空时，就该来到话这里被充满。在话里有属灵汽油无穷无尽的供应。汲取这『汽油』到我们里面的路，乃是藉著歌唱并颂咏主的话。我们若这样被充满，必然会用诗章、颂辞、灵歌，彼此对说。我们也会发现，歌唱并颂咏主的话比祷读主的话更高。我们越歌唱并颂咏神的话，就越会得拯救脱离宗教的影响，就是那使我们在形式上来聚会的影响。让我们建立天天歌唱主话的习惯。然后我们的聚会就不会流于形式。聚会不会成为一种表演，反而会满了我们日常生活的展览。我们在召会聚会中所展览的，将是我们每天生活的内容。我们尤其要在聚会中歌唱，因为我们每天都歌唱主的话。关于歌唱神的话，我主要的负担不是使聚会得以丰富，乃是使我们被活的话所浸透。我们要藉著接受神的话，有分于那灵全备的供应，并享受基督的丰富。
12We may compare our spirit to an automobile needing gasoline, and the Word, the Bible, to a gas station. When we sense that we are empty, we should come to the Word to be filled. In the Word we have an inexhaustible supply of spiritual gasoline. The way to pump this “gasoline” into us is by singing and psalming the Word. If we are filled in this way, surely we shall speak to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. We shall also discover that singing and psalming the Word are higher than pray-reading it. The more we sing and psalm the Word of God, the more we shall be delivered from the influence of religion, the influence which causes us to come to the meetings in a formal way. Let us build up the habit of singing the Word day by day. Then our meetings will not be formal. Instead of any kind of performance, the meetings will be filled with an exhibition of our daily life. What we exhibit in the church meetings will be the way we live day by day. In particular, we shall sing in the meetings because we sing the Word daily. Concerning the singing of the Word of God, my main burden is not that the meetings will be enriched; it is that we shall be saturated with the living Word. We shall participate in the bountiful supply of the Spirit and enjoy the riches of Christ by receiving the Word of God
13已往我失去许多被主话浸透的机会，因为我不懂得唱主的话。我花了许多时间研读、查考圣经，把好几本圣经写满了注解，但我不晓得我能歌唱或颂咏主的话。读以弗所二章是一回事，祷读这话是另一回事。但我要再强调，歌唱主的话比祷读更好。今天许多基督徒只运用心思研读、查考主的话。他们根本不歌唱主的话，有些人实际上反对祷读的实行。我相信我们越歌唱并颂咏主的话，我们就越被基督的元素洗涤并浸透。
13In the past I lost many opportunities to be saturated with the Word because I did not know to sing the Word. I spent a great deal of time reading and studying the Bible, filling several Bibles with notes, but I did not realize I could sing or psalm the Word. It is one thing to read Ephesians 2 and another thing to pray-read it. But once again I wish to emphasize that singing the Word is even better than pray-reading. Many of today’s Christians exercise only their mind to read and study the Word. They do not sing the Word at all, and some actually oppose the practice of pray-reading. I am confident that the more we sing and psalm the Word, the more we shall be washed by and saturated with the element of Christ
接受话以活基督
RECEIVING THE WORD TO LIVE CHRIST
14关于那些生命所必需的事，要紧的不是领会，乃是接受。关于我们所喝的水，特别我们所吃的食物，我们也许不很领会，然而我们需要吃喝。藉著吃喝，我们就接受所需要的，以维持生命。同样，我们需要藉著吃，将主的话接受到我们里面。不错，我们能藉著正确的读，来吃主的话。不但如此，我们从经历知道，我们能藉著祷读接受主的话作食物。但现在我们必须往前看见，要将主的话接受到我们这人里面，没有比歌唱主的话更好的路。我们越歌唱并颂咏神的话，这话就会越深入我们这人深处，并浸透我们。我们若花一点时间歌唱主的话，就会觉得我们里面被这话充满并浸透。那么我们自然而然就会活基督。
14Concerning those things necessary for life, what is important is not understanding, but receiving. We may not understand very much about the water we drink and especially about the food we eat, but we need to drink and eat nevertheless. By eating and drinking we receive what is necessary to maintain life. In like manner, we need to receive the Word into us by eating it. Yes, we can eat the Word by reading it in a proper way. Furthermore, from experience we know that we can take the Word as food by pray-reading it. But now we must go on to see that there is no better way to receive the Word into our being than by singing the Word. The more we sing and psalm the Word of God, the more it will sink into the depths of our being and saturate us. If we take even a little time to sing the Word, we shall sense that we are inwardly filled and saturated with it. Then spontaneously we shall live Christ
15当基督的元素藉著我们歌唱并颂咏主的话，注入我们里面时，我们就自然且自动的活基督。有时候我们也许读主的话，而没有任何基督的元素注入我们这人里面。但我们歌唱并颂咏主的话，我们就被包含在话里，并藉著话传达给我们的神圣元素所浸透。我们越歌唱并颂咏主的话，就越给话机会住在我们里面，深入我们里面，并用神圣的元素饱和我们。然后我们就会由基督的元素所构成。我们便自动成为我们所吃的，并活出我们所吸收的。这就是活基督的路。
15When the element of Christ has been infused into us by our singing and psalming the Word, we live Christ spontaneously and automatically. Sometimes we may read the Word without having any element of Christ infused into our being. But when we sing and psalm the Word, we are saturated with the divine element contained in the Word and conveyed to us through the Word. The more we sing and psalm the Word, the more we give opportunity to the Word to dwell in us, sink into us, and permeate us with the divine element. Then we shall be constituted of the element of Christ. Automatically we shall become what we eat and live out what we have absorbed. This is the way to live Christ