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腓立比书生命读经 · 第41篇

基督藉著祂的话住在我们里面而安家在我们里面

CHRIST MAKING HIS HOME IN US BY HIS WORD INHABITING US
1读经：以弗所书3:8,16-17a,19b;6:17b-18a，歌罗西书3:16，腓立比书2:16a，约翰福音14:23;15:4,7。
1Scripture Reading: Eph. 3:8, 16-17a, 19b; 6:17b-18a; Col. 3:16; Phil. 2:16a; John 14:23; 15:4, 7
2以上所列的经节好比一块一块的拼图，我们将这些放在一起，就能看见完整的图画。在以弗所三章八节，保罗说到基督那追测不尽的丰富。基督那追测不尽的丰富就是神格的丰满。（西二9。）这些丰富必是何等包罗万有、延展无限！神格的丰满成了基督那追测不尽的丰富。我们思想以弗所三章八节和十六至十七节上半，就看见基督安家在我们心里的意思，乃是祂追测不尽的丰富必须占有我们全人，必须充满我们的心，包括心思、情感、意志和良心。毫无疑问，我们的心若被基督占有并得著，我们也会在灵里与祂是一。然后我们里面的全人会被基督占有，并与祂是一。
2The verses printed above may be compared to the pieces of a puzzle. When we put the pieces together, we see a complete picture. In Ephesians 3:8 Paul speaks of the unsearchable riches of Christ. The unsearchable riches of Christ are the fullness of the Godhead (Col. 2:9). How all- inclusive and extensive these riches must be! The very fullness of the Godhead has become the unsearchable riches of Christ. As we consider Ephesians 3:8 and 16-17a, we see that for Christ to make His home in our heart means that His unsearchable riches must possess our entire being. They must fill our heart, including the mind, emotion, will, and conscience. No doubt, if our heart has been occupied and possessed by Christ, we shall also be one with Him in spirit. Then our whole inner being will be possessed by Christ and be one with Him
3神的丰满就是基督的丰富，而基督的丰富占有我们里面的人，这话对我们也许不过是道理。我们必须继续问，基督的丰富如何能实际的充满我们。神格的丰满和基督那追测不尽的丰富，乃是由那灵并在那灵里实化的。不但如此，那灵又具体化在话里。一17面，在以弗所三章八节和十七节，保罗说到基督的丰富，以及基督安家在我们心里；另一面，在歌罗西三章十六节他嘱咐我们，要让基督的话丰丰富富的住在我们里面。『丰丰富富的』与基督的丰富相符，『住』相当于『安家』。基督带著追测不尽的丰富，渴望安家在我们心里。歌罗西三章十六节是说到这些丰富，也说到基督的话定居、住在我们里面的事。不仅如此，照著以弗所三章十九节，基督若安家在我们心里，我们就会被充满，成为神一切的丰满。我们开始于神格的丰满，现在又回到这丰满。从永世以来之神的丰满，成了基督那追测不尽的丰富。现在这位基督带著祂追测不尽的丰富安家在我们心里，使我们被充满，成为神格一切的丰满。所以，这里有完满的循环：开始于神格的丰满，也回到这丰满。我们赞美主，藉著那灵与话，我们得以经历基督那追测不尽的丰富，并且被充满，成为神一切的丰满！
3The word about the fullness of God being the riches of Christ and the riches of Christ possessing our inner being may belittle more than a doctrine to us. We must go on to ask how in a practical way the riches of Christ can fill us. The fullness of the Godhead and the unsearchable riches of Christ are realized by the Spirit and in the Spirit. Furthermore, the Spirit is embodied in the Word. On the one hand, in Ephesians 3:8 and Paul speaks of the riches of Christ and of Christ making His home in our heart; on the other hand, in Colossians 3:16 he charges us to let the word of Christ dwell in us richly. The word richly corresponds to “riches,” and the word dwell corresponds to “make His home.” The Christ with the unsearchable riches desires to make His home in our heart. Colossians 3:16 refers both to these riches and to the matter of the word of Christ inhabiting us, indwelling us. Moreover, according to Ephesians 3:1 9, if Christ makes His home in our heart, we shall be filled unto all the fullness of God. We began with the fullness of the Godhead, and now we return to this fullness. The fullness of God, which is from eternity, has become the unsearchable riches of Christ. Now this Christ with His unsearchable riches is making His home in our hearts so that we may be filled unto all the fullness of the Godhead. Therefore, here we have a full circle beginning with the fullness of the Godhead and also coming back to this fullness. We praise the Lord that through the Spirit and the Word we may experience the unsearchable riches of Christ and be filled unto all the fullness of God!
话与灵
THE WORD AND THE SPIRIT
4关于那灵，有两个极端，一个是在基要派中间，另一个是在灵恩派中间。有些基要派的基督徒，因著惧怕对那灵的经历，所以基本上只注重圣经的道理。然而只有圣经的道理，而没有那灵，就是一个无生命的身体。那灵是具体化在话里；因此，话可称为那灵的身体。将灵与话分开，就只有一个无生命的身体。那灵是圣经生命的内容；离了那灵，圣经就是死的字句。然而，基要派的基督徒常惧怕听见对基督、那灵、和内里生命的经历。他们代表一个极端。
4Concerning the Spirit, there are two extremes, one found among fundamentalists and the other among Pentecostalists. Because they are afraid of the experience of the Spirit, certain fundamental Christians care primarily for Bible doctrine. But to have only the doctrine of the Bible without the Spirit is to have a lifeless body. The Spirit is embodied in the Word. Hence, the Word may be called the body of the Spirit. To separate the Spirit from the Word is to have a lifeless body. The Spirit is the life content of the Bible. Apart from the Spirit, the Bible is dead letters. Nevertheless, fundamental Christians are often afraid to hear about the experience of Christ, the Spirit, and the inner life. They represent one extreme
5灵恩派代表另一个极端。他们会忽略话，并且不正常、不平衡的强调那灵。神的经纶避开了这两个极端。
5The Pentecostalists represent another extreme. They may neglect the Word and emphasize the Spirit in an abnormal, unbalanced way
6在神的经纶里，那灵是三一神终极完成的临到人。我们看过，当那灵临到我们，三一神就来了。随著那灵，神将话给我们。一面，我们有那灵作三一神终极完成的临及；另一面，我们有话作那灵的具体化。我们绝不该将话与灵分开。我们的生命与我们的肉身怎样是一个实体，一个完整、活的生机体，灵与话也照样是一。我们人必须有看得见、摸得著的身体，也有看不见、摸不著的生命。同样，我们信徒需要话与灵。不但如此，我们身体里面看不见的生命，怎样使我们的身体有活力且活跃，那灵也照样使话成为活的。三一神乃是包罗万有的灵与我们同在。不需要禁食祷告以接受那灵；我们只要藉著呼求主耶稣的名，就能接受这灵。我们从经历知道，每当我们呼求：『哦，主耶稣，』我们就接受那灵。（林前十二3。）然后那灵就使我们转向话。我们许多人能见证，我们用信与爱呼求我们主耶稣的名，就接受那灵。我们自动被吸引到圣经跟前。这指明灵与话是一。神的经纶在于话与灵。我们必须两者都有，并且不可将两者分开。我们需要话作身体，灵作生命。
6God’s economy avoids both extremes. In the economy of God, the Spirit is the ultimate and consummate reaching of the Triune God to man. As we have seen, when the Spirit comes to us, the Triune God comes. Along with the Spirit, God gives us the Word. On the one hand, we have the Spirit as the ultimate and consummate reaching of the Triune God; on the other hand, we have the Word as the embodiment of the Spirit. We should never divorce the Word from the Spirit. Just as our life and our physical body are one entity, one complete living organism, so the Spirit and the Word are one. As human beings, we must have both a visible and tangible body and also an invisible and intangible life. In like manner, as believers, we need both the Word and the Spirit. Furthermore, just as it is the invisible life within our body which makes our body vigorous and active, it is the Spirit who causes the Word to be living. The Triune God as the all - inclusive Spirit is with us. There is no need to fast and pray in order to receive the Spirit. We can receive this Spirit simply by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus. From our experience we know that whenever we call, “O Lord Jesus,” we receive the Spirit (1 Cor. 12:3). Then the Spirit turns us to the Word. Many of us can testify that when we call on the name of the Lord Jesus with faith and love, we receive the Spirit. Automatically, we are drawn to the Bible. This indicates that the Spirit and the Word are one. God’s economy depends on both the Word and the Spirit. We must have both and never separate them. We need the Word as the body and the Spirit as the life.
7我们若要让基督占有我们，并安家在我们里面，就必须被基督的话充满。在约翰十四章二十三节主耶稣说，『人若爱我，就必遵守我的话，我父也必爱他，并且我们要到他那里去，同他安排住处。』这里我们看见，主的话与父和子到我们这里来，同我们安排住处之间的关系。很难说这住处是为著父和子，还是为著我们。事实上，这是相互的住处。一面，主使我们成为祂的住处；另一面，祂是我们的住处。这由主在约翰十五章四节关于住的话所证明：『你们要住在我里面，我也住在你们里面。』这是指互相的居住和相互的住处。亳无疑问，约翰十五章是十四章的继续。十四章有相互的住处，十五章有互相的居住。因为有个住处是给主居住，也给我们居住的，如今我们就能住在祂里面，祂也能住在我们里面。照著约翰十五章四节和七节，主的话住在我们里面，意思就是主自己住在我们里面。四节说，『你们要住在我里面，我也住在你们里面。』在七节主继续说，『你们若住在我里面，我的话也住在你们里面…。』这两节指明，主的话等于主自己。基督若要实际的住在我们里面，祂的话就必须住在我们里面。我们无法在经历上有基督在我们里面，除非我们也有祂的话在我们里面。我们赞美主，我们有基督、那灵与话！因为基督是神，祂是真的；因为祂是那灵，祂是活的；因为祂是话，祂是非常实际的。没有人能否认，我们这些相信基督的人，有灵与话。何等奇妙，灵与话乃是一！
7If we would allow Christ to occupy us and make His home in us, we must be filled with the word of Christ. In John 14:23 the Lord Jesus says, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make an abode with him.” Here we see the connection between the Lord’sword and the Father and the Son coming to us and making an abode with us. It is difficult to say whether this abode is for the Father and the Son or for us. Actually, it is a mutual abode. On the one hand, the Lord makes us His abode; on the other hand, He is an abode to us. This is proved by the Lord’sword in John 15:4 concerning abiding: “ Abide in Me and I in you.” This refers to the mutual abiding and to the mutual abode. No doubt, John 15 is the continuation of chapter fourteen. In chapter fourteen we have the mutual abode and in chapter fifteen, the mutual abiding. Because there is an abode both for the Lord and for us, we now can abide in Him and He can abide in us. According to John 15:4 and 7, for the Lord’sword to abide in us means that the Lord Himself abides in us. Verse 4 says, “ Abide in Me and I in you.” In verse 7 the Lord goes on to say, “If you abide in Me and My words abide in you....” These verses indicate that the Lord’swords are equal to the Lord Himself. If Christ is to abide in us in a practical way, His words must abide in us. We cannot have Christ in us experientially unless we have His words in us also. We praise the Lord that we have Christ, the Spirit, and the Word! Because Christ is God, He is real; because He is the Spirit, He is living; and because He is the Word, He is very practical. None of us can deny that, as those who believe in Christ, we have the Spirit and the Word. How wonderful that the Spirit and the Word are one
接受话以活基督
RECEIVING THE WORD TO LIVE CHRIST
8现在我们来看一件非常要紧的事：需要天天接受话。我们不该有一个态度，认为我们作基督徒多年，已经得著了相当的知识，所以不需要每天来到话跟前。我们吃饭已经多年了，但每天仍继续吃，才得以存活。说我们因为已往常常吃，如今不再需要吃，乃是愚昧的。同样，我们必须每天来到话这里，甚至一天几次。我们应当以物质上和属灵上美好的早餐，开始每一天。每天我们都需要将活的话接受到我们里面，并且被充满。
8Now we come to a very crucial matter: the need to receive the Word day by day. We should not have the attitude that because we have acquired a certain amount of knowledge during our years as Christians, there is no need for us to come to the Word daily. Even though we have been eating for years, we continue to eat day by day in order to stay alive. It would be foolish to say that because we have eaten so often in the past, we no longer need to eat. In like manner, we must come to the Word every day, even several times during the day. We should begin each day with a good breakfast both physically and spiritually. Every day we need to take the living Word into us and be filled.
9我们听见关于活基督的信息以后，也许真有渴望要活祂。然而，我们每天若不从话得𫗪养，就不可能活基督。我在属灵上很健康，因为我每天都吃、消化、并吸收话，得著这话的𫗪养。神已使基督成为我们的生命和一切，并且祂已命定我们活基督。我们若活基督，就会是地上最蒙福的人。我们会有喜乐、满足、和各样祝福。如我们所指出的，活基督的路就是将祂的话接受到我们里面，并且被这话充满。要将话接受到我们这人里面，我们不该仅仅读这话，也该将我们的读与祷告、歌唱、颂咏、和呼求主名调和。每当我打开神的话，或是为著工作，或是为著自己的滋养，我都浸沉在祷告的气氛和气息里。我常常藉著我所读的经文与主交谈。这样我就被注入并得滋养，在我灵里被活的话充满，这话实际上就是基督自己，也就是那灵。
9After hearing the messages on living Christ, we may have the genuine desire to live Him. However, if we do not feed on the Word daily, it will not be possible for us to live Christ. I am healthy spiritually because daily I eat, digest, and assimilate the Word and am nourished by it. God has made Christ to be our life and our everything, and He has destined us to live Christ. If we live Christ, we shall be the most blessed people on earth. We shall have joy, satisfaction, and every blessing. As we have pointed out, the way to live Christ is to receive His word into us and be filled with it. In order to receive the Word into our being, we should not merely read the Word, but should mingle our reading with prayer, singing, psalming, and calling on the name of the Lord. Whenever I open the Word of God, either for the work or for my own nourishment, I am immersed in the atmosphere and aspiration of prayer. Often I converse with the Lord by means of the verse I am reading. In this way I am infused and nourished, filled in my spirit with the living Word, which is actually Christ Himself as the Spirit
10不要以为你只要定意活基督，就能活基督。有人也许听见关于活基督的信息，然后祷告：『主，我要活你。我定意从现在起活基督。请帮助我这样作。』然而，这样的祷告没有功效。这好比你求主使你健康，却不好好的吃。你若不吃营养的食物，定意要健康是没有用的。同样，我们若没有被主的话滋养，定意活基督是无效的。惟有藉著吃主的话，我们才能活基督。我们被基督的话充满，就自然被基督的丰富和神格的丰满所充满。我们每天都需要将活的话作为食物接受到我们里面。我们来到话跟前，该敞开我们的全人，并运用我们的灵。首先我们该祷告，然后祷读、唱读、并颂读。在歌唱并颂咏主的话时，我们可用任何一种曲调，甚至用我们自己作的自来调。
10Do not think that you will be able to live Christ simply by making up your mind to do so. Someone may hear a message on living Christ and then pray, “Lord, I want to live You. I make up my mind to live Christ from now on. Please help me do this.” This kind of prayer, however, is not effective. It can be compared to asking the Lord to make you healthy when you do not eat properly. It is useless to make up your mind to be healthy if you do not eat nourishing food. Likewise, if we are not nourished by the Word, it will be to no avail to make up our minds to live Christ. Only by eating the Word can we live Christ. When we are filled with the word of Christ, we are automatically filled with the riches of Christ and the fullness of the Godhead. Every day we need to take the living Word into us as food. When we come to the Word, we should open our entire being and exercise our spirit. First we should pray and then pray-read, sing-read, and psalm-read. In singing and psalming the Word, we may use any kind of melody, even a spontaneous one of our own composition.
歌唱基督的话
SINGING THE WORD OF CHRIST
11有些基督徒，特别是灵恩派里的人，把圣经的经文拿来唱。然而，他们多半唱旧约的部分；这是不错，但这远不如唱新约那样丰富。我们尤其该唱构成神圣启示心脏的四卷书加拉太书、以弗所书、腓立比书、和歌罗西书，来享受基督那追测不尽的丰富。
11Certain Christians, especially those in Pentecostalism, sing verses from the Bible. However, for the most part, they sing portions from the Old Testament. This is good, but it is not nearly as rich as singing from the New Testament. In particular, we should sing the four books which make up the heart of the divine revelation— Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians—to enjoy the unsearchable riches of Christ
12在召会的聚会中，我们有时候唱：『耶和华救赎的民必归回，歌唱来到锡安。』（赛五一11。）唱这节经文能感动人、释放人，但在丰富上无法与唱以弗所书的经文相比。我们尤其需要唱那些向我们传达基督丰富的经文。我还要鼓励你们唱读加拉太书、以弗所书、腓立比书、和歌罗西书，这四卷满了神圣丰富的书。在歌罗西二章九节和以弗所三章十七节这样的经文里，我们可找著何等的丰富─神格一切的丰满都居住在基督里面，并且基督安家在我们心里！
12In the meetings of the church we sometimes sing, “Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion” (Isa. 51:11). Singing this verse can be inspiring and releasing. But it cannot compare in richness with singing verses from the book of Ephesians. We especially need to sing those verses which convey to us the riches of Christ. Again, I would encourage you to sing-read Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians, four books filled with the divine riches. What riches are to be found in verses like Colossians 2:9 and Ephesians 3:17—all the fullness of the Godhead dwelling in Christ, and Christ making His home in our hearts
13我们不该以为加拉太书、以弗所书、腓立比书、和歌罗西书仅仅是保罗写的话，不是基督的话。保罗写这些书信时，基督作为那灵乃是在他里面。因此，基督能在保罗的书写中书写。这就是说，保罗的话就是基督的话。照著希伯来一章，神今天是藉著祂的儿子说话。使徒们是信徒，有神的儿子基督活在他们里面。因此，使徒们同著基督所说的，都是基督的话。为这缘故，我们该将保罗所写的，视为基督的话。事实上我们该将全本新约，视为基督的话。我盼望有一天，我们能将全本新约配上音乐，好帮助我们歌唱基督的话。这样，新约的每一节都有曲调给我们唱。
13We should not think that Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians are merely words written by Paul and are not the word of Christ. When Paul wrote these Epistles, Christ was in him as the Spirit. Thus, Christ could write in Paul’s writing. This means that Paul’swords are the word of Christ. According to Hebrews 1, God today speaks through His Son. As believers, the apostles have the Son of God, Christ, living in them. Thus, whatever the apostles speak with Christ is the word of Christ. For this reason, we should regard all the words written by Paul, in fact the whole New Testament, as the word of Christ. I hope that one day we shall be able to set the entire New Testament to music as a help in singing the word of Christ. Then we shall have a tune for every verse in the New Testament
14我所关切的不是形式的歌唱，乃是自然的歌唱主的话，这样的歌唱使我们的全人都得以运用。我们歌唱主的话时，需要运用我们的眼睛来看，我们的心思来领会，我们的情感来爱主的话，我们的意志来接受主的话，也要运用我们的灵来祷告、歌唱、赞美、颂咏，为著主的话感谢祂。
14My concern is not with formal singing; it is with the spontaneous singing of the Word, a singing which causes our whole being to be exercised. As we sing the Word, we need to exercise our eyes to read, our mind to understand, our emotion to love the Word, our will to receive the Word, and also our spirit to pray, sing, praise, psalm, thank the Lord for His Word
藉著那灵被话浸透
SATURATED WITH THE WORD through the Spirit
15已往，我们许多人来到话跟前，都没有运用我们的全人。我们常常只用我们的心思研读圣经。我们甚至没有充分运用我们的情感爱主的话，或刚强的运用我们的意志接受主的话。但我们若运用我们的全人将话接受进来，至终我们会被活的话充满、占有并浸透。因著话是那灵的具体化，又因著那灵是基督的实际，我们自然就会被基督充满。然后我们无论作甚么或说甚么，都会在基督的名里。这就是活基督。我们藉著那灵被基督的话浸透，就自然的活基督。我们越吃活的话，就越被话构成。我们会被浸透，并完全被基督构成。然后我们的思想将是基督的思想，我们的说话将是基督的说话，我们的行动也将是基督的行动。这是活基督的路。藉著被话浸透而活基督，与定意活基督，然后求主在这件事上帮助我们很不相同。我从经历知道，这样的定意不管用。已往我常常说，『主，求你帮助我，从现在起活你。』短时间内我会成功，只是当天稍后我又不活主了。然后我会承认我的失败，并求主怜悯我，帮助我活祂。至终，我学会活基督的路不是求祂帮助，乃是天天被活的话滋养。例如，我们不该祷告求身体健康，乃该学习天天吃营养的食物。同样，我们若要在属灵上健康，并且活基督，就需要一再将神的话接受到我们里面。单单祈求主的帮助并不管用。管用的乃是每天来到神活的话面前，被基督的丰富注入。我们都需要从我们这人深处敞开，不仅仅藉著读，也藉著祷告、歌唱、颂咏、感谢、和呼求主，运用我们的灵，将神的话接受到我们里面。然后话的丰富就会浸透我们这人。
15In the past, many of us did not exercise our whole being when we came to the Word. Often we used only our mind to study the Bible. We did not even exercise our emotion adequately to love the Word, or exercise our will strongly to receive the Word. But if we exercise our whole being to take in the Word, eventually we shall be filled, occupied, and saturated with the living Word. Because the Word is the embodiment of the Spirit and because the Spirit is the reality of Christ, we shall automatically be filled with Christ. Then whatever we do or say will be in the name of Christ. This is to live Christ. We live Christ automatically when we are saturated with the word of Christ through the Spirit. The more we eat the living Word, the more we shall be constituted of the Word. We shall be saturated and fully constituted of Christ. Then our thinking will be Christ’st hin king, our speaking will be Christ’s speaking, and our actions will be Christ’s actions. This is the way to live Christ. Living Christ by being saturated with the Word is very different from making up our minds to live Christ and then asking the Lord to help us in this matter. I know from experience that this kind of determining does not work. In the past I often said, “Lord, I ask You to help me to live You from now on.” I would be successful for a short period of time, only to fail the Lord again later in the day. Then I would confess my failure and ask the Lord to have mercy on me and help me to live Him. Eventually, I learned that the way to live Christ is not to ask Him for help; it is to be daily nourished with the living Word. For example, instead of praying to be healthy physically, we should learn to eat nourishing meals day by day. Like wise, if we want to be spiritually healthy and live Christ, we need to take the Word of God into us again and again. Simply praying for the Lord’s help does not work. But what does work is coming to the living Word of God every day and being infused with the riches of Christ. We all need to open from the depths of our being and exercise our spirit to receive the Word of God into us not merely by reading, but also by praying, singing, psalming, thanking, and calling on the Lord. Then the riches of the Word will saturate our being.
16主在祂的恢复里不是要恢复任何形式或实行。主的目标是要恢复祂自己作我们的经历，并恢复来自实际经历祂而有的正当召会生活。今天主是灵，也是话。我们有话可默想，并藉著话与主交谈。我们也能祷告、歌唱、并颂咏主的话，并且能藉著话感谢父神。这样操练的目标，不仅仅是得著圣经的知识，主要的乃是接受那具体化在话里，并藉著话所传达，基督自己这神圣人位的元素、本质、素质。让我们祷告主的话，并歌唱主的话，好藉著那灵接受主话的丰富。
16In His recovery the Lord is not seeking to recover any formalities or practices. The Lord’s goal is to recover Himself as our experience and to recover the proper church life which comes from experiencing Him in a practical way. Today the Lord is the Spirit and also the Word. We have the Word to muse upon and through which to converse with the Lord. We can also pray, sing, and psalm the Word, and we can thank God the Father through the Word. The goal of such an exercise is not merely to gain knowledge of the Bible; it is mainly to receive the element, the substance, the essence, of the divine Person, Christ Himself, embodied in the Word and conveyed through the Word. Let us pray the Word and sing the Word to receive the riches of the Word through the Spirit.