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腓立比书生命读经 · 第44篇

神的话是活神的具体表现

THE WORD OF GOD BEING THE EMBODIMENT OF THE LIVING GOD
1读经：腓立比书2:13,16a，约翰福音，希伯来书1:1-2，提摩太
1Scripture Reading: Phil. 2:13, 16a; John 1:1-2, 14; 6:63; Heb. 1:1-2; 2 Tim. 3:15; Acts 6:7; 12:24; 19:20 1:1-2, 14; 6:63
2后书3:15，使徒行传6:7;12:24;19:20。
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3圣经启示神的作为、行事与活动。按著祂的计画，祂首先创造了宇宙和其中的万物。神所作的还包括成为肉体、钉十字架、复活、升天、成为那灵降下，以及将来基督的再临、国度、新天新地同新耶路撒冷。神绝不是静止不动的；相反的，祂成就了许许多多的事情。若没有神创造的活动，宇宙就无法存在，宇宙乃是出自神的活动而有的。
3The Bible reveals God’s doings, His deeds and activities. First, according to His plan, He created the universe and all things in it. God’s deeds also include incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, ascension, descending as the Spirit, and, in the future, Christ’s second coming, the kingdom, and the new heaven and the new earth with the New Jerusalem. God is by no means inactive. On the contrary, He has accomplished a great many things. If it were not for God’s activity in creation, the universe would not have come into existence. The universe came out of God’s activity
4成为肉体是一件比创造更为感人的事。藉著成为肉体，神成为人。作为一个人，基督完成了救赎的工作，为我们的罪死在十字架上。在复活里，祂将祂的人性带进神里面。这是何等奇妙！
4Incarnation is an even more impressive matter than creation. Through incarnation God became a man. As a man, Christ accomplished the work of redemption, dying on the cross for our sins. In His resurrection He brought His humanity into God. How marvelous
『神─婴孩』与赐生命的灵
THE GOD-CHILD AND THE LIFE-GIVING SPIRIT
5基督徒常说，神的儿子成为肉体。当然，这话没有错。不过，约翰一章十四节不是说神的儿子成为肉体，乃是说『话成了肉体』。约翰一章一节说，『太初有话，话与神同在，话就是神。』按照十四节，这话成了肉体。这指明神自己成了一个人。首先，话成了一个人，然后在复活里，基督─在肉体里的末后亚当，成了赐生命的灵。约翰一章十四1:14节和林前十五章四十五节都使用『成了』一辞，这两个『成了』非常重要：话『成了』肉体，以及末后的亚当『成了』赐生命的灵。首先，基督成了一个人，为要完成救赎。为这缘故，祂死在十字架上，并且埋葬了。然后在复活里，祂成了赐生命的灵。今日我们的神乃是赐生命的灵。
5Christians often say that the Son of God was incarnated. This, of course, is true. However, John 1:14 does not say that the Son of God became flesh; it says, “The Word became flesh.” John 1:1 says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” This Word, according to verse 14, became flesh. This indicates that God Himself became a man. First, the Word became a man. Then in resurrection Christ, the last Adam in the flesh, became a life-giving Spirit. In John and 1 Corinthians 15:45 we have two important uses of the word became: the Word became flesh, and the last Adam became a life - giving Spirit. First, Christ became a man in order to accomplish redemption. For this, He died on the cross and was buried. Then in resurrection He became a life-giving Spirit. Our God today is the life-giving Spirit.
6神经过了一个奇妙的过程。祂藉著由童女所生，生在马槽里，而成为一个人。因此，以赛亚九章六节宣告说，有一婴孩为我们而生，祂名称为全能的神。童女所生的那婴孩是全能的神；这意思是说，全能的神实际成了一个婴孩。你有否看见，我们的神有一天成了一个婴孩？宇宙中独一无二的神竟成为一个婴孩！我们甚至可以说，这婴孩是『神婴孩』。当然，圣经里并没有这个辞。然而，圣经却清楚的启示神成了婴孩的事实。我们讲『神─婴孩』并不是异端，这乃是神圣的事实。我们现在所看的，是圣经中两次极其关键的用到『成了』一辞。第一次是话成了肉体，神成了一个婴孩，生在马槽里。
6God has passed through a marvelous process. He became a man by being born of a virgin in a manger. For this reason, Isaiah 9:6 declares that unto us a child is born and that this child is called the mighty God. That child born of a virgin was the mighty God. This means that the mighty God actually became a child. Do you realize that one day our God became a child? The unique God, the only God in the universe, became a child! We may even speak of this child as the God- child. Of course, this term is not found in the Bible. ─ However, the fact of God becoming a child is clearly revealed in Scripture. To speak of the God - child is not heresy; it is a divine fact. We are considering two crucial times the word became is used. The first is that the Word became flesh, God became a child born in a manger.
7我们已经指出，第二次极其关键的用『成了』一辞，是在林前十五章四十五节。这一节告诉我们，末后的亚当成了赐生命的灵。这位末后的亚当是谁？毫无疑问，末后的亚当就是那人基督耶稣，就是神成为肉体。藉
7As we have indicated, the second crucial time the word became is used is in 1 Corinthians 15:45, where we are told that the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit. Who was this last Adam? No doubt the last Adam was the man Christ Jesus, God incarnate. Through resurrection He became a life-giving Spirit
8著复活，祂成了赐生命的灵。
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9我们基督徒都必须承认，话（也就是神）成了肉体。这位神真的成了一个婴孩。我们也必须承认，基督钉十字架之后，在复活里成了赐生命的灵。然而，有些基督徒反对这个教训，说这是异端。他们质问说，神圣三一的第二者─基督，怎么可能是神圣三一1的第三者─圣灵？但按照林前十五章四十五节，末后的亚当基督，成了赐生命的灵。这里赐生命的灵难道不是圣灵？否认这点，就是持守异端的看法，认为有两个赐生命的灵。
9As Christians we all must recognize that the Word, which was God, became flesh. The very God actually became a child. We also must recognize that Christ, after His crucifixion and in resurrection, became a life - giving Spirit. Some Christians, however, oppose this teaching and say that it is heretical. They ask how Christ, the second of the Trinity, could be the Spirit, who is the third of the Trinity. But according to Corinthians 15:45, Christ as the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit. Is not the life-giving Spirit here the Holy Spirit? To deny this is to hold the heretical view that there are two life-giving Spirits.
经过过程的神
THE PROCESSED GOD
10我们必须离弃传统的神学，回到神纯净的话语。根据圣经，三一神已经经过了过程，成为赐生命的灵。根据神话语的启示，我们可以说，今天我们的神乃是经过过程的神。祂不再是没有经过过程，或是『生的』神。说神经过过程，意思是祂成了童女所生的婴孩，成为一个人，被钉死，埋葬，游历了阴间，并进到复活里。这的确是一个过程。因此，我们可以说，我们的神乃是经过过程的神。基督从降生到复活，都一直在经过过程。祂人性生活的全部历程，从成为肉体到复活，乃是一段过程。如今，祂进入复活的状态之后，已成了赐生命的灵。
10We must turn away from traditional theology and come back to the pure Word of God. According to the Bible, the Triune God has been processed to become the life-giving Spirit. Based upon the revelation in the Word, we may say that today our God is the processed God. He is no longer unprocessed, or “raw.” To say that God has been processed means that He became a child born of a virgin and that, as a man, He was crucified, buried, visited Hades, and entered into resurrection. This certainly was a process. Therefore, we may speak of our God as the processed God. From the time of His birth through His resurrection, Christ was being processed. The entire span of His human life, from incarnation through resurrection, was a period of process. Now, having entered into the state of resurrection, He has become the life-giving Spirit.
11因著基督是赐生命的灵，所以我们很容易将祂吸入。根据罗马十章，神离我们不远；祂乃是非常的近，甚至就在我们口里，我们只需要将祂吸到我们里面。这实在是个好消息，是个福音。福音就是独一的神，创造者，有一天成了一个人，并且经过过程，为要成为赐生命的灵，让我们吸入。字句杀死人，但这灵却叫人活，赐人生命。（林后三6。）
11Because Christ is the life-giving Spirit, it is easy for us to breathe Him in. According to Romans 10, God is not far from us. On the contrary, He is very near, even in our mouth. All we need to do is breathe Him into us. This surely is good news, glad tidings. The gospel is that the unique God, the Creator, one day became a man and passed through a process in order to become the life-giving Spirit for us to breathe in. The letter kills, but this Spirit gives life (2 Cor. 3:6).
12我们的神已经作了一切必须的事，来成为赐生命的灵。如今，我们不仅有神和救主，我们还有赐生命的灵。犹太人不知道神已经成了一个人，名叫耶稣基督。他们只认识神是创造者，却不认识祂是成为肉体来作救主的一位。今天甚至有许多基督徒，仅仅客观的认识神和基督。他们没有看见，基督就是神自己，祂如今乃是赐生命的灵。我们无法将神、基督、那灵分开；这三者乃是一。我们可以享受三一神作为那灵，因为祂已经进到我们灵里，使我们与祂成为一灵。林前六章十七节说，『但与主联合的，便是与主成为一灵。』这是何等奇妙！
12Our God has done everything necessary to become the life-giving Spirit. Now we not only have God and the Savior—we also have the life-giving Spirit. The Jews do not know that God has become a man named Jesus Christ. Instead, they know God as the Creator and fail to recognize Him as the One who has been incarnated to be the Savior. Even many Christians today only know God and Christ in an objective way. They do not realize that, as the very God Himself, Christ today is the life- giving Spirit. We cannot separate God, Christ, and the Spirit. These three are one. We may enjoy the three-one God as the Spirit because He has come into our spirit and has made us one spirit with Him. First Corinthians 6:17 says, “He that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.” How wonderful
13神所作、所行的一切，乃是总结于赐生命的灵。首先，神创造了万有；其次，藉著成为肉体，祂成了一个人；第三，藉著死与复活，祂经过过程，成了赐生命的灵。如今神不仅是创造者、救赎主、拯救主；至终，祂还终极完成的成了赐生命的灵。这灵是包罗万有的饮料，给我们享受。赞美主，在祂的话中向我们启示，那位是我们的神、创造者、拯救主、救赎主、主、主人者，也是住在我们灵里之赐生命的灵。
13The consummation of God’s deeds, of all He has done, is the life-giving Spirit. First, God created all things. Second, through incarnation He became a man. Third, through death and resurrection He was processed to become the life-giving Spirit. Now God is not only the Creator, the Redeemer, and the Savior. Ultimately and consummately, He is the life-giving Spirit. This Spirit is an all-inclusive drink for us to enjoy. Praise the Lord for the revelation in the Word that the very One who is our God, Creator, Savior, Redeemer, Lord, and Master is also the life-giving Spirit dwelling in our spirit
神的说话
GOD’S SPEAKING
14圣经除了启示神的作为之外，还启示了神的说话。神是一位说话的神。希伯来一章一至二节说，『神既在古时，藉著众申言者，多分多方向列祖说话，就在这末后的日子，在子里向我们说话。』因著神的作为，我们有了赐生命的灵；因著神的说话，我们有了话。不仅如此，这话还是生命的话。
14In addition to the doings of God, the Bible reveals God’s speaking. God is a speaking God. Hebrews 1:1 and 2 say, “In many portions and in many ways, God, having spoken of old to the fathers in the prophets, has at the last of these days spoken to us in the Son.” As a result of God’s doings, we have the life-giving Spirit, and as a result of God’s speaking, we have the Word. Furthermore, the Word is the word of life
灵与话
THE SPIRIT AND THE WORD
15我们可以用电为例来说明灵与话。我们要使用电，通常都需要有天线和地线。藉著天线和地线，电就可以多方应用，并且流通。灵可比作天线，话可比作地线。今天许多基督徒只专注地线─话，却轻忽了天线─灵。许多人，尤其是神学院和圣经学校的人，研读圣经，却忽略了灵─天线。而走另一个极端的就是灵恩派的人。他们强调天线─灵，却不太注意地线─圣经。在主的恢复里，我们应该是平衡的，有天线也有地线，有灵也有话。我们若在灵与话之间取得平衡，就会经历神圣电流的传输与流通。
15We may use electricity as an illustration of the Spirit and the Word. With the application of electricity, there is often the need for an antenna and a ground wire. By means of an antenna and a ground wire electricity may be applied in different ways and the electricity will flow. The Spirit may be compared to the antenna, and the Word, to the ground wire. Many Christians today concentrate on the Word as the ground wire, but they neglect the Spirit as the antenna. Many, especially those in the seminaries and Bible colleges, study the Bible, but neglect the Spirit, the antenna. At the other extreme are the Pentecostalists who emphasize the Spirit, the antenna, but do not adequately care for the Bible, the ground wire. We in the Lord’s recovery should be balanced and have both the antenna and the ground wire, both the Spirit and the Word. If we are balanced concerning the Spirit and the Word, we shall experience the transmission, the flowing, of the divine electricity.
16神这属天的电流已经安装在我们里面，作我们的享受。然而，我们要享受祂，就需要灵与话。赞美神，我们的手中有话，我们的灵里有赐生命的灵！灵与话乃是神给我们的两大恩赐。重要的是，我们必须看见，话乃是活神的具体表现。不仅如此，话就是灵，就是生命。主耶稣说，『我对你们所说的话，就是灵，就是生命。』（约六63。）我们绝对不该把神、灵与话分开；这三者乃是一。神就是话，而话就是灵。如果神不是话，那么对我们来说，祂就仍然是个极大的奥秘。例如，一个人如果不说出他里面所有的，他就非常奥秘。但他若说话，别人就会了解他，他里面所有的，就会显露出来。藉著说话，神将祂自己启示出来。神是说话的神，所以祂是透亮的。一个人越说话，他就越透亮。
16As the heavenly electricity, God has been installed in us for our enjoyment. However, in order to enjoy Him, we need the Spirit and the Word. Praise Him that in our hands we have the Word and that in our spirit we have the life-giving Spirit! The Spirit and the Word are two great gifts. It is important for us to realize that the Word is the embodiment of the living God. Furthermore, the Word is spirit and life. The Lord Jesus said, “The words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and are life” (John 6:63). We should never separate God, the Spirit, and the Word. These three are one. God is the Word, and the Word is the Spirit. If God were not the Word, He would remain a great mystery as far as we are concerned. For example, if a person does not speak out what is in him, he will be mysterious. But if he speaks, he will make himself known, and what is in him will be revealed. By His speaking, God has revealed Himself. Because God is a speaking God, He is transparent. The more a person speaks, the more transparent he becomes
17我们赞美主！藉著祂的工作，祂成了那灵；藉著祂的说话，祂成了话。我们每天都必须敞开我们的灵，运用我们的灵来就近话。这样，我们不仅从话中得著亮光，更进入光的范围、领域里。每当我们带著纯洁的心和正确的灵来读圣经，我们就进入光的领域里。这样，我们不仅接受光照，我们更是在光的范围里。仅仅从话中看见亮光是不彀的；我们还必须在光的领域里。
17We praise the Lord that through His doings He has become the Spirit and that through His speaking He has become the Word. Day by day we need to come to the Word with an open, exercised spirit. Then we shall not only receive light from the Word; we shall enter into a realm, a sphere, of light. Whenever we come to the Bible with a pure heart and a right spirit, we enter into a sphere of light. Then instead of simply receiving enlightenment, we shall be in a realm of light. Simply to see light from the Word is not adequate. We need to be in the sphere of light
神在我们里面运行
God operating in us
18当我们藉著读经、祷告，合式的接触主话时，我们就经历到神圣的电流。这乃是神为著祂的美意，在我们里面运行，使我们立志并行事。（腓二。）我们若花时间在主的话上，却没有经历神在我们里面运行，我们必定在某方面出了问题。也许我们欠缺对天线─灵─的经历，只剩下地线─话。但我们若有灵，也有话，我们就能经历里面神圣的活动。我们里面的东西会有所行动，我们就因此得著刚强、安慰、滋养、供应并复苏。这就是神在我们里面运行。
18When we contact the Word in a proper way by reading and praying, we experience the current of the divine electricity. This is God operating in us both the willing and the working for His good pleasure (Phil. 2:13). If we do not experience God operating in us when we 13 spend time in the Word, we must be wrong in some way. Probably something is defective in our experience of the antenna, the Spirit, leaving us with only the Word as the ground wire. But if we have both the Spirit and the Word, we shall experience an inward divine activity. Something in us will move, and we shall be strengthened, comforted, nourished, supplied, and refreshed. This is God operating in us.
将生命的话表明出来
HOLDING FORTH THE WORD OF LIFE
19因著神在我们里面运行，结果我们就自然而然过一种生活，将生命的话向人表明出来。将生命的话表明出来，就是向人陈明、供献并应用生命的话。神若在我们里面运行，我们也被话充满，那么，不论我们在那里，不论我们说甚么或作甚么，我们都是活神的彰显。这就是将生命的话表明出来；这也就是活基督。我信我们大部分的人都有这样的经历：当我们的灵是对的，心是纯洁的，全人向主敞开来读主的话，我们就感觉我们是进入光的领域里。然后，当我们祷读一段主的话时，我们就感觉里面有个东西在运作、运行，安慰、刚强、满足并复苏我们。有的时候，我们会喜乐得想要欢呼。有的时候，我们歌唱赞美主。我们周围的人会希奇我们因著这样接触主的话而有的改变。我们需要天天、时时、甚至刻刻与主有这种的接触。为这缘故，我们可以随身携带一本袖珍本圣经，好帮助我们在一天当中，抓住机会来祷读主的话。我们越用正确的灵和纯洁的心来祷读，我们就越享受属天的电，也越经历活神在我们里面运行。这样，我们忧伤时，祂会安慰我们；我们干渴时，祂会浇灌我们；我们饥饿时，祂会使我们饱足；我们失望时，祂会鼓励我们。自然而然的，凡我们所说、所作的，都要将生命的话表明、陈明出来。这意思是说，在我们的日常生活里，有一个神圣的彰显。这就是活基督，使祂在我们身上显大。这实在就是正当的基督徒生活。
19As a result of God’s operating in us, we spontaneously have a life in which the word of life is held forth to others. To hold forth the word of life is to present it to others, to offer it to them, to apply it to them. If God operates in us and we are filled with the Word, then wherever we are and whatever we say or do, we shall be an expression of the living God. This is to hold forth the word of life. This is also to live Christ. I believe that most of us have experienced that when we are right in our spirit and pure in our heart, and then come to the Word with our whole being open to the Lord, we have the sense that we enter into a sphere of light. Then as we pray-read a portion of the Word, we sense that something inwardly is moving, operating in us to comfort, strengthen, satisfy, and refresh us. Sometimes we may want to shout for joy. At other times we may sing and praise the Lord. Those around us may be surprised at the change which takes place in us as a result of contacting the Word in this way. We need to have this kind of contact with the Lord day after day, hour after hour, and even moment by moment. For this reason, it is helpful to carry a pocket version of the New Testament in order to take advantage of opportunities to pray-read the Word during the day. The more we pray-read with a right spirit and a pure heart, the more we shall enjoy the heavenly electricity and experience the living God operating in us. Then if we are sorrowful, He will comfort us; if we are dry, He will water us; if we are hungry, He will satisfy us; and if we are disappointed, He will encourage us. Spontaneously, what we say and do will be a holding forth, a presenting, of the word of life. This means that in our daily living there will be a divine expression. This is to live Christ that He might be magnified in us. Truly this is the proper Christian life
20基督徒生活与赐生命的灵以及生命的话有密切的关系。神已经经过过程并且终极完成，如今祂乃是赐生命的灵。不仅如此，祂说话时，祂也就是话。祂已经赐给我们灵与话这两个美妙的恩赐。现在我们有天线，也有地线，有灵也有话，使我们可以接触并享受属天的电流。享受神圣的电流与传统的基督教和神学迥然有别。这种享受乃是藉著话，主观的接触那住在我们里面，作为赐生命之灵的神。我们越经历作为活神具体表现的生命之话，神就越成为我们的享受。这样，我们就将生命的话表明出来。这就是活基督，使祂可以在我们身上显大。
20The Christian life is intimately related to the life-giving Spirit and the word of life. As the consummation of His process, God is now the life-giving Spirit. Furthermore, in His speaking He is the Word. He has given us the Spirit and the Word as two wonderful gifts. Now we have both the antenna and the ground wire, both the Spirit and the Word, for us to contact and enjoy the heavenly electricity. The enjoyment of the divine electricity is very different from traditional Christianity and theology. It is to contact God subjectively as the One who dwells in us as the life-giving Spirit through the Word. The more we experience the word of life as the embodiment of the living God, the more God will become our enjoyment. Then we shall hold forth the word of life. This is to live Christ that He may be magnified in us