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腓立比书生命读经 · 第53篇

达到杰出的复活以得著基督

To Obtain Christ by Attaining to the Out-Resurrection
1读经：腓立比书三章十至十四节。
1Scripture Reading: Phil. 3:10-14
2在腓立比三章十至十四节保罗强调杰出的复活。十一节说，『或者我可以达到那从死人中杰出的复活。』保罗竭12力要达到这杰出的复活。在十二节他接著说，『这不是说，我已经得著了，或已经完全了，我乃是竭力追求，或者可以取得基督耶稣所以取得我的。』这里保罗承认，他尚未达到杰出的复活，但他继续竭力追求，为要取得这复活。基督已经为著这杰出的复活取得了他；现在，保罗的心愿乃是要取得杰出的复活。基督取得保罗的目的，是叫他可以得著杰出的复活。因此，在十一至十二节里，杰出的复活就是保罗的标竿，也就是他追求的目标。
2In 3:1 0-1 4 Paul emphasizes the out - resurrection. Verse 11 says, “If by any means I may attain to the out- resurrection from among the dead.” Paul’s endeavor was to attain to this outstanding resurrection. In verse he goes on to say, “Not that I have already obtained or am already perfected, but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which I also have been laid hold of by Christ Jesus.” Here Paul admits that he had not yet attained the out-resurrection, but he continued to pursue that he may lay hold of it. For this out-resurrection, Christ had laid hold of him, and now Paul’s desire was to lay hold of the out-resurrection. The purpose of Christ in laying hold of him was that he might obtain the out-resurrection. Hence, in verses 11 and 12 the out-resurrection is Paul’s goal, the object of his pursuit.
3在十三至十四节，保罗接著说，『弟兄们，我不是以为自己已经取得了，我只有一件事，就是忘记背后，努力面前的，向著标竿竭力追求，要得神在基督耶稣里，召我向上去得的奖赏。』在此我们看见，保罗并不是以为自己已经取得了杰出的复活；他乃-是向著杰出的复活这标竿竭力追求，要得神在基督耶稣里，召他向上去得的奖赏。
3In verses 13 and 14 Paul continues, “Brothers, I do not yet reckon myself to have laid hold, but one thing— forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before, I pursue toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Here we see that Paul did not reckon himself to have laid hold of the out-resurrection already. However, he pursued toward the goal, the goal of the out- resurrection, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus
标竿与奖赏
THE GOAL AND THE PRIZE
4标竿与奖赏不同。保罗向著标竿竭力追求，要得神召他向上去得的奖赏。每一个呼召都是有目的、有标竿的。神召我们向上去得的目的和标竿是甚么？这里所用『召我向上去得』一辞，指明这个呼召是从上头，就是从诸天之上来的。在希伯来三章一节保罗用了『属天呼召』。杰出的复活就是神属天呼召的目的和标竿。因此，我们若仔细思考腓立比三章十至十四节，就会看见，杰出的复活乃是保罗的主题。圣经里只有三章十一节有『杰出的复活』（out-resurrection）一辞。据我所知，大多数的译本都忽略了这个希腊字的字首艾克（ek），有杰出的意思。这里保罗在一般所用『复活』一辞前面加上这字首。他为甚么这样加呢？照著保罗的异象和经历，他领悟神在宇宙中的心意，乃是完全与新的事、在复活里的事有关，但这复活的意义非常特别，与一般所指的复活不同。
4There is a difference between the goal and the prize. Paul pursued to ward the goal for the prize of God’s high calling. Every calling has a purpose with a goal. What are the purpose and goal of God’s high calling? The expression “high calling” used here does not mean that the calling is high; it means that this calling is from above, that is, from the heavens. Literally translated, the Greek means “the above calling.” In Hebrews 3:1 Paul uses the term “heavenly calling.” The out-resurrection is both the purpose and the goal of God’she aven ly calling. There fore, if we consider 3:10-14 care fully, we shall realize that the out-resurrection is Paul’s subject. The term “out-resurrection” is found in the Bible only in 3:11. According to my knowledge, most translations ignore the Greek prefix ek, which means “out.” Here Paul adds this prefix to the usual Greek word for resurrection. What was his reason for doing this? According to his vision and experience, Paul realized that God’sin tent i on in the universe is altogether related to something which is new, something in resurrection, but resurrection in a very particular sense, not resurrection in an ordinary sense.
脱离旧造，
OUT OF THE OLD CREATION
进入新造
AND INTO THE NEW CREATION
5复活一般的意义是指一个东西死了，又活过来。拉撒路就是这样复活的。他死了，埋葬了，甚至开始发臭了。然后，主耶稣来了，祂大声喊著说，『拉撒路，出来！』拉撒路就从坟墓出来了。（约十一43～44。）拉撒路的复活是杰出的复活么？不是。拉撒路虽然从死人中起来，而且活过来，但新造没有作到他里面。他仍然是一个在旧造里的人。拉撒路最多经历了复原；他从死亡复原到天然的生命里。但是那时候他既没有重生，也没有得著新的构成。你曾否听过一篇信息告诉你，拉撒路的复活仍然在旧造的范围里，他并没有复活到新造里？有一天拉撒路还是死了，他那曾经复活的身体再次躺在坟墓里，这就证明拉撒路并没有藉著复活被带到新造里。
5The common meaning of resurrection is that something dies and comes to life again. Lazarus was resurrected in this way. He had died, had been buried, and had even begun to smell bad. Then the Lord Jesus came and cried out, “Lazarus, come forth!” and Lazarus came out of the tomb (John 11:43-44). Was the resurrection of Lazarus a case of the out-resurrection? No. Even though Lazarus was raised from the dead and came to life again, nothing of the new creation was wrought into him. Instead, he continued to be a person in the old creation. At most, Lazarus experienced restoration; he was restored from death to the natural life. But he was neither regenerated at that time nor did he receive a new constitution. Have you ever heard a message telling you that the resurrection of Lazarus was still in the realm of the old creation and that Lazarus was not resurrected into the new creation? The fact that Lazarus was not brought into the new creation through resurrection is proved in that one day he died again and his once- resurrected body was laid once more in a tomb
6腓立比三章十一节杰出的复活与拉撒路的复活截然不同。保罗一旦得著了杰出的复活，还等著回到坟墓去么？当然不！在腓立比三章保罗一直竭力追求的复活，绝对与旧造无关，并且绝对是在新造里。保罗所说杰出的复活，乃是指脱离旧造，进入新造的复活。
6The out-resurrection in 3:11 is very different from the resurrection of Lazarus. Did Paul expect to return to the tomb once he obtained the out-resurrection? Certainly not! The resurrection Paul was pursuing in Philippians 3 was something absolutely apart from the old creation and in the new creation. What Paul terms the out- resurrection refers to a resurrection out of the old creation and into the new creation
保罗的标竿
PAUL’S GOAL
711按照文法，十一节杰出的复活，就是十节保罗所追求的标竿。保罗在这两节经文里说，『使我认识基督、并祂复活的大能、以及同祂受苦的交通，模成祂的死，或者我可以达到那从死10人中杰出的复活。』十节给我们看见，保罗渴望认识基督、并祂复活的大能、以及同祂受苦的交通，模成祂的死。他愿意认识基督、经历基督、并享受基督。在十一节我们看见保罗的标竿达到杰出的复活。事实上，这不仅是十节的标竿，也是八节和九节的标竿。保罗将万事看作粪土，为要赢得基督，（8，）并且给人看出是在祂里面，（9，）使他认识基督、并祂复活的大能、以及同祂受苦的交通，模成祂的死，使他可以达到杰出的复活。根据文法，这是对八至十一节的正确解释。保罗的标竿乃是达到杰出的复活。
7According to grammar, the out-resurrection in verse is the goal of what Paul is seeking in verse 10. In these verses Paul says, “To know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if by any means I may attain to the out-resurrection from among the dead.” In verse we see that Paul aspired to know Christ, the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death. He wanted to know Christ, experience Christ, and enjoy Christ. Paul’s goal is found in verse 11—attaining to the out-resurrection. In fact, ─ this is the goal not only of verse 10, but also of verses 8 and 9. Paul counted all things refuse in order to gain Christ (v. 8) and be found in Him (v. 9), to know Christ, the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, that he might attain to the out - resurrection. According to grammar, this is the proper interpretation of verses 8 through 11. Paul’s goal was to attain to the out-resurrection.
8在本篇信息中，我们需要来看如何达到杰出的复活这标竿。为此，我们必须在基督复活的大能这一面认识祂，在同祂受苦的交通这一面认识祂，还要藉著模成祂的死来认识祂。向旧造死，向神活著主耶稣藉著成为肉体，穿上了人的性情；祂穿上了一个血肉的身体。这身体是属旧造，还是属新造？血肉之体乃是旧造的一部分。林前十五章五十节说，『血肉之人不能承受神的国。』这包括了主耶稣的血肉之体。这里的原则是：凡属旧造的，都与神的国无关。因此，主耶稣所穿上的身体，乃是属旧造的。
8In this message we need to consider how to attain this goal of the out-resurrection. For this, we must know Christ in the power of His resurrection, we must know Him in the fellowship of His sufferings, and we must know Him by being conformed to His death. DYING TO THE OLD CREATION AND LIVING TO GOD By incarnation the Lord Jesus took on human nature. He put on a body of blood and flesh. Did this body belong to the old creation or the new creation? Blood and flesh are part of the old creation. First Corinthians 15:50 says that “flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.” This includes the flesh and blood of the Lord Jesus. The principle here is that nothing which belongs to the old creation has anything to do with the kingdom of God. Therefore, the body taken on by the Lord Jesus belonged to the old creation
9主耶稣在地上的年日里过人性生活。那么主的人性生活是属旧造，还是属新造？主耶稣虽然有属旧造的血肉之体，也生活在旧造的环境里，但他所过的生活却不属旧造。反之，主耶稣所过的生活，完全是属新造的。但是，祂既有属旧造的身体，又活在旧造的环境里，怎么能过属新造的生活？祂能这样，乃是藉著不断的向旧造的身体死，向旧造的环境死，并向神活著。这就是祂过完全属新造生活的路。我们不该认为，主耶稣只在钉十字架的时候死。不，祂一生下来就开始死，就开始过钉十字架的生活。主的确是过人性生活，但祂的生活是一个钉十字架的生活。藉著过钉十字架的生活，祂就向旧造死。
9During His years on earth, the Lord Jesus lived a human life. Was the Lord’s human living part of the old creation or of the new creation? Although the Lord Jesus had a body of flesh and blood belonging to the old creation and although He lived in the environment of the old creation, the life He lived did not belong to the old creation. On the contrary, the life lived by the Lord Jesus belonged wholly to the new creation. But how could He, a person with a body belonging to the old creation and dwelling in the environment of the old creation, live a life that belonged to the new creation? He could do this by continually dying to His old creation body and environment and living to God. This was the way He lived a life belonging entirely to the new creation. We should not think that the Lord Jesus died only when He was crucified. No, He began to die, to live a crucified life, as soon as He was born. The Lord surely lived a human life, but it was a crucified life. By living a crucified life He died to the old creation
10在主十二岁的时候发生了一件事，可以说明祂那时就过钉十字架的生活。祂的父母寻找祂好几天，最后找著了祂。祂的母亲说，『孩子，为甚么向我们这样行？看哪，你父亲和我多么伤心的在找你。』（路二48。）主耶稣回答说，『你们为甚么找我？岂不知我必须以我父的事为念么？』（49。）在此我们看见，主甚至在十二岁的时候，就过钉十字架的生活。祂从母亲马利亚得著旧造的生命，但是祂没有照著旧造的生命活，反而向旧造的生命死，并照著另一个生命活，就是照著祂父的生命活。
10The Lord’s living of a crucified life is illustrated by an incident which took place when He was twelve years of age. When His mother and father found Him after spending days looking for Him, His mother said, “Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing” (Luke 2:48). The Lord Jesus replied, “How is it that ye sought me? knew ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?” (v. 49). Here we see that even at the age of twelve the Lord was living a crucified life. Through His mother, Mary, He had received the life of the old creation. But instead of living according to this old creation life, He died to it and lived according to another life, according to the life of His Father.
11约翰六章五十七节帮助我们明白这点。在那里主耶稣说，『活的父怎样差我来，我又因父活著。』不错，主耶稣是活著，但祂是凭著父活著。父活在祂里面，而祂活父。这意思是说，祂不是活从母亲所得著的旧造生命。因此，即使祂有属旧造的身体，也处在旧造的环境里，祂却不是活旧造的生命。祂乃是活神圣、永远的生命，就是神的生命在旧造里活了出来。这种生活就是新造的成分。保罗两次说到新造。在加拉太六章十五节他说，『受割礼不受割礼，都无关紧要，要紧的乃是作新造。』在林后五章十七节他宣告说，『若有人在基督里，他就是新造。』这新造是从何时开始？旧造开始于创世记一章一节：『起初神创造天地。』新造开始于主耶稣过另一种生活，就是过钉十字架生活的时候。祂虽然身在属旧造的身体里，处在旧造的环境里，却过新造的生活。因著祂这样活著，祂就不断向旧造的一切死。有一天，因著撒但和他跟从者的帮助，主耶稣的身体实际且完全的被治死。然后祂旧造的身体被埋葬在坟墓里。三天以后，这个身体复活了。不过，拉撒路复活的身体和耶稣基督复活的身体有极大的不同。拉撒路复活的身体没有改变，仍是属旧造的；但耶稣基督复活的身体在性质上和形状上都有了改变。旧造的身体是血肉之体，但新造的身体却成了属灵的身体。
11John 6:57 helps us to understand this. Here the Lord Jesus said, “The living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father.” Yes, the Lord Jesus lived, but He lived by the Father. The Father lived in Him, and He lived the Father. This means that He did not live the life of the old creation received from His mother. Therefore, even though He had a body belonging to the old creation and was in the environment of the old creation, He did not live the life of the old creation. Rather, He lived a life which is divine and eternal, God’s life lived out in the old creation. Such a living is the element of the new creation. Paul speaks twice of the new creation. In Galatians 6:15 he says, “For neither is circumcision anything nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.” In 2 Corinthians 5:17 he declares, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation” (lit.). When did this new creation begin? The old creation began in Genesis 1:1, a verse which says, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (lit.). The new creation had its beginning when the Lord Jesus began to live another life, a crucified life. He lived the life of the new creation while in a body belonging to the old creation and in the environment of the old creation. As He lived in this way, He was continually dying to everything of the old creation. One day, with the help of Satan and his followers, the body of the Lord Jesus was put to death actually and absolutely. Then His old creation body was buried in a tomb. After three days this body was resurrected. However, there was a great difference between the resurrected body of Lazarus and the resurrected body of Jesus Christ. The resurrected body of Lazarus was unchanged; it still belonged to the old creation. But the resurrected body of Jesus Christ was changed both in nature and in form. As a body in the old creation, it was a body of flesh and blood, but as a body in the new creation, it became a spiritual body
认识在复活里的基督
KNOWING CHRIST IN RESURRECTION
12这位成为肉体、钉十字架并复活的基督，已经成为一粒种子撒在我们里面。我们所接受的基督，并非一位天然的基督，乃是一位复活并经过变化的基督。彼得认识在肉体里的基督，那时祂还在旧造的身体里。但是，我们今天所经历的基督，乃是完全在新造里的基督。你还羡慕门徒们认识在肉体里的主耶稣么？你还盼望像约翰一样靠著耶稣的胸膛么？我们内心深处，下意识里，也许偷偷盼望能活在彼得、约翰、雅各的时代，因为他们与在肉体里的主同在。然而，在基督复活的大能、领域和成分里，以及在同祂受苦的交通中来认识基督，更是好得无比。
12This incarnated, crucified, and resurrected Christ has become a seed sown into us. The Christ we have received is not a natural Christ, but a resurrected and transformed Christ. Peter knew Christ in the flesh, when He was still in the old creation body. But the Christ we experience today is a Christ altogether in the new creation. Are you still envious of the disciples who knew the Lord Jesus in the flesh? Do you still desire, like John, to lean upon His bosom? Deep within, perhaps subconsciously, we may secretly wish that we had lived at the time of Peter, John, and James, for they were with the Lord in the flesh. However, it is far better to know Christ in the power, sphere, and element of His resurrection and in the fellowship of His sufferings.
模成基督的死
CONFORMED TO CHRIST’S DEATH
13我们也许鄙视旧造，想要脱离牠。但我们越厌恶旧造，旧造越纠缠我们。我们惟有在基督的身体里，才能从旧造里得著释放。我们惟有藉著基督的身体，并且被基督的身体占有时，才能得著释放，不至花那么多时间去想自己。保罗被基督的身体占有，以致他这人里面没有空间去考虑自己的事。因著保罗如此关心基督的身体，他就有分于基督受苦的交通。这样，他就模成基督的死。在腓立比三章十节有四件重要的事：认识基督、认识祂复活的大能、认识同祂受苦的交通、以及模成祂的死。事实上，模成基督的死与认识基督复活的大能，以及同祂受苦的交通有关。『模成』乃是说出我们如何能认识基督复活的大能，并同祂受苦的交通。
13We may despise the old creation and want to be free from it. But the more we loathe it, the more it clings to us. Only in the Body can we be free from the old creation. Only when we are occupied with the Body and by the Body are we able to be free from spending so much time thinking about ourselves. Paul was so occupied with the Body that in his being there was no capacity for him to consider his own things. Because Paul was so concerned for the Body, he shared in the fellowship of Christ’s sufferings. In this way he was conformed to the death of Christ. There are four important matters in verse 10: to know Christ, to know the power of His resurrection, to know the fellowship of His sufferings, and to be conformed to His death. Actually, being conformed to Christ’s death is related to knowing both the power of Christ’s resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings. The words being conformed indicate how we may know the power of Christ’s resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings
14我们曾指明，基督在地上的一生乃是不断的死。祂活著的时候，也是一直在死，向著旧造死，好使祂能活新造里的生命。这是十节里『祂的死』的意义。我们在召会生活和家庭生活中，都必须模成基督的死，向著旧造死，使我们能活新造。保罗在三章十节使用『模成』一辞，含示基督的死是一个模子。姊妹们烤蛋糕的时候，常常要使用模子。生面团放进模子里，就会模成模子的形状。从我们开始过基督徒生活的那日起，我们就像一块生面团，被摆进基督之死的模子里。我们为身体受苦时，就模成基督之死的形状。这就是模成基督之死的意义。
14We have indicated that Christ’s death took place throughout His life on earth. As He was living, He was also dying, dying to the old creation in order to live a life in the new creation. This is the meaning of His death in verse 10. We need to be conformed to Christ’s death both in the church life and in our family life, dying to the old creation that we may live the new creation. Paul’su se of the word conformed in 3:10 implies that Christ’s death is a mold. Often when sisters bake a cake they use a mold. Dough is placed into the mold and conformed to its shape. On the day we began to live the Christian life, we, like a piece of dough, were put into the mold of Christ’s death. When we suffer for the Body, we are shaped into the form of the death of Christ. This is what it means to be conformed to His death
15我们模成基督的死，就经历祂复活的大能，并进入同祂受苦的交通。这样，我们就达到杰出的复活，并且达到完全从旧造出来，并完全复活进入新造的标竿。
15By being conformed to the death of Christ, we experience the power of His resurrection and enter into the fellowship of His sufferings. It is in this way that we attain to the out- resurrection and reach the goal of being fully out of the old creation and wholly resurrected into the new creation
活在新造里
LIVING IN THE NEW CREATION
16倘若一位弟兄在经历上达到了杰出的复活，那么就连他对妻子的爱也会在新造里，而不再是天然的爱、旧造里的爱。一位弟兄也许很爱他的妻子，但他的爱可能与杰出的复活毫不相干。照样，一位妻子也许照著她的伦理和文化背景来服从丈夫，但她的服从也许完全是在天然的范围里，完全在旧造里，一点也不在新造里。假设一位姊妹努力使自己要服从丈夫；她不愿服从，但她也许流泪勉强自己服从。这样的服从是在旧造里。神所要的不是天然的爱，也不是天然的服从；那样的爱和服从，都不是在杰出的复活里。祂要我们过一种腓立比三章所启示的生活。为此，我们必须赢得基督，并且给人看出是在祂里面，为要认识祂复活的大能、并同祂受苦的交通，模成祂的死，使我们能达到杰出的复活。
16If a brother attains to the out-resurrection in his experience, even his love for his wife will be in the new creation. No longer will it be a natural love, a love in the old creation. A brother may love his wife very much, but his love may have nothing to do with the out-resurrection. Likewise, a wife may be submissive to her husband according to her ethics and cultural background, but her submission may also be altogether in the natural realm, in the old creation, not at all in the new creation. Suppose a sister makes herself submit to her husband. She does not want to submit, but, perhaps with tears, she forces herself to do so. This submission is in the old creation. God does not want a natural love or a natural submission, a love and submission which are not in the out-resurrection. Instead, He wants us to live the kind of life revealed in Philippians 3. For this, we need to gain Christ and be found in Him to know the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, that we may attain to the out-resurrection
17保罗写信给腓立比人时，并不以为自己已经达到了杰出的复活。因此，他能彀说，『这不是说，我已经得著了，或已经完全了，我乃是竭力追求，或者可以取得基督耶稣所以取得我的。』（三12。）保罗只在意一件事忘记背后，努力面前的，向著标竿竭力追求，要得神在基督耶稣里，召他向上去得的奖赏。背后的一切属于旧造，而面前的一切属于新造。神已经拯救我们脱离旧造，把我们放在赛程里，要我们向著标竿直跑，为要得著奖赏。现在我们必须奔跑这赛程，好达到从死人中杰出的复活，以及新造里的一切事物。
17As Paul was writing the Epistle to the Philippians, he did not regard himself as having attained to the out- resurrection. Therefore, he could say, “Not that I have already obtained or am already perfected, but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which I also have been laid hold of by Christ Jesus.” Paul cared for one thing— forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before, he pursued toward the goal for the prize of God’s high calling in Christ Jesus. All the things behind are of the old creation, but the things before are of the new creation. God has rescued us from the old creation and put us in a race toward the goal for the prize. Now we must run this race to attain to the out-resurrection from the dead and all the things of the new creation