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歌罗西书生命读经 · 第13篇

完成神的话

COMPLETING THE WORD OF GOD
1读经：歌罗西书1:25，哥林多前书15:45下，哥林多后书3:17，13:14，以
1Scripture Reading: Col. 1:25; 1 Cor. 15:45b; 2 Cor. 3:17; 13:14; Eph. 3:14-19
2弗所书3:14-19。
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3保罗在歌罗西一章二十五节说，『我照神为你们所赐我的管家职分，作了召会的执事，要完成神的话。』在本篇信息中，我们要来看完成神的话这件事。
3In 1:25 Paul says, “Of which I became a minister according to the stewardship of God, which was given to me for you, to complete the word of God.” In this message we shall consider the matter of completing the word of God
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4I. The Word of God including the Old Testament
壹神的话包括旧约，以及早期门徒所传的话
and the Word preached by the early disciples
5在保罗的时代，神的话包括了旧约，以及早期门徒所传的话。在行传四章二十九节，门徒祷告，求主使他们大放胆量，讲说神的话。根据行传四章三十一节，『他们就都被圣灵充溢，放胆讲说神的话。』六章四节说，使徒们坚定持续的祷告，并尽话语的职事。六章七节告诉我们：『神的话扩长起来。』司提反死后，那些因著召会遭逼迫而分散的人，『往各处去，传神的话为福音。』（八4。）不仅如此，十二章二十四节说，『神的话却日见扩长，越发繁增。』
5At the time of Paul, the word of God included the Old Testament and the word preached by the early disciples. In Acts 4:29 the disciples prayed that they might preach God’sword with boldness. According to Acts 4:31, “they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spake the word of God with boldness.” In Acts 6:4 we see that the apostles gave themselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word. Acts 6:7 tells us that “the word of God increased.” Those who were scattered because of the persecution against the church following the death of Stephen “went every where preaching the word” (Acts 8:4). Furthermore, Acts 12:24 says that “the word of God grew and multiplied
6虽然早期门徒所传神的话扩长并繁增，但按照神的经纶，神的话还没有完成。为了神话语的完成，需要神赐给保罗启示。犹太人只有旧约，因此，他们没有神完整的圣言。再者，基督徒虽然有旧约也有新约，但事实上许多人并没有神完整的启示。在他们的经历中，在他们的领会里，他们也许只有四福音、使徒行传、和一部分的罗马书。许多人研读圣经，但对于神圣的启示，仍然缺少充分的认识。保罗照著神的管家职分，作了召会的执事，要完成神的话。想想看，我们若没有保罗的书信，会有多少缺欠。没有保罗的书信，神的话就不能完成。保罗的管家职分是要完成神的话，为要将基督和祂一切的丰富分赐到召会里面。保罗所得的启示，乃是为著完成神的话。因此，我们都该认识神赐给保罗的启示，这是非常重要的。
6Although the word of God preached by the early disciples grew and multiplied, it was not yet completed according to God’secon o my. For this completion, God’sr evelation to Paul was needed. Because the Jews have only the Old Testament, they do not have the complete oracle of God. Moreover, although Christians have both the Old Testament and the New Testament, in actuality many of them do not have the complete revelation of God. In their experience and in their understanding, they may have only the Gospels, Acts, and part of Romans. Many have studied the Bible, but still lack an adequate understanding of the divine revelation. According to the steward ship of God, Paul became a minister of the church to complete the word of God. Consider what a lack there would be if we did not have the Epistles of Paul. Without them, there would be no completion of the word of God. Paul’s stewardship was to complete the word of God in order to dispense Christ with all His riches into the churches. The revelation given to Paul was for the completion of God’s word. Therefore, it is crucial that we all know the revelation that was given to Paul.
贰 神给保罗的启示
II. GOD’SR EVELATION TO PAUL
一 基督是神的奥秘
A. Christ Being the Mystery of God
7神的奥秘就是基督，这是保罗所领受的启示。他在歌罗西二章二节说到，『完全认识神的奥秘，就是基督。』神的奥秘这辞，在旧约里找不到。四福音也没有记载主耶稣曾经使用过。这辞最早是由保罗在他的书信里所使用的。神的奥秘就是作神具体化身的基督。歌罗西二章九节说，『因为神格一切的丰满，都有形有体的居住在基督里面。』作为神的奥秘，基督必须是神的具体化身和赐生命的灵。（林前十五45下，林后三17。）所有基要派的基督教教师都相信，基督是神的具体化身，但很少人看见，祂也是赐生命的灵。我们要实际的认识基督是神的具体化身，就需要经历祂是赐生命的灵。仇敌知道这件事太重要了，所以激烈的攻击这一点。我们若不认识基督是赐生命的灵，基督是神的具体化身对我们就不过是道理或理论而已。那只是一种客观的教训，与我们基督徒的经历毫无关系。若是这样，理论就无法成为实际。基督是神具体化身的实际，乃在于基督是赐生命的灵。
7Paul received the revelation of Christ as the mystery of God. In 2:2 he speaks of the “full knowledge of the mystery of God, Christ.” This term, the mystery of God, is not found in the Old Testament. The Gospels do not record any time that it was used by the Lord Jesus. It was first used by Paul in his Epistles. The mystery of God is Christ as the embodiment of God. Colossians 2:9 says, “For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” As the mystery of God, Christ must be both the embodiment of God and the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b; 2 Cor. 3:17). All fundamental Christian teachers believe that Christ is the embodiment of God, but very few see that He is also the life-giving Spirit. In order for us to know Christ in reality as the embodiment of God, we need to experience Him as the life-giving Spirit. Because the enemy knows the crucial significance of this, he attacks this point intensely. If we do not realize that Christ is the life-giving Spirit, the fact that Christ is the embodiment of God is merely doctrine or theory. It is just an objective teaching not at all related to our Christian experience. If this is the situation, there is no way for theory to become reality. The reality of Christ as the embodiment of God is in Christ as the life-giving Spirit
8在约翰十四章十六至十八节主耶稣说，『我要求父，祂必赐给你们另一位保惠师，叫祂永远与你们同在，就是实际的灵，乃世人不能接受的，因为不见祂，也不认识祂；你们却认识祂，因祂与你们同住，且要在你们里面。我不撇下你们为孤儿，我正往你们这里来。』十七节的实际的灵，成了十八节的主自己；『祂』成了『我』。这指明主复活以后，成了实际的灵。林前十五章四十五节论到复活的事，说，『末后的亚当成了赐生命的灵，』这一点证实了保罗很大胆，在宣告基督就是那灵的这个事实上，一点也不含糊。末后的亚当这个在肉体里的人，竟成为赐生命的灵；天然的心思会认为这是不合逻辑的。然而，保罗毫不妥协的宣告这个事实。不仅如此，他在林后三章十七节说，『而且主就是那灵。』按照全章的上下文，十七节的那灵，就是六节那叫人活（赐人生4:22命）的灵。此外，在提后四章二十二节，保罗明确的说，『愿主与你的灵同在。』保罗的话真是清楚！
8In John 14:16 through 18 the Lord Jesus said, “And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter, that He may be with you forever; even the Spirit of reality, Whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him; but you know Him, because He abides with you and shall be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I am coming to you.” The One who is the Spirit of reality in verse 17 becomes the very One who is the Lord Himself in verse 18; He becomes I. This indicates that after His resurrection the Lord became the Spirit of reality. First Corinthians 1 5:4 5, which deals with the matter of resurrection, confirms this by saying that the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit. Paul was bold and not at all ambiguous in declaring the fact that Christ is the Spirit. To the natural mind it is not logical that the last Adam, a man in the flesh, could become a life-giving Spirit. Nevertheless, Paul uncompromisingly declared this fact. Furthermore, in 2 Corinthians 3:17 he said, “Now the Lord is that Spirit.” According to the context of the whole chapter, the Spirit in verse 17 is the Spirit who gives life in verse 6. Furthermore, in 2 Timothy Paul clearly said, “The Lord be with thy spirit.” How clear is Paul’sword!
9一九六四年，一位亲密的朋友警告我，不要教导基督就是那灵。这位友人承认圣经的确教导基督就是那灵。然而，因著宗教的传统，人不愿意接受这个事实，他就不敢这么说。我告诉这位朋友说，『我若不教导基督是赐生命的灵，我就没有职事。我到美国这里来，主要的负担就是循著这条路线来尽职事。』那一年的后半年里，我释放了一系列论到基督就是那灵的信息。这些信息刊印在『神的经营』一书里。我们许多人能作见证，因著认识我们的主今天乃是在我们灵中那赐生命的灵，我们就在生命上得著了许多的帮助。倘若基督不是在我们灵中的那灵，我们怎能经历祂作我们的生命？我们将无法经历基督作生命。相反的，我们只会有另一种的宗教仪式。但因著我们有基督作赐生命的灵，我们就没有宗教。我们有在我们经历中活的基督。一面，祂是神丰满的具体化身，另一面，祂是赐生命的灵，住在我们的灵里。关于基督的这个启示，乃是赐给保罗以完成神话语之启示的一部分。
9In 1964 I was warned by an intimate friend not to teach that Christ is the Spirit. This one admitted that the Bible teaches that Christ is the Spirit. However, because religious tradition makes others unwilling to accept this fact, he was not bold to declare it. I told my friend, “If I do not teach that Christ is the life-giving Spirit, I have no ministry. I came to this country with the burden mainly to minister along this line.” Later that year I gave a series of messages on Christ as the Spirit. These messages are printed in The Economy of God. Many of us can testify of the help we have received in life through realizing that our Lord today is the life- giving Spirit in our spirit. If Christ were not the Spirit in our spirit, how could we experience Him as our life? We would have no experience of Christ as life. Instead, we would simply have another form of religious practice. But because we have Christ as the life-giving Spirit, we do not have a religion. We have the living Christ in our experience. On the one hand, He is the embodiment of the fullness of God and, on the other hand, He is the life-giving Spirit indwelling our spirit. This revelation of Christ is part of the revelation given to Paul for the completion of the word of God
二 神经纶的安排
B. The Dispensation of God
10保罗也得著了神经纶的安排（dispensation）的启示。（林后十三，弗三14～19。）『经纶的安排』这辞，因著误用而被破坏了。对许多基督徒来说，这辞仅仅是指神对待人的法则，这些法则称为经纶的安排。但我们使用经纶的安排这辞，乃是分赐的意思。在神的经纶里，祂将自己分赐到我们里面。保罗是第一个说到神经纶的安排的人，他的著作启示神现今正在将祂自己分赐到我们里面。譬如，林后十三章十四节说，『愿主耶稣基督的恩，神的爱，圣灵的交通，与你们众人同在。』这就是三一神分赐到我们全人里面。你在圣经别处能找著这样清楚的话，论到三一神分赐到信徒里面么？在这节中，有父作源头，子作流道，灵作水流。这是何等经纶的安排！
10Paul was also given the revelation concerning the dispensation of God (2 Cor. 13:14; Eph. 3:14-19). The word dispensation has been damaged through 14 misuse. To many Christians it refers simply to the ways in which God deals with people, ways that are called dispensations. When we use the word dispensation, however, we use it with the meaning of dispensing. In His economy, God is dispensing Himself into us. Paul was the first to speak of God’s dispensation, and his writings reveal that God is now dispensing Himself into our being. For example, 2 Corinthians 13:14 says, “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all” (Gk.). This is the dispensing of the Triune God into our being. Where else in the Bible can you find such a clear word concerning the dispensation of the Triune God into the believers? In this verse we have the Father as the source, the Son as the course, and the Spirit as the flow. What a dispensation!
11在以弗所三章十四至十九节，保罗也说到神经纶的安排。他求父藉著祂的灵，用大能使我们得以加强到里面的人里，使基督安家在我们心里。结果，我们就在爱里生根立基，使我们满有力量，能和众圣徒一同领略何为那阔、长、高、深，并认识基督那超越知识的爱，使我们被充满，成为神一切的丰满。在这几节中，保罗说到三一神父、灵、基督（子）。藉著三一神分赐到我们全人里面，我们就成为神的丰满，就是祂的彰显。
11In Ephesians 3:1 4-1 9 Paul also speaks of God’s dispensation. He prays to the Father that we may be strengthened with power by His Spirit into our inner man so that Christ may make His home in our hearts. The result is that we are rooted and grounded in love and are strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth, length, height, and depth, and to know the knowledge - surpassing love of Christ so that we may be filled unto all the fullness of God. In these verses Paul speaks of the Triune God—the Father, the Spirit, and Christ (the Son). ─ Through the dispensation of the Triune God into our being, we become the fullness of God, His expression.
三 召会是基督的奥秘
C. The Church Being the Mystery of Christ
12在以弗所三章四节，保罗说到基督的奥秘。在歌罗西二章二节，神的奥秘就是基督；而在以弗所三章四节，基督的奥秘就是召会。保罗在以弗所一章二十二至二十三节说，召会是基督的身体，就是祂的丰满。保罗是第一个用这样的辞来描述召会的人。彼得和约翰的著作都没有告诉我们，召会是基督的身体。虽然保罗比原初的使徒晚兴起，但他却放胆讲论神圣的启示，并且敢使用前所未曾用过的辞汇。彼得承认这件事，在他的第二封书信里推荐保罗，说，『就像我们所亲爱的弟兄保罗，照著所赐给他的智慧，也写了信给你们；他在一切的信上也都是讲论这些事；信中有些是难以明白的。』（彼后三15～16。）虽然保罗曾经责备过彼得，（加二11，）彼得还能写出这些话来。因著保罗不畏惧说出神赐给他关于召会的启示，他就是主所能彀使用来完成祂话语的人。
12In Ephesians 3:4 Paul speaks of the mystery of Christ. The mystery of God in Colossians 2:2 is Christ, whereas the mystery of Christ in Ephesians 3:4 is the church. In Ephesians 1:22 and 23 Paul says that the church is the Body of Christ, His fullness. Paul was the first to use such a term to describe the church. Nowhere in the writings of Peter or John are we told that the church is the Body. Although Paul came on the scene later than the original apostles, he was bold to speak forth the divine revelation and dared to use terminology that had not been used before. Recognizing this, Peter recommended Paul, saying in his second Epistle, “Even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood” (2 Pet. 3:15-16). Peter could write these words even though he had once been rebuked by Paul (Gal. 2:11). Because Paul was not afraid to utter the revelation God had given him regarding the church, he was the kind of person the Lord could use to complete His word
13论到召会，保罗所用的另一个全新的辞就是新人。（西三10。）保罗得著启示，认识召会是新人，以基督为其构成成分。惟独保罗有胆量使用这样的辞。今天实在迫切需要完成神的话。虽然保罗在许多世纪以前，已被主使用来完成神圣的启示，但今天在基督徒当中，仍然需要在实行上完成神的话。在大多数的基督徒团体中，很少供应基督作生命。不仅如此，很少人敢面对召会的问题。神的仇敌撒但，诡诈的图谋废止神话语的完成。仇敌也许容让基督徒传讲旧约、四福音和使徒行传里所启示的，但他不能容忍人教导基督是那包罗万有赐生命的灵，或者召会是基督的奥秘。谁循著这条路线来尽职事，谁就要受到仇敌的攻击。
13Another revolutionary term used by Paul concerning the church is the new man (Col. 3:10). Paul received the revelation that the church is the new man with Christ as the constituent. Only Paul had the boldness to use such a term. There is an urgent need today for the completion of the word of God. Although Paul was used in the completion of the divine revelation centuries ago, there is still the need for its completion in a practical way among Christians today. In most Christian groups there is very little ministry of Christ as life. Furthermore, not many dare to face the issue of the church. Through his subtlety, Satan, the enemy of God, is seeking to nullify the completion of the word of God. The enemy may allow Christians to preach what is revealed in the Old Testament, in the Gospels, and in the Acts. But he cannot tolerate the teaching concerning Christ as the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit or concerning the church as the mystery of Christ. Anyone who ministers along this line will be attacked by the enemy.
14因著我是为著召会，我就成了许多邪恶谣言的箭靶。有人指责我曲解倪弟兄关于召会生活的教训。有些人说，第二次世界大战以后，倪弟兄对召会立场的观念改变了。根据这个谣言，由于我对召会立场的态度没有改变，在这件事上我就与倪弟兄不一样。为了揭发这个虚假的报导，我们出版了『教会的路』，其中包括了倪弟兄在第二次世界大战以后所释放好几篇有关召会的信息，每一篇信息都列出日期和地点。这本书出版以后，反对者的策略改变了，开始说这书的英文本不是正确的繙译，乃是我自己的解释。然而，熟悉中、英文的人能作见证，这个繙译本是非常正确的忠于原著。这些谣言显明，撒但总是攻击那些为著神所赐给保罗之启示站住的人，特别是那些为著基督是神的奥秘，以及召会是基督之奥秘的启示站住的人。许多人反对我们，因为他们被宗教的传统麻醉了。因著传统的影响，他们将符合使徒保罗完成之话语的教训，定罪为异端。我们很多人能作见证，我们原先在基督教里没有得著完全的启示，就是神完成的话。仇敌的诡计乃是要蒙蔽那藉著保罗所完成的话。因这缘故，我们有负担要使神的话得著完成。
14Because of my stand for the church, I have been the target of many evil rumors. I have been accused of twisting Brother Nee’ste aching about the church life. Some claim that after World War II Brother Nee changed his concept regarding the ground of the church. According to this rumor, because I have not changed my attitude about the church ground, I have become different from Brother Nee in this matter. As an exposure of this false report, we put out Further Talks on the Church Life, which includes a number of messages on the church given by Brother Nee after World War II. Each of these messages is documented with the date and the place. After this book was released, the opposers changed their strategy and began to say that this book is not an accurate translation, but my own interpretation. However, those familiar with both English and Chinese can testify that the translation is very accurate and true to the original. These rumors show that Satan attacks those today who stand for the revelation given by God to Paul, in particular for the revelation concerning Christ as the mystery of God and the church as the mystery of Christ. Many oppose us because they have been drugged by religious tradition. Under the influence of this tradition, they condemn as heretical the teaching that corresponds to the word completed by the Apostle Paul. Many of us can testify that in Christianity we did not receive the complete revelation, the completed word of God. It is the subtlety of the enemy to veil the word which was completed through Paul. For this reason, we are burdened for the completion of the word of God
15保罗在歌罗西一章二十九节说，他为此劳苦，『照著祂在我里面大能的运行，竭力奋斗。』保罗为著完成神的话，劳苦并竭力奋斗。希腊原文指明，他为著这个完成而摔跤、争战。我们能坦白的作见证，我们也是为著完成所赐给保罗的启示而摔跤。表面看来，在主的职事里，我们是在作工；事实上，我们是在与宗教和宗教的传统争战。然而，我们要明白，我们不是与属血肉的摔跤，乃是与诸天界里邪恶的权势，就是与图谋毁坏召会的阴间之门摔跤。当我们竭力奋斗争战时，我们的负担，我们的管家职分，就是要完成神的话。今天我们尽职供应的，乃是神所赐给保罗之神圣启示的完成。
15In 1:29 Paul said that he labored, “struggling according to His operation which operates in me in power.” Paul labored and struggled for the completion of the word of God. The Greek word indicates that he was wrestling, engaging in combat, for this completion. We can frankly testify that we also are wrestling for the completion of the revelation given to Paul. Apparently in the Lord’s ministry we are working; actually we are fighting against religion with its tradition. We need to be clear, however, that our wrestling is not against blood and flesh, but against the evil powers in the heavenlies, against the gates of Hades that seek to destroy the church. As we struggle and fight, our burden, our stewardship, is to complete the word of God. What we are ministering today is the completion of the divine revelation given to Paul
16我们需要一再的指出，这个启示乃是关乎基督是神的具体化身，以及召会是基督的彰显。虽然在美国这里有许多的基督教活动，但几乎没有甚么神话语的完成。有谁背这个负担，宣告救主基督是赐生命的灵，将神圣的生命分赐到我们里面？有谁在卸去这个负担，告诉主的子民，他们应当是基督活的身体，在各地正确的立场上彰显基督？我们在主恢复里的人必须为这事负起责任。主恢复的目标乃是完成神的话。我盼望有许多弟兄兴起来尽这职事。今天有许多传福音、教导圣经、和基督徒的工作，但神话语的完成在那里？有成千所谓的教会，却没有神话语的完成。没有神话语的完成，神的旨意就无法成就，基督就无法得著祂的新妇，也无法带著祂的国度而来。我们需要经历基督作包罗万有赐生命的灵，并在正确的立场上，与召会站在一起。无论我们受到多少反对和攻击，我们都必须与召会站在一起，并在日常生活中经历基督。
16We need to point out again and again that this revelation concerns Christ as the embodiment of God and the church as the expression of Christ. Although there are a great many Christian activities in this country, there is hardly any completing of the word of God. Who is bearing the burden to declare that Christ the Savior is the life-giving Spirit imparting the divine life into us? Who is discharging the burden to tell the Lord’sp eople that they should be the living Body to express Christ on the proper ground in each locality? We in the Lord’s recovery must take up the responsibility for this. The goal of the Lord’s recovery is the completion of the word of God. I hope that many brothers will rise up to fulfill this ministry. Today there is much gospel preaching, Bible teaching, and Christian work, but where is the completion of the word of God? There are thousands of so-called churches, but there is no completion of God’sword. Without the completion of the word of God, God’s purpose cannot be fulfilled, and Christ cannot obtain His Bride or come with His kingdom. We need to experience Christ as the all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit and stand with the church on the proper ground. No matter how much we are opposed and attacked, we must stand with the church and experience Christ in our daily life
参 神话语的完成
III. THE COMPLETION OF THE WORD OF GOD
17神话语的完成包括基督与召会这极大的奥秘、（弗五32、）元首基督的完满启示、（西一26～27，二19，三、）以及召会，就是基督身体的完满启示。（弗三3～6。）这些事不只应当铭刻在我们心上，也当注入我们全人里面。愿主使我们都清楚认识祂的恢复，并清楚看见我们是为著完成神的话而摔跤。我们若要成为完成神话语的人，就必须供应基督作赐生命的灵，并且与召会站在一起，在正确的地方立场上，作基督活的彰显。这就是我们的负担、我们的职事、和我们的争战。
17The completion of the word of God includes the great mystery of Christ and the church (Eph. 5:32); the full revelation concerning Christ, the Head (Col. 1:2 6-2 7; 2:1 9; 3:1 1); and the full revelation concerning 11 the church, the Body (Eph. 3:3-6). Not only should these matters be impressed upon us; they should be infused into our being. May the Lord make us all clear concerning His recovery and concerning the wrestling for the completion of the word of God. If we would be those who complete the word of God, we must minister Christ as the life-giving Spirit and stand with the church as the living expression of Christ on the proper ground of locality. This is our burden, our ministry, and our warfare.