歌罗西书生命读经 · 第16篇

将各人在基督里成熟的献上

Presenting every man full-grown in Christ

1读经：歌罗西书1:25-28，2:2，9，3:4上，以弗所书3:8-11，4，1:23节，约翰福音6:57下，13:19下，加拉太书2:20上，以弗所书4:15，13下。

1Scripture Reading: Col. 1:25-28; 2:4, 9; 3:4a; Eph. 3:8-11, 4; 1:23; John 6:57b; 14:19b; Gal. 2:20a; Eph. 4:15, 13b

2论到那住在我们里面，作我们荣耀盼望的基督，保罗在歌罗西一章二十八节说，『我们宣扬祂，是用全般的智慧警戒各人，教导各人，好将各人在基督里成熟的献上。』繙作『成熟』的希腊字也可译作完全的、完整的。保罗的职事是把基督分赐到人里面，使人在基督里长大成熟，得以完全并完整。然而今天许多基督教工人却没有将各人在基督里成熟的献上这个观念，他们工作的目标不是这个。但我们必须与保罗有同样的目标。

2Speaking of Christ who dwells in us as the hope of glory, Paul says in 1:28, “Whom we announce, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man full-grown in Christ.” The Greek word rendered full-grown may also be translated mature, complete, or perfect. Paul’s ministry was to impart Christ to others so that they may be perfect and complete by maturing in Christ unto full growth. However, many Christian workers today do not have any concept of presenting every man full-grown in Christ. The goal of their work is something other than this. But we must have the same goal that Paul had

3甚至传福音时，我们的目标也该是分赐生命，好将人在基督里长大成熟的献上。我们向不信的人传福音，将基督供应给他们，帮助他们接受主时，我们的目标不该仅仅是叫他们蒙拯救脱离火湖，脱离神的定罪。我们的目标也不是仅仅叫他们经历神的赦罪，乃是把基督供应到他们里面，使他们至终能在基督里成熟的被献上。我们传福音若是不能把基督分赐给人，我们的福音就搆不上神的标准。我们向人讲说时，必须把基督灌输到人里面。分赐基督必须是我们传福音的目的。我们和圣徒们交通时，也该有同样的目标。当我们接触圣徒时，我们的目标应当是将基督供应到他们里面，好使他们在基督里成熟。

3Even in preaching the gospel, our aim should be to im- part life in order to present others mature, full-grown, in Christ. As we preach the gospel to unbelievers, minister Christ to them, and help them to receive the Lord, our goal is not merely that they should be saved from the lake of fire and from God’s condemnation. Our goal is not only for them to experience God’s forgiveness; it is to minister Christ into them so that they may eventually be presented full-grown in Christ. If we fail to impart Christ to others as we preach the gospel, our gospel preaching will fall short of God’s standard. Christ must be infused into all those to whom we speak. Imparting Christ should be our aim in our gospel preaching. We should have the same goal in our fellowship with the saints. As we contact the saints, our goal should be to minister Christ into them so that they may mature in Him

4现在我们要来看几件与将人在基督里成熟的献上有关的事。

4Let us now consider several matters related to presenting others mature in Christ

壹藉著将基督

I. BY MINISTERING CHRIST

作众圣徒的分供应人

AS THE PORTION OF THE SAINTS

5我们若要将人在基督里成熟的献上，就必须将基督作众圣徒的分供应给他们。（一12。）我们所供应的基督，必须是那包罗万有者，是神经纶的中心与普及。（一15，18～19，27，二2，9，16～17，三4，11。）我们若没有充分的经历基督，就会发现很难将基督供应给人。譬如，我们若没有经历凭基督而活，就无法帮助任何人凭基督而活。但如果我们在日常的生活里活基督，长基督，并产生基督，我们就自然而然的在接触人时将基督注入到他们里面。我们越以基督为我们的生命和人位，就越能彀把基督供应给人。我们既经历了基督，也凭祂而活，我们就影响别人也如此。我们需要享受基督作我们的美地，在祂身上劳苦，在祂里面生活，在祂里面行动，并且在祂里面行事为人。我们若是这样的人，就可以将我们所经历、所凭以生活的基督灌输到别人里面。在主的恢复里，我们所需要的不仅是更多的劳苦，将人带进召会生活中；我们还需要把基督的丰富供应给人，好使他们能长大并成熟。为此，我们自己需要更多经历基督作众圣徒的分。

5If we would present others full -grown in Christ, we must minister Christ to them as the portion of the saints (1:12). The Christ we minister must be the all- inclusive One, the centrality and universality of God’secon o my (1:15, 18-19, 27; 2:4, 9, 16-17; 3:4, 11). If we do not experience Christ in a full way, we shall find it difficult to minister Christ to others. For example, if we do not experience living by Christ, we cannot help anyone else to live by Christ. But if in our daily living we live Christ, grow Christ, and produce Christ, we shall spontaneously infuse Christ into others as we contact them. The more we take Christ as our life and our person, the more we shall be able to minister Christ to others. Having become those who experience Christ and live by Him, we shall influence others to do the same. We need to enjoy Christ as our good land, labor on Him, live in Him, walk in Him, and have our being in Him. If we are such persons, we shall transfuse into others the very Christ whom we experience and by whom we live. In the Lord’s recovery what we need is not simply more labor to bring others into the church life. We need to minister the riches of Christ into others so that they may grow and mature. For this we ourselves need to experience more of Christ as the portion of the saints.

贰藉著将基督那追测不尽的丰富

II. BY MINISTERING THE UNSEARCHABLE RICHES

供应人，为使召会得建造

OF CHRIST FOR THE BUILDING UP OF THE CHURCH

6第二，我们要将各人在基督里成熟的献上，就必须将基督那追测不尽的丰富供应给人，为著建造召会，完成神永远的定旨。（弗三8～11。）你可能是公认的好弟兄、好姊妹，却仍然缺少基督的丰富。我出外尽职接触圣徒时，遇到许多公认的好弟兄、好姊妹，但他们在日常生活里缺少基督的丰富。愿主在我们里面唤起我们，使我们渴慕得著在基督里的丰富。我们需要祷告说，『主，我不要作一个似乎是好，但在基督的丰富上却是贫穷的人。主阿！为了召会的建造，叫我被基督的丰富所充满。』

6Secondly, to present every man full-grown in Christ, we need to minister the unsearchable riches of Christ for the building up of the church to fulfill God’s eternal purpose (Eph. 3:8-11). It is possible to be what everyone would consider a good brother or sister, but still be short of the riches of Christ. In my contact with saints as I have traveled, I have met many who lacked the riches of Christ in their daily living, although everyone would consider them very good brothers and sisters. May the Lord awaken within us the aspiration to be rich in Christ. We need to pray, “Lord, I don’t want to be one who seems to be good, but who is poor as far as the riches of Christ are concerned. Lord, for the building up of the church, cause me to be filled with the riches of Christ

7我为那些在生活中有基督丰富的圣徒们感谢主！这样的弟兄姊妹真是透亮。相反的，缺少基督丰富的人却是糢糊不清的，完全不透明。但那些有基督丰富的人乃是明亮如水晶，你只要有问题和他们交通，因著他们自己非常的透亮，你对事情也就明亮清楚了。那些享受基督丰富的人都明亮如水晶。我们越经历基督的丰富，我们就越透亮。但愿我们都渴望成为那些在基督里丰富，并完全透亮的人。愿我们祷告说，『主阿，使我在身体里成为一个在你的生命中丰富，并完全透亮的肢体；拯救我，不叫我作一个仅仅是好，却缺少基督的肢体。』

7I thank the Lord for those saints whose living is characterized by the riches of Christ. Such brothers and sisters are transparent. Those who are short of the riches of Christ, on the contrary, are opaque, altogether lacking in transparency. But those who have the riches of Christ are crystal clear. Whenever you bring something to them in fellowship, the matter becomes clear to you because they themselves are so transparent. Those who enjoy the riches of Christ become clear as crystal. The more we experience the riches of Christ, the more transparent we shall become. May we all desire to be those who are rich in Christ and fully transparent! May we pray, “Lord, make me a member of the Body who is rich in Your life and who is transparent. Save me from being a member who is good, but who is short of Christ.”

8惟有那些在基督里丰富的人，才能建造基督的身体，好完成神永远的定旨。我们必须承认，我们中间还是没有多少的建造。我们也许关切个人的属灵和长大，过于召会的建造。我们若缺少基督、不彀透亮，我们对召会的建造自然就缺少关切。然而我们若充满了基督的丰富而成为透亮时，我们就会深深关切召会的建造，好使神的定旨得以完成。

8Only those who are rich in Christ can build up the Body for the fulfillment of God’s eternal purpose. We must admit that we still do not have very much building among us. We may be more concerned about our individual spirituality and growth than about the building up of the church. If we are short of Christ and lacking in transparency, we shall have little concern for the building up of the church. But if we are filled with the riches of Christ and thereby become transparent, we shall be deeply concerned for the building up of the church so that God’s purpose may be fulfilled.

参藉著完成神的话

III. BY COMPLETING THE WORD OF GOD

9我们乃是藉著用基督与召会的完满启示，完成神的话，而将各人在基督里成熟的献上。（西一25～27。）我们若要将人在基督里成熟的献上，就必须帮助他们得著神完成的话，就是关于基督是神的奥秘，以及召会是基督的奥秘。然而，我们若看看自己的光景，就知道我们当中没有多少人能这样完成神的话。为这缘故，我有负担使大家受激励，起来追求主。我们必须饥渴的要祂、追求祂，直到我们都被祂的丰富充满。我们需要祷告说，『主耶稣，我们不要冷淡，或不冷不热，我们渴慕向你绝对，寻求你到极致。』我们若是这样追求主，我们就会更多的看见基督与召会。我们若一直缺少基督的丰富，就不能在我们的经历中完成神的话。因此，我们迫切需要为著完成关乎基督与召会之神的话，祷告并劳苦。

9We present others full-grown in Christ by completing the Word of God with the full revelation of Christ and the church (1:25-27). To present others mature in Christ we must help them to have the completion of the Word of God concerning Christ as the mystery of God and the church as the mystery of Christ. However, if we consider our situation, we shall realize that not many of us are able to complete the Word in this way. For this reason I am burdened that we would be stirred up to pursue the Lord. We need to hunger and thirst after Him, to pursue Him until we are filled with His riches. We need to pray, “Lord Jesus, we don’t want to be in different or lukewarm. We long to be absolute with You and to seek You to the uttermost.” If we pursue the Lord in such a way, we shall see more regarding Christ and the church. But if we continue to be short of the riches of Christ, we shall not have in our own experience the completion of the Word of God. Hence, there is the desperate need for us to pray and to labor on Christ for the completing of the Word of God concerning Christ and the church

肆藉著将基督作神的奥秘供应人

IV. BY MINISTERING CHRIST AS the mystery of God

10第四，我们需要将基督作神的奥秘，也就是作神的具体化身（二2，9）供应人。我们需要从我们的经历中与人分享，基督如何是三一神的具体化身。我们要能见证，我们如何天天经历基督是父、子、灵。因著我们有基督，我们也有父。因著我们在基督里，我们也在那灵里。在我们里面运行的那灵，实际上就是基督自己。一天过一天我们应当与主成为一灵，经历祂与我们是一。（林前六17。）在我们每天生活的各方面，不论我们在那里，我们需要越过越经历与主成为一灵。这不该是道理或理论，这必须是我们实际的基督徒生活。

10Fourthly, we need to minister Christ as the mystery of God, that is, as the embodiment of God (2:2, 9). We need to share with others from our experience how Christ is the embodiment of the Triune God. We need to be able to testify how we daily experience Christ as the Father, Son, and Spirit. Because we have Christ, we also have the Father. Because we are in Christ, we are also in the Spirit. The Spirit who moves within us actually is Christ Himself. Day by day we should be one spirit with the Lord and experience His being one with us (1 Cor. 6:17). More and more our experience must be that in every aspect of our daily living, wherever we may be, we are one spirit with the Lord. This should not be a doctrine or theory; it must be our practical Christian living.

11关于我的职事，我常这样祷告：『主，给我恩典，使我在说话时与你成为一灵。主，我祷告，求你在我的说话中说话。主，我信你与我是一灵。我也求你在我供应话语时，使我与你成为一灵。』这个职事所有的冲击力，都是来自这样的与主是一。主乃是三一神的具体化身。这意思是说，父所有的丰富都具体化在子里。不仅如此，子完满的实化为灵；这灵现今与我们乃是一灵。正如保罗在林前六章十七节所说的：『但与主联合的，便是与主成为一灵。』与主成为一灵，对我们不该只是道理。相反的，这必须是我们每天实际的经历。在我们的经历中，我们必须认识甚么是与作三一神具体化身的主成为一灵。我们若经历基督作三一神的具体化身，我们就会将基督供应给人，作他们的营养和丰富。我们这样把基督供应给人，他们就会在祂里面长大。长大是从吃来的。人若因我们将基督作神的奥秘供应给他们，而得著𫗪养，他们就会在基督里被成全并得以成熟。

11Concerning my ministry, I often pray like this: “Lord, give me the grace to be one spirit with You as I speak. Lord, I pray that You will speak in my speaking. I believe, Lord, that You are one Spirit with me. But I ask that as I minister the Word I shall be one spirit with You.” Whatever impact this ministry has comes from such a oneness with the Lord. The Lord is the embodiment of the Triune God. This means that all the riches of the Father are embodied in the Son. Furthermore, the Son is realized in a full way as the Spirit, who is now one spirit with us. As Paul says in 1 Corinthians 6:17, “He that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.” The matter of being one spirit with the Lord should not be a mere doctrine to us. On the contrary, it must be our daily, practical experience. In our experience we must know what it is to be one spirit with the Lord, who is the embodiment of the Triune God. If we experience Christ as the embodiment of God, we shall be able to minister Christ to others for their nourishment and enrichment. As we minister Christ to others in this way, they will grow in Him. Growth comes by eating. If others feed on the Christ we minister to them as the mystery of God, they will be perfected and mature in Christ

伍藉著将召会作基督的奥秘供应人

V. BY MINISTERING THE CHURCH as the mystery of Christ

12我们若要把人在基督里成熟的献上，就必须将召会作基督的奥秘，也就是作基督的彰显（弗三4，一23）供应人。撒但的诡计，乃是使许多寻求主的基督徒避开召会的事。我和史百克（T.Austin-Sparks）弟兄来往的经历，说明有些人怎样坚持避开召会的事。史百克弟兄应我们的邀请，于一九五五年来到台湾。他供应基督时，我们在一起非常美好。他能非常清楚的响应我们所看见关于基督的事。一九五七年，他第二次来到台湾。这一次来访，他就消极的摸召会立场的事。一九五八年我应邀到英国去访问他。我们在一起的几天中，有很长的时间谈论召会的事。不过，他改变不了我的想法，我也改变不了他的观念。他尽力避开召会的话题，但我的观念是，我们必须为著召会的建造而劳苦。他的目的是要说服我们放弃召会的立场。但我向他指出，离了召会立场，实际上就不可能有召会。史百克弟兄想向我保证，他不是反对召会；又继续对我说，他早期尽职时，曾应邀在爱丁堡释放信息，当他说到基督时，会堂里坐满了人，听众反应也非常好，但是当他说到召会时，与会人数就减少了。这使他觉得，讲论召会的事没有益处。

12If we would present others mature in Christ, we must minister the church as the mystery of Christ, as the ex- pension of Christ (Eph. 3:4; 1:23). In his subtlety, Satan has caused many seeking Christians to avoid the matter of the church. My experience with Brother T. Austin-Sparks illustrates how persistently some avoid the church matter. At our invitation, he came to Taiwan in 1955. We had a wonderful time together as he ministered on Christ. He could clearly echo what we had seen about Christ. In 1957 he came to Taiwan a second time. On this visit he touched the church ground, the standing of the church, in a negative way. In 1958 I accepted his invitation to visit him in England. During the days we were together, we had many long conversations about the church. However, he could not change my mind, and I could not change his concept. He tried his best to avoid the subject of the church, but my concept was that we must labor for the building up of the churches. His intention was to convince us that we should give up the ground of the church. But I pointed out to him that it was impossible for us to have the church practically without the ground of the church. Brother Sparks tried to assure me that he was not opposed to the church. He went on to tell me that during the early years of his ministry, he was invited to speak in Edinburgh. When he spoke about Christ, the meeting hall was crowded, and the audience was responsive. But when he spoke about the church, the number of people decreased. This caused him to feel that it was not profitable for him to speak on the church.

13我接著问史百克弟兄，我们怎能实行我们所看见关于基督身体的原则？他承认，这些原则无法在宗派里实行。但他也不承认，只有在召会正确的立场上才能实行这些原则。他强调说，召会只能凭著更多的祷告并藉著灵才能产生。然后我问他：『你认为在台湾岛上这么多的召会，不是全凭祷告并藉著灵而产生的么？』我又问他，一群圣徒们在为召会祷告之后，该作甚么。他还是不承认，他们应该站在召会一的立场上。他只说，他们需要肯定他们每一个行动都是出于灵的。这是我们关于召会的谈论的结语。在召会这事上，我努力要说服他，他却尽力避开。最后，我们都不愿意改变自己的立场。

13I went on to ask Brother Sparks how we could practice the principles we both had seen concerning the Lord’s Body. He admitted that these principles could not be put into practice in the denominations. But he would not admit that they could be put into practice only on the proper ground of the church. Instead, he emphasized the fact that the church can be produced only by much prayer and through the Spirit. Then I said to him, “Do you think that so many churches on the island of Taiwan did not all come into existence by prayer and through the Spirit?” I asked him what a group of saints should do after they had prayed regarding the church. Still he would not admit that they should take the standing of the church on the ground of oneness. He simply said that they needed to be assured that any move they made was of the Spirit. This was the conclusion of our conversation about the church. I tried my best to convince him concerning the church, and he tried his best to avoid the church. Eventually, neither of us would change our position

14今天这场关乎召会作基督彰显的争战仍然持续著。因著仇敌的诡计，大多数基督教的书店只卖倪柝声弟兄论到属灵的书籍，却不卖他论到召会的书籍。然而，基督徒若没有召会生活就无法长大。倪弟兄论到属灵的书籍，多年来在世界各地的基督徒中间一直广受欢迎。但这些书这么畅销，还不能使基督教的光景有太多改进。若没有召会生活，从倪弟兄的书报中所得的帮助，至终还是会漏掉，因为召会生活是惟一能保留住这些帮助的器皿。对有些人来说，倪弟兄的属灵书籍最多只给他们新的道理观念；所得著的，并没有多少是为著完成神的定旨。难道主只要人追求属灵，却不要人有分于正当的召会生活么？绝对不是！离了召会，神的定旨就不能得著完成。因著我们看见这一点，主对召会的负担就重重的压在我们身上。我们需要实行召会生活，为著完成神永远的定旨。我们也需要忠信的将召会作基督的奥秘，就是作基督的彰显供应人。

14Today a battle is raging over the church as the expression of Christ. Due to the subtlety of the enemy, most Christian bookstores will sell Brother Nee’s book son spirituality, but not his books on the church. Christians, however, cannot become full-grown without the church life. Brother Nee’s books related to spiritual matters have been popular with Christians around the world for many years. But the popularity of these books has not caused the condition of Christianity to improve very much. Without the church life, the help people received from Brother Nee’s books would eventually leak away because the church life is the only proper vessel to preserve this help. For some, the spiritual books by Brother Nee for the most part supply new doctrinal concepts. Not much is gained for the fulillment of God’s purpose. Does the Lord want people who only seek after spirituality, but who do not participate in the proper church life? Certainly not! Apart from the church, God’s purpose cannot be fulfilled. Because we realize this, the Lord’s burden concerning the church presses heavily upon us. We need to practice the church life for the fulfillment of God’s eternal purpose. We also need to be faithful to minister the church as the mystery of Christ, as the very expression of Christ

15主的心意是要得著祂的身体，就是召会。祂不要名义上的召会，祂要实行的召会。召会生活若要实际，就必须有地方召会。这一点在『召会的实际显出』这本书中，有清楚的说明。今天召会实际的显出，只能在地方召会中。哦！愿我们都学习将召会作基督的奥秘、作基督的彰显供应给人，好使人能在基督里成熟的被献上。有些人宣称，关于召会的职事是没有前途的，因为反对的势力太广泛、太强大。当然，这职事若只是人手的工作，就必定没有前途。但这职事若是在主恢复里的职事，前途就必定是光明的。人越劝我们不要谈论召会，我们就越要忠信的供应关于召会的事。我们必须放胆且忠信，不仅讲说作元首的基督，更要讲说祂的身体─召会。我们不要跟随今天的基督教。相反的，我们必须跟随神纯正的话语，将召会作基督的奥秘供应人。

15The Lord’s desire is to have the Body, the church. He does not want the church in terminology—He wants the church in practicality. In order for the church life to be practical, there must be local churches. This is made clear in The Practical Expression of the Church. Today the practical expression of the church can only be in the local churches. Oh, may we all learn to minister the church as the mystery of Christ, as His expression, in order that others may be presented full-grown in Christ! Some have claimed that the ministry concerning the church has no future because the opposition against it is so widespread and intense. Certainly if this ministry is simply the work of man, it has no future. But if this ministry is the ministry in the Lord’s recovery, the future will be bright. The more others advise us not to minister on the church, the more we must be faithful to minister regarding it. We must be bold and faithful to speak not only of Christ, the Head, but also of the church, His Body. We must not follow today’s Christianity. On the contrary, we must follow the pure Word to minister the church as the mystery of Christ

陆藉著将基督作生命

VI. BY MINISTERING CHRIST AS LIFE

供应给祂的肢体

TO HIS MEMBERS

16最后，我们需要将基督作生命供应给祂的肢体，好使他们能凭祂而活，并因祂而长大，以至于成熟。歌罗西三章四节说，基督是我们的生命；在约翰六章五十七节，十四章十九节，和加拉太二章二十节，我们看见，我们需要凭祂而活。这样，我们就得以因祂而长大，

16Finally, we need to minister Christ as life to His members so that they may live by Him and grow with Him unto maturity. Colossians 3:4 says that Christ is our life, and in John 6:57; 14:19; and Galatians 2:20 we see that we need to live by Him. Then we shall grow with Him unto maturity Eph. 4:15, 13

17以至于成熟。（弗四15，13。）

18我们若渴望将人在基督里成熟的献上，就必须将本篇信息中所说的各点都供应给他们。信徒们何等需要让神经纶的各面都注入到他们里面。我们若是忠信的供应这些要点，就能将人在基督里成熟的献上。

18If we desire to present others full-grown in Christ, we must minister to them all the matters we have considered in this message. What a great need there is for the believers to be infused with all the things related to God’secon o my! If we are faithful to minister these crucial points, we shall be able to present others full-grown in Christ