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歌罗西书生命读经 · 第60篇

基督在新人里是一切的肢体，又在一切的肢体之内

Christ as all the members and in all the members in the new man
1读经：歌罗西书3:5-11，哥林多前书，加拉太书3:27-28。在歌罗西二章里，我们看见基督是神的奥秘、（2、）神格一切丰满的具体化身、（9、）以及一切正面事物的实际。（16～17。）基督这位神具体的化身，乃是一切正面事物的实际，给我们享受。当我们这样享受祂，我们立即就感觉祂是身体的元首。（19。）保罗在三章四节继续说，基督是我们的生命。我们在前一篇信息指出，我们在地位、生命、生活、定命、荣耀上，都与基督是一。
1Scripture Reading: Col. 3:5-11; 1 Cor. 12:12-13; Gal. 3:27-28 12:12-13 In the second chapter of Colossians we see that Christ is the mystery of God (v. 2), the embodiment of the fullness of the Godhead (v. 9), and the reality of all positive things (vv. 16-17). As the One who is the very embodiment of God, Christ is the reality of all positive things for our enjoyment. When we enjoy Him in this way, we immediately realize that He is the Head of the Body (v. 19). In 3:4 Paul goes on to say that Christ is our life. In the foregoing message we pointed out that we are one with Christ in position, life, living, destiny, and glory.
经历基督作我们的生命
EXPERIENCING CHRIST AS OUR LIFE
2我们要特别留意三章四节里生命的事。保罗说，基督是我们的生命。没有甚么比生命对我们的关系更密切。事实上，我们的生命就是我们自己。如果我们没有生命，我们就不存在。基督成了我们的生命，这意思是说，基督成了我们。倘若基督没有成为我们，祂怎能作我们的生命？我们的生命无法与我们这个人分开。基督既是我们的生命，祂就无法与我们分开。因为我们的生命就是我们自己，并且因为基督就是我们的生命，所以我们可以说，基督成了我们。然而，这并不是说我们在神格上成为神，也不是教导人『进化成为神』。我们不该停留在道理上认识基督是我们的生命，基督必须在实际上、在经历上是我们的生命。一天过一天，我们需要经历基督作我们的生命，基督该是我们里面的生命，并且我们该与祂同有一个生命和生活。
2We need to give particular attention to the matter of life in 3:4. Paul says that Christ is our life. Nothing is more intimately related to us than our life. Actually our life is we ourselves. If we did not have life, we would cease to be. To say that Christ has become our life means that Christ has become us. If Christ does not become us, how can He be our life? Our life cannot be separated from our person. Since Christ is our life, He cannot be separated from us. Because our life is ourself and because Christ is our life, we may say that Christ has become us. However, to say this is neither to deify ourselves nor to teach “evolution into God.” We should not stop with the doctrinal knowledge that Christ is our life. Christ must be our life in a practical and experiential way. Day by day, we need to experience Christ as our life. Christ should be our life within, and we should have one life and living with Him
3人的话语无法充分表达，基督作我们的生命是甚么意思。我们能领会这事，但我们缺少口才来发表。虽然我们无法将这事解释得完全，我们却能经历。甚至连肉身的生命，我们都无法彻底的说明或描述。我们都有生命，但我们无法解释生命是甚么。如果连我们肉身的生命都是奥秘的，更何况是基督作我们的生命！神是生命的创造者，也是生命的独一源头。虽然我们无法解释生命，也无法领会得完全，但我们的确能经历生命、享受生命。我们如何无法否认肉身生命的事实，照样，我们也无法否认基督是我们的生命的事实。阿利路亚，我有基督作我的生命！因著我们有另一个生命─基督作我们的生命，我们就能活另一个生命。这生命乃是基督在我们里面，成了我们荣耀的盼望。（一27。）基督今天是我们的生命，将来是我们荣耀的盼望。
3Human words cannot express adequately what it means for Christ to be our life. This is a matter we can understand, but we are short of utterance concerning it. But even though we cannot define it fully, we can experience it. We are not even able to thoroughly define or describe our physical life. We all have life, but we cannot explain what it is. If even our physical life is mysterious, how much more is this true of Christ as our life! God is the Creator of life, the unique source of life. Although we cannot define life or understand it fully, we certainly can experience it and enjoy it. Just as we cannot deny the fact of our physical life, so we cannot deny the fact that Christ is our life. Hallelujah, I have Christ as my life! Because we have another life—Christ as our life—we can live another kind of life. This life is Christ in us as our hope of glory (1:27). Christ is our life today and our hope of glory for the future.
享受新人
THE ENJOYMENT OF THE NEW MAN
4在三章十至十一节，保罗继续说到新人。新人乃是从基督作神的奥秘给我们享受而产生的。我们享受基督作神的奥秘、神的具体化身、和一切正面事物的实际，结果首先是基督的身体；然后我们就认识并经历基督是我们的生命，并且我们与祂同活。最终的结果乃是一个团体的人─新人。
4In 3:10 and 11 Paul goes on to speak of the new man. The new man comes out of Christ as the mystery of God for our enjoyment. When we enjoy Christ as the mystery of God, the embodiment of God, and the reality of all positive things, the issue, the result, is first the Body of Christ. Then we have the realization and experience that Christ is our life and that we are living with Him. Eventually, the outcome is a corporate man—the new man
5最近，来自五十多处召会的弟兄们聚在一起有交通。我们聚在一起的时候，我有个感觉，我们不是一个社团，也不是一个组织，我们乃是一个新人。我们承认，在经历中我们仍然相当缺少基督，但我们已有的基督，就彀我们好好享受新人。不同国家的弟兄来在一起聚集的时候，我们就有类似的经历。即使我们说不同的语言，交通需要透过繙译，我们仍然觉得，我们是一个新人。就著我们目前对基督的经历，我们对团体的新人也能有点体会。这新人乃是我们经历基督作一切正面事物的实际、神的具体化身、以及神的奥秘的结果。如果我们中间有些人没有经历基督，没有享受基督，他们就会成为交通的拦阻。可是我们众人对基督多少都有点享受。我们的语言也许不同，但我们的享受却是一样。这样的享受使我们能彼此了解，并经历这一个新人。享受基督就产生出新人。
5Recently, brothers from more than fifty churches met together for fellowship. As we were meeting together, I had the sense that we were one new man, not a society or an organization. We admit that we are still quite short of Christ in our experience. But even the amount of Christ we do have enabled us to have a good enjoyment of the new man. We have a similar experience when brothers from different countries meet together. Even though we speak different languages and need translation in order to communicate, we still have the sense that we are one new man. Even with our present experience of Christ, we have some realization of the corporate new man. This new man is the issue of our experience of Christ as the reality of all positive things, the embodiment of God, and the mystery of God. If there are some among us with no experience of Christ and no enjoyment of Christ, they will be a hindrance to our fellowship. But all of us have some enjoyment of Christ. Our languages may be different, but our enjoyment is the same. It is this enjoyment that enables us to understand one another and to experience the one new man. The enjoyment of Christ issues in the new man
6在歌罗西二至三章，有基督作神的奥秘。这位基督成了我们的享受，这种享受先是产生身体，然后产生新人。这里的顺序与我们的经历相符，我们享受基督作一切正面事物的实际，就有身体的感觉；这指明享受基督就产生基督的身体。然后我们继续经历基督作我们的生命，并与祂同有一个生活、命定和荣耀，所产生的结果就不仅是召会作基督的身体，更是召会作一个新人。我再说，我们经历基督作为我们一切日常所需的实际，结果就是身体的生活；但我们经历基督作我们的生命，结果就是一个新人。
6In Colossians 2 and 3 we have Christ as the mystery of God. This Christ becomes our enjoyment, and this enjoyment results first in the Body and then in the new man. The sequence here corresponds to our experience. When we enjoy Christ as the reality of all positive things, we become Body - conscious. This indicates that the enjoyment of Christ issues in the Body of Christ. Then as we go on to experience Christ as our life and have one living, destiny, and glory with Him, the issue is not just the church as the Body of Christ, but the church as the one new man. To repeat, when we experience Christ as the reality of all our daily necessities, the result is the Body life. But when we experience Christ as our life, the issue is the one new man.
与基督同活
LIVING TOGETHER WITH CHRIST
7如果我们享受基督作一切正面事物的实际，我们就会接受祂作我们的食、衣、住、行。倘若我们继续享受并经历祂作我们里面奥秘的生命，并与祂同活，我们就会寻求在上面的事、天上的事─基督在那里代求、尽职，并执行神的经纶。基督在天上非常积极，甚至比祂在地上的时候更忙。祂为我们代求，牧养祂的众召会，并为亿万圣徒尽职。祂是天上的大祭司，为我们代求。我们有这样一位大祭司，就可以『坦然无惧的来到施恩的宝座前，为要受怜悯，得恩典，作应时的帮助』。（来四16。）基督为我们代求，将属天生命的供应服事到我们里面。祂是属天的执事，在诸天之上尽职。（八1～2。）根据启示录五章六节，基督是宝座上的羔羊，正在执行神宇宙的行政。基督在天上为著我们既是这样的积极，我们就当寻求在上面的事，并且思念这些事。不错，我们需要享受基督作我们的食、衣、住、行，并作我们每天生存所需的一切，但我们还需要继续寻求在上面的事。寻求在上面的事，并思念在上面的事，就是活基督，与祂同有一个生活。基督在天上祷告的时候，我们就该在地上祷告。这意思是说，基督在天上的祷告，与我们在地上的祷告之间，有一种传输。藉著这种传输，我们就可以与祂在一里祷告，我们在地上回应基督在天上的祷告。我们没有一个人该是失业的，我们都有责任回应基督属天的传输。我们必须寻求在上面的事，并思念这些事，而与基督同活。基督在天上代求、尽职并管理，我们在地上回应基督在天上的行动。
7If we enjoy Christ as the reality of all positive things, we shall take Him as our food, drink, clothing, transportation, and housing. If we go on to enjoy and experience Him as the mysterious life within us and live together with Him, we shall seek the things above, the things in heaven, where Christ is interceding, ministering, and administrating God’secon o my. Christ in heaven is very active, even more busy than when He was on earth. He is interceding for us, shepherding all His churches, and ministering on behalf of millions of saints. As the High Priest in heaven, He is interceding for us. Because we have such a high priest, we may “come forward with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for timely help” (Heb. 4:16). As He intercedes for us, Christ is ministering the heavenly life supply into us. He is the heavenly Minister ministering in the heavens (Heb. 8:1-2). According to Revelation 5:6, as the Lamb on the throne, Christ is executing God’s universal administration. Because Christ is so active for us in the heavens, we should seek the things that are above and set our mind on them. Yes, we need to enjoy Christ as our food, drink, clothing, and everything for our daily existence. But we must go on to seek the things above. To seek the things above and to set our mind on them is to live Christ, to have one living with Him. When Christ prays in heaven, we should pray on earth. This means that there is a transmission between the Christ praying in heaven and us praying on earth. By means of this transmission we may pray in oneness with Him. We respond on earth to Christ’spraying in heaven. None of us should be unemployed. We all have the responsibility to respond to Christ’she aven ly transmission. We need to live together with Christ by seeking the things which are above and setting our mind on them. Christ is in heaven interceding, ministering, and administrating, and we are on earth responding to Christ’s activity in heaven
8青年人，不要以为你太年轻，不能与基督天上的职事合作；连高中生也能寻求在上面的事。司布真（C.H.）在他家乡开始传道时只有十七岁，他十九岁的时候就应邀至伦敦的浸信会讲道。连一个年轻的司布真，也寻求要在地上实行基督在天上所作的工作。倘若司布真能在年轻的时候开始服事主，今天众召会里的青年人也能如此。
8Young people, do not think that you are too young to cooperate with Christ’s heavenly ministry. Even high school students can seek the things which are above. C. H. Spurgeon began to minister in his village when he Spurgeon was just seventeen, and when he was nineteen he was invited to speak to a Baptist congregation in London. Even as a young man, Spurgeon sought to carry out on earth the work Christ was doing in heaven. If Spurgeon could begin serving the Lord as a young person, the young people in the churches today can do the same.
9我们都能经历基督作每日的需要，也都能藉著寻求在上面的事而享受祂。我们在日常生活中，越享受基督作正面事物的实际，这种享受就越把我们带进召会生活，带进身体生活。但我们必须往前享受基督作我们的生命，并与祂同活，而与基督同有一个生活。今天基督在诸天之上活著，为众召会代求，将属天生命的供应服事给圣徒，并执行神的行政。然而，基督徒多半没有回应基督在诸天之上的生活，他们就像收音机，没有开机并调整频率，好接收空中无线电波的传输。基督虽然在天上供应、传输，许多基督徒却没有回应祂的职事，也没有接受祂的传输。我们感谢主，今天许多在地方召会里的人，已经把他们的接收器打开，而且发挥作用。当他们觉得基督在天上为某件事代祷的时候，他们就联于祂，在地上为著那件事祷告。譬如，他们感觉到主为迦纳的阿克拉召会代祷，就也一同为著那里的召会代祷。这样与基督一同祷告，就是与祂同有一个生活。
9We all can experience Christ as our daily necessities and also enjoy Him by seeking the things which are above. The more we enjoy Christ as the reality of the positive things in our daily life, the more this enjoyment will bring us into the church life, into the Body life. But we must go on to enjoy Christ as our life and live with Him, having the same living with Christ. Christ today is living in the heavens to intercede for the churches, to minister the heavenly life supply to the saints, and to carry out God’sad ministration. However, most Christians do not respond to Christ’s living in the heavens. They are like radios that are not turned on and tuned in to receive the transmission of the radio waves in the atmosphere. Although Christ is in heaven ministering and transmitting, many Christians are not responding to His ministry or receiving His transmission. We thank the Lord that a number of those in the local churches today have their receivers open and operating. When they sense that Christ is praying in heaven for a certain matter, they join Him to pray on earth for that very matter. For example, sensing that the Lord is praying for the church in Accra, Ghana, they join in to pray for the church there. To pray together with Christ in this way is to have one living with Him
PUTTING TO DEATH, PUTTING AWAY
治死、脱去并穿上
PUTTING OFF, AND PUTTING ON
10寻求在上面的事，并与基督同有一个生活，就能产生召会，就是新人。根据歌罗西三章的顺序，我们先是经历基督作我们的生命，并与祂同活。然后根据五至九节，我们治死在地上的肢体，并脱去旧人同旧人的行为。接著我们就穿上新人。（10。）保罗在五节吩咐我们要『治死』；在八节吩咐我们要『脱去』一些消极的事；在九节吩咐我们要『脱去旧人，同旧人的行为』。根据五节，我们必须治死堕落身体的情欲。根据八节，我们必须脱去堕落的魂里邪恶的事。最后，根据九节，我们必须脱去整个旧人。脱去旧人就像脱去旧的外衣。惟有与基督同活，我们才能完成这些事。我们与基督同活，就能脱去肉体的情欲，脱去堕落的魂里邪恶的方面，并脱去整个旧人。然后在积极方面，我们就能穿上新人。我们与基督同活，经历祂作我们的生命，并寻求在上面的事，就脱去一切消极的事物，并穿上新人。惟有与基督同活，享受祂作我们的生命，并寻求在上面的事，我们才能穿上新人。
10Seeking the things above and having one living with Christ issues in the church as the new man. According to the sequence in Colossians 3, we first experience Christ as our life and live together with Him. Then, according to 3:5-9, we put to death our members which are on the earth and put off the old man with his practices. Following this, we put on the new man (v. 10). In verse 5 Paul charges us to “put to death”: in verse 8, to “put away” certain negative things; and in verse 9, to “put off the old man with his practices.” According to verse 5, we are to put to death the lusts of the fallen body. According to verse 8, we are to put away the evil things of the fallen soul. Finally, according to verse 9, we are to put off the old man as a whole. To put off the old man is like putting off an old garment. Only by living together with Christ can we accomplish these things. When we live together with Christ, we can put off the lusts of the flesh, put away the evil aspects of the fallen soul, and put off the totality of our old being. Then, positively, we can put on the new man. By living together with Christ, by experiencing Him as our life and seeking the things which are above, we put away all the negative things and put on the new man. We put on the new man only by living with Christ, by enjoying Him as our life and seeking the things above.
被我们主人的事业所占有
OCCUPIED WITH OUR MASTER’S ENTERPRISE
11如果我们寻求在上面的事，并与基督同有一个生活，我们就要完全被我们主人的事业所占有。我们的心要与祂一同在天上；祂在天上为众召会代求、供应众圣徒、并执行神的行政；这要成为我们所关心、所渴望的。如果我们接受基督作生命，并且这样寻求在上面的事，我们情欲的肢体就会被治死，堕落的魂里邪恶的元素就会被脱去，并且旧人也会被脱去。不仅如此，我们自然就穿上新人。歌罗西书对我们不该只是一卷道理的书，乃该是一卷经历的书。虽然这卷书中所启示的基督是深奥、延展无限、且包罗万有的，但我们仍然能经历祂。我们能享受祂作每日的需要，接受祂作我们的生命，并与祂同活。不仅如此，我们能寻求在上面的事，并思念在上面的事。你难道不渴望在诸天界里与主是一，并有一颗心与主的心是一么？你难道不渴望在祂的祭司职分、职事、和行政上与祂是一么？我特别鼓励青年人，要寻求在上面的事，并与基督同活，而顾到神的定旨。我们盼望藉著享受基督，一个新人就得以产生，并且实际的彰显出来。我们不要仅仅在道理上的新人，乃要在实际上并在实行上的新人。新人不是藉著组织而来的。组织起来的东西也许是社团或宗教，但不是新人。惟有我们接受基督作生命，并与祂同活，新人才能产生。享受基督作我们日常所需的实际，是非常美妙，但接受祂作我们的生命，并与祂同活，更是美妙。我能作见证，我们越活基督，越关心祂所关心的，我们就越喜乐。我惟一关心的，乃是主的恢复，同众召会和众圣徒。我渴望圣徒们经历基督，并且在生命里长大。我没有别的负担，也不关心别的事，我完全被神的定旨所占有。因著基督所关心的充满了我，我就非常的喜乐。消极的事在我里面毫无地位。让主的权益占有，使我非常健康。
11If we seek the things above and have one living with Christ, we shall be wholly occupied with the enterprise of our Master. Our heart will be with Him in heaven, where He is interceding for the churches, supplying the saints, and administrating God’s government. This will be our concern, our desire. If we take Christ as life and seek the things which are above in such a way, the lustful members will be put to death, the evil elements in the fallen soul will be put away, and the old man will be put off. Furthermore, we shall automatically put on the new man. To us, Colossians should not be only a book of doctrine, but should be a book of experience. Although the Christ revealed in this book is profound, extensive, and all- inclusive, we can still experience Him. We can enjoy Him as our daily necessities, take Him as our life, and live together with Him. Furthermore, we can seek the things which are above and set our mind on them. Do you not aspire to be one with the Lord in the heavenlies and to have a heart that is one with His heart? Do you not long to be one with Him in His priesthood, ministry, and administration? I would encourage all the young people especially to care for God’s purpose by seeking the things which are above and living together with Christ. We expect that through the enjoyment of Christ the one new man will come forth and be expressed in a practical way. We do not want the new man merely in doctrine, but in reality and in practice. The new man does not come by way of organization. Something organized may be a society or a religion, but it is not the new man. The new man comes forth only by our taking Christ as our life and living together with Him. It is wonderful to enjoy Christ as the reality of our daily necessities, but it is even more wonderful to take Him as our life and live together with Him. I can testify that the more we live Christ and take His concern as our concern, the happier we are. My only concern is the Lord’s recovery with all the churches and all the saints. My desire is that the saints would experience Christ and grow in life. I have no other burden, no other concern. I am fully occupied with God’s purpose. Because I am filled with Christ’s concern, I am very happy. There is no room in me for negative things. Being occupied with the Lord’sin te rests makes me very healthy
12我很喜乐，主的恢复里有许多的青年人。这个恢复必定有荣耀的前途。我们都必须顾到主的权益。祂在天上祷告的时候，我们就在地上以祷告回应。这样，我们就经历到基督与我们之间的传输，这种传输使我们满了欢喜快乐。基督在诸天之上作工，我们在地上作工。这样，我们就不仅享受基督作我们所需的实际，也接受祂作我们的生命，并与祂同有一个生活。我们与基督同活不是没有目标的；这样的同活有确定的目的。这目的就是在基督为众召会的代求里，在祂将属天生命的供应服事给圣徒的职事上，并在祂执行神行政的事上，与祂是一。我们曾一再指出，这样与主同活的结果乃是新人。我们无法用组织来产生新人，新人乃是我们接受基督作生命并活基督的自然结果。
12I am happy that there are so many young people in the Lord’s recovery. The recovery certainly has a glorious future. We all need to care for the Lord’sin te rests. While He is praying in heaven, we respond in prayer on earth. Thus, we experience the transmission between Christ and us, a transmission that will make us happy and full of joy. Christ works in the heavens, and we work on earth. In this way, we not only enjoy Christ as the reality of our necessities, but we also take Him as our life and have one living with Him. Our living with Christ is not aimless; it has a definite purpose. This purpose is to be one with Christ in His intercession for the churches, in His ministry of the heavenly life supply to the saints, and in His administration of God’s government. We have pointed out again and again that the result of living together with the Lord in such a way is the new man. We cannot produce the new man by organization. The new man is the spontaneous issue of our taking Christ as our life and living Him
13神的心愿是要得著新人。这是祂在已过永远里的计画，也是祂创造宇宙，并在基督里为我们成功救赎的原因。福音的传扬以及新造，也同样是为著新人。神使新人彰显于地的时候已经来到。如果我们接受基督作生命，并与祂同活，新人就会产生，使神的愿望得著满足。
13The desire of God’she art is to have the new man. This was His plan in eternity past, and this was the reason He created the universe and accomplished redemption for us in Christ. The preaching of the gospel and the new creation are likewise for the new man. The time has come for God to have the new man expressed on earth. If we take Christ as our life and live together with Him, the new man will come forth to satisfy God’s desire
基督是每一个肢体
CHRIST BEING EVERY MEMBER
14在新人里，基督是每一个肢体。保罗在三章十一节论到这点时说，『在此并没有希利尼人和犹太人、受割礼的和未受割礼的、化外人、西古提人、为奴的、自主的，惟有基督是一切，又在一切之内。』这意思是说，在新人里，任何天然的人都没有地位。区域、文化、或国籍的差异也没有地位。譬如，在新人里没有中国人或美国人、加州人或德州人。照样，在新人里，犹太人或希利尼人、宗教徒或非宗教徒、有文化的或没有文化的、自主的或为奴的，都没有地位。任何种族、国籍、文化、或社会身分都没有地位。在这一个新人里，只有基督有地位；基督的确是新人一切的肢体。
14In the new man Christ is every member. Concerning this, Paul says in 3:11, “Where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, freeman, but Christ is all and in all.” This means that in the new man there is no place, no room, for any natural person. There is no place for regional, cultural, or national distinctions. For example, in the new man there cannot be Chinese or Americans, Californians or Texans. Likewise, in the new man there is no room for Jew or Greek, for religious ones or nonreligious ones, for cultured ones or uncultured ones, for freemen or slaves. There is no room for any race, nationality, culture, or social status. In the one new man there is room only for Christ. Christ surely is all the members of the new man.
15也许你不知道基督怎能成为新人的一切。这事若要成为实际，我们就必须接受基督作生命，并且活基督，不活我们自己。倘若基督是所有圣徒的生活，在新人里就只有基督。从美国来的人不再活美国人的生命，从日本来的人也不再活日本人的生命。所有的圣徒，无论国籍是甚么，都活基督。然后在实际上、在实行上，基督就要成为新人一切的肢体。基督要成为你，也要成为我。因为我们都活基督，不活自己，基督就要成为我们众人，就是新人的每一个肢体。在地方召会中，我们所关心的不是帮助别人改良天然的生命。我们宁愿帮助他们钉死天然的人，埋葬天然的人，好叫他们活基督。我们天然的人死了，就把我们引进复活里；在复活里我们就能接受基督作生命。我能作见证，我越经历与基督同钉十字架，就越在复活里接受基督作生命，并且活基督。
15Perhaps you are wondering how Christ can be all in the new man. For this to be a reality, we must take Christ as our life and live Him, not ourselves. If Christ is the living of all the saints, then only He will be in the new man. Those from America will no longer live an American life, and those from Japan will no longer live a Japanese life. All the saints, whatever their nationality may be, will live Christ. Then in a way that is real and practical, Christ will be all the members of the new man. Christ will be you, and Christ will be me. Because we all live Christ, not ourselves, Christ will be all of us, every member of the new man. In the local churches we are not concerned with helping others improve their natural life. We would rather help them to crucify their natural person and bury it so that they may live Christ. The death of our natural person will usher us into resurrection, where we can take Christ as life. I can testify that the more I experience crucifixion with Christ, the more I take Christ as my life in resurrection and live Him
16无论我们遭受多少宗教的反对，我有把握说，新人一定会产生出来。圣徒们一直在学习活基督，他们就要由基督所构成。一次又一次的聚会，都把基督作到圣徒里面。我能为一些认识多年的弟兄作见证，他们正荣耀的被基督所构成。他们的确经历主的变化。没有甚么比看见圣徒接受基督作生命、活基督、并寻求在上面的事，以完成神永远的定旨，更令我喜乐。
16No matter how much opposition we receive from religion, I have the assurance that the new man will come forth. The saints are learning to live Christ, and they are becoming constituted of Him. Meeting after meeting, Christ is being wrought into the saints. I can testify of certain brothers whom I have known for years that they are being gloriously constituted of Christ. They are truly experiencing the Lord’s transformation. Nothing makes me more joyful than to see the saints taking Christ as life, living Him, and seeking the things which are above for the accomplishment of God’s eternal purpose
基督在每一个肢体之内
CHRIST IN EVERY MEMBER
17在三章十一节，保罗不仅说到基督是一切，也说到祂在一切之内。换句话说，一面，基督既是一切肢体，另一面，祂也在一切肢体之内。保罗说了基督是一切，为甚么还要说，基督在一切之内？如果保罗只说基督是一切，没有说基督在一切之内，我们也许就认为，在新人里只需要基督，不需要我们。我们不该以为，基督既是新人的一切肢体，我们就算不得甚么，也用不著了。一面，圣经虽然说，天然的人在新人里没有地位，因为基督是一切的肢体。但另一面，保罗说，基督在众肢体之内。基督在新人的众肢体之内，这事实指明众肢体仍然存在。
17In 3:11 Paul says not only that Christ is all, but also that He is in all. In other words, on the one hand, Christ is all the members, and on the other hand, He is in all the members. Since Paul says that Christ is all, why is there the need for him to say that Christ is in all? If Paul did not say that Christ is in all, only that He is all, then we may think that in the new man Christ is needed and that we are not needed. We should not think that, because Christ is all the members in the new man, we are nothing and are not needed. On the one hand, the Bible does say that in the new man there is no place for the natural person because Christ is all the members. Yet, on the other hand, Paul says that Christ is in the members. The fact that Christ is in the members of the new man indicates that the members still exist.
18当我们接受基督作生命，并与祂同活，寻求在上面的事，我们深处就感觉我们与基督是一，并且基督就是我们。但同时我们还有一个更深的感觉，就是基督在我们里面。因此，说基督在我们里面，以及祂就是我们，都没有错。我们乃是新人的一部分，有基督在我们里面。我们仍继续存在，但我们不是没有基督而存在，我们乃是由基督所内住的人。如今我们可以欢然对主说，『主耶稣，我接受你作我的生命，与你同活的时候，你就是我，我完全与你是一。但是主，我仍然在这里，因为你在我里面。我在这里，但我是与你一同在这里。』按照我们的经历，我们都能作这样的见证。我们活基督，并与祂是一的时候，我们说，『主耶稣，这不是我，乃是你。』但同时我们觉得，我们与主同在，祂也在我们里面。在新人里，基督是每一个人，祂也在每一个人里面。真奇妙！这不仅是经历基督作我们日常所需的实际，更是以祂作我们的生命，并在神圣的事业上与祂是一。我们这样与祂是一，祂就成为我们，我们也有祂在我们里面与我们同活。我们活著，但不是单独活著，乃是有基督在我们里面。我相信主的心意乃是，我们天天对这件事有更多的经历，接受基督作我们的生命，与祂同活，寻求在上面的事，并与祂配合，以完成神永远的定旨。然后我们都能说，在我们，活著就是基督，而且基督活在我们里面。
18When we take Christ as our life and live together with Him, seeking the things which are above, we have the sense deep within that we are one with Christ and that Christ is us. But simultaneously we have an even deeper sense that Christ is in us. Therefore, it is true to say that Christ is both in us and that He is us. We are part of the new man with Christ in us. We continue to exist, but we do not exist without Christ; we are those indwelt by Christ. Now we can rejoice and say to the Lord, “Lord Jesus, when I take You as my life and live together with You, You are me. I am altogether one with You. But, Lord, I am still here, for You are in me. I am here, but I am here with You.” According to our experience, we all can give such a testimony. When we live Christ and are one with Him, we say, “Lord Jesus, this is not me—it is You.” However, at the same time, we have the sense that we are with the Lord and that He is in us. In the new man Christ is everyone and He is also in everyone. How wonderful! This is to experience Christ not only as the reality of our daily necessities, but to have Him as our life and to be one with Him in the divine enterprise. When we are one with Him in this way, He becomes us, and we live with Him in us. We live, but we live not alone, but with Christ in us. I believe that the Lord’sin tent i on is that day by day we have more experience of this, taking Christ as our life, living together with Him, seeking the things which are above, and coordinating with Him for the carrying out of God’s eternal purpose. Then we shall all be able to say that to us to live is Christ and that Christ lives in us