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帖撒罗尼迦前书生命读经 · 第22篇

我们的心得坚固，

Our Heart to be Established
1在圣别上无可指摘（三）以及我们的身体在圣别中得蒙保守清洁读经：帖撒罗尼迦前书3:13;4:3-8，希伯来书12:14，罗马书12:1-2，以弗所书，马可福音12:30，腓立比书2:5。我们读圣经时，需要摸著作者灵里的负担。确切的说，我们需要知道保罗写帖撒罗尼迦前书时灵里的负担。
1Blameless in Holiness (3) and Our Body to be Preserved Clean in Sanctification Scripture Reading: 1 Thes. 3:13; 4:3-8; Heb. 12:14; Rom. 12:1-2; Eph. 3:17-19; Mark 12:30; Phil. 2:5 3:17-19 In reading the Scriptures we need to touch the burden in the spirit of the writer. In particular, we need to know the burden in Paul’s spirit when he was writing
21保罗是以祝福的话总结帖前三章：『好使你们的心，当我们主耶稣同祂众圣徒来临的时候，在我们的神与父面前，得以坚固，在圣别上无可指摘。』（13。）保罗渴望读这封书信的人，心得坚固，在圣别上无可指摘。
21 Thessalonians. Paul concludes chapter three of Thessalonians with a word of blessing: “That He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints” (v. 13). Paul’s desire was that the readers of this Epistle would be established in their hearts blameless in holiness.
3保罗在四章接著嘱咐圣徒要禁戒淫乱这种污秽人的罪：『神的旨意就是要你们圣别，禁戒淫乱。』（3。）保罗嘱咐圣徒怎样禁戒这罪？他嘱咐他们要用成为圣别的方式禁戒淫乱。他首先告诉他们，神的旨意是要我们圣别（或，圣化）。神的旨意是要我们在圣别上得以圣化、蒙保守、被护卫。禁戒淫乱最好的路，就是在神的圣别上得以圣化、蒙保守。保罗在四章三、四、七节三次用到『圣别』这辞。他在三节说，神的旨意就是要我们圣别；四节说我们应当晓得，怎样用圣别和尊贵，持守自己的器皿，就是我们的身体；七节说，神本是在圣别中召了我们。按照四章四节所说，我们应当用圣别和尊贵持守自己的身体。圣别是在神面前，尊贵是在人面前。每个犯淫乱的人，都失去他在人面前的尊贵。在每一个社会里，犯淫乱的人总是受藐视的，他们失去在人面前的尊贵。因此，我们需要保守自己的身体不犯这种罪，而圣别乃是保守我们的路。
3In chapter four Paul goes on to charge the saints to abstain from the defiling sin of fornication: “For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that you abstain from fornication.” In what way does Paul charge the saints to abstain from this sin? He charges them in the way of sanctification. First he tells them that the will of God is our sanctification. The will of God is that we would be sanctified, kept, preserved, and guarded in sanctification. The best way to abstain from fornication is to be sanctified, preserved, in God’s holiness. In 4:3, 4, and 7 Paul uses the word “sanctification” three times. In verse 3 he says that the will of God is our sanctification; in verse 4, that we should know how to possess our vessel, our body, in sanctification and honor; and in verse 7, that God has called us in sanctification. According to 4:4, we should possess our body in sanctification and honor. Sanctification is before God, and honor is before man. Every fornicator loses his honor before man. In every society fornicators are despised; they have lost their honor before man. Therefore, we need to keep our body from such a sin, and the way to do so is in sanctification
我们要成为圣别的责任
OUR RESPONSIBILITY IN BEING SANCTIFIED
4保罗在五章二十三节总结的话里论到圣别：『且愿和平的神，亲自全然圣别你们，又愿你们的灵、与魂、与身子得蒙保守，在我们主耶稣基督来临的时候，得以完全，无可指摘。』在这里我们看见，我们的全人─灵、魂、体─需要得著圣别。我们需要和平的神圣别我们，不仅在魂与身体里，也在灵里。
4In 5:23 Paul gives a concluding word concerning sanctification: “And the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Here we see that our entire being—spirit, soul, and body— needs to be sanctified. We need to be sanctified by the God of peace not only in our soul and body, but also in our spirit.
5按照五章二十三节，我们对于得以全然圣别需要负一些责任。一面，神会全然圣别我们。另一面，我们的灵、与魂、与身子需要蒙保守。虽然神保守我们，但我们需要负一些责任来蒙保守。我们可以将『蒙保守』看作是既主动又被动的动词。这意思是说，虽然我们是蒙保守的，但我们必须负起责任，主动的蒙保守。因此，『蒙保守』含示主动和被动的意思。神的心意是要保守我们，但我们愿意蒙祂保守么？我们可以用给孩子吃药这件事为例，说明我们需要在蒙保守这件事上负责。有时候孩子需要吃药，但他可能不愿意吃。事实上，他的父母想尽办法要𫗪他，他还是反抗，甚至父母不得不把他压住。父母这样作，是要保守孩子的健康。有时候我们不与主合作来蒙保守，这就逼著主作一些事叫我们降服下来，或是限制我们，使我们接受那些为著我们圣别并蒙保守所需的事物。
5According to 5:23, we bear some responsibility for being wholly sanctified. On the one hand, God will sanctify us wholly. On the other hand, our spirit, soul, and body need to be preserved. Although God preserves us, we need to bear a certain amount of responsibility to be preserved. We may regard the words “be preserved” as an active- passive verb. This means that although we are being preserved, we need to take the responsibility, the initiative, to be preserved. Thus, “be” implies something active, and “preserved” implies something passive. God intends to preserve us, but are we willing to be preserved? We may use the matter of giving medicine to children as an illustration of our need to bear responsibility to be preserved. Sometimes a child may need medicine, but he may not be willing to take it. In fact, he may resist the attempt of his parents to give it to him and even make it necessary for them to hold him down. Parents do this in order that the health of the child may be preserved. Sometimes we do not cooperate with the Lord to be preserved. This forces Him to do certain things to subdue us or restrict us so that we may take in what is necessary to be sanctified and preserved
6在帖撒罗尼迦前书这卷论到为著召会生活之圣别生活的书信里，保罗告诉我们，我们全人不同的部分都需要蒙保守。我们的心需要圣别，我们的身体需要在圣别上得蒙保守；至终甚至我们的灵，我们全人最隐密的部分，也需要成为圣别。
6In 1 Thessalonians, a book on a holy life for the church life, we are told that different parts of our being need to be preserved. Our heart needs to be sanctified, our body needs to be preserved in sanctification, and eventually even our spirit, the most hidden part of our being, also needs to be sanctified
我们行动的机关
OUR ACTING AGENT
7我们在前一篇信息里指出，我们的心是我们行动的代表。现在我愿意将这件事说得更为清楚。用『行动的机关』也许比『代表』更好。我们每一位都是存在体，是一个人。存在体是现代的说法，圣经称人为魂。这意思是说，我们每一个人是一个魂。魂这存在体有两个器官；里面的器官是灵，外面的器官是身体。我们藉著身体的五官接触物质的世界。照样，我们藉著灵这器官接触神，灵有其自己的感官。
7In the foregoing message we pointed out that our heart is our acting representative. Now I would like to make this matter a little more clear. Perhaps the term “acting agent” is better than representative. Every one of us is a being, a human being. The word “being” is a modern expression. The biblical term for a human being is “soul.” This means that each one of us is a soul. The soul, as a being, has two organs: the inward organ, the spirit, and the outward organ, the body. We contact the physical world through the five senses of our body. Likewise, through the spirit, an organ which has senses of its own, we contact God.
8我们能否接触某一样东西，在于我们是用甚么器官。譬如，你若闭眼，就甚么也看不见。但你不能用眼睛实化声音；要听声，你必须用耳。无神论者没有运用他们的灵，所以他们说没有神。我们必须用灵，否则我们无法把神质实出来。约翰四章
8Whether or not we are able to contact a certain thing depends upon the organ we use. For example, if you close your eyes, you will not be able to see anything. However, you cannot use your eyes to substantiate sound. For this, you must use your ears. Because atheists do not exercise their spirit, they say there is no God. We cannot substantiate God unless we use
9二十四节告诉我们，神是灵，敬拜祂的必须在灵里敬拜。我们若运用我们的灵，就立刻会感觉到确实有
9our spirit. John 4:24 tells us that God is Spirit and that those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit. If we exercise our spirit, we shall immediately sense that
10一位神。无神论者深处会对自己说，『如果真的有神，那你怎么办？』无神论者口里也许说没有神，但在他全人的深处，在他的灵里，他会感觉到有一位神。
10there truly is a God. Deep within, an atheist may say to himself, “Suppose there is a God after all—what will you do?” With the mouth an atheist may say that there is no God, but in the depths of his being, in his spirit, he may sense that there is a God
心是活跃的
ACTIVE IN HEART
11我们的魂必须有所行动。当我们的魂、我们这个人行动时，那就是心行动了。但是当我们一停顿，意思就是我们的心不活跃。我们都有两个心：物质的心和心理的心。我们知道我们物质的心在那里，但我们不知道我们心理的心在那里。我们物质身体的行动或活动在于我们物质的心跳动。据医生说，只要心脏一停止跳动，我们物质的身体就死了。没有脉搏的人就是死人，因他的心跳停止了。这个例证指出，只要心脏一停止跳动，身体就死亡了。心理的心也是这样。我们物质的心与心理的心都有动脉。心理之心的大动脉是心思、情感和意志。心脏病发作，常是由于动脉阻塞引起的。我最近读到一篇报导，医生剖验在越战死亡的青年人，发现他们虽然很年轻，但许多人的动脉都阻塞了。很多人知道动脉阻塞的危险，就注意饮食和运动，好使他们的血管清顺通畅。肉身之心的问题说明心理之心的问题。今天有数以百万计的基督徒，但这些基督徒当中有多少是真正活著的？大多数都不是活
11Our soul must act. When our soul, our being, acts, that is the heart. But when we keep ourselves at a standstill, this means that our heart does not act. We all have two hearts: a physical heart and a psychological heart. We know where our physical heart is located, but we do not know the location of our psychological heart. The actions or activities of our physical body depend on the beating of our physical heart. According to medical doctors, the death of the physical body takes place when the heart stops beating. A person who does not have any pulse is dead, for his heart has stopped beating. The point of this illustration is that the death of the body takes place when the heart stops beating. This is also true of the psychological heart. Both our physical heart and our psychological heart have arteries. The main arteries of the psychological heart are the mind, emotion, and will. Heart attacks are often due to the blockage of the arteries. Recently I read that doctors who examined the bodies of young men who died in the Vietnam War discovered that in many cases their arteries were blocked even though they were quite young. Realizing the danger of blocked arteries, many watch their diet and are careful to exercise in order to cleanse their blood vessels. The problem of the physical heart is an illustration of the problem of the psychological heart. Today there are millions of Christians. But how many of these Christians are truly living? Most of them are not living
12著的。他们不活的原因是他们心理之心的动脉阻塞了。这样的阻塞导致他们属灵的死亡。
12The reason they are not living is that the arteries of their psychological heart have been blocked. This blockage has caused them to die spiritually.
13我们都要问自己，我们在属灵上健康么？我们的肉身要健康，就需要有强壮的心。我们如果要有属灵的健康，也必须要有强壮的心。所有属灵的疾病都是出于心理的心。我们心理的心也许在不同方面出了毛病。我们在思想上、在爱恶上，或是在我们运用意志的方式上，可能都出了毛病。如果我们心理的心是健康的，牠在思想、爱恶、决断等方面就都非常活跃积极。我们的心是我们行动的机关。这意思是说，如果我们活跃积极，我们的心在心思、情感、意志上就必定是活跃积极的。但一个人的心若不活跃，我们会怀疑他在属灵上是否是活的。他若是活的，他心里为甚么没有活动？他的心既是他行动的机关，他为甚么不正常的尽功用？我能作见证，我虽然年纪老迈，但我的心非常活跃。我满了思想、感觉和意图。我的全人─灵、魂、身体─是活跃的。但这些活动的机关不是灵、魂或身体；行动的机关乃是心同三个大动脉─心思、情感、意志。
13We all need to ask ourselves if we are spiritually healthy. To be healthy physically we need a strong heart. We also need a strong heart if we are to be spiritually healthy. All spiritual diseases are of the psychological heart. Our psychological heart may be wrong in different ways. We may be wrong in our thinking, in our loving or hating, or in the way we use our will. If our psychological heart is healthy, it will be very active in thinking, loving, hating, and deciding. Our heart is our acting agent. This means that if we are active, our heart will be active in mind, emotion, and will. However, if a person is not active in his heart, we may wonder if he is spiritually alive. If he is alive, why is there no activity in his heart? Why does his heart not function in a normal way, since it is his acting agent? I can testify that, even though I am elderly, I am very active in my heart. I am full of thought, feeling, and intention. My entire being—spirit, soul, and body— is active. However, the agent of this activity is not the spirit, the soul, or the body; the acting agent is the heart with the three main arteries of mind, emotion, and will
14更新的心思保罗在罗马十二章二节说到心思的更新。身体怎样代表我们外面的所是，心思也照样代表我们里面的所是。按照罗马十二章一节，我们需要将身体献上给神，当作祭物，我们的心思也需要更新。更新就是被神浸透。这就是圣别。更新事实上就是得以圣别，而得以圣别就是变化。我们的心思需要更新、圣别并变化。
14A RENEWED MIND In Romans 12:2 Paul speaks of the renewing of the mind. As the body represents our outward being, so the mind represents our inward being. According to Romans 12:1, our body needs to be presented to God as a sacrifice, and our mind needs to be renewed. To be renewed is to be saturated with God. This is sanctification. To be renewed actually is to be sanctified, and to be sanctified is to be transformed. Our mind needs to be renewed, sanctified, transformed
15情感被基督的爱摸著保罗在以弗所三章十七节说，『使基督藉著信，安家在你们心里，叫你们在爱里生根立基。』爱是情感的事。按照这一节，基督安家在我们心里，我们自己也在祂的爱里生根立基。这指明我们的情感被祂的爱摸著，我们就在这爱里长大。我们的情感充满基督的爱，当然是圣别的一面。不仅如此，当我们在爱里生根立基时，我们就能『认识基督那超越知识的爱』。（弗三19。）这也与我们心的圣别有关，特别是与情感有关。我们的情感充满基督的爱，就是被基督所浸透。毫无疑问，这就是我们情感的圣别。
15AN EMOTION TOUCHED WITH THE LOVE OF CHRIST In Ephesians 3:17 Paul says, “That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith, that you, having been rooted and grounded in love.” Love is a matter of the emotion. According to this verse, Christ makes His home in our hearts, and we ourselves become rooted and grounded in His love. This indicates that our emotion is touched by His love and that we grow in this love. To have our emotion filled with the love of Christ surely is an aspect of sanctification. Furthermore, when we are rooted and grounded in love, we can “know the knowledge- surpassing love of Christ” (Eph. 3:19). This is also related to the sanctification of our heart, in particular of the emotion. To have our emotion filled with the love of Christ is to be saturated with Christ. No doubt, this is the sanctification of our emotion.
16用我们的全人来爱主马可十二章三十节说，『你要全心、全魂、全心思并全力，爱主你的神。』这里说到心、魂和心思，而魂是在心与心思之间。魂的三部分─心思、情感、意志─也是心的几个部分。但为甚么在马可十二章三十节没有题到情感或意志？原因是情感和意志都包括在魂里。但为甚么题到心思？这是因为心思是心与魂的主要部分。因此，我们需要用我们的全心、全魂和全心思，爱主我们的神。
16LOVING THE LORD WITH OUR WHOLE BEING Mark 12:30 says, “And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.” Here we have the heart, the soul, and the mind, with the soul mentioned in between the heart and the mind. The three parts of the soul—the mind, the emotion, and the will—are also parts of the heart. But why in Mark 12:30 is there no mention of the emotion or the will? The reason is that the emotion and the will are included in the soul. But why, then, is the mind mentioned? The mind is mentioned because it is the leading part of both the heart and the soul. Therefore, we need to love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our mind
17马可十二章三十节也告诉我们，要全力爱主。这里的『力』是指我们物质的身体。因此，我们需要用我们所有全身的力量爱主，也要全心、全魂并全心思爱主。这指明我们的全人─我们里面的所是和我们外面的所是，都要被主我们的神占有并浸透。这就是圣别、圣化。
17Mark 12:30 also tells us to love the Lord with all our strength. The word “strength” here refers to our physical body. Therefore, we need to love the Lord with all our physical strength and with all our heart, soul, and mind. This indicates that our entire being, our inner being and our outer being, should be occupied with the Lord our God and saturated with Him. This is to be sanctified, made holy
灵与心
THE SPIRIT AND THE HEART
18我的负担是要指出，我们这些基督徒，在基督里的信徒，必须是活的。要作一个活的信徒，关系到我们的灵和心。就著道理而言，我们可以说，我们运用我们的灵就活了。但是就著实行而言，运用我们的灵好像常常行不通。我们许多人能作见证，我们虽然运用我们的灵，但这还不能每次都有效的叫我们活。运用灵没有果效的原因，乃是心没有活动。这意思是说，心出了问题。也许心思没有更新、圣别、变化，也许没有被主浸透并被祂占有，却充满属世的事物。我们可以运用我们的灵说，『赞美主！』但这样用灵也许不能叫我们活。当我们的心活跃时，运用灵才有用。
18I am burdened to point out that, as Christians, believers in Christ, we must be living. To be a living believer involves both our spirit and our heart. Doctrinally, we may say that we can become living by exercising our spirit. But in practice often it seems that the exercise of our spirit does not work. Many of us can testify that we have exercised our spirit, but still this did not always work to make us living. The reason the exercise of the spirit may not work is that the heart does not act. This means that there is something wrong in the heart. Perhaps the mind is not renewed, sanctified, transformed; it may not be saturated with the Lord and occupied by Him. Instead, it may be filled with worldly things. We may exercise our spirit and say, “Praise the Lord!” However, this exercise may not work to make us living. The exercise of the spirit works only when our heart is active
19我们的心若是沉睡不醒，运用我们的灵呼求主名就没有果效。我们行动的机关─我们的心─若是沉睡的，这样的运用灵是行不通的。这就是为何我们必须彻底对付我们的心。这对付必须包括我们的心思、情感和意志。我们的心思必须是基督的心思，我们的情感必须被基督的爱浸透，我们的意志必须与祂的意志是一。我们心的光景若是这样，我们的心就是活跃的，并且是尽功用的。当我们的心一活跃，我们呼求主就会非常有果效。
19If our heart is dormant or asleep, exercising our spirit to call on the name of the Lord will not be effective. This exercise cannot work if our acting agent, our heart, is dormant. This is the reason we need to deal thoroughly with our heart. This dealing must include our mind, emotion, and will. Our mind must be the mind of Christ, our emotion must be saturated with the love of Christ, and our will must be one with His will. If this is the condition of our heart, our heart will be active and functioning. Then if we call on the Lord when our heart is active, this calling will be very effective
20我们都需要仰望主怜悯我们。我们需要祷告：『主，怜悯我。我要我的心思得著更新，我要我的情感充满你的爱，我要我的意志真实的与你的意志是一。』如果我们有这样的心，那作我们行动机关的心就会得坚固，在圣别上无可指摘，就是在成为圣别的光景里无可指摘。
20We all need to look to the Lord to have mercy on us. We need to pray, “Lord, have mercy on me. I want to have my mind renewed. I want to have my emotion filled with Your love. I want to have a will that is truly one with Your will.” If we have such a heart, then the heart as our acting agent will be established blameless in holiness, blameless in the state of being made holy
用圣别和尊贵，
POSSESSING OUR BODY
21持守我们的身体保罗写帖前三章时，必定有意要从里面的所是─心，进一步说到外面的所是─身体。所以他嘱咐信徒们要禁戒淫乱，用圣别和尊贵，持守自己的身体。淫乱是粗鄙的罪。按照圣经，撒但的目的是要利用罪玷污神为祂自己所创造的人。任何一种器皿脏了就污秽了。不仅如此，肮脏、污秽之器皿的功用就废掉了。譬如，我们不会使用肮脏的杯子；我们用脏杯子以前，必须先把牠洗干净。神造的人原是纯洁的器皿，但撒但将罪注射到人里面，目的是要污秽人，破坏人。最污秽人的罪就是淫乱。偷窃是罪恶、不洁的，但不像淫乱那样污秽人。淫乱破坏了神的目的，破坏了人的身体，也破坏了家庭和社会。没有甚么像淫乱那样严重破坏人性。因此，保罗说到心─里面的所是─的圣别后，他没有忘记说到外面的所是。淫乱总是出于善变的心、未得坚固的心。你的心若得了坚固，撒但就很难试诱你犯淫乱。但是善变、变化无常的人，很容易跌入淫乱的陷阱。
21IN SANCTIFICATION AND HONOR As Paul was writing chapter three of 1 Thessalonians, he must have had the intention to go from the inner being, the heart, to the outer being, the body. This is the reason he gives the charge concerning abstaining from fornication and concerning possessing our body in sanctification and honor. Fornication is a gross sin. According to the Bible, Satan’s purpose is to uses into defile the man God created for Himself. Any kind of vessel is defiled when it becomes dirty. Furthermore, the function of a dirty and defiled vessel is annulled. For example, we do not use a cup that is dirty. Before a dirty cup can be used, it must first be cleansed. God created man as a pure vessel, but Satan injected sin into man with the intention of defiling him and spoiling him. The most defiling sin is fornication. Stealing is sinful and unclean, but it is not as defiling as fornication. Fornication damages God’s purpose, it damages the human body, and it damages the family and society. Nothing else damages humanity as seriously as fornication does. Therefore, after speaking concerning the sanctification of the heart, the inward being, Paul could not forget to speak concerning the outward being. Fornication always comes from a changing heart, a heart that has not been established. If your heart has been established, it will be difficult for Satan to seduce you to commit fornication. But it is easy for those who are changeable and fickle to fall into the snare of fornication.
22保罗写三章时，可能想到要接著写关于信徒外面的所是。他可能对自己说，『保罗，你现在说的与里面的所是有关。信是在于心，爱是在于情感，二者都与人里面的所是有关。但外面的身体又如何？』保罗是位优秀的著者，他写一件事就写得很透彻。因此，当他说到外在一面的圣别时，他所对付的是最污秽人的罪淫乱。务要禁戒淫乱。你若卷入淫乱，就给种种败坏开了大门。信徒和不信者，都被淫乱这粗鄙的罪所破坏。因此，保罗吩咐信徒要禁戒淫乱。他告诉他们，圣别是神的旨意。因为神的旨意是要保守我们一直在圣别中，所以我们应当禁戒一切不洁的事物，使身体得蒙保守。在这一点上，我要对青年人说一些话。我们基督徒也许需要看报纸，好知道世界局势。我几乎天天看报，但有几页我从来不看，因为那些是污秽人的。你的心思一旦因著看了一张图片受了污染，你就很难把这种污染的元素挪去。不仅如此，有些谈话我们不应当听，也不应当接触不洁的事物。但最重要的是，我们应当禁戒淫乱。我们必须在神面前保守、护卫我们的器皿是圣别的。我们的器皿必须是圣别、分别出来的，并要被神浸透，我们也要在人面前用尊贵持守自己。
22As Paul was writing chapter three, he probably had the thought of going on to write concerning the believers’ outward being. He may have said to himself, “Paul, you are speaking concerning the inward being. Faith is a matter of the heart, and love is a matter of the emotion. Both are related to the inward being. But what about the body outwardly?” Paul was an excellent writer. When he writes about a matter, he writes about it to the uttermost. Thus, when he comes to the matter of outward sanctification, he deals with the most defiling sin, the sin of fornication. ─ Stay away from fornication. If you become involved in fornication, you will open the door wide to all kinds of corruption. Believers and unbelievers have been damaged by the gross sin of fornication. Therefore, Paul commands the believers to abstain from fornication. He tells them that sanctification is God’s will. Because God’s will is to keep us always in sanctification, we should abstain from everything that is unclean so that the body may be preserved. At this point I would like to say a word to the young people. As Christians, we may need to read the newspapers to know the world situation. I read a newspaper nearly every day, but certain pages I would never read, for they are defiling. Once your mind has been defiled by looking at a certain picture, it will be very difficult for you to remove this defiling element. Furthermore, we should not listen to certain kinds of conversations or touch things that are unclean. But most important we should abstain from fornication. We must keep, preserve, safeguard, our vessel clean in sanctification before God. It must be holy, separated, and saturated with God and also kept in honor before man.
23人受造原是尊贵的，因为人是照著神的形像造的。因此，我们要彰显神并代表神。神派给我们最尊贵的地位。婚姻是圣别而尊贵的事，为要完成神的定旨，所以圣经告诉我们要尊重婚姻。但淫乱破坏人类，使堕落到淫乱里的人失去尊贵。因此，我们必须用圣别和尊贵，保守我们的身体洁净。为著召会生活的圣别生活
23Man was created by God with honor, for man was made in God’sim age. Therefore, we are to express God and represent Him. We have been assigned a most honorable position. Marriage is a holy and honorable matter, and it is for the fulfillment of God’s purpose. This is the reason the Bible tells us to honor marriage. But fornication destroys mankind and causes the one who falls into it to lose his honor. Therefore, we must preserve our body clean in sanctification and honor a holy life for the church life
我信我们已经摸著了保罗写帖前三、
I believe we have touched the burden in Paul’s spirit as he was writing chapters three and four of
241四章时灵里的负担。他首先对付心所
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25代表的里面所是，然后对付身体所代表的外面所是。就著里面说，我们的心必须得坚固，成为圣别；就著外面说，我们必须用圣别和尊贵持守自己的身体。这就是过圣别的生活，而这圣别的生活乃是为著召会生活。我们的心若得著坚固，在圣别上无可指摘，我们若用圣别和尊贵，保守我们的身体洁净；这样，我们就实际的过为著召会生活的圣别生活。
25Thessalonians. First he dealt with the inward being represented by the heart and then with the outward being represented by the body. Inwardly, our heart must be established in holiness; outwardly, our body must be preserved in sanctification and honor. This is to have a holy life, and this holy life is for the church life. If we have a heart established blameless in holiness and a body preserved clean in sanctification and honor, then, in a practical way, we shall have a holy life for the church life.