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希伯来书生命读经 · 第2篇

第二篇、神说话了

GOD HAS SPOKEN
1希伯来书开始于神说话。神的说话是本书开头的点。赞美神，祂说话了！神说话绝不是一件小事，神若不说话，祂就是奥秘的；但祂已经说话，把自己启示出来，就不再是奥秘的了。现今祂是那启示出来的神。本书所强调的不是人说话，乃是神说话。所以本书不题作者是谁，甚至一切引用旧约的话，也不题说话者的名。按照本书的观念，全本圣经都是神的说话。因此，当本书题到旧约时，总是说那就是圣灵说的话。（三7，九8，十15～17。）
1The book of Hebrews begins with God speaking. The divine speaking is the opening point of this book. God has spoken! Praise Him! It is absolutely not a small thing that God has spoken. Without speaking God is mysterious. But He has revealed Himself in His speaking. He is no longer mysterious. Now He is the revealed God. The emphasis of this book is that God, not man, has spoken. Therefore, it does not mention who the writer of this book is, nor, in all its quotations from the Old Testament, does it mention the speakers’ names. According to the concept of this book, the entire Scripture is the speaking of God. Hence, when it refers to the Old Testament, it always says that it was the Holy Spirit’s speaking (3:7; 9:8; 10:15-17
2我们需要来看神的说话这件事。如果宇宙中有一位神，祂第一件要作的事会是甚么？祂在作一切别的事之前，必然是要说话。如果神是活的，祂当然要说话。如果祂是真实的，祂的说话就见证祂的真实。如果祂有所行动，祂会藉著说话行动。如果祂有所工作，祂也必定藉著说话作工。活人必定是说话的人。你若是一个活人，我不信你能闭口一小时而不说话。你若一个人单独在家里，你会发觉自己还是必须说话；你就算不对天使说话，也会自言自语。活人必须说话。我们的神是活的！所以我们的神在说话，而祂的说话证明祂是活的。因著祂说话，我们知道祂是活的。说没有神，这是何等愚昧！你岂没有听见祂说话么？神已经说话了！从永远起，这位说话的神说了千千万万的话。若是祂从来没有说话，那么圣经从何而来？无人能否认圣经里所显的智慧。圣经里的话，即便不是每一句，至少有大部分，绝不可能出自于人类的思想。一位很有名的法国哲学家曾说，若是四福音书是假的，也没有基督这个人，那么写四福音书的人，就足彀资格作基督。你若不信这话，就试看你能不能写出这样的书。谁能写出这样又深奥又智慧的话？彼得不过是加利利的渔夫，约翰不过是补网的人。他们都没有读过大学，从那里有这样的智慧？『太初有话，话与神同在，话就是神。…生命在祂里面，这生命就是人的光。』（约一1，4。）谁能写出这样简单而又深奥的话？当然不是加利利一个小小补网的人所能写出的。惟独神自己才能这样说话。你怎能说没有神？有甚么书能与圣经相比？没有！没有一本书能与圣经相比。圣经是书中之书，因为其中蕴藏著深奥的智慧。
2We need to consider this matter of God’s speaking. If there were a God in the universe, what would be the first thing that He would do? Certainly, before doing anything else, He would speak. If God is living, He must certainly speak. If He is real, His speaking testifies His reality. If He is moving, He will move by speaking. If He is working, He will surely work by speaking. A living person is a speaking person. If you are a living person, I do not believe that you will be able to be silent for even one hour. If you are at home alone, you will find that you simply must speak. If you do not speak to the angels, you may speak to something or to yourself. A living person must speak. Our God is living! So our God is speaking, and His speaking testifies that He is living. We know that our God is living because He speaks. How foolish it is to say that there is no God! Have you not heard His speaking? God has spoken! Since eternity, this speaking God has spoken millions of times. If He never spoke, then where did the Bible come from? No one can deny the wisdom expressed in the Bible. If not every sentence, then at least a great many sentences in the Bible could never have come out of a human mind. One great French philosopher has said that if the four gospels were falsehoods and there were no Christ, then the person who wrote the gospels is fully qualified to be Christ. If you do not believe that the writer of the gospels is qualified to be Christ, then you try to write such books. Who can utter things in such a profound and wise way? Peter was a Galilean fisherman and John was a mender of nets. They did not graduate from a university. Where did they get their wisdom? “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God....In Him was life, and the life was the light of men” (John 1:1, 4). Who can utter such simple yet such profound words? Certainly not a little mender of nets from Galilee. Only God Himself can speak in this way. How can you say that there is no God? Can you find another book to compare with the Bible? There is no other book that can compare with it. The Bible is the book among all books because it bears profound wisdom.
3圣经也带著光，没有一本书像圣经这样能光照人。你们读这些信息的人，有许多曾受过相当高的教育。你们读过很多书，看过很多报章刊物，请问你们有没有因著任何读过的书籍报章而蒙光照？当人读报纸时，乃是昏暗、受蒙蔽、被麻醉、受欺的。然而，我们许多人能作见证，每当我们读圣经，无论是那一章，都有光临到我们。甚至像创世记三章一节说到蛇的经节，也有光在照亮。有时候光没有立即照亮，因为你还未豫备好。光总是豫备好要照亮，但你还没有豫备好敞开来接受。然而，最后光还是会临到。以创世记三章一节为例：『耶和华神所造的，惟有蛇比田野一切的活物更狡猾。』有一天早晨，一位年轻姊妹读到这节，就记在心中，但是不明白其中的意义。当天稍后，她的一个同学以某事来引诱她。『蛇比一切更狡猾』这句话立刻就临到她。她的同学越说，这句话就越强的临到她，最后她在心中说，『小蛇，走开罢。』在我尽职的过程中，我听过许多这类的见证。人读到神的话，就会蒙光照。谁能作见证说，他读完报章杂志以后，就蒙了光照？没有这样的见证，因为报章杂志不是神的话。但整本圣经都是神所说的话。你若把『撒但』这辞登在报上，并没有甚么意义；但是当你在圣经中读到这辞，尤其当你祷读时，你就会蒙光照，撒但也会被暴露。
3The Bible also bears light. No other book enlightens people as does this book. Many of you who are reading these messages are very well educated. You have read many books and newspapers. Please tell me, have you been enlightened by any of those books or newspapers? Whenever people read the newspapers, they are darkened, veiled, drugged, doped, and befuddled. However, so many of us can testify that whenever we come to the Bible, regardless of the chapter, the light shines upon us. Light may even shine through such a verse as Genesis 3:1, a verse that speaks about the serpent. Perhaps light may not shine immediately because you are not ready. The light is ready to shine, but you are not ready to open up to it. Eventually, however, the light comes. Let us use Genesis 3:1 as an example. “Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.” One morning, a young sister read through this verse and it got into her. As she read that verse early in the morning, she had no understanding of it. Later on in the day, one of her schoolmates came to her with a certain kind of temptation. Immediately, the word came to that young sister, “The serpent was more subtle.” The more her schoolmate talked, the more this word came to her. Eventually this sister said within herself, “Little serpent, get away from me.” Throughout my ministry I have heard hundreds of these kinds of testimonies. People are enlightened by reading the divine Word. Can anyone testify of being enlightened as a result of reading a magazine or newspaper? There are no such testimonies, because such writings are not the Word of God. But the whole Bible is a composition of the speaking of God, If you put the word Satan in a newspaper, it means nothing, but when you read it in the Bible, especially when you pray-read over it, you are enlightened and Satan is exposed
4许多时候，神的话不仅光照我们，更点活我们，使我们苏醒，并使我们活过来。你可以试著祷读报纸上的话，看看会发生甚么事。你越重复读那些话，你就越觉得黑暗，越被杀死。然而，你祷读圣经的时候，就活过来了。这是强有力的证明，圣经是神的说话。神说话了！我曾多次亲眼看到一些大罪人，因著读到一节圣经就得救了。就在那一刻，他们的一生改变了；这是圣言运行的结果。
4Many times we are not only enlightened by the Word, but are enlivened, quickened, and made alive. Try to pray with the words of a newspaper and see what happens. The more you repeat the words, the more you will be darkened and killed. However, when you pray-read the Bible, you are made alive. This is a strong proof that the Holy Bible is God’s speaking. God has spoken! More than a hundred times I have seen great sinners saved just by reading one verse of the Bible. In an instant their whole life was changed. That was the result of the working of the Holy Word.
5神从前说话，今天仍在说话。祂在对你的心说话，并在你的灵里说话。我们怎么知道神是活的？因为祂对我们说话。我们怎么知道祂在行动，在工作？也是因为祂说话。想想你的经历，在已过的四十八小时里，你能不能说神没有向你说过话？我们许多人都能见证，在已过四十八小时里，我们听到神说话。我们也因著祂说话，知道祂是真实的、活的、有行动的。神在那里？神是在祂的说话里；祂天天都在说话。甚么是神的说话？神的说话不仅是话，也是祂的呼出。神说话时，就把祂自己吹到我们里面。每逢神对你说话，祂就进到你里面。所以每次你听见神说的话，接受祂的话，你就与神有了关联。神常常用祂的说话来搅扰我们。我不知道被祂搅扰了多少次。你若不想与神有甚么牵连，最好的办法就是在祂说话时掩耳不听。神一直的说话，祂从不食言；祂一呼出祂的话，就永不收回。假定神对你说，『去向你的妻子道歉。』或许你会争论说，『为甚么要我对她道歉？我作不到。』但这句话不断的临到你：『去道歉。』有些人不听从主这样的话，以后见证说，即使他们在梦中也会说，『去道歉。』妻子可能醒过来问说，『你说「去道歉」，这是甚么意思？』神叫那位弟兄去向妻子道歉，但他没有听从，最后，他连作梦也说『去道歉』。神就是这样一直的说话。一九二五年，我开始听见神向我说话。虽然我八年之久没有听从，但是那句话始终没有离开我。一周又一周，我与神争论讲理，我对神说，『不，我不能这样作。』但是祂不与我争论。我一讲理，祂就不出声；我不讲理时，祂的话又来了。我说，『主阿，你这话我已经听过了。』虽然我与祂争论的时候，祂不作声，但是当我安静的时候，祂就一再说话，一直说了八年。最后，我不得不听从祂，向祂降服。我一听从祂，祂就不再说了。一旦我们听从了，祂的说话才停止。
5God has spoken and He is still speaking today. He is speaking to your heart and in your spirit. How do we know that our God is living? Because He speaks to us. How do we know that He is moving and working? Because He speaks. Consider your experience in the past forty - eight hours. Can you say that during that time God has not spoken to you? So many of us can testify that during the past forty-eight hours we have heard God speaking. We know that He is real, living, and moving because He speaks. Where is God? God is in His speaking. He is speaking day by day. What is God’s speaking? God’s speaking is not only the Word; it is also His breathing. When God speaks, He breathes Himself into us. Whenever God speaks to you, He gets into you. Therefore, whenever you listen to God’s speaking or take the Word of God, you will be involved with God. He bothers us constantly by His speaking. I do not know how many times I have been bothered by Him. If you do not want to get involved with God, you had better close your ears when He is speaking. His speaking is constant. He will never swallow His words. Once He breathes His Word out, He will never take it back. Suppose God says to you, “Go to your wife and apologize to her.” You may argue, saying, “Why must I go to her and apologize? I can’t do it.” But the word continues to come to you, “Go and apologize.” Some who have not obeyed such a word from the Lord have testified that even in their dreams they have expressed His word to go and apologize. The wife is awakened and says, “What do you mean, ‘Go and apologize’?” God spoke to that brother to go and apologize to his wife. He did not do it. So eventually in his dreams he spoke the words, “Go and apologize.” God’s speaking is that constant. In 1925 I began to hear the Lord’s speaking to me. Although for eight years I did not obey Him, that word never left me. Week after week, I argued with God and reasoned with Him. I said to Him, “No, I can’t do it.” He did not argue with me. When I reasoned, He was quiet. When my reasoning ceased, He began to speak again. I said, “Lord, I’ve heard this already.” Nevertheless, although He did not say a word when I argued with Him, when I was quiet, He spoke again and again for a period of eight years. Eventually I had no choice except to listen to Him and surrender. I obeyed and the speaking stopped. Once we obey, that speaking stops.
6神的话一说出来，绝不徒然返回。你若是今世不听从神所说的话，来世还要听从。人人都会信神的话；他们今天若不信，到永世就要信。神已经说了话，并且仍在说话。我们知道神是真实的，是因为祂在说话。我们怎么知道神在祂的恢复里作工？因为祂在说话。我虽然作基督徒多年，但从来没有听到像今天神在我们中间说的那么多。撒上三章一节说，当那些日子，耶和华的言语稀少。钦定英文译本的繙译是说，耶和华的言语宝贵。物以稀为贵。在撒上三章的时候，神的话稀少，但今天并不稀少。今天在主的恢复中，神的话是繁增而洋溢的。神天天在说话，一个聚会又一个聚会的说话。你知道祂正在说话么？神说话就证明祂正在作工。在我们当中，每一个人多多少少都有神的话。然而，有许多不在主恢复中的基督徒，听到我们说我们有神丰富的说话时，不懂我们在说甚么。若是把这件事对他们解释了之后，他们会说，『我已经很久没有听见神说话了。』为甚么在这么多的基督徒中间，没有神的说话？因为在他们中间没有神的行动，也没有神的工作。
6Once God’sWord has come out of His mouth, no one can send it back to Him. If you do not obey what God speaks in this lifetime, you will obey it in the next. All mankind will believe what God has spoken. If they do not believe it today, they will believe it in eternity. God has spoken and is still speaking. We know that our God is real because He is speaking. How do we know that God is working in His recovery? Because He is speaking. Although I have been a Christian for many years, I have never heard so much of God’s speaking as among us today. First Samuel 3:1 says that the word of the Lord was rare in those days. The King James Version uses the word precious instead of rare. Anything that is rare is precious. In the days of 1 Samuel 3 the Word of God was rare, but it is not rare today. In the Lord’s recovery today there is the multiplication of God’sWord. There is the abundance of God’sWord. God is speaking day after day and meeting after meeting. Do you not realize that He is speaking? His speaking proves that He is working. Everyone among us has some amount of God’s speaking. However, many Christians that are not in the Lord’s recovery would say that they do not understand what we are talking about when we say that we have the abundance of God’s speaking. Once this matter has been explained to them, they would say, “It has been a long time since I heard God speak.” Why is there no speaking of God among so many Christians? Because there is no moving of God among them. There is no working of God
7没有神的说话，乃是神的惩罚。在撒上三章的时候，神的话稀少，那是对祭司以利和他全家的惩罚。你若是在神的祝福之下，祂每一分钟都会向你说话。神向你说话就证明你在祂的祝福之下。在主的恢复里，在我们中间的确有神丰富的说话，也叫每一个人都听见了祂的话。神对你说话么？神说话就表明祂是真的、活的、且是有行动的。
7It is a punishment not to have God’s speaking. In the days of 1 Samuel 3, the Word of God was rare. That was a punishment to the family and house of Eli the priest. When you are under God’s blessing, God will be speaking every minute. God’s speaking to you proves that you are under His blessing. There is an abundance of God’s speaking among us in His recovery. Everyone hears His speaking. Is God speaking to you? That means that He is real, living, and moving
8有许多姊妹，在来到主的恢复之前，向丈夫发脾气并不觉得自责。她们觉得这样发怒理由很充分，也完全正当。她们甚至告诉别人，她们生气是绝对合理的。如今这些姊妹在主的恢复里，发现每当她们要发脾气的时候，神就立刻对她们说话。她们不再像以前那样任性的向丈夫发脾气。现在她们若向丈夫发了脾气，神就会来对她说话，她们若是在周六晚上向丈夫发了脾气，到第二天擘饼的时候，里面就不平安。这样的说话证明神在我们中间行动并作工。
8Before many of the sisters came into the Lord’s recovery, they had no conviction whatsoever when they were angry with their husbands. They felt that they were angry with their husbands for a good reason and that such anger was altogether right. They could even tell others that their anger was absolutely justified. Now that these same sisters are in the Lord’s recovery, they find that God speaks to them immediately whenever they lose their temper. They are no longer free to be angry with their husbands. Now if they become angry with their husbands, God speaks to them about it. If they are angry with their husbands on a Saturday night, they may have no peace to take the Lord’stable the next day. This speaking proves that God is moving and working among us.
9活的神藉著说话将祂自己分赐到我们我们一个很好的辞─灌输。神要将祂自己灌输到我们里面，这主要是藉著说话来完成的。祂越对你说话，祂神圣的成分就越分赐或灌输到你里面。你越在祂的说话里，祂的一切神圣成分就越多灌注到你里面。你一旦听到祂说的话，就绝不会和从前一样了。神的话必定带给我们三件东西。头一件是光。神一说话，光就照亮。神的话第一个元素就是光。神的话在那里，光也在那里。你不需要去解释，也不需要说明。光自然会照明，因为神的话带著光。神的话是最好的照明，是最好的光体。神一说话，也就照亮。我们都有经历，可以证明这事。甚么时候我们听见祂的话，我们就在祂的照亮之下，而这照亮带给我们光。这光又带著领悟、异象、以及正确的智慧、知识和口才。光包括许多东西：领悟、异象、知识、智慧和口才。你有了光，你就有视力、景象和异象。你有了光，你就有知识、悟性和智慧。这使你有口才，叫你不作哑吧。游历过迪士尼乐园的观光客，就无法作哑吧。他们看见了那里的一切景象，就会滔滔不绝的说话。你一旦进了迪士尼乐园，还能哑口无言么？还不太会说话的小孩子，也会有所发表，因为他们看见了好多东西。为甚么许多基督教宗派里的教友，主日上午作礼拜时在座位上哑口无言？因为他们缺少光，看不见甚么东西。你若在黑暗中，就很难说甚么。你可以试试在黑暗中说话。你甚么都看不见，所以无话可说。如果我是一个瞎子，你要我说甚么，我会无话可说。若是我们在光中，那就大不相同！当光来了，你就有很多可说的，因为你看见了许多。你看见了许多的人、事、物。你看到的那么多，自然就有话可说。
9The living God imparts Himself into us by speaking. word—transfused. God wants to transfuse Himself into us. This is mainly accomplished by speaking. The more He speaks to you, the more His divine element will be imparted or transfused into your being. The more you are in His speaking, the more you are infused with all of His divine elements. Once you hear His speaking you can never be the same. Without exception, God’sWord brings us three things. The first of these is light. When God speaks, the light shines. The first element with God’s Word is light. Where God’sWord is, there is light. There is no need for you to expound it or interpret it. The light shines, for the Word bears light. The divine Word is the best illuminator, the best light - bearer. When He speaks, He shines. We can all prove this by our experience. Whenever we hear His Word, we are under His shining, and this shining brings us light. With this light there is the understanding, vision, and the proper wisdom, knowledge, and utterance. Light includes several things: understanding, vision, knowledge, wisdom, and utterance. When you have light, you have the seeing power, the view, and the vision. When you have light, you have knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. This gives you utterance, and you cannot be dumb. None of the tourists who visit Disneyland in Anaheim are dumb. When they see all the sights that are there, they are bubbling. Once you get into Disneyland, how could you be dumb? Even the little children, who cannot speak well, will have utterance because they see so many things. Why do the pew members in the Christian denominations sit dumbly in their pews during the Sunday eleven o’clock service? Because they are short of light and see nothing. When you are in darkness, it is very difficult to speak. Try to speak when you are in darkness. You will be dumb because you see nothing. You will have nothing to say. If I am blind and you ask me to speak, I will have nothing to say. How different it is when we are in the light! When light comes, you have a great deal to say because you see so much. You see so many people, places, and things. You see so much that you speak spontaneously.
10光叫我们看见，而看见使我们有发表的口才。为甚么召会的众肢体来到聚会中就涌出话来？因为他们都看见了一些东西，结果就有话可说。我们有所看见，很自然的就发表出来。不需要先想说甚么，乃是讲我们所看见的。光使我们有所看见。光是从神的话来的。你有了神的话，你就有了光。多年来我不断释放神的话，许多人觉得惊奇，问我从那里得著这么多的信息。我的信息都是来自属天的看见，来自属天的圣地游历。几乎每天清早我都在那里游行一遍，看见了许多东西。我有这么多的话要说，因为我在神的话里看到的太多。祂的话带来光，光带来看见和异象，而异象赋与知识、智慧和发表的口才。这不是死的字句知识，乃是生命的知识，满带著生命。这一切都是来自神的话。神的话也带给我们生命。主耶稣说，祂所说的话，就是灵，就是生命。（约六63。）『太初有话…生命在祂里面。』（一1，4。）神的话里有生命。当你摸著话，你就被点活。我们为甚么这么活？乃是因著神的话。多年来我见过许多基督徒团体，但是没有看过一个团体像今天这些在召会生活里的人一样。有这么多的青年人日夜读圣经，这是好现象。有人谣传说李常受叫人把圣经丢在一边，这是鬼魔的谎言！没有人比这个职事更多嘱咐圣徒接受神的话。你看我们每讲一篇信息要用多少圣经节！
10Light produces seeing, and seeing produces utterance. Why are all the church members so bubbling when they come to the meetings? Because they all have seen something and have something to say as a result. What we see spontaneously comes out in our utterance. There is no need to think of something to say. We talk about what we see. Light produces sight. Light comes from the Word. When you have the Word, you have light. In my speaking throughout the years, many people have been surprised and have asked me where I get all my messages. My messages all come from the heavenly seeing, from the heavenly holy land tour. Nearly every morning I have a tour and see many things. I have much to say because I see much in the Word. The Word brings in light, light brings in the sight and the vision, and the vision gives the knowledge, wisdom, and utterance. This is not the knowledge in dead letters; it is the life knowledge, the knowledge that is full of life. It all comes from the Word. The Word also brings us life. The Lord Jesus said that the words He speaks are spirit and life (John 6:63). “In the beginning was the Word.... In Him was life” (John 1:1, 4). In the Word is life. When you touch the Word, you are enlivened. Why are we so living? Because of the Word. Throughout the years I have seen many groups of Christians, but I have never seen such a group as are in the church life today. So many of the young ones deal with the Holy Bible day and night. This is a good sign. Some people have spread the rumor that Witness Lee tells people to throw away the Bible. That is a devilish lie! No one charges the saints to take the Word more than this ministry does. Look at the number of verses we use for each message!
11我们在召会里的人为甚么这么活？因为有神的话里的生命。你来到召会之前，原不是这么活；因为缺少话，所以饿得半死。甚至现在你若转离神的话，不读信息，也不聚会，只要两周，你就发死了。今天有许多人所以这么活，就是因为他们充满了神的话。我看到在这个充满邪恶的世代中，有青年人将自己投身给圣别的话，我非常喜乐。你们有许多人，心中最宝贝的就是神的话；这就是主在你们中间行动最好的证明。祂在我们中间说话，祂的话也在我们里面。今天每一个过召会生活的人，因为有生命的话，就洋溢出话来。我们有活的话。
11Why are the church people so living? It is because of the life that is in the Word. Before you came to the church, you were not very living. You were starved to death. You were lacking the Word. Even now, if you were to keep yourself from the Word, the messages, and the meetings for two weeks, you would be dead. Today so many are living because they are filled with the Word. I am so happy to see that in this age, an age full of evils, the young people have sold themselves to the Holy Word. To so many of you the thing most precious in your heart is the Word. This is a good sign that the Lord is moving among you. His speaking is with us, and His Word is in us. Today everyone in the church life is bubbling because of the Word of life. We have the living Word.
12神话语里的生命，包含非常丰富。其中包含了圣别、爱、谦卑、恩慈和忍耐等等。这生命包含一切神圣的属性和人性的美德。生命的丰富也是用之不尽，取之不竭的。谁能把生命的丰富说尽？不用说神圣的生命，甚至一粒康乃馨种子的生命，也十分的丰富。这么小的一粒种子，似乎里面只有一点点生命，可是牠会长！等牠长大开花的时候，你就看见生命的丰富。生命包含一切的丰富。你想想我们所有的生命，所接触的生命，就知道神的生命有何等的丰富！我有十足的把握说，今天神一切的丰富都在召会中，因为祂的话是在召会中，而这话带给我们生命。这生命包含一切丰富的属性、美德和品质。我们只要有这生命，就有这些丰富。你不必想要谦卑，因为谦卑好像一只飞鸟，你想捉牠，牠就飞了。你也不要试著爱妻子或服从丈夫；你是作不到的。只要接受神的话，话带来生命，这生命就产生出爱和服从。谦卑、爱和服从都在这生命里。我们不能凭自己的努力与修养得到这些美德，因为这一切都在神圣的生命里。我们怎样得著生命？只要接受神的话，生命自然就有了。生命有了，一切的美善也就都有了。在这生命里有谦卑，也有人性的美丽。神既是照著祂的形像造人，人性当然就是美丽的。但这种人性的美丽只能在神圣的生命里找到，而神圣生命乃在神的话里。当神的话来了，生命就有了，美丽也随著生命一同有了。请看召会里的人，个个又俊秀又美丽。这些人若不在召会生活中，他们就像蝎子、乌龟或猴子一样。我真是爱上了召会里的人；甚至年长的也是可爱的。这个美丽，这个可爱是从生命来的，而生命是从话来的。每逢神说话，就带来生命，这生命是如此丰富。
12The life that is in the Word includes a great deal. It includes holiness, love, humility, kindness, and patience. Life includes all the divine attributes and all the human virtues. We cannot exhaust the richness of life. Who can tell the riches of life? There is no need to speak of the divine life, for even the life in a carnation seed is very rich. It may be a tiny seed with seemingly a small amount of life in it, but it grows. As the carnation seed grows and blossoms, you can see the richness of life. All the riches are in the life. I ask you to consider the life we have, the life we touch. What riches are in the divine life! I have the full assurance to say that all the riches of God are in the church because the Word is in the church and the Word brings life. This life includes all the rich attributes, virtues, and qualities. As long as we have life, we have the riches. Do not try to be humble, for humility is like a bird. If you try to catch it, it flies away. Do not try to love your wife or to submit to your husband. You cannot do it. Simply take the Word. The Word brings life, and this life will issue in love and submission. Humility, love, and submission are all found in this life. We cannot acquire these virtues by our effort or work. They are all in the divine life. How can we have life? Simply take the Word and life comes. When life comes, every good thing comes with it. In this life is the humility and beauty of a human being. Since God created man in His image, there certainly is beauty in humanity. But this beauty of humanity can only be found in the divine life, and the divine life is in the divine Word. When the Word comes, life comes, and beauty comes with the life. Look at the church people; everyone is handsome and beautiful. If the same people were not in the church life, they would have the appearance of scorpions, turtles, or monkeys. I have truly fallen in love with the church people. Even the older ones are so lovely. This beauty, this loveliness, comes from life, and life comes from the Word. When God speaks, life is there. This life is so rich
13神的话临到，也带来能力。话带来光，带来生命，也带来能力。许多基督徒相信所谓圣灵浇灌的事情，我也十分相信，但不是一般灵恩运动者所说的那样。他们说，你若没有『灵恩』的经历，就没有能力。我不同意这话。在我的家乡，靠近召会聚会的地方，有一个灵恩派的会所。他们实行『圣灵浇灌』，宣称他们有能力。但十年之久，他们的人数仍不到一百。然而，在召会聚会的地方，人总是坐得满满的。有一天，灵恩派的领头弟兄跟我谈话。我说，『弟兄，照你们的看法，你们有能力，而我们没有。但请看事实，你们的人数是这么少，我们却这么多！』能力是随著话的。
13When the Word comes, it also brings power. The Word brings light, life, and power. Many Christians trust in the so-called Pentecostal things. I also fully believe in the Pentecostal things, but not in the so-called “Pentecostal” way. Many say that if you do not have a certain “Pentecostal” experience, you do not have power. I do not agree with this. In my home town, very close to the church meeting place, was a Pentecostal meeting place. After ten years, they were less than a hundred in number. They practiced the “Pentecostal” things and claimed to have power. The church meeting place, however, was always crowded. One day, a leader from that Pentecostal group talked with me. I said, “Brother, according to your opinion, you have the power and we do not. But look at the facts. How few you have! How many we have here!” Power is with the Word.
14我们传讲活的话，自然就有能力。这能力不是一时的，乃是常时的。牠不是草菇式的能力，乃是不断生长的能力。这些年间，我见过许多草菇式的运动，一夜之间可以有上百人悔改，但过了两个月，剩下的没有几个。我们劳苦所作的，如同种下一粒小小的康乃馨种子，种下好几天还不见甚么动静。逐渐的，嫩芽冒出来了，最终开花，结出种子，产生第二代。这就是生命的能力。在主恢复中的众召会，没有草菇式的发展。若是某一地方的弟兄们，声称在一周内得了三千人，我就要说，『我们且等著看，不要多久，大部分人会不见了。』我们愿意看见神的话像种子一样，种在召会这块田地里，并且生长。一年过一年，神的话不断的长大繁殖。你可以等著看。没有甚么东西像在召会中的一样，存留得那么长久。召会所有的之所以能存留那么长久，并且要存到永远，因为这里的能力不是别的，乃是生命。这生命是从话来的。话带来生命，而生命又是永远长存和不断繁殖的。就是主带我离开这个国家，我也确实知道，主的恢复仍然要一直往前，因为这不是人为的运动，乃是神圣生命生长的行动。种子已经撒在这里，神的话已经有了，生命也在这里了。阿利路亚！神的话在那里，生命的能力就在那里。现在我们知道神为甚么要说话，祂说话是为著光照，为著点活，为著加给能力。
14When we preach the living Word, the power is there. This power is not the instant power; it is the constant power. It is not the mushrooming power; it is the growing power. During the past years I have seen many mushrooming movements. One night a hundred repent, but after two months you can only find a few of them. What we are doing in our labor is like sowing a little carnation seed. It seems that after two weeks nothing has happened. Gradually a green sprout appears. Eventually, it blossoms, produces seed, and a second reproduction occurs. This is the power of life. In the churches in the Lord’s recovery we have no mushrooming developments. If the brothers in a certain locality would claim to have gained three thousand people in a week, I would say, “Let us wait and see. After a short time, most of them will disappear.” We like to see the Word being sown and grown in the church field. Year after year it will grow and reproduce. You wait and see. Nothing will last so prevailingly as what is in the churches. It will be prevailing and it will endure forever because the power here is nothing other than life. This life comes from the Word. The Word brings in life, and life remains and reproduces. If the Lord would take me away from this country, I would have the complete assurance that the Lord’s recovery in this country would still go on because it is not a movement of man’s doing. It is a move of the divine life growing. The seed has been sown here, the Word has come, and life is here. Hallelujah! Where the Word is, there is power in life. Now we can see why God speaks. He speaks to shine, to enliven, and to empower
壹 向列祖说话
I. TO THE FATHERS
15神说话分为两个阶段，先是对列祖，后是对我们。在古时，祂向列祖说话；在这末世，祂向我们说话。神对人说话之前，是对著无有说话。祂对著不存在的东西说话。那时一切都还没有，祂就对著无有说话。祂藉著说话，就称无为有。（罗四17。）祂说，『要有光！』就有了光。宇宙万物是藉著神的说话，神的话，而有的。『宇宙是凭神的话结构起来的。』（来十一3。）『祂说有，就有；命立，就立。』（诗三三9。）神是藉著说话行事。今天祂在我们中间真正的工作乃是祂的说话。如果神不在我们中间说话，不论我们多么劳苦，也作不出甚么。如果神不说话，各召会的长老们和带头弟兄们，都不能作甚么。但神一说话，我们必定说，『赞美主！』神对无有说话，就产生出有来。祂称无为有。藉著神说话，万物就都有了。宇宙万物是藉著祂的话造成的；随后，人也造成了。人受造之后，神就向列祖说话。在古时，神藉著众申言者，多分多方向列祖说话。（来一1。）在旧约时代，神向百姓说话，不是一次就全部说了，也不是仅仅从一方面说，乃是分许多部分，从许多方面说：祂在某一部分，从某一方面，向列祖说话，又在另一部分，从另一方面，藉摩西说话；在某一部分，从某一方面，藉大卫说话，又在一些别的部分，从一些不同方面，藉一些申言者说话。甚至旧约圣经头五卷书，摩西五经，都包含许多不同的部分。创世记、出埃及记、利未记、民数记、申命记，每一卷不仅是不同的部分，每一卷又分作许多部分。你曾看过另一本书像圣经那样丰富么？旧约圣经包括好几部分：有历史、纪年、诗篇、箴言、以及许多申言者书。有几卷很长，超过六十章；有的很短，只有几章。圣经把神说话的各种方面都写尽了：有时是豫言、豫表、影儿、豫像；有时把女人、蛇、男人、狮子、蝎子、羔羊、水、日头、月亮、星宿、和各种花草树木也用上了；明言、例证、格言、比喻、寓言和豫表都有。每一种发表话语的方式圣经都用过了。有一次神向摩西说话，并不是用明言，而是藉著火烧在荆棘上，荆棘却没有烧毁，（出三1～6，）那也是一个最奇妙的说话方式。摩西藉此明白，他不需要被烧毁。他虽然需要烧起来，却不需要被烧毁；神不会用他作燃料。火烧荆棘这件小事，对摩西说了不少话。这就是神对摩西说话的方式。哦，圣经有何等的智慧！神常藉著一些最微小的事，向我们说深奥的话。神实在是多分多方的说了话。
15God speaks in two stages: to the fathers and to us. Of old, He spoke to the fathers; in these last days, He speaks to us. Before God spoke to men, He spoke to nothing. He spoke to that which was not being. At that time there was nothing; so He spoke to nothing. By His speaking He called things not being as being (Rom. 4:17, Recovery Version). He spoke, “Light!” and light came into being. The whole universe was created by His speaking, by His Word. The whole universe was framed by the Word of God (11:3). “He spake, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast” (Psa. 33:9). God worked by speaking. The real working of God among us today is His speaking. If God does not speak among us, we can do nothing regardless of how much we work. If God does not speak, the elders and the leading ones in the churches can do nothing. But when He speaks, we must say, “Praise the Lord!” God speaks to nothing, yet something comes. He calls things not being as being. By His speaking everything came into being. The whole universe was made by His word. After this, mankind came into being. After man was created, God spoke to the fathers. He spoke to the fathers of old in the prophets and in many portions and in many ways (1:1). In the Old Testament, God spoke to people not once for all and only in one way, but in many portions and in many ways: in one portion to the Patriarchs in one way; in another portion through Moses in another way; in one portion through David in one way; in other portions through a number of prophets in several different ways. Even the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old Testament, contains many different portions. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy — each book is a different portion and each book has many portions. Have you ever seen any writing that is as rich as the Bible? The Old Testament has various portions: the histories, the chronicles, the Psalms, the Proverbs, and many different prophets. Some books are long, more than sixty chapters; others are short, only a few chapters. All the different ways of speaking have been exhausted by the Bible: the way of prophecy, type, shadow, pre-figure; the way to use the women, the serpent, the man, the lion, the scorpion, and the lamb, the water, the sun, the moon, the stars, and different kinds of trees and plants; clear words, illustrations, proverbs, parables, allegories, and types. Every way of utterance has been used in the Scripture. When God spoke to Moses, He did not do it through a clear word, but through a bush that was burning yet was not burnt (Exo. 3:1-6). That was a most wonderful way of speaking. Moses understood by it that there was no need for him to be burnt. He needed to be burning, but he did not need to be burnt. God was not going to use him as the fuel. A little burning bush spoke a great deal to Moses. That was the way in which God spoke to Moses. Oh, the wisdom in the Bible! The most simple things are used in a profound way for God’s speaking. Truly God has spoken in many portions and in many ways.
贰 向我们说话
II. TO US
一 在这末后的日子
A. At the Last of These Days
16希伯来一章二节『末后的日子』，是希伯来用语，指明律法时代的结束，带著弥赛亚的引荐。（赛二2，弥四1。）
16Hebrews 1:2 uses the phrase at the last of these days. This may also be rendered “the end of these days.” This is a Hebrew expression indicating the end of the dispensation of law, with Messiah introduced (Isa. 2:2; Micah 4:1
二 在子里
B. In the Son
17在这末后的日子，神在子里说了话，并且一直在子里说话。
17In the last of the days God spoke and still speaks in the Son
1 就是话
1. Being the Word
18子就是话。（约一1，启十九13。）『太初有话…话就是神。』祂就是神的话，是神的说话。子完完全全就是话，是神的说话。
18The Son is the Word (John 1:1; Rev. 19:13). “In the beginning was the Word...and the Word was God.” He was God’sWord for God’s speaking. The Son is altogether the Word for the speaking of God
2 表明父神
2. Declaring God the Father
19子是话，主要的是要表明父神，（约一18，）就是要宣明、解释、彰显并启示神。子说得越多，神就越彰显并启示出来。
19The Son’s being the Word is mainly to declare God the Father (John 1:18), that is, to declare, define, express, and reveal God. The more the Son speaks, the more God is expressed and revealed
3 传输生命
3. Conveying Life
20子的整个身位就是神的说话。祂是神的话，也是神的说话，不断把生命传输给我们。祂是话，带著生命。祂总是把生命传输给我们。我们接受祂，就得著生命。
20The whole Person of the Son is the divine speaking. The Son as God’sWord and God’s speaking constantly conveys life to us. As the Word, He bears life. He always conveys life to us. When we receive Him, we have life
4 藉著那灵启示实际
4. Revealing Reality through the Spirit
21子是神的话，是神的说话，藉著那灵启示实际。（约十六12～15。）神之于我们的一切，乃是实际。这实际是凭著是话的子，藉著那灵启示给我们的。
21As the divine Word for the divine speaking, the Son reveals reality through the Spirit (John 16:12-15). Reality is all that God is to us. This reality is revealed to us by the Son as the Word through the Spirit
三 在那是灵的子里
C. In the Son as the Spirit
1 向众召会说话
1. Speaking to the Churches
22每当子说话的时候，祂就是那灵；说话的子就是那灵。神的儿子原是话；这话一发声，就成为灵。启示录二至三章的七封书信，可以证明这事。每一封书信的开始都说主在说话，但是到书信的末了却说，那灵向众召会所说的话，我们都应当听。这证明说，当主耶稣说话的时候，祂就是说话的灵。每当子说话，就是灵说话。从二至三章那七个对比中就看出，子说话就是灵说话。（二1比7，二8比，二12比17，二18比29，三1比6，三7比13，三14比22。）我们有子，祂是神的话。祂不仅是神的话，也是神的说话。祂说话时，就是说话的灵。主说，『我对你们所说的话，就是灵，就是生命。』（约六63。）
22Whenever the Son speaks, He is the Spirit. The speaking Son is the Spirit. The Son of God is the Word. When the Word voices, it becomes the Spirit. This is proved by the seven epistles in Revelation 2 and 3. At the beginning of each epistle, it says that the Lord is speaking, but at the end it says that we should hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. This proves that whenever the Lord Jesus speaks He is the speaking Spirit. Whenever the Son is speaking, it is the Spirit speaking. If you consider the seven comparisons in Revelation 2 and 3, you will see that whatever the Son speaks is the speaking of the Spirit (Rev. 2:1 cf. 7; 2:8 cf. 11; 2:12 cf. 17; 2:18 cf. 29; 11 3:1 cf. 6; 3:7 cf. 13; 3:14 cf. 22). We have the Son who is the Word of God. He is not only the Word of God, but also the speaking of God. Whenever He speaks, He is the speaking Spirit. “The words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and are life” (John 6:63).
2 与召会一同说话
2. Speaking with the Church
23今天子是说话的灵，与众召会一同说话。祂不仅向众召会说话，也与众召会一同说话。启示录二十二章十七节说，『那灵和新妇说，来！』启示录开头说，那灵向众召会说话，到末了是那灵与众召会一同说话，因为说话的灵与召会已经成为一了。阿利路亚，这就是神的说话！
23Today the Son as the speaking Spirit is speaking with the churches. He not only speaks to the churches but also with the churches. Revelation 22:17 says, “ And the Spirit and the bride say, Come.” At the beginning of the book of Revelation it is the Spirit speaking to the churches, but at the end of Revelation it is the Spirit speaking with the churches because the speaking Spirit and the church have become one. Hallelujah! This is God’s speaking