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希伯来书生命读经 · 第38篇

生命之律的运行

THE WORKING OF THE LAW OF LIFE
1标准模型─神的长子神永远的定旨，是要把祂自己作到我们里面，使我们与祂的长子一式一样。神的长子乃是神经纶的标准模型。这个标准模型具有神人二性。祂原初是神的独生子。就著神的独生子而言，祂是神的具体化身，因为神格的一切，都有形有体的在祂里面。（西二9。）祂也是神的彰显。（来一3。）祂这神的具体化身和彰显，成了肉体，将神性带到人性里，也将人性联于神性。但在祂成为肉体以前，神性从未联于人性。自从祂成为肉体，宇宙间就有了一位奇妙的人位，是神又是人。
1I. The Standard Model— The Firstborn Son Of God God’s eternal purpose is to work Himself into us and make us the same as His Firstborn Son. The Firstborn Son of God is the standard model for God’secon o my. This standard model has both divinity and humanity. Originally, He was the Only Begotten Son of God. As the Only Begotten Son of God, He was the embodiment of God, for all that is in the Godhead was embodied in Him (Col. 2:9). He was also the expression of God (Heb. 1:3). As the embodiment and expression of God, He became incarnated, bringing divinity into humanity and joining humanity to divinity. But before the incarnation, divinity had never been joined to humanity. Since the day of His incarnation, there was in this universe a wonderful Person who was both human and divine
2主耶稣在地上生活了三十三年半。祂有时候运用祂的神性，但大部分时间都是活出祂的人性。大多数人看祂是一个人，是一个正确、完全、特出的人。祂那特出的品质，乃是祂的神性。有一天，祂上十字架除掉了罪。同时祂也毁坏了罪的源头，就是撒但。当祂除掉罪，毁坏撒但的时候，祂也尝了死味，（来二9，）并且藉著尝死味，祂吞灭了死。藉著主包罗万有的死，全宇宙一切消极的事物，包括罪、撒但、死，都被了结，成为历史。主钉死十字架后，休息了三天。根据圣经，祂在坟墓里休息的时候，曾游历阴间，也让阴间趁机尽全力对付祂，而证明阴间在祂身上不能作甚么。祂休息、游历之后，就从阴间出来，且从坟墓里起来，而在复活里大步迈出。藉著复活，祂带著人性生到神圣的儿子名分里，而成为神的长子。就著祂是神的长子这一面，最显著的点，就是祂使一切消极的事物，包括罪、撒但、死亡，都成了历史。祂这一位，具有调和著拔高人性的神性，也具有与神性是一的人性。最终，祂进入荣耀，并且得著荣耀。得著荣耀比进入荣耀更高，因为进入荣耀，不需要经过过程，而得著荣耀则需要经过一段过程。主耶稣作为神的长子，经过了一段过程，进入荣耀；那就是祂的得荣耀。
2The Lord Jesus lived on earth for thirty three and a half years. On some occasions He exercised His divinity, but most of the time He lived out His humanity. People mostly saw Him as a man, as a proper, perfect, and extraordinary man. His extraordinary quality was His divinity. One day, He went to the cross to put away sin. At the same time, He destroyed Satan, the source of sin. As the Lord destroyed sin and Satan, He tasted death (Heb. 2:9), and by tasting death He swallowed it. Through the Lord’sa ll- inclusive death, every negative thing in the whole universe, including sin, Satan, and death, was terminated and made a history. After His crucifixion, the Lord rested for three days. According to the Bible, while He was resting in the grave, He took a tour of Hades, offering it the opportunity to do everything to Him and proving that it could do nothing with Him. After His rest and His tour, He walked out of Hades and arose from the tomb, coming forth in His resurrection. By His resurrection, He was born with His humanity into the divine sonship and became the Firstborn Son of God. The most striking thing about Christ as the Firstborn Son of God is that with Him all the negative things, including sin, Satan, and death, have become a history. He is a person who has divinity mingled with an uplifted humanity and who has humanity that is one with divinity. Ultimately, He entered into glory, even into glorification. Being in glorification is superior to being in glory, because being in glory does not require a process, whereas being in glorification does. The Lord Jesus, as the Firstborn Son of God, has passed through a process to enter into glory. That was His glorification
3基督是神的独生子，早已在荣耀里，不需要再得荣耀。然而，祂一旦在人性里活在地上，就需要得荣耀。所以，正如约翰十七章一节所启示的，祂在地上最后的一晚，祷告说，『父阿，时候到了，愿你荣耀你的儿子，使儿子也荣耀你。』祂既是已经在荣耀里，为甚么还需要得荣耀？虽然祂作独生子是在荣耀里，但自从穿上了人性，祂里面的人性部分，还需要得荣耀，还需要经过过程，进入荣耀。基督在复活里，就进入了祂的得荣。（路二四26。）
3As the Only Begotten Son, Christ was already in glory. That did not require glorification. However, once He was on earth in His humanity, He needed to be glorified. Therefore, as John 17:1 reveals, during the last night of His life on earth, He prayed, “Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son that the Son may glorify You” (Recovery Version). Since He was already in glory, why did He still need to be glorified? Although He was in glory as the Only Begotten Son, since He had put on humanity, the human part of His being had to be glorified, to be processed into glory. In His resurrection Christ entered into His glorification (Luke 24:26).
4很少基督徒认识，在新约里，『完全』这个辞最终的意思是『得荣耀』。无论你多么完全，如果你尚未得著荣耀，你就不彀完全。罗马书启示，在神的经纶里，我们首先得著称义，然后得著圣别，最终得著荣耀。罗马书并没有题到完全。但在希伯来书中，说到得荣耀，也说到完全。希伯来二章九至十节说，我们救恩的创始者基督，得了荣耀为冠冕；这是指祂的得完全，也是指祂的得荣耀。祂的得完全就是祂的得荣耀，也就是罗马八章所启示的得荣耀。根据罗马八章，神救恩最后的一步是使我们得荣耀；根据希伯来二章，我们乃是藉著救恩的创始者被带进荣耀里。在宝座上，并在我们灵里，现今有一位得了荣耀的人，这人已经全然得了完全。有些圣徒，就如卫斯理约翰这一班人，实行所谓无罪的完全。根据无罪的完全这个观念，你若是不撒谎、不发脾气，而是爱人、谦卑，你就达到完全；但这种对完全的观念太低了。请你把这种完全，与得荣耀之耶稣的完全比较一下。得荣耀之耶稣的完全，乃是神性调和著经过试验、复活、拔高、得荣之人性的完全。在这里我要介绍一个新的辞─子化（sonized）。耶稣的人性，经过了一切试验而复活、拔高之后，就『子化』了。这意思是说，耶稣的人性被带进神儿子的名分里。基督原来就是神的儿子，但在祂复活以前，祂所穿上的人性是与儿子名分无分无关的。有一天，祂把这人性带进死，经过死，并从死里出来；这人性就按圣别的灵，凭神圣生命的大能，得以复活。（罗一4。）经过这些过程，祂的人性就得以子化，有了神的神圣儿子名分。因此，在祂的复活里，祂带著复活并拔高的人性，生为神的长子。这就是行传十三章三十三节的意思：『神已经…叫耶稣复活了，正如诗篇第二篇上所记：「你是我的儿子，我今日生了你。」』
4Few Christians realize that ultimately in the New Testament the word perfection means glorification. Regardless how perfect you may be, if you have not been glorified, you are still not adequate. The book of Romans reveals that in the economy of God we have firstly justification, then sanctification, and finally glorification. Romans does not mention perfection. Both glorification and perfection, however, are found in Hebrews. Hebrews 2:9-10, which says that Christ, the Captain of our salvation, has been crowned with glory, refers to both perfection and glorification. His perfection was His glorification, the very glorification revealed in Romans 8. According to Romans 8, the last step of God’ss alvation is to glorify us, and according to Hebrew 2, it is through the Captain of our salvation that we are being brought into glory. On the throne, as well as in our spirit, there is a glorified Man, a Man who has been fully perfected. Some saints, such as John Wesley and those with him, practiced what is called sinless perfection. According to the concept of sinless perfection, if you do not lie or lose your temper but love others and are humble, you have attained perfection. But this is a very low concept of perfection. I would ask you to compare this with the perfection of the glorified Jesus. The perfection of the glorified Jesus is that of divinity mingled with a humanity that has been tested, resurrected, uplifted, and glorified. At this point I want to introduce a new word—sonized. After passing through all the tests and after being resurrected and uplifted, the humanity of Jesus was “sonized.” This means that it was brought into the divine sonship. Although Christ was the Son of God, be fore His resurrection He was clothed with humanity, which was unrelated to that sonship. One day, He brought this humanity in to, through, and out of death, and it was resurrected by the power of the divine life according to the Spirit of holiness (Rom. 1:4). Through this process, His humanity was sonized into God’s divine sonship. Thus, with His resurrected and uplifted humanity He was born in resurrection as the Firstborn Son of God. This is the meaning of Acts 13:33: “God...hath raised up Jesus a gain; as it is also written in the second Psalm, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.”
5这样子化的一位，现今乃是标准的模型。这标准模型已经达到完全；这完全既有神性，也有拔高的人性，并且使一切消极的事物都成了历史。我们必须举目注视这标准的模型。当我们注视祂时，就看见祂的神性和祂子化的人性。一切消极的事物，现今都在河的那一边，成为已过的历史。但这标准模型，乃是在河绝佳的这一边，得了荣耀并被高举；这边没有罪、死、撒但、或任何消极的事物。现在有一个人是在荣耀里，在完全里。甚么样的完全，可以与这相比？所谓无罪的完全，是在地下室，而这荣耀的完全，乃是在至圣所。甚么是完全？完全就是得荣耀。在这完全里有一个人，兼有神性和那子化为神长子的人性，并且如今是在祂的得荣里。在祂身上，一切消极的事物都成了历史，留在河的那一边。这就是完全，这就是得荣耀。在新约中，得荣耀等于完全。基督这标准的模型，如今是在这一种完全里，而我们则在达到这种完全的途中。
5Such a sonized One is now the standard model. This standard model has attained perfection—a perfection with divinity, with an uplifted humanity, and with all negative things having become a history. We need to lift up our eyes and gaze at this standard model. As we look at Him, we behold His divinity and His sonized humanity. All the negative things are now on the other side of the river and have become a history. But the standard model is in glorification and exaltation on the golden side of the river, where there is no sin, death, Satan, or any other negative thing. Now there is a Man in the glory, a Man in perfection. What kind of perfection can compare with this? The so-called sinless perfection is in the basement, while this glorious perfection is in the Holy of Holies. What is perfection? Perfection is glorification. In this perfection is the Man who has divinity, who has a humanity that has been sonized as the Firstborn Son of God, and who is now in His glorification. With Him, all the negative things are a history, having been left on the other side of the river. This is perfection and this is glorification. In the New Testament, glorification is the equivalent of perfection. Christ, the standard model, is now in such a perfection, and we are on the way
6贰产生神的众子当这标准的模型复活，在祂的人性里生为神的长子时，祂也包括了我们。（彼前一3。）当祂在人性里子化的时候，我们在祂的复活里，也生为神的众子。我们必须忘记时间；天上没有钟，永远里也没有表。我们现在虽然明白不来，但我们只要简单的接受。按照圣经纯正的话，当基督复活时，祂将自己分赐到我们里面作生命，我们就重生了。基督将自己分赐到我们里面作生命之后，就进入了完全，进入了荣耀，现今在那里为我们代求，要我们也得著荣耀。基督在为我们代求，要拯救我们到底。我曾听过很多篇信息，讲到基督为我们代求；但我从未听过一篇信息说，基督在为我们代求，要领我们进入完全。许多牧师用罗马八章三十四节和希伯来七章二十五节，说到基督的代求，来安慰有困难的人。但基督的代求不仅是为叫我们得安慰。这种对祂代求的观念太低浅了。基督为我们代求，是要叫我们得荣耀，并蒙拯救进入祂的完全。
6II. THE PRODUCTION OF THE MANY SONS OF GOD When this standard model was resurrected, being born in His humanity to be the Firstborn Son of God, He included us (1 Pet. 1:3). When He was sonized in His humanity, in His resurrection, we were born as sons of God. We need to forget time. There is no clock in heaven, and there will be no watches in eternity. Although we may not be able to understand this, we should simply accept it. According to the pure word of the Holy Bible, when Christ was resurrected, He imparted Himself into us as life, and we were reborn. After imparting Himself into us as life, Christ entered into perfection, into glory, where He is now interceding for our glorification. Christ is interceding for us to be saved to the uttermost. Although I have heard many messages saying that Christ is interceding for us, I have not heard one message which said that Christ is interceding for us to be brought into perfection. Many pastors use Romans 8:34 and Hebrews 7:25 concerning Christ’s interceding to comfort those who are in difficulty. But Christ is not interceding merely for us to have comfort. Such a concept of His intercession is too low. Christ is interceding for us to be glorified and to be saved into His perfection.
7进入基督的完全是甚么意思？乃是要除掉死的一切副产品，吞灭一切虚空、败坏、叹息和毁坏。基督在代求，好叫这工得以完成。祂在宝座上的代求，乃是推动祂在复活时撒在我们里面的生命种子。假设你胜过了一切的罪，你很平安、舒畅，与任何人、任何事都没有难处。你若达到这个程度，你想你会快乐、满足、满意么？我必定不会。仅仅胜过罪、没有难处，有甚么益处？如果我们只是这样，我们最多不过像一张白纸。难道这就是我们生命的意义和目标么？这种的完全，毫无意义。新约所启示的完全，乃是要我们全人经过过程，进入基督的得荣耀，并且被祂那拔高、得荣耀的所是浸透、浸润。胜过罪、有忍耐、能爱人等等，与新约所启示的完全，并不是同类的事。基督一直代求，为要叫那种在我们灵里的生命被推动，得以生长、发展并浸润我们里面的各部分，直到我们完全被祂得荣耀并被拔高的所是浸透。当这工作完成时，就是我们身体得赎，神的众子显现出来，整个宇宙得享荣耀自由的日子。到那日，就不再有叹息、虚空、辖制或败坏。这就是得荣耀。
7What does it mean to be brought into Christ’s perfection? It is to eliminate all the by-products of death, to swallow up all vanity, corruption, groaning, and decay. Christ is interceding that this work may be accomplished. His intercession on the throne motivates the life seed that He sowed into us at the time of His resurrection. Suppose you have overcome every sin. You are peaceful, comfortable, and have no trouble with anyone or anything. If you would have attained such a height, do you suppose that you would be happy, content, and satisfied? I certainly would not be. What is the good of only overcoming sin and having no difficulties? If we only have this, we are, at most, just like a piece of blank white paper. Is this the meaning and goal of our life? This kind of perfection is meaningless. The perfection revealed in the New Testament, however, is to have our whole being processed into Christ’s glorification, to have our entire being permeated and saturated with His uplifted and glorified being. Overcoming sin, having patience, loving others—all this is in a different category of perfection from that revealed in the New Testament. Christ is interceding that the life which He has sown into our spirit may be motivated to grow, develop, and saturate all our inward parts, until we are completely permeated with His glorified and uplifted being. When this is completed, that will be the day of the redemption of our body, of the manifestation of the sons of God, and of the freedom of glory for the whole universe. In that day there will be no more groaning, vanity, bondage or corruption. This is glorification
参 生命之律的运行
III. THE WORKING OF THE LAW OF LIFE
8现在我们再来看生命之律。生命之律是把基督这标准的模型运行到我们全人的每一部分，以祂一切的所是浸润我们里面各部分。这就是新约所说的变化。罗马十二章二节说，『不要模倣这世代，反要藉著心思的更新而变化，叫你们验证何为神那美好、可喜悦、并纯全的旨意。』我们的心思如何能得更新？惟有藉著生命之律的运行，以标准模型的所是浸润我们，使我们成为祂的复制、翻版。不仅如此，林后三章十八节说，『但我们众人既然以没有帕子遮蔽的脸，好像镜子观看并返照主的荣光，就渐渐变化成为与祂同样的形像，从荣耀到荣耀，乃是从主灵变化成的。』这就是生命之8:29律在我们里面运行的结果。最终，正如罗马八章二十九节所说，生命之律的运行，要将我们模成神长子的形像。所有长子的弟兄，都要模成祂的形像。神的长子这标准的模型，今天是在得完全和得荣耀里，但我们还没有到达那里。我们还在路上，在过程之中。当长子为我们代求时，祂的代求就推动我们里面生命的种子发展、长大并浸透我们全人，使我们得以变化并模成祂的形像，最终被带进祂的得完全和得荣耀里。这一切都是来自生命之律的运行。
8Now we come again to the law of life. The law of life is working Christ, the standard model, into every part of our being, saturating our inward parts with all that He is. This is what the New Testament calls transformation. Romans 12:2 says, “Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, that you may prove by testing what the will of God is, that which is good and well-pleasing and perfect” (Recovery Version). How can our mind be renewed? Only by the working of the law of life which saturates us with what the standard model is and makes us a reproduction, a reprint, of Him. Furthermore, 2 Corinthians 3:18 says, “But we all, with unveiled face beholding and reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit” (Gk.). This is the issue of the working of the law of life within us. Eventually, as Romans says, the working of the law of life will conform us to the image of God’s Firstborn Son. All the brothers of the Firstborn will be conformed to Him. The Firstborn Son of God, the standard model, is today in perfection and in glorification, but we are not yet there. We are on the way and under the process. As the Firstborn Son intercedes for us, His interceding will motivate our inner life seed to develop, grow, and permeate our being so that we may be transformed and conformed to His image and ultimately be brought into His perfection and glorification. This comes from the working of the law of life.
肆 内里生命的感觉
IV. THE INNER SENSE OF LIFE
9当生命之律在我们里面运行时，我们就有更深的生命知觉。祂的代求极其有效的推动我们里面的种子。我们怎么知道，我们里面的种子被推动？乃是藉著我们内里的感觉、知觉，就可以知道。有时候，你觉得很疲倦，不想参加某一次召会的聚会，但里面的种子不让你睡觉。藉著天上代求的加力，叫你里面『砰、砰、砰』，使你知道非去聚会不可。有时候，我们被属世的事物吸引，里面的『砰、砰、砰』使我们不得安息，最终我们就作主所渴望的。这是何等的怜悯！我完全确信，在要来的年日中，这属天的『砰、砰、砰』，必在主的恢复中成就更多的事。我们对已过所看见的，绝不会满意。这职事还要达到更高、更丰富。主要使用众召会和许多的信息，召聚真正寻求祂的人，一同向全地作祂的见证。圣经里每一件关于召会的事，都要在主回来以前应验。我们从深处都觉得，除了这标准模型以外，没有一事能叫我们满足。除非我们被祂充满，否则不会快乐。这是强而有力的明证，证明主在代求，为要使我们得荣耀，被带进祂的完全。
9While the law of life is working within us, we have a deeper consciousness of life. His intercession very effectively motivates our inner seed. How do we know that our inner seed has been motivated? By our inner sense, our inner consciousness. Although you may feel too tired to attend a particular church meeting, the seed within will not let you sleep. By the inward “pum, pum, pum,” the energizing of the heavenly intercession, you realize that you must go to that meeting. Sometimes, when we are attracted to the worldly things, the inward “pum, pum, pum” gives us no rest, and we find ourselves doing what the Lord desires. What a mercy this is! I have the full assurance that in the coming years the heavenly “pum, pum, pum” will accomplish a great deal in the Lord’s recovery. We will never be satisfied with what we have seen in the past. This ministry will be higher and richer. The Lord will use the churches and the messages to gather together His true seekers to be His testimony to the whole earth. Everything in the Bible concerning the church will be fulfilled before the Lord comes back. Deep within, we all have the sense that nothing but this standard model can satisfy us. We cannot be happy unless we are saturated with Him. This is a strong proof that He is interceding for us to be glorified, to be brought into His perfection
伍 标准模型的团体复制
V. THE CORPORATE REPRODUCTION
OF THE STANDARD MODEL
10神永远的定旨，是要得著许多儿子，作祂团体的彰显。首先，祂的独生子经过过程，并进入荣耀，全然得著完全，成为标准的模型，就是神的长子，作神的彰显。自从基督升天以后，神就一直作工，要大量复制那个标准的模型，就是祂的长子。历世纪以来，很少基督徒看见这事，结果使主受到耽延。今天地上虽有千千万万的基督徒，但标准模型的复制却不多。在主的恢复里，祂正在复制标准的模型，竭力在我们中间作工，要使我们每一个人与长子一模一样。这就是得以完全的意思。为著得以完全，我们需要神性和拔高、复活的人性，也需要了结一切的钉十字架。我们的完全，必须包括基督那了结一切的钉十字架，因为祂包罗万有的死，将一切消极的事物，都留在河的对岸，成为历史。我们也需要使我们里面的各部分，被祂一切的所是浸透。甚至我们里面最小的部分，也必须被祂浸润。这一切都是使我们得以完全的元素。当这一切都作到我们里面的时候，我们就会有彻底的变化，并完全模成祂的形像。这就是得荣耀，得完全，以及神儿子之模型的复制和翻版。
10God’s eternal purpose is to have a group of sons as His corporate expression. Firstly, His Only Begotten Son passed through the process and entered into glory, having been fully perfected to be the standard model, the Firstborn Son of God, for God’sex press i on. Since the time of Christ’s ascension, God has been working to have a mass reproduction of that standard model, His Firstborn Son. During the centuries, few Christians have seen this, and as a result, the Lord has been delayed. Although there are millions of Christians on earth today, there are not many reproductions of the standard model. In His recovery, the Lord is reproducing the standard model, working desperately among us to make every one of us the same as the Firstborn Son. This is what it means to be perfected. For perfection, we need divinity, an uplifted, resurrected humanity, and the terminating crucifixion. Our perfection must include the terminating crucifixion of Christ, for His all- inclusive death puts all the negative things on the other side of the river as a history. We also need to have every inward part of our being permeated with all that He is. Even the smallest part of our being must be saturated with Him. All these are the elements of our perfection. When all this has been wrought into us, we shall have a thorough transformation and be completely conformed to His image. This is glorification, perfection, and the reproduction, the reprint, of the model Son
11这一切的关键点，乃是生命之律，就是神圣生命在我们里面的运行。生命之律，就是神圣生命自发、自动的运行，在我们里面作使我们得完全的工作，将神性渐渐灌输到我们里面，了结一切消极的事物，并将基督一切的所是分赐到我们里面。换言之，主藉著生命之律更新我们，变化我们，使我们模成祂的形像。当这过程完成时，祂就要来救赎我们的身体，使我们卑贱的身体改变形状，成为荣耀的身体。（腓三21。）我们今天就在这神圣生命之律运行的过程中。生命之律现今在运行，要从我们里面更新我们。以弗所四章二十二至二十四节告诉我们，要在心思的灵里得以更新，使我们得以脱去旧人，穿上新人。根据二章十五节，新人就是召会。穿上新人就是穿上召会。新人乃是实际的召会生活，就是标准模型的团体复制。现今我们正经过在心思的灵里得更新的过程，渐渐穿上新人。这种心思的更新和穿上新人─召会，乃是生命之律运行的结果。
11The crucial point in all this is the law of life, the working of the divine life within us. The law of life, which is the innate, automatic working of the divine life, is doing a perfecting work within us, gradually infusing us with divinity, eliminating all the negative things, and imparting all that Christ is into our being. In other words, by the law of life the Lord is renewing us, transforming us, and conforming us to His image. When this process has been completed, He will come to redeem our body, transfiguring our vile body into a glorious one (Phil. 3:21). We are now under the process of the working of the law of the divine life. The law of life is now working to renew us from within. Ephesians 4:22-24 tells us to be renewed in the spirit of our mind that we may put off the old man and put on the new man. According to Ephesians 2:15, the new man is the church. To put on the new man is to put on the church. The new man is the practical church life, the corporate reproduction of the standard model. We are now in the process of being renewed in the spirit of our mind, and gradually we are putting on the new man. This renewing of the mind and putting on of the new man, the church, is the issue of the working of the law of life