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希伯来书生命读经 · 第49篇

信心的创始者与成终者

THE AUTHOR AND PERFECTER OF FAITH
壹 旧约的圣徒
I. THE SAINTS OF THE OLD COVENANT
只是信心的见证人
ONLY BEING WITNESSES OF FAITH
1在本篇信息中，我们要来看信心的创始者与成终者。（来十二2。）旧约的圣徒，只是信心的见证人，没有一个是信心的创始者、源头、成终者或完成者。本章一节把信心的见证人看作是『如同云彩围著我们』。主是在云彩中与祂的百姓同在。（出十三21～22。）以色列人是照著云彩的行动跟随主。云彩在那里，主也就在那里。不仅如此，云彩更是为著引导百姓跟随主。如果你有心要寻找主，当你读过希伯来十一章，你会立即觉得，藉著有信心的人，就能得著主的同在和祂的引导。你若有云彩，你就有了主。你若失去云彩，你就失去了主。所有有信心的人，就是召会里的人，都是云彩。寻求主同在最好的路，就是到召会里来。凡要寻求主引导的人，都必须跟随云彩，就是召会。主在云彩里，意思就是祂与有信心的人同在。我们既是有信心的人，我们就是今天的云彩；人只要跟随我们，就可以跟从主。凡寻求祂的人，都能在我们中间得到祂的同在。主既是在我们这里，所以我们在那里，那里就是主今天行动的方向。
1In this message we come to the Author and Perfecter of faith (12:2). The saints of the old covenant were only witnesses of faith. None of them was the author, source, perfecter, or finisher of faith. In verse 1 of this chapter the witnesses of faith are considered as “a cloud of witnesses surrounding us.” The Lord was in the cloud to be with His people (Exo. 13:21-22). The children of Israel followed the Lord according to the move of the cloud. Where the cloud was, there the Lord was also. Furthermore, the cloud is for leading people in following the Lord. If you have a heart to seek out the Lord and you read Hebrews 11, you may immediately have the sense that by the people of faith you can have the Lord’s presence and His leading. If you have the cloud, you will have the Lord. But if you miss the cloud, you will also miss the Lord. All the people of faith, the church people, are the cloud. The best way to seek the Lord’s presence is to come to the church. If anyone is seeking the Lord’s leading, he must follow the cloud, the church. The Lord is in the cloud, meaning that He is with the people of faith. Since we are the people of faith, we are today’s cloud, and people can follow the Lord by following us. Those who seek Him can find His presence with us. The Lord is where we are, and where we are is the direction in which the Lord is moving in these days
贰 惟有耶稣是
II. ONLY JESUS BEING
一 信心的创始者
A. The Author of Faith
2惟有耶稣是信心的创始者与成终者。我们曾看过，旧约的圣徒不过是信心的见证人，但耶稣乃是信心的创始者与成终者。创始者也可译为起始者，开创者，首领，开拓者，先锋；原文与二章十节者同。耶稣乃是信心的创始者；祂是信心的发起者、开创者、源头和因由。创始者就是起始者和开创者；祂也是源头和因由。创始者既是起始者，祂也是开拓者和先锋。因此，祂也是信心的首领和元帅。我们若把这些名称加在一起，对于耶稣是信心的创始者，就可以得到一个适当的定义。
2Only Jesus is the Author and Perfecter of faith. As we have seen, the saints of the old covenant were only the witnesses of faith, but Jesus is the Author and Perfecter of faith. The Greek word translated “Author” may also be rendered “Originator,” “Inaugurator,” “Leader,” “Pioneer,” “Forerunner.” It is the same word in Greek that is used for Captain in 2:10. Jesus is the Author of faith; He is the Originator, the Inaugurator, the source, and the cause of faith. The Author is the Originator and the Inaugurator; then He is the source and the cause. Since the Author is the Originator, He is also the Pioneer and Forerunner. Therefore, He is also the Leader and the Captain. If we put all these titles together, we have an adequate definition of Jesus as the Author of faith.
3我们需要耶稣作信心的创始者，因为照我们天然的人，我们没有信的能力，我们凭自己没有信。那叫我们得救的信，乃是我们从主所得宝贵的信。（彼后一1。）当我们仰望耶稣，祂这赐生命的灵（林前十五45）就将祂自己，将祂信的成分，灌输到我们里面；这样，自然而然的，有一种信在我们里面升起，我们就有信心相信祂。这不是出于我们自己，乃是出于那将自己作信的成分，分赐到我们里面，替我们信者的。因此，乃是主自己作我们的信。我们是因著祂作我们的信而活，是因著祂的信，（加二20，）不是因著我们自己的信。耶稣是信心的创始者和起始者，主要是就著祂在地上的生活和所行的路程说的。主耶稣在地上时，开创了信心。祂所过的生活是信心的生活，所行的道路是信心的道路。在祂的生活和道路上，祂开创了信心。所以，祂是信心的创始者。耶稣是开拓者和先锋，开了信心的路。你若再把四福音读过，就会看见祂的生活乃是开辟的生活，就是开辟信心之路的生活。祂无论往那里去，好像都有高山大水拦阻祂。但祂一步一步的，开辟信心的路。我们若以这种眼光读四福音，就会看见这位信心的起始者耶稣，一直在开辟信心的路，像建筑高速公路的人移高山平深谷一样。祂既开辟了信心的路，祂也就是这信心之路上的开拓者和先锋。
3We need Jesus as the Author of faith because, according to our natural man, we do not have any believing ability. We do not have faith by ourselves. The faith we have through which we are saved is “not of ourselves; it is the gift of God” (Eph. 2:8). We have “obtained” this “precious faith” by God’s gift (2 Pet. 1:1). When we look unto Jesus, He, as “the life-giving Spirit” (1 Cor. 15:45 ASV), transfuses us with Himself, with His believing element. Then, spontaneously, the believing ability arises in our being, and we have the faith to believe in Him. It is not of ourselves, but of Him who imparts Himself into us as the believing element to believe for us. Hence, it is He Himself who is our faith. We live by Him as our faith, by His faith (Gal. 2:20), not by our own faith. Jesus is the Author and the Originator of faith mainly in His life and in His path on earth. The Lord Jesus originated faith when He was here on earth. The life He lived was a life of faith, and the path He walked was a path of faith. In His life and path He originated faith. Hence, He is the Author of faith. Jesus, being the Pioneer and the Forerunner, has cut the way of faith. If you read the four Gospels again, you will see that His life was a cutting life, a life that cut the way of faith. Wherever He went, it seems that there was a mountain or a river frustrating Him. But step after step, He cut the way of faith. If we have this view in reading the Gospels, we shall see that the very Jesus who is the Originator of faith was always cutting the way of faith, closing the gaps and removing the mountains like the builder of a highway. Since He has cut the way of faith, He is also the Pioneer and Forerunner on the pathway of faith.
4耶稣是信心的开拓者和先锋，也是信心的首领和元帅。祂开了信心的路，并作了先锋，领先开拓这路。因此，祂这位元帅能带我们随著祂的脚踪，走完信心的路。祂一生在地上的行径里，作了信心的创始者；又在荣耀里，在天上的宝座上，作了信心的成终者；当我们仰望祂时，祂就将所创始并成终的信心，传输甚至注入我们里面。
4As the Pioneer and the Forerunner of faith, Jesus is also the Leader and Captain of faith. He has cut the way of faith and, as the Forerunner, has taken the lead to pioneer it. Hence, He, as the Captain, can carry us through the pathway of faith in His footsteps. As we look unto Him as the Originator of faith in His life and in His path on earth, and as the Perfecter of faith in His glory and on His throne in heaven, He transfuses and even infuses us with the faith which He has originated and perfected
二 信心的成终者
B. The Perfecter of Faith
5耶稣也是信心的成终者。成终者也可以译为完成者，完全者。耶稣也是信心的完成者、完全者。我们不断的仰望祂，祂就完成并完全我们奔跑属天赛程所需要的信心。
5Jesus is also the Perfecter of faith. The Greek word translated “Perfecter” may also be rendered “Finisher” or “Completer.” Jesus is also the Finisher, the Completer, of faith. By looking unto Him continually, we shall have Him finish and complete the faith which we need for running the heavenly race.
6耶稣是信心的成终者，主要是就著祂在荣耀里和在天上的宝座上说的。祂在荣耀里坐在宝座上，要完成祂在地上所起始的信心。祂是信心的完成者和完全者，必能完成并完全祂所起始并开创的信心。
6Jesus is the Perfecter of faith mainly in His glory and on His throne in heaven. He is sitting on the throne in glory to complete the faith which He originated while He was on earth. Being the Finisher and the Completer of faith, He will finish and complete what He has originated and inaugurated.
参 信心的灌输
III. THE TRANSFUSION OF FAITH
一 就著天然说，我们没有信的能力
A. We Having No Believing Ability Naturally
7现在我们来看信心的灌输。我们已经看过，按照我们天然的人，我们没有信的能力。在我们天然的所是里，没有信的成分。就著天然说，我们只有不信的能力，就是不肯信的本能。
7Now we come to the matter of the transfusion of faith. As we have seen, according to our natural man, we have no believing ability. The believing element is absent from our natural being. Naturally, we only have the unbelieving ability, the ability to disbelieve
二 得救的信心不是出于我们
B. The Saving Faith Being Not of Ourselves
8得救的信心不是出于我们，乃是神所赐的。那叫我们得救的信，并不是出于我们，乃是我们从神所得的恩赐。神是信心的源头和赐与者，我们乃是这神圣恩赐的领受者。神把一个东西放在我们里面，这就成了我们的信。彼后一章一节说，我们『分得同样宝贵之信』。信心是宝贵的，因为是神给我们的恩赐。
8The saving faith is “not of ourselves; it is the gift of God” (Eph. 2:8). Ephesians 2:8 tells us clearly that the faith through which we were saved is not of ourselves. We have received it as a gift from God. God is the source and giver of faith, and we are the recipients of this divine gift. God has put something into our being which becomes our faith. Second Peter 1:1 says that we “have obtained like precious faith.” Faith is precious because it has been given to us as a gift by God
三 基督作为信的成分灌输到我们里面
C. Having Christ as the Believing Element Transfused into Us
9当我们仰望耶稣，祂就把祂自己作为信的成分，灌输到我们里面，祂就成了我们的信心。我们曾看过，信心是质实的能力，好像我们的第六感。我们藉著福音的传扬，就得了这质实的官能。正确的传福音，不应当只是教训，也必须是一种灌输。假若我现在传福音给一些罪人，在向他们传之前，我必须先从主那里得著一些出于主的东西。然后，当我传讲时，我所得著那出于主的东西，会像电一样射入那些听的人里面。当我讲的时候，他们在注意看，也留心听，有一些东西就会自然而然、不知不觉的灌输到他们里面。他们也许会摇头，不同意我的说法；然而在他们的深处，对我所说的有了信心。虽然有些人嘴里说信耶稣太愚昧了，但是在他们里面，有个东西继续不断的起反应，直到他们不得不说，『主耶稣，谢谢你，你太好了。主，你是我的救主。』因为有一种成分灌输到他们里面，所以他们就能相信主。我知道有些很顽固的人，不肯在聚会中表示相信主耶稣。他们回家之后，里面没有平安，因为有东西在里面搅动、烦扰他们。到下次福音聚会的时候，他们会说，『我还要去那里。』这就是神藉著传讲的人灌输信心的结果。
9When we look unto Jesus, He transfuses us with Himself as the believing element and He becomes our faith. We have seen that faith, the substantiating ability, is like a sixth sense. We acquired this substantiating sense through the preaching of the gospel. Proper gospel preaching is not merely a matter of teaching; it must also be a matter of transfusion. Suppose I am preaching the gospel to some sinners. Before I can preach the gospel to them, I must first receive something of and from the Lord. Then, as I am preaching, what I have received of the Lord will enter, like electricity, into those who are listening. While I am speaking and the people are looking at and listening to me, something spontaneously and unconsciously is transfused into them. Although they may shake their heads, not consenting to my preaching, deep within they believe what I am saying. Although some may say to themselves that it is silly to believe, something within them continues to react and brings them to the point where they say, “Lo rd Jesus, thank You. You are so good. Lord, You are my Savior.” Because some element has been transfused into their being, they are able to believe in the Lord. I know of many stubborn ones who would not express in the meeting that they had come to believe in the Lord Jesus. They went home, but they had no peace, for something within stirred and troubled them. When it was time for the next gospel meeting, they said, “I would like to go there again.” This is the result of the transfusion of faith by God through a preacher.
10每一个传福音的人，都必须是一个有吸引力的人。首先，他自己应当先被吸引，然后他才能吸引别人。他所讲的也许不合逻辑，但他好像充了电的电池一样，听的人会被吸引。为这缘故，召会传福音，必须有彀多的祷告。祷告越多，福音聚会就越有吸引力。传福音的人必须祷告到一个地步，满有属天的吸引力，并且完全被神圣的元素所充满。如果他被充满，也有吸引力，当他在人面前站起来时，他会感觉到有些东西灌输到听的人里面。有些人甚至会怕这样的传道人，说，『别看他。如果你看他，就会被他抓住，他太吸引人了。』这就是福音的能力。有的传道人可能有口才，也有学问，但是不吸引人。传福音的人可能缺乏口才，但是因著他太吸引人，别人一听他就被吸住了。藉著那种有吸引力的传道人，某种成分就灌输到听的人里面，是任何人所不能夺去的。这个注入的成分就是信心。这个原则，不仅能应用在传福音上，也能应用在其他尽职的事上。尽职不是在于我们的口才，乃在于我们的发表。发表和口才不同。口才像好音乐，只是听起来悦耳；发表则不同，乃是释放神圣的元素。你的职事若是正确，每逢你尽职时，不仅你自己被吸引，同时也吸引别人。正确的职事，完全是在于被神自己灌输充满。首先，我们被神圣的元素充满；然后，在尽职时，我们很有吸引力的把这神圣的元素放射到别人里面。这完全是神恩典的事。我们曾看过，神的恩典就是神自己分赐到我们里面，以应付我们的需要。罪人当然需要有信心，但他们怎样得著信心？按天然说，我们没有信心，只有不信。但是当罪人来到召会中，听见正确的传福音，就被神充满。那属天的电，就是神自己，传输到他们里面。因著神自己这样灌输到他们里面，他们就发现自己有信心。这就是信心的恩赐，而信心的性质和元素，就是神自己。
10Every gospel preacher must be a charming person. He must firstly be charmed himself and then he will be able to charm others. What he says may not seem logical, but, like a battery that is being charged, the hearers will be charmed. For this reason, the church must pray a great deal for the preaching of the gospel. The more we pray, the more charming the gospel meeting will be. The gospel preacher must pray until he has a heavenly charm and is fully charged with the divine element. If he is charged and charming, as he stands in front of the people, he will have the sense that something is being transfused into them. Some have even been afraid of such a preacher, saying, “Don’t look at him. If you do, you will be attracted by him because he is so charming.” This is the power of the gospel. Other speakers may be eloquent and well educated, but they are not charming. The gospel preacher may lack eloquence, but because he is so charming, others are charmed as they listen to him. Some element is infused into them through that charming preacher, and nothing can take it out of them. This infused element is faith. This principle not only applies to the preaching of the gospel but to other forms of ministry as well. Ministry does not depend upon our eloquence but upon our utterance. Utterance is different from eloquence. Eloquence, like music, is something pleasant to the ear. Utterance, on the contrary, is the release of the divine element. If your ministry is correct, you will be charmed and charming whenever you come to minister. The proper ministry is altogether a matter of being fully transfused with God Himself. Firstly, we are charged with the divine element, and then, in the ministry, we radiate that divine element into others in a charming way. This is altogether a matter of God’s grace. As we have seen, God’s grace is simply God Himself dispensed into us to meet our need. Sinners certainly need to have faith, but how can they have it? Naturally, we have no belief, only disbelief. But when the sinners come to the church and hear the proper preaching of the gospel, they are charged with God. The heavenly electricity, which is God Himself, is transmitted into them. Because God Himself is transfused into them in this way, they find that they have faith. This is the gift of faith, the nature and element of which is God Himself.
11我们若要有信心，就必须望断以及于耶稣这信心的源头。当我们望断一切事物以及于耶稣，祂就会把祂自己放射到我们里面，以祂自己充满我们。结果我们就自然而然的有了信心。信心不是起始于我们，乃是起始于祂。信心乃是基督自己非常主观的替我们相信。祂把自己灌输到我们里面，作到我们里面，直到祂自己在我们里面成了信的成分。因此，不是我们信，乃是祂在我们里面信。这样，祂就使我们成了信的人。表面上，是我们的信；实际上，是祂的信。这就是真正的信心。一旦基督在我们里面起始了这个信心，祂就绝不会弃而不理；反而要完全、完成、并成全这信心。不要以为你靠自己可以成为信心的伟人。不，我们连一点点的信心都没有。我们所有的信心，就是基督自己在我们里面相信，并且替我们相信。我们是因祂的信活著，凭祂
11If we would have faith, we must look away unto Jesus, the source of faith. When we look away from all other things unto Him, He will radiate Himself into us, charging us with Himself. As a result, spontaneously we shall have faith. Faith does not originate with us; it originates with Him. Faith is Christ Himself believing for us in a very subjective way. He transfuses us with Himself, working Himself into us, until He, the very Person, becomes the believing element in our being. Thus, it is not we who believe; it is He who believes within us. In this way, He makes us a believing being. Apparently it is our believing; actually it is His believing. This is genuine faith. Once Christ has originated this faith within us, He will never let it go. Rather, He will complete, finish, and perfect it. Do not think that you can be a giant of faith on your own. No, we do not have the slightest amount of faith. All the faith we have is just Christ Himself believing in us and for us. We live by His faith, by Him as our faith (Gal. 2:20
12作我们的信而活。（加二20。）
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13基督那信的成分，是藉著生命之律灌注到我们里面的。我们越让生命之律在里面运行，就越能相信。我们若给生命之律充分的机会一直在我们的心思、情感和意志里运行，这运行就会在我们里面产生极大的信心。希伯来书的中心点乃是生命的律，而信心乃是生命之律在我们里面运行的初熟果子。
13Christ’s believing element is charged into our being through the law of life. The more we allow the law of life to work in our being, the more we are able to believe. If we give the law of life the opportunity to work continuously in our mind, emotion, and will, its working will produce great faith in us. The book of Hebrews is focused on the law of life, and faith is the firstfruit of the working of the law of life in our being
14我们已经看过，帐幕里器具的排列，最终并终极的点乃是见证之版（即法版）所豫表的生命之律。律法被称作见证，因为律法是神之所是的彰显和说明。每一种律法都是立法者的彰显。好人立好律法，坏人立坏律法。一个人所立的律法，反映他的所是。因此，神的律法就是神所是的反映。因为神是光和爱的神，又因祂是公义、圣别的，所以祂的律法也是光和爱的律法，且是公义、圣别的。律法既是神的反映，所以是神的彰显和见证。律法也是生命之律的影儿。今天，在我们里面的生命之律，实际上就是神的反映和彰显。生命之律越在我们里面运行，我们就越有神的形像。这样，我们就成为祂的彰显和见证。
14We have seen that the ultimate and consummate point of the arrangement of the furniture in the tabernacle is the law of life typified by the tables of the testimony. The law is called the testimony because it is the expression and definition of what God is. Every law is the expression of the lawgiver. A good man makes good laws, and a bad man makes bad laws. The law one makes reflects what he is. Hence, the law of God is the reflection of God’s being. Because God is a God of light and love and because He is righteous and holy, His law is also a law of light and love and is righteous and holy. The law, being the reflection of God, is the expression and testimony of God. It is also a shadow of the law of life. The law of life within us today is actually God’s reflection and expression. The more the law of life works in our being, the more we bear God’sim age. In this way we become His expression and testimony
15帐幕里器具的排列，最终引到生命之律，就是神的彰显和见证。照样，对基督的经历，开始于十字架，终结于生命之律，结果带来神的见证。经历基督的目标，就是要有神的彰显。当生命之律在我们里面运行，要产生神的彰显和见证时，所产生的第一个结果就是我们的相信。最有信心的人，就是生命之律在他里面运行最多的人。这样的人有信心，对神全然相信，而没有任何紧张或挣扎。他是自自然然的相信，因为那是从他里面生命之律的运行而来的。圣经是一贯的，虽然用了许多不同的字眼、发表和名称，却都反映同一个点。希伯来八章里的生命之律，产生出十一章里的信心，就是信的功能。虽然我们只凭读圣经还不能明白这些，但是藉著经历就能明白。首先我们有了经历，然后从圣经的启示得著证实。表面上，希伯来十一章和八章没有关联。但按照生命来看，十一章乃是八章的结果，因为信的能力乃是神生命之律运行的结果。当生命之律在我们里面运行，使我们成为神的反映、彰显和见证时，我们就很容易相信。我们的相信是自然而然的。事实上，我们不能不信，因为信的能力已经作到我们里面了。现在我们知道，为甚么我们必须望断一切以及于耶稣这位信心的创始者与成终者。当我们望断以及于祂，我们就给祂机会，让祂自由的把祂自己作到我们里面。这样，生命之律就能在我们里面每一部分运行，直到我们里面被祂充满。我们里面越多充满祂，就越容易相信。这就是得著信心的路。愿我们都望断一切以及于耶稣，而这样主观的经历信心。
15The arrangement of the furniture in the tabernacle ultimately leads to the law of life—the expression and testimony of God. In like manner, the experience of Christ which begins at the cross and consummates with the law of life issues in the testimony of God. Its goal is to have the expression of God. As the law of life works within us to bring about the expression and testimony of God, the first issue of its working is our believing. The most believing person is the one in whom the law of life has worked the most. Such a person will have the faith to believe God to the uttermost without any strain or strife. His believing is spontaneous because it comes from the working of the law of life within him. The Bible is consistent. Although many different words, expressions, and terms are used, they all reflect one point. The law of life in Hebrews 8 issues in the believing ability, the faith, in Hebrews 11. Although we cannot understand this simply by reading the Bible, we can know it by our experience. Firstly, we have the experience and then we have the confirmation from the revelation of the Bible. Apparently Hebrews 11 is unrelated to Hebrews 8. Nevertheless, according to life, Hebrews 11 is the issue of Hebrews 8, for the believing ability results from the working of the law of the divine life. When the law of life operates within us to make us the very reflection, expression, and testimony of God, we find it easy to believe. Our believing is spontaneous. In fact, we are unable to disbelieve, because the believing ability has been wrought into us. Now we can see why we must look away from all things unto Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith. When we look away unto Him, we give Him the opportunity and the freedom to work Himself into us. In this way the law of life can work in every inward part of our being until we are fully saturated with Him. The more we are saturated with Him, the easier it is to believe. This is the way to have faith. May we all experience faith in such a subjective way by looking away unto Jesus