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希伯来书生命读经 · 第67篇

儿子名分的完成

THE COMPLETION OF SONSHIP
1新约中神启示的中心点乃是儿子的名分。儿子的名分是神的愿望。神这愿望只有藉著祂的儿子成为模型和原型，才得满足。这个原型必须作到我们里面。所作到我们里面来的，不仅是救主或神圣的生命，也是儿子名分的原型，也就是神的长子。我们说过，独生子和长子有很大的分别。说到独生子，指祂未带著人性；是神圣的，而不是属人的。反之，说到祂是长子，指祂同时具有神性和人性，因为祂不单是神子，也是人子。藉著复活，人子就被带进儿子的名分里。现今这位长子，兼有神性和人性，已经作到我们里面。
1The focus of God’sr evelation in the New Testament is sonship. Sonship is God’s desire. God can only satisfy His desire for sonship by having His Son become the model and prototype. This prototype must be wrought into our being. What is being wrought into us is not only the Savior or the divine life, but also the prototype of the sonship, the Firstborn Son of God. As we have pointed out, there is a great difference between the Only Begotten Son of God and the Firstborn Son of God. With the Only Begotten Son, there was no humanity. He was divine, but He was not human. With the Firstborn Son, on the contrary, there are both divinity and humanity because He is not only the Son of God but also the Son of Man. The Son of Man has been brought into sonship through His resurrection. Now this Firstborn Son, constituted with both divinity and humanity, has been wrought into our very being
豫定得儿子的名分
PREDESTINATED UNTO SONSHIP
2以弗所一章五节，说到我们豫定要得儿子的名分。得儿子的名分乃是我们的定命。我们命定不仅要得救。得救是一个过程，并不是目标，不过是一条引我们到达目标的路。神的目标乃是儿子的名分。神的赦罪、称义、救恩、重生等，都是集中于儿子的名分。神赦免我们，称义我们，拯救我们，重生我们，都是为使我们成为祂的儿子。
2Ephesians 1:5 says that we have been predestinated unto sonship. Sonship is our destiny. Our destiny is not to be saved. Salvation is a process; it is not the goal but the way to reach the goal. God’s goal is sonship. God’s forgiveness, justification, salvation, and regeneration are all focused on sonship. God has forgiven us, justified us, saved us, and regenerated us that we might be His sons
THE PROCESS OF SANCTIFICATION
圣别、变化和模成的过程
TRANSFORMATION, AND CONFORMATION
3儿子的名分有开始也有完成；开始于重生，完成于得荣耀。在重生与得荣耀之间，有圣别、变化和模成等过程。许多基督徒虽然听说过圣别，但基督教里对于圣别的观念，和圣经中所说的圣别大为不同。用辞和称呼都一样，但领会上却差别很大，因为今天基督教的辞汇已经不同于圣经的解释了。根据圣经纯净的话，圣别的意义，乃是被基督这原型的元素所充满。我们被长子的元素充满得越多，就越多从世界中分别出来归给神。我们藉著圣别得与世界分别，不是因著教训或神迹，乃是因著被这原型的神性和人性元素所浸透。
3Sonship has both a beginning and a completion. It begins with regeneration and it will be completed with glorification. Between regeneration and glorification there is the process of sanctification, transformation, and conformation. Many Christians have heard about sanctification. However, the concept of sanctification in Christianity is much different from that found in the Bible. The vocabulary, the terminology, is the same, but the understanding is vastly different, because the dictionary of today’s Christianity differs from the dictionary of the Bible. According to the pure word of the Bible, the meaning of sanctification is to be saturated with the element of the prototype. The more we are saturated by the element of the Firstborn Son as the prototype, the more we are separated unto God from the world. Through sanctification we are separated from the world, not by teachings or miracles, but by being permeated with the element of the divine and human nature of the prototype
4我们的全人就像一个黑点。有一天，这个原型的奇妙元素，进到我们灵里，圣别我们的灵。但我们其余的部分怎样？我们必须承认，还是非常的黑。你可能以为自己不错，有道德，很正派，甚至很『属灵』，但你仍然很黑，也许是在黑暗的坟墓里。无论你是好或坏，是对或错，有道德或没有道德，『属灵』或不属灵，你这个人仍然是黑的。人一接触你，就觉到你的昏黑不明。你是住在你那宗教伦理的昏暗地牢里，在你没有一样东西是透明的。因为你是这样的黑暗和不透明，你需要藉这原型奇妙的元素，充满你的全人，而使你圣别。基督在你里面扩展得越多，你就被圣别得越多，从世界中分别出来越多。这就是圣别。
4Our whole being is like a black spot. One day, the wonderful element of the prototype came into our spirit and sanctified it. What about the remainder of our being? We must admit that it is still very dark. Although you may consider yourself to be good, moral, ethical, and even “spiritual,” you are still dark. Perhaps you are in a dark grave. Whether you are good or bad, right or wrong, moral or immoral, ethical or unethical, “spiritual” or unspiritual, your being is still dark. Whenever others contact you, they sense your opaqueness. You dwell in the gloomy dungeon of your religion and ethics, and there is nothing transparent about you. Because you are so dark and non-transparent, you need to be sanctified by having the wonderful element of the prototype saturate your being. The more Christ spreads into you, the more you will be sanctified and separated from the world. This is sanctification.
5变化也与圣别有关联。我们越被基督的元素充满，就越被圣别；我们越被圣别，就越被变化。我们曾多次指出，变化不是指外面的改变、调整或改正，乃是指里面新陈代谢的改变，也就是生命、性情、形状上的改变。圣别是为著变化，而变化是为著模成。我们必须先被变化，才能模成神长子的形像。（罗八29。）靠著主的怜悯，我们都得以在正确的召会生活里被圣化、被变化、并被模成神长子的形像。这事比道德、伦理、甚至『属灵』高深得多，也深奥得多。一些所谓属灵的教训，不过是虚空的。真正的属灵乃是被模成；要成为属灵的，就在于被模成神长子的形像。这不是人的努力、劳苦、模倣所能制造出来的。惟有那内住的原型，就是那位又真又活的神的长子，在我们里面自动的工作，才能产生出来。当祂藉著生命之律在我们里面作工时，就不断在里面作膏油涂抹我们。
5Transformation is related to sanctification. The more we are saturated with the element of Christ, the more we are sanctified, and the more we are sanctified, the more we are transformed. As we have pointed out several times, transformation is not an outward change, adjustment, or correction. It is an inward metabolic change, a change in life, nature, and form. Sanctification is for transformation and transformation is for conformation. We must be transformed in order to be conformed to the image of the Firstborn Son of God (Rom. 8:29). By the Lord’s mercy, we are in the proper church life being sanctified, transformed, and conformed to the image of God’s Firstborn Son. This is deeper, higher, and more profound than being moral, ethical, or even “spiritual.” Some teachings regarding so- called spirituality are merely vanity. Genuine spirituality is conformation. Being spiritual depends upon being conformed to the image of the Firstborn Son of God. No human effort, labor, or imitation can manufacture this. It can only be produced by the indwelling prototype, the real and living Firstborn Son of God, who automatically works in us. As He works in us by the law of life, He continually anoints us from within
律法和申言者
THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS
6根据生命之律和膏油的涂抹，我们都是神的儿子，所以我们也是神的子民。神作我们的神，乃是根据生命之律和膏油的涂抹。在古时，神从外邦人中呼召祂的子民以色列人出来，并且赐他们律法。神作他们的神，他们作神的子民，乃是照著这外面的字句律法。他们与律法的关系若是对的，他们与神的关系就也是对的。以后他们偏离了律法，于是有申言者进来。因此，旧约包括了律法和申言者。
6Because we are sons of God according to the law of life and the anointing, we are God’sp eople. God is our God according to the law of life and the anointing. In ancient times, God called His people, the children of Israel, out from among the Gentiles and gave them the law. God was their God and they were His people according to the outward law of letters. If they were right with the law, then they were right with God. Since the people went astray from the law, the prophets came in. Hence, the Old Testament is composed of the law and the prophets.
7律法符合神永不改变的性情。从亘古到永远，神的性情是不变的。律法不会改变，申言者却会改变。神的一个申言者可能今天告诉你这样，明天又说相反的事。你若请教一位申言者，今天可否往某地去，他可能告诉你可以；但是到明天，你若问他同样的问题，他可能告诉你不可以。神是活的，这位活神有最高的人位，祂有全权，今天告诉我们这样，明天告诉我们那样。因此，申言者的话是会改变的。律法是根据神的性情，而申言者是根据神的活动、行动。神可能今天要你在原地留下来，但是明天又要你往别处去。但律法对每一个人都是一样的。譬如，律法命令你要孝敬父母，神绝不会要你今天孝敬父母，而明天去恨恶父母。不，律法一直是不变的。但你若把旧约读过，就会看见每一位申言者都彼此不同。在古时，神是照著律法和申言者作祂子民的神；而神的子民，也是照著律法和申言者作神的子民。在新约中，我们有甚么相当于旧约的律法和申言者？就律法说，我们有生命之律；就申言者说，我们有膏油的涂抹。今天，神是我们的神，是照著内里生命之律和膏油的涂抹；我们是神的子民，也是照著内里生命之律和膏油的涂抹。内里生命之律相当于神的性情，而膏油涂抹则相当于神的行动。生命之律是恒常不变的；就著生命之律而言，无论对你或是对别人，都是不改变的。若是你在今天晚上想要去看电影，里面的律就禁止你。不管是明天，或是任何时候，这律都会禁止。但是膏油的涂抹却会改变。今天晚上膏油的涂抹可能不许你去百货公司，但是明天可能又鼓励你去。虽然生命之律不许你买样式花俏的灯，但膏油的涂抹可能允许，也可能不允许你去百货公司。不仅如此，膏油的涂抹可能允许一位弟兄去百货公司买东西，而不允许另一位弟兄作同样的事。从这里我们看见，膏油涂抹是会改变的。我若用定罪的语气和你说话，生命之律一定会说，『不可以这样。』但是今天晚上的聚会，我应不应该讲希伯来书，却要依照膏油的涂抹。今天晚上膏油可能鼓励我，要讲希伯来书四十五分钟，但是下一次聚会，膏油或许说，『这次聚会你要安静，甚么也不要说。』以上这些例子叫我们看见，律法是恒常不变的，而膏油的涂抹却常会改变。我们乃是照这律和这膏油的涂抹，作神的子民，神也作我们的神。这与宗教有何等的不同！在此没有外面的规条、形式、仪文或控制，只有生命之律和膏油的涂抹。
7The law corresponds to God’s unchanging nature. For time and eternity, God’s nature will remain the same. Although the law does not change, the prophets do change. A prophet of God may tell you one thing today and the opposite thing tomorrow. If you consult a prophet about going to a certain place today, he may say that it is all right to go, but if you ask him the same question tomorrow, he may tell you not to go. God is living. As the living God, He is the highest Person, having the full right to tell us one thing today and another thing tomorrow. Due to this, the word of the prophet may change. The law is according to God’s nature, but the prophets are according to God’s activity, God’s move. God may want you to stay where you are today, but tomorrow He may want you to go elsewhere. The law is always the same for everyone. For example, the law commands you to honor your parents. God will never tell you to honor your parents today and then command you to hate them tomorrow. No, the law remains constant. However, if you read the Old Testament, you will see that the prophets differ from one another. In ancient times, God was a God to His people according to the law and the prophets, and God’sp eople were a people to Him also according to the law and the prophets. What do we have in the New Testament which corresponds to the law and the prophets in the Old Testament? For the law, we have the law of life, and for the prophets, we have the anointing. Today, God is our God according to the inner law of life and according to the anointing, and we are His people according to the inner law of life and according to the anointing. The inner law of life corresponds to God’s nature, and the anointing corresponds to God’s move. The law of life always remains the same. As far as the law of life is concerned, there is no change either with you or with others. If you attempt to go to a movie tonight, the inner law will forbid you. It will also forbid you tomorrow and at any other time. The anointing, however, may change. Tonight the anointing may not allow you to go to the department store, but tomorrow the anointing may encourage you to go. While the law of life will never allow you to buy a fancy lamp, the anointing may or may not allow you to go to the department store. Furthermore, the anointing may permit one brother to go shopping, but it may forbid another brother to do the same thing. By this we see that the anointing changes. If I intend to speak to you in a condemning way, the law of life will always say, “No, don’t do that.” But whether or not I should speak on Hebrews in the meeting to night depends on the anointing. To night the anointing may encourage me to speak on Hebrews for forty - five minutes, but in the next meeting the anointing may say, “Don’ts peak anything in this meeting. Be at rest.” By all these examples we see that the law remains the same but the anointing constantly changes. It is according to this law and this anointing that we are a people to God and God is a God to us. How different this is from religion! Here there are no out ward regulations, forms, rituals, or controls. There is only the law of life and the anointing.
8大约十四年前，我在纽约被请到一位犹太弟兄家中。他有典型正统犹太人的背景。他告诉我，正统的犹太人，作每一件事都要根据旧约的一节圣经。他们晚上上床的时候，连放鞋应该朝那个方向，也要根据旧约的一节圣经。他们非常『合乎圣经』，非常虔诚。他们中间有许多规条，却没有生命。这些正统的犹太人，以为按照他们的宗教，他们是神的子民，神是他们的神。实际上，神离他们很远。照著他们的方式，神并不是他们的神，他们也不是神的子民。但今天神是我们的神，乃是根据生命之律和膏油的涂抹。
8Approximately fourteen years ago, I was invited to the home of a Jewish brother in New York. His background was that of a typical orthodox Jew. He told me that the orthodox Jews do everything according to a verse in the Old Testament. When they go to bed at night, they must even place their shoes in a certain direction according to a verse in the Old Testament. They are very “scriptural” and religious. There are many regulations among them, but no life. These orthodox Jews think that they are the people of God and that God is their God according to their religion. Actually, God is far away from them. He is not their God and they are not His people according to their way. But today God is our God according to the law of life and the anointing
生命之律和膏油的涂抹，
the law of life and the anointing
与规条和组织相对
VERSUS REGULATIONS AND ORGANIZATION
9这些事在道理上我们可能清楚，但在经历上可能还是糢糊。在召会生活中，我们应当照著生命之律而活，并且按著膏油的涂抹而行动，但我们逐渐又照著规条而活，并照著组织而行动。开头的时候，召会生活并不是这样，乃是活的；我们都照著内里生命之律而活，并按著膏油的涂抹行动。然而，我们照著生命之律的生活，逐渐变成了习惯，而习惯又变成了规条。因此，我们如今乃是照著规条而生活，照著组织而行动。我们变成了组织，所以忽略了膏油的涂抹。我实在巴望看见亲爱的圣徒们，照著膏油的涂抹来整洁会所，而不是照著某种安排或组织。若是在事奉小组中，我们在意谁是第一、第二和末后，我们就成了组织。一旦成了组织，就不需要祷告、接触主、并按著膏油的涂抹行动，因为一切都已经安排好，我们只要听命令怎样作和甚么时候作就行了。也许有一位不是带头的弟兄会说，『我不是作头的，也不是作尾的，我怎样作都可以。我不需要寻求主该在甚么时候作整洁，整洁的时间早已宣布了。我若迟到几分钟，也没有多大关系。』这位弟兄来到时，就会站在那里，等候别人安排他去作甚么。若是带头的弟兄不来，他就不知道该怎样尽功用。这不是我们在新约里所看见的事奉。
9Although we may be clear about these matters doctrinally, we may not be clear about them experientially. In the church life we should live according to the law of life and move according to the anointing, but we have gradually come to live according to regulations and move according to organization. In the beginning, the church life was not like this. It was living, and we lived according to the inner law of life and moved according to the anointing. Gradually, however, our living according to the law of life developed into a habit, and the habit became a regulation. Thus, today we live according to regulations and move according to organization. Because we have become organized, we neglect the anointing. How I long to see the dear ones coming to clean the meeting hall according to the anointing, not according to any arrangement or organization. If in the service groups we care for who is first, second, and last, we shall have an organization. In an organization there is no need to pray, to contact the Lord, and to move according to the anointing, because everything is arranged, and we are told what to do and when to do it. A brother who is not a leading one may say, “I am neither the first nor the last. Whatever I do will be all right. I don’t need to look to the Lord about what time to clean, because the time has already been announced. If I am a few minutes late, it will not make any difference.” When this brother arrives, he will stand around waiting to be told what to do. If the leading one does not come, he will not know how to function. This is not the service we see in the New Testament.
10新约所启示的生活根据新约，生命的律是写在我们里面。事实上，写律法者自己就在我们里面。祂进到我们里面，也把祂的性情和人位，带到我们里面。这个性情会起作用，而这个人位会行动。因此，我们必须照著祂的性情而生活，顺从祂的人位而行动。我们整洁会所，必须是照著祂的行动。在召会事奉中，不要管你有甚么地位，只要留心你里面活的人位。这才是新约所该有的生活。与旧约相比，新约圣经较短。旧约圣经超过一千页，新约圣经只有三百多页。今天基督教已经成了教训和神迹的宗教。我盼望我们在主的恢复中都看见，我们不需要宗教的教训和神迹，我们只要简单的照著基督奇妙的性情而生活，并随从祂奇妙的人位而行动。不要依赖规条、安排或组织。要照著你里面活的人位行动作事。若是这样，我们就能享受神，并成为祂的子民；神对我们，就会成为一位活的、丰富的、可享受的神。祂作我们的神，不是按著规条，乃是照著内里生命之律，和膏油的涂抹。这就是那位具有神、人二性之奇妙者的运行。
10THE LIVING REVEALED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT According to the New Testament, the law of life is written into our being. In fact, even the writer Himself is in us. By coming into us, He brings both His nature and His Person into us. The nature works and the Person moves. Hence, we must live according to His nature and move according to His Person. We must clean the meeting hall according to His moving. Do not care about your rank in the church service. Only care for the living Person within you. This is the living found in the New Testament. Compared with the Old Testament, the New Testament is quite short. The Old Testament may have over a thousand pages, but the New Testament has less than three hundred pages. Christianity has become a religion of teachings and miracles. I hope that in the Lord’s recovery we shall realize that we do not need the teachings and miracles found in religion. We simply need to live according to Christ’s wonderful nature and move according to His wonderful Person. Do not depend upon regulations, arrangements, or organization. Move and act according to the living Person within you. If we do this, we shall enjoy God and become His people, and God will become so living, rich, and enjoyable to us. He will be our God, not according to regulations, but according to the inner law of life and the anointing. This is the working of the divine and human nature of the wonderful One
需要蒙拯救脱离宗教
THE NEED TO BE RESCUED FROM RELIGION
11你或许会奇怪，为甚么我反对宗教。这是因为我在其中经历过许多事物，特别是各种教训和说方言。从前，我也曾教导人说方言，但是过了一段时间，我发现说方言只能暂时激动人，其结果并没有多少生命。我也曾在基督教的基要派里学习圣经的教训。四十五年多以前，我就通晓了一切的豫表、教训和豫言；这些教训使我消沉了七年半之久。因此，我有十足的立场，宣告我们不需要字句的教训。过了一段时期，我参加了灵恩运动。现在我从主得著使命和负担，要以基督作生命供应祂的子民。惟有当你们从其他事物中完全蒙拯救，我才能卸下负担。圣灵知道你多么需要蒙拯救。不仅那些在基督教里的人，甚至在召会中的人，都需要认识儿子的名分。我们必须看见，生命是惟一的路，使儿子名分在我们里面达到完全。生命之律在我们里面的运行，乃是为著完成儿子的名分。
11You may wonder why I am against religion. It is because I have passed through so many things, especially the teachings and speaking in tongues. In the past, I taught many people how to speak in tongues. But after a period of time, I saw that speaking in tongues only stirred people temporarily and that the result was not much of life. I was also in fundamental Christianity where I learned the teachings of the Bible. More than forty-five years ago, I became familiar with all the types, teachings, and prophecies. These teachings made me dormant for seven and a half years. Due to this, I have the sure standing to declare that we do not need the teachings in letters. After a certain time, I became involved with the Pentecostal movement. Now I have been commissioned and burdened by the Lord to minister Christ as life to His people. Only when you have been wholly rescued from the other things will my burden be discharged. The Spirit knows how much you need to be delivered. Not only those in Christianity but even the church people need to know the sonship. We must see that life is the only way the sonship can be brought to completion within us. The working of the law of life within us is for the carrying out of the sonship
神带领许多的儿子
GOD’SWAY OF LEADING
进荣耀里去的路
THE MANY SONS INTO GLORY
12希伯来二章十节告诉我们，神要领许多的儿子进荣耀里去。神如何领许多的儿子进荣耀里去？是否所有的基督徒都天天保持原状，等到有一天突然被带进荣耀里去？当然不是这样！保罗在林前十五章说，复活就像植物的生长。种子撒在地里以后就死了，并且开始生长。起初不过长出嫩芽，这嫩芽必须逐渐长大，直到成熟、开花。开花就是得荣耀。这样的植物不像草菇，不能即刻得荣耀，乃是渐渐成长而得荣耀。照样，我们都已经重生，并且在生长之中。许多人像嫩芽一样，还要经过一段很长的路，才能得著荣耀。从重生到得荣耀之间，包括圣别、变化和模成神长子形像的过程。我们中间有少数人，经过多年在生命里的生长，已达到得荣耀的边缘。他们准备要开花。你如何？你若还是嫩芽，你就还不能开花。你必须继续生长，直到成熟。这样，当你成熟的时候，你就会开花进入荣耀。神就是这样带领许多的儿子进荣耀去。得荣耀─儿子名分的完成关于这点，我们要读罗马八章二十九至三十节：『因为神所豫知的人，祂也豫定他们模成神儿子的形像，使祂儿子在许多弟兄中作长子。祂所豫定的人，又召他们来；所召来的人，又称他们为义；所称为义的人，又叫他们得荣耀。』三十节不是说，『所称为义的人，又带他们上天堂。』乃是说，『又叫他们得荣耀。』我们还要读十六至十七节：『那灵自己同我们的灵见证我们是神的儿女。既是儿女，便是后嗣，就是神的后嗣，和基督同作后嗣，只要我们与祂一同受苦，好叫我们也与祂一同得荣耀。』十七节并没有说，我们会被带上天堂，而是说我们会『与祂一同得荣耀。』目标乃是得荣耀。这个得荣耀，乃是模成神儿子形像的完全、完成。换句话说，得荣耀就是儿子名分的完全、完成。儿子的名分已经在我们里面开始，但是还没达到完全或完成的地步。现在我们正在圣别、变化和模成的过程中。我们天天被那内住的奇妙者所浸透。祂不断在寻找机会，将祂自己扩展到我们里面的各部分。祂要浸透我们，直至我们被圣别、变化、并模成祂的形像，而达到儿子名分完全和完成的地步。这就是神今天的愿望。
12Hebrews 2:10 says that God is leading many sons into glory. How will God bring the many sons into glory? Will all the Christians remain the same day after day until they are suddenly transported into glory? No in deed! In 1 Corinthians 15 Paul says that the resurrection is like the growth of a plant. After a seed is sown into the earth, it dies and begins to grow. At first, the plant is a tender sprout. This tender sprout must grow until it reaches maturity and blossoms. The blossom is its glorification. The plant, unlike a mushroom, is not glorified suddenly. No, it is glorified by its gradual growth. Likewise, we all have been regenerated and are growing. Many are like tender sprouts which have along way to go before they can be glorified. The distance between regeneration and glorification encompasses the process of sanctification, transformation, and conformation to the image of the Firstborn Son of God. A few among us who have grown in life throughout the years are on the verge of glorification. They are ready to blossom. How about you? If you are still a tender sprout, then you are not ready to blossom. You must continue to grow until you reach maturity. Then, at the time of your maturity, you will blossom into glorification. In this way God will lead the many sons into glory. GLORIFICATION—THE COMPLETION OF SONSHIP At this point, we need tore ad Romans 8:29 and 30: “Because whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He should be the Firstborn among many brothers; and whom He predestinated, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified” (Recovery Version). Verse 30 does not say, “And whom He justified, these He brings to heaven.” No, it says, “These He also glorified.” We must also read Romans 8:16 and 17: “The Spirit Himself witnesses with our spirit that we are the children of God. And if children, heirs also; heirs of God and joint - heirs of Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him that we may also be glorified with Him.” Verse 17 does not say that we may be brought to heaven. No, it says that we “may be glorified with Him.” The goal is glorification. This glorification is the perfection, the completion, of conformation. In other words, glorification is the perfection and completion of sonship. The sonship has begun in us, but it has not been perfected and completed. Presently we are undergoing the process of sanctification, transformation, and conformation. Daily we are being saturated by the indwelling wonderful One. He is constantly seeking an opportunity to spread Himself into every part of our being. He desires to saturate us until we are sanctified, transformed, and conformed to His image and reach the perfection and completion of sonship. This is God’s desire today.
13这不是对或错，骄傲或谦卑，道德或不道德的事，甚至也不是『属灵』或不属灵的事。神并不在意这些。三十年前，我与一班追求属灵的人在一起。但是我们越追求属灵，却越不属灵。甚至『属灵』的追求也是虚空的。神的目的是要我们模成祂的儿子。祂的儿子是原型，已经作到我们里面，并且正在等候机会，以祂的元素浸透我们。我们必须与祂合作，照著祂的性情生活，并随从祂的人位行动。我们都该说，『主，我不在意属灵，我只要照著你的性情生活，并随从你的人位行动。』靠著主的怜悯，这些年我一直是这样的生活行动。为此我所得著的，乃是被定罪。我被人定罪，是因我对宗教的一切绝不容让。我曾经历过各种教训，也经历过灵恩的事，我能见证，这些既没有果效，更不能供应我们。即使这些能给我们一点帮助，却不能供应我们。但你若照著这位奇妙者的性情生活，也随从祂的人位行动，你就不仅会得到丰富的供应，别人也会藉你得著供应。这就是今天召会生活所需要的。在主恢复中的召会生活，与基督教完全不同。因著我们不同，人就定罪我们是异端。我承认我们是不同，但我不承认我们是异端。我们对圣经的认识，是根据神纯净的话语，以及从诸天而来的亮光。我们不在意传统的教训。我们只跟从圣经中神纯净的话语。我们虽然与传统完全不同，但我们是完全照著圣经。
13This is not a matter of being right or wrong, proud or humble, ethical or unethical. It is not even a matter of being “spiritual” or unspiritual. God does not care for these things. Thirty years ago, I was with some people who sought spirituality. But the more we pursued it, the more it eluded us. Even the pursuit of “spirituality” is vanity. God’sin tent i on is to conform us to His Son. His Son, the prototype, has been wrought into us and is awaiting the opportunity to saturate us with His element. We must cooperate with Him by living according to His nature and moving according to His Person. We should say, “Lord, I don’t care for spirituality. I only want to live according to Your nature and move according to Your Person.” By the Lord’s mercy, I have been living and moving this way throughout the years. All I have received for it is condemnation. I have been condemned because I refuse to tolerate the religious things. Having passed through the teachings and the Pentecostal things, I can testify that they neither work nor supply us. Although they may help to a small extent, they do not supply us. But if you live according to the nature of this wonderful One and move according to His Person, you will be abundantly supplied and others will be supplied through you. This is what the church life needs today. The church life in the Lord’s recovery is absolutely and wholly different from Christianity. Because we are different, we are condemned as being heretical. I admit that we are different, but I do not admit that we are heretical. Our understanding of the Bible is according to the pure Word with the light from the heavens. We do not care for traditional teachings. We only follow the pure Word of God in the Bible. Although we are absolutely different from tradition, we are absolutely according to the Bible
14生命之律的运行，和膏油涂抹的运行，要在我们里面完成儿子的名分。我们都是豫定要得儿子名分的人，现今又在成为神长成的儿子的过程中。今天我们的律法就是生命之律，我们的申言者就是膏油的涂沫。我们已说过，这律是照著基督的性情，而这申言者是照著祂的人位。所以我们是照著祂的性情生活，也按著祂的人位行动。这就是我们的立场。我仰望主，叫我们众人都看见这个。我们必须把这些传讲给所有在召会生活中的圣徒。我们不重看字句的教训，也不重看外面的神迹，我们只注重里面的生命之律，和里面膏油的涂抹。
14The working of the law of life and the moving of the anointing will complete the sonship in us. We all have been destined to sonship and we are presently undergoing the process of becoming the full sons of God. Today our law is the law of life and our prophet is the anointing. As we have seen, this law is according to Christ’s nature and this prophet is according to His Person. We live according to His nature and move according to His Person. This is our standing. I look to the Lord that we all might see this. This must be ministered to all the saints in the church life. We do not care for the teachings in letters; neither do we care for the outward miracles. We only care for the inward law of life and the inward anointing.
15我们的神是又真又活的。祂又真又活的在我们里面，不是照著宗教，也不是照著人的想法。祂曾在子里经过成为肉体和复活，兼有神性和人性，乃是具有奇妙性情之活的人位，进到我们里面；如今祂这奇妙的性情，正在我们里面起作用。我们已看过，祂性情的功能，就是生命之律的运行，祂人位的行动就是膏油的涂抹。在召会生活中，我们不必注重道理、教训、神迹或『恩赐』。我们天天只注意这活的人位，和祂奇妙的性情。祂的性情永不改变，并且在我们里面作工，把祂的元素扩展到我们里面。另一面，祂膏油的涂抹，也在我们的一举一动上，不断引导我们。我们乃是凭祂的性情和人位而生活行动。这样，祂就渐渐把自己作到我们里面。祂作得越多，我们就越能达到神儿子完满和得荣耀的地步。我们若看见这个，就不会再被其他的事打岔。基督教是一个宗教，而召会却是在于生命。这生命就是那经过成肉体和复活的一位，现今乃是具有神性和人性的赐生命之灵。当我们照著祂的性情生活，按著祂膏油的涂抹行动时，我们就会长大，被浸透、变化、并模成祂的形像，直到我们在儿子的名分里成熟，豫备被提。那时，我们才是豫备好了，等候迎见祂。
15Our God is real and living. He is real and living within us, not according to religion, nor according to our human thought. Having passed in the Son through incarnation and resurrection and having both divinity and humanity, He has come into us as a living Person with a wonderful nature. His nature is now functioning within us. We have seen that the function of His nature is the working of the law of life and that the moving of His Person is the anointing. In the church life we are not concerned with doctrine, teaching, miracles, and “gifts.” We are daily dealing with a living Person and His wonderful nature. His nature constantly remains the same, working within us to spread His element into our being. And His anointing continually guides us in our actions, movements, and behavior. It is by His nature and His Person that we live and move. In this way. He gradually works Himself into our being. The more He is wrought into us, the more we become the sons of God in perfection and glorification. If we see this, we shall not be distracted by other things. Christianity is a religion, but the church is a matter of life. This life is simply the wonderful One, the One who has passed through incarnation and resurrection and who is now the life- giving Spirit consisting of divinity and humanity. As we live according to His nature and move according to His anointing, we shall grow and be saturated, transformed, and conformed to His image until we are ripened in the sonship and prepared for the rapture. Then we shall be ready to meet Him