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约翰壹书生命读经 · 第16篇

神圣交通的条件（八）

Conditions of the Divine Fellowship (8)
1读经：约翰一书二章三至六节。在本篇信息中，我们要接著来看约壹二章三至六节。我们已经看过，约壹二章一至二节乃是一章五至十节论到我们认罪，并神赦免我们的罪，那段话的结语。认罪是我们享受神圣生命交通的第一条件。按照二章三至十一节，第二条件是我们遵守主的话，并且爱弟兄。
1Scripture Reading: 1 John 2:3-6 In this message we shall continue to consider 2:3-6. We have seen that 2:1 and 2 are a conclusion to the word in 1:5-10 regarding our confession and God’s forgiveness of our sins. Confessing our sins is the first condition of our enjoyment of the fellowship of the divine life. According to 2:3-11, the second condition is that we keep the Lord’sword and love the brothers
2指明我们是在主里面的表记约翰在二章五节说，『然而凡遵守祂话的，神的爱在这人里面实在是得了成全。在此我们就知道我们是在祂里面。』末了一句话的『在此』是指遵守主的话，以及让神的爱在我们里面得成全。『在祂里面』一辞指明我们是在主耶稣基督里面。这是有力的说法，强调我们与主是一的事实。
2A SIGN INDICATING THAT WE ARE IN THE LORD In 2:5 John says, “But whoever keeps His word, truly in this one the love of God has been perfected. In this we know that we are in Him.” The words “in this” in the last sentence refer to the matter of keeping the Lord’sword and having the love of God perfected in us. The phrase “in Him” refers to our being in the Lord Jesus Christ. This is a strong expression, for it emphasizes the fact that we are one with the Lord
3我们如果读这些经节的上下文，就会明白，有指明我们是在主里面的表记，乃是重要的事。我们如何能证明我们是在三一神里面？我们真在祂里面的证据是甚么？我们在祂里面的第一个表记乃是：我们在日常生活中，在经历上认识神。当约翰说到认识神，（约壹二3，）他所说的不是在道理上，乃是在经历上，藉著遵守神的诫命认识神。我们不应当只在道理上认识神是全能的，神创造了诸天和地。我们需要在经历上认识神，需要叫这认识影响我们日常生活的方式。别人也许不明白你为甚么不参加某些属世的娱乐，你不参加的原因应当是你认识神，是你在祂圣别的性情上认识了祂。因为神的圣别性情不容许你参加那种娱乐，因此你就制止不作。同样的，如果我们在神的性情上认识祂，这会影响我们的购物。这样的认识神也会使我们真诚待人。因为我们在主真诚的性情上认识了主，我们就不耍政治。所以，我们举止合宜，行事为人与众不同，原因不该只是遵循外在的圣经教训，更是因为我们认识神的性情和性格，并照著神的所是生活。
3If we read the context of these verses, we shall realize that it is an important matter to have a sign indicating that we are in the Lord. How can we prove that we are in the Triune God? What is the evidence that we are truly in Him? The first sign that we are in Him is that we know God experientially in our daily life. When John speaks of knowing God (v. 3), he speaks of knowing Him not doctrinally but experientially, by keeping His commandments. We should not merely know in a doctrinal way that God is almighty and that He created the heavens and the earth. We need to know God experientially in away that affects our daily living. Others may wonder why you do not participate in certain forms of worldly entertainment. The reason that you do not participate should be that you know God, that you know Him in His holy nature. Because God’sho ly nature does not allow you to participate in that form of entertainment, you refrain from doing so. Likewise, if we know God in His nature, this will affect the way we do our shopping. Knowing God in this way will also cause us to be sincere in relation to others. Because we know the Lord in His nature of sincerity, we would not be political. Therefore, the reason we behave ourselves and have our being in a particular way should not be merely that we follow the outward teachings of the Bible, but even the more that we know God’s nature and character and live according to what God is.
4有时候别人想要说服你，叫你感觉生活不必那么严谨。比方说，他们也许告诉你，花一些时间娱乐一下并没有错。你也许该回答他们说，『我不是以对错来看这件事。我的见证是：我认识我的神，我有一位活的神住在我里面，我在祂里面，并且生机的与祂是一。这就是说，祂的性情成了我的性情，祂的所是成了我的构成成分。结果，我在经历上主观的认识祂。这是我行事为人无法跟别人一样的原因。不信的人没有主，他们当然不认识祂，也没有经历祂。你知道我为甚么这样行事为人？这是因为我有主，认识主，并且享受主。主不仅是我的生命─主对我乃是一切。我不是照著某些规条或要求来生活。这是在我里面神圣生命的事。主住在我里面，我在经历上认识祂。』
4Sometimes others may try to convince you that there is no need for you to be so strict in your living. They may tell you, for example, that there is nothing wrong with spending some time engaging in a certain kind of amusement. You may wish to answer them by saying, “I do not view this as a matter of right or wrong. My testimony is that I know my God. I have a living God dwelling within me, and I am in Him and one with Him organically. This means that His nature becomes mine and what He is becomes my constituent. As a result, I know Him subjectively and experientially. This is the reason I cannot conduct myself in the same way others do. Unbelievers do not have Him, and, of course, they do not know Him or experience Him. Do you know why I behave in the way I do? It is because I have Him, know Him, and enjoy Him. The Lord is not only my life—He is everything to me. I do not live according to certain regulations or requirements. This is a matter of the divine life within me. The Lord dwells in me, and I know Him experientially
神圣性情的口味
THE TASTE OF THE DIVINE NATURE
5在主耶稣基督里，就是在生机上与主是一。这不是仅仅在道理上与主是一。当我们在生机上与主是一，祂就是我们的生命，甚至成了我们的性情。每一种生命都有其特别的性情，神圣生命的性情也有某种口味。因为我们有主作我们的生命，又因为我们享受祂的性情，所以我们也有随著神圣性情而来的口味。没有神圣性情的人，就不会有神圣的口味。因为我们有神圣性情的口味，有些事情我们就是不能作。甚么是神圣性情的口味？我们可以想想，将有苦味的东西放在婴孩口里会有甚么结果。我们不需要教导幼儿不要吃苦的东西。有苦味的东西一放在婴孩口中，他就会吐出来。小孩的举动不是照著他跟母亲学的规矩。作母亲的不需要教导她的婴孩不要吃苦的东西，在她孩子的生命里就有一种性情，排斥有苦味的东西。同样的，在神圣的性情里也有特别的口味，叫我们排斥与那住在我们里面者之性情相反的事物。
5To be in the Lord Jesus Christ is to be one with Him organically. It is not to be one with Him merely in a doctrinal way. When we are organically one with the Lord, He is our life and even becomes our nature. Every kind of life has its particular nature. With the nature of the divine life there is a certain taste. Because we have the Lord as our life and because we enjoy His nature, we also have the taste that comes with the divine nature. However, anyone who does not have the divine nature cannot have the divine taste. But because we have the taste of the divine nature, we simply cannot do certain things. As an illustration of what we mean by the taste of the divine nature, we may consider what happens when something with a bitter taste is placed in the mouth of a baby. There is no need to teach the young one not to eat something bitter. As soon as a bitter-tasting substance is placed in a baby’s mouth, he will spit it out. The child does not behave according to regulations learned from his mother. There is no need for a mother to teach her baby not to eat things that are bitter. In the life of her child there is a nature that rejects things that taste bitter. In a similar way, there is in the divine nature a particular taste that causes us to reject those things that are contrary to the nature of the One who lives within us.
主观的认识神
KNOWING GOD SUBJECTIVELY
6我们不是仅仅在道理上客观的认识神。犹太人就是这样认识神的。他们客观的认识神，对神没有任何主观经历。这就是说，他们对主观的神没有内在的经历。但我们这些从神而生，有神生命的人，不仅是客观的认识神，更是特别在经历上主观的认识神。
6We do not know God merely in an objective, doctrinal way. It is in this way that the Jews know God. They know God objectively, apart from any subjective experience of Him. This means that they do not have any inner experience of the subjective God. But as those who have been born of God and who possess God’s life, we know Him not merely objectively, but in particular we know Him subjectively and experientially
7因为我们是这样认识神的，所以我们不能说某些话，作某些事或去某些地方。别人甚至会毁谤我们，诬告我们。但是因为我们主观的认识神，我们常常不愿意表白自己，或替自己辩护。不论别人说甚么，我们知道我们有神圣的生命。我们有神在里面作我们的生命和性情。至终这位内住者要在我们的性格和行为上得著彰显。我们就是这样在经历上认识神，而这认识是个有力的表记，我们是在祂里面，并且与祂是一。我们在行为和说话上，应当有一个表记，我们是在神里面。我们跟人谈话不该和不信的人一样。如果你的丈夫或妻子、孩子、邻居、同学或同事看不见你有一个表记，你是照著对神的经历行动举止，那么你是否真在神里面就有问题了。我们感谢主，在主恢复里的人，在日常生活里实在有见证，他们是在神里面。即使我们有时候软弱，亏欠神，但我们还是带有表记，我们是在神里面。感谢主，在我们日常的行事为人里有某种证明，某种表记，我们是在神里面。这表记指明我们在经历上认识主。我们既在经历上认识主，就自自然然的遵守祂的诫命。
7Because we know our God in this way, we cannot speak certain things, do certain things, or go certain places. Others may even defame us and falsely accuse us. However, because we know God subjectively, often we shall not have any desire to vindicate ourselves or argue in our own defense. No matter what others may say, we know that we have the divine life. We have God within us as our life and nature. Eventually this indwelling One will be expressed in our character and conduct. It is in this way that we know God experientially, and this knowing is a strong sign that we are in Him and one with Him. In our behavior and way of speaking, we should bear a sign that we are in God. We should not talk with others the same way that unbelievers do. If your husband or wife, your children, your neighbors, and your classmates or co-workers cannot see a sign that you behave yourself according to the experience of God, then there is a question whether you are truly in God or not. We thank the Lord that those in the Lord’s recovery do have the testimony in their daily life that they are in God. We bear a sign that we are in God, even though at some times we are weak and fail Him. We thank the Lord that we have some evidence, some sign, in our daily walk that we are in God. This sign is an indication that we know the Lord experientially. Because we know Him experientially, spontaneously we keep His commandments
住在祂里面
ABIDING IN HIM
8约翰在二章六节接著说，『那说自己住在祂里面的，就该照祂所行的去行。』在基督里乃是基督徒生活的开始，是神一次永远的作为。（林前一30。）住在祂里面乃是基督徒生活的延续，是我们在日常行事为人上的责任；这种行事为人乃是基督在地上行事为人的复本。
8In 2:6 John goes on to say, “He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk even as that One walked.” To be in Christ is the start of the Christian life. That was God’s doing once for all (1 Cor. 1:30). To abide in Him is the continuation of the Christian life. This is our responsibility in our daily walk, a walk which is a copy of Christ’s walk on earth
9神既已一次永远的将我们放在基督里，我们现在就必须负责住在祂里面。住在祂里面实际上就是和祂有交通。在消极一面，这要求我们对付我们的罪；在积极一面，这要求我们遵守祂的话。
9Because God has put us in Christ once for all, we now must bear the responsibility to abide in Him. To abide in Him is actually to have fellowship with Him. On the negative side, this requires that we deal with our sins; on the positive side, this requires that we keep His word.
爱神并爱弟兄
LOVING GOD AND THE BROTHERS
10照这些经节的上下文看，这里『主的话』是指祂的诫命。祂的诫命是要我们爱神并爱弟兄。我们爱生我们的父，我们也爱祂所有的儿女，所有从祂生的。
10According to the context of these verses, the Lord’sword here refers to His commandments. His commandments are to love God and to love the brothers. We love our begetting Father, and we love all His children, all those begotten of Him
11当我们住在主里面，和祂有交通时，自然的结果就是爱神并爱弟兄。因此，交通的第二条件，第二要求就是爱神并爱弟兄。二章五节的『爱，』原文是指那比人的情爱更卓越、更高尚的爱。本书信只用这辞及其动词来说到爱。这里神的爱是指我们对神的爱，是由祂在我们里面的爱所产生的。神的爱、主的话和神自己，都彼此相关。我们若遵守主的话，神的爱在我们里面就得了成全。这全然是神圣生命的事，这生命就是神自己。神的爱乃是祂内里的素质，主的话是以这神圣的素质供应我们，凭这素质我们爱弟兄。话本身不是这素质或本质。话传输这素质，将这素质供应我们。因此，话将神的素质，就是神圣的爱，供应我们。结果，我们里面就有个实质的东西，给我们有分并享受。这意思就是，神之所是的素质至终成了我们的享受。然后从这享受会产生一个结果─我们对神和祂儿女的爱。
11When we are abiding in the Lord, having fellowship with Him, our abiding in Him spontaneously issues in love for God and for the brothers. Therefore, the second condition, the second requirement, of fellowship is that we love God and the brothers. The Greek word used for love in verse 5 is agape. This word denotes a love higher and nobler than that denoted by the Greek word phileo. Only agape with its verb forms is used in this Epistle for love. In this verse “the love of God” denotes our love toward God, which is generated by His love within us. The love of God, the word of the Lord, and God Himself are all related to one another. If we keep the Lord’sword, God’s love has been perfected in us. This is altogether a matter of the divine life, and this life is God Himself. God’s love is His inward essence, and the Lord’sword supplies us with this divine essence, with which we love the brothers. The word itself is not this essence or substance. The word is what conveys this essence and supplies it to us. Therefore, the word supplies us with the very essence of God, which is the divine love. As a result, we have something substantial within us for us to participate in and enjoy. This means that eventually the essence of God’s being becomes our enjoyment. Then out of this enjoyment there will be an issue—our love for God and His children
不凭我们天然的爱来爱
NOT LOVING WITH OUR NATURAL LOVE
12我们不该凭我们天然的爱来爱神和祂的儿女。反之，我们天然的爱需要放在十字架上。我们爱神和祂的儿女，该用神圣的爱，就是藉著主的话传输给我们，并成为我们经历和享受的爱。
12It should not be with our natural love that we love God and His children. On the contrary, our natural love needs to be put on the cross. We should love God and His children with the divine love, the love that is conveyed to us through the word of the Lord and that becomes our experience and enjoyment
13今天许多基督徒用天然、宗教或道德的方法来领会圣经；特别是在爱神、爱弟兄、爱邻舍的要求上。从我年轻的时候，我就听到关于爱弟兄并爱邻舍的话。今天基督徒常谈论爱弟兄或爱邻舍。有一次我在休士顿开特会，会后一位女士来对我强烈的说，『在美国，人不懂得爱人。你该到各处，教导基督徒彼此相爱。』不错，圣经的确告诉我们应当彼此相爱，应当爱邻舍如同自己。但是神的心意不是命令我们凭天然的爱来爱人。神乃是要我们用所享受神圣的爱，来爱神和祂的儿女。
13Many of today’s Christians understand the Bible in a natural, religious, or ethical way. This is true in particular concerning the requirement to love God, the brothers, and our neighbor. From the time I was a youth I heard about loving the brothers and loving our neighbor. Today Christians often talk about loving the brothers or about loving our neighbor. Once when I was in Houston for a conference, a lady came up to me after the meeting and said strongly, “People in this country don’t know to love others. You should travel to different places and teach Christians to love one another.” Yes, the Bible does tell us that we should love one another and that we should love our neighbors as ourselves. However, it is not God’s in tent i on to command us to love others with our natural love. Instead, God desires that we love Him and His children with the divine love which we have enjoyed.
神的爱成为我们的爱
THE LOVE OF GOD BECOMING OUR LOVE
14这是约壹二章五节说神的爱在我们里面得成全的原因。这爱一面是神的爱，另一面为我们所经历并享受，就成了我们对神并对弟兄的爱。我们对神的爱怎能称为神的爱？因为这爱不是我们的爱，乃是神的爱。但这不是客观的神的爱，乃是我们所主观经历之神的爱。这是神的爱藉著我们经历并享受神，成为我们的爱。于是这爱就成为我们对神并对人的爱。神要我们用祂的爱来爱祂，也要我们用祂的爱来爱祂的儿女，甚至世上所有的人。我们首先需要享受并经历神的爱到一个地步，让这爱充满我们、浸透我们、并成为我们的素质，叫我们被神的爱渗透。然后我们就用这爱来爱神，爱神的儿女，并爱所有的人。我们不是凭天然的爱来爱他们，乃是用我们所经历并享受之神的爱来爱他们。为著这奇妙的爱我们要赞美主！这是在约翰一书所启示的爱。
14This is the reason verse 5 says that the love of God has been perfected in us. On the one hand, this love is the love of God; on the other hand, this love, having been experienced and enjoyed by us, becomes our love for God and the brothers. How can our love for God be called the love of God? It is because this love is not our love, but is God’s love. However, this is not the love of God as it is objectively; it is the love of God experienced by us subjectively. This is the love of God becoming our love through our experience and enjoyment of Him. This love then becomes our love for God and others. God wants us to love Him with His love. He also wants us to love His children, and even the whole world, with His love. First we need to enjoy God’s love and experience His love to such an extent that it fills us, saturates us, and becomes our very essence, causing us to be permeated with the love of God. Then with this love we shall love God, we shall love God’s children, and we shall love all people. We do not love them with our natural love; we love them with the love of God we have experienced and enjoyed. Praise the Lord for such a wonderful love! This is the love revealed in the first Epistle of John
15这种对神的爱的经历，完全是在神圣生命交通里的事。我们如果不在神圣生命的交通里享受神，就不会有这样的爱。
15This experience of the love of God is altogether a matter in the fellowship in the divine life. If we do not enjoy God in the fellowship of the divine life, we cannot have such a love
用神的爱来爱人
LOVING OTHERS WITH THE LOVE OF GOD
16我们如果经历了神的爱，就会深深的领悟到，我们天然的爱，与藉著经历而成为我们的爱之神的爱，大不相同。神的爱与我们天然的爱有一个分别，就是天然的爱很容易受冒犯。我们爱别人的时候，就跟人牵扯上了。因这缘故，我们天然所爱的人，至终往往成了仇人。天然的爱既可能有这样的结果，那些为人聪明的，在爱人的事上就缓慢而谨慎。他们领悟，你若愚昧的爱人，那爱迟早会惹出麻烦来。许多离婚和分居就是愚昧、天然的爱的结果，这种爱很容易受触犯而引致仇恨。比方说，一个男的和一个女的彼此认识不久，很快就结婚了。然后过了不久，他们就分居或离婚。起初他们彼此相爱，但他们结婚以后不久却成了仇人。这是用天然的方式彼此相爱的结果。他们若不曾用天然的方式彼此相爱，还不会成为仇人。你在街上所看见不相识的行人，不大可能会把他当作仇人。成为你仇人的，常常是那些你用天然方式去爱的人。所以有些人运用他们人的智慧，在爱人的事上非常谨慎；他们知道，用天然的方式爱人会引致难处。为要避免这些难处，他们在爱人的事上就非常缓慢。
16If we experience the love of God, we shall have the deep realization that our natural love is one thing and that the love of God which becomes our love through experience is something very different. One difference between God’s love and our natural love is that it is very easy for our natural love to be offended. When we love others, we become involved with them. For this reason, it is often the case that those we love in a natural way eventually become our enemies. Because natural love may have such a result, those who are wise in a human way are slow and careful in loving others. They realize that if you love others in a foolish way, sooner or later that love will cause trouble. Many divorces and separations are the result of a foolish natural love that is easily offended and leads to enmity. For example, a certain man and woman may know each other only for a short time. In a quick way they get married. Then after only a little time has gone by, they may separate or get a divorce. At first they loved each other, but not too long after they were married they became enemies. This is the result of loving each other in a natural way. If they had never loved one another in a natural way, they would not have become enemies. It is not very likely that you will regard as your enemy a person unknown to you that you see walking on the street. Those who become your enemies are often those whom you love in a natural way. This is why some exercise their human wisdom to be very careful in loving others. They realize that loving others in a natural way leads to problems. In order to avoid these problems, they are very slow in loving others
17我在这里强调的是，我们需要谨慎，不凭我们天然的爱去爱人。反之，我们天然的爱该放在十字架上。我们需要凭著所经历并享受之神的爱来爱人。我们若经历了神的爱，就会用这爱来爱神，也会用同样的爱来爱弟兄，这种爱不会惹出麻烦来。但愿我们都看见，我们需要用成为我们经历和享受之神圣的爱，来爱神并爱人。
17The point I am making here is that we need to be careful not to love others by our natural love. Rather, our natural love should be put on the cross. We need to love others by the love of God we have experienced and enjoyed. If we experience God’s love, we shall love God with this love. We shall also love the brothers with this same love. This kind of love does not cause trouble. May we all see that we need to love God and others with the divine love that has become our experience and enjoyment
约翰的基本辞汇
JOHN’S BASIC VOCABULARY
18到目前为止，我们在这些信息里说过了约翰一书的十六节经文，一章里有十节，二章里有六节。我们在这些经节里，能看见约翰的许多基本辞汇：话、生命、父、子、交通、喜乐、光、真理、神的信实、神的公义、认罪、赦免、洗净、以及血，这些都是积极的。在消极方面有单数的罪、复数的罪、不义、黑暗、以及谎话。这些辞汇都在第一章里面。在第二章有辩护者、平息的祭物、话或诫命、爱。我鼓励你们祷读这些辞汇。我们越祷读，就越领会这些辞汇是多么丰富。为著血、神的信实、神的公义、神的赦免、神的洗净，赞美主！为著话、生命、交通、喜乐、光、真理，赞美祂！也为著辩护者、平息的祭物、作为诫命的话、神的爱，赞美祂！
18Thus far in these messages we have covered sixteen verses from 1 John, ten verses from chapter one and six verses from chapter two. In these verses we can see many items of John’s basic vocabulary: the Word, life, the Father, the Son, fellowship, joy, light, truth, the faithfulness of God, the righteousness of God, confessing, forgiveness, cleansing, and the blood. All these matters are positive. On the negative side, we have sin, sins, unrighteousness, darkness, and lie. All these terms are found in chapter one. In chapter two we have the Advocate, the propitiation, the word or the commandment, and love. I encourage you to pray-read all these terms. The more we pray-read them, the more we shall realize how rich they are. Praise the Lord for the blood, the faithfulness of God, the righteousness of God, His forgiveness, and His cleansing! Praise Him for the Word, the life, the fellowship, the joy, the light, and the truth! Praise Him also for the Advocate, the propitiation, the word as the commandment, and the love of God!