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历代志生命读经 · 第11篇

活基督以彰显基督

Living Christ for the Expression of God
1读经：埃及记二20:1-17;25:16，歌罗西书1:15，罗马书8:4，腓立比书1:19-21上。在本篇信息中，我要说到律法是神的见证和基督的豫表，以及律法如何联于神新约的经纶。
1Scripture Reading: Exo. 20:1-17; 25:16; Col. 1:15; Rom. 8:4; Phil. 1:19-21a In this message I would like to give a word on the law as the testimony of God and as a type of Christ and on how the law is linked to God’s New Testament economy
神的律法
THE LAW OF GOD
2犹大诸王的例子表明，神在地上需要一班子民，使祂能在人性里成为肉体。神也需要一块地，使祂的子民形成一个国，建立祂的见证。这见证乃是照著神的律法建立的。
2The examples of the kings of Judah show that God needed a people on the earth so that He could be incarnated in humanity. God also needed a land for His people that He might form a nation to set up His testimony. This testimony was set up according to the law of God
3我们需要认识神的律法是甚么。有些基要派的基督徒会说，神的律法主要包含十条诫命，（出二十１～１７，）就是道德的律法。然而，十条诫命连同其律例和典章，只占了几章，就是出埃及二十至二十四章。事实上，神的律法不只这几章，乃包含从出埃及二十章至利未记末了所有的章节。那么，神的律法其余的部分是甚么？神的律法其余的部分是礼仪的律法。由此我们看见，神的律法包含道德的律法，（出二十～二四，）和
3We need to know what the law of God is. Some fundamental Christians may say the law of God consists mainly of the Ten Commandments (Exo. 20:1-17), that is, the moral law. However, the Ten Commandments with their statutes and ordinances occupy only a few chapters, Exodus 20—24. However, the law of God occupies not only these chapters but all the chapters from Exodus 20 to the end of Leviticus. Then what is the rest of God’s law? The rest of God’s law is the ceremonial law. From this we see that the law of God comprises the moral law (Exo. 20—24) and the ceremonial law (Exo. 25—Lev. 27
4礼仪的律法。（出二五～利二七。）
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道德的律法
THE MORAL LAW
5道德的律法包括十条诫命连同其律例和典章。前五条诫命论到我们与神并与我们父母的关系。前三条诫命直接与神有关；第四条与神的安息日有关；第五条与我们的父母有关。十条诫命的后五条论到我们彼此的关系，就是不可杀人，不可奸淫，不可偷窃，不可作假见证，不可贪婪。这些诫命或律法都很简短，却几乎包括我们彼此关系的每件事。这道德的诫命，十条诫命，至终成为许多国家民法的基础。例如，为全球所倣效的罗马法律，就是基于十条诫命的后五条。关于贪婪的诫命
5The moral law includes the Ten Commandments with their statutes and ordinances. The first five commandments deal with our relationship with God and with our parents. The first three commandments are directly concerned with God; the fourth concerns God’s Sabbath day; and the fifth concerns our parents. Then the last five of the Ten Commandments deal with our relationship with one another. These are the commandments not to murder, not to commit adultery, not to steal, not to bear false witness against others, and not to covet. These commandments, or laws, are brief, but they cover almost everything concerning our relationship with one another. Eventually, the moral law, the Ten Commandments, became the base of the civil law of many nations. For instance, Roman law, which has been copied around the world, was based on the last five of the Ten Commandments. THE COMMANDMENT REGARDING COVETING
对付里面的事
DEALING WITH AN INWARD MATTER
6我们可来看看关于贪婪的诫命。在腓立比三章六节保罗说，按律法上的义说，他是无可指摘的。但在罗马七章他承认，他无法遵守关于贪婪的诫命：『只是非藉律法，我就不知何为罪；非律法说，『不可起贪心，』我就不知何为贪心。然而罪藉著诫命得著机会，叫诸般的贪心在我里面发动。』（７下～８上。）保罗能遵守有关不杀人、不奸淫、不偷窃、和不作假见证的诫命，因这四件事是外面的行为。然而，关于贪婪的诫命对付的是里面的事，保罗无法遵守。你能说你从不贪恋甚么东西么？你作学生时，看见别人有精美的笔，可能立刻起贪恋的心，渴望得著那枝笔。甚至在我们的家庭生活中，我们也可能有贪恋的心。一个大家庭的人晚餐后吃点心，每个孩子都分到一片乳酪蛋糕。其中一个孩子看看别人所分到的，就抱怨自己的那一片太小，问说他为甚么没有分到较大的一片。这是贪婪。我们没有人能说，我们从不贪恋甚么东西。
6Let us consider the commandment regarding coveting. In Philippians 3:6 Paul says that as to the righteousness which is in the law, he was blameless. But in Romans 7 he admitted that he was unable to keep the commandment regarding coveting. ‘‘Neither did I know coveting, except the law had said, ‘You shall not covet.’ But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, worked out in me coveting of every kind’’ (vv. 7b-8a). Paul could keep the commandments about murder, adultery, stealing, and bearing false witness, for these four things are matters of outward conduct. The commandment about coveting, however, deals with an inward matter, and Paul could not keep himself from coveting. Can you say that you have never coveted anything? When you were a student, you might have seen someone with a nice pen, and immediately you coveted that pen, desiring to have it. Even in our family life we may covet certain things. Suppose the members of a large family are having dessert after dinner. Each of the children is given a piece of cheesecake. One of the children may look at the cheesecake given to others and then complain that his piece is too small and ask why he was not given a bigger piece. This is coveting. None of us can say that we have never coveted anything.
律法是神的描绘
THE LAW BEING A PORTRAIT OF GOD
7十条诫命称为神的见证。（出二五１６。）十条诫命作神的见证，乃是神的图画，描绘。我们可以说，律法是神的照片。某种律法总是制定那律法之人的描绘。抢银行的人若能制定律法，他们必会立法，使抢银行合法。同样，恶人若被选上进入美国参议院，他们必会制定邪恶、罪恶的律法。他们所制定的邪恶律法，就是他们这些恶人的描绘。反之，好人就设立好的律法。
7The Ten Commandments were called the testimony of God (Exo. 25:16). As the testimony of God the Ten Commandments are a picture, a portrait, of God. We may say that the law is a photograph of God. A particular law is always a portrait of the person who makes that law. For example, if bank robbers could make laws, they surely would set up laws to make it legal to rob banks. Likewise, if evil people are elected to the United States Senate, they will make evil, sinful laws. The evil laws they make would be a portrait of the evil persons they are. On the contrary, good people establish good laws
8神的律法乃是神的描绘。我们仔细研究十条诫命的后五条，就看见这五条诫命是基于神的四个神圣属性：爱、光、圣、义。这些属性是神的律法设立的基础。我们越看神的律法，就越领悟，这位立法者必是满了爱和光的一位，也是圣和义的一位。因为律法是神的描绘，神的形像，所以律法称为神的见证。律法放在其中的约柜，称为见证的柜。（出二五22。）
8The law of God is a portrait of God. After a careful study of the last five of the Ten Commandments, we have seen that these five commandments are based on four of God’s divine attributes: love, light, holiness, and righteousness. These attributes are the base upon which God’s law was established. The more we consider the law of God, the more we realize that this lawmaker, this legislator, must be One who is full of love and light, One who is holy and righteous. Because the law is God’s portrait, God’s image, it is called God’s testimony. The ark in which the law was placed was called the ark of the testimony (Exo. 25:22).
律法是基督的豫表
THE LAW BEING A TYPE OF CHRIST
9基于律法是神的见证，神的照片这事实，我们可以说，律法也是基督的豫表。律法如何能成为基督的豫表？因为基督就是神的描绘、照片和形像。（西一１５。）律法联于神的经纶现在我们需要看见，律法如何联于神的经纶。我们研读旧约历史书时，需要学习如何将这些书联于神的经纶。神在祂的经纶里拣选以色列，立他们为子民，使他们形成国，并赐他们律法。我们如何能将这点与神的经纶相联？神的经纶是神成为人，使人在生命和性情上（但不在神格上）成为神，好产生基督生机的身体，这要终极完成于新耶路撒冷。基督是神经纶的中心、实际和目标。律法似乎与这样的经纶无关。那么，律法如何能联于神的经纶？律法联于神的经纶，因为律法赐下，是作神的描绘、照片、形像和见证。律法作神的见证，乃是基督的豫表，基督是神的形像，就是神的描绘、照片和见证。
9Based upon the fact that the law is the testimony of God, a picture of God, we may say that the law is also a type of Christ. How can the law be a type of Christ? The law is a type of Christ because Christ is God’sport ra it, God’s picture, God’sim age (Col. 1:15). THE LAW BEING LINKED TO GOD’SECON O MY Now we need to see how the law is linked to God’secon o my. In studying the books of history in the Old Testament, we need to learn how to link these books to God’secon o my. In His economy God chose Israel, established them as a people, formed them as a nation, and gave them the law. How can we link this with God’secon o my? God’secon o my is God becoming a man that man may become God in life and in nature (but not in the Godhead) to produce the organic Body of Christ, which will consummate in the New Jerusalem. Christ is the center, the reality, and the goal of God’secon o my. The law seems to have nothing to do with such an economy. How, then, can the law be linked to God’secon o my? The law is linked to God’secon o my because the law was given as God’sport ra it, God’s picture, God’sim age, and God’s testimony. As God’s testimony the law is a type of Christ, who, being the image of God, is God’sport ra it, God’s picture, God’s testimony
遵守律法是要彰显神
TO KEEP THE LAW BEING TO EXPRESS GOD
10神嘱咐以色列人要遵守律法。在豫表里，遵守律法的意思就是彰显神。遵守律法而不杀人，不犯奸淫，不偷窃，不说谎，不贪婪，就是神人的生活。过神人生活的人，有神的形像。他们是神的描绘，甚至是神的复制。
10God charged Israel to keep the law. In typology, to keep the law means to express God. Keeping the law by not killing, not committing adultery, not stealing, not lying, and not coveting is the living of a God-man. Those who have the living of a God-man bear the image of God. They are a portrait of God and even a duplication of God
11今天世界的情形与此完全不同。在世界里我们看不见神人的生活，乃是看见杀人、奸淫、淫乱、偷窃、说谎和贪婪。今天谁说实话？人在法庭上说谎，为要得著胜诉，然后夸耀自己，这是司空见惯的事。许多人因著贪婪，在事业上或在学校里与别人竞争。所有竞争的人都是贪婪的人。有些人甚至杀人，以得著他们所贪恋的。所以，这地不是满了神人，乃是满了『蝎子』。
11The situation of today’s world is utterly different from this. In the world we see not the life of a God- man but murder, adultery, fornication, stealing, lying, and coveting. Who tells the truth today? It is common for people to lie in a court of law in order to get money and then to boast about their lying. Many compete with others in business or at school because of their coveting. All the competitive ones are covetous. Some will even kill to get what they covet. Therefore, instead of being full of God-men, the earth is full of ‘‘scorpions.’’
在我们的婚姻生活
LIVING THE LIFE OF A GOD-MAN
12和家庭生活中过神人的生活现在让我们看这恢复里的情形。我们都是信徒，我们都相信主耶稣。我们悔改并归向主，我们也得救了，甚至得了大能的拯救。但在我们的日常生活中，我们也许并没有过神人的生活。我们已指出，以色列人遵守律法，就是活神并彰显神。然而，他们没有遵守律法，所以他们没有活神并彰显神。今天我们的情形也是一样。在我们的日常生活中，我们多半没有彰显神。
12IN OUR MARRIED LIFE AND IN THE CHURCH LIFE Let us now consider the situation in the recovery. We all are believers. We believe in the Lord Jesus. We have repented and come back to the Lord, and we have been saved, even dynamically saved. Yet in our daily life we may not have the living of a God-man. We have pointed out that for the children of Israel to keep the law was to live God and express God. However, they did not keep the law, and therefore they did not live God and express God. The situation is the same with us today. For the most part, we do not express God in our daily living
13我们需要在婚姻生活中过神人的生活。已婚的弟兄若愿在婚姻生活中过神人的生活，必定会是好丈夫，因他在爱妻子时，会是真正的神人。同样，已婚的姊妹若在婚姻生活中过神人的生活，也会是好妻子，服从丈夫。我们也需要在召会生活中过神人的生活，尤其在所谓的活力排中。我们自己若没有活力，如何能有活力排？这是不可能的。假如吃晚餐时，一位弟兄和妻子彼此不愉快，甚至争吵、辩论许久，忽然他们想起晚上必须参加活力排的聚会。这对夫妇如何能在聚会中有活力？因为他们在婚姻生活中，在家里没有活力，就无法在聚会中有活力。
13We need to have a God-man living in our married life. If a married brother would live the life of a God- man in his married life, he would surely be a good husband, for he would be a real God-man in loving his wife. Likewise, if a married sister would live the life of a God-man in her married life, she would be a good wife, submitting herself to her husband. We also need to have a God-man living in the church life, especially in relation to what we call the vital groups. How can we have a vital group if we ourselves are not vital? This is impossible. Suppose at dinner a brother and his wife are not happy with each other. They even exchange words and argue for quite a long time. Suddenly they remember that later that evening they must attend a meeting of their vital group. But how could this couple be vital in the meeting? Because they are not vital at home in their married life, they have no way to be vital in the meeting
我们需要真正的复兴
OUR NEED FOR A REAL REVIVAL
14因为我们缺少神人的生活，我们就需要真正的复兴。以色列人只有外面的律法，但今天我们所有的，是比律法更强、更高的。我们里面有包罗万有、赐生命、复合、终极完成的灵，就是耶稣基督之灵全备的供应。（腓一19。）我们需要藉著耶稣基督之灵全备的供应活基督。（20～21上。）
14Because we are short of the God-man living, we need a real revival. The children of Israel had only an outward law, but today we have something much stronger and much higher than the law. We have the all-inclusive, life-giving, compounded, consummated Spirit in us, who is the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ (Phil. 1:19). We need to live Christ by the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ (vv. 20-21a
15我们里面有这样的灵，但我们活甚么，我们如何生活？我们是否活基督？在召会的聚会中，我们也许活基督，但我们在家里与丈夫或妻子、儿女在一起时活基督么？我们需要真正的复兴，好作神人，过一种一直否认己，且钉十字架的生活，以活基督，作神的彰显。
15We have such a Spirit within us, but what do we live and how do we live? Do we live Christ? In the church meetings we may live Christ, but do we live Christ at home with our husband or wife and with our children? We need a real revival to be God-men who live a life of always denying ourselves and being crucified to live Christ for the expression of God.