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历代志生命读经 · 第2篇

神的复制

The Reproduction of God
1读经：创世记1:26;3:15;22:18，撒母耳记下7:12-14，约翰福音12:24。在本篇信息中，我有负担说到一件非常显著的事－神的复制。
1Scripture Reading: Gen. 1:26; 3:15; 22:18; 2 Sam. 7:12- 14; John 12:24 In this message I have the burden to speak a word on a very striking matter—the reproduction of God
人照著神类被造
MAN CREATED ACCORDING TO GOD’S KIND
2神创造了诸天和地之后，一个天使背叛了，成了神的仇敌撒但。这破坏了神原初的创造。然后，神进来修造、重造并恢复宇宙。在这恢复里，神创造了亿万的活物，包括各种飞鸟和动物。虽然神创造了这么多的活物，但这些活物没有一个像祂。因此神就照著祂的形像，按著祂的样式来造人。（创一２６。）所以，人不是照著自己的类被造，乃是照著神的类被造。神没有创造人类；祂乃是照著神类来造人。
2After God created the heavens and the earth, one of the angels rebelled and became God’se ne my, Satan. This ruined God’s original creation. Eventually, God came in to repair, remodel, and restore the universe. In this restoration God created billions of living creatures, including all kinds of birds and animals. Although God created so many living creatures, not one of these creatures was like Him. So God made man in His image and according to His likeness (Gen. 1:26). Therefore, man was not created according to his own kind but according to God’s kind. God did not create mankind; He created man according to God’s kind
3神完成亚当和他妻子的创造以后，看著祂所造的一切。祂看著地和其上的一切，惟有亚当和夏娃是祂的喜悦，祂的『嗜好』。惟有他们能使神喜乐，因为惟有他们是祂的类。神在看亚当时也许说，『我喜欢看人。这是我的嗜好；这是我的类。』然而，神的嗜好还没有完成，因为那时人只有神的形像和神的样式，并没有神的生命和神的性情。人有神的形像，却没有神自己。
3After God finished the creation of Adam and his wife, He looked upon everything that He had made. As He looked upon the earth and everything in it, only Adam and Eve were His delight, His ‘‘hobby.’’ Only they could make God happy because only they were His kind. When God looked at Adam, He might have said, ‘‘I am pleased to see man. This is My hobby; this is My kind.’’ However, God’s hobby was far from complete because at that time man had only God’sim age and God’s likeness but not God’s life and God’s nature. Man had God’sim age, but he did not have God Himself
神成为人
GOD BECOMING A MAN
4照著神永远的计画，祂自己必须成为人。神是全能、无所不能的，但祂从不仓促行事。我们也许一有个主意，就立刻去实行；神却不是这样。祂非常慢，且满有忍耐。祂在已过的永远里定了一个经纶。然后祂创造诸天和地。后来祂修造并恢复被破坏的创造；在祂恢复和进一步创造末了的工作里，神创造了人，就是祂的嗜好，但那不是神真正的嗜好。神真正的嗜好乃是祂自己要成为人。亚当堕落以后，神应许夏娃，祂要来作女人的后裔，（创三１５，）但是此后，祂等候了四千年，才成为人。我若是祂的同伴，我也许会说，『神阿，既然你的心愿是成为人，为甚么你不现在就这样作？你告诉堕落的人，你要来作女人的后裔。为甚么你不今天就来作这后裔？』神若被问及这样的问题，祂也许说，『我不像你这么小。我是大的，在我千年如一日。』
4According to His eternal plan God Himself had to become a man. God is almighty and omnipotent, but He never does things in a fast way. We may have an idea and then act upon it immediately. God is not like this. He is very slow and full of patience. He made an economy in eternity past. Then He created the heavens and the earth. Later He repaired and restored the ruined creation, and as the last work in His restoration and further creation, God created man, His hobby. Yet that was not God’s real hobby. God’s real hobby is that God Himself would become a man. After Adam’s fall and after promising Eve that He would come as the seed of the woman (Gen. 3:15), God waited thousands of years before becoming a man. If I had been His companion, I would have said, ‘‘God, since the desire of Your heart is that You become a man, why would You not do this right now? You told the fallen man that You would come as the seed of the woman. Why would You not come as this seed today?’’ If God had been asked such questions, He might have said, ‘‘I am not small like you are. I am great, and with Me a thousand years are as one day.’’
5神赐下创世记三章十五节的应许后大约两千年，神又应许亚伯拉罕要有一个后裔，成为万国的福。（二二１８。）神似乎说，『亚伯拉罕，你要有个后裔。这后裔就是我自己成为人，作全地的福。』但亚伯拉罕忍耐不住，听从了撒拉的题议，藉著使女夏甲得著一个孩子。亚伯拉罕没有产生一个应许的后裔，反而产生一个错误的后裔－以实玛利。然而，神在成为人以前，继续等待著。又过了一千年，到了大卫的时代，神还是没有来成为人。但神告诉大卫，他要得著一个后裔；这后裔将是神的儿子。（撒下七１２～１４。）这儿子就是神自己。神向大卫豫言到这后裔，但祂仍然没有来成为人。
5Approximately two thousand years after making the promise in Genesis 3:15, God promised Abraham a seed that would be a blessing to all the nations (22:18). God seemed to be saying, ‘‘Abraham, you will have a seed. This seed will be I Myself becoming a man to be the blessing to all the earth.’’ Unable to be patient, Abraham followed Sarah’s suggestion that he have a child by her handmaid, Hagar. Instead of producing the promised seed, Abraham produced a wrong one, Ishmael. God, however, continued to wait before becoming a man. After another thousand years, up to David’st i me, God still had not come as a man. But God told David that he would have a seed who would be God’sS on (2 Sam. 7:12-14). This Son is just God Himself. God prophesied to David concerning this seed, but He still did not come as a man
6至终，又过了一千年，在亚当被造四千年以后，神来成为人，由圣灵成孕，并由童女所生。（太一２０，２３。）祂长到三十多岁，然而没有人知道祂是神成为人，成为一个神人。
6Eventually, after another one thousand years, four thousand years after the creation of Adam, God came to be a man, conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of a human virgin (Matt. 1:20, 23). He grew up for thirty more years, but no one knew that He was God become a man, a God-man
一粒麦子产生许多子粒
THE ONE GRAIN PRODUCING MANY GRAINS
7到了有一天，主耶稣这神人说，祂是一粒麦子要落在地里死了，而成为许多子粒。（约十二２４。）这许多子粒实际上就是许多的神，作神的复制。第一个子粒－第一个神人－是原型，由这一粒藉著死与复活所产生的许多子粒－许多神人－是大量复制。这是神的复制。有些人听见神被复制，也许感到震惊，认为这样的说法是无稽之谈。然而，这正是约翰十二章二十四节所启示的。神真正的嗜好是要在全地许多国家得著祂的复制。这样的复制使神喜乐，因为祂的复制看起来像祂，说话像祂，生活像祂。神在这复制里，祂的复制有祂的生命、祂的性情和祂的构成。这是何等大的事！
7One day the Lord Jesus, the God - man, said that He was a grain of wheat falling into the ground to die in order to become many grains (John 12:24). These many grains are actually many gods as the reproduction of God. The first grain—the first God- man — was a prototype, and the many grains — the many God-men—produced by this one grain through death and resurrection are the mass reproduction. This is the reproduction of God. When some hear that God has been reproduced, they may be shocked and say that such a word is nonsensical. Nevertheless, this is what is revealed in John 12:24. God’s real hobby is to have His reproduction in many nations around the globe. Such a reproduction makes God happy because His reproduction looks like Him, speaks like Him, and lives like Him. God is in this reproduction, and His reproduction has His life, His nature, and His constitution. What a great matter this is!
神以忍耐
GOD DOING THE WORK
作变化的工作
OF TRANSFORMATION WITH PATIENCE
8虽然我们是神的复制，但这复制－神的嗜好－不是这样完整或完全，因为我们许多有神生命的人，没有凭祂的生命而活。有些人的确凭神的生命而活，但他们没有不断凭祂的生命而活。可能早晨他们凭神的生命而活，但后来他们发了脾气，于是就活得像蝎子。这就是说，早晨他们是神，但后来他们成了『蝎子』。晚上他们也许变得更坏，活得像魔鬼撒但。说在基督里的信徒活得像撒但，并不过分。有一天，主耶稣转向爱祂的彼得，对他说，『撒但，退我后面去罢！』（太十六２３上。）因为彼得成了撒但，他就需要背起他的十字架，使撒但被置于十字架。在我们日常的生活中，我们也许有时候是神，有时候是蝎子，有时候像撒但。因为这是我们实际的情况，我们当然需要被变化。你知道今天我们的神在作甚么？神正满有忍耐的在我们身上作变化的工作。
8Although we are God’s reproduction , this reproduction— God’s hobby—is not so complete or perfect, because many of us who have God’s life do not live by His life. Some do live by God’s life, but they do not live by His life continually. Perhaps in the morning they live by God’s life, but later in the day they may lose their temper and live like a scorpion. This means that in the morning they are gods, but later they are ‘‘scorpions.’’ In the evening they may become even worse, living like the devil, Satan. It is not too much to say that a believer in Christ can live like Satan. One day the Lord Jesus turned to Peter, someone who loved Him, and said to him, ‘‘Get behind Me, Satan!’’ (Matt. 16:23a). Because Peter had become Satan, he needed to bear his cross so that Satan could be put on the cross. In our daily living we may be God at one time, a scorpion at another time, and Satan at yet another time. Because this is our actual situation, we surely need to be transformed. Do you know what our God is doing today? God is doing the work of transformation in us with patience
因著领悟我们是谁
REVOLUTIONIZED
而有革命性的改变
BY REALIZING WHO WE ARE
9自从一九六二年这职事到了美国以来，我实际上只传讲一件事－神成为人，为要使人在生命和性情上成为神。然而，直到一九九四年二月，我才得著这样清楚的看见，有沉重的负担要告诉神的子民，我们众人都在生命和性情上（但不在神格上）是神。
9Since the ministry began in the United States in 1962, I have actually ministered only one matter—God becoming a man that man may become God in life and in nature. However, it was not until February 1994 that I received such a clear view with a heavy burden to tell God’sp eople that we all are God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead
10认识我们是谁，并领悟我们是谁，会使我们有革命性的改变。假定某位活得像蝎子的弟兄，领悟他是神的儿女，在生命和性情上是神，这位弟兄立刻会有彻底的改变。与他有关的气氛和一切也会随之改变。倘若今天所有的基督徒都领悟，他们在生命和性情上是神，整个世界都会不同。
10To know who we are and to realize who we are revolutionizes us. Suppose a certain brother who has been living like a scorpion realizes that, as a child of God, he is God in life and in nature. Immediately this brother will be radically changed. The atmosphere and everything related to him will also be changed. If all of today’s Christians realized that they were God in life and in nature, the whole world would be different
11已往十个月里，我常查问自己：『一个神人是这样么？你说信徒已在生命和性情上成为神，但你现在是甚么？你是神或是别的东西？』我的回答是悔改，并求主赦免，因为至少有一些我作的事，不是在祂里面或照著祂作的。这种领悟使我有革命性的改变。
11During the past ten months, I have often checked with myself: ‘‘Is a God - man like this? You have spoken that the believers have become God in life and in nature, yet what are you now? Are you God or are you something else?’’ My answer has been to repent and ask for the Lord’s forgiveness because at least some of the things I did were not in Him or according to Him. This realization has revolutionized me.
基要基督教的陈腐
THE STALENESS OF FUNDAMENTAL CHRISTIANITY
12一面，神这宇宙的统治者在外面作了许多事，使世界各处的人能调和。另一面，神在地上有个恢复，祂的恢复在祂的引导之下已有七十二年。这些年间，祂释放了数千篇印出来的信息，这些信息已进入数千个家庭里。这些信息已在全世界许多国家被接受。我常常接到感谢函。最近有人写信给我说，他听到关于我们的谎言，但他读加拉太书生命读经时，眼睛被开启，看见了真理。这样的刊物已达到许多国家，我们信主要用这些刊物得著祂所愿望的。
12On the one hand, outwardly God as the Ruler of the universe has done many things so that people from everywhere in the world can be blended. On the other hand, God has a recovery on earth, and His recovery has been under His leading for seventy-two years. During these years He has released thousands of printed messages, and these messages are in thousands of homes. These messages have been received in many countries around the world. On a regular basis I receive letters of appreciation. Recently someone wrote to me saying that he had been listening to lies about us, but when he read the Life-study of Galatians, his eyes were opened and he could see the truth. Such publications have reached many nations, and we believe that the Lord will use them to gain what He desires
13基督教在地上已超过十九个世纪，虽然持守并继续教导基要的信仰，但这基要的信仰并没有达到神圣启示的高峰－神藉著成为肉体成为人，然后经过人性生活、死与复活，好得著祂自己的大量复制。因为基要的基督教没有达到这高峰，基要的教训已变得陈腐。结果，在公会里许多人没有目标，不知道该往那里去。甚至今天基督教里许多领头的人也不知道如何往前；他们无处可去。你参观基督教书店，看看那里出售怎样的书籍。许多书籍满了老旧、陈腐的基要教训。因为基要的基督教已变得陈腐，牠就失去冲击力和效力，像失了味的盐一样。（太五１３。）在美国的基督徒中间，谁是盐？盐应当能彀消杀腐败，但今天基督徒中间这消杀的能力在那里？在多数的社区中，很难分辨谁是基督徒，谁不是基督徒，所有的人都差不多。
13Christianity has been on earth for more than nineteen centuries. It has kept and continues to teach the fundamental faith. But its fundamental faith has not reached the peak of the divine revelation—that God became a man through incarnation and then passed through human living, death, and resurrection in order to have a mass reproduction of Himself. Because fundamental Christianity has not reached this peak, the fundamental teachings have become stale. As a result, many in the denominations do not have a goal, and they do not know where they should go. Even many leading ones in today’s Christianity do not know how to go on; they have nowhere to go. Visit the Christian bookstores and see what kind of books are being sold there. Many books are filled with old, stale fundamental teachings. Because fundamental Christianity has become stale, it has lost its impact and effect, like salt which has become tasteless (Matt. 5:13). Who is the salt among the Christians in the United States? Salt is supposed to kill corruption, but where is this killing power among today’s Christians? In most communities it is hard to tell who are Christians and who are not Christians. All the people are about the same
14神圣启示的高峰我很喜乐，在已往十个月里，主释放了圣经中神圣启示的高峰。最近，我用中文写了一首关于神成为人，为要使人在生命和性情上成为神的诗歌。许多圣徒唱这首诗歌时，喜乐忘形。一何大神迹！何深奥秘！神竟
14THE HIGH PEAK OF THE DIVINE REVELATION I am glad that during the last ten months the Lord has released the matter of the high peak of the divine revelation in the Holy Scriptures. Recently, I wrote in Chinese a hymn on God becoming a man that man may become God in life and in nature. Many saints are beside themselves with joy when they sing this hymn. It is very difficult to translate this hymn into English. The following is a literal translation: 1 How great a miracle! How deep a mystery! God and man
15与人联调为一！神成为人，人成为神，天使、世人莫测经纶；出自神的心爱美意，达到神的最高目的。
15are joined and blended as one! God becomes man and man becomes God, An economy incomprehensible to angels and mankind; Out of God’s pleasure, in His love, Attaining the highest purpose of God
16二神成肉身，来作神人，为要
162 God incarnated to be a God-man, In order that I
17使我能成为神，生命、性情与祂同类，惟我无分祂的神位；祂的属性变我美德，祂的荣形在我显活。
17may become God, In life and nature the same kind as He, Having no share in His Godhead; His attributes become my virtues, His glorious image livingly expressed through me
18三不再是我单独活著，乃是神
183 It is no longer I living alone, But God and I living
19我共同生活；并与众圣神里配搭，建成三一宇宙之家，且成基督生机身体，作祂显身团体大器。
19together; Coordinated with the saints in God To be built up as the universal house of the Divine Trinity And to become the organic Body of Christ As a great corporate vessel for Him to express Himself
20四最终圣城耶路撒冷，异象、
204 Ultimately, the holy city, Jerusalem, The aggregate
21启示集其大成。三一之神，
21of visions and revelations, The Triune God and
22三部分人，永世对耦是人又神；神性人性互为居所，神的荣耀在人显赫。（诗歌附
22the tripartite man To be the couple in love in eternity as man yet God; The mutual habitation of divinity and humanity With God’s glory
23五首。）
23shining forth radiantly in man
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24The following is a translation of this hymn in poetry to the tune of #499 in Hymns
1. What miracle! What mystery! That God and man should blended be! God became man to make man God, Untraceable economy! From His good pleasure, heart’s desire, His highest goal attained will be
2. Flesh He became, the first God-man, His pleasure that I God may be: In life and nature I’m God’s kind, Though Godhead’s His exclusively. His attributes my virtues are
His glorious image shines through me
3. No longer I alone that live, But God together lives with me. Built with the saints in the Triune God, His universal house we’ll be, And His organic Body we For His expression corp’rately.
4. Jerusalem, the ultimate, Of visions the totality; The Triune God, tripartite man— A loving pair eternally— As man yet God they coinhere, A mutual dwelling place to be; God’s glory in humanity Shines forth in splendor radiantly!
25照著这首诗歌，神与人联调是极大的神迹，极深的奥秘。神成为人，为要使人成为神。这样的经纶对天使、世人都是莫测的。这经纶乃是出自神的愿望，要搆上、达到神目标的高峰。最终圣城耶路撒冷，将是全本圣经一切异象、启示的集大成。三一之神和三部分人，要在永世里成为爱的对耦，他们是人，却又是神。神性、人性要成为相互的居所，神的荣耀要在人身上显赫辉煌到极点。
25According to this hymn, it is a great miracle and a deep mystery that God has a way to be joined to man and mingled with man. God became man that man may become God. Such an economy is incomprehensible to both angels and man. This economy is of God’s desire, and it will reach, attain, the high peak of God’s goal. Ultimately the holy city, Jerusalem, will be the aggregate of all the visions and revelations throughout the Scriptures. The Triune God and the tripartite man will become a loving couple in eternity as man yet still God. Divinity and humanity will become a mutual abode, and the glory of God will be expressed in humanity radiantly in splendor to the uttermost
26我盼望全地众召会的圣徒，尤其是同工和长老，都看见这启示，然后起来祷告，求神给我们新的复兴－一个历史上从未有过的复兴。
26I hope that the saints in all the churches throughout the earth, especially the co-workers and the elders, will see this revelation and then rise up to pray that God would give us a new revival—a revival which has never been recorded in history