历代志生命读经 · 第7篇

完全基要，并照著包罗万有的灵而行

Being Fundamental in Full and Walking According to the All-Inclusive Spirit

1读经：历代志下11:5,13-14，罗马书8:4，加拉太书5:16,25。在本篇信息中，我要说到我们需要完全、完备的基要，也要说到我们在日常生活中，需要照著复合、包罗万有、赐生命的灵而行。

1Scripture Reading: 2 Chron. 11:5, 13-14; Rom. 8:4; Gal. 5:16, 25 In this message I would like to say a word about our need to be fundamental in a full and complete way and also about our need in our daily living to walk according to the compound, all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit

站在正确的立场上，并持守基要的信仰

STANDING ON THE PROPER GROUND AND KEEPING THE FUNDAMENTAL FAITH

2我感谢神，历代志上、下的记载给我们看见，神如何在细节上对付祂的子民。神在祂子民生活的细节上对付他们，是要祂的子民非常正确的享受美地，基督。要享受美地，列王必须站在正确的立场上，也必须是基要的，持守神藉著摩西所赐的信仰。今天我们也是一样。召会的立场相当重要，而持守一切的真理，成为基要的，也很重要。今天的基督徒宣称是基要的，但他们只是部分的基要，不是完全的基要。因著神的怜悯和恩典，历年来我们尽所能要成为完全的基要，而不只是部分的基要。

2I thank God that in 1 and 2 Chronicles there is a record showing us how God deals with His people in detail. God’s dealing with His people in the details of their living is for His people to enjoy the good land, Christ, in a very proper way. To enjoy the good land, the kings had to stand on the proper ground and they had to be fundamental, keeping the faith given by God through Moses. It is the same with us today. The church ground is quite important, and to keep all the truths, to be fundamental, is also important. Today’s Christians claim to be fundamental, but they are fundamental only in part. They are not fundamental in full. Through the years we have been trying our best, by God’s mercy and grace, to be perfectly fundamental, that is, to be fundamental not just in part but in full

关于得救证实的真理，和关于基督作生命的真理

THE TRUTH CONCERNING THE ASSURANCE OF SALVATION AND THE TRUTH CONCERNING CHRIST AS LIFE

3七十多年前被主兴起的倪柝声弟兄，一再透彻的读圣经。从欧美前来中国的成百西教士，一面说是忠信的，但他们没有向中国基督徒陈明得救证实的基本真理。西教士繙译圣经，传讲圣经，并教导圣经，但他们没有指出，在基督里的信徒能有也该有得救的证实。倪柝声弟兄被主兴起以后，就传讲并教导关于得救证实的真理，我也跟随他这样作。我们无论到那里，都问人是否知道他们得救了。我们问这问题，牧师和传道人就嘲笑我们，说我们知道自己得救，是太骄傲了。在这种情形里，倪弟兄就为著得救证实的真理打仗。今天各处成百万的中国基督徒，都相信得救的证实。他们知道，只要相信主耶稣，他们就得救了，并且可以有他们得救的证实。现在的情形与倪弟兄开始为这基本真理打仗时的情形非常不同。

3Brother Watchman Nee, who was raised up by the Lord more than seventy years ago, read the Bible thoroughly again and again. The hundreds of missionaries who came to China from Europe and America were faithful in a sense, but they did not make clear to the Chinese Christians the basic truth of the assurance of salvation. The missionaries translated the Bible, preached from the Bible, and taught the Bible, but they did not point out that the believers in Christ could have and should have the assurance of their salvation. After Brother Nee was raised up by the Lord, he preached and taught the truth concerning the assurance of salvation, and I followed him to do this. Wherever we went we asked people if they knew whether or not they were saved. When we would ask this question, the pastors and preachers would laugh at us and tell us that we were proud for saying that we knew that we were saved. In this situation Brother Nee fought the battle for the truth concerning the assurance of salvation. Today millions of Chinese Christians everywhere believe in the assurance of salvation. They know that as long as they believe in the Lord Jesus, they are saved and may have the assurance that they have been saved. The situation now is very different from the situation when Brother Nee began to fight for this basic truth.

4倪弟兄继续为真理打仗，至终他释放了关于基督作我们的生命，以及我们接受基督作生命的真理。这是在中国的西教士没有向信徒陈明的另一个真理。一旦信徒有得救的证实，他们就需要看见，他们有基督在里面作生命，他们也该接受基督作生命，并且凭基督而活。

4Brother Nee continued to fight for the truth, and eventually he released the truth regarding Christ as our life and our taking Christ as life. This was another truth which the missionaries in China did not make clear to the believers. Once the believers have the assurance of their salvation, they need to see that they have Christ in them as their life and that they should take Christ as their life and live by Christ

关于新耶路撒冷的真理

THE TRUTH CONCERNING THE NEW JERUSALEM

5在已过七十二年间，主在祂的恢复里一直往前，恢复了许多别的真理。主尤其恢复了启示录二十一、二十二章里关于新耶路撒冷的真理。许多解经家对新耶路撒冷是甚么，没有正确的领会。很少圣经教师写过关于新耶路撒冷属灵意义的事。在这些少数人中，有一位是很久以前的德国教师，名叫特士替京（Tersteegen）；还有一位是我们亲爱的朋友史百克（T.AustinSparks），我认为他是内里生命派最后一位教师。史百克和特士替京一样，看见新耶路撒冷不是物质的城，乃是一个具有属灵意义的表号。史百克弟兄指出，关于神、基督、召会的属灵之事是奥秘的，所以神用表号启示关于这样属灵之事的真理。我们接受他的话，并且仍然持守这话。启示录开始于关于表号的话：『耶稣基督的启示，就是神赐给祂，叫祂将必要快发生的事指示祂的众奴仆；祂就藉著祂的使者传达，用表号指示祂的奴仆约翰。』这指明这卷书里的启示是由表号所组成，而表号是具有属灵意义的象征，如七个灯台象征七个召会，羔羊象征救赎主基督是独一的祭物，完成神永远的救赎。甚至新耶路撒冷也是个表号，是最后、完成的表号，表征神经纶终极的完成。已过五十年，新耶路撒冷的真理对我们越过越清楚。现在在我们的诗歌里，有好些关于新耶路撒冷的诗歌。

5During the past seventy - two years, in His recovery the Lord has gone on and on to recover many other truths. In particular, the Lord has recovered the truth concerning the New Jerusalem in Revelation 21 and 22. Many expositors of the Bible do not have the proper understanding of what the New Jerusalem is. Very few Bible teachers have written anything about the spiritual significance of the New Jerusalem. Among these few are a German teacher from long ago named Tersteegen and our dear friend T. Austin- Sparks, whom I regard as the last of the inner - life teachers. Like Tersteegen, T. Austin-Sparks saw that the New Jerusalem is not a physical city but a sign with a spiritual significance. Brother Sparks pointed out that the spiritual things concerning God, Christ, and the church are mysterious and that God uses signs to reveal the truth regarding such spiritual things. We took his word and still hold to it. The book of Revelation opens with a word about signs: ‘‘The revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave to Him to show to His slaves the things that must quickly take place; and He made it known by signs, sending it by His angel to His slave John.’’ This indicates that the revelation in this book is composed of signs, that is, symbols with a spiritual significance, such as the seven lampstands, signifying the seven churches, and the Lamb, signifying Christ the Redeemer as the unique sacrifice to accomplish God’s eternal redemption. Even the New Jerusalem is a sign, the last and consummate sign, signifying the ultimate consummation of God’secon o my. In the last fifty years, the truth concerning the New Jerusalem has become more and more clear to us. As a result, in our hymnal there are a number of hymns on the New Jerusalem.

关于成为神的真理－

THE TRUTH CONCERNING DEIFICATION

THAT GOD BECAME A MAN

神成为人，为要使人

THAT MAN MAY BECOME GOD

IN LIFE AND IN NATURE

在生命和性情上，但不在神格上，成为神

BUT NOT IN THE GODHEAD

6我们若要完全基要，就必须对一切的真理都基要。在许多真理中，有教父们在第二世纪所发现的三大奥秘：神圣三一的奥秘，基督身位的奥秘，以及人成为神的奥秘－神成为人，为要使人在生命和性情上，但不在神格上，成为神。虽然基督徒持守关于三一神的真理，和关于基督身位的真理，但头五世纪以后，关于成为神的真理却逐渐失去了。今年二月，我有负担释放关于这真理的信息。当我说到神成为人，为要使人在生命和性情上成为神以后，我知道天主教也在留意成为神这件事。前不久，一位弟兄给我看最近罗马天主教所出版『天主教教义问答』，里面有以下的话：

6If we would be fundamental in full, we must be fundamental with respect to all the truths. Among the many truths there are three great mysteries which were discovered by the church fathers in the second century: the mystery of the Divine Trinity, the mystery of Christ’s person, and the mystery of man’s deification— that God became a man that man may become God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead. Although Christians hold the truth concerning the Triune God and the truth concerning the person of Christ, after the first five centuries the truth concerning deification was gradually lost. In February of this year, I became burdened to release messages on this truth. After I began to speak concerning God becoming a man that man may become God in life and in nature, I learned that the Catholic Church is also paying attention to this matter of deification. Not long ago a brother showed me that the Catechism of the Catholic Church, recently published by the Roman Catholic Church, presents the following

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『祂是凭圣灵的能力成孕，由童女马利亚所生』

HE WAS CONCEIVED BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND WAS BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY

7第一段神的儿子成为人

7Paragraph 1. The Son of God Became Man

壹话为何成为肉体？

I. WHY DID THE WORD BECOME FLESH

8话成为肉体，是要使我们『有分于神的性情』（彼后一４）：『这就是为何话成为肉体，为何神子成为人子：为要使人藉著与话相交，因而领受神圣的儿子名分，而得以成为神的儿子。』（圣艾任纽著『对抗异端』，第三册第十九章第一段。）『因为神的儿子成为人，为要使我们成为神。』（圣亚他那修著『关于成为肉体』，第五十四章第三段。）『神的独生子要使我们有分于祂的神性，就取了我们的性情，使祂成为人，好使人成为神。』（『圣阿奎那斯文选』第五十七章第一至四段。）（『天主教教义问答』，第一一五至一一六面。）

8The Word became flesh to make us ‘‘partakers of the divine nature’’ (2 Pet. 1:4): ‘‘For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God’’ (St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 3, 19, 1). ‘‘For the Son of God became man so that we might become God’’ (St. Athanasius, De inc., 54, 3). ‘‘The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods’’ (St. Thomas Aquinas, Opusc. 57:1-4). (Catechism of the Catholic Church, pp. 115-116).

9这里我们看见天主教教导说，在基督里的信徒能成为神。不但如此，另一位弟兄也对我说到一本由天主教的神父用阿拉伯文所写的书，这本书同样说到人成为神。我们若要完全基要，就需要清楚这一大真理，就是神成为人，为要使人在生命和性情上，但不在神格上成为神的真理。照著灵行事为人然而，只有正确的立场并完全的基要并不彀。我们的所是，我们如何生活，如何行事为人，也关系重大。在旧约里，神的百姓藉著摩西从神领受一套书，称为律法。今天神对待我们不是照著律法，乃是照著复合、赐生命、内住、终极完成的灵。在旧约时代，神的百姓必须照著律法行事为人。今天新约要求我们照著复合、赐生命、包罗万有的灵行事为人。（罗八４。）神是照著摩西律法的细节对付犹大所有的好王。他们任何一位，若在律法上稍有差错，就要失去对美地大部分的享受。这豫表并表征我们今天必须照著属灵的律法行事为人，而属灵的律法就是那灵自己，复合的灵。

9Here we see that the Catholic Church teaches that the believers in Christ can become God. Furthermore, another brother told me about a book, written in Arabic by a Catholic priest, which says the same thing about man becoming God. In order to be perfectly fundamental, we need to be clear concerning this great truth—the truth that God became a man that man may become God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead. CONDUCTING OURSELVES ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT However, it is not adequate just to have the proper ground and to be perfectly fundamental. What we are, how we live, and how we behave mean a lot. God’sp eople in the Old Testament received of God through Moses a set of books called the law. Today God is dealing with us not according to the law but according to the compound, life-giving, indwelling, consummated Spirit. In the Old Testament time, God’sp eople were required to be have themselves according to the law. Today we are required by the New Testament to conduct ourselves according to the compound, life-giving, all-inclusive Spirit (Rom. 8:4). God dealt with all the good kings of Judah according to the law of Moses in detail. Anyone who was wrong with the law even a little would lose a great part of the enjoyment of the good land. This typifies and signifies that today we must conduct ourselves according to the spiritual law, and the spiritual law is just the Spirit Himself, the compound Spirit

10我们需要在每一细节上谨慎。例如，我们和配偶谈话，必须照著灵。我们需要在凡事上照著灵而行。（罗八４。）我们需要受警告并且儆醒，无论说甚么，作甚么，发表甚么，我们的态度、我们的灵和我们的存心，都必须被赐生命、复合、包罗万有的灵炼净。不然，我们在对基督，就是今天之美地的享受上，会失去许多。

10We need to be careful in every detail. For instance, when we talk to our spouse, we have to talk according to the spirit. We need to walk in all things according to the spirit (Rom. 8:4). We need to be warned and be on the alert that whatever we say, whatever we do, whatever we express, our attitude, our spirit, and our intention must be purified by the life-giving, compound, all-inclusive Spirit. Otherwise, we will lose much in the enjoyment of Christ, today’s good land

11现在我们正研读旧约的历史书。我们需要从记载在这些书里的一切细节学功课。想想亚撒的事例。他是好王，也作了许多好事。然而，他因著与叙利亚王便哈达结16:1-盟，得罪了神。（代下十六１～６。）不但如此，他恼怒那责备他信赖叙利亚王，不信靠耶和华的先见。也许因著这罪，亚撒脚上有病甚重。这病至终使他死去。（７～１３。）

11Now we are studying the books of history in the Old Testament. We need to learn the lessons from all the details recorded in these books. Consider the case of Asa. He was a good king and he did many good things. However, he offended God by forming an alliance with Ben-hadad king of Syria (2 Chron. 6). Furthermore, he became angry with the seer who rebuked him for trusting in the king of Syria instead of trusting in Jehovah. It might have been because of this offense that Asa became severely diseased in his feet. This disease caused his death (vv. 7-10, 12-13).

12从历史书里所记载的事例，我们看见神不但是慈爱的，也是可畏的。因此，如保罗在腓立比二章十二节所说，我们必须学习恐惧战兢，好

12From the cases recorded in the books of history, we see that God is not only loving but also fearful. Therefore, as Paul says in Philippians 2:12, we must learn to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling

13作成我们的救恩。