保罗的完成职事(八):中心异象60条及经文
1 保罗完成职事的中心异象，是论到基督是神的奥秘（西一25 ～ 27，二2），教会是基督的奥秘（弗三 4）；这是极大的奥秘─基督与教会（五32）。
2 神是个奥秘；基督是神具体的表现彰显神（西二9），所以是神的奥秘。
3 基督也是个奥秘；教会是基督的身体彰显基督，所以是基督的奥秘。
4 这奥秘就是神的经纶，将他自己的具体表现，基督，分赐到他所拣选的人里面，为要产生一个身体，作他在基督里具体表现的扩增，使他得著一个团体的彰显─提前一4，弗三8 ～ 9。
5保罗完成职事的中心异象是。神在我们里面作我们的内容，基督是神的奥秘，而教会是基督的奥秘.
6 人是盛装神的器皿─创二7 ～ 9，徒九15，罗九21 ～ 24，林后四7，提后二20 ～ 21.
7 我们必须学习从所有我们行为的想法上转离，只关心被神充满。
8 圣经把神描绘成食物、水、空气；我们必须吸取他，被他充满，就好像我们接受所吃的食物，所饮的水，以及所吸入的空气─约六35、57， 四10、14， 七37 ～ 39， 二十22，哀三55 ～ 56。
9 以弗所四章六节启示，父不只超越我们，贯彻我们，也在我们之内；神自己安家在我们里面。
10 以弗所三章十九节说，『使你们被充满，成为神一切的丰满』.
11 被充满成为神一切的丰满，意思是被充满成为神一切的所是；神的丰满，含示神所是的丰富成了他的彰显。
12 神一切的所是应当是我们的内容；我们应当这样被神充满，使我们成为他的丰满，他的彰显─14 ～19 节。
13 腓立比二章十三节说，『乃是神为著他的美意，在你们里面运行，使你们立志并行事』.
14
这节的思想是神一直在我们里面行动、行事并作工。
15 那在我们里面运行（使我们有力）的神，乃是三一神─父、子、灵；这位神就是在我们里面的基督（林后十三3 上、5），也就是在我们里面的那灵（罗八11）；那灵、神、基督，三者乃是一。
16 希伯来十三章二十至二十一节说，『但愿平安的神，就是那凭永约之血，领群羊的大牧人我们的主耶稣，从死人中上来的，在各样善事上成全你们，好实行他的旨意；他是在我们里面，借着耶稣基督，行他看为可喜悦的事。愿荣耀归与他，直到永永远远。阿们』.
17 新约不仅是更美之约（七22，八6），也是永远之约；这约永远有功效，因为是借着基督那永远有功效的宝血所立的（太二六28，路二二20）。
18 神是在我们里面，借着耶稣基督，行他看为可喜悦的事，使我们能实行他的旨意；神在我们里面， 是借着内住的基督运行，使我们实行他的旨意─加一15 下～ 16 上，二20，四19。
19 提前三章十六节说，『大哉！敬虔的奥秘！这是众所公认的，就是。他显现於肉体，被称义於灵里， 被天使看见，被传於万邦，被信仰於世人中，被接去於荣耀里』.
20 基督是单个的神显现於肉体，教会作为基督的身体彰显他，乃是团体的神显现於肉体。
21 敬虔乃是指神活在教会中，就是那是生命的神在教会中活了出来。
22 我们必须看见，神已经在复活里，借着基督成了那灵，进到我们里面；如今他正住在我们里面，与我们是一，并使我们与他自己成为一灵；我们?是他的器皿，就该被他充满，凡我们所作的，必须是他的彰显─林前十五45 下， 六17， 罗八2、4、6、9 ～ 11， 约十四23、16 ～ 17，林后四7。
23 神的奥秘就是基督作神的具体化身和彰显，使神对我们成为如此真实，如此可享受─西二2、9，罗九5.
24 基督是信徒的一切─林前一9，十五45 下，弗三8，林后四6 ～ 7，约八58.
25 基督是神所分给众圣徒的分─西一12，二6，林前一2。
26 基督是我们的生命─约十四6 上，西三4，罗八2、4、6。
27 基督是荣耀的盼望─西一27，弗一18 下，四4 下，罗八19、23 ～ 25。
28 基督是我们的需要和享受─约八12，六51、57 下，林前十4，约二十22，
加三29，约十五7 上， 西二16 ～ 17，太十一28。
29 基督是从神给我们的能力和智慧─林前一24、30。
30 基督是教会的一切。
31 基督是身体的头─西一18。
32 基督是头的身体─林前十二12。
33 基督是基石─赛二八16，林前三11。
34 基督是活石、房角石和顶石─彼前二4、6 ～7，弗二20，亚三9，四7。
35 基督是新人一切的肢体─西三10 ～ 11。
36神要我们领悟，在基督里三一神─父、子、灵─经过了一个过程，包含成为肉体、人性生活、钉十字架、复活和升天.
37 借着成为肉体，基督将无限的神带到有限的人里面─约一14。
38 在他的人性生活里，主耶稣在人性里彰显神性─十四9 ～ 11。
39 借着钉十字架，耶稣基督了结了旧造─西一15。
40 借着复活，他使我们有新生的起头而成为新造─彼前一3。
41 借着升天，他得了荣耀、被高举、登宝座、被立为主并受委派施行神圣的行政─徒二33、36。
42 之后，他作为包罗万有、赐生命的灵降临在教会身上─一8，二4。
43 作为赐生命的灵，主正等待人借着信入他而接受他─林前十五45 下，林后三17，约一12 ～ 13，三15。
44 人一呼求主耶稣的名，基督就立刻进到人里面，重生人的灵，住在人的灵里，并使他自己与人重生的灵调和，使人真正与他成为一─6 节，林前六17。
45 初信者必须认识这二灵─他重生的灵和赐生命的灵，使他得以变化，并与别人建造一起成为身体，就是彰显三一神的生机体，以完成他的定旨─林后三18，弗二21 ～ 22，四16。
46 基督的奥秘乃是经过死并在复活里的三一神，将他自己与我们调和，使我们成为他生机身体上的活肢体。
47 中心的异象就是。作神彰显的基督，已经成了赐生命的灵，为要将他自己分赐到我们里面作生命，使 我们成为他身体上活的肢体，生机的彰显他─林前十五45 下，罗十二5。
48 主乃是在恢复基督作我们的生命和一切，以及教会作他的身体，他的丰满─西三4、11、16，二19。
49 主要得著一个由那些被他自己灌注、充满并浸透之信徒所组成的教会，作他的身体，使他得著彰显；至终，这活的身体会成为基督可爱的新妇，为他的回来豫备道路─弗一22 ～ 23，启十九7 ～ 9。
50我们不该注意无关重要的事物，也不该受道理或作法所打岔；乃该注意借着让三一神分赐到我们里面，使我们成为他生机身体的肢体以彰显他，好成为他活的见证─弗三6、19 下、21。
51 我们需要在以下各方面来看教会这基督的奥秘。
52 教会在创世以前，奥秘的在基督里，为父神所拣选、豫定─一3 ～ 5。
53 教会在创世以后，奥秘的在那蒙爱者里面，得蒙救赎─6 ～ 12 节。
54 教会在蒙救赎时，奥秘的受了圣灵为印记，并得著圣灵作凭质─13 ～ 14 节。
55 教会奥秘的有分於基督复活的大能，并他升天所达到并所得著的一切，而成为基督的身体─19 ～23 节。
56 教会奥秘的作宇宙的新人，作神的国、神的家，被建造成为神的居所─二15、19 ～ 22。
57 教会奥秘的得享受基督那追测不尽的丰富─三2、7 ～ 11。
58 教会乃是由神借着他的灵，用大能得以加强到里面的人里，使基督奥秘的安家在信徒心里，而被 基督所是的阔、长、高、深所充满，成为神一切的丰满─15 ～ 19 节。
59 基督与教会奥秘的生命联结，乃是宇宙中极大的奥秘─五32。
60 今日与三一神奥秘联结相调的教会，乃是新耶路撒冷的雏型，一切都应该以这圣城为至高的标准，无上的盼望─启二一2。
The Central Vision
Scripture Reading: Col. 2:2; Eph. 3:4;
Rom. 9:21, 23; Phil. 2:13; Col.1:12; Rom. 12:5
I. The central vision of Paul's
completing ministryconcerns Christ as the mystery of God (Col. 1:25-27; 2:2)
and the church as the mystery of Christ (Eph. 3:4); this is the great mystery
of Christ and the church (5:32):
2. God is a mystery, and Christ, as
the embodiment of God to express Him (Col. 2:9), is the mystery of God.
3. Christ also is a mystery, and the
church, as the Body of Christ to express Him, is the mystery of Christ.
4. This mystery is God's economy,
which is to dispense Christ, as the embodiment of God, into God’s chosen people
in order to produce a Body to be the increase of God's embodiment in Christ,
that God may have a corporate expression─1 Tim. 1:4; Eph.
3:8-9.
5. The central vision of Paul’s
completing ministry is God in us as our contents, Christ as the mystery of God,
and the church as the mystery of Christ:
6. Man is a vessel to contain God─Gen. 2:7-9; Acts
9:15; Rom. 9:21-24;2 Cor. 4:7; 2 Tim. 2:20-21:
7. We must learn to turn away from all
considerations of our behavior and care only to be filled with God.
8. God is illustrated in the Bible as
food, water, and breath; we must take Him in and be filled with Him, just as we
take in the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe─John 6:35, 57; 4:10,
14; 7:37-39; 20:22; Lam. 3:55-56.
9. Ephesians 4:6 reveals that the
Father is not only over us and through us but also in us; God is housing
Himself in us.
10. Ephesians 3:19 says, "That
you may be filled unto all the fullness of God":
11. To be filled unto all God's
fullness means to be filled unto all that God is; the fullness of God implies
that the riches of what He is become His expression.
12. All that God is should be our
contents; we should be so filled with Him that we become His fullness, His
expression─vv.14-19.
13. Philippians 2:13 says, “It is God
who operates in you both the willing and the working for His good pleasure”:
14. The thought in this verse is that
God is moving, acting, and working within us.
15. The God who operates (energizes)
in us is the Triune God─the Father, the Son, and the Spirit─the very God who is
Christ in us (2 Cor. 13:3a, 5) and the Spirit in us (Rom. 8:11); the three─the Spirit, God, and
Christ─are
one.
16. Hebrews 13:20-21 says, “Now the
God of peace, He who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great
Shepherd of the sheep, in the blood of an eternal covenant, perfect you in
every good work for the doing of His will, doing in us that which is well
pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ; to Him be the
glory forever and ever. Amen”:
17. The new covenant is not only a
better covenant (7:22; 8:6) but also an eternal covenant; it is eternally
efficacious because of the eternal efficacy of Christ’s blood, with which it
was enacted (Matt. 26:28; Luke 22:20).
18. God is doing in us that which is
well pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ that we may be able to do His
will; it is through the indwelling Christ that God works in us so that we can
do His will─Gal.
1:15a, 16a; 2:20; 4:19.
19. First Timothy 3:16 says,
"Great is the mystery of godliness: He who was manifested in the flesh, /
Justified in the Spirit, / Seen by angels, / Preached among the nations, /
Believed on in the world, / Taken up in glory":
20. Christ is the individual
manifestation of God in the flesh, and the church as the Body of Christ to
express Him is the corporate manifestation of God in the flesh.
21. Godliness refers to the living of
God in the church, that is, to God as life lived out in the church.
22. We must see that God in
resurrection through Christ has entered into us as the Spirit, is now
indwelling us, is one with us, and has made us one spirit with Himself; as His
vessels, we should be filled with Him, and whatever we do must be an expression
of Him─1
Cor. 15:45b; 6:17; Rom. 8:2, 4, 6, 9-11; John 14:23, 16-17; 2 Cor. 4:7.
23. The mystery of God is Christ as
the embodiment and manifestation of God, making God so real and enjoyable to us─Col. 2:2, 9; Rom.9:5:
24. Christ is everything to the
believers─1
Cor. 1:9; 15:45b; Eph.3:8; 2 Cor. 4:6-7; John 8:58:
25. Christ is the God-allotted portion
to the saints─Col.
1:12; 2:6; 1Cor. 1:2.
26. Christ is our life─John 14:6a; Col. 3:4;
Rom. 8:2, 4, 6.
27. Christ is the hope of glory─Col. 1:27; Eph.
1:18b; 4:4b; Rom.8:19, 23-25.
28. Christ is our necessities and our
enjoyment─John
8:12; 6:51,57b; 1 Cor. 10:4; John 20:22; Gal. 3:27; John 15:7a; Col.
2:16-17;Matt. 11:28.
29. Christ is God's power and God's
wisdom to us─1
Cor. 1:24, 30.
30. Christ is everything to the
church:
31. Christ is the Head of the Body─Col. 1:18.
32. Christ is the Body of the Head─1 Cor. 12:12.
33. Christ is the foundation stone─Isa. 28:16; 1 Cor.
3:11.
34. Christ is the living stone, the
cornerstone, and the topstone─1Pet. 2:4, 6-7; Eph. 2:20; Zech. 3:9; 4:7.
35. Christ is all the members of the
new man─Col.
3:10-11.
36. God wants us to realize that in
Christ the Triune God─the Father,the Son, and the Spirit─has passed through a
process involving incarnation, human living, crucifixion, resurrection, and
ascension:
37. By incarnation Christ brought the
infinite God into the finite man─John 1:14.
38. In His human living the Lord Jesus
expressed divinity in humanity─14:9-11.
39 By crucifixion Jesus Christ
terminated the old creation─Col.1:15.
40. By resurrection He germinated us
as the new creation─1 Pet.1:3.
41. By ascension He was glorified,
exalted, enthroned, appointed Lord, and commissioned with the divine government─Acts 2:33, 36.
42. Following this He came down upon
the church as the allinclusive life-giving Spirit─1:8; 2:4.
43. As the life-giving Spirit, the
Lord is waiting for people to receive Him by believing into Him─1 Cor. 15:45b; 2 Cor.
3:17; John1:12-13; 3:15:
44. As soon as a person calls on the
name of the Lord Jesus, Christ will immediately come into him, regenerate his
spirit, indwell his spirit, and mingle Himself with his regenerated spirit to
cause him to become truly one with Him─v. 6; 1 Cor. 6:17.
45. A new believer must come to know
the two spirits─his regenerated spirit and the life-giving
Spirit─so
that he may be transformed and built up with others to be the Body, the
organism to express the Triune God for the fulfillment of His purpose─2 Cor. 3:18; Eph.
2:21-22; 4:16.
46. The mystery of Christ is that the
Triune God through death and in resurrection is mingling Himself with us,
making us the living members of His organic Body:
47. The central vision is the vision
that Christ, the expression of God, has become the life-giving Spirit so that
He may impart Himself into us as our life to make us the living members of His
Body to express Him organically─1 Cor. 15:45b; Rom. 12:5.
48. The Lord is recovering Christ as
life and everything to us and the church as His Body, His fullness─Col. 3:4, 11, 16;
2:19.
49. The Lord wants a church composed
of believers who are infused, filled, and saturated with Himself to be His Body
for His expression; eventually, this living Body will become Christ’s loving
bride, who will prepare the way for His coming back─Eph. 1:22-23; Rev.
19:7-9.
50. We should not care for
insignificant things or be distracted by doctrines or practices; instead, we
should care to become a living testimony by having the Triune God dispensed
into us to make us members of His organic Body to express Him─Eph. 3:6,19b, 21.
51. We need to see the church as the
mystery of Christ in the following aspects:
52. The church was mysteriously chosen
and predestinated in Christ by God the Father before the foundation of the
world─1:3-5.
53. The church was mysteriously
redeemed in the Beloved after the foundation of the world─vv. 6-12.
54. The church was mysteriously sealed
with the Holy Spirit and received the Holy Spirit as the pledge at the time of
its redemption─vv.
13-14.
55. The church mysteriously
participates in the resurrection power of Christ and in everything that He has
attained and obtained in ascension, thereby becoming the Body of Christ─vv. 19-23.
56. The church mysteriously becomes
the universal new man, as God’s kingdom and God’s house, and is being built up
as the habitation of God─2:15, 19-22.
57. The church is mysteriously
enjoying the unsearchable riches of Christ─3:2, 7-11.
58. The church is strengthened into
the inner man with power by God through His Spirit, that Christ may
mysteriously make home in the believers’ hearts, that the church may be filled
with the breadth, the length, the height, and the depth of what Christ is, to
become all the fullness of God─vv. 15-19.
59. The mysterious life union of
Christ and the church is the great mystery in the universe─5:32.
60. The church, which is joined to and
mingled mysteriously with the Triune God today, is a miniature of the New
Jerusalem and needs to take the holy city as its highest standard and matchless
hope in verything─Rev. 21:2.
- 未完待续
保罗的完成职事(九):人是被神造来盛装神的一个器皿
