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保罗的完成职事(十二 ): 活基督我们就是基督
西一18『他也是教会身体的头；他是元始，是从死人中复活的首生者，使他可以在
万有中居首位。』
林前十二 12~13『就如身体是一个，却有许多肢体，而且身体上一切的肢体虽多，
仍是一个身体，基督也是这样。因为我们不拘是犹太人或希利尼人，是为奴的或自
主的，都已经在一位灵里受浸，成了一个身体，且都得以喝一位灵。』
照着歌罗西三章十至十一节，在新人里，基督是一切，又在一切之内。这就是说，
他是新人一切的肢体，又在一切肢体之内。我们也许想，教会作基督的身体，怎能
是基督，基督又怎能是新人一切的肢体。在我们的经历中，这在於是谁活着。
我们若单凭自己活，我们就不是基督。我们若活基督，让基督活在我们里面，那么
我们就活在他里面，并且我们就是基督。…基督徒的生活该是这样。
我们在主的恢复里，不该在意无关重要的事，或被道理、作法所打岔。我们只该在
意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，藉此成为活
的见证。我们不期望大多数的基督徒会看见这异象或走这条路。
但我们相信少数主所拣选、爱他并寻求他的人，会被带进这中心的异象，使他们在
生命里长大，且被那灵变化，成为基督活的身体的一部分，这乃是出於主。至终，
这活的身体会成为基督爱的新妇，为他的回来豫备道路。
现在我们一点一点的来看教会这基督的奥秘。第一大点，在创世以前，奥秘的在基
督里，为父神所拣选、豫定（弗一3~5）。…我们原是神的造物，不是神的儿子，但
神已经拣选了我们，豫定了我们，召我们来得他儿子的名分。
现今我们因着有分於神的生命，成了神的儿子。
第二大点，在创世以后，奥秘的在那蒙爱者里面，得蒙救赎（6~12）。…我们都是
在永远里蒙神拣选，而蒙救赎却是在时间里，并且有早晚先后的不同。
我们这样得蒙救赎，乃是照着神洋溢恩典的丰富，在那蒙爱者里面，所恩赐教会的，
也是照他所喜悦之旨意中奥秘的经纶所安排的。
第三大点，我们在蒙救赎时，奥秘的受了圣灵为印记，并得着圣灵作凭质。当我们
信主的时候，就受了圣灵为印记。
这圣灵的印记会在我们里面运行、作工，题醒我们，使我们有个感念，我们乃是信
耶稣的人，是属神的人。我信我们每个人都有这样的经历。这说出我们是得救的人，
有圣灵为印记在我们里面，这圣灵就是那是灵的基督，也就是三一神。
第四大点，基督的奥秘─教会，奥秘的有分於基督复活的大能，并他升天所达到并
所得着的一切，而成为基督的身体（弗一19~23）。…基督的身体完全是由基督的复
活和升天所产生出来的。
基督复活后成了赐生命的灵，而后升天成为浇灌的灵。这样，他就成了素质、经纶、
复合的灵，…在我们里面，并在我们身上，就叫我们成为基督的身体。
参读： 哥林多前书生命读经， 第二十篇；神新约经纶中的奥秘，第一篇；新约总
论，第一百九十篇；过照着圣经中神圣启示高峰之生活实行的路，第四、六章。
English Version
Col. 1:18 "And He is the Head of the Body, the church; He is the beginning,
the Firstborn from the dead, that He Himself might have the first place
in all things."
1 Cor. 12:12-13 "For even as the body is one and has many members, yet all
the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.
For also in one Spirit we were all baptized into one Body...and were all
given to drink one Spirit."
According to Colossians 3:10-11, in the new man Christ is all and in
all. This means that He is all the members of the new man and in all the
members. We may wonder how the church as the Body of Christ can be Christ
and how Christ can be all the members of the new man. In our experience,
this depends upon who lives. If we live alone by ourselves, we are not Christ.
If we live Christ, letting Christ live in us, then we live in Him, and
we are Christ....The Christian life should be like this. (Messages to the
Trainees in Fall 1990, p. 142)
We in the Lord's recovery...should not care for insignificant things
or be distracted by doctrines or practices. We should care only to become
a living testimony by having the Triune God dispensed into us to make us
members of His organic Body to express Him. We do not expect that the majority
of Christians will see this vision or take this way. But we do believe that
it is of the Lord that a minority of His chosen people, who love Him and
seek Him, will be brought into this central vision that they may grow in
life and be transformed by the Spirit to become parts of the living Body
of Christ.Eventually, this living Body will become Christ's loving bride,
who will prepare the way for His coming back. (Life-study of 1 Corinthians,
p. 184)
Let us consider the church as the mystery of Christ point by point.
First,the church was mysteriously chosen and predestinated in Christ by
God the Father before the foundation of the world (Eph. 1:3-5)....We were
God's creation; we were not His sons. But God chose us, predestinated us,
and called us to sonship. Now through partaking of the life of God, we become
the sons of God.
Second, after the foundation of the world, the church was mysteriously
redeemed in the Beloved (Eph. 1:6-12)....We were all chosen by God in eternity.
But we were redeemed in time and even at different times. Our redemption
is according to the riches of God's abounding grace with which He graced
the church in the Beloved. It is also according to the dispensation of the
mysterious economy in God's will, which is according to His good pleasure.
Third, at the time of our redemption, we were mysteriously sealed with
the Holy Spirit, and we received the Holy Spirit as the pledge (Eph. 1:13-14)
. At the time we believed in the Lord, we received the Holy Spirit as the
seal. This seal of the Holy Spirit operates and works, reminding us and
giving us the feeling that we have believed in the Lord Jesus and that we
belong to God. I believe every one of us has had this experience. This tells
us that we are the saved ones, and we have the Holy Spirit in us as the
seal. This Holy Spirit is the pneumatic Christ (Rom. 8:9), who also is the Triune God (Matt. 28:19).
Fourth, the mystery of Christ, the church, participates mysteriously
in the resurrection power of Christ and in everything that He has attained
and obtained in ascension, thereby becoming the Body of Christ (Eph.1:19-23).
...The Body of Christ is produced fully from the resurrection and ascension
of Christ. After Christ resurrected, He became the life-giving Spirit. In
His ascension He became the outpoured Spirit. In this way He becomes the
essential, economical, and compound Spirit...in us and also upon us, making
us the Body of Christ. (The Mysteries in God's New Testament Economy, pp.
43-46)
Further Reading: Life-study of 1 Corinthians, msg. 20; The Mysteries
in God's New Testament Economy, ch. 1; The Conclusion of the New Testament,
msg. 190; The Practical Way to Live a Life according to the High Peak of
the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, chs. 4, 6
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保罗的完成职事(十三 ): 基督与教会之极大的奥秘
保罗的完成职事(十一): 基督在我们里面成了荣耀的盼望
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