保羅的完成職事(十八): 領略認識基督那闊長高深超越知識的愛

弗三 18~19『使你們滿有力量，能和眾聖徒一同領略何為那闊、長、高、深，並認
識基督那超越知識的愛，使你們被充滿，成為神一切的豐滿。』

因為教會不僅是基督的身體，有基督作生命，教會也是新人，有基督作人位，所以
保羅在以弗所三章十七節強調基督安家在我們心裡的重要性。雖然我們的靈是盛裝
神的器皿，但靈不是人格的中心；人格的中心乃是心。

我們人格的各種功用─我們的心思、情感和意志─直接與我們的心有關，而不是與
我們的靈有關。因為人格所有的功用都集中於心，所以心是基督渴望安家的地方。
基督這賜生命的靈，現今是在我們的靈里。

然而，他想要擴展到我們心裡，並安家在其中。借着重生，我們有基督作那靈在我
們的靈里。但借着變化，基督要從我們的靈擴展到我們的心裡。每一個重生的人，
都有基督在他的靈里，但沒有多少人讓基督擴展到他的心裡。

因這緣故，保羅禱告，要我們得以加強到裡面的人里，使基督能安家在我們心裡。
我們不僅需要接受基督在我們的靈里作生命，也需要接受他在我們的心裡作人位。
當基督在我們的靈里時，他是我們的生命。

至終，照着以弗所三章十九節，我們會『被充滿，成為神一切的豐滿』。首先，有
裡面之人的加強。第二，基督安家在我們心裡，占有我們全人。第三，我們全人被
充滿，成為神一切的豐滿。

當教會所有的肢體都是這樣的人，我們就會滿有力量，領略那闊、長、高、深（18）。
這就是說，我們會領悟基督無限無量的量度（李常受文集一九六五年第二冊，四六
四頁）。

基督安家在我們心裡，我們在他的愛里生根立基，我們就能與眾聖徒一同領略基督
有多闊、多長、多高、多深。至終，我們甚至能經歷那超越知識的大愛。從這一切
出來的結果、流出，乃是經過過程、終極完成之三一神的一切豐滿（19）。

神的豐滿就是基督的身體，作三一神至完滿、至極的彰顯。神一切的豐滿，就是三
一神團體彰顯的終極完成，而這終極、完成、團體的彰顯，乃是基督的身體。

我們需要有一種教會生活是享受基督豐富的結果，也是無限之基督親自安家在我們
全人裡面的結果。這樣，我們就會有平靜的教會生活。至終，我們要在新耶路撒冷
完全看見這個。在新耶路撒冷里，我們不會爭執。

這是因為新耶路撒冷是我們享受基督，並讓他安家在我們心裡的終極結果。基督的
身體是信徒享受基督那追測不盡之豐富的終極完成，也是信徒經歷無限之基督安家
在我們心裡的終極完成。

教會的內容必須是我們所接受進來，作生命和人位的基督。我們若接受基督作我們
的人位，當我們聚在一起時，基督就要從我們的靈，借着我們的心彰顯出來。所有
與會的人會感覺到，基督與我們同在，作我們的生命和我們的人位。

 參讀：以弗所書生命讀經，第八十篇；保羅的完成職事

ENGLISH VERSION
Eph. 3:18-19 May be full of strength to apprehend with all the saints what 
the breadth and  length and height and depth are and to know the knowledge-surpassing 
love of Christ, that you may be filled unto all the fullness of God.

    Because the church is not only the Body with Christ as life but also 
the new man with Christ as the person, Paul in Ephesians 3:17 emphasizes 
the importance of Christ making His home in our hearts. Although our spirit 
is a vessel to contain God, the spirit is not the center of personality. 
The center of personality is the heart. The various functions of our personality─
our mind, emotion, and will─are directly related to our heart, not to our 
spirit. Because all the functions of personality are concentrated in the 
heart, it is the place where Christ desires to make His home. Christ as 
the life-giving Spirit is now in our spirit. However, He wants to spread 
into our hearts and make His home there. (Life-study of Ephesians, p. 669)

    Through regeneration we have Christ as the Spirit in our spirit. But 
through transformation Christ will spread from our spirit into our heart. 
Every regenerated person has Christ in his spirit, but not many have allowed 
Christ to spread into their hearts. This is the reason Paul prayed that 
we would be strengthened into our inner man so that Christ may make His 
home in our hearts (Eph. 3:16~17).

    We need to take Christ not only as the life in our spirit, but also 
as the person in our heart. When Christ is in our spirit, He is our life. 
However, when He spreads into our heart, He also becomes our person. (Life-study 
of Ephesians, pp. 669-670)

    Eventually, according to Ephesians 3:19, we will be"filled unto all 
the fullness of God." First, there is the strengthening of the inner man. 
Second, Christ makes His home in our hearts, occupying our whole being. 
Third, our whole being is filled unto all the fullness of God. When all 
the members of the church are such people, we will be full of strength to 
apprehend the breadth, length, height, and depth (v. 18). This means that 
we will realize the unlimited, immeasurable dimensions of Christ. (Christ 
as the Content of the Church and the Church as the Expression of Christ, 
p. 9)

    Christ makes His home in our heart, we are rooted and grounded in His 
love, and then we can apprehend with all the saints how broad, how long, 
how high, and how deep Christ is. Eventually, we can even experience a great 
love that is knowledge-surpassing. The result, the issue, the coming out 
of all of this is all the fullness of the processed, consummated Triune 
God (Eph. 3:19). The fullness of God is the Body of Christ as the expression 
of the Triune God to the fullest, to the uttermost. All the fullness of 
God is the ultimate consummation of the corporate expression of the Triune 
God, and this ultimate, consummated, corporate expression is the Body of 
Christ.

    We need to have a church life which is the issue of the enjoyment of 
Christ's riches and the issue of the unlimited Christ personally making 
His home in our entire inward being. Then we can have a tranquil church 
life. Eventually, we will see this fully in the New Jerusalem. We will not 
quarrel in the New Jerusalem. This is because the New Jerusalem is the ultimate 
issue of our enjoyment of Christ and of Christ making His home in our hearts.
 The Body of Christ is the consummation of the believers' enjoyment of the 
unsearchable riches of Christ and the consummation of the experience of 
the unlimited Christ making His home in our hearts. 

    The content of the church must be the very Christ whom we take as life 
and as our person. If we take Christ as our person, then as we come together 
in the meetings Christ will be expressed from our spirit and through our 
heart. All those who come will sense that Christ is present both as our 
life and as our person. 

    Further Reading: Life-study of Ephesians, msg. 80; The Completing Ministry 
of Paul, chs. 2-4; The Intrinsic View of the Body of Christ, ch. 3

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保羅的完成職事(十九): 經過了過程的靈(經文)

保羅的完成職事(十七): 基督的平安作了我們的仲裁