保罗的完成职事(十八): 领略认识基督那阔长高深超越知识的爱

弗三 18~19『使你们满有力量，能和众圣徒一同领略何为那阔、长、高、深，并认
识基督那超越知识的爱，使你们被充满，成为神一切的丰满。』

因为教会不仅是基督的身体，有基督作生命，教会也是新人，有基督作人位，所以
保罗在以弗所三章十七节强调基督安家在我们心里的重要性。虽然我们的灵是盛装
神的器皿，但灵不是人格的中心；人格的中心乃是心。

我们人格的各种功用─我们的心思、情感和意志─直接与我们的心有关，而不是与
我们的灵有关。因为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。
基督这赐生命的灵，现今是在我们的灵里。

然而，他想要扩展到我们心里，并安家在其中。借着重生，我们有基督作那灵在我
们的灵里。但借着变化，基督要从我们的灵扩展到我们的心里。每一个重生的人，
都有基督在他的灵里，但没有多少人让基督扩展到他的心里。

因这缘故，保罗祷告，要我们得以加强到里面的人里，使基督能安家在我们心里。
我们不仅需要接受基督在我们的灵里作生命，也需要接受他在我们的心里作人位。
当基督在我们的灵里时，他是我们的生命。

至终，照着以弗所三章十九节，我们会『被充满，成为神一切的丰满』。首先，有
里面之人的加强。第二，基督安家在我们心里，占有我们全人。第三，我们全人被
充满，成为神一切的丰满。

当教会所有的肢体都是这样的人，我们就会满有力量，领略那阔、长、高、深（18）。
这就是说，我们会领悟基督无限无量的量度（李常受文集一九六五年第二册，四六
四页）。

基督安家在我们心里，我们在他的爱里生根立基，我们就能与众圣徒一同领略基督
有多阔、多长、多高、多深。至终，我们甚至能经历那超越知识的大爱。从这一切
出来的结果、流出，乃是经过过程、终极完成之三一神的一切丰满（19）。

神的丰满就是基督的身体，作三一神至完满、至极的彰显。神一切的丰满，就是三
一神团体彰显的终极完成，而这终极、完成、团体的彰显，乃是基督的身体。

我们需要有一种教会生活是享受基督丰富的结果，也是无限之基督亲自安家在我们
全人里面的结果。这样，我们就会有平静的教会生活。至终，我们要在新耶路撒冷
完全看见这个。在新耶路撒冷里，我们不会争执。

这是因为新耶路撒冷是我们享受基督，并让他安家在我们心里的终极结果。基督的
身体是信徒享受基督那追测不尽之丰富的终极完成，也是信徒经历无限之基督安家
在我们心里的终极完成。

教会的内容必须是我们所接受进来，作生命和人位的基督。我们若接受基督作我们
的人位，当我们聚在一起时，基督就要从我们的灵，借着我们的心彰显出来。所有
与会的人会感觉到，基督与我们同在，作我们的生命和我们的人位。

 参读：以弗所书生命读经，第八十篇；保罗的完成职事

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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

- 未完待续

保罗的完成职事(十九): 经过了过程的灵(经文)

保罗的完成职事(十七): 基督的平安作了我们的仲裁