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保羅的完成職事(十二 ): 活基督我們就是基督
西一18『他也是教會身體的頭；他是元始，是從死人中復活的首生者，使他可以在
萬有中居首位。』
林前十二 12~13『就如身體是一個，卻有許多肢體，而且身體上一切的肢體雖多，
仍是一個身體，基督也是這樣。因為我們不拘是猶太人或希利尼人，是為奴的或自
主的，都已經在一位靈里受浸，成了一個身體，且都得以喝一位靈。』
照着歌羅西三章十至十一節，在新人里，基督是一切，又在一切之內。這就是說，
他是新人一切的肢體，又在一切肢體之內。我們也許想，教會作基督的身體，怎能
是基督，基督又怎能是新人一切的肢體。在我們的經歷中，這在於是誰活着。
我們若單憑自己活，我們就不是基督。我們若活基督，讓基督活在我們裡面，那麼
我們就活在他裡面，並且我們就是基督。…基督徒的生活該是這樣。
我們在主的恢復里，不該在意無關重要的事，或被道理、作法所打岔。我們只該在
意三一神分賜到我們裡面，使我們成為他生機身體的肢體，以彰顯他，藉此成為活
的見證。我們不期望大多數的基督徒會看見這異象或走這條路。
但我們相信少數主所揀選、愛他並尋求他的人，會被帶進這中心的異象，使他們在
生命里長大，且被那靈變化，成為基督活的身體的一部分，這乃是出於主。至終，
這活的身體會成為基督愛的新婦，為他的回來豫備道路。
現在我們一點一點的來看教會這基督的奧秘。第一大點，在創世以前，奧秘的在基
督里，為父神所揀選、豫定（弗一3~5）。…我們原是神的造物，不是神的兒子，但
神已經揀選了我們，豫定了我們，召我們來得他兒子的名分。
現今我們因着有分於神的生命，成了神的兒子。
第二大點，在創世以後，奧秘的在那蒙愛者裡面，得蒙救贖（6~12）。…我們都是
在永遠里蒙神揀選，而蒙救贖卻是在時間裡，並且有早晚先後的不同。
我們這樣得蒙救贖，乃是照着神洋溢恩典的豐富，在那蒙愛者裡面，所恩賜教會的，
也是照他所喜悅之旨意中奧秘的經綸所安排的。
第三大點，我們在蒙救贖時，奧秘的受了聖靈為印記，並得着聖靈作憑質。當我們
信主的時候，就受了聖靈為印記。
這聖靈的印記會在我們裡面運行、作工，題醒我們，使我們有個感念，我們乃是信
耶穌的人，是屬神的人。我信我們每個人都有這樣的經歷。這說出我們是得救的人，
有聖靈為印記在我們裡面，這聖靈就是那是靈的基督，也就是三一神。
第四大點，基督的奧秘─教會，奧秘的有分於基督復活的大能，並他升天所達到並
所得着的一切，而成為基督的身體（弗一19~23）。…基督的身體完全是由基督的復
活和升天所產生出來的。
基督復活後成了賜生命的靈，而後升天成為澆灌的靈。這樣，他就成了素質、經綸、
複合的靈，…在我們裡面，並在我們身上，就叫我們成為基督的身體。
參讀： 哥林多前書生命讀經， 第二十篇；神新約經綸中的奧秘，第一篇；新約總
論，第一百九十篇；過照着聖經中神聖啟示高峰之生活實行的路，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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