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保罗的完成职事(十七): 基督的平安作了我们的仲裁
西三 15~16『又要让基督的平安在你们心里作仲裁，你们在一个身体里蒙召，也是
为了这平安；且要感恩。当用各样的智慧，让基督的话丰丰富富的住在你们里面，
用诗章、颂辞、灵歌，彼此教导，互相劝戒，心被恩感歌颂神。』
基督的平安要在我们心里作仲裁，就必须在我们里面施行管治。基督的平安要为王
作管治者和决断者。
我信你们都经历过，有一位在你们里面作王管治你们，并且下最后的决断。…藉著
基督的平安作仲裁，我们的难处就解决了，圣徒之间的摩擦也消失了。然后教会生
活就能得保全，新人也实际的得以维持。
教会生活就是新人的生活，不是单靠教训得保全的，乃是靠著我们思念在上面的事，
并让属天的传输将神圣的元素分赐到我们里面才得以保全。然后我们就有新人的更
新，并经历基督的平安在我们里面施行管治。
基督的平安实际上就是基督自己显在某一特别的方面。因此，基督的平安作仲裁，
就是基督在我们里面作工，好在我们身上施行管治，来作结论，下最后的决断。在
弟兄被长老得罪的事例中，基督的话是要爱那位长老，找他交通，并且和他一同享
受主。这就是作平安的基督登位管治、决断并下断语。
我们要有正确基督徒的行事为人，并保全教会生活，就需要基督的平安作仲裁。…
惟有属天的基督，那位代求者、尽职者及管理者，才能解决我们的难处，并消除摩
擦。如果一位弟兄和他的妻子思念在诸天之上的基督，他们就会经历神圣的传输，
然后基督的平安就要在他们里面作仲裁。
当基督的平安在我们心里作王，作我们里面独一的裁判，我们就与神有纵的平安，
与众圣徒有横的平安（和平）。我们赞美主，我们享受平安，并且在这平安里，新
人─教会生活就得以保全！…主恢复的治理和维持不是我们的责任。
众教会以及整个恢复，都在基督的平安作仲裁之下。基督在我们里面是供应的恩典，
也是作仲裁的平安。
我们必须先让基督作仲裁的平安在我们里面作王。不要求主施行主权，管治你的妻
子或丈夫；反而要祷告说，『主，在我里面作王，在我身上管治我。』
我们…也该让基督的话丰丰富富的住在我们里面〔西三 16〕。…基督的话就是基督
所说的话。在神新约的经纶里，神在子里面说话，而子不仅在福音书里亲自说话，
也在使徒行传、书信和启示录里，藉著他的肢体─使徒和申言者─说话。
这些都可视为基督的话。基督的话包括整本新约。我们需要被这话充满；这意思是：
我们该让基督的话住在我们里面，居住在我们里面，安家在我们里面。
以弗所五章十八节嘱咐我们，要在灵里被三一神充满；歌罗西三章十六节嘱咐我们，
要让基督的话丰丰富富的住在我们里面。歌罗西书的中心是基督作我们的头和生命。
基督运用他作头的身分，并将他的丰富供应给我们的路，乃是藉著他的话。…在以
弗所书，话是为著洗涤我们天然的生命（五 26），并与仇敌争战（六 17）；而在
歌罗西书，话是为著启示基督（一 25~27）的居首位、中心和普及性。这话像那灵
一样，豫备好要住在我们里面，占有我们、充满我们，然而我们必须让话丰丰富富
的住在我们里面（真理课程三级卷三，一四○至一四二页）。
参读：内住的基督，第十五至十六篇；真理课程三级卷三，第五十课。
Col. 3:15-16 "And let the peace of Christ arbitrate in your hearts, to which
also you were called in one Body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ
dwell in you richly in all
wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God."
For the peace of Christ to arbitrate in our hearts, it must rule in
us. It must be enthroned as the ruler and decider. I believe you all have
experienced that Someone has been enthroned in you to rule you and make
the final decisions....Through the arbitration of the peace of Christ, our
problems are solved, and the friction between the saints disappears. Then
the church life is preserved, and the new man is maintained in a practical
way.
The church life as the life of the new man is preserved not by mere
teachings, but by setting our mind on the things above and allowing the
heavenly transmission to impart the divine element into us. Then we shall
have the renewing of the new man and experience the peace of Christ ruling
within us. The peace of Christ is actually Christ Himself in a particular
aspect. Hence, the arbitrating of the peace of Christ is Christ working
within us to exercise His rule over us, to speak the last word, and to make
the final decision. In the case of the brother offended by the elder, Christ'
s word is to love that elder, to seek him out for fellowship, and to enjoy
the Lord with him. This is Christ enthroned as peace ruling, deciding, and
uttering the last word. (Life-study of Colossians, pp. 564-565)
In order to have a proper Christian walk and preserve the church life,
we need the arbitrating peace of Christ....Only the heavenly Christ, the
One who is interceding, ministering, and administrating, can solve our problems
and resolve the friction. If a brother and his wife set their mind on Christ
in the heavens, they will experience the divine transmission. Then the peace
of Christ will arbitrate in them. When the peace of Christ is enthroned
in our hearts to be the unique umpire within us, we shall have peace with
God vertically and with the saints horizontally. We praise the Lord that
we are enjoying peace, and in this peace the church life as the new man
is preserved!...The management and maintenance of the Lord's recovery are
not our responsibility. All the churches and the recovery as a whole are
under the arbitrating peace of Christ. In us Christ is the supplying grace
and the arbitrating peace.
We need to allow the arbitrating peace of Christ to be enthroned in
us first. Do not ask the Lord to exercise His sovereign rule over your wife
or husband. Instead, pray,"Lord, be enthroned in me and exercise Your rule
over me." (Life-study of Colossians, p. 565)
We also need to let the word of Christ dwell in us richly [Col. 3:16]....
The word of Christ is the word spoken by Christ. In His New Testament economy,
God speaks in the Son, and the Son speaks not only in the Gospels but also
through His members, the apostles and prophets, in Acts through Revelation.
All these books may be considered as His word. The word of Christ includes
the entire New Testament. We need to be filled with this word. This means
that we should allow the word of Christ to dwell in us, to inhabit us, to
make home in us.
Ephesians 5:18 charges us to be filled in spirit by the Triune
God; Colossians 3:16 tells us to let the word of Christ dwell in us richly.
Colossians is focused on Christ as our Head and life. The way for Christ
to exercise His headship and minister His riches into us is through His
word....In Ephesians the word is for washing away our natural life and fighting
against the enemy (5:26; 6:17); in Colossians the word is for revealing
Christ in His preeminence, centrality, and universality (1:25-27). This word,
like the Spirit, is prepared to dwell in us, to occupy us, and to fill us,
but we need to let the word dwell in us richly. (Truth Lessons─Level Three,
vol. 3, p. 116-117)
Further Reading: The Indwelling Christ in the Canon of the
New Testament, chs. 15-16; Truth Lessons─Level Three, vol. 3, lsn. 50
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