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召会的功用（二）神在肉体里团体的显现

第九篇　召会的功用（二）神在肉体里团体的显现

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第九周　周三
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1贰 提前三章十五至十六节指明，不仅作头的基督自己是神显现于肉体，连作基督身体和神家的召会也是神显现于肉体——敬虔的奥秘：
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2一 十六节的“敬虔”，不仅是指虔诚，乃是指神活在召会中，就是那是生命的神在召会中活了出来，得着了彰显：
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31 基督和召会，二者都是敬虔的奥秘，在肉体里彰显神。
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42 召会生活乃是神的彰显；因此，敬虔的奥秘就是正当召会的生活——林前十六，十四24~25。
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晨兴喂养
Morning Nourishment
5林前十四24~25 但若众人都申言，有不信的，或是不通方言的人进来，他就被众人劝服，被众人审明了；他心里的隐情显露出来，就必面伏于地敬拜神，宣告说，神真是在你们中间了。
51 Cor. 14:24-25 But if all prophesy and some unbeliever or unlearned person enters, he is convicted by all, he is examined by all; the secrets of his heart become manifest; and so falling on his face, he will worship God, declaring that indeed God is among you.
6提前三章十六节开始于这话：“并且，大哉！敬虔的奥秘！这是众所公认的。”十六节的连接词“并且”指明，保罗在十五节还没有说完召会。……召会是活神的家，是真理的柱石和根基。保罗在十六节开头用连接词，指明召会不只是活神的家，是真理的柱石和根基；召会也是敬虔的奥秘（提摩太前书生命读经，六九页）。
6First Timothy 3:16 begins with, “And confessedly, great is the mystery of godliness.” The conjunction and in verse 16 indicates that Paul has not finished speaking about the church in verse 15...[The church] is the house of the living God and the pillar and base of the truth. Paul’s use of the conjunction at the beginning of verse 16 indicates that the church is something even more than the house of the living God and the pillar and base of the truth. The church is also the mystery of godliness. (Life-study of 1 Timothy, second edition, p. 56)
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7敬虔指神彰显出来。我们在召会生活中作什么？我们在彰显神。人也许没有充分领悟这点，但天使承认并珍赏这事。……主耶稣出生时，有一队天使赞美神（路二10~14）。天使若因主耶稣生在大卫的城伯利恒而欢乐，他们看见神显现于那是基督扩增并扩大的召会，岂不也会欢乐？不仅如此，在地上活出神并彰显神的主耶稣面对鬼的时候，鬼就喊叫。至少在一个事例中，它们央求主耶稣不要吩咐它们到无底坑里去（八31）。……毫无疑问，召会活出神并彰显神时，鬼和邪恶的天使就会惧怕。每个地方召会必须是基督再生在圣徒里面的地方。不仅如此，每个地方召会必须这样活出神，使魔鬼的年日缩短。一面，众召会够上神的标准，天使就会歌唱并欢乐；另一面，鬼和邪恶的天使就会战兢。
7Godliness refers to God expressed. What are we doing in the church life? We are expressing God. Human beings may not realize this adequately, but the angels recognize it and appreciate it. When the Lord Jesus was born, a host of angels praised God (Luke 2:10-14). If the angels rejoiced at the birth of the Lord Jesus in Bethlehem, the city of David, will they not also rejoice to see God manifested in the church, which is Christ’s increase and enlargement? Furthermore, when the Lord Jesus, living out God and manifesting Him on earth, confronted the demons, the demons cried out. In at least one case they begged the Lord Jesus not to send them into the abyss (8:31)...No doubt when the church is living out God and manifesting Him, the demons and the evil angels will be terrified. Every local church must be a place where Christ is born anew in the saints. Furthermore, every local church must live out God in such a way that the devil’s time is shortened. On the one hand, when the churches come up to God’s standard, the angels will sing and rejoice; on the other hand, the demons and the evil angels will tremble.
8〔提前三章十六节的〕“祂”是指基督，是神显现于肉体，作为敬虔的奥秘。从“敬虔的奥秘”转到“祂”，含示神在肉体的显现，基督，就是敬虔的奥秘（西一27，加二20）。这敬虔的奥秘就是正当召会的生活，这样的生活也就是神显现于肉体。
8He [in 1 Timothy 3:16] refers to Christ, who was God manifested in the flesh as the mystery of godliness. The transition from the mystery of godliness to He implies that Christ as the manifestation of God in the flesh is the mystery of godliness (Col. 1:27; Gal. 2:20). This mystery of godliness is the living of a proper church, and such a living is also the manifestation of God in the flesh.
9提前三章十六节上半说到一件事—敬虔的奥秘。……保罗……用代名词“祂”的事实含示敬虔的奥秘是一个人，不仅仅是一件事。……这人就是作头的基督同祂的身体。
9The first part of 1 Timothy 3:16 speaks of a matter—the mystery of godliness...The fact that Paul says “He who” implies that the mystery of godliness is a person and not merely a matter...This person is Christ as the Head with His Body.
10神显现于肉体，是借着成为肉体和为人生活（约一1、14）。“于肉体”，意即在人的样式和样子里（罗八3，腓二7~8）。基督是以人的形状显在人前（林后五16），然而，祂乃是神显现于人。
10Through incarnation and human living (John 1:1, 14), God was manifested in the flesh. In the flesh means in the likeness, in the fashion, of man (Rom. 8:3; Phil. 2:7-8). Christ appeared to people in the form of man (2 Cor. 5:16), yet He was God manifested in man.
11基督也“被称义于灵里”。……成为肉体的基督在为人生活里，不仅被那灵表白为神的儿子（太三16~17，罗一3~4），也被那灵称义、证实并称许为对的、义的（太三15~16，四1）。祂显现于肉体，却被表白并称义于灵里。祂在肉体显出，却在灵里生活（路四1、14，太十二28），并且借着那灵将自己献给神（来九14）。祂的变化形像（太十七2）和复活，都是那灵的称义。不仅如此，祂在复活里更成了赐生命的灵（林前十五45，林后三17），居住并活在我们里面（罗八9~10），好叫神显现于肉体，这就是敬虔的奥秘。因此，现今我们不再按着肉体，乃按着灵（林后五16）认祂和祂的肢体。神显现于肉体既是被称义于灵里，而那灵又与我们的灵是一（罗八16），我们就必须在我们的灵里生活为人，使这称义得以完成（提摩太前书生命读经，七○至七二页）。
11Christ was also “justified in the Spirit.”...The incarnated Christ in His human living was not only vindicated as the Son of God by the Spirit (Matt. 3:16-17; Rom. 1:3-4) but also justified, proved, and approved as right and righteous by the Spirit (Matt. 3:15-16; 4:1). He was manifested in the flesh but was vindicated and justified in the Spirit. He appeared in the flesh, but He lived in the Spirit (Luke 4:1, 14; Matt. 12:28) and offered Himself to God through the Spirit (Heb. 9:14). His transfiguration (Matt. 17:2) and His resurrection are both justifications in the Spirit. Furthermore, in resurrection He even became the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45; 2 Cor. 3:17) to dwell and live in us (Rom. 8:9-10) for the manifestation of God in the flesh as the mystery of godliness. Hence, now we know Him and His members no longer according to the flesh but according to the Spirit (2 Cor. 5:16). Since the manifestation of God in the flesh is justified in the Spirit, and the Spirit is one with our spirit (Rom. 8:16), we must live and behave in our spirit that this justification may be accomplished. (Life-study of 1 Timothy, 2nd edition, pp. 57-58)
12参读：提摩太前书生命读经，第六篇。
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