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认识包罗万有的基督并以神的增长而长大

第四篇　认识包罗万有的基督并以神的增长而长大

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第四周　周一
纲目
1总题：享受基督与在生命里长大以至成熟
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2第四篇 认识包罗万有的基督并以神的增长而长大
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3壹 我们能认识并经历歌罗西书中所启示包罗万有的基督，乃是祝福：
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4一 基督是“召会身体的头；⋯⋯使祂可以在万有中居首位”——一18：
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51 在旧造和新造中，基督都是第一的，并且居首位。
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62 在宇宙中并在召会中，基督都是居首位者。
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7二 “基督在你们里面成了荣耀的盼望”——27节：
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81 这位住在我们灵里作我们生命和人位的基督，乃是我们荣耀的盼望。
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92 当祂来时，我们就要在祂里面得荣耀。
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103 这指明内住的基督要浸透我们全人，叫我们的身体改变形状，同形于祂荣耀的身体。
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晨兴喂养
Morning Nourishment
11西一18 “祂也是召会身体的头；祂是元始，是从死人中复活的首生者，使祂可以在万有中居首位。”
11Col. 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.
1227 “神愿意叫他们知道，这奥秘的荣耀在外邦人中是何等的丰富，就是基督在你们里面成了荣耀的盼望。”
1227 To whom God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
13〔保罗〕在加拉太三章十四节说，“为叫亚伯拉罕的福，在基督耶稣里可以临到外邦人，使我们借着信，可以接受所应许的那灵。”…根据上下文来看，这福必是指美地。在创世记十二章，神应许赐给亚伯拉罕的福乃是那地。在加拉太三章十四节，保罗将亚伯拉罕的福，与那灵的应许联在一起。这指明亚伯拉罕所得的应许，美地的应许，就是那灵。因此，那灵就是美地。
13In Galatians 3:14 [Paul] says, “In order that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.”…According to the context,…this blessing must refer to the good land. In Genesis 12 the blessing God promised to give Abraham was the land. In Galatians 3:14 Paul links the blessing of Abraham to the promise of the Spirit. This indicates that the promise of Abraham, the promise of the good land, is the Spirit. Hence, the Spirit is the good land.
14这灵一点不差就是包罗万有的基督。美地既是基督包罗万有的预表，并且基督既成了那灵，所以那灵，也就是包罗万有之灵作为经过过程的神，至终对我们新约的信徒就是美地，应验了神给亚伯拉罕的应许：地上的万国都要因他得福。（创十二3。）（歌罗西书生命读经，五八至五九页。）
14This Spirit is nothing less than the all-inclusive Christ. As the good land is an all-inclusive type of Christ, and as Christ has become the Spirit, so the Spirit, the all-inclusive Spirit as the processed God, is eventually the good land to us, the New Testament believers, as a fulfillment of God’s promise to Abraham that all the families of the earth would be blessed in him (Gen. 12:3). (Life-study of Colossians, second edition, pp. 49-50)
信息选读
Today’s Reading
15神有两个创造：旧造与新造。歌罗西一章十八节所指的是新造。…基督乃是身体的头；这身体就是召会，神的新造。基督不仅是旧造的首生者，〔参15～17，〕也是在新造里从死人中复活的首生者。在旧造里、在新造里，基督都是元首。…我们作为召会乃是新造，是在基督里、借着基督、并归于基督；我们更是时时刻刻在基督里得以维系。你是在旧造里还是在新造里？我们外面是旧造，里面却是新造。
15God has two creations: the old creation and the new creation. Colossians 1:18 refers to the new creation…Christ is the Head of the Body, the church, which is God’s new creation. Christ is not only the Firstborn of the old creation [cf. vv. 15-17] but also the Firstborn from the dead in the new creation. Both in the old creation and in the new creation, Christ is the first…As the new creation, we, the church, are in Christ, through Christ, and unto Christ. Moreover, we are moment by moment cohering in Christ. Are you in the old creation or in the new creation? Outwardly, we are the old creation, but inwardly, we are the new creation.
16在旧造里并在新造里，基督都是首生者，为着彰显神。保罗说过神的两个创造之后，在一章十九节说，“因为一切的丰满，乐意居住在祂里面。”…基督是神的像也是神的丰满，为要彰显神。“像”就是彰显，彰显就是丰满。这彰显乃是透过旧造和新造而有的。借着这两个创造，我们就有丰满。这丰满就是彰显，而这彰显就是“像”。
16Both in the old creation and in the new creation Christ is the Firstborn for the purpose of expressing God. After Paul speaks of God’s two creations, he says in 1:19, “For in Him all the fullness was pleased to dwell.” The word fullness in this verse is equal to the image in verse 15…Christ is the image of God and the fullness of God in order to express God. The image is the expression, and the expression is the fullness. This expression is through both the old creation and the new creation. Through these two creations we have the fullness. This fullness is the expression, and the expression is the image.
17十五至十九节实际上是一个长句子的一部分。这句子启示基督包罗万有的头一面，就是祂是那不能看见之神的像。在旧造里并在新造里，基督都是神的丰满，神的彰显。
17Verses 15 through 19 reveal that the first aspect of Christ’s all-inclusiveness is that He is the image of the invisible God. In the old creation and in the new creation, Christ is the fullness of God, His expression.
18我们也许不懂，关于基督这样的启示与我们有什么实际上的关系。在二十六至二十七节里，保罗说到一个奥秘。这奥秘就是前几节的“像”、“丰满”。按照二十七节来看，在外邦人中的奥秘，就是基督在我们里面成了荣耀的盼望。你知不知道，在你里面的基督是那不能看见之神的像，是神的丰满，是受造之物的首生者，也是从死人中复活的首生者？…在二十八至二十九节我们看见，保罗劳苦并竭力奋斗，好将各人在基督里成熟地献上。…这位基督乃是在我们里面。但是现今我们需要长大，直到我们在基督里成熟。这种长大受了文化的拦阻。
18We may wonder what such a revelation of Christ has to do with us in a practical way. In 1:26 and 27 Paul speaks of the mystery. This mystery is the image, the fullness, in the foregoing verses. According to verse 27, the mystery among the Gentiles is Christ in us, the hope of glory. Have you ever realized that the Christ who is in you is the image of the invisible God, the fullness of God, the Firstborn of creation, and the Firstborn from the dead?…In 1:28 and 29 we see that Paul labored and struggled in order to present every man full-grown in Christ. Christ is in us. But now we need to grow until we are full-grown in Christ. This growth is hindered by culture.
19顶要紧的是，我们要领悟，我们能在各式各样的造物中看到基督。我们需要放下我们对天、地、以及物质东西的观念；我们需要看见，基督是旧造的首生者，也是新造的首生者。因此，基督是一切；祂是包罗万有的。我们既看见基督是一切，就需要有一种体会，这位基督在我们里面乃是我们荣耀的盼望。我们今天所需要的，乃是在祂里面长大，达到成熟。（歌罗西书生命读经，三五五至三五八页。）
19It is crucial for us to realize that we can see Christ in all the items of creation. We need to drop our concept of the heavens, the earth, and the physical things; we need to see that Christ is the Firstborn of the old creation and the Firstborn of the new creation. Hence, Christ is everything; He is all-inclusive. Seeing that Christ is everything, we need to have the realization that this Christ is in us to be our hope of glory. What we need today is to grow in Him unto maturity. (Life-study of Colossians, second edition, pp. 286-288)
20参读：歌罗西书生命读经，第六、二十四、三十四篇。
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今日要点
21主题：认识并经历包罗万有的基督，乃是祝福
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221.享受基督，顶替宗教、哲学的文化：
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23A.我们能够脱开宗教或文化的搅扰，认识并经历歌罗西书中所启示包罗万有的基督，乃是祝福，在保罗著作的思想里，这福乃是美地，也就是那灵，包罗万有的基督，美地既然是基督包罗万有的豫表，并且基督成了那灵，所以那灵，也就是包罗万有之灵作为经过过程的神，至终对我们新约信徒乃是美地，保罗要歌罗西书的读者从宗教文化出来，认识、经历并享受这位包罗万有的基督。
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24B.在西一15~19节这一段启示了基督包罗万有的第一面，西一18保罗向信徒启示，这一位基督，在宇宙并召会中，在旧造并新造中，乃是召会身体的头，是元始，是首生者，是在万有中居首位的一位，接着19节说，一切的丰满，乐意居住在基督里面，这指明今天我们需要认识、经历、享受包罗万有的基督作美地，就需要看见祂是头、是元始、是首生者、是居首位者，祂有一切的丰满居住，我们不需要在祂以外作一切。
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252.经历包罗万有的基督作美地：
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26A.我们也许不懂，关于基督这样的启示跟我们有什么关系，因此保罗在西一27节接着说，这奥秘的荣耀...，什么是这奥秘呢？这奥秘就是那作照会身体的头、元始、首生的、居首位的、有一切丰满居住在其中的基督，这位基督已经在我们里面，成了我们荣耀的盼望。
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27B.后面保罗就说到他自己，要劳苦并竭力奋斗，要将各人在基督里成熟的献上，意思就是，神的奥秘基督，已经在我们里面，但这是不够的，基督还要在我们里面长大，直到我们在基督里成熟，基督在你们里面成了荣耀的盼望，这位住在我们灵里作生命和人位的基督，要浸透我们全人，使我们身体改变形状，同形于祂荣耀的身体。
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