2025 春季长老第五周　周三

第五篇　保守自己在主工作的一道流中，为着召会的扩展，并且受主怜悯蒙拯救脱离撒但的诡计

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第五周　周三

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1四行传九章给我们看见神拣选扫罗（后称保罗），这与人的观念相反；我们人狭窄、错误的观念需要借着召会的扩展来冲破、来打碎；我们必须相信，一个人在一小时前反对召会，一小时后却能传福音 ——10～22节。

2五行传十章指明，主在地上的福音行动，是在祂天上宝座行政的管理之下，并且福音需要扩展到居人之地的四方，聚拢各类不洁净（有罪）的人，借着基督救赎的血洁净他们，并借着更新人的圣灵洗净他们 ——11～12、15、28节，参来八1，徒七56。

3六行传十三章启示，在安提阿的召会中事奉主的五位申言者和教师，是由犹太人和外邦人组成的，各有不同的背景、教育和身分；这指明召会是由各种不同种族和阶层的人组成的，与他们的背景无关；这也指明神将属灵的恩赐和功用赐给基督身体的肢体，不是根据他们天然的身分 ——1节，四36，罗十六21，路九7～9，徒二二3：

41 借着基督身体上这五位忠信并寻求主的肢体，主采取一大步骤，分别巴拿巴和扫罗，为着祂将国度的福音开展到外邦世界的工作和行动。

52 这完全是借着基督身体上那些忠信并寻求主的肢体，在地上与诸天之上的元首配合，凭着那灵、在那灵里并同着那灵的行动 ——十三1～4上。

6七在使徒保罗第一次扩展福音的行程中，他到了居比路，然后到小亚细亚，设立了好几个地方召会 ——4节下～十四28，启一4。

7八当保罗和巴拿巴分手后，他就第二次出外尽职，到了欧洲（腓立比、帖撒罗尼迦、庇哩亚、雅典、哥林多，之后经过以弗所，回到安提阿） ——徒十五35～40，十六6～十八22。

8九保罗第三次的行程是从安提阿到加拉太、弗吕家、以弗所、马其顿和希腊，再到耶路撒冷 ——23节～二一17。

9十保罗第四次的行程是从该撒利亚到罗马 ——二七1～二八31。

晨兴喂养

Morning Nourishment

10徒九15 主却对亚拿尼亚说，你只管去，因为这人是我所拣选的器皿，要在外邦人和君王并以色列子孙面前，宣扬我的名。

10Acts 9:15 But the Lord said to him, Go, for this man is a chosen vessel to Me, to bear My name before both the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel.

11十45 那些奉割礼，和彼得同来的信徒，因圣灵的恩赐也浇灌在外邦人身上，就都惊奇。

1110:45 And the believers who were of the circumcision, as many as had accompanied Peter, were amazed, because on the Gentiles also the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out.

12神……所拯救并呼召为使徒的，不是一个虔诚、顺服神的人，乃是一个顶撞神、迫害召会、苦害基督徒的人。……扫罗……素来是逼迫苦害信靠主名的（徒九13～14）。这样一个扫罗，他赞同司提反被杀（七60下），逼迫召会，福音还要传给他么？这是人的观念。……我们人狭窄、错误的观念，的确需要借着召会的扩展来冲破、来打碎。

12The person God saved and chose to be an apostle was not a pious person who obeyed God but a person who opposed God, persecuted the church, and inflicted harm on Christians…Saul was one who had persecuted and harmed those who believed in the Lord’s name (Acts 9:13-14); he was one who approved of the killing of Stephen (8:1a) and persecuted the church. Ananias could not understand why the gospel should be preached to Saul…Our narrow, erroneous human concept needs to be broken and shattered through the spreading of the church.

13我们必须相信，一个人在一小时前反对召会，一小时后却能传福音。神能作这事，因为神要扩展。……耶路撒冷的那些门徒……十分畏惧扫罗，但至终还是接待了他（九20～31）。在此我们看见，要人很快地接纳扫罗这样的人，实在不容易；人的观念对召会实在是个很大的拦阻（李常受文集一九五六年第二册，三三六至三三八页）。

13We must believe that a person can be persecuting the church one hour and preaching the gospel the next hour. God is able to do this because He wants to spread…All the disciples…were afraid of Paul, [but] they ultimately received him (9:26-28). Their reluctance shows that it is truly difficult for people to quickly receive someone like Saul; human concepts are actually a great hindrance to the church. (CWWL, 1956, vol. 2, “Three Aspects of the Church, Book 2: The Course of the Church,” pp. 257-258)

信息选读

Today’s Reading

14行传十章说到该撒利亚的哥尼流家。在犹太人看，传福音给撒玛利亚人，勉强可以接受，因为那是个半犹太、半外邦的地方。福音传给埃提阿伯的太监，使徒们起初也认为那是偶然的。至于保罗，他虽然顶撞主，却总还是个便雅悯人，可算为以色列人（腓三5）。

14Acts 10 speaks of the household of Cornelius in Caesarea. The gospel being preached to the Samaritans was tolerable to the Jews because the Samaritans were a people of mixed Jewish and Gentile blood. The preaching of the gospel to the Ethiopian may have been considered a coincidence by the apostles. And even though Paul had opposed the Lord, he still was of the tribe of Benjamin and considered to be an Israelite (Phil. 3:5).

15到了行传十章，神要使徒们把福音，正式地传给一个外邦的代表人物哥尼流，这一关是很难冲破的。……哥尼流是罗马军营中的一个百夫长，他十足地是外邦的代表人物。

15In Acts 10, however, God wanted the apostles to preach the gospel to Cornelius, a representative of the Gentiles, and it was difficult to break through. Because [he] was a centurion in the Roman legion, he was fully representative of the Gentiles.

16圣灵那一天作了奇妙的事；祂给彼得看见一个异象〔11〕，那块“大布”可说就是福音。在布里面什么都有，彼得所认为洁净的或不洁净的，都在其中。这意思是，各种样的人都在里面。圣灵告诉彼得，可以起来“宰了吃”，……〔意思是要彼得〕与他们调和（13）。

16The Holy Spirit did a marvelous thing. He showed Peter a vision of “a great sheet” (v. 11), which represents the gospel. All kinds of things were in that sheet, both the things that Peter considered clean and the things that Peter considered unclean. This means that all kinds of people were in the sheet. A voice told Peter that he should rise up and “slay and eat” (v. 13),…[which] means that Peter needed to be mingled with them.

17至终，彼得顺服圣灵，去到哥尼流家；正讲道时，圣灵降了下来（44）。这等于是告诉彼得他们，召会不是犹太人的，召会必须到外邦人中；召会不是地方的，召会乃是宇宙的。

17Eventually, Peter obeyed the Spirit and went to the house of Cornelius, and while he was still speaking, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those hearing the word (v. 44). This told Peter and those with him that the church is not of the Jews and that it must spread to the Gentiles; the church is not local but universal.

18安提阿的召会中，也是满了扩展的故事（十三1）。在那里有五个申言者和教师，首先提到的是巴拿巴，他是个利未人。……第二位是称呼尼结的西面，……也许祖先是出自非洲。……第三位是古利奈人路求。古利奈在非洲北部，所以路求是个非洲人。……第四位是马念，他是与希律王同养的，是个贵族，但不一定是犹太人。……末了一位是保罗，他是法利赛人，曾在迦玛列门下受教，热心遵守犹太教中一切的规条，所以犹太的观念非常强烈（二二3）。

18The church in Antioch was also part of the story of the church’s spreading (13:1). In Antioch there were five prophets and teachers, of whom the first was Barnabas, a Levite…The second person was Simeon, who was called Niger…[and] probably of African origin…The third was Lucius the Cyrenian. Cyrene is in northern Africa, so Lucius was an African…The fourth was Manaen, the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch; Manaen was a noble and not necessarily a Jew. The last one was Paul, who was a Pharisee trained at the feet of Gamaliel and who zealously kept all the ordinances in Judaism (22:3); therefore, his Jewish concept was very strong.

19在他们中间，有犹太人，也有外邦人，有各种不同种族的人。只有圣灵能作这事，所以安提阿的召会，是个没有分门别类的召会。……就是在这样一个召会中，圣灵才得以不受限制的扩展出去（李常受文集一九五六年第二册，三三八至三三九、三四一至三四二页）。

19Among them were Jews and Gentiles and people of different races; the church in Antioch was a church without divisions. This is something that only the Holy Spirit could have accomplished…Through such a church the Holy Spirit was able to move forward to spread without any limitations. (CWWL, 1956, vol. 2, “Three Aspects of the Church, Book 2: The Course of the Church,” pp. 258-261)

20参读：在神行动中正确的领导下留在神经纶独一的新约职事里，二四至三四、四一至四四、五五至六二页。

今日要点

21主题：使徒行传启示召会的扩展

22引经：徒九15，徒十45

231.神拣选扫罗，使召会得着扩展：

24A.我们可以从行传九章神拣选扫罗的事例，看见神渴望召会得着扩展，徒九15说，『主却对亚拿尼亚说，你只管去，因为这人是我所拣选的器皿，要在外邦人和君王并以色列子孙面前，宣扬我的名』，神所拣选的，不是一个虔诚、顺服神的人，而是一个顶撞神、迫害召会、苦害基督徒的人。

25B.扫罗素来逼迫苦害信靠主名的人，甚至赞同司提反被杀，福音竟然还要传给他吗？这是人的观念，但借着主得着保罗，使召会得扩展，这真是冲破了我们人狭窄、错误的观念，我们必须相信，一个人在一小时前反对召会，一小时后却能传福音，这只有一个目的，就是为着召会的扩展。

262.神得着外邦人，使召会得着扩展：

27a.行传十章说到该撒利亚的哥尼流家，传福音给撒玛利亚人，勉强可以接受，因为那是半犹太、半外邦的地方，然而，圣灵给彼得异象，那块大布可说就是福音，在布里面洁净的、不洁净的都在其中，圣灵告诉彼得，可以起来宰了吃，彼得最终顺从圣灵，圣灵就降下，徒十45接着说，『那些奉割礼，和彼得同来的信徒，因圣灵的恩赐也浇灌在外邦人身上，就都惊奇』，这指明，福音不仅在犹太地，更扩展到居人之地的四方，聚拢各类不洁净的罪人，借基督的血洁净他们，并借着更新人的圣灵洗涤他们。

28b.到了行传十三章，我们看见安提阿召会事奉主的五位申言者和教师，有不同的种族、背景、教育和身分，这指明神将属灵恩赐和功用赐给身体的肢体，不是根据身分，此外，保罗四次行程的记载，也说出召会的扩展。

29应用：我们不仅需要每周分别时间传扬福音，更是需要操练，当圣灵要我们去向一个人传福音，我们需要像是彼得一样，顺服圣灵，好使福音得着广传，使召会得着扩展。