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出埃及记生命读经 · 第134篇

亚伦和他的儿子成圣作祭司（二）

The sanctification of Aaron and his sons to be the priests (2)
1读经： 出埃及记二十九章一至十四节；四十章十二至十五节；利未记八章一至九节，十二至十七节。
1Scripture Reading: Exo. 29:1-14; 40:12-15; Lev. 8:1-9, 12-17
2我们已经看见，祭司外面需要穿上祭司的衣服，里面需要因滋养的食物而得着饱足。祭司的衣服和祭司的食物都是表征基督不同的方面。
2We have seen that the priests needed to be clothed with the priestly garments outwardly and to be filled inwardly with nourishing food. Both the priestly garments and the priestly food signify different aspects of Christ.
3出埃及记二十九章一节和十至十四节说到献上公牛作为祭司的赎罪祭，这里的赎罪祭就是基督开了一条路，把我们的虚空充满了。这种虚空乃是里面的饥饿，如果我们饿了，我们里面就空了。祭司的衣服豫表基督遮盖我们的赤身露体。我们有基督作为祭司的衣服，就不再赤身露体了。反之，我们外面有荣耀和华美的彰显。这意思是说，我们外面的赤身露体已经被遮盖起来，如今我们有基督来遮盖我们的赤身露体。但我们里面还需要基督充满我们。我们里面的虚空要得着充满，基督就必须作我们的赎罪祭。
3Exodus 29:1 and 10 through 14 speak of the bull offered as the priests’ sin offering. The sin offering here is Christ making the way for our emptiness to be filled. This emptiness is a matter of inward hunger. If we are hungry, we are empty inwardly. The priestly garments typify Christ covering our nakedness. When we have Christ as our priestly garments, we are no longer naked. Instead, outwardly we have an expression of glory and beauty. This means that outwardly our nakedness has been covered, and now we have Christ to cover our nakedness. But we still need Christ to fill us inwardly. In order for our inward emptiness to be filled, Christ must be our sin offering.
两种焚烧
Two kinds of burning
4赎罪祭不是给祭司的食物，这祭要完全焚烧。出埃及记二十九章十三至十四节说：“要把一切盖脏的脂油，与肝上的网子，并两个腰子，和腰子上的脂油，都烧在坛上。只是公牛的皮、肉、粪，都要用火烧在营外；这牛是赎罪祭。”这些经文说到两种不同的焚烧。十三节所描述的头一种焚烧，乃是在坛上焚烧脂油，与肝上的网子，并两个腰子。这种焚烧产生一种馨香之气升到神那里作祂的满足，就如烧香一样，不是为着审判或炼净，而是为着神的享受。十三节里繙作“焚烧”的希伯来字乃是用来指烧香的词。（参看18，25。）祭司烧香作为馨香之气，乃是为着神的满足，神享受香的芬芳。就赎罪祭而论，盖脏的脂油和一些内脏都要焚烧作为神的享受。
4The sin offering was not food for the priests. This offering was burned completely. Exodus 29:13 and 14 say, “And you shall take all the fat that covers the inwards, and the appendage on the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat which is upon them, and burn them on the altar. And the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.” These verses speak of two different kinds of burning. The first burning, described in verse 13, is the burning on the altar of the fat, the appendage on the liver, and the kidneys. This burning produced a sweet savor that ascended to God for His satisfaction. It was like the burning of incense, a burning that was not for judgment or purification, but for God’s enjoyment. The Hebrew word rendered “burn” in verse 13 is a term used for burning incense (see verses 18 and 25). When the priests burned the incense as a sweet savor, that was for God’s satisfaction. God enjoyed the aroma of the incense. Regarding the sin offering, the inward fat and certain inward parts were burned for God’s enjoyment.
5这种焚烧满足了神的要求，神的要求主要有三类：祂的公义、圣洁、荣耀的要求。神是公义的，神是圣洁的，神也是满了荣耀的。因此，祂的公义、圣洁和荣耀都对我们有要求。倘若我们缺少神的荣耀，与祂的公义、圣洁不相配，我们就无法满足祂的要求，因而落在祂的定罪之下。
5This burning satisfied God’s requirements, which are mainly of three categories: the requirements of His righteousness, holiness, and glory. God is righteous, God is holy, and God is full of glory. Thus, His righteousness, holiness, and glory all make demands of us. If we are short of God’s glory and do not match His righteousness and holiness, we fail to fulfill His requirements and therefore come under His condemnation.
6赎罪祭的脂油满足了神的要求。牲畜的脂油出自牲畜的丰富，这豫表基督之完全的甜美和丰富，满足了神公义、圣洁、荣耀的要求。焚烧脂油和内脏就产生一种馨气之气作为神的满足，神对它完全心满意足。所以，与赎罪祭有关的头一种焚烧乃是为着神的满足。
6It is the fat of the sin offering that satisfies God’s requirements. The fat of cattle comes out of the richness of the cattle. This typifies the sweetness and the richness of Christ’s perfection and satisfies the requirements of God’s righteousness, holiness, and glory. The burning of the fat and the inward parts produces a sweet savor for God’s satisfaction; He is fully satisfied with it. Therefore, the first kind of burning related to the sin offering was for God’s satisfaction.
7十四节所描述的焚烧乃是把皮、肉、粪烧在营外。赎罪祭的这些部分要用审判的火来焚烧，所以，第二种焚烧乃是审判的焚烧。这不是在祭坛上进行，而是在营外进行，表征弃绝和审判。一方面，基督作馨香之气蒙神的悦纳，满足神一切的要求；另一方面，基督被弃绝、被定罪、被审判、被烧在营外，在神的居所外面，并远离神的子民。
7The second kind of burning, described in verse 14, was the burning of the flesh, the skin, and the dung outside the camp. These parts of the sin offering were burned with the fire of judgment. Hence, the second burning was a burning of judgment. It did not take place on the altar, but took place outside the camp, signifying abandonment and judgment. On the one hand, Christ was accepted as a sweet savor to God to satisfy all of God’s requirements; on the other hand, Christ was abandoned, condemned, judged, and burned outside the camp, outside God’s dwelling place and away from God’s people.
基督作为赎罪祭
Christ as the sin offering
8赎愆祭是对付我们的罪行，而赎罪祭是对付我们的罪，也就是对付我们罪恶的性情。如果我们要作祭司事奉神，就必须晓得，即使我们得救了，我们还是有罪恶的性情。
8The trespass offering deals with our sins but the sin offering deals with our sin, that is, with our sinful nature. If we would be priests serving God, we need to realize that even though we have been saved, we still have a sinful nature.
9在我们的身体改变形状之前，我们会一直有罪恶的性情。我能彀作见证，无论我们得救多久，我们罪恶的性情总不改变。我得救已经五十五年多了，然而我必须作见证，我罪恶的性情还是随着我。我们绝不该相信拔罪根的道理，这种教训乃是说，一个人成了在基督里的信徒，罪恶的性情就连根拔除了。不，我们罪恶的性情仍旧存在。所以，每当我们作祭司事奉神的时候，必须记得我们有罪恶的性情，并且需要基督作我们的赎罪祭来对付这种性情。
9We shall continue to have this sinful nature until our body is transfigured. I can testify that no matter how long we have been saved, our sinful nature does not change. I have been saved for more than fifty-five years. Nevertheless, I must testify that my sinful nature is still with me. We should never believe the doctrine of eradication, the teaching that the sinful nature is eradicated when a person becomes a believer in Christ. No, our sinful nature still exists. Therefore, whenever we come to serve God as priests, we must remember that we have a sinful nature and that we need Christ as our sin offering to deal with this nature.
10基督达到了神的要求，使祂心满意足，祂也替我们担当了神的审判。我们罪恶的性情在祂里面受了审判。每当我们接受基督作为赎罪祭，就是把自己当作罪人，甚至当作罪来审判。一次又一次，我们需要基督作赎罪祭，我们也需要受到审判。保罗在罗马八章三节说，神差祂自己的儿子成为罪之肉体的形状，在肉体中定罪了罪，就是说到基督作赎罪祭。
10Christ has fulfilled God’s requirements to satisfy Him, and He has borne God’s judgment on our behalf. In Him our sinful nature has been judged. Whenever we take Christ as our sin offering, we judge ourselves as sinners, even as sin. Again and again, we need Christ as our sin offering and we need to be judged. Paul refers to Christ as the sin offering in Romans 8:3, when he says that God sent His own Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin and concerning sin, and condemned sin in the flesh.
11出埃及记二十九章十至十一节说到赎罪祭：“你要把公牛牵到会幕前，亚伦和他儿子要按手在公牛的头上。你要在耶和华面前，在会幕门口，宰这公牛。”我们今天必须把手按在基督头上，完完全全与祂联合。
11Exodus 29:10 says concerning the sin offering, “And you shall bring the bull near before the tent of meeting and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the bull. And you shall slaughter the bull before Jehovah at the door of the tent of meeting.” We today must lay our hands upon Christ and be fully identified with Him.
12倘若我们要作祭司事奉神，首先必须晓得，我们还是有罪恶的性情，在经历上需要基督作我们的赎罪祭。我们在自己里面是罪恶的，我们是罪人，甚至我们这个人就是罪。我们何等需要基督作我们的赎罪祭！这就是保罗在林后五章二十一节说：“神使那不知罪的，替我们成为罪，好叫我们在祂里面成为神的义”（恢复版）的原因。
12If we would serve God as priests, we must first have the realization that we still have a sinful nature and that we need Christ experientially to be our sin offering. In ourselves we are sinful. We are sinners, even sin itself. How we need Christ as our sin offering! This is the reason Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5:21, “Him who did not know sin He made sin on our behalf, that we might become God’s righteousness in Him.”
13基督之完全的甜美与丰富满足了神，藉着焚烧而上升成为神的满足。基督作为赎罪祭，也被神所弃绝，并为我们受了祂的审判。话的洗净主要是对付外面的污秽，赎罪祭则是对付里面罪恶的性情。要成为祭司，单单承认我们因属地的接触而污秽了，需要被洗净还不彀。我们也必须晓得并承认，甚至我们这些要成为祭司事奉神的人，仍旧有罪恶的性情。我们还是罪人，因此需要基督作我们的赎罪祭。我们需要祂和祂一切的完全都被焚烧作为神的满足，我们也需要基督被焚烧，好替我们担当神的审判。
13The sweetness and richness of Christ’s perfection satisfies God, ascending through burning for His satisfaction. As the sin offering, Christ was also abandoned by God and judged by Him for us. The washing of the word mainly deals with outward defilement. The sin offering deals with the sinful nature within. To be a priest, it is not adequate simply to confess that we have been defiled by the earthly touch and need to be washed. We must also realize and admit that even we who would be priests serving God still have a sinful nature. We are still sinners. Therefore, we need Christ to be our sin offering. We need Him with all His perfections to be burned for God’s satisfaction. We also need Christ to be burned to bear God’s judgment on our behalf.
晓得我们有罪恶的性情
Realizing that we have a sinful nature
14如果我们晓得我们有罪恶的性情，并且把手按在基督头上，完全与祂合而为一，我们就要得着保护，而且照豫表来看，我们就豫备好要享受祭司的食物。倘若我们要作祭司事奉神，我们就需要外面话的洗净，也需要穿上基督作我们的衣服。然而，我们还需要里面的滋养和充满。这种滋养需要更深的洁净，就是因着基督作我们的赎罪祭而有的洁净，这种洁净对付我们罪恶的性情。每当你作祭司、事奉神的时候，就必须晓得并承认，你的性情还是罪恶的。如果你没有这种体认，你就无法享受公绵羊、无酵饼、调油的无酵饼、无酵薄饼所豫表的基督。我们不晓得自己有罪恶的性情，需要基督作我们的赎罪祭，我们就无法充分享受基督。
14If we realize that we have a sinful nature and if we lay our hands on Christ to be fully identified with Him, we shall be protected and, according to typology, prepared to enjoy the priestly food. If we would be priests serving God, we need the outward washing of the word, and we also need to put on Christ as our garment. However, we also need the inward nourishing and filling. This nourishing requires a deeper cleansing, a cleansing by Christ as our sin offering. This cleansing deals with our sinful nature. Whenever you come to serve God as a priest, you must realize and confess that your nature is still sinful. If you do not have this realization, you will not be able to enjoy the Christ typified by the rams, the unleavened bread, the unleavened, perforated cakes, and the unleavened wafers. We cannot enjoy Christ adequately without realizing that we have a sinful nature and need Christ to be our sin offering.
15五十五年前我才开始晓得我的性情是罪恶的，然而，今天我的体认更深了。经过多年的经历，我完全晓得我生来是罪恶的，我生来就是一个罪人，带着罪恶的性情。事实上，我这个人生来就是罪。在我信主以来的这些年日里，这罪恶的性情并没有改变。我愈了解这一点，就愈接受基督作我的赎罪祭。一方面，我晓得自己有罪恶的性情，并接受基督作我的赎罪祭，就使我受到审判，并被征服。另一方面，这也保守了我，因它使我不信靠自己，我一再地被题醒，我在肉体里面不过就是罪。
15Fifty-five years ago I began to realize that my nature is sinful. Today, however, I have a much deeper realization regarding this. After many years of experience, I know fully that I was born sinful, that I was born a sinner with a sinful nature. In fact, I was born sin. This sinful nature has not changed during the years I have been with the Lord. The more I realize this, the more I take Christ as my sin offering. On the one hand, realizing that I have a sinful nature and taking Christ as my sin offering causes me to be judged and subdued. On the other hand, it preserves me, for it causes me not to have any confidence in myself. I am reminded again and again that in my flesh I am nothing but sin.
16有时候，信徒不懂得属灵而老练的弟兄怎么会落到严重的罪里。我们应当晓得，我们有可能犯这样的罪，想想大卫的例子。当然，大卫是旧约的圣徒，他实在是圣的，写了许多属灵的诗歌。但大卫罪恶的性情拔除了么？当然没有。他因着情欲的缘故，谋杀了一个人，然后娶了那人的妻子。连大卫这样的圣徒也能彀犯这样的罪。大卫不是犯罪以后才成为圣徒的；他在犯罪以前就是圣徒，然而，他还是落在罪里。
16Sometimes believers wonder how any brother who is spiritual and experienced could fall into serious sin. We should realize that we are capable of such sin. Consider David as an example. David, of course, was an Old Testament saint. He truly was saintly and wrote many spiritual songs. But was David’s sinful nature eradicated? Certainly not. For the sake of his lust he had a certain man murdered, and then he took that man’s wife. Even someone as saintly as David was capable of such sin. David did not become saintly after committing that sin; he was saintly beforehand. Nevertheless, he still fell into sin.
17假设大卫受试探要犯罪的时候，想到他是罪恶的，并把赎罪祭献给神。如果情况是这样的话，我的确相信他不会犯那样的罪。大卫犯了罪也许是因为他一时忘了他是多么的罪恶，不晓得他的性情是罪恶的。我们该从他的经历中学习不要对自己有丝毫的信心。
17Suppose when David was tempted to commit that sin, he remembered that he was sinful and offered a sin offering to God. If that had been the case, I do believe that he would not have committed that sin. It might have been that David committed sin because he temporarily ceased to remember how sinful he was. He lost the realization that his nature was sinful. We should learn from his experience not to have the slightest confidence in ourselves.
18我在别处曾指出，弟兄和姊妹不该在私人的房间里单独长谈，这么作表明我们不晓得自己需要基督作赎罪祭。如果我们题醒自己需要基督作我们的赎罪祭，就不会和异性的肢体私下长谈了。不但如此，我们在其它许多事上也不会信靠自己，因为我们知道自己还是罪恶的。
18Elsewhere I have pointed out that a brother and sister should not have a long talk alone in a private room. To do that indicates that we do not realize our need of Christ as our sin offering. If we remind ourselves of our need for Christ as our sin offering, we shall not engage in long conversations with members of the opposite sex in private. Furthermore, with respect to many other things, we shall not have any trust in ourselves, for we shall know that we are still sinful.
19我们天天都需要基督作我们的赎罪祭。早晨起休后，我们需要再一次记得并了解，我们在性情上是罪恶的，我们生来就是罪人，需要基督作我们的赎罪祭。不错，我们已经重生了，但罪恶的性情还随着我们。我们有圣灵在我们的灵里，但我们的性情还是罪恶的。因此，如果我们要享受基督作公绵羊、作薄饼、作无酵饼，我们首先必须应用基督作赎罪祭。应用基督作赎罪祭，就使我们豫备好对基督有进一步的享受。
19Every day we need Christ as our sin offering. After rising up in the morning, we need to recall and realize once again that we are sinful in nature, that we were born sinners, and that we need Christ as our sin offering. Yes, we have been regenerated, but our sinful nature remains with us. We have the Holy Spirit in our spirit, but our nature is still sinful. Therefore, if we would enjoy Christ as the ram, wafers, cakes, and bread, we must first apply Christ as the sin offering. Applying Christ as the sin offering will prepare us for further enjoyment of Christ.
20论到赎罪祭的这段话，对我们不该仅仅是个道理，我们都需要更多经历基督作我们的赎罪祭。让我们都得着鼓励，这样多而又多地经历基督。
20This word concerning the sin offering should not be a mere doctrine to us. We all need to have more experience of Christ as our sin offering. Let us all be encouraged to experience Christ in this way more and more.
赎罪祭的细节
Details of the sin offering
21照二十九章一节来看，用来使亚伦和他儿子成圣作祭司的，乃是一只公牛犊。这只公牛犊豫表基督是强壮的，而且生命丰富。我们已经看见，亚伦和他的儿子把手按在公牛的头上，是表征信徒与基督联合。照十一节来看，摩西要在耶和华面前，在会幕门口，宰这公牛。这表征基督在神百姓面前，在神自己面前，被神─由摩西作代表─所杀。（赛五三10。）
21According to 29:1, the sin offering used in sanctifying Aaron and his sons to be priests was a young bull. This young bull typifies Christ being strong and rich in life. We have seen that Aaron and his sons laying their hands upon the head of the bull signifies the believers being identified with Christ. According to verse 11, Moses was required to slaughter the bull before the Lord at the door of the tent of meeting. This signifies that Christ was slain by God, represented by Moses, before God Himself in front of His people (Isa. 53:10).
22十二节继续说：“要取些公牛的血，用指头抹在坛的四角上，把血都倒在坛脚那里。”这表征以稳固的根基使基督的救赎有能力。
22Verse 12 goes on to say, “And you shall take of the blood of the bull, and put it upon the horns of the altar with your finger; and pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.” This signifies making the redemption of Christ powerful with a strong foundation.
23我们已经指出，焚烧盖脏的脂油，与肝上的网子，并两个腰子，和腰子上的脂油，乃是表征把基督里面的丰富和甜美献给神，作为祂的满足。公牛的肉、皮、粪烧在营外，是表征基督外面的人在地上为信徒献上，好救赎他们。
23As we have pointed out, the burning of the fat covering the inwards, the net on the liver and the two kidneys and their fat signifies the riches and sweetness of the inward being of Christ offered to God for His satisfaction. The burning of the flesh of the bull with its skin and dung outside the camp signifies the outward being of Christ sacrificed for the believers on this earth for their redemption.
我们需要被基督充满
Our need to be filled with Christ
24到目前为止我们所说的一个要紧的点乃是：我们要作祭司，就必须被基督充满。我们都必须晓得，离了基督，我们就完全是虚空的，没有甚么东西可以满足神和我们自己。我们得救以前，我们完全是虚空的，没有东西来充满我们，使我们有资格事奉神。但神愿意使我们成圣，把我们分别出来，作祂的祭司。要这么作，祂就必须把我们的虚空充满了，使我们能彀满足祂。这就是里里外外都用基督把我们的手充满了。从外面来说，我们穿上基督作为内袍、以弗得的外袍、以弗得和胸牌。这些衣服都是豫表基督不同的方面遮盖我们的赤身露体。既然我们被他所遮盖，就不再是赤身露体的了。反之，基督作我们的衣服，使我们有资格作祭司来事奉。
24One crucial point we have covered thus far is that to be a priest we need to be filled up with Christ. We all must realize that, apart from Christ, we are utterly empty, void of anything to satisfy God and ourselves. Before we were saved, we were absolutely empty. We had nothing to fill us and qualify us so that we might serve God. But God intends to sanctify us, to set us apart, to be His priests. In order to do this, He needs to fill our emptiness so that we may be able to satisfy Him. Outwardly and inwardly, this is to fill our hands with Christ. Outwardly, we are clothed with Christ as the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastplate. All these garments typify different aspects of Christ covering our nakedness. Now that we are covered by Him, we are no longer naked. Rather, Christ as our clothing qualifies us to serve as priests.
25祭司所穿的衣服使他们有资格事奉神。祭司的衣服可比喻为制服，在许多行业里，人必须穿上合式的制服才有资格服勤。比方说，警察和护士都必须穿上合式的制服。同样的原则，法官和医生也必须穿上适当的衣服。我们穿上基督，祂就成为这件衣服，使我们有资格作祭司事奉神。祂遮盖了我们的赤身露体。
25The clothing worn by the priests qualified them to serve God. Their priestly garments can be compared to a uniform. In many types of employment, a person must wear the proper uniform to be qualified for work. For example, both a policeman and a nurse must wear the appropriate uniform. In the same principle, a judge and a medical doctor also wear appropriate clothing. When we wear Christ, He becomes the clothing that qualifies us to serve God as priests. He is the covering for our nakedness.
26从里面来说，基督是我们的滋养和力量，祂把我们里面的虚空充满了。
26Inwardly Christ is our nourishment and strength. He fills the emptiness within our being.
27要充满我们里面的虚空，基督就必须解决我们与神之间的基本难处，就是我们罪恶的性情。我们在肉体里面是罪恶的，事实上，我们就是罪。照罗马七章来看，没有良善住在我们里面，就是住在我们肉体里面，因为我们不过是罪罢了。因此，基督成了赎罪祭，要解决我们与神的基本难处，使我们里面的虚空得以充满。
27In order to fill our inward emptiness, Christ had to solve our basic problem with God, the problem of our sinful nature. In our flesh we are sinful. Actually we are sin. According to Romans 7, nothing good dwells in us, that is, in our flesh, for we are nothing but sin. Therefore, Christ has become the sin offering to solve our basic problem with God so that our inward emptiness may be filled.
豫备好享受基督
Preparing to enjoy Christ
28与作祭司事奉神有关的第二个要紧的点乃是：每当我们这样事奉神的时候，都必须晓得并承认，我们有一个罪恶的性情，每天早晨我们都需要献上赎罪祭。这是要题醒我们，在肉体里面，我们不过是罪罢了。
28A second crucial point related to serving God as priests is that whenever we would serve Him in this way, we need to realize and confess that we have a sinful nature. Every morning we need to offer the sin offering. This is to be reminded that in our flesh we are nothing but sin.
29如果我们晓得并承认自己有罪恶的性情，我们可能会与别人辩论或争吵么？当然不可能。既然我们自己的性情是罪恶的，我们还有甚么权利与别人争辩？我们有甚么理由骄傲，认为自己超人一等？我们辩论、争吵的原因就是看自己比别人强。这种态度表明我们忘了我们的所是，忘了我们是罪恶。如果我们记得我们的性情是罪恶的，甚至就是罪，我们就不会骄傲了。
29If we realize and admit that we have a sinful nature, will it be possible for us to argue with others or fight with them? Certainly not. Since we ourselves are sinful in nature, what right have we to argue with others? What reason have we to be proud or to consider ourselves superior? The reason we argue and fight is that we consider ourselves better than others. This attitude is an indication that we have forgotten what we are, that we have forgotten that we are sinful. If we remember that we are sinful in nature, even sin itself, we shall not be proud.
30把基督当作赎罪祭献上，就为我们豫备了一条路来享受基督。如果早晨你把基督当作赎罪祭献上，你在一天之中定规会享受祂，也许享受祂作公绵羊、饼或薄饼。倘若你忘了赎罪祭，你就没有享受基督的根据。你在一天之中很可能会缺少对基督的享受。没有对基督的享受，结果你就是虚空的。那么你里面怎能满意于作祭司事奉神呢？你在名义上、地位上是祭司，但实际上却不是。所有在基督里的信徒都是祭司，但事实上他们多半没有作祭司来事奉的根据。
30Offering Christ as the sin offering prepares the way for us to enjoy Christ. If in the morning you offer Christ as the sin offering, surely during the day you will enjoy Him, perhaps as a ram, bread, cakes, or wafers. If you do not remember the sin offering, you will not have the basis to enjoy Christ. Very probably, you will be short of the enjoyment of Christ during the day. As a result of not having the enjoyment of Christ, you will be empty. How, then, will you be satisfied inwardly to serve God as a priest? You will be a priest in name and in position, but not in reality. All believers in Christ are priests, but in actuality most of them do not have the basis to serve as priests.
从基督得餧养的路
The way to feed on Christ
31我对出埃及记二十九章的负担不是要讲些道理的点，就如把血抹在坛的四角上，或是把血倒在坛脚那里。我的负担乃是要指明我们何等需要被基督充满，并从基督得餧养。出埃及记二十九章给我们看见从基督得餧养的路。然而，这一章里所启示的路很不寻常，就连晓得这一章是告诉我们从基督得餧养的路也很奇妙。许多人把这一章读了好多遍，却不晓得它是告诉我们从基督得餧养的路。我们也许看见了祭物、洁净以及血的应用，却没有看见从基督得餧养。
31My burden concerning Exodus 29 is not to cover doctrinal points such as the putting of the blood upon the horns of the altar, or pouring out the blood at the base of the altar. My burden is to show how we need to be filled up with Christ and to feed on Christ. Chapter twenty-nine of Exodus shows us the way to feed on Christ. However, the way revealed in this chapter is quite unusual. It is marvelous even to realize that this chapter gives us the way to feed on Christ. Many have read this chapter a number of times without realizing that it gives us the way to feed on Christ. We may see the offerings, the cleansing, and the application of the blood but not the feeding on Christ.
关心生命的经历
Caring for the experience of life
32我不信有甚么书上会说到出埃及记二十九章是启示从基督得餧养的路。基督徒多半没有看见这件事，因为他们不在生命的线上。但因着主的怜悯，我们是在这条线上，这就是我们把查读圣经称为生命读经的原因。每当我们读一段主的话，我们所关心的乃是生命，我们研读出埃及记二十九章也是这样。由这一章可见，我们需要被基督充满，我们所需要的乃是生命的经历。因此，每当我摸着圣经中生命的事，我就完全被占有，不太去强调道理的点。
32I doubt if there are any books which say that Exodus 29 reveals the way to feed on Christ. Most Christians do not see this matter because they are not on the line of life. But by the Lord’s mercy we are on this line. This is the reason we call our study of the Bible a life-study. When we read a portion of the Word, what we care for is life. This is also true of our study of Exodus 29. From this chapter we see that we need to be filled with Christ. What we need is the experience of life. Thus, whenever I touch the matter of life in a chapter of the Bible, I am fully occupied and give less emphasis to doctrinal points.
33有些圣经教师对赎罪祭有许多可说的，他们的查考在道理上也许非常有趣。你也许发觉到这种查考很吸引人，但最终会把你从生命里岔出去，仅仅在头脑里领会豫表道理上的教训，结果，你并没有得着甚么生命的供应。我们乃是从另一个观点来查读出埃及记二十九章，这就是为甚么我指出我们需要献上赎罪祭，为着豫备好来享受基督的原因。
33Certain Bible teachers have much to say concerning the sin offering. Their approach may be very interesting in a doctrinal way. You may find this approach attractive, but eventually it will distract you from life to the mere mental understanding of doctrinal teachings of typology. The result is that you do not receive any life supply. We approach Exodus 29 from another perspective. This is why I point out that we need to offer the sin offering in order to be prepared to enjoy Christ.
34愿我们都看见我们需要被基督充满，愿我们也晓得我们还有罪恶的性情，每天清晨需要献上基督作我们的赎罪祭。这罪恶的性情和在营外的赎罪祭一样，只配定罪、焚烧。倘若我们有这种领会，把基督当作赎罪祭献上，我们就会蒙保守，并且有路来享受更多的基督。
34May we all see that we need to be filled with Christ. May we also realize that we still have a sinful nature and that daily, early in the morning, we need to offer Christ as our sin offering. This sinful nature deserves to be condemned, burned, as was the sin offering outside the camp. If we offer Christ as the sin offering with this realization, we shall be preserved, and we shall have the way to enjoy more of Christ.