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出埃及记生命读经 · 第142篇

亚伦和他的儿子成圣作祭司（十）

The sanctification of Aaron and his sons to be the priests (10)
1读经： 出埃及记二十九章二十九至四十六节。
1Scripture Reading: Exo. 29:29-46
2在已过的信息里我们指出，如果我们要进到与神合一的里面，就需要献上赎罪祭。事实上，这祭不是直接给神的食物，而是解决我们与神之间的难处，使我们能彀与祂有交通。
2In the foregoing message we pointed out that if we would be brought into oneness with God, we need to offer the sin offering. This offering is not actually food for God in a direct way. Rather, it solves the problem between us and God so that we may have fellowship with Him.
在祭坛上成立了蔽罪
Propitiation made upon the altar
3出埃及记二十九章三十五节、三十六节说：“你要这样照我一切所吩咐的，将亚伦和他儿子的手充满七天。每天要献公牛一只，为赎罪祭，为着蔽罪；你在坛上蔽罪成立的时候，坛就洁净了；且要用膏抹坛，使坛成圣。”（另译。）三十五节所题起的七天是表征一段完全的期间，也就是我们的一生。我们每天都需要献上基督作我们的赎罪祭。照三十六节来看，作为赎罪祭的公牛乃是为着蔽罪而献上的。这里所著重的乃是祭坛上的蔽罪。
3Exodus 29:35 and 36 say, “And thus you shall do to Aaron and his sons, according to all which I have commanded you; seven days you shall fill their hands. And every day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for propitiation; and you shall purify the altar when you make propitiation upon it; and you shall anoint it to sanctify it.” The seven days mentioned in verse 35 signify a full course of time, that is, our entire life. Every day we need to offer Christ as our sin offering. According to verse 36, the bull as a sin offering was offered for propitiation. Here the emphasis is propitiation on the altar.
4祭坛乃是藉着其上所成立的蔽罪来洁净的。我们应当记得，祭坛是一个餐桌。每当我们要在餐桌上摆上饭食的时候，首先要清理桌子。我们要除去所有的灰尘，把桌子弄净。赎罪祭洁净了我们的餐桌─祭坛，使坛洁净，成为一个吃的场所。
4The altar is purified by having propitiation made upon it. The altar, we should remember, is a dining table. Whenever we are about to serve a meal, we first clean the table. We want to remove all dirt that is there and purify the table. The sin offering purifies our dining table, the altar, and makes it clean as a place for eating.
5三十六节说，要用膏抹坛，使坛成圣。这一节没有说到血。但在原则上，藉着洒血而成圣的这件事是启示在摩西别处的著作。没有疑问，祭坛是用血洁净的。然而在这里，祭坛是藉着膏而成圣的。血是表征基督的死，而油是表征那灵的涂抹。我们有血来洁净我们，也有那灵来涂抹我们。我们可以再用餐桌的比方。我们清理餐桌的时候，喜欢餐桌光洁、明亮。血使我们洁净，油使我们发光。所以我们需要血来洁净我们，也需要那灵来使我们发光。这就是成圣。
5Verse 36 says that the altar was to be anointed in order to be sanctified. In this verse nothing is said concerning the blood. But in principle the matter of sanctification through the sprinkling of the blood is revealed elsewhere in the writings of Moses. There is no question that the altar is purified by the blood. Here, however, the altar is sanctified by the anointing oil. Blood signifies the death of Christ, and oil, the anointing of the Spirit. We have the blood to purify us and the Spirit to anoint us. Again, we may use the illustration of a dining table. When we clean a dining table, we like it to be bright and shining. The blood purifies us, and the oil causes us to shine. Therefore we need both the blood to make us pure and the Spirit to cause us to shine. This is to be sanctified.
6我们必须记得，成圣就是被分别出来，被标明出来。其它的桌子也许都是污秽、阴暗的。它们又脏，又不发亮。但有一张桌子─祭坛─却是洁净，且抹了膏的。因此它是清洁的，也是发亮的。结果，这张桌子与其它的桌子都不一样，并且从它们中间分别了出来。
6We need to remember that to be sanctified is to be separated and marked out. All other tables may be unclean and dull. They are dirty, and they do not shine. But there is one table — the altar — that is purified and anointed. Thus, it is clean, and it is shining. As a result, this table is different from all other tables and separate from them.
7三十七节说：“要在坛上成立蔽罪七天，使坛成圣，坛就成为至圣，凡挨着坛的都成为圣。”（另译。）这里我们看见，必须天天在祭坛上成立蔽罪。祭坛成圣以后，就成为至圣的，凡挨着坛的都成为圣。这意思是说，在其上完成了蔽罪并且抹了油的祭坛，已经成为至圣的。这样的祭坛本身就能彀使挨着它的人成圣。凡挨着坛的人都成为圣，凡摆在坛上的物也照样成为圣。因此，献在祭坛上的东西自然而然就成圣了。
7Verse 37 says, “Seven days you shall make propitiation on the altar and sanctify it, and the altar shall become most holy; all that touches the altar shall be holy.” Here we see that propitiation was to be made on the altar every day. After the altar had been sanctified, it became most holy. Anyone who touched the altar became holy. This means that the altar on which propitiation has been accomplished and which has been anointed with oil has become most holy. As such, the altar itself is able to sanctify the one who touches it. Whoever touches the altar is sanctified, and whatever is put on the altar is likewise sanctified. Therefore, anything offered on the altar is spontaneously sanctified.
8我们每天都需要献上赎罪祭。我们这么作，就有一张完全清理干净并且抹了膏的餐桌。凡摆在桌上的都要成为圣。我们每天早晨都需要献上基督作赎罪祭。这会使我们有一个美好的早晨。人时常以“早安”这句话来彼此问侯。当我们说到美好的早晨时，我们不该是指着一种问安，而是指把赎罪祭献给神而有一个美好的早晨。倘若我们早晨把基督当作赎罪祭献给神，我们就会有一个美好的早晨，一个蔽罪的早晨。结果我们就有美好的一天，因为美好的早晨使整天都成圣了。
8Every day we need to offer the sin offering. When we do this, we have a dining table that has been fully cleansed and anointed. Whatever is placed on this table will then be sanctified. Every morning we need to offer Christ as the sin offering. This will cause us to have a good morning. People often greet one another with the words “good morning.” When we speak of a good morning, we should refer not to a greeting, but to having a good morning through offering the sin offering to God. If we present Christ as the sin offering to God in the morning, we shall have a good morning, a morning of propitiation. The result will be that we shall have a good day, for that good morning will sanctify the entire day.
9在已过的信息里，我们用了人邀请神来赴席的比方。当我们把基督当作赎罪祭献上时，我们这些邀请神来赴席的人，和神这位应邀者之间就不会出问题了。我们没有问题，反而有救赎的血和膏油，表征蔽罪与成圣。如今邀请者与应邀者之间有了平安，而且我们能彀一直给神摆上食物，作祂的满足。
9In the foregoing message we used the illustration of man inviting God to dinner. When we offer Christ as the sin offering, there will be no problem between us, those who invite God to dinner, and God, the One who is invited. Instead of problems, we shall have the redeeming blood and the anointing oil signifying propitiation and sanctification. Now there is peace between the inviting one and the invited One, and we can proceed to serve God food for His satisfaction.
10蔽罪这件事必须照着古代习俗的背景来领会。尤其是在犹太人中间，双方有难处的时候，就需要蔽罪。蔽罪完成了以后，有关双方就能彀在一起吃饭了。因着蔽罪已经成立，他们就能彀相和了。然后他们就能在平安里一同享受饭食。这是一幅图画、一个豫表，说出我们与神的关系。因着我们的罪，我们与神就出了难处。这个问题、这个难处的根源乃是撒但。他把罪注射到我们里面，这罪就成了一个难处。但基督是神的羔羊，来除去罪。这样祂就解决了难处，并成立了蔽罪。因此，每当我们把基督当作赎罪祭献给神时，我们就能享受祂为我们所作成的。这样，因着祂成了我们与神之间的蔽罪，我们与神就不再有难处了。反之，我们有平安，并且能彀在平安里与神一同坐席。
10The matter of propitiation needs to be understood according to the background of the practice in ancient times. Especially among Jews, when two parties had a problem, there was the need of propitiation. After propitiation had been accomplished, the parties involved could eat together. Because propitiation had been made, they could be at peace. Then in peace they could enjoy a meal together. This is a picture, a type, of the relationship between us and God. Because of our sin, we have a problem with God. The source of this problem, this trouble, is Satan. He injected sin into us, and that sin has become a problem. But Christ came as the Lamb of God to take away sin. In this way He solved the problem and made propitiation. Therefore, whenever we offer Him to God as the sin offering, we may enjoy what He has done for us. In this way, because He has made propitiation with God on our behalf, we no longer have a problem with God. Instead, we have peace, and in peace we can feast with God.
献给神的食物
The food offered to God
11三十八至四十二节说到每天要献两只羊羔作为直接给神的食物。三十八节说：“你每天所要献在坛上的，就是两只一岁的羊羔。”照二十九节来看，早晨要献这一只，黄昏的时候要献那一只。和每只羊羔同献的，要用细面伊法十分之一，与捣成的油一欣四分之一调和，又用酒一欣四分之一，作为奠祭。（40。）这些羊羔和面、油、酒要由洗净了、穿上衣服并得着饱足的祭司来献给神。
11Verses 38 through 41 speak of offering two lambs every day as food directly for God. Verse 38 says, “And this is what you shall offer upon the altar: two lambs a year old, every day continually.” According to verse 39, one lamb was to be offered in the morning, and the other lamb, in the evening. With each lamb there was an offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering (v. 40). The lambs with the flour, the oil, and the wine were offered to God by priests who had been washed, clothed, and satisfied.
12在这一点上，让我们来看用来豫备献给神作食物的“杂货”。这些杂货包含了两只羊羔和一些数量的面、油、酒。羊羔当然是属于动物界；面、油、酒则是属于植物界。这些货品都是豫表基督的各方面。基督就是我们的羊羔，是我们的小麦，是产生酒的葡萄树，也是产生油的橄榄树。
12At this point, let us consider the “groceries” used in preparing the food offered to God. These groceries include two lambs, an amount of flour, and a quantity of oil and wine. The lambs, of course, are of the animal kingdom; the flour, the oil, and the wine are of the vegetable kingdom. All these groceries typify aspects of Christ. Christ is our lamb, our wheat, our grapevine producing wine, and the olive tree producing oil.
13基督怎么能在这四方面成为我们的食品呢？如果我们要答覆这个问题，我们就必须晓得，这些东西对以色列人来说不仅仅是客观的，且是相当主观的，因为它们是以色列人所种植、所培育、所收成的东西。十分之一的收成要分别出来，在节期中献给神。因为这些东西是这样产生，它们对以色列人来说就是主观的。换句话说，这些东西是他们劳苦的出产，是属于以色列人的出产。
13How can Christ in these four aspects become groceries to us? If we would answer this question, we need to realize that these matters were not merely objective to the Israelites. Rather, they were quite subjective to them, because they were things grown, raised, and reaped by the children of Israel. A tenth of the harvest was set aside and, during the feasts, was offered to God. Because these items were produced in such a way, they were subjective to the children of Israel. In other words, these items were the produce of their labor, a produce that belonged to the children of Israel.
14在旧约里，神的百姓把他们所出产的献上。这指明我们献上作神食物的基督，对我们该是非常主观的。祂该是我们的出产，就是我们藉着劳苦和每天的经历所产生的。
14God’s people in the Old Testament offered what they had produced. This indicates that the Christ we offer to God as His food should be very subjective to us. He should be our produce, what we have produced by our labor and daily experience.
长出基督与培育基督
Growing Christ and raising Him
15最近我们说活基督说得很多。活基督实际上就是长出基督。这意思是说，我们活基督的时候，祂就在我们里面长大。在马太十三章，主耶稣把祂自己比喻为种子，把我们比喻为土壤。祂来把自己当作种子种到我们这土壤里面，叫我们能彀长出祂来。这种思想在新约里丰富地发展。例如，林前三章九节保罗说：“你们是神的农场。”本节繙作农场的希腊字原意为耕种的土壤、耕种的田地。我们是神所耕种的田地，为要长出基督。因此，我们产生基督是很要紧的。
15Recently we have been speaking much about living Christ. To live Christ is actually to grow Christ. This means that as we live Christ, He grows in us. In Matthew 13 the Lord Jesus likens Himself to seed and us to soil. He came to sow Himself as the seed into us as the soil so that we may grow Him. This thought is richly developed in the New Testament. For example, in 1 Corinthians 3:9 Paul says, “You are God’s farm.” Literally, the Greek word rendered farm in this verse means cultivated soil, cultivated land. We are God’s cultivated land for growing Christ. Therefore, it is crucial that we produce Christ.
16我们也许说到活基督，却不晓得活基督就是长出基督、培育基督。一方面，我们这些信徒是农场；另一方面，我们也是牧场。农场生产彀类和蔬菜，牧场却是为着培育牲畜。因此，我们长出基督这植物的生命，也培育基督这动物的生命。但现在我们需要问，如何来长出基督并培育基督。
16We may speak of living Christ, but we may not realize that to live Christ is to grow Him and raise Him. On the one hand, as believers we are a farm; on the other hand, we are a ranch. A farm produces cereal and vegetables, but a ranch is for the raising of cattle. Therefore, we are growing Christ as the vegetable life, and we are raising Him as the animal life. But now we need to ask how to grow Christ and how to raise Him.
17如果我们要培育基督成为一只公牛作我们的赎罪祭，我们每天早晨都必须把基督当作赎罪祭献上。我们愈把基督当作赎罪祭献上，祂在这方面就愈在我们里面长大。也许我们刚开始把祂当作赎罪祭献上的时候，祂是一只小小的公牛。但是当我们继续把祂献上的时候，祂就会逐渐长大。一段时间以后，祂终会成了一只大公牛。
17If we would raise Christ as a bull for our sin offering, every morning we need to practice offering Christ as our sin offering. The more we offer Christ as the sin offering, the more He will grow in us in this aspect. Perhaps when we first begin to offer Him as the sin offering, He will be a very small bull. But gradually, as we continue to offer Him, He will grow. Eventually, after a period of time, He will be a large bull.
18我由经历中晓得，每一次我们来接触神，都需要献上基督作赎罪祭。然而我和别人一同祷告时，我观察到，几乎没有人在祷告中把基督当作赎罪祭献上。我很希奇为甚么弟兄姊妹没有这样献上基督。他们不是罪恶的么？当然，我们都是罪恶的，但许多人并不觉得他们罪恶。我们吃东西以前怎样需要洗手，我们献上基督作赎罪祭也照样需要洗净自己。我们每天都需要把基督当作赎罪祭献给神。我们不该把这件事仅仅当作习惯或例行公事来作。反之，我们作这件事该有一个很强的印象和感觉，就是我们堕落的性情是罪恶的。我们察觉到我们是罪恶的，我们实际上就是罪，然后把基督当作赎罪祭献上，基督就会逐渐在我们里面长大，直到成为一只大公牛。
18From experience I have come to realize that every time we contact God, we need to offer Christ as the sin offering. However, in praying with others, I have observed that hardly anyone in prayer offers Christ as the sin offering. I have wondered why the brothers and sisters do not offer Christ in this way. Are they not sinful? Of course, we all are sinful, but many do not have the realization of their sinfulness. Just as we need to wash our hands before eating, we need to wash ourselves by offering Christ as our sin offering. Every day we need to offer Christ to God as our sin offering. We should not do this merely as a habit or routine. On the contrary, we should do it with a strong impression and consciousness that, in our fallen nature, we are sin. When we realize that we are sinful, that we are actually sin itself, and then offer Christ as our sin offering, Christ will little by little grow in us until He is a large bull.
19你也许觉得你所在之地的教会聚会相当不错，或是相当有进步。然而，聚会里有甚么食物呢？尤其是有没有把作公牛的基督当作赎罪祭献给神？在教会的聚会里，我们该听见这样的祷告：“主，我们承认自己是罪恶的，我们甚至就是罪。即使我们不觉得犯了甚么错。我们的性情还是罪恶的。主，每当我们进到你面前来接触你的时候，我们深深觉得，我们就是罪。我们需要你的儿子─我们的主耶稣基督，作我们的赎罪祭。”在擘饼聚会里该有人祷告说：“主，我们在你的桌子前观看你作我们的赎罪祭。主，我们感谢你作了我们的赎罪祭。”然而，在今天的基督徒中间属灵的贫穷相当普遍。死宗教把基督的丰富从许多主的子民当中夺去了。
19You may have the feeling that the meetings of the church in your locality are quite good or that they are improving. However, are there any groceries in the meetings? In particular, is Christ offered to God as a bull for a sin offering? In the church meetings we should hear prayers such as this: “Lord, we confess that we are sinful. Lord, we are even sin. Even if we do not feel that we have done anything wrong, we are still sinful in nature. Lord, whenever we come into Your presence to contact You, we have the deep realization that we are sin. We need Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, to be our sin offering.” At the Lord’s table some should pray, “Lord, here at Your table we behold You as our sin offering. We thank You, Lord, for becoming our sin offering.” However, among today’s Christians there is spiritual poverty. Dead religion has deprived so many of the Lord’s people of the riches of Christ.
正当的属灵教育
Proper spiritual education
20我晓得由于一些情形，许多在中国的青年人失去了正当的教育。照样，今天许多基督徒也失去了正当的属灵教育。许多传道人有口才、有知识、有才干，但他们很肤浅。我的心因这种光景而破碎了。亲爱的圣徒们，我们都需要更多真实的属灵教育。这个国家的基督徒也许有很高的属世教育，但在属灵的事上，许多人却失去了受教育的机会。他们可能通晓许多科学的事、物质的事，和今生的事，但他们对于属灵的事认识却很有限。然而我盼望在主恢复里的众圣徒都能得着上好的属灵教育。因此，我鼓励你们在生命读经的信息上花工夫。这些信息会帮助你得着属灵的教育。
20I have learned that due to certain situations, many young people in China have been deprived of a proper education. Likewise, many of today’s Christians have been deprived of the proper spiritual education. Many preachers are eloquent, knowledgeable, and capable, but they are shallow. My heart is broken over this situation. Dear saints, we all need more genuine spiritual education. Christians in this country may have a high secular education, but in spiritual things many are deprived. They may know a great deal about science, material things, and the affairs of this life, but they are limited in their knowledge of spiritual things. But I hope that all the saints in the Lord’s recovery will acquire the best spiritual education. Therefore, I encourage you to spend time in the Life-study Messages. These messages will help you to be educated spiritually.
把食物带到聚会里
Bringing the groceries to the meetings
21在教会的聚会里，我们必须有正当的内涵。我们不该有虚空的喊叫，就是没有内涵、没有实际的喊叫。在聚会中仅仅主动或所谓“活泼的”来尽功用还不彀，我们需要属灵的内涵。这内涵需要我们天天长出基督、培育基督。如果你不培育基督这动物的生命，你怎么有公牛或羊羔来献给神呢？如果你不耕地、撒种、浇灌作物，你怎么有小麦的收成呢？你怎么有油和酒呢？我们长出基督这植物的生命，并培育祂这动物的生命，是绝对不可少的。
21In the meetings of the church we must have the proper content. We should not have empty shouting, shouting void of content or reality. It is not sufficient merely to function in the meetings in an active way or in a so-called living way. We need spiritual content. This content requires that daily we grow Christ and raise Christ. If you do not raise Christ as the animal life, how can you have a bull or a lamb to offer to God? If you do not till the ground, sow seed, and water the crop, how can you have a harvest of wheat? How can you have oil and wine? It is absolutely necessary that we grow Christ as the vegetable life and raise Him as the animal life.
22我们怎样需要培育基督成为一只公牛，为着蔽罪，我们也照样需要培育基督成为一只羊羔，作为直接献给神的食物。这意思是说，我们需要培育基督成为一只公牛，也需要培育祂成为一只羊羔。那么我们来到聚会里，就会带著作为公牛和羊羔的基督。
22Just as we need to raise Christ as a bull for propitiation, we need to raise Him as a lamb to be food offered directly to God. This means that we need to raise Christ as a bull and also as a lamb. When we come to the meetings, we shall then bring Christ as a bull and a lamb.
23我们还需要长出基督作小麦，产生面；作橄榄树，产生油；作葡萄树，产生酒。长出小麦就是天天经历基督作我们生命的供应。小麦表征成为肉身的基督，而大麦表征复活里的基督。（参看包罗万有的基督，对基督这些方面更详尽的论述。）如果我们经历基督作为生命的供应，我们就会长出作小麦和大麦的基督。如果我们凭着我们灵里的那灵来活基督，我们就会长出作橄榄树的基督，好产生油。此外，如果我们在经历中倒出自己来活基督，我们就会长出葡萄树来产生酒，作奠祭。因此，要产生油和酒，我们就该天天活，也该天天死。我们需要一种活和死的生活。保罗说他天天被置于死地，一天又一天，他被交在基督的死里。这也该是我们的经历。也许我们天天都被别人，被我们的家人，被环境中不同的事物置于死地。当我们活出这种被置死地的生活，我们就会产生酒来作为奠祭。我盼望这简短的话语会使你对出埃及记二十九章所描述的属灵食物有些领会。
23We also need to grow Christ as wheat to produce flour, as olives to produce oil, and as a grapevine to produce wine. To grow wheat is to experience Christ daily as our life supply. Wheat signifies Christ in incarnation, whereas barley signifies Christ in resurrection. (For a fuller treatment of these aspects of Christ, see The All-Inclusive Christ.) If we experience Christ as our life supply, we shall grow Him as wheat and barley. If we live Christ by the Spirit in our spirit, we shall grow Him as olives to produce oil. Furthermore, if in our experience we pour out the self that lives Christ, we shall grow the grapevine to produce wine for a drink offering. Hence, to produce the oil and the wine, we should live daily and die daily. We need a life of living and dying. Paul said that daily he was put to death. Day by day he was delivered into the death of Christ. This should also be our experience. Daily we may be put to death by others, perhaps by our family or by different things in our environment. As we live such a life of being put to death, we shall produce wine for the drink offering. I hope that this brief and simple word will give you some understanding of the spiritual groceries described in Exodus 29.
24让我们都经历基督的丰富，并得着正当的属灵教育，使我们能彀活出更高水准的生活，而不是在今天基督徒一般低下的水平上。让我们长出基督、培育基督。然后我们就会有食物带到教会的聚会里。
24Let us all experience the riches of Christ and gain the proper spiritual education so that we may live a life on a higher plane, not on the low plane common among today’s Christians. Let us grow Christ and raise Christ. Then we shall have groceries to bring into the church meetings.