西三16　当用各样的智慧，让基督的话丰丰富富地住在你们里面，用诗章、颂辞、灵歌，彼此教导，互相劝戒，心被恩感歌颂神。

　　弗五18~19　不要醉酒，醉酒使人放荡，乃要在灵里被充满，用诗章、颂辞、灵歌，彼此对说，从心中向主歌唱、颂咏。

　　我们许多人多年读圣经，却不晓得我们能借着歌唱来接受神的话。你有否实行，不但借着读，也借着唱，来接受圣经节？基督徒受教导要查考圣经，研读圣经，却没有受教导要歌唱圣经。我们感谢主恢复祷读主话。现今我们必须往前到唱读神的话。我们需要借着歌唱，用各样的智慧，让基督的话丰丰富富地住在我们里面。这不是我的教导；这是使徒保罗在歌罗西三章十六节所给的嘱咐（腓立比书生命读经，四二四至四二五页）。

　　Col. 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God.

　　Eph. 5:18-19 …Be filled in spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and psalming with your heart to the Lord.

　　Many of us have read the Bible for years without realizing that we can receive the Word of God by singing. Is it your practice to take a verse of the Bible not only by reading, but also by singing? Christians have been taught to study the Bible and to read it, but not to sing it. We are thankful for the recovery of pray-reading the Word. Now we must go on to sing-read the Word of God. We need to let the word of Christ dwell in us richly in all wisdom by singing. This is not my teaching; it is the charge given by the apostle Paul in Colossians 3:16. (Life-study of Philippians, pp. 355-356)

　　我们若真渴望被活的话浸透，使我们活基督，就需要跟随保罗在歌罗西三章十六节所提倡的实行。这就是说，我们必须让基督的话丰丰富富地住在我们里面，不是单单凭着来自心思的知识，乃是凭着来自我们灵的各样智慧，包括歌唱和颂咏。哦，我们需要歌唱并颂咏神的话！歌唱神的话比读神的话更好，颂咏神的话又比歌唱神的话更好。颂咏神的话包括默想这话，并享受这话。我们颂咏神的话时，就思想这话，默想这话，并享受这话，因此给这话更多的机会浸透我们。

　　我们若只读神的话，我们所读的那段话就不太有机会深入我们里面，并浸透我们这人。但我们若歌唱神的话，特别是颂咏这话，就将我们全人更完全的向话敞开，并给这话机会深入我们，并浸透我们。……让我们不单在聚会中歌唱并颂咏神的话。让我们天天来到话跟前，用我们全人歌唱并颂咏这话。在歌唱并颂咏神的话时，让我们运用我们的声音、我们的心思、我们的心和我们的灵。……不但如此，我盼望从现在起，在召会的聚会中，会将更多的地位给自然地歌唱神的话一事。可能在某个聚会中，我们会歌唱或颂咏以弗所书。毫无疑问，我们若花整个聚会这样作，就会摸着这封书信里的丰富。

　　以弗所五章十八至十九节是与歌罗西三章十六节平行的。……我们将两处经文放在一起，就看见我们应当在灵里被基督的话充满。这两段话有相同的目标—我们应当使我们的灵被主的话充满。

　　当基督的元素借着我们歌唱并颂咏主的话，注入我们里面时，我们就自然且自动地活基督。有时候我们也许读主的话，而没有任何基督的元素注入我们这人里面。但我们歌唱并颂咏主的话，我们就被包含在话里，并借着话传达给我们的神圣元素所浸透。我们越歌唱并颂咏主的话，就越给话机会住在我们里面，深入我们里面，并用神圣的元素饱和我们。然后我们就会由基督的元素所构成。我们便自动成为我们所吃的，并活出我们所吸收的。这就是活基督的路。

　　在腓立比二章十六节保罗说到“将生命的话表明出来”。生命的话与死的字句道理大不相同。生命的话是神活的呼出（提后三16），是赐人生命的灵（约六63）。我们有主耶稣作我们的榜样（腓二6~11），我们有神在里面运行（13），我们是神的儿女，有神的生命和神的性情（15），我们是发光之体，有资格返照基督神圣的光（15），我们还有生命的话向人表明、陈明出来。何等神圣、丰富的供备！借此我们足能完成神的救恩到顶点（腓立比书生命读经，四二六至四二七、四二九、一三四至一三五页）。

　　参读：腓立比书生命读经，第四十至四十一、四十六篇。

　　If we sincerely desire to be saturated with the living Word so that we may live Christ, we need to follow the practice advocated by Paul in Colossians 3:16. This means that we must let the word of Christ inhabit us in a rich way, not by mere knowledge from the mind, but by every kind of wisdom from our spirit, including singing and psalming. Oh, we need to sing and psalm the Word of God! To sing the Word is better than reading it, and to psalm the Word is even better than singing it. Psalming the Word includes musing upon it and enjoying it. As we psalm the Word, we dwell upon it, muse on it, and enjoy it, thereby giving more opportunity for the Word to saturate us.

　　If we only read the Word, there is little opportunity for the portion we read to sink into us and saturate our being. But if we sing the Word, and especially if we psalm it, we open our being more fully to the Word and give it the opportunity to sink into us and saturate us…. Let us sing and psalm the Word of God not only in the meetings. Let us come to the Word daily to sing and psalm it with our whole being. In singing and psalming the Word of God, let us exercise our voice, our mind, our heart, and our spirit. Furthermore, I hope that from now on in the church meetings more place will be given to spontaneous singing of the Word. Perhaps in a certain meeting we shall sing or psalm the whole book of Ephesians. No doubt, if we spend an entire meeting to do this, we shall touch the riches in this Epistle.

　　Ephesians 5:18-19 is parallel to Colossians 3:16…. When we put these verses together, we see that we should be filled in spirit with the word of Christ. These two portions of the Word have the same goal—that we should have our spirit filled with the Word.

　　When the element of Christ has been infused into us by our singing and psalming the Word, we live Christ spontaneously and automatically. Sometimes we may read the Word without having any element of Christ infused into our being. But when we sing and psalm the Word, we are saturated with the divine element contained in the Word and conveyed to us through the Word. The more we sing and psalm the Word, the more we give opportunity to the Word to dwell in us, sink into us, and permeate us with the divine element. Then we shall be constituted of the element of Christ. Automatically we shall become what we eat and live out what we have absorbed. This is the way to live Christ.

　　In Philippians 2:16 Paul speaks of “holding forth the word of life.” The word of life is very different from doctrine in dead letters. The word of life is the living breathing of God (2 Tim. 3:16), the Spirit who gives life (John 6:63). We have the Lord Jesus as our pattern (Phil. 2:6-11), we have God operating in us (v. 13), we are God's children possessing God's life and the divine nature (v. 15), we are luminaries qualified to reflect the divine light of Christ (v. 15), and we have the word of life to hold forth, to present to others. What a divine and rich provision! By such we are well able to carry out God's salvation to the full extent. (Life-study of Philippians, pp. 356-359, 114)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Philippians, msgs. 40-41, 46