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Carrying Out the Stewardship of God for the One New Man
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贰 在神新约的经纶里,迫切需要神管家的职分—提前一4,西一25:
Ⅱ In the New Testament economy of God, there is the desperate need for the stewardship of God—1 Tim. 1:4; Col. 1:25:
一 管家职分是神的神圣安排,以完成祂新约的经纶—弗三2,林前九17。
A The stewardship is God's divine arrangement to carry out His New Testament economy—Eph. 3:2; 1 Cor. 9:17.
二 神的经纶成了神管家的职分,赐给所有的信徒—弗三2、9:
B The economy of God has become the stewardship of God given to all believers—Eph. 3:2, 9:
1 在以弗所三章,保罗用oikonomia(奥依克诺米亚)这个字来指两件事:
1 In Ephesians 3 Paul uses the Greek word oikonomia with two denotations:
a 关于神,“奥依克诺米亚”指神的经纶—9节。
a In relation to God, oikonomia denotes God's economy—v. 9.
b 关于我们,“奥依克诺米亚”指管家职分—2节。
b In relation to us, oikonomia denotes the stewardship—v. 2.
c 神管家的职分乃是照着神的经纶;就着神来说是经纶,就着我们来说是管家职分。
c The stewardship of God is according to the economy of God; with God it is a matter of economy, and with us it is a matter of stewardship.
2 恩典的管家职分,就是将基督的丰富分赐到我们这人里面,使我们能以长大成为召会—8节。
2 The stewardship of grace is the dispensing of the riches of Christ into our being so that we may grow and become the church—v. 8.
三 整本圣经的中心点乃是:神心头的愿望是要将祂自己分赐到人里面—腓二13,弗一5、9,三17上:
C The central point of the whole Bible is the desire of God's heart to dispense Himself into man—Phil. 2:13; Eph. 1:5, 9; 3:17a:
1 神的经纶是要实施将祂自己分赐到人里面这事—9节。
1 God's economy is to carry out the dispensing of Himself into man—v. 9.
2 那能完成神永远定旨的一个新人,接受神不断并永远的分赐—二15,四24,三17上:
2 The one new man, who can fulfill God's eternal purpose, receives God's continual and eternal dispensing—2:15; 4:24; 3:17a:
a 神好像一道稳定的水流,将祂自己一点一点地分赐到那些是新人各部分的人里—启二二1。
a Like a steady stream, God dispenses Himself little by little into those who are parts of the new man—Rev. 22:1.
b 神那不断、稳定并永远的分赐,将我们构成、配搭并建造在一起。
b God's continual, steady, and eternal dispensing constitutes us, coordinates us, and builds us up together.
 


晨兴喂养  
  弗三8 这恩典赐给了我这比众圣徒中最小者还小的,叫我将基督那追测不尽的丰富,当作福音传给外邦人。

   二15 在祂的肉体里,废掉了那规条中诫命的律法,好把两下在祂自己里面,创造成一个新人,成就了和平。

  保罗……把基督分赐到所有信徒里面。信徒们借着保罗接受这样的分赐,就能凭着他们所接受的供应而长大。由此可见保罗的职事是分赐的职事,把基督追测不尽的丰富分赐到我们里面,使我们能长大并成为召会。保罗不但把基督的丰富个别地分赐到圣徒里面,还把这些丰富团体地分赐到身体里面(哥林多前书生命读经,三五八页)。
  Eph. 3:8 To me, less than the least of all saints, was this grace given to announce to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ as the gospel.

  2:15 Abolishing in His flesh the law of the commandments in ordinances, that He might create the two in Himself into one new man, so making peace.

  Paul dispensed Christ into all the believers. Receiving such a dispensation through Paul, the believers could then grow with the supply they had received. By this we see that Paul's ministry was a dispensing ministry, a ministry of dispensing the unsearchable riches of Christ into our being so that we may grow and become the church. Paul dispensed Christ's riches not only into the saints individually, but also into the Body corporately. (Life-study of 1 Corinthians, p. 299)
信息选读  
  使徒保罗是以非常有意义的方式写以弗所书的。在一章,他给我们看见基督的身体是如何出自三一神的分赐而产生,并存在的。接着,他在二章从另一个角度,给我们看见我们这些为神的分赐所制造过,而成为基督的身体的人,原来是怎样的一班人。在这背景下,他给我们看见,召会,从神的分赐产生出来的宝贵之物,在宇宙中乃是神的一首最美的诗章,是天使所爱唱的。天使每逢看见一个罪人得救,就歌唱;当他们看见整个召会,他们当然更要歌唱。然后他给我们看见,基督在祂的死与复活里,用祂神圣的成分为材料,创造出一个宇宙的新人。末了,这个杰作,这个能完成神经纶的新人,在一位灵里被带到神那里,和神完全亲近,毫无间隔,就活在神的面光中,接受神继续不断、永远的

  分赐。神好像一道稳定的水流,将祂自己一点一点地分赐到那些是新人各部分的人里面。神那继续不断、稳定并永远的分赐,将我们配搭在一起,结构在一起,并建造在一起。这个建造的召会就是神在地上实行祂政权的国,也是祂施爱的家;并且成为神在我们灵里永远的安居之所(关于神圣分赐更深的研读,一四九至一五○页)。

  在今天的基督教里,很少有牧师或工人……实际地把基督的丰富分赐到神君尊家庭的众人里面。将这位丰富、包罗万有、居首位的基督,分赐到祂身体的肢体里面,需要神的管家职分。……这个管家职分就是新约里的职事。新约的职事,乃是将包罗万有的基督那追测不尽的丰富,分赐到神家的众人里面。……神的管家职分是按照神的经纶。在神,这是经纶的事,在我们,这是管家的职分。按照神的经纶,所有的圣徒,不论他们看来多微不足道,都有一分职事。这意思是说,每位圣徒都能将基督的丰富分赐到别人里面。

  神心头的愿望,是要将祂自己分赐到人里面。这是全本圣经的中心点。神的经纶就是要实施将祂自己分赐到人里面这事。我们乃是借着管家的职分,就是借着分赐基督丰富的职事,有分于这个经纶。基督的丰富分赐到我们里面以后,我们就需要接受负担,将这些丰富分赐到别人里面。在神来说,这些丰富是祂的经纶;在我们来说,是管家的职分;这些丰富由我们分赐到别人里面,就成了神的分赐。神的经纶临到我们时,就成了我们的管家职分。我们借着将基督分赐到别人里面,而尽我们的管家职分时,这就成为神在别人里面的分赐。因此,我们有经纶、管家职分和分赐(歌罗西书生命读经,一○九至一一○页)。

  参读:关于神圣分赐更深的研读,第十三篇。
  The apostle Paul wrote the book of Ephesians in a very meaningful way. In chapter 1 he shows how the Body of Christ is produced and exists out of the dispensing of the Triune God. Then in chapter 2 he begins from another angle to show the history of those who have been worked on by God's dispensing to become the Body of Christ. With that as the background, he shows that the church, a precious thing that was produced out of God's dispensing, is a masterpiece, a most beautiful poem in the universe, that the angels love to sing. Whenever the angels see a sinner saved, they sing. When they see the church, they will surely sing all the more. Then Paul shows that in Christ's death and resurrection He used His divine element as the material to produce a universal new man. Finally, this masterpiece, this new man that can accomplish God's eternal economy, is brought to God in one Spirit, having drawn near to God, without any barrier whatsoever, and remains in the presence of God to receive God's continual and eternal dispensing. Like a steady stream, God dispenses Himself little by little into those who have a part in this new man. It is this continual, steady, eternal dispensing that coordinates them together, constitutes them together, and builds them up together. This built-up church is God's kingdom on earth for the executing of His administration. It is also the household for the dispensing of His love, and as such, it becomes His eternal habitation in our spirit. (CWWL, 1990, vol. 3, “A Deeper Study of the Divine Dispensing,” p. 499)

  Not many ministers or workers in today's Christianity… are actually dispensing the riches of Christ into the members of God's royal family. The stewardship of God is needed for this rich, all-inclusive, preeminent Christ to be dispensed into the members of His Body. This stewardship is the ministry in the New Testament. The New Testament ministry is the dispensing of the unsearchable riches of the all-inclusive Christ into the members of God's family. The stewardship of God is according to the economy of God. With God it is a matter of economy; with us it is a matter of stewardship. All the saints, no matter how insignificant they may seem to be, have a ministry according to God's economy. This means that every saint can dispense the riches of Christ into others.

  The desire of God's heart is to dispense Himself into man. This is the central point of the whole Bible. God's economy is to carry out the dispensing of Himself into man. We share in this economy through our stewardship, our ministry of dispensing the riches of Christ. After the riches of Christ have been dispensed into us, we need to take up the burden to dispense them into others. With God these riches are His economy; with us they are the stewardship; and when they are dispensed by us into others, they become God's dispensation. When God's economy reaches us, it becomes our stewardship. When we carry out our stewardship by dispensing Christ into others, it becomes the dispensation of God into them. Hence, we have the economy, the stewardship, and the dis­pensation. (Life-study of Colossians, pp. 90-91)

  Further Reading: CWWL, 1990, vol. 3, “A Deeper Study of the Divine Dispensing,” ch. 13
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