耶三一33~34 耶和华说，那些日子以后，我与以色列家所立的约，乃是这样：我要将我的律法放在他们里面，写在他们心上；……他们各人不再教导自己的邻舍和自己的弟兄，说，你该认识耶和华；因为他们……都必认识我，因为我要赦免他们的罪孽，不再记念他们的罪……。

　　在新约里，应许我们四项福分：　宽恕我们的不义，以及忘记（赦免）我们的罪（来八12）；　将神的生命分赐到我们里面，借以分赐生命之律（10上）；　有特权得着神作我们的神，我们作祂的子民—这生命使我们能在与神的交通中享受神（10下）；　有生命的功能，使我们凭生命内里的路认识神（11）。照着神所成立的约，这四项福分都是祂的应许；但照着主所遗赠给我们的遗命，这四项福分乃是祂的遗赠物（圣经恢复本，来八12注1）。

　　Jer. 31:33-34 But this is the covenant which I will make…after those days, declares Jehovah: I will put My law in their inward parts and write it upon their hearts….And they will no longer teach, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for all of them will know Me…, for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.

　　In the new covenant four blessings are promised: (1) propitiation for our unrighteousnesses and the forgetting (forgiveness) of our sins (Heb. 8:12); (2) the imparting of the law of life by the imparting of the divine life into us (v. 10a); (3) the privilege of having God as our God and of being His people—the divine life’s enabling us to participate in the enjoyment of God in fellowship with Him (v. 10b); and (4) the function of life that enables us to know Him in the inward way of life (v. 11). According to the covenant that God consummated, these four blessings are His promise. But according to the testament that the Lord bequeathed to us, they are His bequests. (Heb. 8:12, footnote 1)

　　现在我们要专一地来说新约内容的特点。……新约的内容包含三大部分，这是希伯来八章十至十二节告诉我们的。以神永远的目的来说，神是先把祂的生命和能力赐给我们；然后在生命的律里作我们的神，叫我们在生命的律里作祂的子民；叫我们在里面对于祂有更深的认识，在外面把祂活出来。赦罪不过是达到祂的目的的一个手续，所以圣经在这里把赦罪摆在最后说。但是，以我们属灵的经历来说，我们总是先得洁净（因罪得赦免而得的洁净），然后在生命的律里作神的子民，在里面对于神有更深的认识。

　　现在我们先从罪得赦免说起。希伯来八章十至十一节是一气联下去的，十二节是另外起头的。请注意十二节起头的“因为”一辞。“因为我要宽恕他们的不义，绝不再记念他们的罪。”这就可见神宽恕我们的不义，不再记念我们的罪，是在给我们生命之前的。换句话说，十二节〔宽恕〕的事，是在十至十一节之前的。所以我们要先来看，凭着约，我们的罪是如何得着赦免，得着洗净的。

　　何等可惜，神记得的事，我们却忘记了；神不记得的事，我们偏又刻不忘怀。有的人常常在那里想：我已经犯了那么多、那么大的罪，神真的都赦免了么？神真的不再记念了么？有的人想：神不过把我们的罪涂抹一下，但是涂抹的痕迹犹在，神一看见，又要想起我是怎样的一个罪人了吧？凡是这样想的人，都是不懂得什么叫新约，所以他不会享受新约的权利。

　　我们必须记得，神赦免我们的罪，不再记念我们的罪，乃是履行新约里的第一件事。……神看见了主耶稣的血，就赦免了我们的罪，就不再记念我们的罪（什么是新约，七三、八○至八一页）。

　　有许多已经相信基督的人，他们得着了新约的福，却不知道新约的内容，以及这约所成就并产生的是什么。所以，我们有负担一再地强调新约。愿我们都看见新约，并完全被它占有（耶利米书生命读经，三一○页）。

　　参读：什么是新约，第六章；耶利米书生命读经，第三十九篇。

　　We will now look specifically at the characteristics of the content of the new covenant….According to Hebrews 8:10-12 the contents of the new covenant include three major parts. According to God’s eternal purpose, He first imparted His life and power into us; then He became our God in the law of life that we might be His people in the law of life, that we might have a deeper knowledge of Him, and that we might live Him out through us. Since forgiveness of sins is only a procedure by which to achieve His purpose, this Scripture puts forgiveness of sins at the very end. However, according to our spiritual experience, we first obtain cleansing, that is, the cleansing that comes from forgiveness, then we become God’s people in the law of life, and then we possess a deeper knowledge of God in an inward way.

　　Now let us look at the matter of forgiveness of sins. Hebrews 8:10 and 11 form one continuous thought, and verse 12 is another start. Notice the word for in verse 12. It says, “For I will be propitious to their unrighteousnesses, and their sins I shall by no means remember anymore.” The word for shows us that God’s being propitious to our unrighteousnesses and no longer remembering our sins occurs before we receive the life. In other words, what is mentioned in verse 12 occurs before that which is mentioned in verses 10 and 11. For this reason the first thing to see is how our sins are forgiven and cleansed according to the covenant.

　　How regrettable it is that what God remembers we forget, and what God does not remember we continue to keep in mind! Some people keep thinking, “I have committed so many grievous sins—has God really forgiven them all? Does God really forget them?” Others think, “God has blotted out my sins, but the trace of the blot is still there. Whenever God sees it, He will again remember what kind of sinner I am.” Those who have such thoughts do not know what the new covenant is. Hence, they do not know how to enjoy the rights of the new covenant.

　　We must not forget that God’s forgiveness of our sins and no longer remembering our sins is the fulfillment of the first item in the new covenant….When God sees the blood of the Lord Jesus, He forgives our sins and by no means remembers them anymore. (Watchman Nee, The New Covenant, pp. 67, 72-73)

　　Today there are many who have believed in Christ, who have received the blessing of the new covenant, and yet are not aware of the content of the new covenant and what it accomplishes and produces. Therefore, we have the burden to emphasize the new covenant again and again. May we all see the new covenant and be fully occupied with it. (Life-study of Jeremiah, p. 258)

　　Further Reading: Watchman Nee, The New Covenant, ch. 6; Life-study of Jeremiah, msg. 39