伯二3 ……你曾用心察看我的仆人约伯没有？地上没有人像他完全且正直，敬畏神，远离恶事；……他仍然持守他的纯全。

　　约十一25 耶稣对她说，我是复活，我是生命……。

　　神的目的不是要得着一个在善恶知识树线上的约伯，乃是要得着一个在生命树（创二9）线上的约伯。

　　神造亚当后，把他摆在两棵树跟前，一棵是生命树，一棵是善恶知识树。……神要亚当吃生命树。亚当若吃了生命树，这棵树就要进到他里面，然后长在他里面。然而，亚当吃了善恶知识树。这棵树因而种到亚当里面，长在他里面，也长在亚当一切的后裔里面。在约伯的时代，善恶知识树只有两千年，但今天这棵树已经有六千年之久。今天整个人类都是由善恶知识树所构成。在每个人类社会中，不论道德如何，善恶知识树总是一直在生长。只要这棵树在人类当中生长，就没有和平（约伯记生命读经，三五至三六页）。

　　Job 2:3 …Have you considered My servant Job? For there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity…

　　John 11:25 Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life…

　　God’s intention was not to have a Job in the line of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil but a Job in the line of the tree of life (Gen. 2:9).

　　After God created Adam, He placed him in front of two trees—the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil….God wanted Adam to eat of the tree of life. If Adam had eaten of the tree of life, this tree would have entered into him and then would have grown within him. However, Adam ate instead of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This tree was thus sown into Adam and grew within him, and it has been growing in all of Adam’s descendants. At Job’s time the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was only two thousand years old, but now it is six thousand years old. Today the entire human race is a race constituted according to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. In every human society, regardless of the kind of ethics it has, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is growing. As long as this tree is growing among the human race, there will be no peace. (Life-study of Job, pp. 29-30)

　　我们重生之前，都是在善恶知识树的线上。当我们重生时，基督就将祂自己这生命树栽种到我们里面〔参约十五5，十一25〕。然而，在我们实际的日常生活中，我们是在善恶知识树的线上，还是在生命树的线上？譬如，在我们的婚姻生活中，我们可能在知识树的线上；我们和配偶说话的方式，可能叫我们不但生长这棵树，更对它浇灌、施肥。那么，我们该怎么办？我们需要记住保罗在加拉太二章二十节的话—“现在活着的，不再是我，乃是基督在我里面活着，”而从知识树转向生命树。我们若如此行，就会活基督并生长基督这生命树。

　　 约伯像他的朋友一样，也停顿在善恶的知识里，不认识神的经纶，没有充分地看见神创造人的定旨。他和他的朋友都毫无神圣的启示，也无神圣生命的经历。他不知道神的目的不是要加增他的完全、正直、公义和纯全。相反的，神的目的是要剥夺他这些自以为满意的属人美德，好叫他只寻求神并得着神自己。他的朋友和他，都不在神所命定人该在的生命树线上。

　　在我们的日常生活中，我们不该在善恶知识树的范围里，乃该在赐生命之灵的范围里。我们不该照着善恶作任何事，反该与主成为一灵，借此照着灵作一切事。例如，我们需要在说话上与主成为一灵。我为主说话前，都有一个简单的祷告：“主，与我成为一灵，使我能与你成为一灵。主，在我的说话中说话，使我的说话成为你的说话。”这就是活在神永远经纶的分赐里。我们这样生活、说话，就享受神圣的分赐，基督就在我们里面加多。基督在我们里面增长，我们也在基督里面增长。

　　假定你和配偶之间有了难处，你不该作什么，因为你无论作什么，都是在善恶知识树的范围里。你只要祷读加拉太二章二十节。……不要注意难处或你的怒气，只要注意基督在你里面活着。我们在一切事上都该如此（约伯记生命读经，三六、四七、八四页）。

　　参读：人的肉体与人的灵，第二章。

　　Before we were regenerated, we were in the line of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. When we were regenerated, Christ planted Himself into us as the tree of life [cf. John 15:5; 11:25]. However, in our practical, daily living, are we in the line of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil or in the line of the tree of life? In our married life, for example, we may be in the line of the tree of knowledge, and by the way we talk with our spouse we may not only grow this tree but also water it and fertilize it. What, then, should we do? We need to remember Paul’s word in Galatians 2:20—”It is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me”—and turn from the tree of knowledge to the tree of life. If we do this, we will live Christ and grow Christ as the tree of life.

　　Job, like his friends, was halted in the knowledge of right and wrong, not knowing God’s economy, not realizing in an adequate way the purpose of God’s creating of man. He and his friends were devoid of the divine revelation and of the experience of the divine life. He had no idea that God had no intention to increase his perfection, uprightness, righteousness, and integrity. Rather, God’s intention was to strip all these human virtues which he had as his contentment, that he could seek and gain only God Himself. Neither his friends nor he were in the line of the tree of life as God ordained man to be.

　　In our daily living we should not be in the realm of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil but should be in the realm of the life-giving Spirit. We should not do anything according to good and evil. Instead, we should do everything according to the Spirit by being one spirit with the Lord. For instance, we need to be one spirit with the Lord in our speaking. Before I speak for the Lord, I pray one simple prayer: “Lord, be one spirit with me that I may be one spirit with You. Lord, speak in my speaking and make my speaking Your speaking.” This is to live in the dispensing of the eternal economy of God. When we live and speak in this way, we enjoy the divine dispensing, and Christ increases within us. Christ grows in us and we grow in Christ.

　　Suppose there is a problem between you and your spouse. You should not do anything, for whatever you do will be in the realm of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. You should simply pray-read Galatians 2:20…. Do not care for the problem or your anger—just care for Christ living in you. This should be our way in everything. (Life-study of Job, pp. 30, 40, 72)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1975-1976, vol. 1, “The Flesh and the Spirit,” ch. 2