陆 我们需要凭生命的感觉而活；生命的感觉就是在我们里面之神圣生命的感觉、知觉—罗八6，弗四18~19： |
Ⅵ We need to live by the sense of life—the feeling, the consciousness, of the divine life within us—Rom. 8:6; Eph. 4:18-19: |
一 生命感觉的源头是神圣的生命、生命的律、圣灵、住在我们里面的基督、以及在我们里面运行的神—罗八2、10~11，腓二13。 |
A The source of the sense of life is the divine life, the law of life, the Holy Spirit, Christ abiding in us, and God operating in us—Rom. 8:2, 10-11; Phil. 2:13. |
二 神圣的生命是最高的生命，有最丰富、最强、最敏锐的感觉；这乃是生命的感觉—弗四18。 |
B The divine life is the highest life, with the richest, strongest, and keenest feeling; this feeling is the sense of life—Eph. 4:18. |
三 生命的感觉引导我们，支配我们，管制我们，并指引我们，使我们知道我们是活在神圣的生命里，或活在天然的生命里，是活在肉体里，或活在灵里—罗八6。 |
C The sense of life guides us, governs us, controls us, and directs us, causing us to know whether we are living in the divine life or in the natural life and whether we are living in the flesh or in the spirit—Rom. 8:6. |
柒 我们需要胜过死亡对召会的攻击，并在基督复活的生命里建造基督的身体—太十六18，约十一25，弗一22~23，四16： |
Ⅶ We need to be victorious over the attack of death upon the church and build up the Body of Christ in the resurrection life of Christ—Matt. 16:18; John 11:25; Eph. 1:22-23; 4:16: |
一 借着我们灵里基督复活的生命，我们就能胜过死亡对召会的攻击—太十六18，徒二24，提后一10： |
A By the resurrection life of Christ in our spirit, we can be victorious over the attack of death upon the church—Matt. 16:18; Acts 2:24; 2 Tim. 1:10: |
１ 自伊甸园开始，神与撒但的争执，一直就是在死亡与生命这个问题上—罗八6、10~11，来二15。 |
１ From Eden onward, God’s controversy with Satan has been on the issue of death and life—Rom. 8:6, 10-11; Heb. 2:15. |
２ 马太十六章十八节给我们看见，召会所受的攻击是从什么源头而来—“阴间的门”，就是死亡；撒但特别的目的，乃是在召会里散布死亡；他最害怕的就是召会抵挡他死亡的权势—启二8、10~11。 |
２ Matthew 16:18 shows us from what source the attack upon the church will come—“the gates of Hades,” that is, death; Satan’s special object is to spread death within the church, and his greatest fear with regard to the church is her resistance to his power of death—Rev. 2:8, 10-11. |
二 我们应该操练灵，在基督复活的生命里建造基督的身体—弗二6、21~22，四16，启一18，二8，腓三10： |
B We should be exercised in spirit to build up the Body of Christ in the resurrection life of Christ—Eph. 2:6, 21-22; 4:16; Rev. 1:18; 2:8; Phil. 3:10: |
１ 召会作为基督的身体，其性质乃是复活；复活的实际乃是基督这赐生命的灵—约十一25，徒二24，弗一19~23，林前十五45下。 |
１ The nature of the church as the Body of Christ is resurrection, and the reality of resurrection is Christ as the life-giving Spirit—John 11:25; Acts 2:24; Eph. 1:19-23; 1 Cor. 15:45b. |
２ 当我们凭我们里面神圣的生命而活时，我们就在复活里过生活，使基督的身体得着建造—腓三10~11，弗四15~16，西二19，三15。 |
２ When we live by the divine life within us, we are living a life in resurrection for the building up of the Body of Christ—Phil. 3:10-11; Eph. 4:15-16; Col. 2:19; 3:15. |
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太十六18 我还告诉你，你是彼得，我要把我的召会建造在这磐石上，阴间的门不能胜过她。 约十一25 耶稣对她说，我是复活，我是生命；信入我的人，虽然死了，也必复活。 基督就是复活，也就是生命。召会今天在地上，既作基督的器皿，就是要彰显出这个生命与这个复活。神乃是要召会彰显出基督的生命来，所以今天在召会里必须满了生命。在召会里，一切出于神的，乃是生命；一切出于撒但的，乃是死亡。 主到地上来主要的目的，乃是要叫人得生命（约十10），就是叫人得着神的生命。…神的基督就是生命，就是复活，而召会就是祂这生命和复活的器皿。…神乃是借着召会，就是基督的器皿，叫人得着神的生命、神的丰富（倪柝声文集第二辑第二十四册，一七九至一八○页）。 |
Matt. 16:18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. John 11:25 …I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes into Me, even if he should die, shall live. Christ is the resurrection and the life. Since the church is the vessel of Christ on earth, it should express this life and resurrection. God intends for the church to manifest the life of Christ. Hence, the church must be full of life. In the church everything that issues from God is life, and everything that issues from Satan is death. The main goal of the Lord coming to earth is for man to have life (John 10:10), that is, for man to receive God’s life…. God’s Christ is life, and God’s Christ is resurrection, and the church is the vessel of this life and resurrection….Through the church—the vessel of Christ—God dispenses His life and riches to men. (CWWN, vol. 44, pp. 881-882) |
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撒但是神的对头，凡神所作的，他都要攻击。今天神的目的乃是在召会身上，所以撒但专门攻击召会。撒但攻击基督徒和召会，不一定是用罪和世界来引诱人失脚，因为人很容易分别这些。然而我们可能不犯罪，也不爱世界，却仍然不能避免撒但的攻击。…单单对付罪，或对付世界，不足以堵住撒但的攻击。撒但真正的利器乃是用死亡来攻击召会，死亡是不易被发现的，死亡可能很隐藏的偷进召会里。这并非说，世界、罪恶，就不被撒但用以攻击召会；乃是说，撒但能用那些文雅的、道德的，而不只是污秽的、残暴的罪，来攻击基督徒。许多文雅的、道德的事情，却充满死亡，撒但能够轻易的使用这些死亡的事情攻击召会。 马太十六章十八节说，主的召会的根基乃是基督这磐石，是阴间的门所不能胜过的。阴间就是死亡。召会的根若是在天上，就是不能斩断的，（因为）生根在天上…，死亡不能胜过她。召会只有建造在基督这磐石上，死亡才不能胜过她。…基督徒…能知道道理讲得好不好，但却不容易…分别死亡与复活。召会若建造在基督这磐石上，能够分辨…死亡（和）…生命，阴间的门就不能胜过她。 罗马八章十节，与约翰十二章二十五节是相对的：罗马八章十节是说到身体和灵；约翰十二章二十五节是说到魂，保守魂，与丧失魂。二者结果都是说到死亡与复活。一切从身体，从魂出来的，结果乃是死亡，就是阴间；一切从灵出来的，结果就是生命。…基督徒不是问事情作好或作坏，乃是问事情的来源为何，是从天然生命出来的，或是从肉体，从魂里出来的，还是从灵出来的。一切在基督徒身上的，只有出于灵的，才是生命，才能叫人得生命；凡是出于别的，即使人看为好的、有益的、良善的，都是死亡，都不能叫人得生命。 召会所需要的乃是生命，就是基督复活的生命。一切的道理、思想、神学、解经，都不能取代基督的生命。只有基督的生命，只有出于基督生命的，是阴间的门所不能胜过的。其他的一切都不过是死亡的各种形式，都经不起撒但的攻击。求神怜悯我们，叫我们自己不摸死亡，也不把死亡带给召会。求神用生命充满召会，叫撒但无处可攻击召会（倪柝声文集第二辑第二十四册，一八○至一八一、一八三页）。 参读：生命树，第一至十、十四、十六章；生命经历的实际功课，第五章。 |
Satan is God’s rival. He attacks everything that God wants to do. Since God’s goal today is the church, Satan’s attacks are directed specifically against the church. Satan does not necessarily stumble Christians or the church with the enticement of sin or the world, because these things are too obvious. While we may be free from sin and not love the world, we can still be under Satan’s attacks…. Dealing with sin and the world alone is not enough to stop the attacks of Satan. The ultimate weapon Satan uses to attack the church is death. Death is not easily identifiable; it can creep secretly into the church. This does not mean that Satan will not use the world and sin to attack the church. It means that Satan can use refined and moral things, not just filthy and treacherous sins to attack Christians. Many refined and moral things are filled with death, and Satan can easily utilize these deadly things to attack the church. Matthew 16:18 says that the foundation of the Lord’s church is Christ the Rock, and the gates of Hades cannot prevail against this church. Hades is death. If the church has its roots in heaven, it will be impossible to cut it off from heaven, because…its roots are entrenched and death cannot prevail against it. The only reason that death cannot prevail over the church is that the church is built upon Christ the Rock…. Many Christians…know whether or not a sermon is well-delivered. But it is hard for them to distinguish between death and resurrection. But if the church is built on Christ the Rock, it will distinguish between death and life, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. Romans 8:10 corresponds with John 12:25. Romans 8:10 is on the body and the spirit, while John 12 is on the soul, both the preserving and the losing of the soul. In both cases the end result is related to death and resurrection. Everything that issues from the body or from the soul results in death, which is Hades, whereas everything that issues from the spirit results in life…. A Christian should not ask whether a thing is good or evil but should ask from where a thing originates. Does it originate from the natural life, the flesh, the soul, or does it originate from the spirit? Of all the things that a Christian possesses, only those that originate from the spirit are of life, and only they can give others life. Nothing else—no matter how good, profitable, or nice—gives life. The church needs life, the resurrection life of Christ. No doctrine, idea, theology, or exposition can replace the life of Christ. Only the life of Christ and that which issues from it will prevail against the gates of Hades. Everything else is just disguised forms of death and cannot withstand the attacks of Satan. May the Lord be merciful to us, and may He keep us from touching death or bringing death into the church. May God fill the church with life, and may Satan find no opening to attack the church. (CWWN, vol. 44, pp. 882-885) Further Reading: CWWL, 1965, vol. 2, “The Tree of Life,” chs. 1-10, 14, 16; CWWL, 1964, vol. 4, “Practical Lessons on the Experience of Life,” ch. 5 |