贰 神的喜悦，祂心头的愿望，乃是使神喜乐的： |
Ⅱ God's good pleasure, God's heart's desire, is what makes God happy: |
一 神喜悦创造地；祂的国要建立在地上—伯三八4、7，太六10，启五10，十一15，二一1，亚十二1。 |
A God is happy with the creation of the earth; His kingdom will be set up on the earth—Job 38:4, 7; Matt. 6:10; Rev. 5:10; 11:15; 21:1; Zech. 12:1. |
二 神喜悦创造人；神对于祂所造的每一项都说“好”，（创一4、10、12，21，25，）但对于人的创造，祂说“甚好”，因为人有神的形像并得着神的管治权，为着神的荣耀和神的国。（26、31，赛四三7，太六10、13下。） |
B God is happy with the creation of man; for each of the items that God had created, He said "good" (Gen. 1:4, 10, 12, 21, 25), but for the creation of man, He said "very good" because man had God's image and had been given God's dominion for the glory of God and the kingdom of God (vv. 26, 31; Isa. 43:7; Matt. 6:10, 13b). |
三 神喜悦成为肉体；（路二9~14；）耶稣是奇妙的策士、全能的神、永远的父、和平的君，来作独一的治理者，三一神的政权必担在祂的肩头上；（赛九6~7；）祂是我们的救主和我们的以马内利，神人，那与人联结、调和、合并者。（太一21、23，约十四9~11、16~20。） |
C God is happy with the incarnation (Luke 2:9-14); Jesus is the Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the Eternal Father, and the Prince of Peace to be the unique Governor, and the government of the Triune God is upon His shoulder (Isa. 9:6-7); He is our Savior and our Emmanuel, the God-man, the One who is united, mingled, and incorporated with man (Matt. 1:21, 23; John 14:9-11, 16-20). |
四 神喜悦基督的受浸；当主受浸要开始祂公开的职事时，“诸天向祂开了，…看哪，又有声音从诸天之上出来，说，这是我的爱子，我所喜悦的；”主耶稣站住一个典型之人的地位受浸，尽全般的义，让自己摆到死与复活里，使祂能够在复活里生活尽职—太三13~17。 |
D God is happy with Christ's baptism; when He was baptized to begin His public ministry, "the heavens were opened to Him.... And behold, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I have found My delight"; the Lord Jesus, taking the standing of a typical man, was baptized to fulfill all righteousness and to allow Himself to be put into death and resurrection so that He might live and minister in resurrection—Matt. 3:13-17. |
五 神喜悦复活得荣的基督；基督变化形像作为复活之预像的时候，“看哪，又有声音从云彩里出来，说，这是我的爱子，我所喜悦的，你们要听祂；”（十七5；）神喜悦祂儿子的复活与得荣。（路二四26。） |
E God is happy with the resurrected and glorified Christ; when Christ was transfigured, as a foreshadowing of His resurrection, "behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I have found My delight. Hear Him!" (17:5); God took pleasure in the resurrection and glorification of His Son (Luke 24:26). |
六 神喜悦祂的浪子回到祂那里；路加十五章浪子的比喻，可以称为喜乐父亲的比喻；父亲“跑”向回来的儿子后，（20，）就吩咐仆人把肥牛犊牵来宰了，说，“让我们吃喝快乐；”（23；）这里我们看见神的欢乐。 |
F God is happy when His prodigal sons return to Him; the parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15 may be called the parable of a happy father; after the father "ran" to his returning son (v. 20), he told his servants to bring the fattened calf and slaughter it, and he said, "Let us eat and be merry" (v. 23); here we see the merriment of God. |
七 神喜悦祂儿子启示在我们里面—“神…乐意将祂儿子启示在我里面”（加一15~16）—以及我们完全被带进神儿子的名分里；（四4~6，弗一4~5；）这成就神的喜悦，使祂得着许多儿子，作祂团体的彰显；神的儿子启示在我们里面，就带我们进入地的意义，人的意义，以及成为肉体、钉十字架并复活之主的意义里。 |
G God is happy when His Son is revealed in us—"It pleased God...to reveal His Son in me" (Gal. 1:15-16)—and when we are fully brought into the sonship of God (4:4-6; Eph. 1:4-5); this fulfills God's good pleasure to have many sons for His corporate expression; the Son revealed in us has brought us into the meaning of the earth, of man, and of the incarnate, crucified, and resurrected Lord. |
晨兴喂养
太三16~17 耶稣受了浸，随即从水里上来，看哪，诸天向祂开了…。看哪，又有声音从诸天之上出来，说，这是我的爱子，我所喜悦的。 加一15~16 …那把我…分别出来…的神，…乐意将祂儿子启示在我里面…。 神的喜悦首先彰显在创造地的事上。（参伯三八4、7。） 神的国要建立在地上，不是建立在别的星球上。（太六10，启十一15。）永世里的宇宙称为新天新地。（启二一1。）神永远的国不在月球上，也不在火星上。地是神的喜悦所在之处，甚至到永世的时候也是如此。（李文集一九七八年第二册，五七八、五八○页。） |
Matt. 3:16-17 And having been baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to Him…. And behold, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I have found My delight. Gal. 1:15-16 …It pleased God, who set me apart…, to reveal His Son in me… God’s good pleasure was expressed first in the creation of the earth [cf. Job 38:4, 7]. God’s kingdom will be set up on earth, not on any other planet (Matt. 6:10; Rev. 11:15). The eternal universe will be called the new heaven and the new earth (21:1). God’s eternal kingdom will not be on the moon or on Mars. The earth is where His pleasure lies, even unto eternity. (CWWL, 1978, vol. 2, “Life Messages, Volume 1,” pp. 418-419) |
信息选读
当神看见人在祂其余的受造之物当中，祂向着人的爱促使祂说“甚好”。人乃是神心头所喜悦的。神喜爱地，因为地是为着神所喜悦的这个人而预备的。 天上的众军也因成为肉体而欢呼，就如他们在神立大地根基的时候所作的。主的使者报给牧羊人“大喜的好信息”。（参路二9~14。）…是什么使神这样满意于“救主，就是主基督”（11）的降临呢？在成为肉体之前，地是地，人是人，而神是神。但在成为肉体的时候，神却使祂自己与人合而为一。耶稣乃是神与人的调和。…“人要称祂的名为以马内利。（以马内利翻出来，就是神与我们同在。）”（太一23。）…当耶稣活在地上的时候，祂是一个奇迹。祂乃是那位大神与祂的造物调和。 基督借着受浸，开始了祂公开的职事。…（马太三章十七节）的喜悦一辞，与以弗所一章五节、九节的喜悦，是同一个字根。父喜悦这一位将自己交给施浸者约翰而受浸的人，祂受浸就是象征祂接受了十字架。后来祂问西庇太的儿子：“我所喝的杯，你们能喝吗？我所受的浸，你们能受吗？”（可十38。）祂所说的受浸就是指祂的钉十字架。…在神的眼中，基督的死是可喜悦的。神喜悦钉十字架的基督。一周又一周，我们在擘饼的时候，乃是向宇宙陈列这可喜悦的死。（林前十一26。） 神的喜悦与我们息息相关。（加一15~16。）我们得救的那日，天上有欢乐，因为那时神的儿子被启示在我们里面。神这喜悦，和其他令神喜悦的事物都有关连。若是没有地，耶稣怎能在拿撒勒生活呢？若是没有创造人，怎能有以马内利—神与我们同在呢？没有地，没有人，就不可能有神儿子的成为肉体、钉十字架和复活。借着与人调和，祂不只是神的儿子，也成为人的儿子。 当祂进到我们里面的时候，地的意义，人的意义，以及成为肉体、钉十字架并复活的意义，都成了我们的分。今天基督在哪里？祂是宇宙性的。祂是神，又是人；祂在天上，也在地上。我们与祂合而为一。我们从前是平凡的人，是微不足道的罪人。但如今我们身上有了一些美妙的事。我们很难向人解释，我们是什么，我们是谁，甚至我们在哪里。神的儿子被启示在我们里面，就带我们进入地的意义，人的意义，以及成为肉体、钉十字架并复活之主的意义里。（李文集一九七八年第二册，五八○至五八三页。） 参读：生命信息，第三十三至三十八章；初信造就，第四十九篇。 |
As God saw man in the midst of the rest of His creation, His love toward man prompted Him to say “very good” [Gen. 1:31]. Man is the delight of God’s heart. God loves the earth because it was prepared for this man in whom He delights. As happened when the foundations of the earth were laid, the heavenly hosts rejoiced also at the incarnation. The angel of the Lord brought “good news of great joy” to the shepherds [Luke 2:9-14]. What made God so pleased with the advent of the “Savior…, who is Christ the Lord” (v. 11)? Before the incarnation the earth was the earth, man was man, and God was God. But at this point God made Himself one with man. Jesus is the mingling of God and man. “’They shall call His name Emmanuel’ (which is translated, God with us)” (Matt. 1:23). When Jesus was living on this earth, He was a wonder. He was the great God mingled with His creature. Christ began His public ministry by being baptized….The word delight [in Matthew 3:17] is from the same root in Greek as good pleasure in Ephesians 1:5 and 9. The Father took pleasure in this One who turned Himself over to John the Baptist to be baptized. By receiving baptism He was symbolically receiving the cross. This is apparent from His questions to the sons of Zebedee much later: “Are you able to drink the cup which I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?” (Mark 10:38). By baptism He meant His crucifixion. In the eyes of God, then, the death of Christ was pleasant. God delights in the crucified Christ. From week to week as we have the Lord’s table, we display this pleasant death to the universe (1 Cor. 11:26). God’s good pleasure is wrapped up with us [cf. Gal. 1:15-16]. There was joy in heaven the day we were saved because the Son of God was then revealed in us. This pleasure of God relates to all the other things that made God happy. If there had been no earth, how could Jesus have lived in Nazareth? Without the creation of man, how could there be Emmanuel, God with us? Without the earth and man, there could not have been the incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection of the Son of God. It was by His mingling with man that He became the Son of Man, instead of remaining as only the Son of God. When He came into us, the meaning of the earth, of man, of the incarnation, of the crucifixion, and of the resurrection all became our portion. Where is Christ today? He is universal. He is both God and man. He is in the heavens and on the earth. We are one with Him. At one time we were ordinary people, insignificant sinners. But now there is something wonderful about us. It is hard for us to explain to others what we are, who we are, and even where we are! The Son revealed in us has brought us into the meaning of the earth, of man, and of the incarnated, crucified, and resurrected Lord. (CWWL, 1978, vol. 2, “Life Messages, Volume 1,” pp. 419-421) Further Reading: CWWL, 1978, vol. 2, “Life Messages, Volume 1,” chs. 33-38; CWWN, vol. 50, “Messages for Building Up New Believers (3),” ch. 49 |