弗三2　　谅必你们曾听见那为着你们所赐给我，神恩典的管家职分。

　　8~9　　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，并将那历世历代隐藏在创造万有之神里的奥秘有何等的经纶，向众人照明。

　　神经纶的目的，是要将神自己分赐到祂所拣选的人里面，使祂自己与他们成为一。圣经启示，神住在祂所拣选的人里面，并且祂渴望使祂自己完全与他们成为一。

　　神经纶的目的，也是要将基督同祂一切的丰富，分赐到神所拣选的信徒里面，好构成基督的身体，就是召会，以彰显经过过程的三一神（弗三8~10）。这是神圣启示的中心路线。

　　最后，神经纶的目的，是要将万有在基督里归一于一个元首之下（一10）。……在召会里，基督正在使我们归一于一个元首之下，至终万有在新天新地里都要归一于一个元首之下。

　　在以弗所三章，保罗用了一个希腊字，oikonomia，奥依克诺米亚。这字有两个含义：第一，这字是指神的经纶；第二，这字是指使徒的管家职分。至终，神的经纶成了使徒的管家职分。神的经纶是在永远里所定的（9~11）。神恩典的使徒管家职分（原文为经纶），是在时间里赐给的，为要完成神在恩典里的永远经纶（2，林前九17）。神的经纶只在于神自己，但使徒的管家职分不仅赐给保罗一个人；这管家的职分已经赐给了所有的信徒（李文集一九九一至一九九二年第一册，四五三至四五四页）。

　　Eph. 3:2 If indeed you have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God which was given to me for you.

　　8-9 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 and to enlighten all that they may see what the economy of the mystery is, which throughout the ages has been hidden in God, who created all things.

　　The intention of God’s economy is to dispense Himself into His chosen people, making Himself one with them. The Bible reveals that God dwells within His chosen people and that He desires to make Himself fully one with them.

　　God’s intention in His economy is also to dispense Christ with all His riches into His believers, who were chosen by God for the constitution of the Body of Christ, the church, to express the processed Triune God (Eph. 3:8-10).

　　Finally, the intention of God’s economy is to head up all things in Christ (1:10)… In the church Christ is heading us up so that eventually all things can be headed up in Christ in the new heaven and new earth.

　　In chapter 3 of Ephesians, Paul uses the Greek word oikonomia with two denotations. First, this word refers to God’s economy. Second, it refers to the stewardship of the apostle. Eventually, God’s economy becomes the stewardship of the apostle. God’s economy was made in eternity (vv. 9-11). The apostle’s stewardship (Gk., economy) of God’s grace was given in time to carry out God’s eternal economy in grace (v. 2; 1 Cor. 9:17). The economy of God is with God Himself, but the stewardship of the apostle was not merely given to Paul as one person. The stewardship has been given to all the believers. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 1, “The Central Line of the Divine Revelation,” p. 353)

　　保罗在以弗所三章启示，神的经纶赐给了他作为管家的职分，但他这管家职分的接受者说，他比众圣徒中最小者还小（8）。

　　如果那比众圣徒中最小者还小的够资格得着管家职分，我们众人就都够资格。……因着我们是在保罗之后，我们承受了他并他以后其他的人所传给我们的一切。……就某一面的意义说，保罗是我们的起始，我们是他的完成。……神的经纶成了我们分赐神恩典的管家职分。基督的丰富乃是恩典。恩典的管家职分是在三章二节提到的，基督那追测不尽的丰富是在八节提及的，所以恩典的管家职分乃是那将基督追测不尽的丰富分配、分赐与众信徒作恩典，给他们享受的职事。

　　在已过的永远里，神……定了永远的经纶，要将基督的丰富分赐到神所拣选的人，就是信祂之人里面，使祂得着召会，就是身体，一个生机体，作祂的彰显。至终，借着这分赐，祂要将万有在基督里归一于一个元首之下。神为了完成祂的经纶，就将祂自己很细地分赐到我们里面。神将祂自己分赐到我们这些祂所拣选、救赎的人里面，这分赐要终极完成于新耶路撒冷（李文集一九九一至一九九二年第一册，四五四至四五五页）。

　　恩典的管家职分就是基督丰富的分赐。按以弗所三章的上下文，恩典是指基督的丰富。当基督的丰富被你享受时，这些丰富就成了恩典。保罗的职事，就是将基督的丰富当作恩典分赐给众信徒。飞机上的空中小姐是把食物分配给旅客，她并不是分配食谱。照样，使徒保罗乃是将基督的丰富分赐给圣徒。这是今天我们在这个职事里所作的。

　　……每一位圣徒都能把基督灌输给别人。甚至一位高中的姊妹，也能把基督分赐到她的同学里面。这样把基督分赐到别人里面，就是照着神经纶的管家职分（以弗所书生命读经，二九五至二九六页）。

　　参读：以弗所书生命读经，第四十篇。

　　Paul reveals in Ephesians 3 that the economy of God was given to him as the stewardship, but as the receiver of the stewardship, he says that he was less than the least of all saints (v. 8).

　　If the least among the saints is qualified to receive the stewardship, all of us are qualified… Because we are later than Paul, we have inherited everything that he and others have passed on to us since his time…In a sense Paul was our initiation, and we are his consummation. The economy of God has become our stewardship to dispense the grace of God. The riches of Christ are the grace. The stewardship of grace is mentioned in 3:2, and the unsearchable riches of Christ are mentioned in verse 8, so the stewardship of grace is the ministry to distribute, to dispense, the unsearchable riches of Christ to the believers as grace for their enjoyment.

　　In eternity past God … made an eternal economy to dispense the riches of Christ into God’s chosen people, the believers, so that He could have a church, a Body, an organism for His expression. Eventually, by this dispensing, He will head up all things in Christ. For the accomplishment of His economy God dispenses Himself into us in a fine way. God’s dispensing of Himself into us, His chosen and redeemed people, will consummate in the New Jerusalem. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 1, “The Central Line of the Divine Revelation,” pp. 353-354)

　　The stewardship of the grace is the dispensing of the riches of Christ. According to the context of Ephesians 3, grace refers to the riches of Christ. When the riches of Christ are enjoyed by you, they become grace. Paul’s ministry was to dispense the riches of Christ as grace to the believers. A stewardess on an airplane dispenses food to the passengers; she does not dispense information on how to cook. Likewise, the apostle Paul dispensed the riches of Christ to the saints. This is what we are doing in the ministry today… Every saint can infuse Christ into others. Even a young sister in high school can dispense Christ into her classmates. This dispensing of Christ into others is the stewardship according to God’s economy. (Life-study of Ephesians, pp. 244-245)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Ephesians, msg. 40