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他们的名称─门徒、信徒、圣徒和基督徒
Message Six Their Designations—Disciples, Believers, Saints, and Christians
 

  
读经:太五1,二八19,林后六14~16,林前一2,彼前四16
Scripture Reading: Matt. 5:1; 28:19; 2 Cor. 6:14-16; 1 Cor. 1:2; 1 Pet. 4:16
壹 
我们是基督的门徒,就是跟从基督,并照着那在耶稣身上是实际者(耶稣的神人生活)而学基督的人─太五1,二八19,弗四20~24:
We are disciples of Christ, those who are following and learning Christ according to the reality that is in Jesus, the God-man living of Jesus— Matt. 5:1; 28:19; Eph. 4:20-24:
一 
我们正在从一个天然的人被训练成为一个神人,照着基督这第一个神人的榜样,否认我们天然的生命,而活神圣的生命;这就是学基督,在祂里面,照着那在耶稣身上是实际者受教导,并在我们心思的灵里被神的话更新,使我们成为新的团体神人─23节,申十七18~20。
We are being discipled from being a natural man to being a God-man, living the divine life by denying our natural life, according to the model of Christ as the first God-man; this is to learn Christ and be taught in Him as the reality is in Jesus, to be renewed in the spirit of our mind by the word of God so that we may become a new and corporate God-man—v. 23; Deut. 17:18-20.
二 
我们学基督,就是借着吃基督而被基督顶替;那在耶稣身上是实际者(耶稣个人的神人生活),成了基督身体的实际(团体基督的神人生活),乃是借着我们吃基督以享受祂作加力我们、加强我们、使我们有能的供应,以拣选并完成神的旨意,使祂在召会中得荣耀─约六57,赛七14~15,约十七4,来五8,腓二8,约六63,耶十五16,来四16,罗五5,17,十二2,林后五14,弗三20~21。
To learn Christ is for us to be replaced with Christ by eating Christ; the reality that is in Jesus (the God-man living of the individual Jesus) becomes the reality of the Body of Christ (the God-man living of the corporate Christ) by our eating Christ to enjoy Christ as our energizing, empowering, and enabling supply so that we may choose and carry out the will of God for His glory in the church—John 6:57; Isa. 7:14-15; John 17:4; Heb. 5:8; Phil. 2:8; John 6:63; Jer. 15:16; Heb. 4:16; Rom. 5:5, 17; 12:2; 2 Cor. 5:14; Eph. 3:20-21.
三 
我们学基督,每早晨被祂唤醒,使我们能有受教者的耳朵和舌头,好用言语扶助疲乏的人;我们是主的门徒、受教者,应当信靠祂的名,倚赖祂,不自行造光─赛五十4~5,10~11。
We are learning Christ by being awakened by Him morning by morning so that we can have the ear and tongue of an instructed one to sustain the weary with a word; as the Lord's disciples, His instructed ones, we should trust in His name, rely on Him, and not generate our own light—Isa. 50:4-5, 10-11.
四 
我们学基督这位心里柔和谦卑的一位,祂的轭是容易的,祂的担子是轻省的,并且祂将自己赐给我们,使我们的魂得着祂作安息─太十一28~30。 
We are learning Christ as the One who is meek and lowly in heart, as the One whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light, and as the One who gives us Himself as rest for our souls—Matt. 11:28-30.
五 
我们学基督作为内住我们之充足的秘诀,使我们借着接受基督的美德而彰显神的属性,在一切环境和境遇中活基督以显大基督─腓四5~13。
We are learning Christ as our indwelling secret of sufficiency to express God's attributes by taking Christ's virtues, living Him for His magnification in every environment and circumstance—Phil. 4:5-13.
六 
我们学基督作为照着祂爱和赦免的心并祂牧养和寻找的灵,喜爱怜悯的一位─太九12~13。
We are learning Christ as the One who desires mercy according to His loving and forgiving heart and His shepherding and seeking spirit—Matt. 9:12-13.
贰 
我们是基督里的信徒,就是得着生命并凭神儿子的信而活的人;信废除我们,并使我们活神、彰显神、且将神供应到人里面─林后六14~16,罗一17,来十一6,加二20:
We are believers in Christ, those who have life and live by the faith of the Son of God; faith annuls us and causes us to live God, express God, and minister God into people—2 Cor. 6:14-16; Rom. 1:17; Heb. 11:6; Gal. 2:20:
一 
人听见祂,认识祂,欣赏祂,宝贵祂,祂就在人里面生发出信,叫人信祂;这样,祂就成了人里面对祂的信─来十二2。
When man hears Christ, knows Him, appreciates Him, and treasures Him, He causes faith to be generated in man, enabling man to believe in Him; thus, He becomes the faith in man by which man believes in Him—Heb. 12:2.
二 
信来自听话;当我们听基督,在神写出来的话里接触祂这神活的话,祂就成了应用的话,作为那灵分赐到我们里面,成为我们的信;因此,神具体化在基督里,实化为那灵,与我们的灵调和,这就是信─罗十17,约一1,五39~40,六63。
Faith comes out of the hearing of the word; when we hear Christ and contact Him as the living word of God in the written word of God, He becomes the applied word as the Spirit dispensed into us to be our faith; thus, God embodied in Christ and realized as the Spirit mingled with our spirit is faith—Rom. 10:17; John 1:1; 5:39-40; 6:63.
三 
听信仰唤起我们爱的珍赏,我们越爱主,信就越运行,带我们进入那包罗万有之灵的丰富和益处里─加三2,5,五6。 
The hearing of faith awakens our loving appreciation, and the more we love the Lord, the more faith operates to bring us into the riches, the profit, of the all-inclusive Spirit—Gal. 3:2, 5; 5:6.
四 
当我们在灵里接触那在基督里作为实际之灵的神,祂作为信就在我们里面增长;我们要实行身体生活,就不要看自己过于所当看的,乃要照着神所分给各人信心的度量,看得清明适度─西二19,罗十二3。
When we contact God in Christ as the Spirit of reality in our spirit, God as faith increases in us; to practice the Body life, we must not think more highly of ourselves than we ought to think, but to think so as to be sober-minded, as God has apportioned to each a measure of faith—Col. 2:19; Rom. 12:3.
五 
惟有凭着对基督奇妙的信(这信借着基督超优的爱运行),我们才能在召会堕落的流中,成为主所呼召并渴望得着的得胜者─多三15,启一3~4,二4,7,参来三12~13,四2。
It is only by the wonderful faith of Christ operating through the super-excellent love of Christ that we are able, in the current of the church's degradation, to become the overcomers whom the Lord is calling and desiring to obtain—Titus 3:15; Rev. 1:3-4; 2:4, 7; cf. Heb. 3:12-13; 4:2.
六 
我们信徒在以下与基督的关系里凭信而活:
We believers live by faith in the following relationships with Christ:
1 
基督是葡萄树,我们是祂的枝子─约十五1~8。
Christ is the vine, and we are His branches—John 15:1-8.
2 
基督是头,我们是祂的肢体─林前十二27。
Christ is the Head, and we are His members—1 Cor. 12:27.
3 
基督是生命的气、生命的水、生命的粮,我们是呼吸祂、喝祂、并吃祂的人─约二十22,四10,14,七37~39上,六35,51~63,68。
Christ is the breath of life, the water of life, and the bread of life, and we are His breathers, drinkers, and eaters—John 20:22; 4:10, 14; 7:37-39a; 6:35, 51-63, 68.
4 
基督是新郎,我们是祂的新妇─三29,弗五25~27,启十九7~9,林后十一2~3。
Christ is the Bridegroom, and we are His bride—3:29; Eph. 5:25-27; Rev. 19:7-9; 2 Cor. 11:2-3.
5 
基督是孤儿的父,我们是孤儿,成了祂的儿女,享受祂的照顾和拯救(含示祂每天的救拔和解救)─约十四18,诗六八5~6,赛九6,二二15~24,约一12~13,十四10,诗一〇七1~43,一一〇4,启二1,7,来七25,罗五10。
Christ is the Father of the orphans, and we are the orphans who have become His children, enjoying His care and deliverance, which imply His rescue and saving every day—John 14:18; Psa. 68:5-6; Isa. 9:6; 22:15-24; John 1:12-13; 14:10; Psa. 107:1-43; 110:4; Rev. 2:1, 7; Heb. 7:25; Rom. 5:10.
6 
基督是我们的医生,我们是祂的病人,享受祂作我们的医治者,成为我们的赦免、享受、喜乐、满足和自由─出十五23~26,可二1~三6。
Christ is our Physician, and we are His patients, enjoying Him as our Healer to be our forgiveness, enjoyment, joy, satisfaction, and freedom— Exo. 15:23-26; Mark 2:1—3:6.
7 
基督是世界的光,我们是跟从祂的人,使我们得着生命的光,并成为扩散神圣之光的透光体─约八12,太五14~16,腓二12~16,约壹一5,7,9,启二一23。
Christ is the light of the world, and we are His followers so that we may have the light of life and be His diffuser to spread the divine light—John 8:12; Matt. 5:14-16; Phil. 2:12-16; 1 John 1:5, 7, 9; Rev. 21:23.
叁 
我们是神的圣徒,是被分别且圣别归神的人─罗一7,林前一2,30,参民六1~9:
We are saints of God, those who have been separated and made holy unto God—Rom. 1:7; 1 Cor. 1:2, 30; cf. Num. 6:1-9:
一 
我们在地位上,借祂救赎的血已经得着圣别─来十三12。
We have been sanctified with His redeeming blood positionally—Heb. 13:12.
二 
我们在性质上,借祂圣别的性情正在被圣化─帖后二13,来二10~11,林前六11,弗五26,帖前五23~24。
We are being sanctified with His holy nature dispositionally—2 Thes. 2:13; Heb. 2:10-11; 1 Cor. 6:11; Eph. 5:26; 1 Thes. 5:23-24.
肆 
我们是基督徒,基督人,与基督是一,因着与基督生机的联结,有祂作我们全备供应的内容,好在日常生活中活祂,使祂得以显大─徒十一26,二六28,彼前四16,林前六17,林后四7,腓一19~21上:
We are Christians, Christ-men, those who are one with Christ, having Christ as our bountifully supplied contents in an organic union with Him to live Him for His magnification in our daily life—Acts 11:26; 26:28; 1 Pet. 4:16; 1 Cor. 6:17; 2 Cor. 4:7; Phil. 1:19-21a:
一 
作基督徒的目标,以及神在祂的经纶里为我们所定的定命,乃是要我们凭那灵生活行动,好活基督,使神得着荣耀,就是得着彰显─加二20,五16,25,六17,赛四三7,林前六20,十31。
The goal of being a Christian and the destiny that God has ordained for us in His economy are for us walk by the Spirit in order to live Christ for God's glory, His expression—Gal. 2:20; 5:16, 25; 6:17; Isa. 43:7; 1 Cor. 6:20; 10:31.
二 
每一个基督徒在世上,都有主在他身上所定的特别路程,作基督尽功用的肢体,为着祂身体的建造;这路程需要每一个基督徒自己走,没有人能取代他,他也不能取代任何人─徒十三22,25,36,二十24,林前九24,十二14~22,提后四7~8。
Every Christian on this earth has a special journey that the Lord has assigned to him as a functioning member of Christ for the building up of His Body; every Christian has to take the journey himself; no one else can replace him, nor can he replace anyone else—Acts 13:22, 25, 36; 20:24; 1 Cor. 9:24; 12:14-22; 2 Tim. 4:7-8.
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