读经：约十五1、4~5，罗十一17~24，林前六17
Scripture Reading: John 15:1, 4-5; Rom. 11:17-24; 1 Cor. 6:17

壹　

我们是基督里的信徒，该过接枝的生活，在这生活中我们与主是一灵，并活在与祂生机的联结里—林前六17，约十五4。
As believers in Christ, we should live a grafted life—a life in which we are one spirit with the Lord and live in an organic union with Him—1 Cor. 6:17; John 15:4.

贰　

圣经启示神渴望与人所有的关系，乃是祂要与人成为一—林前六17：
The Bible reveals that the relationship God desires to have with man is that He and man become one—1 Cor. 6:17:

一　

神渴望神圣的生命与属人的生命联合一起，成为一个生命—约十五1、4~5。
God desires that the divine life and the human life be joined together to become one life—John 15:1, 4-5.

二　

这个一乃是生机的联结，在生命里的联结—接枝的生命。
This oneness is an organic union, a union in life—a grafted life.

三　

神的生命与人的生命接为一命的观念，是奥秘的，超过天然的观念，对人的思想是陌生的。
The concept of the divine life and the human life being grafted into one is mysterious, beyond the natural concept, and foreign to human thought.

叁　

在接枝时，两种相似的生命接在一起，然后长在一起—罗十一17~24：
In grafting, two similar lives are joined and then grow together—Rom. 11:17-24:

一　

只有两种相似的生命接在一起，接枝才能成功。
Grafting can be effective only if the lives to be grafted are similar.

二　

因着我们人的生命是按着神的形像，照着神的样式造的，所以能与神圣的生命联结。
Because our human life was made in the image of God and according to the likeness of God, it can be joined to the divine life.

三　

我们人的生命与神圣的生命相似；因此，神圣的生命与人的生命能接枝在一起，然后生机地长在一起。
Our human life resembles the divine life; therefore, the divine life and the human life can be grafted together and then grow together organically.

肆　

为使我们接枝到基督里，祂必须经过成为肉体、钉死和复活的过程：
In order for us to be grafted into Christ, He had to pass through the processes of incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection:

一　

基督成为肉体，作了大卫的子孙，也就是大卫的枝子，那苗，好使我们能与祂接枝在一起；祂成了和我们一样一式，使祂与我们能接枝在一起—约一14，太一1，亚三8，耶二三5，三三15。
Christ became flesh to be the seed of David, the branch of David, the Shoot, so that we might be grafted together with Him; He became the same as we are so that He and we could be grafted together—John 1:14; Matt. 1:1; Zech. 3:8; Jer. 23:5; 33:15.

二　

基督在十字架上被“切割”，使我们能被接枝在祂里面：
Christ was “cut” on the cross so that we could be grafted into Him:

１　

基督成为大卫的枝子，并不是说祂就能与我们接枝。
Christ’s becoming the branch of David does not by itself mean that He could be grafted together with us.

２　

接枝需要切割；接枝要成功，就需要两方面都被切割：
Grafting requires cutting; two branches cannot be grafted together unless both are cut:

ａ　

基督在十字架上受死时，就被切割。
Christ was cut when He died on the cross.

ｂ　

我们悔改并接受主时，就被切割。
We were cut when we repented and received the Lord.

３　

切割之后，联合与生机的联结才发生；因此，在接枝的事上，有切割、联合以及生机的联结。
After the cutting occurs, the joining and the organic union take place; therefore, in grafting we have the cutting, the joining, and the organic union.

三　

基督在十字架上被切割之后，复活成了赐生命的灵—林前十五45下，林后三17上：
After Christ was cut on the cross, He was resurrected to become the life-giving Spirit—1 Cor. 15:45b; 2 Cor. 3:17a:

１　

基督成了这样的灵，就预备妥当可以接枝了。
By becoming such a Spirit, Christ was ready for grafting.

２　

我们一悔改接受主，主这赐生命的灵就进到我们的灵里，把神的生命带进我们里面，我们就与基督接枝在一起—约二十22，罗八11：
Once we repent and receive the Lord, He as the life-giving Spirit enters into our spirit, bringing the divine life into us, and we are grafted together with Christ—John 20:22; Rom. 8:11:

ａ　

这个生命是死而复活的生命。
This life is a life of death and resurrection.

ｂ　

基督作为赐生命的灵，就把死而复活的门窍带到我们这些信徒里面，使我们可以与基督同死同复活—加二20。
As the life-giving Spirit, Christ brings the key to death and resurrection into us, the believers, that we may die and be raised with Christ—Gal. 2:20.

ｃ　

我们就在这个死与复活里，与基督接枝在一起。
In this death and resurrection we are grafted together with Christ.

伍　

我们这些重生的人，应当活接枝的生命—一种双方在其中联合一起而生机生长的生命—约十五1、4~5：
As regenerated ones, we should live a grafted life—a life in which two parties are joined to grow organically—John 15:1, 4-5:

一　

我们与基督接在一起以后，就不能再凭我们自己活着，乃要让那是灵的基督活在我们里面—加二20。
After we have been grafted into Christ, we should no longer live by ourselves; rather, we should allow the pneumatic Christ to live in us—Gal. 2:20.

二　

我们也不能再凭自己的肉体或天然的所是活着，乃要凭我们重生的灵，也就是与基督接枝的灵活着—罗八4。
We should no longer live by our flesh or by our natural being; instead, we should live by our regenerated spirit, a spirit grafted with Christ—Rom. 8:4.

三　

借着这接枝，我们就与基督联结、调和并且合并在一起，而成为基督的身体—十二4~5。
Through this grafting we are united with Him, mingled with Him, and incorporated with Him to become the Body of Christ—12:4-5.

陆　

接枝的生命不是替换的生命，乃是属人生命与神圣生命的调和—加二20：
The grafted life is not an exchanged life but the mingling of the human life with the divine life—Gal. 2:20:

一　

替换生命的观念是我们将我们属人的生命让给主，而祂以祂神圣的生命来取代之。
The concept of the exchanged life is that we yield our human life to the Lord, and He replaces it with His divine life.

二　

基督徒的生命并非替换的生命，乃是接枝的生命—属人的生命与神圣的生命调和—罗六3~5，约十五1、4~5：
The Christian life is not an exchanged life but a grafted life—the mingling of the human life with the divine life—Rom. 6:3-5; John 15:1, 4-5:

１　

这里并没有生命的替换或交换。
There is no exchange, or trade, of lives.

２　

不是替换，乃是神圣的生命分赐、注入到属人的生命里，以及神圣生命与属人生命的调和。
Instead of exchange there is the dispensing, the infusing, of the divine life into the human life and the mingling of the divine life with the human life.

三　

基督徒经历中最美妙的实际，乃是在基督里的信徒与基督以生命的方式联合为一—林前六17：
The most wonderful reality in the Christian experience is that the believers in Christ are united with Christ in the way of life—1 Cor. 6:17:

１　

凡基督所是并所作的完全是为着一件事，就是祂与我们能有生机的联结，同过接枝的生活—约十五4~5。
Whatever Christ is and whatever He has done are altogether for one thing: that He and we could be organically united and live a grafted life—John 15:4-5.

２　

在主的恢复里，主正在恢复接枝的生命这件被忽视的事。
In His recovery the Lord is recovering this neglected matter of the grafted life.

柒　

在接枝的生命里，属人的生命不是被除去，乃是被神圣的生命加强、拔高并充实—罗十一17~24：
In the grafted life the human life is not eliminated but is strengthened, uplifted, and enriched by the divine life—Rom. 11:17-24:

一　

在接枝的生命里，枝子仍保有它同样素质的特征，但因着接在较好的生命上，枝子的生命就被拔高并变化：
In the grafted life the branch still retains its same essential characteristics, but its life is uplifted and transformed by being grafted into a better life:

１　

较高的生命征服较低的生命。
The higher life subdues the lower life.

２　

较高的生命将较低的生命充实、拔高并变化。
The higher life enriches, uplifts, and transforms the lower life.

二　

在接枝的生命里，神圣的生命在我们里面作工，排除消极的元素—林后三18：
In the grafted life the divine life works within us to discharge the negative elements—2 Cor. 3:18:

１　

神圣的生命逐渐作工，除去属天然的一切。
The divine life works in a gradual way to eliminate whatever is natural.

２　

我们性情里消极的元素被杀死；然后，主不是把我们的性情废去，乃是拔高且使用我们的性情。
The negative element in our disposition is killed, and then, instead of casting away our disposition, the Lord uplifts it and uses it.

三　

在接枝的生命里，神圣的生命使神原初所造的复活—约十一25：
In the grafted life the divine life resurrects God’s original creation—John 11:25:

１　

神并未放弃祂所造的，乃要重新得回。
Instead of giving up His creation, God will reclaim it.

２　

神的心意是要将我们所是的各方面都带进复活里—腓三11：
God intends to bring all the aspects of our being into resurrection—Phil. 3:11:

ａ　

神圣的生命一面排除消极的事物，一面作工使神原初所造的复活。
As the divine life discharges the negative things, it works to resurrect God’s original creation.

ｂ　

这样，我们原初的功用—我们受造时所得的功用—就得着恢复、加强并充实—加二20。
In this way our original functions—the functions given us at creation—are restored, strengthened, and enriched—Gal. 2:20.

四　

在接枝的生命里，神圣的生命将基督的丰富供应到我们里面的各部分—罗十二2：
In the grafted life the divine life supplies the riches of Christ to our inward parts—Rom. 12:2:

１　

我们复活并拔高的官能，得着了基督丰富的供应。
Our resurrected and uplifted faculties are supplied with the riches of Christ.

２　

借着这样的供应，我们就在心思、情感和意志里得着更新。
Through such a supply we are renewed in our mind, emotion, and will.

五　

在接枝的生命里，神圣的生命浸透我们全人—八29~30：
In the grafted life the divine life saturates our whole being—8:29-30:

１　

基督的丰富浸透我们并变化我们—十二2，林后三18。
The riches of Christ saturate us and transform us—12:2; 2 Cor. 3:18.

２　

借着神圣生命这样的浸透，我们就模成基督的形像—罗八29。
By this saturation of the divine life we are conformed to the image of Christ—Rom. 8:29.