保罗的完成职事(十三 ): 基督与教会之极大的奥秘

弗三16~17『愿他照着他荣耀的丰富，借着他的灵，用大能使你们得以加强到里面的
人里，使基督借着信，安 家在你们心里，叫你们在爱里生根立基。』
弗五32『这是极大的奥秘，但我是指着基督与教会说的。』

教会作基督之奥秘的第五大点是教会奥秘的作宇宙的新人，作神的国、神的家，被
建造成为神的居所…这实在是奥秘。教会是基督的奥秘，作宇宙的新人，是顶替神
创造里的旧人，来彰显神，并完成神的经纶；

作神的国，是让神掌权，也为神掌权；作神的家，是得享神的丰富，也彰显神丰富
的荣耀；并且被建造成为神的居所，这乃是服神国中的权柄，并享受神家里的丰富
所产生的结果。

 第六大点，教会作为基督的奥秘，得以奥秘的享受基督那追测不尽的丰富。这是借
着神所赐，恩典的管家职分，也是照着神奥秘的经纶所安排的，目的是为要借着教
会，彰显神万般的智慧。

第七大点，教会由神借着他的灵，用大能将她的众肢体加强到他们里面的人里，使
基督奥秘的安家在他们心里，而被基督所是的阔、长、高、深所充满，成为神一切
的丰满。

我们不光有基督在我们里面作丰富的供应，并且这位基督还要安家、居住在我们心
里。为这缘故，我们需要圣灵来加强我们，把我们整个人从外面加强到我们的灵里。

这样，就给基督机会，来占有我们心的各部分─心思、情感、意志和良心。不仅是
全灵，更是全魂都一步一步的让基督扩展并占有。结果，我们就要被充满，成为神
一切的丰满，得作神一切的彰显。

第八大点，基督与他的身体，教会，有一奥秘的生命联结。这奥秘就是经过过程的
三一神，与得着重生变化的三部分人，联结相调成为一对宇宙的配偶。即神性活在
人性里，作人性的实际；人性的美德活出神性的荣美，作神性的彰显。神性与人性
二者调和为一。

末了，教会是神经纶中奥秘的终极完成，就是新耶路撒冷。这是经过过程的三一神
与变化的三部分人，联结调和的登峰造极，成为神居住，与人同生活的帐幕，也成
为人居住，事奉神的殿，二者乃是救赎人的神，和蒙救赎的人，互为居所。

在那里，有三一神作其中的生命供应；三部分人作其外表，使神得着彰显。三一神
在宝座上，为圣城的中心，流出生命河，长着生命树，作全城的供应。这是新耶路
撒冷里面的情景。

我们若是对基督的奥秘─教会，有这样深入、超越的认识，我们的目标和遥望就要
被拔高，我们就要看见并认定我们人生一切的至高标准是新耶路撒冷，我们终极的
盼望也是这新耶路撒冷。

参读：神新约经纶中的奥秘，第一至二篇；世界局势与神的行动，第五至六章。

Eph. 3:16-17 "That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory,
to be strengthened with power through His Spirit into the inner man, that
Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted
and grounded in love."
5:32 "This mystery is great, but I speak with regard to Christ and the church.
"

     [The fifth point of the church as the mystery of Christ is that] the
church mysteriously becomes the universal new man as God's kingdom and God's
house, and is built up as the habitation of God (Eph. 2:15, 19-22)....This
is indeed a mystery. The church, the mystery of Christ, as the universal
new man, is replacing the old man in God's creation for the expression of
God and the accomplishing of God's economy. It is God's kingdom to be ruled
by God and to rule for God (Rom. 5:17b). It is also God's house to enjoy
God's riches and to express the glory of God's riches (1 Tim. 3:15-16). Furthermore,
 it is built up as the habitation of God. This is the result of submitting
to the authority in God's kingdom and enjoying the riches in God's house
(Eph.4:16). (The Mysteries in God's New Testament Economy, p. 46)

     Sixth,...[the church as the mystery of Christ] mysteriously enjoys
the unsearchable riches of Christ (Eph. 3:2, 7-11). This is through the
stewardship of grace given by God and is according to the dispensation of
the mysterious economy of God. The purpose of this is to make known through
the church the multifarious wisdom of God.

     Seventh, the church, being strengthened in its members into the inner
man with power by God through His Spirit, has Christ mysteriously making
home in the believers' hearts, with the result that it is filled with the
breadth, the length, the height, and the depth of what Christ is, toin us
as the rich supply; this Christ is also making home and living in our hearts.
 For this reason, we need the Holy Spirit to strengthen our whole
being into our spirit. In this way, Christ will have the chance to occupy
the different parts of our heart─our mind, emotion, will, and conscience.
In addition to our spirit, Christ will spread and occupy our whole soul
step by step....In the end, we will be filled to become all the fullness
of God as the full expression of God.

     [Eighth] is the mysterious life union of Christ and His Body, the church.
...This mystery is the processed Triune God being joined and mingled with
the regenerated and transformed tripartite man to become a universal couple..
..In other words, divinity is living in humanity to become the reality of
humanity, and the human virtues are living out the divine glory and beauty
to become the expression of divinity. Divinity and humanity are mingled
as one.

     Finally...[the church] is the mysterious ultimate consummation in God's
economy, the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:2). This is the peak, the climax, of
the union and mingling of the processed Triune God with the transformed
tripartite man, resulting in the tabernacle where God dwells and lives with
man, and the temple where man dwells and serves God. The two become the
mutual habitation of the redeeming God and the redeemed man (Rev.21:3, 22)...
.In such a place, the Triune God is the life supply, and the tripartite
man is the outward appearance for the expression of God (Rev. 21:12, 14).
The Triune God on the throne is the center of the holy city from which flows
the river of life with the tree of life growing alongside to be the supply
of the whole city (Rev. 22:1-2). This is the inward condition of the New
Jerusalem....If we have such a profound and transcendent realization concerning
the mystery of Christ, the church, our goal and hope will be uplifted. We
will see and identify with the New Jerusalem as the highest standard of
everything in our lives, and our ultimate hope will also be the New Jerusalem.
 (The Mysteries in God's New Testament Economy, pp. 47-50)

     Further Reading: The Mysteries in God's New Testament Economy, ch.
2;The World Situation and God's Move, chs. 5-6

-未完待续

保罗的完成职事(十二 ): 活基督我们就是基督