【读圣经学英语】祂的身体

约翰福音-John 2 章21~25节

2:21 但耶稣是以祂的身体为殿说的。
But He spoke of the temple of His body.
2:22 所以到祂从死人中复活以后,祂的门徒就想起祂说过这话,便信了圣经和耶稣所说的话。
When therefore He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.
2:23 当耶稣在耶路撒冷过逾越节的时候,有许多人看见祂所行的神迹,就信入了祂的名。
Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed into His name when they saw the signs which He did.
2:24 耶稣却不将自己信托他们,因为祂知道万人,
But Jesus Himself did not entrust Himself to them, for He knew all men,
2:25 也用不着谁见证人怎样,因祂知道在人里面的是什么。
And because He did not need anyone to testify concerning man, for He Himself knew what was in man.

亮光

主不断在复活里建造祂的身体,撒但是一直在帮这个忙。神的家在复活里仍与基督的身体一同扩增。(提前三15,彼前二5,林前二9,弗二21~22。)今天我们仍在『三日』内,因为主仍在复活的过程中,为着祂身体的建造作工。

变水为酒的事立定了生命的原则。现在,在对付殿的事上,我们看见了生命的目的。生命的原则是变死亡为生命,生命的目的是建造神的家。生命的原则是为着生命的目的。变死亡为生命是为着生命的建造,就是神家的建造。这两点管治了整本约翰福音。这就是何以在一章的引言之后,二章接着就藉两件事给我们看见这两点。然后从三至十一章乃是九个事例的记载,证明主如何进到人各种不同的处境,变死亡为生命。在述说过这些事例之后,并在十四、十五、十六章释放过末了一篇信息之后,在十七章里主向父献上关于合一的祷告。这为着合一的祷告,就是为着建造的祷告。我们若没 有建造在一起,我们绝不可能是一。比方说,一堆材料并不是一,因为这些材料没有 建造在一起。一栋房子是由许多材料组成的,这些材料之所以是一,乃是因为建造在 一起。只有材料建造在一起成为一个建筑时,才有一。 一的意思就是被建造在一起。 因此生命的目的乃是建造神的家,神的殿,作神的居所。

 

Enlightenment

The Lord continues to build His Body in resurrection, and Satan keeps on helping this. The house of God is still increasing in resurrection with the Body of Christ (1 Tim. 3:15; 1 Pet. 2:5; 1 Cor. 3:9; Eph. 2:21-22). Today, we are still within “the three days,” because the Lord is still working for the building of His Body under the process of resurrection.

In the changing of water into wine, the principle of life was set forth. Now, in the dealing with the temple, the purpose of life is shown. The principle of life is to change death into life. The purpose of life is to build the house of God. The principle of life is for the purpose of life. The changing of death into life is for life’s building, the building of God’s house. These two points govern the whole Gospel of John. This is why after the introduction in the first chapter, the second chapter follows to show us these two points by two events. Then from chapter three through chapter eleven is the record of the nine cases proving how the Lord came into all kinds of human situations and changed death into life. After all of the cases have been related and after the last message has been given in chapters fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen, in chapter seventeen the Lord offered a prayer to the Father about oneness. This prayer for oneness was simply a prayer for the building. If we are not built together, we can never be one. For example, a heap of materials is not one, because the materials are not built together. A house is composed of many materials, and these materials are one because they are built together. Only when the materials are built up together as one building is there oneness. Oneness means to be built up together. Therefore, the purpose of life is to build up God’s house, God’s temple, for God’s habitation. The purpose of the Lord being life to us is to build the church as God’s dwelling place. Life is for the building. Life is for the church. It is for the building of the church, His Body and God’s house, that the Lord has come to be our life.