【读圣经学英语】解开，让他走

约翰福音-John 11 章 44~48节

11:44	那死人就出来了，手脚裹着布，脸上包着手巾。耶稣对他们说，解开，让他走。 And he who had died came out, bound hand and foot with cloths, and his face was bound about with a handkerchief. Jesus said to them, Loose him and let him go.
11:45	那些来到马利亚那里的犹太人，见了耶稣所作的事，就多有信入祂的。 Many of the Jews therefore who had come to Mary and beheld the things that He did believed into Him.
11:46	但其中也有人到法利赛人那里去，将耶稣所作的事告诉他们。 But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things that Jesus did.
11:47	于是祭司长和法利赛人聚集议会，说，这人行好些神迹，我们怎么办？ Then the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled a council and said, What do we do? For this man is doing many signs.
11:48	若这样由着祂，人人都要信入祂，罗马人也要来夺我们的土地和人民。 If we let Him do so, all will believe into Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.

亮光

拉撒路的手脚是裹着裹尸布，脸上也包着手巾。所以耶稣对他们说，『解开，让他走！』（约十一44。）他们必须从复活的拉撒路身上解开捆绑。他们如此作了，复活的工作就完成了。

我们也必须和主合作，释放别人脱离他们的捆绑。当主在召会中叫人从死里复活时，我们需要和祂合作，好释放他们脱离属地的捆绑。藉着这种合作，召会就成了主作生命的见证。主可以亲自将石头从洞口挪开，并且解开拉撒路的捆绑，但祂没有这样作。祂宁愿要求我们和祂合作。然而，在我们能够和祂合作之前，必须先放弃我们的意见，照着主的旨意行动。在召会生活中，我们必须放下我们的意见，服从主的话并工作，且与祂复活的大能合作。

你以为主要医治你吗？不，主要点活你。照着老旧的观念，医治的意思就是改革、改良你。但主从未改良你，或规正你的行为。祂总是点活你。主惟一的用意乃是将祂自己分赐给你，作点活你的生命。

Enlightenment:

After Lazarus came out of the tomb, there was still the need for human cooperation. Lazarus’s hands and feet were bound with the burial clothes and his face was bound about with a handkerchief. Therefore Jesus said to them, “Loose him and let him go” (11:44). They had to remove the bandages from the resurrected Lazarus. They did it and the work of resurrection was completed.

We too must work by cooperating with the Lord to release others from the bondage of their bandages. When the Lord raises up people from their death in the church, we need to cooperate with Him in order to release them from their earthly bondage. By this kind of cooperation the church becomes the testimony of the Lord as life. The Lord could have moved the stone from the cave and He could have removed the bandages from Lazarus, but He did not do it. He would rather ask us to cooperate with Him. However, before we can cooperate with Him, we must first give up our opinions and act according to His will. In the church life, we must drop our opinions, submit to the Lord’s word and work, and cooperate with His resurrection power.

Do you think that the Lord wants to heal you? The Lord wants to enliven you. According to the old concept, healing means to reform or to improve you. But the Lord never comes to improve you or to regulate your behavior. He always comes to enliven you. The Lord’s only intention is to impart Himself to you as the enlivening life.