【读圣经学英语】许多人就在那里信入了耶稣

最后说，有许多人来到祂那里，并且信入祂。（约十41～42。）你知道这件事的意义吗？这意思就是许多人跟随祂，像羊跟随牧人一样。祂是牧人，进到羊圈中，把羊领出来。当祂从羊圈中出来，所有的羊都跟随祂到一个地方，那地方的见证就是放弃旧约而体认新约。旧约的见证是羊圈，而新约的见证乃是基督为草场。你是一只羊吗？草场预备好了，你还宁愿留在圈内吗？你还喜欢被监禁看守在羊圈之内吗？或者你要从圈中出来，进入草场享受基督的丰富？今天主耶稣不再在犹太教里。那位好牧人不再在圈里。祂留在新约见证所建立的地方。祂已放弃了羊圈，留在祂作草场的地方。因此你也必须放弃这圈，到祂这里来。这就是说，你必须放弃『犹太教，』来接受基督作你的一切。祂之于你乃是一切。看看羊群，草场就是它们的一切。羊享受草场作安息之所、食粮、水、生命供应，以及其它的一切。你也必须从圈中出来，进入草场；那就是说，你必须从『犹太教』出来，单单到基督那里。你必须从『律法』出来，到享受基督的地方。基督现今在哪里？基督是在各种犹太教的团体之外，在施浸者约翰见证祂的地方。

现在你知道这一章的正确意义了。这一章乃是瞎子得医治这事例的结论。在基督未来以先，神所有的选民都在羊圈里。如今基督既已来到，羊圈的时代就过去了。你必须离开羊圈，来到基督跟前。现在就是你接受基督作草场，并且享受祂作一切的时候。你必须活在祂里面，接受祂作你的一切。

Enlightenment:

This chapter finally says that many people went to Him and believed in Him (10:41-42). Do you know the significance of this? It simply means that many people followed Him as sheep follow a shepherd. He is the shepherd who went into the sheepfold to lead the sheep out. When He came out of the sheepfold, all of the sheep followed Him to a place where the testimony was that of giving up the Old Testament and realizing the New Testament. The testimony of the Old Testament was the sheepfold, but the testimony of the New Testament is Christ as the pasture. Are you a sheep? Do you prefer to remain in the fold when the pasture is ready? Do you still like to be confined and kept under the custody of the fold? Or will you come out of the fold and go into the pasture to enjoy the riches of Christ? Today, the Lord Jesus is no longer in Judaism. The Good Shepherd is no longer in the fold. He is staying where the testimony of the New Testament is established. He has given up the fold and is staying in the place where He is the pasture. Therefore, you also must give up the fold and come to Him. This means that you must give up “Judaism” and come to take Christ as your everything. He is everything to you. Just look at the sheep. The pasture is everything to them. The sheep enjoy the pasture as the resting place, the food, the water, the life supply, and as everything else. You too must come out of the fold and go into the pasture—that is, you must come out of “Judaism” and go to Christ alone. You have to come out of the “law” and go to the place where Christ is enjoyed. Where is Christ now? Christ is outside of all the Judaistic types of groups and in the place where John the Baptist testified of Him.

Now you know the right meaning of this chapter, which is the conclusion of the case concerning the blind man who was healed. Before Christ came, all of God’s chosen people were in a sheepfold. Now, since Christ has come, the time of the sheepfold is over. You must leave the fold in order to come to Christ. Now is the time for you to take Christ as your pasture and to enjoy Him as your everything. You must live in Him and take Him as your all.