第六篇 成为基督这生命树的复制，而有供应生命的职事
Becoming a Reproduction of Christ as the Tree of Life for the Ministry of Life
读经：约一4，十二24，十五1、4~5，约壹五16，林后四12
壹 在神的经纶里，我们不仅是吃生命树的人，也是这树的枝子，并且我们至终要成为小生命树，就是基督这生命树的复制─彼前二21，约一4，十二24，十五1、4~5：
I. In God's economy we are not only eaters of the tree of life, but we are also branches of this tree, and we may eventually become a small tree of life, a reproduction of Christ as the tree of life—1 Pet. 2:21; John 1:4; 12:24; 15:1, 4-5:
一 神的心意是要所有在基督里的信徒，都成为神人基督的复制─十二24，罗八29：
A. God's intention is that all the believers in Christ become a reproduction of Christ, the God-man—12:24; Rom. 8:29:
１ 我们要成为基督的复制，就需要在我们的灵里从是灵的基督重生，然后在我们的魂里，逐渐被是灵的基督变化─约三6，林后三18。
1. Becoming a reproduction of Christ requires that we be reborn of the pneumatic Christ in our spirit and then be gradually transformed by the pneumatic Christ in our soul—John 3:6; 2 Cor. 3:18.
２ 我们成为基督的复制品，是借着一个过程，在其中有神圣生命的丰富分赐到我们里面，并被我们经历─弗三8，西三4、10~11。
2. We become Christ's reproduction by a process that involves the riches of the divine life being dispensed into us and experienced by us—Eph. 3:8; Col. 3:4, 10-11.
３ 我们要成为作我们榜样之基督的复制品，就需要经历基督这活在我们里面、成形在我们里面并安家在我们心里的一位─加二20，四19，弗三16~17上。
3. In order to become a reproduction of Christ as our model, we need to experience Christ as the One living in us, being formed in us, and making His home in our hearts—Gal. 2:20; 4:19; Eph. 3:16-17a.
４ 当我们成为基督的复制时，我们自然会借着祂的灵全备的供应而活基督─腓一19、21。
4. As we become a reproduction of Christ, spontaneously we will live Christ by the bountiful supply of His Spirit—Phil. 1:19, 21.
二 在创世记二章九节，生命树只有一棵；但是生命树已经栽种在我们里面，长在我们里面，叫我们成为小生命树。
B. In Genesis 2:9 the tree of life was unique, but the tree of life has been planted into us and is growing in us, causing us to become a small tree of life.
贰 我们作为基督这生命树的复制，有供应生命的职事─约壹五16，林后四12：
II. As a reproduction of Christ as the tree of life, we have the ministry of life—1 John 5:16; 2 Cor. 4:12:
一 因着我们是基督里的信徒和神的儿女，我们不仅拥有并经历永远的生命，还能将这生命供应给基督身体上别的肢体─约壹五11~16。
A. Because we are believers in Christ and children of God, we not only have eternal life and may experience eternal life, but we also can minister this life to other members of the Body of Christ—1 John 5:11-16.
二 供应生命就是分赐生命；我们有生命的富余时，才能将这富余供应给人─一1~2，二25，五11~13、16。
B. To minister life is to impart life; when we have a surplus of life, we can minister from this supply to others—1:1-2; 2:25; 5:11-13, 16.
三 召会中的事奉乃是供应生命的事奉─将神圣生命供应给人的事奉─林后四12：
C. The service in the church is a life-ministering service—a service of supplying others with the divine life—2 Cor. 4:12:
１ 我们要对这点有极深刻的感觉并仰望主，愿意我们的事奉能作祂生命的出口─约十一25，约壹一2。
1. We need to be impressed with this point and look to the Lord that our service would become an outlet for His life—John 11:25; 1 John 1:2.
２ 我们供应给人的生命乃是在那灵里，那灵与我们的灵调和，而神的生命就位于、住在、长在调和的灵里─林前十五45下，六17，罗八4：
2. The life that we supply to others is in the Spirit, the Spirit is mingled with our spirit, and the life of God is located, abides, and grows in the mingled spirit—1 Cor. 15:45b; 6:17; Rom. 8:4:
a 我们要供应圣徒生命，就得让灵出去，因为神圣的生命是在我们调和的灵里─七6，一9。
a. If we would supply the saints with life, we must release our spirit, for the divine life is in our mingled spirit—7:6; 1:9.
b 灵若是不能释放出去，神圣的生命就无法释放出去─八10。
b. If our spirit cannot be released, the divine life has no way to be released—8:10.
四 我们若要作为基督这生命树的复制而活，就需要深深铭记，我们必须能供应生命─约壹五11~16：
D. If we would live as a reproduction of Christ as the tree of life, we need to be deeply impressed with the necessity of being able to minister life—1 John 5:11-16:
１ 神所要我们有的事奉，不重在作工，乃重在供应生命─16节。
1. The service that God wants from us does not focus on doing a work but on ministering life—v. 16.
２ 要供应生命给人，就需要我们接在基督身上，住在基督里面，让祂在我们里面有地位，而充满我们，使祂的生命、性情、爱好、趋向变作我们的生命、性情、爱好、趋向─二27，弗三16~17。
2. In order to minister life to others, we need to be joined to Christ, abide in Christ, and give Him the ground in us to fill us so that His life, nature, likes, and inclination become our life, nature, likes, and inclination—2:27; Eph. 3:16- 17.
五 供应生命就是有生命的流露；我们的事奉乃是神的流露，将神圣的生命供应给人─约十九34，七37~39：
E. To minister life is to have the outflow of life; our service is God's flowing out to supply others with the divine life—John 19:34; 7:37-39:
１ 生命就是神的内容和神的流出；神的内容是神的所是，神的流出是祂自己作生命分赐给我们─弗四18，启二二1。
1. Life is the content of God and the flowing out of God; God's content is God's being, and God's flowing out is the impartation of Himself as life to us—Eph. 4:18; Rev. 22:1.
２ 生命要从我们灵里释放出来，我们外面的人就得受对付、被破碎─林后四16，来四12：
2. In order for life to be released from our spirit, our outer man must be dealt with and broken—2 Cor. 4:16; Heb. 4:12:
a 我们外面的人若不被破碎，就无法有神圣生命纯净的流露─约七38。
a. If our outer man is not broken, there cannot be a pure flow of the divine life—John 7:38.
b 我们若要让神圣生命从我们里面释放出来，我们的魂就要被折服，在每一件事上让灵作主，让灵掌权；这样，主的生命就能流出─弗三16~17。
b. If we want the divine life to be released from within us, we must be subdued in our soul and let our spirit dominate and rule over every matter; then the Lord's life will be able to flow out—Eph. 3:16-17.
３ 要有生命的流出，我们就需要在基督释放生命的死里与祂是一，就是与被击打的磐石所预表之被击打的基督联合为一─约十九34，出十七6：
3. Having the outflow of life requires that we be one with Christ in His life-releasing death; this is to be identified with the smitten Christ typified by the smitten rock—John 19:34; Exo. 17:6:
a 当我们与被击打的磐石基督是一，神圣的生命就要作为活水从我们流出来─6节，约七38。
a. When we are one with Christ as the smitten rock, the divine life as the living water flows out of us—v. 6; John 7:38.
b 我们的属人生命，天然生命，必须受击打，好使活水能从我们里面流出来─林后四10~11、16。
b. Our human life, our natural life, must be smitten so that the living water may flow out from within us—2 Cor. 4:10-11, 16.
c 我们若与被击打的基督是一，就会经历天然的生命被钉死；然后基督的神圣生命如何借着祂属人的生命被击打而作为活水流出来，我们也要照样经历借着天然生命被击打而流出生命水来─10~12节。
c. If we are one with the smitten Christ, we will experience the crucifixion of our natural life, and then as Christ's divine life flowed out as living water through the smiting of His human life, we also will experience the flow of the water of life through the smiting of our natural life—vv. 10- 12.
六 我们要供应生命给人，就需要提防死亡，就是阴间的门，对召会的攻击─太十六18，罗五17：
F. If we would minister life to others, we need to be aware of the attack upon the church by death, the gates of Hades—Matt. 16:18; Rom. 5:17:
１ 出于神的，特征是生命，出于撒但的，特征是死亡；在召会中，凡是出于神的都是生命，凡是出于撒但的都是死亡─约十一25，来二14。
1. What is of God is characterized by life, and what is of Satan, by death; in the church everything that issues from God is life, and everything that issues from Satan is death—John 11:25; Heb. 2:14.
２ 撒但最惧怕召会的，就是召会抵挡他死亡的权势─提后一10。
2. Satan's greatest fear with regard to the church is her resistance to his power of death—2 Tim. 1:10.
３ 在我们里面的永远生命能胜过我们自己身上，并召会别的肢体身上的死─约壹五11~13、16。
3. The eternal life within us can overcome death both in ourselves and in other members of the church—1 John 5:11-13, 16.
４ 作为基督这生命树的复制，我们需要经历永远的生命，也需要成为永远的生命得以流通的管道，借此将这生命供应给人─约七37~39，腓一24~25。
4. As a reproduction of Christ as the tree of life, we need to experience eternal life and minister this life to others by being a channel through which eternal life can flow—John 7:37-39; Phil. 1:24-25.