神命定之路乃是照着圣经聚集及事奉的路,为着建造基督的身体。
765 来十24、来十25、太二八19
且当彼此相顾,激发爱心,勉励行善; 不可放弃我们自己的聚集,好像有些人习惯了一样,倒要彼此劝勉;既看见那日子临近,就更当如此。
And let us consider one another so as to incite one another to love and good works, Not abandoning our own assembling together, as the custom with some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more as you see the day drawing near.
神命定之路乃是照着圣经,在彼此相顾里聚集的路。
766 太二八20、罗十五16
所以你们要去,使万民作我的门徒,将他们浸入父、子、圣灵的名里, 凡我所吩咐你们的,无论是什么,都教训他们遵守;看哪,我天天与你们同在,直到这世代的终结。
Go therefore and disciple all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you all the days until the consummation of the age.
我们需要传福音,使万民作主的门徒。(参可十六15)
罗十五16
使我为外邦人作基督耶稣的仆役,作神福音勤奋的祭司,叫所献上的外邦人,在圣灵里得以圣别,可蒙悦纳。
That I might be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, a laboring priest of the gospel of God, in order that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, having been sanctified in the Holy Spirit.
我们需要传福音,把罪人当作祭物献上给神。
767 太十八11、徒二六18、弗三8
因为人子来,是要拯救失丧的人。
For the Son of Man has come to save that which is lost.
我们需要出去接触人。 (参可二17)
徒二六18
我差你到他们那里去,叫他们的眼睛得开,从黑暗转入光中,从撒但权下转向神,又因信入我,得蒙赦罪,并在一切圣别的人中得着基业。
To open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.
我们需要开启人的眼睛,把他们从黑暗转入光中。
弗三8
这恩典赐给了我这比众圣徒中最小者还小的,叫我将基督那追测不尽的丰富,当作福音传给外邦人,
To me, less than the least of all saints, was this grace given to announce to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ as the gospel
我们传基督追测不尽的丰富为福音。
768 帖前二9、约十五16、约二一16、徒二十28
弟兄们,你们原记得我们的劳碌辛苦;我们是昼夜作工,把神的福音传扬给你们,免得叫你们任何人受累。
For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail: While working night and day so as not to be burdensome to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
我们需要传扬神的福音。我们需要昼夜在人身上劳苦。 (参诗一二六5、徒二十31)
约十五16
不是你们拣选了我,乃是我拣选了你们,并且立了你们,要你们前去,并要你们a结果子,且要你们的果子常存,使你们在我的名里,无论向父求什么,祂就赐给你们。
You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and I set you that you should go forth and bear fruit and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He may give you.
我们要结常存的果子。(a林前四15)
约二一16
耶稣第二次又对他说,约翰的儿子西门,你爱我么?彼得对祂说,主啊,是的,你知道我爱你。耶稣对他说,你a牧养我的羊。
He said to him again a second time, Simon, son of John, do you love Me? He said to Him, Yes, Lord, You know that I love You. He said to him, Shepherd My sheep.
我们要牧养圣徒。(a来十三20-21)
徒二十28
圣灵立你们作全群的监督,你们就当为自己谨慎,也为全群谨慎,牧养神的召会,就是祂用自己的血所买来的。
Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among whom the Holy Spirit has placed you as overseers to shepherd the church of God, which He obtained through His own blood.
我们需要牧养神的群羊。
769 彼前五3
也不是作主辖管所委托你们的产业,乃是作群羊的榜样。
Nor as lording it over your allotments but by becoming patterns of the flock.
我们需要作群羊的榜样,照着神牧养。
770 弗五29
从来没有人恨恶自己的身体,总是保养顾惜,正像基督待召会一样,
For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ also the church,
我们需要保养顾惜信徒。
771 帖前二7
只在你们中间为人温和,如同乳母顾惜自己的孩子。
But we were gentle in your midst, as a nursing mother would cherish her own children.
我们需要如同乳母一般顾惜初信者。
772 帖前二11
正如你们所知道的,我们怎样劝勉你们,抚慰你们,向你们作见证,待你们每一个人,好像父亲待自己的孩子一样。
Just as you know how we were to each one of you, as a father to his own children, exhorting you and consoling you and testifying.
我们需要像父亲一样劝勉初信者。
773 西一28、提前二4
我们宣扬祂,是用全般的智慧警戒各人,教导各人,好将各人在基督里成熟的献上;
Whom we announce, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom that we may present every man full-grown in Christ;
我们需要用全般的智慧教导各人。我们需要将各人在基督里成熟的献上。
提前二4
祂愿意万人得救,并且完全认识真理;
Who desires all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the truth.
我们需要帮助信徒完全认识真理。
774 徒二十27、弗四11、弗四12
因为神的旨意,我并没有一样避讳不告诉你们。
For I did not shrink from declaring to you all the counsel of God.
我们需要将神的旨意完全告诉圣徒。
弗四11~12
祂所赐的,有些是使徒,有些是申言者,有些是传福音者,有些是牧人和教师,为要成全圣徒,目的是为着职事的工作,为着建造基督的身体。
And He Himself gave some as apostles and some as prophets and some as evangelists and some as shepherds and teachers, For the perfecting of the saints unto the work of the ministry, unto the building up of the Body of Christ.
在召会里的恩赐者成全圣徒,作那职事的工作,就是建造基督的身体。
775 徒二十20、林前十四4、徒五42
凡与你们有益的,我没有一样避讳不告诉你们的,或在公众面前,或挨家挨户,我都教导你们。
How I did not withhold any of those things that are profitable by not declaring them to you and by not teaching you publicly and from house to house,
恩赐者在公众面前并挨家挨户教导。
林前十四4
那说方言的,是建造自己,但那申言的,乃是建造召会。
He who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but he who prophesies builds up the church.
申言是建造召会极超越的路。(参林前十四12、彼前四11)
徒五42
他们每日在殿里,并且挨家挨户,不住的施教,传耶稣是基督为福音。
And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and announcing the gospel of Jesus as the Christ.
家对神命定之路是极其重要的。
776 帖前一3
在我们的神与父面前,不住的记念你们信心的工作,爱心的劳苦,并对我们主耶稣基督之盼望的忍耐;
Remembering unceasingly your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
我们需要有信心的工作,爱心的劳苦,及盼望的忍耐。
777 林后十二15
我极其喜欢为你们花费,并完全花上自己。难道我越发爱你们,就越发少得你们的爱么?
But I, I will most gladly spend and be utterly spent on behalf of your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved less?
我们需要为着圣徒花费并且完全花上自己。(参林后七3)
778 西一29
我也为此劳苦,照着祂在我里面大能的运行,竭力奋斗。
For which also I labor, struggling according to His operation which operates in me in power.
我们需要照着神在我们里面大能的运行,凭神的恩典而劳苦。
779 林前十五10、加四19
然而因着神的恩,我成了我今天这个人,并且神的恩临到我,不是徒然的;反而我比众使徒格外劳苦,但这不是我,乃是神的恩与我同在。
But by the grace of God I am what I am; and His grace unto me did not turn out to be in vain, but, on the contrary, I labored more abundantly than all of them, yet not I but the grace of God which is with me.
我们需要照着神在我们里面大能的运行,凭神的恩典而劳苦。
加四19
我的孩子们,我为你们再受生产之苦,直等到基督成形在你们里面。
My children, with whom I travail again in birth until Christ is formed in you,
我们需要在圣徒身上劳苦,直等到基督成形在他们里面。(参雅五7、林前十五58)