我们需要作宇宙的基督徒,有基督宇宙、奥秘身体的宇宙观;这身体乃是那普及宇宙、包罗万有、延展无限、充满万有之基督的彰显。
We need to be universal Christians with a universal view of the universal, mystical Body of Christ— the expression of the universal, all-inclusive, and all-extensive Christ, who fills all things.
基督的身体这一个新人,是基督在自己里面借着祂的死与复活所创造之神的杰作,祂的诗章,以彰显神无穷的智慧和神圣的设计。
The Body of Christ as the one new man is God’s masterpiece, His poem, created in Himself through His death and resurrection to express His infinite wisdom and divine design.
羔羊的婚娶乃是神新约经纶的结果;神新约的经纶是要借着祂法理的救赎并凭着祂神圣生命里生机的拯救,为基督娶得一个新妇,就是召会。
The marriage of the Lamb is the issue of God’s New Testament economy, which is to obtain for Christ a bride, the church, through His judicial redemption and by His organic salvation in His divine life.
我们对主耶稣若有情深的爱,我们的舌头就会是快手的笔,照着我们对祂丰满职事里一切所是的经历和享受,迅速写出我们对祂的爱和赞美。
If we have an affectionate love for the Lord Jesus, our tongue will be the pen of a ready writer, ready to write our love for Him and our praise to Him with our experience and enjoyment of Him according to all that He is in His full ministry.
神的国乃是基督自己作生命的种子,撒到神的选民里面,并且发展为一个范围,就是神的国,使神在祂神圣的生命里,能在其中掌权,且扩增为扩大的国,就是主回来时所要带来的。
The kingdom of God is Christ Himself as the seed of life sown into God’s chosen people and developing into a realm over which God can rule as His kingdom in His divine life and increasing to be the enlarged kingdom, which the Lord will bring in at His coming back.
召会的建造,在于运用三把钥匙关上阴间的门:我们需要学习运用否认己这把钥匙;我们需要学习运用背十字架这把钥匙;我们需要学习运用丧失魂生命这把钥匙。
The building up of the church depends on the shutting up of the gates of Hades through the exercise of three keys: we need to learn to exercise the key of denying the self; we need to learn to exercise the key of taking up the cross; and we need to learn to exercise the key of losing the soul-life.