总题：召会作为基督的身体内在并生机的建造
The Intrinsic Growth of the Church for Its Organic Increase
读经：西二19，弗四13、15~16，林前三6~7，十二12，约三29~30上、34
壹 召会内在的生长，生机的生长，乃是在神圣生命里的生长，这生命就是经过过程并分赐的三一神─弗四15~16，三16~17，林后十三14：
I. The intrinsic growth, the organic growth, of the church is the growth in the divine life, which is the processed and dispensing Triune God—Eph. 4:15-16; 3:16-17; 2 Cor. 13:14:
一 召会在这生命里、凭这生命、以这生命、借这生命生长；我们由神圣的生命，也就是由神自己所生，现今神叫我们生长─约一12~13，林前三6下。
A. The church grows in this life, by this life, with this life, and through this life; we were born of the divine life, which is God Himself, and now God is causing us to grow—John 1:12-13; 1 Cor. 3:6c.
二 歌罗西二章十九节说到身体的长大，也就是神在我们里面的增长：─引用经文
B. Colossians 2:19 speaks of the growth of the Body, which is the growth of God within us:
1 长大就是有基督加到我们里面─林前三6~7，加四19。
1. To grow is to have Christ added into us—1 Cor. 3:6-7; Gal. 4:19.
2 基督身体的长大在于出自元首基督的东西─弗四15~16：
2. The growth of the Body depends on what comes out of Christ as the Head—Eph. 4:15-16:
a 当身体借着持定元首而得着供应，身体就以神的增长而长大─西二19。
a. When the Body is supplied by holding the Head, the Body grows with the growth of God—Col. 2:19.
b 身体是从元首长出来的，因为一切的供应都是来自于元首─弗四15~16。
b. The Body grows out from the Head, for all the supply comes from the Head—Eph. 4:15-16.
3 基督身体的长大在于我们里面神的增长，神的加添，神的增多─西二19：
3. The growth of the Body depends on the growth of God, the addition of God, the increase of God, within us—Col. 2:19:
a 神本身不会增长，因为祂是完整且完全的；祂乃是在我们里面增长。
a. God is not growing in Himself, because He is complete and perfect; He is growing within us.
b 神使我们生长，乃是以非常主观的方式把祂自己赐给我们。
b. God gives the growth by giving Himself to us in a subjective way.
c 神越加到我们里面，就越使我们生长；这就是神叫人生长的路─林前三6~7。
c. The more God is added into us, the more growth He gives to us; this is the way that God gives the growth—1 Cor. 3:6-7.
d 唯有神能叫人生长；唯有神才能把祂自己赐给我们；没有祂，我们就无法长大─6~7节：
d. Only God can give growth; only God can give us Himself, and without Him we cannot have growth—vv. 6-7:
㈠ 神加到我们里面，就是祂使我们生长。
(1) The addition of God into us is the growth He gives.
㈡ 神使我们生长，事实上乃是把祂自己赐给我们─罗八11。
(2) For God to give us growth actually means that He gives us Himself—Rom. 8:11.
㈢ 神使我们在生命里长大，意思是指祂自己在我们里面增长。
(3) For God to give us the growth in life means that He is increasing Himself within us.
4 神在我们里面有多少增长，在于我们有多少地方让祂增长─弗三17上，西三16：
4. How much God grows within us depends on how much room we give Him to grow—Eph. 3:17a; Col. 3:16:
a 我们把我们里面更多地方给神时，祂就在我们里面扩展并扩增；这扩增就是祂在我们里面的增长。
a. When we give God room in us, He expands and increases within us; this increase is His growth in us.
b 神在我们里面的增长就成了我们的生长，因为祂与我们乃是一─林前六17。
b. God’s growth in us becomes our growth because He and we are one—1 Cor. 6:17.
5 召会作为基督身体的长大就是神在召会里的增长─西二19。
5. The growth of the church as the Body of Christ is the growth of God in the church—Col. 2:19.
三 召会长大，直至达到成熟─“基督丰满之身材的度量”─弗四13：
C. The church grows until it reaches maturity—“the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ”—Eph. 4:13:
1 基督有一个丰满，这丰满有一个身材，而这身材有一个度量。
1. Christ has a fullness, the fullness has a stature, and the stature has a measure.
2 基督的身体是祂的丰满，祂的彰显─一23：
2. The Body of Christ is His fullness, His expression—1:23:
a 基督是无限的神，没有任何的限制；祂大到一个地步，在万有中充满万有。
a. Christ, who is the infinite God without any limitation, is so great that He fills all things in all things.
b 这样一位伟大的基督，需要召会作祂的丰满，使祂得着完全的彰显─22~23节。
b. Such a great Christ needs the church to be His fullness for His complete expression—vv. 22-23.
c 我们借着享受基督的丰富（三8），就成为祂的丰满，作祂完全的彰显。─引用经文
c. Through the enjoyment of the riches of Christ (3:8), we become His fullness for His complete expression.
3 基督的丰满，就是祂的身体，有一个身材；基督丰满的身材就是基督身体的身材─四13，一23。
3. The fullness of Christ, which is His Body, has a stature; the stature of the fullness of Christ is the stature of the Body of Christ—4:13; 1:23.
4 基督的丰满有一个身材，这身材有一个度量─四13：
4. The fullness of Christ has a stature, and this stature has a measure—4:13:
a 因为召会─基督的身体─这身材在长大，所以保罗说到这身材的度量；这度量就是长成的人─13节。
a. Because the stature of the church, the Body of Christ, grows, Paul speaks of its measure; this measure is the full-grown man—v. 13.
b 我们现今正在朝向长成的人，朝向基督丰满身材之度量的途中：
b. We are on the way toward a full-grown man, toward the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:
㈠ 有基督丰满之身材的度量，不是为着个人的事，乃是团体身体的事。
(1) To have the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ is not a matter for individuals; it is a matter of a corporate Body.
㈡ 基督在我们里面长大时，我们会逐渐达到基督丰满之身材的度量。
(2) As Christ grows within us, we will gradually arrive at the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
㈢ 我们需要向前追求，直到我们都达到基督丰满之身材的度量；这是我们的目标；我们必须殷勤往这目标奔跑，直到我们众人都一同达到这目标─腓三12~14。
(3) We need to press on until we all arrive at the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; this is our goal, and we must diligently press toward it until we all reach it together—Phil. 3:12-14.
贰 召会生机的扩增乃是基督在祂那作祂新妇之生机身体里的扩增─约三29~30上：
II. The organic increase of the church is the increase of Christ in His organic Body as His bride—John 3:29-30a:
一 基督的丰满就是祂的身体，而基督的身体乃是祂的配偶，祂的新妇─弗四12~13、16，五25~27。
A. The fullness of Christ is His Body, and the Body of Christ is His counterpart, His bride—Eph. 4:12-13, 16; 5:25-27.
二 “娶新妇的，就是新郎；……祂必扩增”─约三29~30上：
B. “He who has the bride is the bridegroom…He must increase”—John 3:29-30a:
1 三十节的扩增就是二十九节的新妇，这新妇乃是所有重生之人的组合。─引用经文
1. The increase in John 3:30a is the bride in verse 29, and the bride is a composition of all the regenerated people.
2 重生不仅将神圣的生命带进信徒里面，也使他们成为团体的新妇，作基督的扩增─3、5~6、29~30节上。
2. Regeneration not only brings the divine life into the believers, but it also makes them the corporate bride for Christ’s increase—vv. 3, 5-6, 29-30a.
3 基督借着重生蒙救赎的罪人而得扩增，将他们作成祂的新妇─29节。
3. Christ increases by regenerating the redeemed sinners, making them His bride—v. 29.
三 约翰三章启示扩增的基督，就是那位说神的话，并且赐那灵没有限量者─34节：
C. Chapter 3 of the Gospel of John reveals the increasing Christ, the One who speaks the words of God and who gives the Spirit not by measure—v. 34:
1 当一个人接受了祂的话，那灵就跟着成为所说之话的实际。
1. When someone receives His words, the Spirit follows to be the reality of what is spoken.
2 基督扩增祂自己，乃是借着讲说神的话扩展神，并借着赐给神的灵作祂所说之话的实际，为要将永远的生命分赐到人里面，使他们成为神的儿女，作基督的扩增；这就是基督如何成为扩增的基督─六63，三30上、34。
2. Christ increases Himself by speaking God’s word to spread God and by giving the Spirit of God to be the reality of what He spoke in order to dispense eternal life into people, making them the children of God to be Christ’s increase; this is how Christ becomes the increasing Christ—6:63; 3:30a, 34.
四 基督的扩增就是基督的繁增与复制；我们这人重生的部分乃是基督之扩增（就是基督之新妇）的一部分─6节。
D. The increase of Christ is the multiplication and reproduction of Christ; the regenerated part of our being is a part of Christ’s increase, His bride—v. 6.
五 新妇作为基督的扩增就是基督自己，因为基督的身体─“那基督”（林前十二12，直译）─乃是团体的基督，由基督作头，召会作祂的身体，连同所有信徒作肢体所组成的。
E. The bride as the increase of Christ is Christ Himself because the Body of Christ—“the Christ” (1 Cor. 12:12)—is the corporate Christ, composed of Christ as the Head and the church as His Body with all the believers as members.