总题：神在信仰里的经纶
GOD'S ECONOMY IN FAITH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Message One
The Governing and Controlling Vision of God's Economy in Faith
Scripture Reading: Prov. 29:18a; Acts 26:18a; 1 Tim. 1:4; Gal. 2:16, 20
I. We in the Lord's recovery must have a vision of God's economy—Acts 26:18a; Prov. 29:18a:
A. We need to be brought into another realm, not the so-called spiritual realm but the realm of God's economy—Rev. 21:9-10.
B. We need to be governed, controlled, and directed by this vision—Prov. 29:18a.
C. We must be strong and unshakable in the vision of God's economy, God's eternal will—Rev. 4:11; 1 Cor. 15:58.
D. If we love the Lord and His recovery and if we mean business to practice the church life in the recovery, we need to endeavor to see all the visions concerning God's economy—Jer. 29:13; 33:3; Deut. 29:29.
II. God's economy is God's household administration, which is to dispense Himself in Christ into His chosen and redeemed people that He may have a house to express Himself, which house is the church, the Body of Christ—1 Tim. 1:4; 3:15:
A. God's economy, as His household administration, is to produce and constitute a Body for His Son—Eph. 1:22-23; 2:16; 3:6; 4:4, 16; 5:30.
B. The central subject of the Bible is the economy of God, and the entire Bible is concerned with the economy of God—1 Tim. 1:4; Eph. 1:10:
1. The governing and controlling vision in the Bible is the divine economy—Prov. 29:18a.
2. In our reading of the Bible, we need to focus our attention on the divine economy for the divine dispensing—Eph. 3:9.
3. Unless we know God's economy, we will not understand the Bible—Luke 24:45.
C. Christ is the element, sphere, means, goal, and aim of God's eternal economy; He is everything in God's economy—Matt. 17:5; Luke 24:44.
D. God's economy is to dispense Himself into our being that our being may be constituted with His being; this can be accomplished only by God dispensing Himself into us as the divine life—Eph. 3:16-17a; Rom. 8:2, 6, 10-11.
E. The economy of God is that God became flesh, passed through human living, died, resurrected, and became the life-giving Spirit to enter into us as life and to dispense God into us so that we may be transformed for the producing of the church, which is the Body of Christ, the house of God, the kingdom of God, and the counterpart of Christ, the ultimate aggregate of which is the New Jerusalem—John 1:14, 29; 12:24; 20:22; 14:2; 3:3, 5, 29-30; Rev. 21:2.
F. God's economy is God becoming man that man may become God in life and nature but not in the Godhead to produce the organic Body of Christ, which will consummate in the New Jerusalem—Rom. 8:3; 1:3-4; 12:4-5; Rev. 21:10.
G. According to the desire of His heart, God's eternal economy is to make man the same as He is in life and nature but not in the Godhead and to make Himself one with man and man one with Him, thus to be enlarged and expanded in His expression, that all His divine attributes may be expressed in human virtues—John 1:12-14; 1 John 3:1a, 2; 2 Pet. 1:4.
H. The divine economy is to produce the new creation out of the chaotic old creation—Gal. 6:15; 2 Cor. 5:17:
1. The history of the universe is a history of God's economy and Satan's chaos—Gen. 1:1-2, 26; Rev. 20:10—21:4.
2. Both in the Bible and in our experience, the satanic chaos always goes along with the divine economy—Eph. 3:8-10; 4:14-16; 6:24.
3. The Lord needs the overcomers, who will be one with Him to conquer the destructive satanic chaos and to triumph in the constructive divine economy—Rev. 2:7b, 11b, 17b, 26-28; 3:5, 12, 21.
I. The Lord's recovery is for the carrying out of God's economy—Eph. 3:2.
III. God's economy is initiated and developed in the sphere of faith—1 Tim. 1:4:
A. On the negative side, to exercise faith is to stop our work, our doing; on the positive side, to exercise faith is to trust in the Lord—Heb. 11:6.
B. Faith is a proclamation that we are unable to fulfill God's requirements but that God has done everything for us and that we receive all God has planned for us, all God has done for us, and all God has given to us—John 1:16.
C. God's economy is carried out not by our doing in ourselves but by our believing into Christ, the embodiment of the Triune God—3:15-16.
D. Faith is a matter of seeing a view of the contents of God's economy—Heb. 12:2:
1. Because we have seen a revelation regarding the contents of God's economy, we spontaneously believe in what we see—Eph. 3:9.
2. The ability within us to believe is a product, a result, of having a proper view of God's economy—Heb. 11:6, 9, 23-26; 12:2.
E. The Christian life is a life of faith, a life of believing—Gal. 3:2, 14:
1. We do not live according to what we see; we live according to what we believe—John 20:25-29.
2. Our walk is by faith, not by sight—2 Cor. 5:7.
IV. Faith is the unique requirement for us to contact God in His economy and the unique way for us to carry out His economy—Gal. 2:16, 20:
A. Galatians 2:16 says that we are justified through faith in Jesus Christ, literally, faith of Jesus Christ:
1. Faith is related to the believers' appreciation of the person of the Son of God as the most precious One—1 Pet. 2:7.
2. Christ is infusing Himself into us to be the faith in us; He becomes in us the faith by which we believe and the capacity to believe through our appreciation of Him—Gal. 2:16.
3. Faith in Jesus Christ denotes an organic union with Him through believing; in this organic union we and Christ are one—John 15:4-5; 1 Cor. 6:17.
4. When we believe in Christ, we enter into Him; we believe ourselves into Christ and thereby become one spirit with Him—John 3:15; 1 Cor. 6:17.
B. In Galatians 2:20 the apostle Paul says, "I live in faith, the faith of the Son of God":
1. The faith of the Son of God refers to the faith of Jesus Christ in us, which becomes the faith by which we believe in Him—vv. 16, 20; 3:22.
2. As we treasure Him, He causes faith to be generated in us, enabling us to believe in Him—Matt. 17:5; Heb. 12:2.
3. According to our Christian experience, the genuine living faith that operates in us is not only of Christ but also in Christ—Rom. 3:22, 26; Gal. 2:16, 20:
a. Paul's thought is that the faith is both of Christ and in Christ—vv. 16, 20.
b. Faith is related not only to the Christ who has been infused into us but also to the Christ who is continually infusing Himself into us.
c. As Christ operates in us, He becomes our faith; this faith is of Him and also in Him.
4. A secret of experiencing Christ living in us is revealed in the words in faith—v. 20:
a. Paul lived by the faith that is both in and of the Son of God.
b. The faith that we need is not only faith in the Son of God but also faith of the Son of God; in and by this faith we can carry out God's economy in faith—v. 20; 1 Tim. 1:4.
The Governing and Controlling Vision of God's Economy in Faith
壹 我们在主恢复中的人必须有神经纶的异象─徒二六18上，箴二九18上：
I. We in the Lord's recovery must have a vision of God's economy—Acts 26:18a; Prov. 29:18a:
一 我们需要被带进另一个范围，不是所谓属灵的范围，而是神经纶的范围─启二一9~10。
A. We need to be brought into another realm, not the so-called spiritual realm but the realm of God's economy—Rev. 21:9-10.
二 我们需要受这异象的管制、支配并指引─箴二九18上。
B. We need to be governed, controlled, and directed by this vision—Prov. 29:18a.
三 我们必须在神经纶的异象，就是神永远旨意的异象中，刚强而不动摇─启四11，林前十五58。
C. We must be strong and unshakable in the vision of God's economy, God's eternal will—Rev. 4:11; 1 Cor. 15:58.
四 我们若爱主和祂的恢复，我们若要在这恢复里认真实行召会生活，就需要竭力看见一切关于神经纶的异象─耶二九13，三三3，申二九29。
D. If we love the Lord and His recovery and if we mean business to practice the church life in the recovery, we need to endeavor to see all the visions concerning God's economy—Jer. 29:13; 33:3; Deut. 29:29.
贰 神的经纶乃是神的家庭行政，要在基督里将祂自己分赐到祂所拣选并救赎的人里面，使祂得着一个家彰显祂自己，这家就是召会─基督的身体─提前一4，三15：
II. God's economy is God's household administration, which is to dispense Himself in Christ into His chosen and redeemed people that He may have a house to express Himself, which house is the church, the Body of Christ—1 Tim. 1:4; 3:15:
一 神的经纶，就是神的家庭行政，是要为祂儿子产生并构成一个身体─弗一22~23，二16，三6，四4、16，五30。
A. God's economy, as His household administration, is to produce and constitute a Body for His Son—Eph. 1:22-23; 2:16; 3:6; 4:4, 16; 5:30.
二 圣经的中心题目乃是神的经纶，整本圣经都是关乎神的经纶─提前一4，弗一10：
B. The central subject of the Bible is the economy of God, and the entire Bible is concerned with the economy of God—1 Tim. 1:4; Eph. 1:10:
1 圣经中管制并支配的异象，乃是神圣的经纶─箴二九18上。
1. The governing and controlling vision in the Bible is the divine economy—Prov. 29:18a.
2 我们读圣经时，必须将我们的注意力集中在那为着神圣分赐的神圣经纶─弗三9。
2. In our reading of the Bible, we need to focus our attention on the divine economy for the divine dispensing—Eph. 3:9.
3 除非我们认识神的经纶，我们必无法明白圣经─路二四45。
3. Unless we know God's economy, we will not understand the Bible—Luke 24:45.
三 基督是神永远经纶的元素、范围、凭借、目标和目的，祂乃是神经纶中的一切─太十七5，路二四44。
C. Christ is the element, sphere, means, goal, and aim of God's eternal economy; He is everything in God's economy—Matt. 17:5; Luke 24:44.
四 神的经纶就是要将神自己分赐到我们里面，使我们这人由祂的所是构成；这唯有借着神将祂自己作为神圣的生命分赐到我们里面，才能完成─弗三16~17上，罗八2、6、10~11。
D. God's economy is to dispense Himself into our being that our being may be constituted with His being; this can be accomplished only by God dispensing Himself into us as the divine life—Eph. 3:16-17a; Rom. 8:2, 6, 10-11.
五 神的经纶就是神成肉体，经过人生，受死，复活，成为赐生命的灵，进到我们里面作生命，把神分赐到我们里面，使我们得变化，以产生召会，就是基督的身体，也就是神的家、神的国、基督的配偶，最终的集大成乃是新耶路撒冷─约一14、29，十二24，二十22，十四2，三3、5、29~30，启二一2。
E. The economy of God is that God became flesh, passed through human living, died, resurrected, and became the life-giving Spirit to enter into us as life and to dispense God into us so that we may be transformed for the producing of the church, which is the Body of Christ, the house of God, the kingdom of God, and the counterpart of Christ, the ultimate aggregate of which is the New Jerusalem—John 1:14, 29; 12:24; 20:22; 14:2; 3:3, 5, 29-30; Rev. 21:2.
六 神的经纶乃是神成为人，使人在生命和性情上，但不在神格上，成为神，好产生基督生机的身体，这要终极完成于新耶路撒冷─罗八3，一3~4，十二4~5，启二一10。
F. God's economy is God becoming man that man may become God in life and nature but not in the Godhead to produce the organic Body of Christ, which will consummate in the New Jerusalem—Rom. 8:3; 1:3-4; 12:4-5; Rev. 21:10.
七 按着神的心愿，神永远的经纶乃是要使人在生命和性情上，但不在神格上，与祂一模一样，使祂自己与人成为一，也使人与祂成为一，因而使祂在彰显上得以扩大并扩展，使祂一切神圣的属性得以彰显在人性美德里─约一12~14，约壹三1上、2，彼后一4。
G. According to the desire of His heart, God's eternal economy is to make man the same as He is in life and nature but not in the Godhead and to make Himself one with man and man one with Him, thus to be enlarged and expanded in His expression, that all His divine attributes may be expressed in human virtues—John 1:12-14; 1 John 3:1a, 2; 2 Pet. 1:4.
八 神圣的经纶是要从混乱的旧造里产生出新造─加六15，林后五17：
H. The divine economy is to produce the new creation out of the chaotic old creation—Gal. 6:15; 2 Cor. 5:17:
1 宇宙的历史乃是神的经纶与撒但的混乱的历史─创一1~2、26，启二十10~二一4。
1. The history of the universe is a history of God's economy and Satan's chaos—Gen. 1:1-2, 26; Rev. 20:10—21:4.
2 在圣经里，并在我们的经历中，撒但的混乱总是与神圣的经纶并行的─弗三8~10，四14~16，六24。
2. Both in the Bible and in our experience, the satanic chaos always goes along with the divine economy—Eph. 3:8-10; 4:14-16; 6:24.
3 主需要得胜者与祂成为一，好征服撒但毁坏的混乱，并在祂建造的神圣经纶里得胜─启二7下、11下、17下、26~28，三5、12、21。
3. The Lord needs the overcomers, who will be one with Him to conquer the destructive satanic chaos and to triumph in the constructive divine economy—Rev. 2:7b, 11b, 17b, 26-28; 3:5, 12, 21.
九 主的恢复乃是为着完成神的经纶─弗三2。
I. The Lord's recovery is for the carrying out of God's economy—Eph. 3:2.
叁 神的经纶是在信仰的范围里得以开始而发展的─提前一4：
III. God's economy is initiated and developed in the sphere of faith—1 Tim. 1:4:
一 在消极方面，操练信就是停止我们的工作，停止我们的作为；在积极方面，操练信就是信靠主─来十一6。
A. On the negative side, to exercise faith is to stop our work, our doing; on the positive side, to exercise faith is to trust in the Lord—Heb. 11:6.
二 信仰是宣告我们无法履行神的要求，但神已经为我们作成一切，我们就接受神为我们所计划的一切、神为我们所作成的一切以及神所赐给我们的一切─约一16。
B. Faith is a proclamation that we are unable to fulfill God's requirements but that God has done everything for us and that we receive all God has planned for us, all God has done for us, and all God has given to us—John 1:16.
三 神的经纶得以完成，不是凭我们自己所作的，乃是凭我们信入基督，就是三一神的具体化身─三15~16。
C. God's economy is carried out not by our doing in ourselves but by our believing into Christ, the embodiment of the Triune God—3:15-16.
四 信心在于看见神经纶内容的景象─来十二2：
D. Faith is a matter of seeing a view of the contents of God's economy—Heb. 12:2:
1 因着我们看见了关于神经纶之内容的启示，我们就自然而然地相信我们所看见的─弗三9。
1. Because we have seen a revelation regarding the contents of God's economy, we spontaneously believe in what we see—Eph. 3:9.
2 我们里面相信的能力，总是因着对神经纶有正确的看见而有的产品、结果─来十一6、9、23~26，十二2。
2. The ability within us to believe is a product, a result, of having a proper view of God's economy—Heb. 11:6, 9, 23-26; 12:2.
五 基督徒的生活是信心的生活、相信的生活─加三2、14：
E. The Christian life is a life of faith, a life of believing—Gal. 3:2, 14:
1 我们的生活不是照着所见的，乃是照着所信的─约二十25~29。
1. We do not live according to what we see; we live according to what we believe—John 20:25-29.
2 我们行事为人，是凭着信心，不是凭着眼见─林后五7。
2. Our walk is by faith, not by sight—2 Cor. 5:7.
肆 在神的经纶里，信是我们接触祂的唯一要求，也是我们完成神经纶唯一的路─加二16、20：
IV. Faith is the unique requirement for us to contact God in His economy and the unique way for us to carry out His economy—Gal. 2:16, 20:
一 加拉太二章十六节说，我们得称义是借着信耶稣基督（直译，耶稣基督的信，或，在耶稣基督里的信）：─引用经文
A. Galatians 2:16 says that we are justified through faith in Jesus Christ, literally, faith of Jesus Christ:
1 信与信徒珍赏神的儿子是那最宝贵者的人位有关─彼前二7。
1. Faith is related to the believers' appreciation of the person of the Son of God as the most precious One—1 Pet. 2:7.
2 基督将祂自己注入我们里面，成为我们里面的信；祂在我们里面，成为我们凭以相信的信，也成为我们因珍赏祂而相信的能力─加二16。
2. Christ is infusing Himself into us to be the faith in us; He becomes in us the faith by which we believe and the capacity to believe through our appreciation of Him—Gal. 2:16.
3 “在耶稣基督里的信”指借着信与祂有生机的联结；我们在这生机的联结里与基督是一─约十五4~5，林前六17。
3. Faith in Jesus Christ denotes an organic union with Him through believing; in this organic union we and Christ are one—John 15:4-5; 1 Cor. 6:17.
4 当我们相信基督，我们就进到祂里面；我们乃是把自己信到基督里，因而与祂成为一灵─约三15，林前六17。
4. When we believe in Christ, we enter into Him; we believe ourselves into Christ and thereby become one spirit with Him—John 3:15; 1 Cor. 6:17.
二 在加拉太二章二十节，使徒保罗说，“我……所活的生命，是我在神儿子的信里，与祂联结所活的”：
B. In Galatians 2:20 the apostle Paul says, "I live in faith, the faith of the Son of God":
1 “神儿子的信”是指在我们里面耶稣基督的信，这信成了我们凭以相信祂的信─16、20节，三22。
1. The faith of the Son of God refers to the faith of Jesus Christ in us, which becomes the faith by which we believe in Him—vv. 16, 20; 3:22.
2 当我们宝贵祂，祂就使信产生在我们里面，使我们能相信祂─太十七5，来十二2。
2. As we treasure Him, He causes faith to be generated in us, enabling us to believe in Him—Matt. 17:5; Heb. 12:2.
3 根据我们基督徒的经历，在我们里面运行那真实而活的信，不只是“属于基督”的，也是“在基督里的”─罗三22、26，加二16、20：
3. According to our Christian experience, the genuine living faith that operates in us is not only of Christ but also in Christ—Rom. 3:22, 26; Gal. 2:16, 20:
a 保罗的思想乃是，信是属于基督的，也是在基督里的─16、20节。
a. Paul's thought is that the faith is both of Christ and in Christ—vv. 16, 20.
b 信不只和那已经注入我们里面的基督有关，也和那正在不断将祂自己注入我们里面的基督有关。
b. Faith is related not only to the Christ who has been infused into us but also to the Christ who is continually infusing Himself into us.
c 当基督在我们里面运行，祂就成为我们的信；这信是属于祂的，也是在祂里面的。
c. As Christ operates in us, He becomes our faith; this faith is of Him and also in Him.
4 经历基督活在我们里面的秘诀，启示于“在……信里”一辞─20节：
4. A secret of experiencing Christ living in us is revealed in the words in faith—v. 20:
a 保罗凭着在神儿子里面并属于神儿子的信而活。
a. Paul lived by the faith that is both in and of the Son of God.
b 我们所需要的信，不仅是在神儿子里面的信，更是属于神儿子的信；我们只有在这信里并凭着这信，才能完成神在信仰里的经纶─20节，提前一4。
b. The faith that we need is not only faith in the Son of God but also faith of the Son of God; in and by this faith we can carry out God's economy in faith—v. 20; 1 Tim. 1:4.