極大的奧秘 - 基督與教會

基督的奧祕之啟示

弗三5：「這奧祕在別的世代中，未曾給人們的子孫知道，像如今在靈裏啟示祂的聖使徒和申言者一樣。」

弗三3：「就是照著啟示使我知道這奧祕，正如我前面所寫過的。」

弗三7：「我作了這福音的執事，是照著神恩典的恩賜，這恩賜是照著祂大能的運行所賜給我的。」

Christ as the Mystery of God vs. The Church as the Mystery of Christ

Colossians 2:2: "That their hearts may be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ"

Ephesians 3:4: "By which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ"

Ephesians 1:22-23: "And hath put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be the head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him that fills all in all"

神的奧祕是基督 vs. 基督的奧祕是召會

西二2：「要叫他們的心得安慰，在愛裏結合一起，以致豐豐富富的在悟性上有充分的確信，能以完全認識神的奧祕，就是基督」

弗三4：「你們念了，就能藉此明瞭我對基督的奧祕所有的領悟」

弗一22-23：「將萬有服在祂的腳下，並使祂向著召會作萬有的頭；召會是祂的身體，是那在萬有中充滿萬有者的豐滿」

The Three Stages of the Mystery of the Universe 

1 Timothy 3:16 "Great indeed, is the mystery of godliness!"

John 14:9 "Whoever has seen me has seen the Father."

Colossians 2:2 "To reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ."

宇宙的奧祕之三個階段

提摩太前書3:16「大哉，敬虔的奧祕！」

歌羅西書2:2「完全認識神的奧祕，就是基督。」

約翰福音14:9「人看見了我，就是看見了父。」

The Beginning vs. The End of the Age of Mystery

Col 2:2: "...to the full understanding of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ"

Eph 6:19: "...to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel"

Col 1:26-27: "...Christ in you, the hope of glory"

奧祕時代的開始 vs. 奧祕時代的結束

提前三16：「大哉，敬虔的奧祕，無人不以為然，就是神在肉身顯現...」

啟十7：「但在第七位天使發聲的日子，要吹號的時候，神的奧祕就完成了...」

太十三11：「...天國的奧祕...」

Baptism into Christ vs. Baptism into Christ's Death

Romans 6:3 Or do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

Romans 6:4 Therefore we were buried with him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Romans 6:5 For if we have grown together with him in the likeness of his death, we shall also grow together with him in the likeness of his resurrection;

浸入基督 vs. 浸入基督的死

羅馬書6:3 豈不知我們這浸入基督耶穌的人，是浸入祂的死麼？

羅馬書6:4 所以我們藉著浸入死，和祂一同埋葬，好叫我們在生命的新樣中生活行動，像基督藉著父的榮耀，從死人中復活一樣。

羅馬書6:5 我們若在祂死的樣式裡與祂聯合生長，也必要在祂復活的樣式裡與祂聯合生長；

How Believers Should Live by Faith in Christ?

Galatians 2:20 "I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."

Psalm 5:3 "O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch."

Romans 12:2 "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."

如何在基督的信裏過生活?

加拉太書2:20「我已經與基督同釘十字架，現在活著的不再是我，乃是基督在我裏面活著；並且我如今在肉身活著，是因信神的兒子而活；他是愛我，為我捨己。」

詩篇5:3「耶和華啊，早晨你必聽我的聲音；早晨我必向你獻上祈禱，並要警醒。」

The hidden and foreshadowing of the cross symbol and message in the Old Testament

Hebrews 1:1-2 "God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son"

Daniel 12:9 "But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end"

從 聖經 看‘十字架符號和信息在舊約中的隱藏與預表’

來1:1-2「神既在古時藉著眾先知多次多方地曉諭列祖，就在這末世藉著祂兒子曉諭我們」

但12:9「但以理啊，你要隱藏這話，封閉這書，直到末時」

弗3:10「為要藉著教會使天上執政的、掌權的，現在得知神百般的智慧」