134 第三十四课 成圣: 成圣的目标
Lecture 34 SANCTIFICATION: GOAL OF SANCTIFICATION
成圣的目标
Goal of Sanctification
- 成圣的样式﹕上帝圣洁的本性。基督的样式。
Pattern of sanctification. Holiness of divine nature. Image of Christ.
彼前1﹕16
因为经上记着说﹕你们要圣洁，因为我是圣洁的。
I Peter 1:16
because it is written, “YOU SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.”
利19﹕2
你晓谕以色列全会众说﹕你们要圣洁，因为我耶和华你们的上帝是圣洁的。
Leviticus 19:2
“Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.
利20﹕7
所以你们要自洁成圣，因为我是耶和华你们的上帝。
Leviticus 20:7
‘You shall consecrate yourselves therefore and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.
太5﹕48
所以你们要完全，像你们的天父完全一样。
Matt. 5:48
“Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
— 基督的圣洁。
— Christ’s holiness.
罗8﹕29
因为祂预先所知道的人，就预先定下效法祂儿子的模样，使祂儿子在许多弟兄中作长子。
Rom. 8:29
For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined {to become} conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;
加2﹕20
我已经与基督同钉十字架。现在活着的不再是我，乃是基督在我里面活着。并且我如今在肉身活着，是因信上帝的儿子而活，祂是爱我，为我舍己。
Gal. 2:20
“I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the {life} which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
林前11﹕1
你们该效法我，像我效法基督一样。
I Cor. 11:1
Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.
— 这不只是理想境界。
— This pattern is not limiting concept, a horizon to approach.
— 这是我们会达到的目标。
— This is a goal we will achieve.
— 我们以前在亚当里是完全的。
— Perfection was ours in Adam.
— 我们在历史中有起点。
— We have a beginning in history.
–若失去起点，就没有终点，没有盼望。
— If you lost the beginning, you also lost the end: cf. theology of “hope.”
— 可是，我们有的是上帝救赎的事实。
— There is redemptive reality which we DO have.
— 伊甸园就有末世的盼望 / 意义。
— Eden is shot through with eschatology.
— 安息日，在堕落之前，就有末世的意义了（创造时的安息意味着救赎）。
— Sabbath, pre-Fall, is eschatological (contemplates redemption).
- 罪仍然住在信徒们犯罪的肉身里。
Sin continues to indwell the believer throughout the life of the body.
- 反面的证据。Counter-evidence.
- 与罪一次的断绝。
Once-for-all breach with sin (formal similarity with perfectionism).
约3﹕6
从肉身生的，就是肉身。从灵生的，就是灵。
John 3:6
“That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
怎样解释﹕一个从灵生的人，还会犯罪呢？
No way to account for sin in man born of Spirit, if taken radically.
- 一系列的经文，说信徒是完全的。
Series of texts describe believers in terms of perfection.
来5﹕14
惟独长大成人的，才能吃干粮，他们的心窍，习练得通达，就能分辨好歹了。
Hebrews 5:14
But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.
— Teleion.
— 长大﹕希腊文 teleion 的原意﹕完全。
林前2﹕6
然而在完全的人中，我们也讲智慧。但不是这世上的智慧，也不是这世上有权有位将要败亡之人的智慧。
I Cor. 2:6
Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away;
腓3﹕15
所以我们中间凡是完全人，总要存这样的心。若在什么事上，存别样的心，上帝也必以此指示你们。
Phil. 3:15
Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you;
- 完全人﹕例证。
Examples of perfect persons.
创6﹕9
挪亚的后代，记在下面。挪亚是个义人，在当时的世代是个完全人。挪亚与上帝同行。
Gen. 6:9
These are {the records of} the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.
伯1﹕1
乌斯地，有一个人名叫乔布。那人完全正直，敬畏上帝远离恶事。
Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless, upright, fearing God and turning away from evil.
诗18﹕20-24
20 耶和华按着我的公义报答我，按着我手中的清洁赏赐我。
21 因为我遵守了耶和华的道，未曾作恶离开我的上帝。
22 祂的一切典章常在我面前。祂的律例我耶未曾丢弃。
23 我在祂面前作了完全人。我也保守自己远离我的罪孽。
24 所以耶和华按我的公义，按我在祂眼前手中的清洁，偿还我。
Psalm 18:20-24
20 The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me.
21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, And have not wickedly departed from my God.
22 For all His ordinances were before me, And I did not put away His statutes from me.
23 I was also blameless with Him, And I kept myself from my iniquity.
24 Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in His eyes.
诗26篇
1 耶和华阿，求你为我伸冤，因我向来行事纯全，我又倚靠耶和华并不摇动。
2 耶和华阿，求你察看我，试验我，熬炼我的肺腑心肠。
3 因为你的慈爱常在我眼前。我也按你的真理而行。
4 我没有和虚谎人同坐。也不与瞒哄人的同群。
5 我恨恶恶人的会，必不与恶人同坐。
6 耶和华阿，我要洗手表明无辜，纔环绕你的祭坛。
7 我好发称谢的声音。也要述说你一切奇妙的作为。
8 耶和华阿，我喜爱你所住的殿，和你显荣耀的居所。
9 不要把我的灵魂和罪人一同除掉。不要把我的性命和流人血的一同除掉。
10 他们的手中有奸恶，右手满有贿赂。
11 至于我，却要行事纯全。求你救赎我，怜恤我。
12 我的脚站在平坦地方。在中会中我要称颂耶和华。
Psalm 26
1 Vindicate me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity, And I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
2 Examine me, O LORD, and try me; Test my mind and my heart.
3 For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes, And I have walked in Your truth.
4 I do not sit with deceitful men, Nor will I go with pretenders.
5 I hate the assembly of evildoers, And I will not sit with the wicked.
6 I shall wash my hands in innocence, And I will go about Your altar, O LORD,
7 That I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving And declare all Your wonders.
8 O LORD, I love the habitation of Your house And the place where Your glory dwells.
9 Do not take my soul away {along} with sinners, Nor my life with men of bloodshed,
10 In whose hands is a wicked scheme, And whose right hand is full of bribes.
11 But as for me, I shall walk in my integrity; Redeem me, and be gracious to me.
12 My foot stands on a level place; In the congregations I shall bless the LORD.
— 诗人为自己的无罪争辩。
Protestation of innocence
- 赎罪的有效性。Efficacy of atonement.
耶稣不只是洁净外表，更洁净内心。罪是上帝不能容忍的矛盾。不可当罪是理所当然的! 不能轻松地对待罪；不可习惯容忍罪；不可满足现况。
Jesus not only cleanses outside of the cup, but purifies heart. Sin = anomaly. Never to be taken fro granted, as normal, to get used to, to be content with.
- 对这些反面证据的批判。
Refutation of counter-evidence.
— 圣经好像描述挪亚，乔布是完全人（相对的完全）。
— Relative perfection in Noah and Job.
— 罪是事实，是真理，可是不是我们欢喜宣讲的真理。
— Sin as a truth not to be proclaimed gleefully: it is a sad truth.
— 贺治提出六种论据。
Hodge III:246ff. – arguments 1, 5, 6 = one single argument from experience.
— 重要的支持来自圣经；加上人的经历。
Mixed argument: main thesis drawn from Scripture, supplemented by experience.
— 结论﹕我并不完全！
Conclusion: I am not perfect.
— 当然，这事实（结论）并不证明人在今世不能成为完全人。
This argument doesn’t prove that no man can be perfect in this life.
— 贺治第二项论据﹕圣经清楚的宣告，圣经对人类普遍的描述。
Argument 2 appeals to express declaration and general representation of Scripture.
约壹1﹕8
我们若说自己无罪，便是自欺，真理不在我们心里了。
I John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.
— 贺治﹕动词并不是过去式。
— Hodge: verb is not in past tense.
— 当然，虽然用现在式，也好不一定等于是作者现在的经历。
— Shepherd: Present verb = not necessarily present expeience of writer.
— 一般性的现在式意义。
— There is a general present.
— 过去式﹕参约壹1﹕10。
Past tense does appear in I John 1:10
约壹1﹕10
我们若说自己没有犯过罪，便是以上帝为说谎的，祂的道耶不在我们心里了。
I John 1:10
If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.
— 我们不从这节作论据。
— Won’t press argument form this tense.
— 整段经文的目的，不是说明﹕信徒是罪人；而是要说明﹕信徒以前是罪人，可是现在不再是罪人了。
— General purpose of the passage is not to show that believers are sinners, but that believers WERE sinners, but are not sinners any more.
— 这样说，没有意思否定罪（否认我们还犯罪）。
— This is not to deny sin.
— 可是，罪（信主之前辖制我们的罪）已经被对付了。
— But: Sin which characterizes our past lives have been dwelt with.
— 可是我们若说自己不需要圣经说我们需要的（一位救主﹕基督），我们便当上帝是撒谎的。
— But if we say we don’t need what Scripture says we need (Christ as Savior), we make God a liar.
— 约壹没有否认信徒生活中有罪。
— This doesn’t mean that I John denies there is sin in the believer.
约壹2﹕1
我小子们阿，我将这些话写给你们，是要叫你们不犯罪。若有人犯罪，在父那里我们有一位中保，就是那义者耶稣基督。
I John 2:1
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;
–约翰壹书要强调的，是信徒与还在罪权势下的人，两者强烈的对照。
— The focus of I John is antithesis of believers with those who are under the power of sin.
约壹3﹕4-5
4 凡犯罪的，就是违背律法。违背律法就是罪。
5 你们知道主曾显现，是要除掉人的罪。在祂并没有罪。
I John 3:4-5
4 Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.
5 You know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin.
— 彻底的对照。罪﹕多么不可思议的事！
— Radical antithesis. Sin = a moral impossibility.
— 不可思议的原因﹕我们已经是新人了。基督徒的里面，并没有人格分裂（基督徒不又是新人，又是旧人）。
Moral impossibility is in new man. Not schizophrenia between new man and old
man.
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