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七月二十二日

「要用水借著道，把教會洗淨，成為圣洁。」（弗   5:26 新國際版）

什么叫作基督用祂的生命借著祂的話洗淨教會呢？第一件事，我們要在神面前看見教會的毛病到底在哪里？教會的缺點，并不是在于所得的基督太少，而是在于基督之外的東西太多了。神旨意中的那個教會，是完全出乎基督的，是沒有罪的，是沒有天然的生命在里面的。我們實際的光景怎樣呢？我們每一個真實屬乎基督的，都有一點是完全出乎基督的——為著這個，我們要感謝神，但是除了這一點之外，還有許多不是出乎基督的東西。因為有其它許多東西的緣故，所以需要洗淨。什么叫作洗？洗的意思是滅去，不是加上，若是加上，那就叫作染了。

July 22

"To sanctify and cleanse the church, with the washing of water through the Word" (Ephesians 5:26 NIV)

What does it mean for Christ to wash our church with His life through His Words? The first thing is, we need to see before God what is wrong with the church. The shortcoming of the church is not that it has too little Christ, but that there are too many things other than Christ. The church in God's will is completely out of Christ, without sin, and without natural life in it. What is our actual situation? Every one of us that is truly of Christ has something that is wholly of Christ—we thank God for this, but besides this, there are many things that are not of Christ. It needs to be washed because of many other things. What is washing? Washing means to  clean it out of  the church not adding to make it more contaiming.