晨興聖言-認識、經歷、並活包羅萬有的基督...(W4-5)
第四週■週五
晨興餧養
利十三45 ～ 46『患痲瘋災病的人，…災病在他身上的日子，他就是不潔淨的；…要獨居營外。』
痲瘋來自背叛與不服。米利暗成了患痲瘋的，是由於她背叛神的代表權柄（民十二1 ～ 10）。乃縵的痲瘋得了潔淨，是由於他的順從（王下五1、9 ～14）。墮落的人類由於對神的背叛，在神眼中都成了患痲瘋的（聖經恢復本，太八2 註1）。
患痲瘋的，描繪出典型的罪人。痲瘋是最污染人、破壞人的疾病，…使患者與神與人隔離。…潔淨患痲瘋的，表徵使罪人恢復與神與人的交通（可一40註1）。
信息選讀
看見有關己的異象，與身體很有關係。今天我們是在主的恢復裏，而主的恢復至終要來到這件極重要的事上，就是建造基督的身體。身體的仇敵就是己。身體最大的難處、最大的攔阻和反對，也是己。我們只要有了己，就沒有身體。…己是獨立的『我』。當我們獨立時，我們就是在己裏，身體不見了，我們也沒有平安（李常受文集一九六五年第三册，二六九至二七○頁）。
關於我們以外的事物，和我們本身，這兩種不同的對付，舊約利未記十四章二至九節所說患痲瘋者得潔淨的事，乃是一個很達意的豫表。聖經所說的患痲瘋者，乃是豫表我們墮落有罪的人。一個患痲瘋的人，他的難處還不在於他外面的污穢和醜惡，乃是在於他裏面的病毒。照樣，我們這些墮落的罪人，主要的問題，也還不是我們外面行爲上的罪行，乃是我們裏面那出於撒但邪惡生命的罪性。所以這患痲瘋的豫表，實在是把我們在神面前有罪的光景，描寫得又準確、又透徹。因此，利未記〔十四章〕這裏所記患痲瘋者得潔淨的路，也就是說出我們在神面前受對付蒙潔淨的路。
患痲瘋者要得潔淨，第一就是『帶他去見祭司（2）。祭司乃是豫表主耶穌。『祭司要出到營外察看』（3），因爲患痲瘋者不能進到營內，必須被趕出營外。這是說，我們有罪的人，不能進到神的子民中間，不能進到神顯現賜恩的範圍裏去，但主耶穌卻出來察看我們。我們若實在從心裏悔改了，這在神看，就是痲瘋發白痊愈了。…痲瘋的污穢，在神面前是得罪神的，所以需要灑血的洗淨。這並不在於洗淨污穢的本身，而是在於消除在神面前的罪案。灑血的手續，是豫備兩隻鳥。一隻要宰殺，血流在瓦器的活水裏；一隻要活着，用以蘸血來灑患痲瘋的人。一隻鳥宰殺了，豫表主耶穌流血受死；一隻鳥活着，豫表主耶穌從死復活。活水豫表主永遠的生命，所以這是指主耶穌，在祂永遠的生命裏，爲我們流血受死；而這受死所流的血，和祂永遠的生命，又是藉着祂的復活，帶到我們身上來，並發生功效的。灑血要灑七次，乃是豫表主血的潔淨是完全的，能彀除去我們在神面前一切的罪案，使我們得蒙神的悅納。活鳥蘸血灑過以後，就放到田野裏，是表明人一接受主的替死，主的血一在他身上發生功效，主復活的能力，立刻就顯在他身上，而釋放了他（李常受文集一九五三年第三册，四九五至四九七頁）。
參讀：生命的經歷，第三層—基督住在我裏面，二二五至二三○頁。
WEEK 4 — DAY 5
Morning Nourishment
Lev. 13:45-46 And as for the leper in whom the infection is,…he shall be unclean all the days during which the infection is in him;…he shall live alone; his dwelling shall be outside the camp.
Leprosy results from rebellion and disobedience. Miriam became leprous because of her rebellion against God’s deputy authority (Num. 12:1-10). Naaman’s leprosy was cleansed because of his obedience (2 Kings 5:1, 9-14). All fallen human beings have become leprous in the eyes of God because of their rebellion. (Matt. 8:2, footnote 1)
A leper portrays a typical sinner. Leprosy is the most contaminating and damaging disease,…causing its victim to be isolated from God and from men…The cleansing of the leper signifies the recovering of the sinner to the fellowship with God and with men. (Mark 1:40, footnote 1)
Today’s Reading
Seeing the vision of the self has much to do with the Body. Today we are in the Lord’s recovery, and the recovery will eventually come to this crucial matter—the building up of the Body. The enemy of the Body is the self. The greatest problem, the greatest frustration and opposition, to the Body is also the self. When we have the self, we do not have the Body…The self is the independent “I,” the independent “me.” When we are independent, we are in the self, the Body is gone, and we do not have peace. (CWWL, 1965, vol. 3, “The Heavenly Vision,” p. 198)
The matter concerning the cleansing of leprosy (Lev. 14:2-9) is a type that very clearly shows…two different kinds of dealings related to the matters outside of us and the things of our selves. In the Bible a leper always typifies our fallen, sinful man. The problem of a leper is really not in his outward filthiness and ugliness but in the poison of the disease within. Likewise, the main problem with us fallen sinners is really not our outward sinful deeds but the sinful nature within us, which originates from the evil life of Satan. Therefore, the typology regarding leprosy is a very accurate and thorough description of our sinful condition before God. Hence, the way of cleansing related to the leper, as recorded in Leviticus, is also the way of our being cleansed and dealt with before God.
The first requirement for the cleansing of a leper was to bring him to the priest. The priest typifies the Lord Jesus. “The priest shall go forth outside the camp” (v. 3) to examine the leper, because the leper could not enter into the camp but had to remain outside. This tells us that we sinners cannot come into the midst of God’s people, where God manifests His grace; but the Lord Jesus has come out to examine us. If we have really repented from our heart, then the plague of leprosy is healed in the sight of God…The filthiness of the leper is a sin before God; therefore, it requires the cleansing of the sprinkling of the blood. This is not for the cleansing of the sinful nature but for the abolishing of all record of sin before God. The procedure in the sprinkling of the blood is to prepare two birds: one to be slaughtered in an earthen vessel over running water, and the other, which is living, to be dipped in the blood, and the blood to then be sprinkled over the leper. The bird that is slaughtered typifies the Lord Jesus shedding His blood and suffering death, the living bird typifies the Lord Jesus resurrected from death, and the running water typifies the eternal life of our Lord. Therefore, this indicates that the Lord Jesus shed His blood and suffered death in His eternal life. Furthermore, the blood, shed by His death, and His eternal life are brought to us and become effective in us through His resurrection. The sprinkling of the blood seven times indicates the completeness of the cleansing of the Lord’s blood; it can abolish all our sinful record before God and make us acceptable to God. After the living bird was dipped in the blood, it was set loose into the open field. This means that after a person receives the death of the Lord Jesus in his stead, the blood of the Lord becomes effective upon him, and the power of the resurrection of the Lord is manifested in him and sets him free. (CWWL, 1953, vol. 3, “The Experience of Life,” pp. 362-363)
Further Reading: CWWL, 1953, vol. 3, “The Experience of Life,” pp. 361- 365
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