晨興聖言-認識、經歷、並活包羅萬有的基督...(W5-3)

第五週■週三

晨興餧養

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約五43『我在我父的名裏來,你們並不接受我;若有別人在自己的名裏來,你們倒要接受他。』

十四26『但保惠師,就是父在我的名裏所要差來的聖靈,祂要將一切的事教導你們,並且要叫你們想起我對你們所說的一切話。』

在約翰五章四十三節,子在父的名裏來;在十四章二十六節,父在子的名裏差靈來。在這兩個短句裏,啓示出神聖的三一。當新約說子在父的名裏來,這指明子與父是一。當新約說父在子的名裏差靈來,這指明父與子是一。父和子作兩件事—子在父的名裏來,父在子的名裏差靈來。每一位都在另一位的名裏作一些事。這意思是說,祂們二者乃是一(李常受文集一九九○年第二册,五八三頁)。 

信息選讀

約翰十四章二十六節說,『但保惠師,就是父在我的名裏所要差來的聖靈…。』十五章二十六節說,『但我要從父差保惠師來,就是從父出來實際的靈,祂來了,就要爲我作見證。』讀了這些經節,可能馬上會有一個問題:是父差靈來,還是子差靈來?按照十四章二十六節,是父在子的名裏差靈來。靈是父在子的名裏差來的,這含示父和子都是靈的差遣者。然後在十五章二十六節,子從父差靈來。子從父差靈來,父在子的名裏差靈來,是指同一件事。父在子的名裏差靈來,意思就是子從父差靈來。父和子都差靈來;這指明父與子是一。不僅如此,當靈來時,父和子也來了。父、子、靈是三,卻又是一,是三一的。

根據以上在約翰十四章和十五章的經節,我們能得着幫助,明白在子的名裏向父禱告是甚麼意思。在十五章十六節,並在十六章二十三至二十四節,主耶穌吩咐門徒要在祂的名裏禱告。…我年輕時,受教導要奉主耶穌的名,而不是奉我們自己的名禱告,因爲我們不配向神求甚麼。後來我發現,主耶穌不是在祂自己的名裏來,乃是在父的名裏來。但祂在父的名裏來,不是配不配的問題。…在主耶穌的名裏禱告,不是配不配的問題,乃是與基督成爲一的問題。…神…已經使我們與基督成爲一(李常受文集一九九○年第二册,五八四至五八五頁)。

主耶穌在父的名裏來〔約五43〕,意思不是祂用父的名作圖章。主在父的名裏來,…意思是祂同着父並在父裏面來。祂來了,父也來了。不但如此,照着約翰十章二十五節,主耶穌說,『我已經告訴你們,你們不信;我在我父的名裏所行的事,爲我作見證。』主在父的名裏行事,就是與父是一,並在父的人位裏行事。爲這緣故,主耶穌能說,『我與父原是一。』(30)在六章五十七節主耶穌說,活的父差祂來,祂又因父活着。這裏的思想是主耶穌與父是一,所以祂是在父的人位裏,並在父的名裏(腓立比書生命讀經,四四一至四四二頁)。

參讀:一九九○年秋全時間訓練信息合輯,第四篇;使徒行傳生命讀經,第九篇;創世記生命讀經,第二十五篇。

WEEK 5 — DAY 3

Morning Nourishment

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John 5:43 I have come in the name of My Father, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

      14:26 But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things and remind you of all the things which I have said to you.

In John 5:43 the Son comes in the name of the Father, and in 14:26 the Father sends the Spirit in the name of the Son. In these two short sentences, the Divine Trinity is revealed. When the New Testament says that the Son came in the name
of the Father, this indicates that the Son and the Father are one. When the New Testament says that the Father sent the Spirit in the name of the Son, this indicates
that the Father is one with the Son. The Father and the Son do two things—the Son comes in the Father’s name, and the Father sends the Spirit in the Son’s name. Each one does something in the other’s name. This means that They are one. (CWWL, 1990, vol. 2, “Messages to the Trainees in Fall 1990,” p. 463)

Today’s Reading

John 14:26 says, “The Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name…” John 15:26 says, “When the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of reality, who proceeds from the Father, He will testify concerning Me.” In reading these verses, a question may immediately be raised: Does the Father send the Spirit, or does the Son send the Spirit? According to John 14:26, the Father sends the Spirit in the Son’s name. The Spirit being sent by the Father in the Son’s name implies that both the Father and the Son are the Sender of the Spirit. Then in John 15:26 the Son sends the Spirit from the Father. The Son sending the Spirit from the Father and the Father sending the Spirit in the Son’s name refer to the same thing. The Father sending the Spirit in the Son’s name means that the Son sends the Spirit from the Father. Both the Father and the Son send the Spirit. This indicates that the Father and the Son are one. Furthermore, when the Spirit comes, the Father and the Son also come. The Father, the Son, and the Spirit are three, but They are one—three-one.

Based upon the above verses in John 14 and 15, we can be helped to understand what it means to pray to the Father in the name of the Son. In John 15:16 and 16:23-24 the Lord Jesus charged the disciples to pray in His name…When I was young, I was taught that we should pray in the name of the Lord Jesus rather than in our own name, because we are unworthy to ask anything of God. Later, I found out that the Lord Jesus came not in His own name but in the name of the Father. Yet His coming in the name of the Father was not a matter of worthiness…To pray in the name of the Lord Jesus is not a matter of being worthy; rather, it is a matter of being one with Christ…God has made us one with Christ. (CWWL, 1990, vol. 2, “Messages to the Trainees in Fall 1990,” pp. 463-464)

For the Lord Jesus to come in the name of the Father [John 5:43] did not mean that He used the Father’s name as a stamp. The fact that the Lord came in the name of the Father means that He came with the Father and in the Father. When He came, the Father came also. Furthermore, according to John 10:25, the Lord Jesus said, “I told you, and you do not believe; the works which I do in My Father’s name, these testify concerning Me.” For the Lord to do works in the name of the Father was for Him to be one with the Father and to do things in the person of the Father. For this reason, the Lord Jesus could say, “I and the Father are one” (v. 30). In John 6:57 the Lord Jesus said that the living Father sent Him and that He lived because of the Father. The thought here is that the Lord Jesus was one with the Father and therefore was in the person of the Father and in the Father’s name. (Life-study of Philippians, p. 370)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1990, vol. 2, “Messages to the Trainees in Fall 1990,” ch. 4; Life-study of Acts, msg. 9; Life-study of Genesis, msg. 25

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