晨興聖言-腓立比書中所啟示的認識...(W3-6)

第三週■週六

晨興餧養

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創六14『你要用歌斐木造一隻方舟…。』

太二四37 ~ 39『挪亞的日子怎樣,人子來臨也要怎樣。因爲就如在洪水以前的那些日子,…直到挪亞進方舟的那日,並不知道審判要來,直到洪水來了,把他們全都沖去…。』

〔挪亞〕與神同工,也爲神作工。他所作、所進入的乃是神的救恩,就是方舟(創七7)。…許多基督徒只認識歷史上遙不可及的基督。但是根據我們在挪亞身上所看見的,我們應當有一位現今的、實際的基督,是我們可以進入的,而不僅是一位歷史上的基督,也不是一位遙不可及的基督。我們應當與神同工來建造我們的方舟—基督,我們在眾地方召會中正在建造方舟。這話你們聽起來也許覺得很奇怪,但是看看挪亞,他建造了方舟。我們是今日的挪亞,也應當建造基督(李常受文集一九八三年第二册,二二七頁)。

信息選讀

今天我們已經得救了,但我們還需要建造基督。挪亞開始建造方舟以前就已經得救了。…他旣然得救了,爲甚麼還需要造方舟?因爲他需要進一步蒙拯救脫離敗壞的世界。

保羅在腓立比二章十二節告訴我們,我們需要順從,恐懼戰兢的作成我們自己的救恩。我們雖然得救了,但我們還需要作成我們的救恩。神的救恩不是那麼短缺、簡短或簡單。神的救恩持續一段過程。…我們今天乃是在神救恩的通道上。我們已經進入這個通道裏,現在我們正在經過這個通道,我們的通過就是作成。…〔挪亞〕越建造方舟,就越通過神的救恩。最後他進入他所作成的工(創七7)。…你們正在建造的基督,要成爲你們將來的救恩。有一天在神主宰的權柄下,你要進入你所建造的基督裏面。

你如果在每天的經歷中與主同工,你必定會建造一些出乎基督的東西,至終你就進入你所建造的裏面,住在這位作你享受的基督裏面。這樣,你就定居在基督裏面了。許多基督徒知道約翰十五章說到住在基督裏面,但是沒有多少基督徒知道住在基督裏面的意義。…你如果不建造基督,就沒有基督可以住進去。這話從道理上說也許很奇怪,但從經歷上說卻是對的。你有基督,但你住在基督裏麼?…你要得着基督,只要信入祂就彀了,但要住在基督裏就需要一些建造。你必須建造基督,好讓你住在祂裏面。建造基督是甚麼意思?…你必須愛祂,呼求祂的名,與祂交談,並憑祂活着。

你如果從週一到週六都愛主,與祂交通,憑祂活着,與祂同行,到了主日你必定會深深的感覺到你是在基督裏。…但是另一面,你如果從週一到週六都不愛主,不與祂交通,不在祂裏面活着,也不與祂同行,卽使你今天想住在祂裏面,你也會覺得祂不在了。在你的經歷裏,祂並沒有與你同在。你在道理上有祂,但你在經歷上並沒有祂。你雖然渴慕住在祂裏面,但你好像不知道祂在那裏。這就是說,在已過這週裏,你沒有建造基督,你沒有建造方舟。所以當洪水來的時候,你沒有方舟可以進入。但是當你愛祂,與祂交通,憑祂活着,時時刻刻與祂同行,你就在你的經歷中將祂建造起來。你就在你的經歷中建造一位基督,使你可以進入其中,作爲你的救恩(李常受文集一九八三年第二册,二二七至二三○頁)。

參讀:神聖三一的神聖分賜,第二至三章。

WEEK 3 — DAY 6

Morning Nourishment

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Gen. 6:14 Make yourself an ark of gopher wood…

Matt. 24:37-39 For just as the days of Noah were, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as they were in those days before the flood…until the day in which Noah entered into the ark, and they did not know that judgment was coming until the flood came and took all away…

[Noah] worked with God and for God. What he worked on and entered into was just God’s salvation, the ark (Gen. 7:7)… Many Christians only know a historical and distant Christ. But according to the picture that we see with Noah, we should have a present and practical Christ whom we can enter into, not just a historical Christ or a Christ of distance. And we should work together with God on Christ. Christ is our ark, and in the local churches we are building up this ark. It may sound strange to us to hear that we should build up Christ. But look at Noah. He was building up the ark, and as today’s Noahs, we also should build up Christ. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 2, “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity,” pp. 179-180)

Today’s Reading

Today we are saved, but we still need to work on Christ. Noah also was saved before he began working on the ark… Since he was already saved, why did he need to build the ark? He needed further salvation from the corrupted world.

Paul told us in Philippians 2:12 that we need to be obedient and to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling. Although we have been saved, we still need to work out our salvation. God’s salvation is not so short or so brief or so simple. God’s salvation has a long span…Today we are in the passage of God’s salvation. We have entered into this passage. Now we are going through this passage, and our going through is our working…The more [Noah] built the ark, the more he passed through God’s salvation. Eventually, he entered into what he worked out (Gen. 7:7)…The very Christ whom we are building up will become our future salvation. One day under God’s sovereignty we will enter into the very Christ whom we have built up.

If you work together with the Lord in your daily experience, you surelybuild up something of Christ, and eventually you get into what you have built up, and you dwell in this Christ as your enjoyment. Then you abide in Christ. Many Christians realize that John 15 speaks of abiding in Christ,but not many know what it means to abide in Christ… If you do not build up Christ, you have no Christ to abide in. Doctrinally this may sound strange, but experientially it is right. You have Christ, but do you abide in Christ?…Just to believe in Christ is sufficient for you to have Him, but toabide in Christ needs some building up. You have to build up Christ for you to abide in Him. What does it mean to build up Christ?…You have to love Him. You have to talk to Him by calling on His name. You have to live by Him.

If you spend from Monday through Saturday loving the Lord, fellowshipping with Him, living by Him, and walking together with Him, surely on the Lord’s Day you would have the deep sensation that you are in Christ…But if, on the other hand, you spent from Monday through Saturday not loving the Lord and not fellowshipping with Him, not living in Him, and not walking with Him, even if you wanted to abide in Him today, you would feel that He is absent. In your experience He is not with you. You have Him in doctrine, but you do not have Him in experience. Although you might desire to abide in Him, it seems that you do not know where He is. This would mean that for the past week you did not build Christ. You did not work on the ark. So when the flood came, you had no ark to enter into. But when you love Him and fellowship with Him and live by Him and walk with Him day after day and hour after hour, you build Him up in your experience. You build up a Christ in your experience for you to enter into as your salvation. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 2, “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity,” pp. 180-181)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1983, vol. 2, “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity,” chs. 2-3

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