晨興聖言-...主的恢復之中心負擔...(W1-2)
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晨興餧養
加五25『我們若憑着靈活着，也就當憑着靈而行。』
徒十六7『到了每西亞的邊界，他們試着要往庇推尼去，耶穌的靈卻不許。』
新約是神行動的記載，給我們看見神的行動絕不能與人分開。在新約開始的時候，神行動到人裏面，得着人，並成爲人。（太一21 ～ 23，約一1，14。）祂…乃是神人在行動。
一位早期的教父亞他那修（Athanasius）論到基督說，『祂成爲人，使我們得以成爲神。』又說，『話成了肉體，…使我們有分於祂的靈，而得以成爲神。』這是神在地上行動的原則。神的行動是在人裏面，並藉着人。神的行動是要使人在生命和性情上成爲神，卻無分於神格。（約伯記生命讀經，一五一至一五二頁。）
信息選讀
在四福音裏，基督只是一個人；但在五旬節那日，在祂受死、復活、升天並降下後，祂從一個人，擴大、擴增到幾千人。（徒二41。）許多人開始在神聖的行動裏行動。在四福音裏，神是在一個人的行動裏行動，但在使徒行傳，人卻是在神的行動裏行動。神與人一同行動。祭司長、長老、經學家、和羅馬官長不明白發生在彼得和約翰身上的事，因爲他們只知道彼得、約翰是加利利的漁夫。（四13。）但他們不能不承認這些人所作的事是從神來的；（16；）他們行動時，神就行動。
我們基督徒之所以是個奧祕，乃是因爲我們在神的行動裏行動，神也在我們的行動裏行動。…世人只知道我們屬人的部分，卻不領會我們也有屬神的部分。這屬神的部分與我們在神的行動裏行動，以及神在我們的行動裏行動有關，乃是終極完成的靈，作爲經過過程、終極完成之三一神的完成。…我們不僅與那靈合一，我們與那靈就是一。使徒保羅和他的同工在行傳十六章的行動，說明了這點。聖靈禁止他們向左轉到亞西亞，（6，）耶穌的靈又不許他們向右進入庇推尼，（7，）這就指明他們該往前直走。然後保羅得着馬其頓人的異象；他和他的同工思想這異象，就推斷是神呼召他們去向馬其頓人宣揚福音。（10。）這是一幅美妙的圖畫，給我們看見人在神的行動裏行動，並且人與神一起行動。
我們不該離開包羅萬有的靈而有任何行動。我們不該離開那靈來面對任何處境或應付任何需要。…我們需要在我們的婚姻生活中實行這事。你若想要對你的配偶說話，應當等一段時間，直到你有把握你的說話就是那靈的行動。
身爲基督徒，我們不是單獨行動的人；相反的，我們是在另一位的行動裏行動，另一位也在我們的行動裏行動。這種生活就是召會的構成；這種生活保守基督的身體在活的光景裏。但我們若不在那靈的行動中行動，或是我們的行動裏沒有那靈，就會將死亡帶進召會。
啓示錄二十二章十七節…『那靈和新婦說』。二者是一起說。這指明我們不該只是跟着那靈說，乃該同那靈一起說。若是如此，我們的說話就是活的，且滿有衝擊力。今天我們必須走的路，乃是在那靈的行動裏行動，並有那靈在我們的行動裏行動。（約伯記生命讀經，一五二至一五五頁。）
參讀：約伯記生命讀經，第二十二、二十四篇；基督徒的生活，第十二篇；神在人裏的行動，第二章。
WEEK 1 — DAY 2
Morning Nourishment
Gal. 5:25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
Acts 16:7 And when they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, yet the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.
The New Testament, a record of God’s move, shows us that God can never move apart from man. In the beginning of the New Testament, God moved into man, gained man, and became a man (Matt. 1:21-23; John 1:1, 14)…He moved as the God-man.
Athanasius, one of the early church fathers, said concerning Christ, “He was made man that we might be made God,” and “The Word was made flesh…that we, partaking of His Spirit, might be deified.” This is the principle of God’s move on earth. God’s move is in man and through man. God’s move is to deify man, making man God in life and in nature but not, of course, in the Godhead. (Life-study of Job, p. 129)
Today's Reading
In the four Gospels Christ was just one person, but on the day of Pentecost, after His death, resurrection, ascension, and descension, He was enlarged and expanded from one person into thousands of persons (Acts 2:41). A large group of people began to move in the divine move. In the four Gospels God moved in man’s move, but in Acts man moved in God’s move. God and man moved together. The chief priests, the elders, the scribes, and the Roman officials did not understand what had happened to Peter and John, because they knew them only as Galilean fishermen (4:13). Nevertheless, they had to admit that what these men did was divine (v. 16). When they moved, God moved.
We Christians are a mystery because we move in God’s move, and God moves in our move…The worldly people know only the human part of us— they do not realize that we also have a divine part. This divine part, which is involved in our move in God’s move and God’s move in our move, is the consummated Spirit as the consummation of the processed and consummated Triune God. We are not merely one with the Spirit, but we and the Spirit are one. This is illustrated by the move of the apostle Paul and his co-workers in Acts 16. They were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to turn to the left into Asia (v. 6), and they were not allowed by the Spirit of Jesus to turn to the right into Bithynia (v. 7). This indicated a straight forward direction for their move. Paul then received a vision of a Macedonian man, and after considering the vision, Paul and his co-workers concluded that God had called them to announce the gospel to the Macedonians (v. 10). This is a wonderful picture of man moving in God’s move, of man and God moving together.
We should not take any action apart from the all-inclusive Spirit. We should not face any situation or meet any need apart from the Spirit… We need to practice this in our married life. If you desire to say something to your spouse, you should wait for a period of time, until you have the assurance that your speaking is the move of the Spirit.
As Christians, we are not the only ones moving. On the contrary, we are moving in another One’s moving, and another One is moving in our moving. This kind of life is a constituent of the church. This kind of life keeps the Body of Christ in a living condition. However, not to move in the Spirit’s move and not to have the Spirit in our move will bring death into the church.
Revelation 22:17…says, “The Spirit and the bride say…” The two speak together. This indicates that we should not merely speak with the Spirit; we and the Spirit should speak together. If this is the case, our speaking will be living and full of impact. The way we must take today is the way of moving in the move of the Spirit and of having the Spirit moving in our move. (Life-study of Job, pp. 129-131)
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