晨興聖言-...主的恢復之中心負擔...(W3-4)
第三週■週四
晨興餧養
弗三17『使基督藉着信,安家在你們心裏,叫你們在愛裏生根立基。』
林前三12『然而,若有人用金、銀、寶石,木、草、禾稭,在這根基上建造。』
一個人可以合乎神的心,卻仍是空虛的,沒有神作到他的心裏。在撒下七章,神似乎是說,『大衞,你是合乎我心的人,但你需要我作到你的心裏。你需要我建造到你裏面,使你在生命和性情上成爲我。你光是作合乎我心的人是不彀的。你必須能說,「在我,活着就是神。」』
大衞的墮落說明一個事實,就是我們卽使是合乎神心的人,若沒有神作到我們裏面,我們就不比別人更好。…我們若看見神渴望將祂自己作到祂所揀選的人裏面,並看見這就是我們的需要;那麼,我們工作的目標就會是供應人基督,好叫三一神能將祂自己建造到他們裏面。(撒母耳記生命讀經,二四五至二四六頁。)
信息選讀
今天在主的恢復裏,我們的工作乃是將神供應給人。的確,我們必須拯救罪人,餧養並成全聖徒;然而,最重要的事乃是要將神供應給人。我們所供應的神,不僅是建造的神,祂也是被建造的神。我們若不這樣供應神,我們的工作就是木、草、禾稭。(林前三12。)
我要請你們重新考量你們爲主所作的工。你可能打開了一個區域,或帶了許多人歸神;但我要問你們一個問題:有多少作三一神具體化身的基督作到你所帶來歸神的人裏面?我們若誠懇真實,就會謙卑下來,承認沒有太多的三一神作到那些我們帶來歸神的人裏面。因此,我們必須實行一件事,就是供應經過過程的三一神到人裏面,使祂將祂自己建造到他們裏面的人裏。在我們工作的每一面—傳揚福音、餧養信徒、成全聖徒,其內在的元素必須是將建造和被建造的神供應給人。我催促你們向主禱告,求祂教導你們這樣作工。
經過過程的三一神已具體化身在基督裏,並實化爲終極完成的靈。這是我們所敬拜、傳揚、並供應給人的神。今天祂正將祂自己建造到祂所救贖的人裏面,爲要以祂自己爲元素,並用出於他們蒙救贖並拔高之人性的東西,來產生一個家。這家就是召會,基督的身體。這家是那作爲三一神具體化身,並實化爲那靈之基督的擴大、擴展。我們實行神命定之路的四個步驟—生、養、成全和建造時,我們的工作必須建立在經過過程之三一神的根基上;祂正將祂自己建造到祂所揀選的人裏面。
在林前三章十二節保羅說,建造的材料有兩類:一類是木、草、禾稭,乃是屬人的、屬世的;另一類是金、銀、寶石,乃是寶貴的珍寶、經過變化的材料。我們若用木、草、禾稭,就是用來自我們天然背景的成就,或是天然的生活方式建造,就會損傷召會。(17。)我們應當用金、銀、寶石—分別表徵神、基督、那靈—來建造召會。以這些材料建造召會,就是以經過過程並終極完成的三一神建造召會。當我們以經過過程並終極完成的三一神建造召會時,實際上不是我們在建造,乃是神藉着我們在建造,使用我們作憑藉,將祂自己分賜並輸供到人裏面。(撒母耳記生命讀經,二四六至二四七、一九七至一九八頁。)
參讀:以弗所書生命讀經,第三十三篇;撒母耳記生命讀經,第三十篇。
WEEK 3 — DAY 4
Morning Nourishment
Eph. 3:17 That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and grounded in love.
1 Cor. 3:12 But if anyone builds upon the foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, stubble.
One may be according to God’s heart but still be empty, not having God
wrought
into his heart. In 2 Samuel 7 God seemed to be saying, “David, you are a
man according to My heart, but you need Me to be wrought into your
heart. You need Me to be built into your being to make you Me in life
and in nature. It is not adequate for you to be according to My heart.
You must be able to say, ‘To me to live is God.’”
The fall of David illustrates the fact that even if we are a person according
to God, if we do not have God wrought into us, we are no better than
others… If we realize that God desires to work Himself into His chosen
people and if we realize that this is what we all need, then the goal of
our work will be to minister Christ to others so that the Triune God
may build Himself into their being. (Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, p.
200)
Today's Reading
Our work in the recovery today is to minister God to people. Yes, we need
to save sinners and to feed the saints and perfect them. The crucial
matter, however, is that we minister God to others. The God whom we
minister is not just the building God—He is also the builded God. If we
fail to minister God in this way, our work will be wood, grass, and
stubble (1 Cor. 3:12).
I would ask you to reconsider the work you are doing for the Lord. Perhaps
you have opened up a region or have brought many people to God. But I
ask you this question: How much of Christ as the embodiment of the
Triune God has been wrought into those whom you have brought to God? If
we are sincere and genuine, we will humble ourselves and confess that
not very much of the Triune God has been wrought into the ones we have
brought to God. Therefore, we need to practice one thing—to minister the
processed Triune God into others so that He may build Himself into
their inner man. In every aspect of our work—preaching the gospel,
feeding the believers, perfecting the saints—the intrinsic element must
be that we minister the building and builded God to others. I would urge
you to pray that the Lord would teach you to work in this way.
The processed Triune God is embodied in Christ and realized as the
consummated Spirit. This is the God whom we worship, preach, and
minister to others. Today He is building Himself into His redeemed
people in order to produce a house with Himself as the element and also
with something from their redeemed and uplifted humanity. This house is
the church, the Body of Christ. This house is the enlargement, the
expansion, of Christ, the embodiment of the Triune God realized as the
Spirit. As we carry out the God-ordained way in the four steps of
begetting, nourishing, perfecting, and building, our work must be based
upon the processed Triune God, who is building Himself into His chosen
people.
In 1 Corinthians 3:12 Paul says that there are two categories of building
material—wood, grass, and stubble, which are human and worldly, and
gold, silver, and precious stones, which are precious treasures and
transformed materials. If we build the church with wood, grass, and
stubble—with the attainments that come from our natural background or
with the natural way of living—we will mar the church (v. 17). We should
build the church with gold, silver, and precious stones, signifying
respectively God, Christ, and the Spirit. To build the church with these
materials is to build the church with the processed and consummated
Triune God. When we build the church with the processed and consummated
Triune God, it is not actually we who are building. Rather, God is
building through us, using us as a means to dispense and transmit
Himself into people. (Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, pp. 200-201, 162)
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