晨興聖言-...主的恢復之中心負擔...(W4-2)
第四週■週二
晨興餧養
林前十17『因着只有一個餅,我們雖多,還是一個身體,因我們都分受這一個餅。』
約十二24『我實實在在的告訴你們,一粒麥子不落在地裏死了,仍舊是一粒;若是死了,就結出許多子粒來。』
在舊約裏,有爲着完成神經綸之相調的豫表。…保羅〔在林前十章十七節〕看召會是一個餅,這種想法不是他自己發明的,乃是取自舊約。利未記二章四節的素祭,是由細麵調油所作的餅組成的。…那就是相調。保羅告訴我們,召會乃是由細麵所作成的餅。細麵來自麥粒,而麥粒來自那一粒麥子,就是基督。約翰十二章二十四節說,基督是一粒麥子,落在地裏死了,在復活裏長起來,產生許多子粒,就是我們,祂的信徒。我們是許多子粒,被磨成細麵,好作成召會這餅。(李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第一册,一三九頁。)
信息選讀
利未記二章啓示,我們可以享受召會生活作團體的素祭。素祭可以是細麵調油的形態,(1
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2,)或餅的形態。(4。)前者表徵個人的基督和個別的基督徒,後者表徵團體的基督,就是基督同祂的身體,召會。(林前十二12。)召會生活是團體的素祭,乃是人性調着聖靈,並有聖靈澆在其上的生活,包含十字架(鹽),並有基督在祂復活裏的馨香(乳香),沒有任何罪(酵)或天然情感(蜜)的生活。…我們若喫並有分於基督作素祭,就會成爲團體的素祭。因此,我們需要喫基督作個人的素祭,好成爲團體的素祭作團體的基督—元首基督同祂的身體召會。…我們享受基督作素祭的結果,乃是召會生活作擴大的素祭,擴大的基督,其中基督是頭,我們是祂的身體。
召會生活是神和人的食物。所以,我們不該走組織的路,乃該以基督的豐富餧養聖徒,使他們在生命裏長大,以建造基督的身體。我們不該信靠組織,乃該信靠神聖的生命。
整本新約啓示素祭的生活。雖然四福音揭示主耶穌是舊約一切祭物的實際,(參約七15
~ 18,一29,三15,四15 ~
18,)但其中主要的是揭示主作那由油、細麵、乳香和鹽(但沒有蜜和酵)所組成之素祭的實際。新約其餘各卷啓示,我們需要過素祭的基督徒生活和素祭的召會生活。召會生活是基督的生活和每位個別信徒之基督徒生活的總和。每位信徒都過那是素祭的基督徒生活;這許多素祭的基督徒生活,集大成就是召會生活作團體的素祭。素祭是食物,爲着滿足神並滋養我們。我們不但需要從基督這位個別的素祭得餧養,也需要從召會生活這團體的素祭得餧養。
素祭的生活由四種元素組成:細麵,表徵基督柔細的人性;油,表徵神的靈;乳香,表徵基督復活的馨香;鹽,表徵基督的十字架。素祭的生活沒有酵,酵表徵罪和每樣消極的事物;也沒有蜜,蜜表徵在良善方面的天然生命,包括天然的感情。我們需要過人性調神性所組成的生活,就是在基督的死之下並在祂復活裏的生活,以及沒有罪或天然感情的生活。(李常受文集一九八八年第三册,三七八至三七九頁。)
參讀:新約總論,第一百六十五篇。
WEEK 4 — DAY 2
Morning Nourishment
1 Cor. 10:17 Seeing that there is one bread, we who are many are one Body; for we all partake of the one bread.
John 12:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
In the Old Testament there is a type of the blending for the fulfillment of God’s
economy…Paul’s thought of the church being one bread [1 Cor. 10:17] was
not his own invention; rather, it was taken from the Old Testament. The
meal offering in Leviticus 2:4 consisted of cakes made of fine flour
mingled with oil…That is blending. Paul tells us that the church is a
bread, a cake, made of fine flour. This fine flour comes from wheat
grains, and the wheat grains come from the one grain of wheat, which is
Christ. John 12:24 says that Christ is the one grain of wheat who fell
into the earth and died and grew up in resurrection to produce many
grains, which are we, His believers. We are the many grains so that we
may be ground into fine flour for making the cake, the bread, of the
church. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning
Blending,” p. 112)
Today's Reading
Leviticus
2 reveals that we may enjoy the church life as a corporate meal
offering. The meal offering could be in the form of fine flour mingled
with oil (vv. 1-2) or in the form of a cake (v. 4). The former signifies
the individual Christ and the individual Christian, whereas the latter
signifies the corporate Christ, Christ with His Body, the church (1 Cor.
12:12). The church life is a corporate meal offering. It is a life of
humanity mingled with the Holy Spirit and having the Holy Spirit poured
upon it, a life that involves the cross (salt) and that has the
fragrance of Christ in His resurrection (frankincense) without any sin
(leaven) or natural affection (honey)…If we eat and participate in
Christ as the meal offering, we will become a corporate meal offering.
Hence, we need to eat Christ as the individual meal offering in order to
become the corporate meal offering as thecorporate Christ—Christ the
Head with His Body the church…The issue of our enjoyment of Christ as
the meal offering is the church life as the enlarged meal offering, the
enlarged Christ, in which Christ is the Head and we are His Body.
The church life is food to both God and man. Therefore, we should not
take the way of organization but should feed the saints with the riches
of Christ so that they may grow in life for the building up of the Body
of Christ. We should trust not in organization but in the divine life.
The entire New Testament reveals the meal-offering life. Although the four
Gospels unveil the Lord Jesus as the reality of all the Old Testament
offerings (cf. John 7:15-18; 1:29; 3:15; 4:15-18), they mainly unveil
the Lord as the reality of the meal offering composed of oil, fine
flour, frankincense, and salt, yet without honey and leaven. The
remaining books of the New Testament reveal that we need to live a
meal-offering Christian life and a meal-offering church life. The church
life is the totality of Christ’s life and the Christian life of each
individual believer. As each believer lives a Christian life that is a
meal offering, the aggregate of these many meal-offering Christian lives
is the church life as a corporate meal offering. The meal offering is
food for God’s satisfaction and our nourishment. We need to feed not
only on Christ as the individual meal offering but also on the church
life as the corporate meal offering.
The life of the meal offering is composed of four elements: fine
flour, signifying Christ’s fine humanity; oil, signifying the Spirit of
God; frankincense, signifying the fragrance of Christ’s resurrection;
and salt, signifying the cross of Christ. The life of the meal offering
does not have leaven, signifying sin and every negative thing, or honey,
signifying the natural life in its good aspects, including natural
affection. We need to live a life that is composed of humanity mingled
with divinity, that is under the death of Christ and in His
resurrection, and that is without sin or natural affection. (CWWL, 1988,
vol. 3, pp. 297-298)
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