晨興聖言-...主的恢復之中心負擔...(W4-5)

第四週■週五

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晨興餧養

腓三10『使我認識基督、並祂復活的大能、以及同祂受苦的交通,模成祂的死。』

約十一25『耶穌對她說,我是復活,我是生命;信入我的人,雖然死了,也必復活。』

是神人生活所活出來的,纔是基督的身體,否則就不是,而是社會裏的宗教活動,和孔孟的道德教訓沒有分別,是屬於善惡知識樹,不是屬於生命樹。

這個神人生活…是經過十字架模成主死的生活。這個模成主的死,乃是藉着基督復活的大能。(腓三10。)我們必須是一直過釘十字架生活的人,以基督的死作我們生活的模型。藉着這樣的生活,我們纔有基督身體的實際。…這樣的生活纔是神人的生活,纔能活出基督身體的實際。(李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第一册,六五二至六五三頁。)

信息選讀

我們不該憑自己活。照着神在祂經綸裏的設計,我們已經被擺在十字架上了。…我已經釘了十字架;…我已經完了,了結了。但在我身上有一個新人;那是神所創造,經過復活,憑着裏面神的神性而被拔高的人。那人事實上就是神自己。現在我憑那個人活着。我若不實行把我的舊人留在十字架上,就絕不能活新人。這就是爲甚麼在腓立比一章,保羅告訴我們,他藉着耶穌基督之靈全備的供應,過這樣的生活。

基督的死是一個模子,保羅將他自己放在那個死的模子裏,在那裏…藉着基督復活的大能,模成基督之死的形像。復活的大能加強他過神人的生活。主盼望我們許多人也成爲這樣的人。

我相信在我們中間,應該有些人就是這樣;也許不是一直是這樣,但至少有些時候是這樣。…許多次當我要對我的妻子說話時,裏面就說,『這不是從你的靈出來的,而是從你的舊人出來的。』我立刻就停住。有時我想去找她,卻馬上又回來了。這是因爲我的去是憑着我天然的人。當我這樣作時,裏面有個東西把我調轉回來。那個東西就是賜生命的靈,那是靈的基督。經過過程的三一神轉了我,那是在復活裏。親愛的聖徒,這樣一個團體的生活,就是基督身體的實際。這是藉着基督復活的大能而模成基督之死的一個團體生活。

基督身體的實際…是蒙重生、被變化、得榮耀的三部分神人,在基督的復活裏,與三一神在永遠聯結裏調和的生活。這位三一神乃是那是靈的基督,作經過過程、終極完成之三一神的具體化身,是包羅萬有的靈,作是靈之基督的實際和經過過程之三一神的終極完成。這種調和的生活,乃是在基督的復活裏,而這復活的實際就是那靈。這復活將終極完成的神分賜給信徒,並將那勝過死的生命釋放到信徒裏面。

這樣一個調和的生活作爲基督身體的實際,要終極完成於新天新地裏的新耶路撒冷,作神的擴增並彰顯,直到永遠。(李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第一册,一六○至一六二頁。)

參讀:神經綸的總綱與神人該有的生活,第三至五篇。

WEEK 4 — DAY 5

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Morning Nourishment

Phil. 3:10 To know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death.

John 11:25 Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes into Me, even if he should die, shall live.

Only that which is lived out of a God-man living is the Body of Christ. Otherwise, it is just a religious activity in society, which is no different from the moral teachings of Confucius; it belongs to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil instead of the tree of life.

This God-man living is…a living of being conformed to the death of Christthrough the cross. This conformation to the death of Christ is through the power of Christ’s resurrection (Phil. 3:10). We must be those who live a crucified life continually by taking Christ’s death as the mold of our life. It is only by living this kind of life that we can have the reality of the Body of Christ…Only such a living is the God-man living, and only such a living can live out the reality of the Body of Christ. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “A General Outline of God’s Economy and the Proper Living of a God-man: A Fellowship with the Elders from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Malaysia,” p. 514)

Today's Reading

We should not live by ourselves. According to God’s design in His economy, we were already put on the cross…I have been crucified…I am finished. I am through. But there is a new man with me. That is the resurrected Godcreated man uplifted with God’s divinity in him. That man is actually God Himself. Now I live by that man. But if I do not practice to keep my old manon the cross, I can never live the new man. This is why in the first chapter of Philippians, Paul tells us he lived such a life by the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

The death of Christ is a mold, and Paul put himself into that death-moldto be conformed there…by the power of Christ’s resurrection. The power of resurrection strengthened him to live the life of a God-man. The Lord expects that many of us would be such ones.

I do believe that among us there should be some like this, maybe not constantly but at least instantly like this…Many times when I was trying to talk to my wife, something within said, “This is not from your spirit. This is from your old man.” Right away I stopped. Sometimes I would go to her, and then right away I returned. This is because my going was by my natural man. While I was doing that, something within turned me. That was the very life-giving Spirit, the pneumatic Christ. The processed Triune God turned me, and that was in resurrection. Such a corporate living is the reality of the Body of Christ, dear saints. This is a corporate living of the conformity to the death of Christ through the power of the resurrection of Christ.

The reality of the Body of Christ…is the mingling living in the eternal union of the regenerated, transformed, glorified tripartite God-men with the Triune God in the resurrection of Christ. This Triune God is the very pneumatic Christ as the embodiment of the processed and consummated Triune God, who is the all-inclusive Spirit as the reality of the pneumatic Christ and as the consummation of the processed Triune God. Such a mingling living is in the resurrection of Christ, and the reality of this resurrection is the Spirit. This resurrection imparts the consummated God and releases the deathovercoming
life into the believers.

Such a mingling living as the reality of the Body of Christ will consummate ultimately in the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and new earth as God’s increase and expression for eternity. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning Blending,” pp. 129-130)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “A General Outline of God’s Economy and the Proper Living of a God-man: A Fellowship with the Elders from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Malaysia,” chs. 3-5

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