晨興聖言-...主的恢復之中心負擔...(W4-綱要)
第四週
相調與基督身體的實際
詩歌：227
讀經：林前一2，十17 上，十二12 ～ 13，24，27，約十二24，腓三10，弗四20 ～ 21
【週一】
壹 『神將這身體調和在一起』—林前十二24：
一 相調不僅非常高深，也非常奧祕—24 節。
二 『調和』這辭的意思是『調整』、『使之和諧』、『調節』並『調在一起』，含示失去區別。
三 調和的意思是，我們總是停下來與別人交通—徒二42，林前一9，約壹一3，7。
四 若沒有與其他一同配搭的聖徒交通，我們就不該作甚麼；因爲交通調整我們，使我們和諧，調節我們，把我們調在一起—7 節。
五 相調的意思是經過十字架，憑着那靈行事，並且作每件事都爲着基督身體的緣故分賜基督，藉此我們被別人摸着，我們也摸着別人—太十38，十六24，加三2，5，弗四12。
六 調和不是交際，乃是個別肢體、區內的眾召會、同工們、長老們所經歷、享受並有分於之基督的調和—參羅十六1 ～ 16。
七 爲要持守基督宇宙身體獨一的一，我們需要調和在一起—林前十二24。
八 爲着基督身體的建造，需要相調—羅十六1 ～16，林前十二20 ～ 21，24，西四16。
【週二】
貳 約翰十二章二十四節和林前十章十七節上半描繪並啓示調和的必需與意義：
一 約翰十二章二十四節說到一粒麥子落在地裏死了，結出許多子粒：
1 『一粒麥子』指基督是神聖的種子，產生許多子粒（就是接受祂的人），使他們成爲祂許多的肢體，構成祂生機的身體—弗一22 ～ 23，五30。
2 基督作爲這一粒麥子死了，在復活裏結出許多子粒來—約十二24：
a 這許多子粒要被磨碾並調和成粉，而作成一個餅，這餅表徵基督的身體—林前十17 上。
b 我們不該一直作完整的子粒；我們必須被破碎，並被磨碾成細麵，使我們能與別人調和成爲一餅；這餅就是基督的身體—十二12 ～ 13，27，弗二16，一22 ～ 23。
二 保羅看召會是調成的一個餅，調成的一個身體，（林前十17 上，）這種想法乃是取自利未記二章一至十六節裏素祭的豫表：
1 素祭的細麵，每一部分都是用油調和的；這就是相調—4 ～ 5 節。
2 基督的生活和我們個人基督徒的生活，產生一個總和—召會生活作爲團體的素祭，由那些被破碎、磨碾、並調和的信徒所組成—1 ～ 2，4 節，林前十二12。
【週三】
叁 相調的目的是要把我們眾人都引進基督身體的實際—羅十二5，林前十二12 ～ 13，弗二16，四12，西二19：
一 我們必須在作爲手續的眾地方召會裏，使我們能被帶進基督身體的實際—林前一2，十二27。
二 主恢復的最高峯，能真正、實際、真實完成神經綸的，不是叫神以有形的作法產生許多地方召會，乃是讓神產生生機的身體作祂的生機體—弗一10，22 ～ 23。
三 眾地方召會不是神永遠經綸的目標，乃是神達到祂經綸目標—建造基督的身體—的手續—太十六18，弗四12，16：
1 眾召會乃是把我們帶進基督身體的手續—林前一2，十二12 ～ 13，27。
2 眾召會是身體，但眾召會也許沒有基督身體的實際。
四 主急切的需要基督身體的實際在眾地方召會出現；除非這個身體的實際有相當的出現，否則主耶穌不會回來— 弗一22 ～ 23， 四16， 五27，啓十九7。
【週四、週五】
肆 神經綸的最高峯乃是基督身體的實際—弗一22 ～ 23，四16：
一 我們相調的意義，乃是基督身體的實際—林前十二24：
1 這實際乃是一班蒙神救贖的人在生命和性情上，但不在神格上，被作成神—約一12 ～ 13，羅八16，彼後一4。
2 他們所過的生活不是憑自己，乃是憑另一個生命—這生命就是三一神經過過程並終極完成，進入他們裏面，並且以他們作祂的住處，祂的居所—林後十三14，約十四23，弗二21 ～ 22。
二 基督身體的實際乃是被成全之神人所過的團體生活，他們是真正的人，但他們不憑自己的生命，乃憑經過過程並終極完成之三一神的生命而活；經過過程並終極完成之神的屬性藉着他們的美德彰顯出來—林後十三9，11，弗四12，彼前五10，約壹四12，17 ～ 18：
1 神的生命，帶着其一切的屬性，從這神人耶穌裏面活出來，彰顯爲這神人的美德—弗四20 ～ 21。
2 這生命原先只是在個人的耶穌裏，現今正在複製於許多蒙了救贖和重生，裏面有神聖生命的信徒身上—一7，約三6，西三4。
3 得成全的神人就是藉着不斷操練棄絕己，憑另一個生命—基督復活的生命—活着，而得以成熟的人—約十一25。
三 基督身體的實際乃是蒙重生、被變化、被模成、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—參士九9，詩九二10：
1 這調和乃是藉着基督復活的大能而模成基督之死的團體生活—腓三10。
2 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三一神分賜給信徒，並將那勝過死的生命釋放到信徒裏面—約十一25。
3 被成全之神人所過這團體、調和的生活，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—啓二一1 ～ 2，9 ～ 11。
【週六】
4 被成全之神人所過的這種團體生活，就是基督身體的實際，要結束這時代，就是召會時代，且要把基督帶回來，在國度時代與這些神人一同取得、據有、並治理這地—詩二四1 ～ 2，7 ～ 10，七二1 ～ 8，11，啓一7，十四14，二十4。
Week Four
Blending and the Reality of the Body of Christ Hymns: 279
Scripture Reading: 1 Cor. 1:2; 10:17a; 12:12-13, 24, 27; John 12:24; Phil. 3:10; Eph. 4:20-21
§ Day 1
I. "God has blended the body together"—1 Cor. 12:24:
A. Blending is not only high and deep but also very mysterious—v. 24.
B. The word blended means "adjusted," "harmonized," "tempered," and "mingled," implying the losing of distinctions.
C. Blending means that we should always stop in order to have fellowship with others—Acts 2:42; 1 Cor. 1:9; 1 John 1:3, 7.
D. We should not do anything without fellowshipping with the other saints who are coordinating with us, because fellowship adjusts us, harmonizes us, tempers us, and mingles us—v. 7.
E.
To be blended means that we are touched by others and that we are
touching others by going through the cross, doing things by the
Spirit,and doing everything to dispense Christ for His Body's sake—Matt.
10:38; 16:24; Gal. 3:2, 5; Eph. 4:12.
F.
Blending is not social but the blending of the Christ whom the
individual members, the district churches, the co-workers, and the
elders experience, enjoy, and partake of—cf. Rom. 16:1-16.
G. In order to keep the unique oneness of the universal Body of Christ, we need to be blended together—1 Cor. 12:24.
H. Blending is needed for the building up of the Body of Christ—Rom. 16:1- 16; 1 Cor. 12:20-21, 24; Col. 4:16.
§ Day 2
II. John 12:24 and 1 Corinthians 10:17a portray and reveal the necessity and the significance of blending:
A. John 12:24 speaks of a grain of wheat that fell into the ground and died and bore many grains:
1. Grain of wheat refers to Christ as the divine seed to produce many grains (the people who receive Him) to become His many members who constitute His organic Body—Eph. 1:22-23; 5:30.
2. Christ as the grain of wheat died and brought forth many grains in resurrection—John 12:24:
a. The grains are to be ground and blended into flour to make a loaf, which signifies the Body of Christ—1 Cor. 10:17a.
b. We should not remain as whole grains; we have to be broken and
ground into fine flour so that we can be blended with others for making a
loaf; this loaf is the Body of Christ—12:12-13, 27; Eph. 2:16; 1:22-23.
B. Paul's thought of the church being blended into one bread, one Body (1 Cor. 10:17a), was taken from the type of the meal offering in Leviticus 2:1-16:
1. Every part of the fine flour of the meal offering was mingled with oil; this is the blending—vv. 4-5.
2.
Christ's life and our individual Christian life issue in a totality—the
church life as a corporate meal offering composed of believers who have
been broken, ground, and blended—vv. 1-2, 4; 1 Cor. 12:12.
§ Day 3
III. The purpose of the blending is to usher us all into the reality of the Body of Christ—Rom. 12:5; 1 Cor. 12:12-13; Eph. 2:16; 4:12; Col. 2:19:
A. We need to be in the local churches as the procedure to be brought into the reality of the Body of Christ—1 Cor. 1:2; 12:27.
B. The highest peak of the Lord's recovery that can really, practically, and
actually carry out God's economy is for God to produce not many local
churches in a physical way but an organic Body to be His organism—Eph.
1:10, 22-23.
C. The local churches are not the goal of God's eternal economy; they are the procedure God takes to reach the goal of His economy—the building up of the Body of Christ—Matt. 16:18; Eph. 4:12, 16:
1. The churches are the procedure to bring us into the Body of Christ—1 Cor. 1:2; 12:12-13, 27.
2. The churches are the Body, but they may not have the reality of the Body of hrist.
D.
The Lord urgently needs the reality of the Body of Christ to be
expressed in the local churches; unless there is a substantial
expression of the reality of the Body, the Lord Jesus will not
return—Eph. 1:22-23; 4:16; 5:27; Rev.
19:7.
§ Day 4 & Day 5
IV. The highest peak in God's economy is the reality of the Body of Christ—Eph. 1:22-23; 4:16:
A. The significance of our blending is the reality of the Body of Christ—1 Cor. 12:24:
1. This reality is a group of God's redeemed people who have been made God in life and nature but not in the Godhead—John 1:12-13; Rom. 8:16; 2 Pet. 1:4.
2. They live a life not by themselves but by another life—the life of the
processed and consummated Triune God, who enters into them and takes
them as His abode, His dwelling place—2 Cor. 13:14; John 14:23; Eph.
2:21-22.
B.
The reality of the Body of Christ is the corporate living by the
perfected God-men, who are genuine men but are not living by their life
but by the life of the processed and consummated Triune God, whose
attributes have been expressed through their virtues—2 Cor. 13:9, 11;
Eph. 4:12; 1 Pet. 5:10; 1 John 4:12, 17-18:
1. God's life with all its attributes was lived within the God-man Jesus and expressed as this God-man's virtues—Eph. 4:20-21.
2. Originally, this life was only in Jesus; now this life is being reproduced in believers who have been redeemed and regenerated and possess the divine life within them—1:7; John 3:6; Col. 3:4.
3. Perfected God-men are those who have been matured by continually exercising to reject the self and live by another life—the resurrection life of Christ—John 11:25.
C.
The reality of the Body of Christ is the mingling living in the eternal
union of the regenerated, transformed, conformed, and glorified
tripartite Godmen with the Triune God in the resurrection of Christ—cf.
Judg. 9:9; Psa.
92:10:
1. This mingling is a corporate living of the conformity to the death of Christ in the power of the resurrection of Christ—Phil. 3:10.
2. Such a mingling living is in the resurrection of Christ, and the reality of the resurrection
is the Spirit; this resurrection imparts the consummated Triune God and
releases the death-overcoming life into the believers—John 11:25.
3.
This corporate and mingling living by the perfected God-men consummates
ultimately in the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and new earth as
God's increase and expression for eternity—Rev. 21:1-2, 9-11.
§ Day 6
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