晨興聖言-...主的恢復之中心負擔...(W5-5)

 第五週■週五

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路六12『那些日子,耶穌出去上山禱告,整夜禱告神。』

約八29『那差我來的是與我同在,祂沒有撇下我獨自一人,因爲我始終作祂所喜悅的事。』

〔主耶穌〕一生一世把神當作祂的滿足。祂對於世人沒有一點盼望,並不盼望從人得着甚麼。…祂說,『除了父,沒有人認識子;』『我不接受從人來的榮耀;』『我…來,不是要行我自己的意思,乃是要行那差我來者的意思;』『我來了,神阿,是要實行你的旨意。』我們的主一生一世只把神的旨意當作祂的滿足。祂只把神當作祂的滿足。所以,世上的人、事、物,無論如何變遷,都不會使祂失望。凡以神爲他滿足的人,是不會失望的。(倪柝聲文集第一輯第十七册,一九七頁。)

信息選讀

主活着就是一個禱告的人。…祂作爲一個禱告的人,…不是僅僅作一個尋求基督的人,迫切的禱告要得着至寶的基督。(腓三12 ~ 14,8。)…我們可能是一個尋求基督的人,迫切的禱告要得着至寶的基督,但這並不是在福音書裏所啓示這個禱告之人的純淨榜樣。我們若是尋求基督的人,我們會以爲自己很特別,很屬靈。但是在描述第一個神人是禱告的人時,我避免用『屬靈』這個辭;我乃是用『神聖』和『奧祕』這樣的辭。『神聖』是在神這一面;『奧祕』是在人那一面。一面說,耶穌是在肉體裏的人,但祂乃是在神聖、奧祕的範圍裏,向奧祕的神禱告。

祂是一個禱告的人, 一個與神是一的人。( 約十30。)我們可能是尋求基督的人,迫切的禱告要得着基督,但我們可能與神不是一。主也是一個不住的活在神同在裏的人。(徒十38 下,約八29,十六32。)祂告訴我們,祂從沒有獨自一人,父一直與祂同在;祂每一刻都看見父的面容。我們可能尋求基督,但也許不是這麼親密、繼續不斷的活在神的面光中。此外,祂在任何苦難和逼迫下都信靠神,不信靠自己。彼前二章二十三節下半說,祂在受苦之中,不說威嚇的話,只將一切交給那按公義審判的。路加二十三章四十六節說,當祂在十字架上將要死的時候,祂禱告說,『父阿,我將我的靈交在你手裏。』在我們的日常生活中,當困難臨到時,我們是否信靠神?我們可能只在很小的程度上信靠神,而不是完全的信靠神。

主在約翰十四章三十節下半說,『這世界的王將到,他在我裏面是毫無所有。』這意思是說,世界的王撒但在主耶穌裏面沒有立場,沒有機會,沒有盼望,任何事都沒有可能。如果我們蒙了光照,我們就會承認,撒但在我們裏面有太多的東西;他在許多事上有立場,有機會,有盼望,有可能。但這裏有一個禱告的人,祂說世界的王撒但在祂裏面是毫無所有。在全本聖經裏,這是一句特別的話。因此,基督是禱告的人,是與神是一的人,一直活在神的面光中,在受苦遭逼迫時信靠神,並且撒但在祂裏面是毫無所有。(李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第三册,六六三至六六五頁。)

當那些指控的法利賽人中沒有一個能定罪那行淫的婦人時,基督這位神救主在祂的人性裏對婦人說,『我也不定你的罪,』好顧惜她,使祂這位偉大的『我是』能餧養她,叫她從罪得自由,並使她能『不…再犯罪』。(約八3 ~ 11,24,34 ~ 36。)基督是那神聖偉大的『我是』,能使人從罪得自由。(李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第五册,二○三頁。)

參讀:神人的生活,第十篇;活力排,第七至十篇。

WEEK 5 — DAY 5

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Morning Nourishment

Luke 6:12 And in these days He went out to the mountain to pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer to God.

John 8:29 And He who sent Me is with Me; He has not left Me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to Him.

Throughout His life, the Lord took satisfaction in God. He had no hope toward the world and did not expect to receive anything from it…He said that no one knows the Son except the Father, that He did not receive glory from men, that He did not come to do His own will but the will of the One who sent Him, and that He always did the will of the One who sent Him. Our Lord had God’s will as His satisfaction all His life. He was satisfied only with God. This is why He was not disappointed no matter how people, events, and things in this world changed. Those who take their satisfaction in God will never be disappointed. (CWWN, vol. 17, pp. 183-184)

Today's Reading

The Lord lived as a man of prayer…His being a man of prayer was not…as merely a Christ-seeker praying desperately to gain Christ in His excellency (Phil. 3:12-14, 8). We may be a Christ-seeker, praying desperately to gain Christ in His excellency, yet this is not the pure pattern of the man of prayer revealed in the Gospels. If we are a Christ-seeker, we would think that we are very special and spiritual. But in describing the first God-man as a man of prayer, I have avoided using the word spiritual. Instead, I have used the words divine and mystical. Divine is on God’s side. Mystical is on man’s side. On the one hand, Jesus was a man in the flesh, yet He prayed to the mysterious God in the divine and mystical way and realm.

He was a man of prayer, a man who is one with God (John 10:30). We may be a Christ-seeker, desperately praying to gain Christ, yet we may not be one with God. He was also a man living in the presence of God without ceasing (Acts 10:38c; John 8:29; 16:32). He said that He was never alone, but the Father was with Him. Every moment He saw His Father’s face. We may seek Christ, yet not live in the presence of God so closely and continuously without ceasing. Also, He trusted in God and not in Himself, under any kind of suffering and persecution. First Peter 2:23b says that in the midst of His suffering He did not speak threatening words but kept committing all to Him who judges righteously. Luke 23:46 says that at the time He was dying on the cross, He prayed, “Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit.” In our daily life, do we trust in God when trouble comes? Maybe we do to a small extent, but not absolutely.

In John 14:30 the Lord said, “The ruler of the world is coming, and in Me he has nothing.” This means that in the Lord Jesus, Satan as the ruler of the world had no ground, no chance, no hope, no possibility in anything. If we are enlightened, we will admit that Satan has too many things in us. He has the ground, the chance, the hope, and the possibility in many things. But here  was a man of prayer who said that Satan, the ruler of the world, had nothing in Him. This is a particular sentence in the whole Bible. Thus, Christ was a man of prayer, a man who was one with God, lived in the presence of God continuously, trusted in God in His suffering and persecution, and in whom Satan had nothing. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 3, “The God-man Living,” pp. 529-530)

When none of the accusing Pharisees could condemn the adulterous woman, Christ as the God-Savior, in His humanity, said to her, “Neither do I condemn you,” to cherish her that He, as the great I Am, might nourish her with the freedom from sin and enable her to “sin no more” (John 8:3-11, 24, 34-36). Christ is the divine, great I Am, who can set people free from sin. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 5, “The Vital Groups,” pp. 149-150)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 3, “The God-man Living,” ch. 10; CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 5, “The Vital Groups,” chs. 7-10

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