晨興聖言-按照神對召會的經綸...(W2-4)
第二週■週四
晨興餧養
來一3『祂是神榮耀的光輝，是神本質的印像，用祂大能的話維持、載着並推動萬有；祂成就了洗罪的事，就坐在高處至尊至大者的右邊。』
林後三18『但我們眾人旣然以沒有帕子遮蔽的臉，好像鏡子觀看並返照主的榮光，就漸漸變化成爲與祂同樣的形像，從榮耀到榮耀，乃是從主靈變化成的。』
基督是神的像，是神榮耀的光輝。（來一3。）
因此，基督的福音，就是神的榮耀照明並照耀的福音。撒但，這世代的神，弄瞎了不信之人的思想和心思，使基督榮耀之福音的光照，不照進他們心裏。這就像照相機的鏡頭被遮住，光就無法將對象照進照相機裏。…我們一按快門，就有辦法把光連同物體影像和形像照進相機裏面，而印在底片上。…但相機的鏡頭若蓋住了，光就無法照進相機裏面。有時候我們向人傳福音時，他們好像是鏡頭蓋住的照相機，光照不進去。…因着祂的憐憫和恩典，撒但的遮蓋已經從我們的心思挪開。
林後三章十八節沒有帕子遮蔽的臉，就是四章沒有遮蔽的心思。照保羅的觀念，這二者乃是一。因此，有了沒有帕子遮蔽的臉，就是有了沒有遮蔽的心思。（哥林多後書生命讀經，八九頁。）
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光照進我們裏面，就把基督的形像照進來。這光透過我們的心思，照進我們的靈裏。我們的靈可以比作底片。光透過我們敞開的心思，進到我們裏面時，就碰着我們的靈，而將基督的影像，就是神的形像，照進我們裏面。在召會中，我們正在實行這種屬靈、屬天的攝影。
林後四章五節說，『因爲我們不是傳自己，乃是傳基督耶穌爲主…。』『因爲』說明使徒的福音，就是他們所傳基督之榮耀的福音，爲何不該受蒙蔽，因爲他們不是傳自己，高舉自己，乃是傳基督耶穌爲萬有的主，也傳他們爲耶穌的緣故，作信徒的奴僕。
基督耶穌爲主，包含：基督是在萬有之上，永遠受頌讚的神；（羅九5；）永遠的話成了肉體，成了人；（約一14；）耶穌是人釘十字架，成了我們的救主，（徒四10
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12，）並且復活，成了神的兒子；（十三33；）基督被高舉爲主，（二36，）就是萬人的主；（十36，羅十12，約二十28，林前十二3；）祂是神的像，是神榮耀的光輝。（來一3。）這就是福音的內容。因此，福音乃是基督榮耀的福音，照明、照射、照耀在人心裏。（林後四6。）人的心若不受任何事物遮蔽，也不被撒但這世代的神弄瞎，他就能看見福音的光照。（4。）
林後四章六節說，『因爲那說光要從黑暗裏照出來的神，已經照在我們心裏，爲着光照人，使人認識那顯在耶穌基督面上之神的榮耀。』…使徒傳基督爲主，也傳他們作信徒的奴僕，因爲那說光要從黑暗裏照出來的神，已經照在他們心裏。神照在宇宙中，產生了舊造；現今神照在他們心裏，使他們成爲新造。
神照在我們心裏，結果帶來一種光照，使我們認識那顯在基督面上之神的榮耀，也就是一種照明，使我們認識基督福音的榮耀。那使我們得知基督福音之榮耀的照明、光照，乃是出於神在我們心裏的照耀。（哥林多後書生命讀經，九○至九二頁。）
參讀：哥林多後書生命讀經，第九篇。
WEEK 2 — DAY 4
Morning Nourishment
Heb. 1:3 Who, being the effulgence of His glory and the impress of
His substance and upholding and bearing all things by the word of His
power, having made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of
the Majesty on high.
2 Cor. 3:18 But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit.
Christ as the image of God is the effulgence of His glory (Heb. 1:3). Hence,
the gospel of Christ is the gospel of His glory that illuminates and
shines forth. Satan, the god of this age, has blinded the thoughts and
the minds of the unbelievers so that the illumination of the gospel of
Christ’s glory might not shine into their hearts. This is similar to
covering the lens of a camera so that the light cannot shine into the
camera...When the shutter is pressed, there is a way for the light with
the object, the figure, the image, to shine into the camera and be
impressed on the film...However, if the lens of the camera is covered,
there is no way for the light to shine into the camera. Sometimes when
we preach the gospel to others, they are like a camera with the lens
covered. The light cannot shine into them...By His mercy and grace, the
satanic cover has been removed from our minds!
The unveiled face in 2 Corinthians 3:18 is the uncovered mind in chapter 4.
According to Paul’s concept, these two things are one. To have an
unveiled face, therefore, is to have an uncovered mind. (Life-study of 2
Corinthians, second edition, p. 78)
Today’s Reading
As
light shines into us, it brings in the image of Christ. This
illumination shines into our spirit through our mind. Our spirit can be
compared to the film. When the shining comes into us through our open
mind, it reaches our spirit and brings the figure of Christ, the image
of God, into us. In the church we are practicing such a spiritual and heavenly photography.
Second Corinthians 4:5 says, “For we do not preach ourselves but Christ
Jesus as Lord...” For explains why the apostles’ gospel, which is the
gospel of the glory of Christ, should not have been veiled, for they did
not preach, exalt, themselves but Christ Jesus as Lord of all, and they
conducted themselves as the believers’ slaves for Jesus’ sake.
Christ Jesus as Lord comprises Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever
(Rom. 9:5), the eternal Word incarnated to be a man (John 1:14), Jesus
crucified as a man to be our Savior (Acts 4:10-12) and resurrected to be
the Son of God (13:33), and Christ exalted to be the Lord (2:36), even
the Lord of all men (10:36; Rom. 10:12; John 20:28; 1 Cor. 12:3), who is
the image of God, the effulgence of God’s glory (Heb. 1:3). This is the
very content of the gospel. Hence, the gospel is the gospel of the
glory of Christ, which illuminates, radiates, and shines in the heart of
man. If man’s heart is not veiled with anything or blinded by Satan,
the god of this age, man can see the illumination of the gospel.
Second Corinthians 4:6 says, “The God who said, Out of darkness light shall
shine, is the One who shined in our hearts to illuminate the knowledge
of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.”...The apostles
preached Christ as Lord and themselves as the believers’ slaves, because
the very God who commanded light to shine out of darkness had shined in
their hearts. His shining in the universe produced the old creation.
Now His shining in their hearts made them a new creation. (Life-study of
2 Corinthians, second edition, pp. 78-80)
God’s shining in our hearts results in the illumination of knowing the glory
of God in the face of Christ, that is, in the enlightenment that causes
us to know the glory of the gospel of Christ. This illumination, this
enlightenment, that makes the glory of Christ’s gospel known to us
issues from the shining of God in our hearts. (The Conclusion of the New
Testament, p. 1213)
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