晨興聖言-打美好的仗...(W1-3)
第一週•週三
晨興餧養
提前六 12『你要爲信仰打那美好的仗，持定永遠的生命；你已蒙召進入這永遠的生命，也在許多見證人面前，作了美好的承認。』
19『爲着將來，替自己積存美好的根基作寶藏，叫他們持定那真實的生命。』
爲信仰打仗〔提前六
12 上〕，意思就是爲神新約的經綸打仗，尤其是爲基督作神的具體化身，以及召會作基督的身體打仗。…永遠的生命〔12
下〕卽神聖的生命，神非受造的生命，這生命是永遠的。永遠的，指神聖生命的性質，過於指其時間的因素。我們在基督徒的生活中，特別在基督徒的工作中，要爲信仰打那美好的仗，就需要持定神的生命，而不信靠我們人的生命。因此，三卷提字書再三的強調永遠的生命（提前一
16，六 19，提後一 1、10，多一 2，三
7）。要完成提摩太前書所說神對召會的經綸，對抗提摩太後書所說召會敗落的趨勢，並維持提多書所說召會生活中良好的秩序，這生命乃是必要的基本條件（新約總論第六册，三三三至三三四頁）。
信息選讀
我們已經蒙召進入神永遠的生命。我們原是從人天然的生命而生，但我們在基督裏蒙神呼召時，就由神永遠的生命重生了。
我們爲信仰打那美好的仗，不但是客觀的，更是主觀的，就是藉着持定永遠的生命來打這仗。我們不該離開這生命去作甚麼。我們要打那美好的仗，需要持定永遠的生命。
我們需要領悟，我們已蒙召進入永遠的生命。這永遠的生命主要不是指將來的福分。…永遠的生命該是我們今天的生命，爲着我們現今日常生活的生命。藉着我們頭一次肉身的出生，我們得着了亞當的生命。但因爲我們已蒙召進入永遠的生命，我們就不該憑着亞當的生命，天然的生命而活。雖然我們該有真正的人性，就是耶穌的人性，但這不該是在我們天然生命裏的人性。反之，我們需要憑着永遠的生命過人的生活。我們已蒙召進入這生命，現今我們需要活這生命。…身爲在基督裏的信徒，我們已獨特的蒙召進入永遠的生命。這生命，神聖的生命，實際上就是三一神自己。我們已蒙召進入永遠的生命，如今就該持定這生命，活這生命，並使我們全人照着這生命生活行動。
仇敵的狡詐引人偏離信仰，乃是使信徒離開永遠的生命。所以，我們真信徒必須持定永遠的生命。沒有永遠的生命，我們就算不得甚麼。這永遠的生命，實際上就是經過過程的三一神作我們的生命。…不但異端的教訓會被仇敵利用，使我們不能享受永遠的生命，甚至基要的教訓也可能被利用。關於性格改良、立志行善等這些合乎聖經、基要、美好、倫理和道德的教訓，都叫信徒不能經歷經過過程的三一神作他們永遠的生命。
我們要看見，新約裏一切關於信徒的事，都與經過過程的三一神分賜到我們裏面有關，這是很要緊的。經歷這分賜，就是享受永遠的生命。有些人也許照着聖經施教，卻沒有教導信徒如何接觸經過過程的三一神，接受祂的分賜；這分賜乃是我們基督徒生活要緊的因素。因爲甚至基要的教訓也可能被仇敵狡詐的利用，使我們不能享受永遠的生命，所以我們需要持定永遠的生命。這樣我們纔能爲信仰打那美好的仗（新約總論第六册，三三四至三三六頁）。
參讀：真理課程四級卷三，第四十四課。
WEEK 1 — DAY 3
Morning Nourishment
1
Tim. 6:12 Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold on the eternal
life, to which you were called and have confessed the good confession
before many witnesses.
19 Laying away for themselves a good foundation as a treasure for the
future, that they may lay hold on that which is really life.
To
fight for the faith [1 Tim. 6:12a] means to fight for God’s New
Testament economy. In particular, it is to fight for Christ as the
embodiment of God and for the church as the Body of Christ. The eternal
life [1 Tim. 6:12b] is the divine life, the uncreated life of God, which
is eternal. Eternal denotes the nature more than the time element of
the divine life. To fight the good fight of the faith in the Christian
life, especially in the Christian ministry, we need to lay hold on this
divine life and not trust in our human life. Hence, in 1 and 2 Timothy
and Titus the eternal life is stressed again and again (1 Tim. 1:16;
6:19; 2 Tim. 1:1, 10; Titus 1:2; 3:7). To bring forth God’s dispensation
concerning the church in 1 Timothy, to confront the process of the
church’s decline in 2 Timothy, and to maintain good order in the church
life in Titus, this life is a prerequisite. (The Conclusion of the New
Testament, pp. 1862- 1863)
Today’s Reading
We
have been called to the eternal life of God. We were born of the human
natural life, but we were reborn of the divine eternal life when we were
called by God in Christ.
We fight the good fight of the faith not only objectively but also subjectively by laying hold on eternal life. We should not do anything apart from this life. As those who would fight the good fight, we need to lay hold on eternal life.
We
need to realize that we have been called to eternal life. This eternal
life does not mainly refer to blessings in the future…Eternal life
should be our life today, a life for our present daily living. By our
first birth, the physical birth, we received the Adamic life. But
because we have been called to eternal life, we should no longer live by
the Adamic life, the natural life. Although we should be truly human,
even Jesusly human, we should not be human in our natural life. On the
contrary, we need to live a human life by the eternal life. We have been
called to this life, and now we need to live it. As believers in
Christ, we have been called uniquely to eternal life. This life, the
divine life, is actually the Triune God Himself. Having been called to
eternal life, we now should lay hold on this life, live this life, and
have our whole being according to this life.
The
subtlety of the enemy in bringing deviation from the faith is to keep
the believers from the eternal life. Therefore, we, the genuine
believers, must lay hold on the eternal life. Without the eternal life
we are nothing. This eternal life is actually the processed Triune God
being life to us. Not only heretical teachings but even fundamental
teachings may be used by the enemy to keep us from enjoying the eternal
life. Teachings that are scriptural, fundamental, good, ethical, and
moral, teachings about the improvement of character and about making up
our mind to do good things, keep the believers from the experience of
the processed Triune God as eternal life to them.
It
is crucial for us to see that all the matters in the New Testament
concerning the believers are related to the dispensing of the processed
Triune God into us. To experience this dispensing is to enjoy eternal
life. Some may teach according to the Bible without teaching the
believers how to contact the processed Triune God and to receive His
dispensing, which becomes the vital factor of our Christian life.
Because even fundamental teachings may be subtly used by the enemy to
keep us from enjoying eternal life, we need to lay hold on the eternal
life. Then we shall be able to fight the good fight for the faith. (The
Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 1863-1864)
Further Reading: Truth Lessons—Level Four, vol. 3, lsn. 44
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