晨興聖言-基督徒的生活(W2-1)

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林前六17  但與主聯合的，便是與主成為一靈。

約十五4~5 你們要住在我裏面，我也住在你們裏面。枝子若不住在葡萄樹上，自己就不能結果子，你們若不住在我裏面，也是這樣。我是葡萄樹，你們是枝子；住在我裏面的，我也住在他裏面，這人就多結果子；因為離了我，你們就不能作甚麼。

 

〔與主聯合（林前六17）〕指信徒藉着信入主（約三15~16），與祂有生機的聯結。這聯結可用枝子與葡萄樹的聯結（十五4~5）說明。…這樣與復活之主的聯結，只能在我們的靈裏（聖經恢復本，林前六17注1）。

〔一靈（林前六17）〕指明是靈的主與我們的靈調和。我們的靈已經由神的靈所重生，…這靈現今在我們裏面，…並與我們的靈是一（羅八16）。這是主的實化，祂藉復活成了賜生命的靈（十五45，林後三17），現今與我們的靈同在（提後四22）（林前六17註2）。

這棵真葡萄樹及其枝子，就是子和子裏的眾信徒，是神經綸中三一神的生機體，因神的豐富而長大，並彰顯祂神聖的生命（約十五1註1）。

信息選讀

聖經所啟示神與我們之間終極的關係，遠深於創造者與受造者的關係。這關係的性質超過人的觀念；神與我們的關係乃是，神要與我們有生命的聯結。神聖的生命與屬人的生命聯合在一起，成為一個生命。

自然界有這事的圖畫。…主耶穌一再用平常的事物作比方，來說明屬靈的事。…在植物界裏，表現不好的枝子可從母樹剪下來，接在更健康、更多產的樹上。這種作法，就是所謂的接枝，說明了神與我們之間的關係。…羅馬十一章〔說到〕：『你這野橄欖得在其中接上去，一同有分於橄欖根的肥汁，…你是從那天然的野橄欖樹上砍下來的，尚且逆着性得接在栽種的橄欖樹上。』（17、24）我們是可憐、微小的野橄欖枝，接在栽種、優良的橄欖樹上，現今在享受根的豐富養分。

接上的枝子與被接到的樹並不相同。若是相同的，就沒有接枝的必要。接在品質較佳之樹上的，是有問題之樹的枝子。…這是基督徒生活的真實性質。主耶穌這真葡萄樹是優良的樹。有一天因着信，藉着恩，你被接在祂裏面。不要輕看這接枝。這意思是你不再只有一個生命。你的生命現今來自接在一起的兩個生命。你享受這栽種的橄欖根的肥汁，你較劣的生命就被征服，你就開始茂盛的生長。

這是聖經所啟示神與我們之間的關係。這必是越過創造者與受造者的關係，而達到生命的聯結。

這個神的生命與人的生命接為一命的觀念，對我們人的思想是陌生的。因此，我們來讀聖經時，就把它疏漏了。我信現今我們都有深刻的印象，我們得救之人所活的生命，乃是二命接成一命的生命。因着主的恩典，我們悔改了；藉着悔改、相信，我們已接到神的生命裏。在這接枝裏，我們與祂聯合生長。然後在復活裏，祂的生命長在我們裏面。神聖的生命在我們裏面，供應我們。這就是基督徒的生活（李常受文集一九七九年第一冊，三七七至三七九、三八六頁）。

參讀：生命信息，第五十八至五十九章。

WEEK 2—DAY 1

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Morning Nourishment

1 Cor. 6:17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

John 15:4-5 Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me you can do nothing.

[“Joined to the Lord” (1 Cor. 6:17)] refers to the believers’ organic union with the Lord through believing into Him (John 3:15-16). This union is illustrated by that of the branches with the vine (15:4-5)…Such a union with the resurrected Lord can only be in our spirit. (1 Cor. 6:17, footnote 1)

[“One spirit” (1 Cor. 6:17)] indicates the mingling of the Lord as the Spirit with our spirit. Our spirit has been regenerated by the Spirit of God…, who is now in us…and is one with our spirit (Rom. 8:16). This is the realization of the Lord, who became the life-giving Spirit through resurrection (1 Cor. 15:45; 2 Cor. 3:17) and who is now with our spirit (2 Tim. 4:22). (1 Cor. 6:17, footnote 2)

This true vine (the Son) with its branches (the believers in the Son) is the organism of the Triune God in God’s economy. This organism grows with His riches and expresses His divine life. (John 15:1, footnote 1)

Today’s Reading

What the Bible reveals as the ultimate relationship between God and us is far deeper than that of Creator and creature. The nature of this relationship is beyond human concept. It is that God and we may have a union in life. The divine life and the human life join together to become one life.

There is a picture of this in nature…The Lord Jesus again and again used common things as illustrations of spiritual matters. In the plant kingdom a branch that is not doing very well may be cut off the parent tree and attached to a healthier, more productive tree. This procedure, known as grafting, illustrates the union between God and us. Romans 11 [states]: “You, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in…and became a fellow partaker of the root of fatness of the olive tree…You were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree and were grafted contrary to nature into the cultivated olive tree” (vv. 17, 24). We were the poor, small, wild olive branches, grafted into the cultivated, superior olive tree, and are now enjoying the rich nourishment from the root.

The branch that is grafted is not identical to the tree to which it is attached. If they were identical, there would be no need of grafting. It is a branch from a problem tree that is grafted to a tree having some superior quality. Such is the real nature of the Christian life. The Lord Jesus as the true vine is the superior tree. One day by faith through grace you were grafted into Him. Do not despise this grafting. It means that you no longer have just one life. Your life is now from two lives that have been grafted into one. As you enjoy the root of the fatness of this cultivated olive tree, your poorer life is subdued, and you begin to flourish.

The relationship that the Bible reveals between God and us must extend beyond that of Creator and creature until it reaches a union in life.

This concept of the divine life and the human life being grafted into one is foreign to human thought. Because of this, when we come to read the Bible, we miss it. I trust that now we have all been deeply impressed that as saved ones, the life we live is that of two lives grafted into one. By the Lord’s grace we have repented, and through repentance and believing we have been grafted into the divine life. In this grafting we grow together with Him. Then in resurrection His life grows in us. The divine life is in us, supplying us. This is the Christian life. (CWWL, 1979, vol. 1, “Life Messages, Volume 2,” pp. 283- 284, 288-289)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1979, vol. 1, “Life Messages, Volume 2,” chs. 58-59