第四週．週二
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晨興餧養
太十六１９『我要把諸天之國的鑰匙給你，凡你在地上捆綁的，必是在諸天之上已經捆綁的；凡你在地上釋放的，必是在諸天之上已經釋放的。』
２４『於是耶穌對門徒說，若有人要跟從我，就當否認己，背起他的十字架，並跟從我。』
從整個歷史來看，召會…主要是被己破壞。路德馬丁曾說過，雖然他懼怕羅馬教皇，但他更懼怕在他自己心裏更強的教皇，就是己。…己是魂的具體表現，魂是藉著心思發表出來。因此，己、魂、和心思乃是三而一的。這三者的背後乃是撒但，他操縱己，為要破壞召會生活。我們都需要為自己留意這些話。（李常受文集一九七八年第一冊，八六頁。）
信息選讀
基督是神的具體化身；照樣，己乃是撒但的具體化身。主耶穌對彼得說，『撒但，退我後面去罷！』［太十六23。］…主是對彼得說話，但祂卻稱彼得為撒但，因為撒但具體化在彼得裏面。撒但具體化在那裏？撒但藉著佔有彼得的心思，而具體化在他的魂裏。心思是魂的首要部分，也是魂的代表。佔有一個人的心思，就是佔有他整個人。
［在］創世記三章一至六節…我們看見，夏娃把善惡知識樹的果子喫進她身體裏以前，撒但的思想、心思就已經注射到她的魂裏。撒但來到夏娃面前，目的就是要把他的思想放進她的心思裏。撒但乃是藉著對她說話來作這事。他說，『神豈是真說，你們不可喫園中所有樹上的果子麼？』（1。）這是引動夏娃的心思，於是夏娃回答撒但；（2∼3；）她一回答，她的心思就被撒但思想的『餌』『鉤住』了。
每一天，撒但都試著對我們作同樣的事…。比方說，你早上起來時，突然心思裏會對洛杉磯召會興起一個批評的思想。這樣一個思想就是撒但的餌；你越注意這餌，就越會被撒但鉤住。最後，你可能決定放棄召會生活。
面對這從撒但而來的突擊，夏娃的心思受到了侵襲。撒但的思想注射到她裏面，她的心思就被撒但的思想所毒化。之後，她的情感就被挑動，她『見那棵樹的果子好作食物，也悅人的眼目，且是可喜愛的，能使人有智慧』。（6上。）接著，她運用意志作了決定，要喫善惡知識樹上的果子。於是她『就摘下果子來喫了』。（6下。）到這時候，她魂的每一部分—心思、情感和意志—都被毒化了。
己的源頭就是撒但把他的思想注射到人的心思裏。…每當魂不倚靠神，並向神獨立時，魂立刻成了己。這就是說，每當我們憑自己作事而不倚靠神時，我們就在己裏。
神乃是將人創造成一個經常倚靠神的魂。人是魂，（二7，）這樣一個魂應該凡事倚靠神。…然而，魂成了己。己就是那向神宣告獨立的魂。我們若看見己的異象，就會看見己是甚麼—己就是那向神宣告獨立的魂。我們若看見這異象，就會領悟自己不能再向神獨立。那時我們會說，『我必須一直倚靠神。不論我作的是甚麼，我必須倚靠神；不論我的所是如何，我必須倚靠神。』（李常受文集一九六五年第三冊，二六○至二六五頁。）
參讀：李常受文集一九七八年第一冊，國度的操練為著召會的建造，第五至六章。
WEEK 4 — DAY 2
Morning Nourishment
Matt. 16:19 I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of the heavens, and whatever you bind on the earth shall have been bound in the heavens, and whatever you loose on the earth shall have been loosed in the heavens.
24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone wants to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
Throughout history, the church …has been damaged mainly by the self. Martin Luther once said that although he was afraid of the pope, he was more afraid of the stronger pope, the self, within his own heart …Self is the embodiment of the soul, which is expressed through the mind. Thus the self, the soul, and the mind are three-in-one. Behind these three is Satan, who manipulates the self in order to damage the church life. We all need to heed this word for ourselves. (CWWL, 1978, vol. 1, “The Exercise of the Kingdom for the Building of the Church,” p. 71)
Today’s Reading
As Christ is the embodiment of God, so the self is the embodiment of Satan. This is indicated by the fact that the Lord Jesus said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan!” [Matt. 16:23]. The Lord was speaking to Peter, yet He called Peter Satan because Satan was embodied in Peter. Where was Satan embodied? Satan was embodied in Peter’s soul by occupying his mind. The mind is the leading part of the soul and the representative of the soul. To take over a person’s mind is to take over the entire person.
In Genesis 3:1-6…we see that before Eve took the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil into her body, the thought, the mind, of Satan was injected into her soul. Satan came to Eve with the intention of putting his thought into her mind. Satan did this when he said to her, “Did God really say, You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?” (v. 1). This as an appeal to Eve’s mind. Eve answered Satan (vv. 2-3), but as soon as she did so, she was “hooked” in her mind by the “bait” of Satan’s thought.
Day after day Satan tries to do the same thing with us…For instance, in the morning, as you are waking up, a critical thought concerning the church in Los Angeles may suddenly enter your mind. Such a thought is Satan’s bait, and the more you pay attention to this bait, the more you will be hooked by Satan. Eventually, you may decide to give up the church life.
Through this satanic assault, Eve’s mind was attacked. Then her mind was poisoned by the satanic thought which had been injected into her. After this, her emotion was aroused when she “saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes and that the tree was to be desired to make oneself wise” (v. 6a). Next, her will was exercised to make a decision to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. “She took of its fruit and ate” (v. 6b). By this time every part of the soul—the mind, the emotion, and the
will—had been poisoned.
The origin of the self was Satan’s injecting his thought into the human mind …Whenever the soul is not dependent on God but is independent of Him, the soul immediately becomes the self. This means that whenever we do something by ourselves without depending on God, we are in the self.
God created man as a soul to be always dependent on Him. Man is a soul (2:7), and as a soul he should depend on God for everything. However, the soul has become the self. The self is simply the soul declaring independence from God. If we have the vision of the self, we will see what the self is— the soul declaring its independence from God. If we see this vision, we will realize that we can no longer be independent of God. Then we will say, “I must depend on God all the time. Whatever I do, I must depend on God. Whatever I am, I must depend on God.” (CWWL, 1965, vol. 3, “The Heavenly Vision,” pp. 192-195)
Further Reading: CWWL, 1978, vol. 1, “The Exercise of the Kingdom for the Building of the Church,” chs. 5—6
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