晨興聖言-經歷、享受並彰顯基督(W14-2)
第十四週.週二
晨興餧養
羅八29 『因為神所豫知的人,祂也豫定他們模成神兒子的形像,使祂兒子在許多弟兄中作長子。』
弗四16 『本於祂,全身藉著每一豐富供應的節,並藉著每一部分依其度量而有的功用,得以聯絡在一起,並結合在一起,便叫身體漸漸長大,以致在愛裏把自己建造起來。』
新約的中心,乃是內裏生命的律。〔耶三一33,參羅八2。〕…這律法不是外面的律法,乃是裏面的律法。就其素質說,這律指神聖的生命,而神聖的生命一點不差就是賜生命的靈,包羅萬有的基督,經過過程並終極完成的神;這三者乃是一。賜生命的靈是包羅萬有之基督的實際和實化,而包羅萬有的基督是終極完成之神的具體化身。因此,這內裏的律,一直留在我們裏面,題醒我們,經過過程並終極完成的三一神—靈、子、父—一直與我們同在。…這律是神聖的生命,而神聖的生命是經過過程並終極完成的三一神。…這是新約的中心、內容和實際。(耶利米書生命讀經,二二二至二二三頁。)
信息選讀
內裏的律會盡功用,這律的功用是指神聖的性能。在這律裏有神聖的性能,而神聖的性能是全能的。這神聖的性能在我們裏面能行作一切,為著完成神的定旨。…按其生命說,新約的律乃是三一神;按其功用說,新約的律乃是神聖的性能。
內裏生命之律的神聖性能能活神。這性能也能使在基督裏的信徒被神構成。因為信徒被神構成,他們這團體的人就是神的彰顯。雖然信徒被神構成,他們與神仍有區別。神仍是有神格的神,而我們信徒是在生命和性情上,但不是在神格上,被作成與神一樣。這就是說,除了神格以外,我們與神完全一樣。既然我們在生命和性情上與神一樣,我們就成為祂的擴增、擴大,作祂的豐滿以彰顯祂。這是內裏生命之律的性能最高的一面。
這性能的另一面與基督的身體有關。除了使我們被神構成以外,內裏之律的性能,也將我們構成基督的身體。(林前十二13,弗五30。)這就是說,神聖的生命有那使我們成為基督身體的性能。不僅如此,這性能有身體一切功用所具有的一切才能。我盼望我們對這內裏生命之律是中心,並對其功用,都有深刻的印象。
神聖啟示的中心線乃是揭示神的經綸同祂的分賜。神的分賜就是神將祂自己放在我們裏面,作內裏生命的律。一面,我們有神聖的生命,就是三一神。另一面,我們有神聖的性能。藉這性能,我們有能力不僅認識神,並且活神,甚至被神構成。何等的性能!不僅如此,這性能能將我們構成為基督身體的肢體,包括各種的功用:豐富供應的節(使徒、申言者、傳福音者、牧人和教師)的功用,以及身體每一部分依其度量而盡的功用。(四11,16。)就素質說,內裏生命的律是神在基督裏作為那靈;按功用說,這律有性能,使我們被神構成,並將我們構成為基督身體的肢體,有各種的功用,各種的才能。我很喜樂,甚至很興奮,看見這律運行在主恢復中的眾聖徒裏面。為著這美妙的生命之律,阿利路亞!(耶利米書生命讀經,二二三至二二五頁。)
參讀:耶利米書生命讀經,第二十六篇。
WEEK 14 — DAY 2
Morning Nourishment
Rom. 8:29 …Those whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brothers.
Eph. 4:16 Out from whom all the Body, being joined together and being knit together through every joint of the rich supply and through the operation in the measure of each one part, causes the growth of the Body unto the building up of itself in love.
The center, the centrality, of the new covenant is the inner law of life [Jer. 31:33a, cf. Rom. 8:2]…This law is not an outward law but an inward law. In its essence, this law refers to the divine life, and the divine life is nothing less than the life-giving Spirit, the all-inclusive Christ, and the processed and consummated God. These three are one. The life-giving Spirit is the reality and realization of the all-inclusive Christ, and the all-inclusive Christ is the embodiment of the consummated God. Thus, this inner law, remaining in our being all the time, reminds us that the very processed and consummated Triune God—the Spirit, the Son, and the Father—is with us all the time…This law is the divine life, and the divine life is the processed and consummated Triune God…This is the center, the content, and the reality of the new covenant. (Life-study of Jeremiah, pp. 183-184)
Today's Reading
This law functions. The function of the inner law refers to the divine capacity. In this law there is the divine capacity, and the divine capacity is almighty. This divine capacity can do everything in us for the fulfillment of God’s purpose…According to its life, the law of the new covenant is the Triune God, and according to its function, it is the divine capacity.
The divine capacity of the inner law of life can live God. This capacity can also cause the believers in Christ to be constituted with God. Because the believers are constituted with God, they as a corporate people are God’s expression. Although the believers are constituted with God, there is still a distinction between them and God. God remains God with the Godhead, and we, the believers, are made the same as God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead. This means that except for the Godhead, we are exactly the same as God. Since we are the same as God in life and in nature, we become His increase, His enlargement, as His fullness to express Him. This is the highest aspect of the capacity of the inner law of life.
Another aspect of this capacity is related to the Body of Christ. In addition to causing us to be constituted with God, the capacity of the inner law constitutes us to be the Body of Christ (1 Cor. 12:13; Eph. 5:30). This means that the divine life has the capacity to make us the Body of Christ. Furthermore, this capacity has all the abilities of all the functions of the Body. I hope that we all will be deeply impressed with the centrality and function of the inner law of life.
The central line of the divine revelation is to unveil God’s economy with His dispensing. God’s dispensing is simply to put Himself into us as the inner law of life. On the one hand, we have the divine life, which is the Triune God. On the other hand, we have the divine capacity. By this capacity we have the ability not only to know God but also to live God and even to be constituted with God. What a capacity! Furthermore, this capacity can constitute us to be the members of the Body of Christ, including all kinds of functions: those of apostles, prophets, evangelists, and shepherds and teachers—the joints of the rich supply—and those of every part of the Body that functions in its measure (4:11, 16). In essence the inner law of life is God in Christ as the Spirit, and in function this law has the capacity to constitute us with God and to constitute us the members of the Body of Christ with all kinds of functions, all kinds of abilities. I am happy, and even excited, to see this law operating in the saints in the Lord’s recovery. Hallelujah for this wonderful law of life! (Life-study of Jeremiah, pp. 184-185)
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