晨興聖言-經歷、享受並彰顯基督(W17-6)

第十七週.週六

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林前十五45 『經上也是這樣記著:「首先的人亞當成了活的魂;」末後的亞當成了賜生命的靈。』

弗三19   『並認識基督那超越知識的愛,使你們被充滿,成為神一切的豐滿。』 

我們是瓦器,這事實證明這超越的能力是屬於神,不是出於我們。我們在自己裏面,不過是瓦器,罪惡、墮落又卑下。因此,我們本身沒有顯揚真理和照耀福音之榮耀的能力。…儘管我們是沒有價值的瓦器,神卻已將這寶貝照在我們裏面。現今這寶貝已成了能力的源頭,加力給我們,使我們能照耀神的榮耀並顯揚真理。(新約總論第十冊,二三七頁。)

信息選讀

我們需要看見,基督這奇妙的寶貝在瓦器裏,是從裏面加力並加強我們。祂藉著分賜,不斷的以超越的能力供應我們,因而將我們這沒有價值又脆弱的器皿,構成為新約的眾執事。(林後三6。)我們信徒有基督這活的、活躍的寶貝,在我們裏面運行。…這寶貝是能力,是力量的源頭,叫使徒們的行事為人能如此照耀福音,顯揚真理。

我們是盛裝榮耀之基督這超越寶貝的瓦器。這些器皿就像今日的照相機,讓基督這對象藉著神的照耀,照進裏面。…我們外在來說是瓦器,內在來說卻有無價之寶,就是基督這經過過程之三一神的具體化身,作為包羅萬有賜生命的靈。這寶貝有能力,這能力是超越的。在我們裏面作賜生命之靈的基督,乃是照耀並工作的一位。

我們裏面有基督作超絕的寶貝;我們外面有基督作神的像,就是三一神的具體化身和彰顯。…基督是神榮耀的光輝;也就是說,祂是神的像的彰顯。〔來一3。〕當我們相信主耶穌時,我們所接受的不只是一位救贖主,更是宇宙中最寶貴、最超絕的一位。…現今基督這位三一神的具體化身和彰顯,乃是在我們裏面。基督在我們裏面是超絕的寶貝,在我們外面是神的像,神的彰顯。我們需要天天經歷並享受基督在裏面作寶貝,在外面作神的像。(新約總論第十冊,二三七至二三八頁。)

恩典就是那活在使徒裏面,作他們生命和生命供應的基督,叫他們過釘十字架的生活,好顯明復活的生命,使他們能完成他們為著神新約的職事。使徒們一直經歷殺死,生命就不斷分賜到別人裏面,好叫恩典藉著更多的人而增多;結果使感謝洋溢。保羅不在意苦難,因為知道他如果被殺死,生命就會分賜給許多人,這生命要成為他們的恩典。…這是使徒們所過的生活,就是釘十字架的生活,藉著瓦器裏寶貝的超越能力,彰顯復活的生命。

新約的眾執事連同他們的職事,乃是裏面裝有奇妙至寶的瓦器。他們的職事全在那靈裏,是又真又活的,是我們可以感覺、享受、體會並經歷的。…這就是新約的見證,也是神在我們中間想要得著的。…我們必須過這種生活,也必須在有這職事的召會裏。不僅如此,我們必須把這個供應給人,主要還不是藉著我們所作的,乃是藉著我們所是的,以及我們的生活方式。這就是新約的眾執事同他們的職事。眾執事與那職事實際上乃是一。(哥林多後書生命讀經,一○七、三一六至三一七頁。)

參讀:這人將來如何,第四章。

WEEK 17 — DAY 6

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Morning Nourishment

1 Cor. 15:45 So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul”; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.

Eph. 3:19 And to know the knowledge-surpassing love of Christ, that you may be filled unto all the fullness of God.

The fact that we are earthen vessels proves that the excellency of the power is of God and not out of us. In ourselves we are nothing more than earthen vessels; we are sinful, fallen, and low. As such, we do not have the power to manifest the truth and shine forth the glory of the gospel…Although we are worthless earthen vessels, God has shined this precious treasure into us. Now this treasure becomes the source of the power energizing us and enabling us to shine forth God’s glory and to manifest the truth. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 3211)

Today's Reading

We need to see that Christ as the marvelous treasure in earthen vessels empowers and energizes us from within. He supplies us continually with the excelling power through His dispensing, thereby constituting us, the worthless and weak vessels, as ministers of a new covenant (2 Cor. 3:6). As believers, we have Christ operating within us as a living and active treasure…This treasure is the power, the source of strength, for the apostles to behave themselves in such a way as to shine the gospel and manifest the truth.

We are the earthen vessels to contain the Christ of glory as the excellent treasure. These vessels are like today’s camera, into which Christ the figure enters through the flash of God’s shining…Outwardly we are earthen vessels, but inwardly we have a priceless treasure—Christ as the embodiment of the processed Triune God to be the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit. This treasure has a power, and this power is excellent. Christ as the life-giving Spirit in us is the One who shines and works.

Within us, we have Christ as an excellent treasure; outside us, we bear Christ as the image of God, the embodiment and expression of the Triune God…Christ is the effulgence of God’s glory [Heb. 1:3]; that is, He is the expression of the image of God. When we believed in the Lord Jesus, we received more than simply a Redeemer; we received the most excellent One, the highest excellence, in the universe…Now Christ, the embodiment and expression of the Triune God, is in us. Within us, Christ is the excellent treasure; outside us, He is the image, the expression, of God. Daily we need to experience and enjoy Christ as the treasure within and the image of God without. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3211-3212)

Grace…is the very Christ, who lived in the apostles as their life and life supply for them to live a crucified life for the manifestation of the resurrection life that they might carry out their ministry for God’s new covenant. As the apostles were under the killing, life was being imparted to others, and grace was abounding through the greater number. As a result, much thanksgiving would also abound. Paul did not care for the sufferings, because he realized that his being killed imparted life to many and that this life became grace to them…This was the life lived by the apostles, a crucified life for the manifestation of resurrection life by the excellency of the power of the hidden treasure in the earthen vessel.

The new covenant ministers with their ministry are earthen vessels containing a marvelous treasure. Their ministry is altogether something in the Spirit, something that is real and living. It is something we can sense, enjoy, realize, and experience…This is the New Testament testimony, and it is what God wants among us…We must live this kind of life and be in a church that has this ministry. Furthermore, we must minister this to others not mainly by what we do but primarily by what we are and by the way we live. This is the ministers with their ministry of the new covenant. Truly, the ministers and the ministry are one. (Life-study of 2 Corinthians, pp. 93-94, 264-265)

Further Reading: CWWN, vol. 40, ch. 4

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