晨興聖言-經歷、享受並彰顯基督(W18-4)
第十八週.週四
晨興餧養
林後一21~22 『然而那把我們同你們,堅固的聯於基督,並且膏了我們的,就是神;祂既印了我們,又賜那靈在我們心裏作質。』
保羅在哥林多後書題到那靈是〔比哥林多前書〕更有經歷的。他…說,那靈是施膏的靈和蓋印的靈。這靈也在我們心裏作質,就是作豫嘗。(林後一21~22。)
神既已將我們聯於基督這受膏者,我們自然就與祂一同為神所膏。…神已經用歡樂的油膏祂,勝過膏祂的同夥。(詩四五7,來一9。)所用以膏基督和我們的膏油,乃是神自己。…我們越被神所膏,就越多接受神那神聖性情的元素。…神乃是藉著施膏,將祂一切神聖的元素和組成成分,分賜到我們裏面。(李常受文集一九六九年第一冊,五一二至五一四頁。)
信息選讀
就一面說,我們每一個重生的人都已經聯於基督;但在我們的經歷上,我們聯於基督有多少,乃在於我們接受的膏抹有多少。…如果我們在膏抹之下生活行事,這膏抹就要在一切事上教導我們。(約壹二27。)當你照著這膏抹生活行動時,你就感覺那時你是聯於基督。
當你去百貨公司時,如果你不顧到內裏的膏抹,只照著你的好惡來購物,那時你就遠離基督…。你反而應當說,『主阿,拯救我脫離這百貨公司裏的撒但系統。如果你說不,我就說不。如果你說是,我就說是。』當你在這禱告的靈裏行事為人,你就是照著內裏的膏抹為人並行事,那時你就聯於那受膏者。
今天神正在作工,藉著一直不斷的以祂自己膏我們,把我們聯於基督那受膏者。…施膏的靈天天用神的元素和組成成分,就是神自己神聖的元素,膏抹我們。日復一日,我們若只照著這膏抹生活行動並行事為人,神就要多而又多的加進我們裏面,分賜到我們裏面。
我們需要從受膏往前到被印。那靈也是蓋印的靈。蓋印使神聖的元素形成一種印記,彰顯神的形像。當我看見神在你們許多人裏面成形,(加四19,)我就受鼓舞。當人接觸你時,他們會感覺你有神的形像,有些出於神的東西在你裏面成形。
我可以用下面的故事為例來說明。有一次,一位姊妹來上海訪問我們,我們沒有一個人見過她。當我們去碼頭迎接她時,我們不知道如何能認出她。但是船一靠岸,我們注視著船上的人,就馬上看出誰是那位姊妹。她有一種形像或印像,見證出她是神的兒女。
神不僅膏了我們,也印了我們。祂不僅將祂的元素分賜到我們裏面,也以祂自己的形像同著活靈的樣式印在我們裏面。這是對內住之靈更深的經歷。這不是那靈外在的顯出,乃是那靈內裏的印像和蓋印。
保羅在林後一章二十二節說,神『賜那靈在我們心裏作質』。質乃是豫嘗。那靈是對全享的豫嘗、保證、樣品。對於我們屬靈的味覺,祂是甜美的。神將祂的靈賜給我們作豫嘗,使我們嘗到將來從神所要承受的,給我們豫先嘗到完全的基業。(李常受文集一九六九年第一冊,五一四至五一六頁。)
參讀:經歷基督作生命為著召會的建造,第八章。
WEEK 18 — DAY 4
Morning Nourishment
2 Cor. 1:21-22 But the One who firmly attaches us with you unto Christ and has anointed us is God, He who has also sealed us and given the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge.
Paul’s mentioning of the Spirit in 2 Corinthians is more experiential [than in 1 Corinthians]…He says that the Spirit is the anointing Spirit and the sealing Spirit. This Spirit is also in our hearts as a pledge, a foretaste (2 Cor. 1:21-22).
Since we have been attached by God to Christ, the anointed One, we are spontaneously anointed with Him by God…God has anointed Him with the oil of exultant joy above His partners (Psa. 45:7; Heb. 1:9). The ointment with which Christ and we are anointed is God Himself…The more we are anointed by God, the more of the element of God’s divine nature we receive…Godimparts all His divine ingredients and constituents into us by His anointing.(CWWL, 1969, vol. 1, “The Experience of Christ as Life for the Building Up of the Church,” pp. 384-385)
Today's Reading
In one sense, all of us who have been regenerated have been attached to Christ. But in our experience, how much we have been attached to Christ depends on the amount of anointing we have received…If we are living and doing things under the anointing, this anointing teaches us in everything (1 John 2:27). When we walk according to this anointing, we have the sense that at that time we are attached to Christ.
If you do not take care of the inner anointing when you go to the department store, and you shop merely according to your likes and dislikes, at that time you are far away from Christ…Instead, you should say, “O Lord, deliver me from the satanic system in this department store. If You say no, I say no. If You say yes, I say yes.” When you walk in this spirit of prayer, you are behaving and acting according to the inner anointing. At that time you are attached to the anointed One.
Today God is doing a work to attach us to Christ, the anointed One, by anointing us continually with Himself…The anointing Spirit day by day anoints us with the ingredients and the constituents of God, the divine elements of God Himself. Day by day if we will simply walk and behave according to this anointing, God will be added into us, imparted into us, more and more.
We need to go on from being anointed to being sealed. The Spirit is also the sealing Spirit. The sealing forms the divine elements into an impression to express God’s image. I am encouraged when I see that God is being formed within many of you (Gal. 4:19). When people contact you, they will have the sense that with you there is the image of God and something of God formed within you.
I can illustrate this by the following story. Once in Shanghai a certain sister came to visit us, and none of us had ever seen her. When we went to the pier to meet her, we were wondering how we would recognize her. As we were watching the persons in the boat, we realized who the sister was. There was a certain kind of image or impression with her, testifying that she must be a child of God.
God has not only anointed us but also sealed us. He has not only imparted His elements into us but has also impressed us with His own image with the form of the living Spirit. This is the deeper experience of the indwelling Spirit. It is not the outward manifestation of the Spirit but the inward impression and sealing of the Spirit.
In 2 Corinthians 1:22 Paul said that God has “given the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge.” The pledge is the foretaste. The Spirit is a foretaste, a guarantee, a sample, of the full taste. He is sweet to our spiritual taste. God gives His Spirit to us as a foretaste of what we will inherit of God, affording us a taste beforehand of the full inheritance. (CWWL, 1969, vol. 1, “The Experience of Christ as Life for the Building Up of the Church,” pp. 385-386)
Further Reading: CWWL, 1969, vol. 1, “The Experience of Christ as Life for the Building Up of the Church,” ch. 8
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