晨興聖言-經歷、享受並彰顯基督(W18-6)
第十八週.週六
晨興餧養
林後三8 『何況那靈的職事,豈不更帶著榮光?』
17~18 『而且主就是那靈;主的靈在那裏,那裏就有自由。但我們眾人既然以沒有帕子遮蔽的臉,好像鏡子觀看並返照主的榮光,就漸漸變化成為與祂同樣的形像,從榮耀到榮耀,乃是從主靈變化成的。』
賜人生命的靈也是供職的靈。〔林後三8。〕…職事是因著基督許多年作在一個人裏面,纔在人身上產生的,不是一夜之間就產生的。職事是藉著主許多年一點一點的作工、對付和建立而產生的。…一旦屬於基督的東西作在你裏面,就沒有甚麼能把這些東西奪去。當你藉著苦難經歷基督,你身上基督的職事就豐富、加強並拔高。於是你所說的,就是出自你的構成,你的所是。
保羅這樣豐富的供應基督,因為有些出於基督的東西已經作到他裏面,並建立在他裏面,與他成為一。事實上,保羅就是那個職事。不僅他的話,並且他本人就是那個職事。職事不是供應知識、道理、或聖經的解釋,職事乃是供應基督的豐富。那靈的職事將基督所是的一切,分賜到我們裏面。(李常受文集一九六九年第一冊,五二五至五二六頁。)
信息選讀
林後三章十七節…所題的自由,是指脫離帕子之下的律法字句而有的自由。(加二4,五1。)那靈釋放我們脫離成文的律法,就是成文的律例。熱中猶太教者知道舊約的教訓和道理,但這些成了他們層層的帕子。他們知道許多,但他們甚麼也沒有看見。
我們需要沒有帕子遮蔽的臉,好看見榮耀的基督。我們今天所需要的不是更多的認識,乃是更多的看見。…我們需要卸去並倒空,好使我們能在基督活的同在之新樣裏,新鮮的接受祂自己。
當我們面對面觀看基督時,我們就返照祂,並且漸漸變化成為祂的形像,從一種程度的榮耀到另一種程度的榮耀。這完全是從主靈變化成的。(林後三18。)因此,我們有自由和變化。…變化不是外面的改變,乃是藉著排除我們的舊元素,並注入主的新元素之內裏、新陳代謝的改變。
保羅在哥林多後書的結語說,『願主耶穌基督的恩,神的愛,聖靈的交通,與你們眾人同在。』(十三14。)這不是一種祝福,乃是一種傳輸。愛是源頭,是水源;恩是流道,是水泉;交通是江河,是水流,將基督一切的所是,以及神一切的豐滿,都傳輸到我們裏面。神是愛;這愛作為恩,藉著靈傳輸到我們裏面;靈乃是傳輸者。神所是的一切作為愛,是在基督裏。愛具體化在恩裏。愛是在心裏的東西,但恩是愛的彰顯。恩來自愛,這恩是藉著那靈傳輸到我們裏面。愛、恩和交通,不是三樣分開的實體,乃是一樣東西的三階段。神在基督裏,而基督是那靈。基督是神的具體化身,而那靈是基督的實際。那靈乃是基督的傳輸,而基督是神的具體化身。哥林多後書結束於傳輸、交流和湧流的靈。
我們需要施膏的靈、蓋印的靈、作質的靈、書寫的靈、賜人生命的靈、供職的靈、使人自由的靈、變化的靈,以及傳輸、湧流的靈。(李常受文集一九六九年第一冊,五二七至五二九頁。)
參讀:一個在靈裏之人的自傳,第十章。
WEEK 18 — DAY 6
Morning Nourishment
2 Cor. 3:8 How shall the ministry of the Spirit not be more in glory?
17-18 And the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit.
The life-giving Spirit is also the ministering Spirit [cf. 2 Cor. 3:8]…A ministry is produced in a person because Christ has been wrought into him for many years, not just overnight. The ministry is produced through years of the Lord’s working, dealing, and building up bit by bit. Once something of Christ has been wrought into you, nothing can take it away. When you experience Christ through sufferings, the ministry of Christ with you is enriched, strengthened, and uplifted. Then what you speak comes out of your constitution, your very being.
Paul ministered Christ so richly because something of Christ had been wrought into him and built into him to become one with him. Actually, Paul was the ministry. Not only his word but also his person was the ministry. The ministry does not minister knowledge, doctrine, or the exposition of the Bible. It ministers the riches of Christ. The ministry of the Spirit imparts all that Christ is into us. (CWWL, 1969, vol. 1, “The Experience of Christ as Life for the Building Up of the Church,” p. 393)
Today's Reading
The freedom mentioned in 2 Corinthians 3:17 is the freedom, the liberty, from the letter of the law under the veil (Gal. 2:4; 5:1). The Spirit liberates us from the written code, the written regulations. The Judaizers knew the teachings and doctrines of the Old Testament, but these became layers of veils to them. They knew a lot, but they did not see anything.
We need an unveiled face to see the glorious Christ. What we need today is not more knowing but more seeing…We need to be unloaded and emptied so that we can freshly receive Christ Himself in the newness of His living presence.
As we behold Christ face to face, we mirror Him, and we are being transformed into His image from one degree of glory to another degree. This is altogether from the Lord Spirit (2 Cor. 3:18). Thus, we have the liberation and the transformation. Transformation is not an outward change but an inward, metabolic change by the discharge of our old element and the infusion of the Lord’s new element.
Second Corinthians concludes with Paul saying, “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all” (13:14). This is not a benediction but a transmission. Love is the source, the fountain; grace is the course, the spring; and the fellowship is the river, the flow, to transmit all that Christ is with all the fullness of God into us. God is love, and this love is being transmitted as grace to us by the Spirit who is the Transmitter. All that God is as love is in Christ. Love is embodied in grace. Love is something in the heart, but grace is the expression of love. Grace comes out of love, and this grace is being transmitted into us by the Spirit. Love, grace, and fellowship are not three separate entities, but onething in three stages. God is in Christ, and Christ is the Spirit. Christ is God’sembodiment, and the Spirit is Christ’s reality. The Spirit is the transmission of Christ, who is the embodiment of God. Second Corinthians concludes with the transmitting, communicating, and flowing Spirit.
We need the anointing Spirit, the sealing Spirit, the pledging Spirit, the writing Spirit, the life-giving Spirit, the ministering Spirit, the liberating Spirit, the transforming Spirit, and the transmitting, flowing Spirit. (CWWL, 1969, vol. 1, “The Experience of Christ as Life for the Building Up of the Church,” pp. 394-395)
Further Reading: CWWL, 1967, vol. 2, “An Autobiography of a Person in the Spirit,” ch. 10
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