晨興聖言-經歷、享受並彰顯基督(W19-1)
第十九週.週一
晨興餧養
加一15~16 『然而那把我從母腹裏分別出來,又藉著祂的恩典呼召我的神,既然樂意將祂兒子啟示在我裏面,叫我把祂當作福音傳在外邦人中,我就即刻沒有與血肉之人商量。』
大數的掃羅反對基督並逼迫召會,他在往大馬色的路上,要去捆綁呼求主名的人時,基督向他顯現。基督在那裏遇見他,他看見基督,就被基督的顯現抓住,而成了使徒保羅。這位使徒得救多年後,在加拉太一章十五至十六節宣告說,神樂意將祂兒子啟示在他裏面。在這裏保羅並不是說基督將自己向他啟示,乃是說父樂意將基督啟示在保羅裏面。這啟示不是僅僅外面的異象,乃是裏面的看見。保羅對基督有內裏的異象;他開始在裏面看見基督。這內裏的異象使他彀資格成為使徒,好將這位啟示在他裏面的基督陳明出來,而不是僅僅按照某種宗教來教導道理和神學。(新約總論第十一冊,九頁。)
信息選讀
〔加拉太一章十一至十二節〕啟示,保羅的福音不是人教導的,人不是他福音的來源,他乃是直接從主自己領受了福音的美妙啟示。…這裏,基督的啟示不是僅僅指藉著耶穌基督所領受的啟示,或是關於基督的啟示;反之,這是指基督的人位啟示在使徒裏面。保羅乃是藉著這樣個人的啟示領受了福音。啟示是打開幔子給人看見一個隱藏的東西。
使徒藉著基督的啟示所領受的福音,乃是神在新約裏啟示的中心。(羅一1,9。)保羅的福音乃是三一神經過過程,成了包羅萬有賜生命之靈的啟示。(林前十五45下,林後三17,加三2,5,14。)他福音的中心點乃是三一神作我們的生命,為要與我們成為一,並使我們與祂成為一,好叫我們成為基督的身體,以團體的方式彰顯基督。(羅八11,十二4~5,弗一22~23。)保羅福音的中心點是神自己在祂的三一裏成了經過過程的包羅萬有之靈,作我們的生命和一切,給我們享受,使祂與我們成為一,好彰顯祂直到永遠。(加四4,6,三13~14,26~28,六15。)
子神是父神的具體化身和彰顯,(約一18,十四9~11,來一3,)對我們乃是生命。(約十10,約壹五12,西三4。)神的心願,是要將祂的兒子啟示在我們裏面,使我們認識祂,接受祂作我們的生命,(約十七3,三16,)成為神的兒子。(一12,加四5~6。)…加拉太人受了猶太教徒的迷惑,認為律法的規條是在活神的兒子之上。因此,使徒在加拉太書的開頭見證說,他曾捲身於猶太教,且在其中極有長進;然而神將祂的兒子啟示在他裏面,藉此把他從神眼中所看為邪惡的世界系統中救出來。他從經歷裏領悟,他祖先所傳下的猶太教及其死的傳統,是無法與活神的兒子相比的。
在一章十六節,保羅強調神的兒子啟示在他裏面的事實。這指明神將祂的兒子啟示給我們,是在我們裏面,不是外在的,乃是內在的;不是藉著外面的異象,乃是藉著裏面的看見。這不是客觀的啟示,乃是主觀的啟示。…不僅如此,保羅說,神『樂意』將祂兒子啟示在他裏面。…沒有甚麼比揭開、啟示神的兒子活的人位更使神喜樂。(新約總論第十一冊,一○至一二頁。)
參讀:新約總論,第三百二十四篇
WEEK 19 — DAY 1
Morning Nourishment
Gal. 1:15-16 But when it pleased God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, to reveal His Son in me that I might announce Him as the gospel among the Gentiles, immediately I did not confer with flesh and blood.
When Saul of Tarsus, on his way to Damascus to bind those who call upon the Lord’s name, was opposing Christ and persecuting the churches, Christ appeared to him. When Christ met him there, he saw Christ, was captured by the appearing of Christ, and became Paul the apostle. Years after his conversion, the apostle declared in Galatians 1:15-16 that it pleased God to reveal His Son in him. Here Paul did not say that Christ revealed Himself to him but that the Father in His pleasure revealed Christ into Paul. This revelation was not merely an outward vision but an inward seeing…This inner vision made him and qualified him to be an apostle in order that he might present the very Christ who had been revealed in him, rather than merely teaching doctrines and theology according to a certain religion. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 3257)
Todays Reading
[Galatians 1:11-12] reveals that Paul’s gospel was not taught by man, that man was not the source of his gospel, and that he received a marvelous revelation of the gospel directly from the Lord Himself. Here the revelation of Christ does not refer merely to a revelation received through Jesus Christ or to the revelation concerning Christ. Rather, it refers to the person of Christ, who was revealed in the apostle. Paul received the gospel through such a personal revelation. Revelation is the opening of the veil in order to show something hidden from view.
The gospel that the apostle received through the revelation of Christ is the center of God’s revelation in the New Testament (Rom. 1:1, 9). Paul’s gospel is a revelation of the Triune God processed to become the allinclusive life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b; 2 Cor. 3:17; Gal. 3:2, 5, 14). His gospel is centered on the Triune God being our life in order to be one with us and to make us one with Him so that we may be the Body of Christ to express Christ in a corporate way (Rom. 8:11; 12:4-5; Eph. 1:22-23). The focal point of Paul’s gospel is God Himself in His Trinity becoming the processed all-inclusive Spirit to be life and everything to us for our enjoyment so that He and we may be one to express Him for eternity (Gal. 4:4, 6; 3:13-14, 26-28; 6:15).
The Son of God, as the embodiment and expression of God the Father (John 1:18; 14:9-11; Heb. 1:3), is life to us (John 10:10; 1 John 5:12; Col. 3:4). God’s heart’s desire is to reveal His Son in us that we may know Him, receive Him as our life (John 17:3; 3:16), and become the sons of God (1:12; Gal. 4:5-6)…The Judaizers had bewitched the Galatians into considering that the ordinances of the law were above the Son of the living God. Hence, in the opening of this Epistle the apostle testified that he had been deeply involved and had become far advanced in the realm of Judaism, but that God had rescued him out of that course of the world, which was evil in God’s eyes, by revealing His Son in him. In his experience he realized that there was no comparison between the Son of the living God and Judaism with its dead traditions handed down from his forefathers.
In 1:16 Paul emphasizes the fact that the Son of God was revealed in him. This indicates that God’s revealing of His Son to us is in us; it is not outward but inward, not by an outward vision but by an inward seeing. It is not an objective revelation but a subjective one. Moreover, Paul says that it pleased God to reveal His Son in him…Nothing is more pleasing to God than the unveiling, the revelation, of the living person of the Son of God. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3257-3259)
Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 324
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