晨興聖言-經歷、享受並彰顯基督(W19-6)
第十九週.週六
晨興餧養
羅十二2 『不要模倣這世代,反要藉著心思的更新而變化,叫你們驗證何為神那美好、可喜悅、並純全的旨意。』
加三26 『因為你們眾人藉著相信基督耶穌,都是神的兒子。』
我們的心思是我們魂主要的部分;我們的心思既被更新,意志和情感也自然而然得著更新。讓基督成形在我們裏面,就是讓我們魂的三部分—心思、情感和意志—得著更新。我們的心思、情感、和意志得著更新,意思就是讓基督浸透我們的心思、情感和意志。得著更新,乃是以基督頂替我們心思、情感、和意志中的己和世界。我們若這樣得著更新,基督就會成形在我們裏面;我們內裏所是的各部分…就會有基督的形像。
然而,我們大多數人的心思、情感、和意志裏並沒有基督的形像。有時我們或許會有高尚的思想,但在日常生活中,我們的心思常是表現己同著世界。我們喜愛、歡笑、哭泣,可能是憑自己,而不是憑基督;這指明基督尚未成形在我們的情感裏。許多時候,基督徒說話時,他們的話語中滿了己和世界的元素。…我們絕不可能成為基督的彰顯,直等到基督浸透我們整個內裏的所是,並以祂自己頂替我們魂中的己和世界。(新約總論第十一冊,七八至七九頁。)
信息選讀
按照保羅在新約的用法,『形狀』一辭指內裏所是的外在彰顯。(腓二6。)…我們裏面若是滿了己和對世界的貪愛,我們外在的形狀就會是己和世界。我們在日常生活中所作的決定會表現己和世界。…加拉太人被猶太教佔據了,所以他們的外在形狀就表現猶太教。為此,保羅需要像母親一樣,為加拉太人受生產之苦,直等到基督以祂自己頂替他們裏面的己和世界。
基督要成形在我們裏面,我們就需要讓祂佔有我們魂的每一部分—心思、情感和意志。祂該佔有我們的思想、考量、愛好、恨惡、快樂、悲傷和存心。當基督逐漸浸透我們的魂,至終祂要充滿我們的身體,將祂自己分賜到我們整個人裏面。
基督需要成形在我們裏面,使我們成為成年的兒子,成為承受神應許之福的後嗣,並在神聖的兒子名分上成熟。祂在我們裏面成熟,使我們成為後嗣,(加三29,)好完滿的享受三一神作我們的基業。(弗一14,彼前一4。)聖靈乃是這基業的憑質。(弗一13下~14上。)
加拉太書啟示,神的心意是要把基督作到祂所揀選的人裏面,使他們成為神的兒子。我們要成為神的兒子,就需要被基督浸潤、浸透;基督必須佔有我們的全人。然而,加拉太人已經受打岔,從基督轉向律法。…信徒應該回到基督這裏,祂是成就神對亞伯拉罕之應許的那後裔,也是那美地,就是包羅萬有的靈,作我們的享受。我們在基督裏的信徒,需要完滿的享受這福,也就是完滿的享受賜生命的靈。我們需要被這靈浸透、佔有、並完全據有。
基督已經生在我們裏面,就是啟示在我們裏面,現今活在我們裏面,還要成形在我們裏面,以致成熟。…願主帶我們進入對基督的經歷和享受;祂已生在我們裏面,現今正活在我們裏面,並要成形在我們裏面,以致成熟,使我們成為成年的兒子,成為承受神應許之福的後嗣,並在神聖的兒子名分上成熟。(新約總論第十一冊,七九至八一頁。)
參讀:新約總論,第三百三十篇。
WEEK 19 — DAY 6
Morning Nourishment
Rom.
12:2 And do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed
by the renewing of the mind that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and well pleasing and perfect.
Gal. 3:26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
Our
mind is the leading part of our soul, and as it is renewed, our will
and emotion are automatically renewed. To have Christ formed in us is to
have the three parts of our soul—our mind, emotion, and will—renewed.
To have our mind, emotion, and will renewed is to have Christ saturate
our mind, emotion, and will. To be renewed is to replace the self and
the world in our mind, emotion, and will with Christ. If we are renewed
in this way, Christ will be formed in us, and every part of our inner
being…will bear the image of Christ.
However,
most of us do not yet bear the image of Christ in our mind, emotion,
and will. At times we may think noble thoughts, but frequently in our
daily life our mind may express the self with the world. We may love,
laugh, and weep by the self, rather than by Christ; this indicates that
Christ has not been formed in our emotion. Many times when Christians
speak, their speaking is full of the self and the element of the
world…We can never be an expression of Christ until He saturates our
entire inner being, replacing the self and the world in our soul with
Himself. (The Conclusion of the New
Testament, pp. 3313-3314)
Today's Reading
According
to Paul’s usage in the New Testament, the word form refers to the
outward expression of the inner being (Phil. 2:6)…If we are full of the
self and love the world in our inner being, our outward form will be the
self and the world. The choices we make in our daily living will
express the self and the world…The Galatians were occupied by Judaism;
thus, in their outward form they expressed Judaism. Therefore, Paul had
to suffer like a mother, travailing for the Galatians until Christ would
replace the self and the world in them with Himself.
For
Christ to be formed in us, we need to let Him occupy every part of our
soul: our mind, emotion, and will. He should occupy our thinking, our
consideration, our love, our hatred, our happiness, our sorrow, and our
intention. As Christ increasingly saturates our soul, eventually He will
invade our body, dispensing Himself into our entire being.
Christ
needs to be formed in us in order that we may be sons of full age and
heirs to inherit God’s promised blessing and that we may mature in the
divine sonship. He matures in us for us to be heirs (Gal. 3:29) for the
full enjoyment of the Triune God as our inheritance (Eph. 1:14; 1 Pet.
1:4). The Holy Spirit is the pledge of this inheritance (Eph. 1:13b-14a).
The
book of Galatians reveals that God’s intention is for Christ to be
wrought into His chosen people that they may become sons of God. In
order to be God’s sons, we need to be permeated and saturated with
Christ. Christ must occupy our entire being. The Galatians, however,
were distracted from Christ to the law…The believers should come back to
Christ, who is both the seed who fulfills God’s promise to Abraham and
the good land, the allinclusive Spirit, to be our enjoyment. As
believers in Christ, we need the full enjoyment of this blessing, the
full enjoyment of the life-giving Spirit. We need to be saturated, possessed, and fully taken over by this Spirit.
Christ
has been born in us; that is, He has been revealed in us. He is now
living in us, and He will be formed in us unto maturity…May the Lord
bring us into the experience and enjoyment of Christ who has been born
in us, is now living in us, and will be formed in us unto maturity in
order that we may be sons of full age, heirs of God’s promised blessing,
and may mature in the divine sonship. (The Conclusion of the New
Testament, pp. 3314- 3315)
Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 330
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