晨興聖言-經歷、享受並彰顯基督(W20-4)
第二十週.週四
晨興餧養
加三2 『我只願問你們這一件,你們接受了那靈,是本於行律法,還是本於聽信仰?』
羅十17 『可見信是由於聽,聽是藉著基督的話。』
加三27 『你們凡浸入基督的,都已經穿上了基督。』
一天過一天,我們更多看見主耶穌。〔首先,〕在神那一面,神是在啟示;〔其次,〕在我們這一面,我們是在接受。我們接受時,乃是本於聽信仰接受基督作那靈。(加三2。)我們所接受的那靈乃是內住、賜生命、複合、七倍加強的靈。我們需要接受基督作這樣的靈。
加拉太三章二節的『信仰』,乃是指我們所信的。我們本於聽信仰接受了基督。基督徒的信仰就是基督自己的身位和祂救贖的工作。基督的身位和基督的工作,構成了我們的信仰。(李常受文集一九九一至一九九二年第一冊,五九五至五九六頁。)
信息選讀
當我們傳福音時,我們是傳這信仰,也就是傳基督的身位和基督救贖的工作。…當〔人〕聽了基督的身位和工作時,在他們裏面就興起一個東西,那就是信。我們乃是藉著聽而信。羅馬十章說,信是由於聽,聽是由於傳道,(14,17,)傳道是由於奉差遣。(15。)最近我收到一位親愛弟兄的來信,他剛從東歐旅行回來,訪問過捷克、波蘭和匈牙利。我從這分報告所得的印象乃是,我們需要傳講我們所相信的。那些國家需要我們的年輕人到那裏教導我們所相信的,就是我們的信仰。…但是願意去的人在那裏?主對以賽亞說,『我可以差遣誰呢?誰肯為我們去呢?』(賽六8。)你肯回答說,『主阿,我在這裏,我願意去』麼?你不必顧慮你的生活,耶穌必養活你。…你若肯去那裏,單單照顧十個人,我信在半年之內,你會把這十個人都帶到主裏,並帶進真理裏。
在加拉太書裏,接受、經歷並享受包羅萬有的基督作為包羅萬有賜生命之靈的第三條路,乃是藉著按著靈而生,並藉著得著神兒子的靈進入我們的心。(四29下,6。)…這個生必是指我們的重生。我們的重生乃是按著靈的,也就是說,這是按著在我們裏面的靈完成的。
〔第四,〕我們接受、經歷並享受包羅萬有的基督作為包羅萬有之靈的路,也是藉著因受浸被放在基督裏而穿上基督。(三27。)穿上基督就是以基督為衣著。我們曾是赤身的,沒有任何的遮蓋。赤身乃是羞恥。但在我們信而受浸時,有一個東西加給我們,使我們穿上。我們藉著受浸而以基督為衣著。馬太二十八章十九節說,『所以你們要去,使萬民作我的門徒,將他們浸入父、子、聖靈的名裏。』我們不僅將人浸入水裏,也是浸入三一神裏。我們這樣作,就將基督給他們穿上;我們藉著施浸,使他們以基督為衣著。
受浸把我們放在基督裏。當我們去傳福音時,我們需要完全領悟,我們給人施浸時,不僅是將他們放進水裏,也是將他們放進終極完成、經過過程的三一神裏。我們應當告訴他們:『從今天起,你不再赤身了;你有了經過過程、終極完成的三一神為衣著和遮蓋。』這就是接受、經歷並享受包羅萬基督作為包羅萬有賜生命之靈的路,這靈乃是神全備福音那包括一切之福的集大成。(李常受文集一九九一至一九九二年第一冊,五九六至五九七、五九九頁。)
參讀:加拉太書生命讀經,第四篇。
WEEK 20 — DAY 4
Morning Nourishment
Gal. 3:2 This only I wish to learn from you, Did you receive the Spirit out of the works of law or out of the hearing of faith?
Rom. 10:17 So faith comes out of hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Gal. 3:27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Day
after day we see more of the Lord Jesus. [First], God, on His side, is
revealing; [second], we, on our side, are receiving. In our receiving,
we receive Christ as the Spirit out of the hearing of faith (Gal. 3:2).
The Spirit whom we receive is the indwelling, life-giving, compound,
sevenfold intensified Spirit. We need to receive Christ as such a Spirit.
In
Galatians 3:2 the word faith means belief, referring to what we believe
in. We have received Christ out of our hearing of the belief. The
Christian belief is Christ Himself in His person and His redemptive
work. Christ’s person and Christ’s work together constitute our belief.
(CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 1, “The Central Line of the Divine Revelation,” p. 458)
Today's Reading
When
we preach the gospel, we preach this belief, that is, the person of
Christ and the redemptive work of Christ…As [the listeners] are hearing
of the person and work of Christ, something rises up within them, that
is, a believing. By hearing, we believe. Romans 10 says that faith comes
out of hearing, hearing comes out of preaching (vv. 14, 17), and
preaching comes out of being sent (v. 15). Recently, I received a letter
from a dear brother who had just returned from a trip to Eastern Europe
to visit Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary. The impression I received
from this report is that there is the need for the preaching of what we
believe. Those countries need our young people to go there to teach the
people our belief, our faith…But where are the people who will go? The
Lord said to Isaiah, “Whom shall I send? Who will go for Us?” (Isa.
6:8). Would you answer, “Lord, I am here. I will go”? You do not need to
care for your living. Jesus will feed you…If you would go there and
take care of just ten people, I believe that in half a year you would bring all these ten to the Lord and into the truth.
The
third way in the book of Galatians to receive, experience, and enjoy
the all-inclusive Christ as the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit is by
being born according to the Spirit and by being given the Spirit of
God’s Son into our hearts (4:29b, 6)…This being born surely refers to
our regeneration. Our regeneration was according to the Spirit; that is,
it was accomplished according to the Spirit within us.
[Fourth],
we receive, experience, and enjoy the all-inclusive Christ as the
all-inclusive Spirit also by putting on Christ through the baptism that
puts us into Christ (3:27). To put on Christ is to be clothed with
Christ. We were once naked, without any covering. To be naked is a
shame. However, at the time we believed and were baptized, something was
put on us to clothe us. We were clothed with Christ through baptism.
Matthew 28:19 says, “Go therefore and disciple all the nations,
baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit.” We baptize people not only into water but also into the
Triune God. In so doing, we put Christ upon them; we clothe them with Christ through baptism.
Baptism
puts us into Christ. When we go to preach the gospel, we need to have
the full realization that when we baptize people, we are putting them
not only into water but also into the consummated, processed Triune God.
We should tell them, “From today onward you are no longer naked; you
are clothed and covered with the processed, consummated Triune God.”
This is the way to receive, experience, and enjoy the all-inclusive
Christ as the allinclusive life-giving Spirit, who is the aggregate of
the all-embracing blessing of the full gospel of God. (CWWL, 1991-1992,
vol. 1, “The Central Line of the Divine Revelation,” pp. 458-461)
Further Reading: Life-study of Galatians, msg. 4
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