晨興聖言-經歷、享受並彰顯基督(W22-6)

第二十二週.週六

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晨興餧養

西三10~11 『並且穿上了新人;這新人照著創造他者的形像漸漸更新,以致有充足的知識;在此並沒有希利尼人和猶太人、受割禮的和未受割禮的、化外人、西古提人、為奴的、自主的,惟有基督是一切,又在一切之內。』

歌羅西三章十一節…〔的〕『此』是指十節的新人,『在此』指在新人裏。在新人裏,不僅沒有天然的人,連天然的人存在的可能和地位都沒有。…不管我們是何種人,就著新人而言,我們必須看自己甚麼也不是。在新人裏只有基督有地位,任何天然的人都沒有地位。

在新人裏,『基督是一切,又在一切之內。』在新人裏只有基督有地位。祂是新人一切的肢體,也在一切的肢體之內。在新人裏祂是一切。實際上,祂就是新人,就是祂的身體。(林前十二12。)在新人裏祂是中心,也是普及。

歌羅西三章十一節的『一切』乃是指組成新人的眾肢體。基督是這一切的肢體,祂也在一切肢體之內。為這緣故,在召會中,我們毫無地位。國籍也沒有地位。我們既是新人的一部分,就不該再看自己是中國人、美國人、德國人、或任何其他國籍的人。…在新人裏基督既是一切,又在一切之內,而你又是新人的一部分,所以你就是基督的一部分。新人的每一肢體、每一部分都是基督。(歌羅西書生命讀經,二九一至二九三頁。)

信息選讀

你要把羅馬十五章六節和林前一章十節,與以弗所二章的新人連起來看。你若不連起來看,你絕對不會懂得那兩節聖經,全召會怎麼能彀只有一個口呢?千千萬萬個肢體怎麼能彀都說一樣的話呢?這以人來說是絕對作不到。但我們要看見,保羅在羅馬十五章說的,乃是地方召會。在地方召會中,必須是一個口。…因為只有一個人位。你們從前口太多,是因為人位太多了。人位多,主張就多;主張多,意見就多。但是感謝主,現在這裏是一個口,一個人位。這裏沒有警察,個個都絕對有自由。但另一面你又絕對沒有自由,因為在你裏面有另外一個人位。你剛要說,裏面一捏,叫你不要說了。你只好說『感謝主』!你再一次要說的時候,主又捏你,你就說『阿們』!

〔基督〕是在我們眾人裏頭作一個人位。你裏頭的人位,就是我裏頭的人位,我們大家只有一個人位〔,就是基督〕。…你在新人裏頭過一種的生活,是憑著基督這一個人位而活,一切的主張都是這一個人位在我們裏頭定規的。…這不關係你的行動,不關係你的工作,這只關係你的生活。這是新人的一面。另一面我們是身體,我們有行動。基督是我們的元首,我們有行動。而我們的行動不是靠著我們的力量,不是靠著我們的生命,乃是靠基督作我們的生命,作我們的力量;而且我們的行動也不是單獨的。

你們要看見,兩者都是說我們沒有個人。我們是團體的身體,我們也是團體的新人。我們的生活是團體的,我們的行動也是團體的。在行動上我們以基督作生命,在生活上我們以基督作人位。在身體裏基督是我們的生命,在新人裏基督是我們的人位。在身體上我們彼此作肢體,在新人中我們眾人一口說一樣的話。這個是召會。(李常受文集一九七七年第三冊,四○六、四○八、四一一頁。)

參讀:一個身體,一位靈,一個新人,第五、七篇。

WEEK 22 — DAY 6

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Morning Nourishment

Col. 3:10-11 And have put on the new man, which is being renewed unto full knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free man, but Christ is all and in all.

In Colossians 3:11…the word where, referring to the new man in verse 10, means in the new man. There is no natural person in the new man. Furthermore, there is no possibility, no room, for any natural person…No matter what kind of person we may be, as far as the new man is concerned, we must regard ourselves as nobodies. In the new man there is room only for Christ, not for any kind of natural person.

In the new man “Christ is all and in all.” In the new man there is room only for Christ. He is all the members of the new man and in all the members. He is everything in the new man. Actually, He is the new man, His Body (1 Cor. 12:13). In the new man Christ is the centrality and universality.

The word all in Colossians 3:11 refers to all the members who make up the new man. Christ is all these members, and He is in all the members. For this reason, in the church there is no room for us. There is no room for any nationality. As those who are part of the new man, we should not regard ourselves as Chinese, Americans, Germans, or any other nationality…Since Christ is all and in all in the new man and you are part of the new man, then you are part of Christ. Each member, each part, of the new man is Christ. (Life-study of Colossians, pp. 236-237)

Todays Reading

You have to consider one mouth in Romans 15:6 and speak the same thing in 1 Corinthians 1:10 together with one new man in Ephesians 2:15. Otherwise, you will never understand the first two verses. You may wonder how the entire church can have only one mouth and how millions of members can speak the same thing. Humanly speaking, this is absolutely impossible. However, we must see that in Romans 15, Paul is speaking of a local church. In a local church there must be only one mouth…This is because there is only one person. In the past you had too many mouths because you had too many persons. When there are many persons, there are many ideas; when there are many ideas, there are many opinions, but we thank the Lord that now there is one mouth and one person here. There are no policemen here; each of us is absolutely free, but on the other hand, you have absolutely no freedom because within you there is another person. You may be about to speak, but something “pinches” you from within, telling you not to say anything. All you can say is, “Thank the Lord!” When you want to speak again, the Lord pinches you again, so you simply say Amen!

He is in all of us as one person. The person in you is the person who is in me. We all have only one person, [Christ]. You live a life in the new man by Christ as the person and…He is the One who makes all the decisions in you…This is not related to our move or work; it is related only to our living. This is the aspect of the new man. The other aspect is the Body. As the Body, we move. Christ is our Head, so we move, and our moving is not based on our own strength or our own life but upon Christ as our life and strength. Furthermore, our move is not as individuals.

These two matters show that we cannot be individualistic. We must see that we are a corporate Body, and we are a corporate new man. Our living is corporate, and our moving is corporate. In our moving we take Christ as our life, and in our living we take Christ as our person. In the Body Christ is our life, and in the new man Christ is our person. In the Body we are members one of another, and in the new man we all have one mouth to speak the same thing. This is the church. (CWWL, 1977, vol. 3, “One Body, One Spirit, and One New Man,” pp. 312-314, 316)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1977, vol. 3, “One Body, One Spirit, and One New Man,” chs. 5, 7

 

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