晨興聖言-羅馬書五至八章...(W1-2)
第一週.週二
晨興餧養
啟二4~5 『然而有一件事我要責備你,就是你離棄了起初的愛。所以要回想你是從那裏墜落的,並要悔改,行起初所行的。不然,我就要臨到你那裏;你若不悔改,我就把你的燈臺從原處挪去。』
7 『…得勝的,我必將神樂園中生命樹的果子賜給他喫。』
喫生命樹,就是享受基督作我們生命的供應,該是召會生活中首要的事。召會生活的內容在於享受基督。…我們若要享受基督,就必須用起初的愛愛祂。我們若離棄了對主起初的愛,就要失去對基督的享受,並且會失去耶穌的見證;結果,燈臺要從我們挪去。愛主、享受主、以及成為主的見證,三者乃是並行的。(啟示錄生命讀經,一五一頁。)
信息選讀
歌羅西書告訴我們,我們的基督必須是第一位。祂必須居首位。(一18下。)基督必須是第一。…恢復起初的愛,就是在凡事上以主耶穌為第一。如果我們在生活上凡事以基督為第一,那意思就是我們勝過了失去起初的愛。
在我們身上基督是否凡事居首位?我們必須勝過的第一項,乃是勝過失去基督作起初、上好、真實的愛。以色列的失敗是他們棄絕了神,就是活水的泉源,而召會的墮落是離棄了起初的愛。事實上,離棄起初的愛就是離棄基督,沒有在凡事上以祂為第一。
我們應當在穿衣和髮型的事上讓主居首位。當我們在凡事上讓基督居首位,這就是恢復失去的起初的愛。…有時當我穿衣時,我會對主說,『主阿,你喜歡這件襯衫麼?你喜歡這雙鞋麼?』這樣的談話是非常親密的,是以主為起初的愛。恢復起初的愛,乃是在大事小事上讓主居首位。作丈夫的應當在對妻子談話的方式上,讓基督居首位。我們必須求主赦免我們在許多事上沒有讓祂居首位。
我們必須勝過離棄起初的愛,維持喫基督作生命樹,並且作為燈臺,照耀出神聖的光。(參啟二5下。)愛與生命有關,生命與光有關。愛、生命和光乃是三而一。你若使基督在凡事上居首位,你就有愛。你若有這愛,你就有生命,你就會享受主。你若有生命,這生命要成為你的光。
我們若享受基督作我們的愛、生命和光,我們就會在我們所在地方,如同燈臺照耀,持守耶穌的見證。(十二17下。)我們見證基督的身位,祂是神也是人。我們也見證基督的為人生活、釘十字架、復活、升天、降下、和第二次的顯現。…在我們日常生活中的每一面,我們應當照耀基督。這照耀乃是燈臺的照耀。
我們必須記得這四個辭:愛、生命、光、燈臺。這四個辭第一個是愛。我們必須在各方面、在凡事上讓主耶穌居首位,以恢復起初的愛。這樣,我們就會享受祂作生命樹,而這生命立即成為生命之光。(約八12。)我們就會在日常生活中照耀,並團體的作為燈臺照耀。否則,燈臺就要在個人一面從我們挪去,並在團體一面從召會挪去。主警告在以弗所的召會要悔改,恢復起初的愛,好享受祂。不然,燈臺就要從他們挪去。我們需要愛、生命、光和燈臺。這樣,我們的所是就要成為主給我們的賞賜,我們也要在祂裏面活著。(得勝者,二七○至二七一、二七四至二七五頁。)
參讀:啟示錄生命讀經,第十篇;得勝者,第二至三章。
WEEK 1 — DAY 2
Morning Nourishment
Rev. 2:4-5 But I have one thing against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore where you have fallen from and repent and do the first works; but if not, I am coming to you and will remove your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.
7 …To him who overcomes, to him I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.
Eating the tree of life, that is, enjoying Christ as our life supply, should be the primary matter in the church life. The content of the church life depends on the enjoyment of Christ…To enjoy Christ requires us to love Him with the first love. If we leave our first love toward the Lord, we will miss the enjoyment of Christ and lose the testimony of Jesus; consequently, the lampstand will be removed from us. These three things—loving the Lord, enjoying the Lord, and being the testimony of the Lord—go together. (Life-study of Revelation, p. 121)
Todays Reading
Colossians tells us that our Christ must have the first place (1:18b). He must have the preeminence. Christ must be the first…To recover the first love is to consider the Lord Jesus as the first in everything. If we make Christ everything in our life, that means we have overcome the loss of the first love.
Is Christ the first in everything with us? The first item we have to overcome is the loss of Christ as the first, as the best, as the real love. The failure of Israel was that they forsook God, the fountain of living waters, and the degradation of the church is the leaving of the first love. Actually, to leave the first love is just to leave Christ, not taking Him as the first in everything.
We should give Christ the preeminence in the way that we dress and the way that we style our hair. When we give Christ the preeminence in everything, this is to recover the loss of the first love…At times when I am getting dressed, I talk to the Lord by saying, “Lord, do You like this shirt? Do You like this pair of shoes?” Such a talk is very intimate with the Lord as the first love. To recover the first love is to give Him the preeminence in great things as well as in small things. The husbands should give Christ the preeminence in the way that they talk to their wives. We need to ask the Lord to forgive us for all the things in which we do not give Him the preeminence.
We need to overcome the leaving of the first love, to maintain the eating of Christ as the tree of life, and to shine forth the divine light as the lampstand (Rev. 2:5b). Love is related to life, and life is related to light. Love, life, and light are a trinity. If you make Christ the first in everything, you have love. If you have this love, you have life, and you will enjoy the Lord. If you have life, this life becomes light to you.
If we are enjoying Christ as our love, life, and light, we will keep the testimony of Jesus as the shining of the lampstand in our locality (12:17b). We will testify of Christ’s person as God and as man and of Christ’s human living, crucifixion, resurrection, ascension, descension, and second appearing…In every aspect of our daily life, we should be shining forth Christ. This shining is the shining of the lampstand.
We need to remember these four words that begin with the letter l—love, life, light, and lampstand. These four l words start with love. We must give the Lord Jesus the preeminence in every way and in everything to recover the first love. Then we will enjoy Him as the tree of life, and this life right away becomes the light of life (John 8:12). Then we will be shining in our daily life and corporately as the lampstand. Otherwise, the lampstand will be removed from us individually and from the church corporately. The Lord warned the church in Ephesus to repent and recover the first love for the enjoyment of Him. Otherwise, the lampstand would be removed from them. We need love, life, light, and the lampstand. Then we will be rewarded by the Lord with what we are and live in Him. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 4, “The Overcomers,” pp. 203-206)
Further Reading: Life-study of Revelation, msg. 10; CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 4, “The Overcomers,” chs. 2—3
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