晨興聖言-經歷、享受並彰顯基督(四)(W41-4)
第四十一週.週四
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。』
西一18 『祂也是召會身體的頭;祂是元始,是從死人中復活的首生者,使祂可以在萬有中居首位。』
神原初的心意是要人喫生命樹。(創二9,16。)因著人墮落了,生命樹就向人封閉。(三22~24。)藉著基督的救贖,接觸生命樹(就是神自己在基督裏作人生命)的路再次向人打開。(來十19~20。)然而在召會的墮落中,宗教及其知識偷偷進來打岔在基督裏的信徒,使他們不能喫祂這棵生命樹。因此,主應許得勝者,要把祂自己這神樂園中生命樹的果子給他們喫,作為賞賜。這是一種激勵,叫他們離開宗教的知識,回來享受主自己。主這個應許,是要照著神的經綸,把召會恢復到神原初的心意裏。主要得勝者作的,就是全召會在神的經綸裏該作的。由於召會墮落了,主就來呼召得勝者,頂替召會完成神的經綸。(新約總論第十四冊,六九頁。)
信息選讀
喫生命樹不僅是神原初對人的心意,也是神救贖的永遠結果。所有神的贖民,都要享受生命樹,就是基督連同一切神聖的豐富,作他們永遠的分。(啟二二2,14,19。)…主的智慧把要來國度裏對祂的享受當作賞賜,為要鼓勵信徒在今天的召會生活中,勝過宗教打岔人之知識的教訓,回到享受祂自己作生命的供應,以完成神的經綸。
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。起初的愛要把我們帶到生命樹那裏。…當我們把起初的愛歸給主耶穌,祂就要將生命樹給我們喫。…用起初的愛,就是上好的愛來愛祂,就是讓主在凡事上居首位。我們要讓祂居首位,就必須樂意被調整、被破碎,成為無有,好使主能有路在我們裏面、藉著我們、並在我們中間,建造祂生機的身體。我們應該禱告:『主耶穌,我以起初的愛愛你,我以上好的愛愛你,我最上好的愛歸屬於你。哦,主耶穌,我把我的愛優先給你。』我們若離棄對主起初的愛,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,這三者乃是並行的。
當我們得勝,藉著在各方面、在凡事上讓基督居首位,而回到基督作我們起初的愛時,我們就享受祂作生命,並發出神聖的光,作為燈臺,在我們所在的地方持守耶穌的見證。(一9,十二17。)我們將見證基督的身位,祂是神也是人;也見證基督的人性生活、釘十字架、復活、升天、降下、和第二次的顯現。光的照耀乃是見證。在我們日常生活中的每一面,我們應當把基督照耀出去。這照耀就是燈臺的照耀。我們需要愛、生命、光和燈臺。這樣,我們在祂裏面的生活和所是,就要成為主給我們的賞賜。(新約總論第十四冊,六九至七一頁。)
參讀:新約總論,第四百零九篇;得勝者,第二至三章;活力排,第十一篇。
WEEK 41 — DAY 4
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.
Col. 1:18 And He is the Head of the Body, the church; He is the beginning, the Firstborn from the dead, that He Himself might have the first place in all things.
God’s original intention was that man should eat of the tree of life (Gen. 2:9, 16). Because of the fall the way to the tree of life was closed to man (3:22- 24). Through the redemption of Christ the way by which man could touch the tree of life, which is God Himself in Christ as life to man, was opened again (Heb. 10:19-20). But in the church’s degradation, religion crept in with its knowledge to distract the believers in Christ from eating Him as the tree of life. Hence, the Lord promised to grant the overcomers to eat of Himself as the tree of life in the Paradise of God, as a reward. This is an incentive for them to leave religion with its knowledge and return to the enjoyment of Himself. This promise of the Lord restores the church to God’s original intention according to His economy. What the Lord wants the overcomers to do is what the whole church should do in God’s economy. Because of the church’s degradation, the Lord came to call the overcomers to replace the church in the accomplishing of God’s economy. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 4171)
Today’s Reading
The eating of the tree of life not only was God’s original intention concerning man but also will be the eternal issue of God’s redemption. All God’s redeemed people will enjoy the tree of life, which is Christ with all the divine
riches as the redeemed’s eternal portion for eternity (Rev. 22:2, 14,
19)…The Lord in His wisdom made the enjoyment of Himself in the coming
kingdom a reward in order to encourage His believers to overcome
religion’s distracting knowledge in teachings and return to the
enjoyment of Himself as the life supply in the church life today for the
accomplishing of God’s economy.
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…But to enjoy Christ requires us to
love Him with the first love. The first love will bring us to the tree
of life…When we give our first love to the Lord Jesus, He will give us
to eat of the tree of life…To love Him with the first love, the best
love, is to give the Lord the first place in all things. In order to
give Him the preeminence, we must be willing to be adjusted, to be
broken, and to be made nothing so that the Lord can have a way in us,
through us, and among us for the building up of His organic Body. We
should pray, “O Lord Jesus, I love You first, and I love You best. My
first love belongs to you. O Lord Jesus, I give the priority of my love
to You.” 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.
When
we overcome to return to Christ as our first love by giving Him the
preeminence in every way and in everything, we will enjoy Him as life
and will shine forth the divine light as the lampstand to keep the
testimony of Jesus (1:9; 12:17) in our locality. We will testify of
Christ’s person as God and man as well as Christ’s human living,
crucifixion, resurrection, ascension, descension, and second appearing.
The shining of the light is a testimony. In every aspect of our daily
life we should be shining forth Christ. This shining is the shining of
the lampstand. We need love, life, light, and the lampstand. Then we
will be rewarded by the Lord with what we live and are in Him. (The
Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 4171-4172)
Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 409; CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 4, “The Overcomers,” chs. 2—3; CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 5, “The Vital Groups,” ch. 11
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