晨興聖言-經歷、享受並彰顯基督(四)(W45-5)
第四十五週.週五
晨興餧養
太二四45~47 『這樣,誰是那忠信又精明的奴僕,為主人所派,管理他的家人,按時分糧給他們?主人來到,看見他這樣行,那奴僕就有福了。我實在告訴你們,主人要派他管理一切的家業。』
馬太二十四章四十五節所說的家人,指信徒,(弗二19,)即召會。(提前三15。)分糧給他們,是指在召會裏,將神的話和基督當作生命的供應,供應給信徒。我們都必須學習,如何按時將生命的供應,供應主的家人。…馬太二十四章四十六、四十七節…的有福,是在國度的實現裏,得著管理的權柄為賞賜。對於忠信的奴僕,主在諸天之國的實現裏,要派他管理一切的家業,作為賞賜。(馬太福音生命讀經,八一九至八二○頁。)
信息選讀
在馬太二十四章四十五至五十一節,…主囑咐我們,託付我們,要供應祂的家人,就是供應召會裏的信徒。…我們必須按時分糧,就是分配生命的供應給主的子民。不要說別人有教導的恩賜,能教導你神的話,供應你屬靈的食物,但你沒有那樣的恩賜。…所有主的僕人都為著他們的使命,領受了恩賜。
供應食物的人知道要按時供餐。你若每天供應食物,你就必須作早餐、午餐和晚餐。…同樣,每當我們聚在一起,這就是你按時供應合式的食物給主的家屬的時間。…如果我在主的話上沒有彀多的殷勤勞苦,就來對你們說話,我就只能供應你們『一杯咖啡和幾個甜甜圈』。烹煮一頓滋養、美味的早餐,需要你的殷勤。照二十五章十四至三十節這個比喻的上下文,忠信的人就是殷勤的人。忠信在此等於殷勤,懶惰等於怠惰。我們必須殷勤尋求主的話,使我們豫備好,來到聚會時能供應美好的食物。喫的時候就是『按時』;聚會的時候就是『按時』。在主日上午、主日晚上、週二晚上、週五晚上,我們都有指定的時候。聚會的時間,就是指定的時候,我們眾人必須將一些生命的供應,供給神家的人,供給同作信徒的人。
照顧他們就是去餧養他們,把食物供應給他們。對於罪人,我們所供應合式的食物,乃是基督的福音。醫院裏的護士知道,他們必須用不同的食物供應病人。不同的食物供應給不同的病人,是為了應付他們特殊的需要。對我們來說也是一樣。全地就是醫院,滿了疾病和各式各樣有病的人。實在說來,甚至召會也是醫院,滿了有病的人。所以,我們必須按時供應不同的話語給他們。…信徒、召會、甚至所有的罪人都在你身邊。你的責任,你的職責,乃是供應食物給他們。他們若是罪人,你必須供應他們恩典的福音,作他們所需要的食物。他們若是信徒,患了某種疾病,那麼你就要從聖經上供應適合他們情形的話,來餧養、醫治、加強或喚醒他們。…當你進到辦公室,必須領悟這就是指定的時候,讓你供應合式的福音食物給不信的人。(李常受文集一九八五年第五冊,六二六、六三二、六三四至六三六頁。)
在好幾節經文裏,詩篇一百一十九篇的作者告訴我們,他默想神的話。(15,23,48,78,99,148。)默想話乃是藉著仔細揣摩而品嘗它。因此,默想是一種享受。我能見證,我所得著的光照,多半是藉著清晨默想主的話來的。我默想主的話時,是以許多的揣摩來詳細思考。(詩篇生命讀經,五六一頁。)
參讀:馬太福音生命讀經,第六十三、六十七篇。
WEEK 45 — DAY 5
Morning Nourishment
Matt. 24:45-47 Who then is the faithful and prudent slave, whom the master has set over his household to give them food at the proper time? Blessed is that slave whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing. Truly I say to you that he will set him over all his possessions.
The household spoken of in Matthew 24:45 refers to the believers (Eph. 2:19), who constitute the church (1 Tim. 3:15). To give them food is to minister the word of God and Christ as the life supply to the believers in the church. We all must learn how to minister the life supply to the household of the Lord at the proper time. [In] Matthew 24:46-47…to be blessed is to be rewarded with the authority to rule in the manifestation of the kingdom. In the manifestation of the kingdom of the heavens, the Lord will set the faithful slave over all His possessions. This will be a reward to him. (Life-study of Matthew, p. 705)
Today’s Reading
In Matthew 24:45-51…the Lord charged us, commissioned us, to minister something to His household, that is, to the believers in the church…At the proper time we have to minister food, the life supply, to the Lord’s people. Do not say that others have a gift of teaching to teach you the Word of God and minister spiritual food to you but that you do not have such a gift…All of the Lord’s servants received the gift for their commission.
Whoever serves food knows the proper time. If you are serving food every day, you have to make breakfast, lunch, and dinner…In like manner, whenever we meet together, this is one of the proper times, the appointed times, for you to minister the proper food to the Lord’s folks…If I did not labor adequately in the Word and came to speak to you, I would just be ministering to you “a cup of coffee and some doughnuts.” To cook a nourishing, good breakfast requires your diligence. According to the context of this parable, the faithful one is the diligent one. Faithful here equals diligent, and slothful equals lazy. We must be diligent in seeking the Word so that we could prepare to serve good food when we come to the meeting. The eating time is the proper time, and the meeting time is the proper time. We have the proper time on the Lord’s Day morning, on the Lord’s Day evening, Tuesday evening, and Friday evening. The meeting times are the proper times when we all have to minister some portion of the life supply to our folks, to our fellow believers.
To care for them is simply to feed them, to minister food to them. To the sinners the proper food that we minister is the gospel of Christ. The nurses in the hospitals know that they must serve the patients with different meals. Different food is ministered to different patients to meet their specific needs. It is the same with us. The entire earth is a hospital, full of sickness and full of all kinds of sick people. The church in a good sense is also a hospital, full of sick people. Therefore, we have to minister different words to them at the proper time…The believers, the churches, and even the more all the sinners are around you. It is your duty, your obligation, to minister food to them. If they are sinners, you have to minister the gospel of grace to them as the food they need. If they are believers sick of something, then you need to minister some word from the Bible that suits their condition, either to nourish them, to heal them, to strengthen them, or to wake them up…When you enter into your office, you must realize that this is one of the proper times to minister the proper food of the gospel to the unbelieving ones. (CWWL, 1985, vol. 5, “The Way to Practice the Lord’s Present Move,” pp. 514-517)
In several verses the writer of Psalm 119 tells us that he mused upon God’s word (vv. 15, 23, 48, 78, 99, 148). To muse on the word is to taste it through careful considering. Thus, musing is a kind of enjoyment. I can testify that most of the enlightenment I receive comes by musing on the Word early in the morning. As I muse on the Word, I think about it with much consideration in a detailed way. (Life-study of the Psalms, 2nd ed., p. 461)
Further Reading: Life-study of Matthew, msgs. 63, 67
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