晨興聖言-挪亞、但以理和約伯...(W4-6)
第四週 • 週六
晨興餧養
箴十六25 有一條路,人以為正,至終卻是死亡之路。
約十一25 …我是復活,我是生命;信入我的人,雖然死了,也必復活。
羅八2 因為生命之靈的律,在基督耶穌裏已經釋放了我,使我脫離了罪與死的律。
神造亞當後,把他擺在兩棵樹跟前,一棵是生命樹,一棵是善惡知識樹。神吩咐亞當不可喫善惡知識樹,因為他喫的日子必定死(創二9、16~17)。神要亞當喫生命樹。亞當若喫了生命樹,這棵樹就要進到他裏面,然後長在他裏面。然而,亞當喫了善惡知識樹。這棵樹因而種到亞當裏面,長在他裏面,也長在亞當一切的後裔裏面。…今天整個人類都是由善惡知識樹所構成。在每個人類社會中,不論道德如何,善惡知識樹總是一直在生長。只要這棵樹在人類當中生長,就沒有和平(約伯記生命讀經,三五至三六頁)。
信息選讀
我們重生之前,都是在善惡知識樹的線上。當我們重生時,基督就將祂自己這生命樹栽種到我們裏面。然而,在我們實際的日常生活中,我們是在善惡知識樹的線上,還是在生命樹的線上?譬如,在我們的婚姻生活中,我們可能在知識樹的線上;我們和配偶說話的方式,可能叫我們不但生長這棵樹,更對它澆灌、施肥。那麼,我們該怎麼辦?我們需要記住保羅在加拉太二章二十節的話—『現在活着的,不再是我,乃是基督在我裏面活着』,而從知識樹轉向生命樹。我們若如此行,就會活基督並生長基督這生命樹。
假定你和配偶之間有了難處,你不該作甚麼,因為你無論作甚麼,都是在善惡知識樹的範圍裏。你只要禱讀加拉太二章二十節:『我已經與基督同釘十字架;現在活着的,不再是我,乃是基督在我裏面活着。』不要注意難處或你的怒氣,只要注意基督在你裏面活着。我們在一切事上都該如此。
約伯和他的朋友…都在善惡的範圍,在提升人純全的範圍裏。他們需要進到正確的範圍,就是生命樹的範圍裏。他們需要回到生命樹,生命樹纔是他們的答案。…約伯不該試着去達到純全的高峰,他所需要的乃是盡所能追求神,直接追求基督這人位。約伯的方向該朝向這高峰,不該朝向為人純全的高峰。
我們需要看見,整本聖經是論到神永遠經綸的書。神在祂經綸裏的心意,乃是要把祂自己分賜到我們裏面,作我們的生命和性情,使我們在生命和性情上能成為與祂一樣,以彰顯祂。那麼為甚麼有剝奪和銷毀?神的剝奪和神的銷毀是要拆毀我們。我們是墮落、天然的人;身為這樣的人,我們需要被拆毀。神必須拆毀我們,然後祂纔有一個根據,有一條路來重新建造我們。
神在祂經綸裏的心意,不是要使墮落的人成為健全,乃是要把我們拆毀,並以祂自己作我們的生命和性情,把我們重新建立起來,好叫我們這人完完全全與祂成為一。
約伯記給我們看見,神透過撒但這醜惡的工具所作的,就是要藉着剝奪和銷毀這兩種方式,把約伯拆毀。神在約伯身上施行剝奪和銷毀,好將他拆毀,使神能有一個根據和一條路,用神自己重建約伯,使他成為神人。這是我們研讀約伯記時所該得着的(約伯記生命讀經,三六、八四、五一至五二、四二頁)。
參讀:約伯記生命讀經,第十三、十六、二十二至二十五、三十六至三十八篇。
WEEK 4 — DAY 6
Morning Nourishment
Prov. 16:25 There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end of it is the ways of death.
John 11:25 …I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes into Me, even if he should die, shall live.
Rom. 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life has freed me in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and of death.
After
God created Adam, He placed him in front of two trees—the tree of life
and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God then charged Adam
not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for if he ate
of that tree, he would die (Gen. 2:9, 16-17). God wanted Adam to eat of
the tree of life. If Adam had eaten of the tree of life, this tree would
have entered into him and then would have grown within him. However,
Adam ate instead of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This
tree was thus sown into Adam and grew within him, and it has been
growing in all of Adam’s descendants…Today the entire human race is a
race constituted according to the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil. In every human society, regardless of the kind of ethics it has,
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is growing. As long as this
tree is growing among the human race, there will be no peace. (Life-study of Job, pp. 9-30)
Today’s Reading
Before
we were regenerated, we were in the line of the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil. When we were regenerated, Christ planted Himself into
us as the tree of life. However, in our practical, daily living, are we
in the line of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil or in the line
of the tree of life? In our married life, for example, we may be in the
line of the tree of knowledge, and by the way we talk with our spouse,
we may not only grow this tree but also water it and fertilize it. What,
then, should we do? We need to remember Paul’s word in Galatians
2:20—”It is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me”—and
turn from the tree of knowledge to the tree of life. If we do this, we
will live Christ and grow Christ as the tree of life.
Suppose
there is a problem between you and your spouse. You should not do
anything, for whatever you do will be in the realm of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil. You should simply pray-read Galatians 2:20:
“I am crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is
Christ who lives in me.” Do not care for the problem or your anger—just
care for Christ living in you. This should be our way in everything.
Job
and his friends…were in the realm of good and evil, in the realm of
promoting man’s integrity. They needed to get into the right realm, the
realm of the tree of life. They needed to come back to the tree of life.
The tree of life was their answer. Instead of trying to attain to the
peak of integrity, Job needed to do his best to pursue God, to pursue
Christ the person directly. Job’s direction should have been toward that
peak, not toward the peak of human integrity.
We
need to see that the entire Bible is a book on God’s eternal economy.
In His economy God’s intention is to dispense Himself into us to be our
life and our nature that we may be the same as He is in life and nature
in order to express Him. What, then, about the stripping and the
consuming? God’s stripping and God’s consuming are to tear us down. We
are fallen and natural men. As such men, we need to be torn down. God
must tear us down. Then God can have a base, a way, to build us up
again.
In
His economy God’s intention is not to make fallen man whole. Rather,
God’s intention is to tear us down and rebuild us with Himself as our
life and our nature that we may be persons who are absolutely one with
Him.
The
book of Job shows us that God, through Satan as an ugly tool, was
tearing Job down by two ways: stripping and consuming. God’s stripping
and consuming were exercised over Job to tear Job down that God might
have a base and a way to rebuild him with God Himself that he might
become a Godman. This is what we should receive in our study of Job.
(Life-study of Job, pp. 30, 70, 44, 34-35)
Further Reading: Life-study of Job, msgs. 13, 16, 22—25, 32, 36—38
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