晨興聖言-挪亞、但以理和約伯...(W5-4)
第五週 • 週四
晨興餧養
提前六11 但你這屬神的人阿,要…竭力追求公義、敬虔、信、愛、忍耐、溫柔。
提後三17 叫屬神的人得以完備,為着各樣的善工,裝備齊全。
一面約伯承認他是會朽爛,會銷毀之物〔伯十三28〕,另一面約伯仍覺得他在任何事上都沒有錯。約伯知道神察看他一切的道路,並為他的腳掌劃定界限(27),所以他要神向他說明情況。
我們需要看見,神永遠的經綸,就是神永遠的目的同祂心頭的願望,要將祂自己在祂神聖的三一裏,作為父在子裏藉着那靈,分賜到祂所揀選的人裏面,作他們的生命和性情,使他們與祂一樣,作祂的豐滿,祂的彰顯。
神的經綸是神的計畫、神的安排,要把祂自己,祂的元素、生命、性情、屬性,以及祂所完成、所達到的一切,都分賜到祂所揀選的人裏面,使他們在神聖源頭的神聖元素裏,由神聖的素質所構成,而重新被建造,好成為神聖的。我們在接受神的分賜之前,僅僅是屬人的;神用神聖的構成重新建造我們之後,我們就像主耶穌一樣,在人性裏帶着神性,也在神性裏帶着人性。…我們藉着基督得了重生,成為祂的一部分,如今也與祂一樣,在人性裏帶着神性,又在神性裏帶着人性(約伯記生命讀經,六五至六七頁)。
信息選讀
重生的人在人性裏帶着神性,又在神性裏帶着人性,自然而然成了一個生機體,就是基督的身體;基督的身體就是神的召會作神新造裏的新人,以完成神的新『事業』,就是建造基督的身體,作三一神的豐滿和彰顯。這豐滿乃是三一神的生機體,要終極完成於新耶路撒冷。聖經開始於神在祂的創造裏,這乃是起初;聖經結束於新耶路撒冷,就是三一神和一切祂所揀選、救贖、重生、變化、模成並榮化之三部分人的調和。因此,新耶路撒冷乃是神和人的構成,要彰顯神,直到永遠。
基督不僅是聖經的中心,也是神經綸的中心和普及。在這經綸中,基督成為肉體,上十字架,經過釘死;從死裏出來,進入復活;在復活裏,祂從神而生,成為神的長子,並且祂這末後的亞當成了賜生命的靈,重生祂所有的信徒,使他們在生命和性情上與祂一樣,成為祂的眾弟兄,並神的眾子。這些神的眾子,加上神的長子,就成了一個新人,以基督作頭,召會作身體,以完成神永遠的定旨,終極完成於新耶路撒冷。
我們若看見這個關於神經綸的啟示,就能明白約伯記。約伯受神的剝奪和銷毀,卻不明白發生在他身上的事。…他知道神有一個定旨,卻不知道神的定旨是甚麼。
新約的主要內容,乃是三一神照着祂美意而有的永遠經綸,要在祂的生命和性情上,將祂自己分賜到祂所揀選並救贖的人裏面,使他們都在生命和性情上與祂一模一樣,使他們成為祂的複製,以彰顯祂。這團體的彰顯要終極完成於新耶路撒冷。因此,新耶路撒冷就是成為肉體的擴大和擴增,達到完滿的總結,就是三一神的豐滿,讓祂在祂調和着人性之神性裏彰顯祂自己。這就是新約的內容,這就是約伯所需要的答案,這也就是神所給關於約伯受苦之目的的答案(約伯記生命讀經,六七至六八、七三至七四頁)。
參讀:約伯記生命讀經,第十二篇。
WEEK 5 — DAY 4
Morning Nourishment
1 Tim. 6:11 But you, O man of God,…pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, meekness.
2 Tim. 3:17 That the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.
On
the one hand, Job recognized that he was something rotten, something
that would waste away [Job 13:28]. On the other hand, Job continued to
feel that he was not wrong in anything. Realizing that God had watched
his paths and had set limits for him (v. 27), Job wanted God to explain
the situation to him.
We
need to see the eternal economy of God, which is God’s eternal
intention with His heart’s desire to dispense Himself in His Divine
Trinity as the Father in the Son by the Spirit into His chosen people to
be their life and nature that they may be the same as He is for His
fullness, His expression.
God’s
economy is God’s plan, God’s arrangement, for God to dispense Himself
in His element, life, nature, and attributes, and all that He has
achieved and attained into His chosen people that they may be rebuilt by
being constituted with the divine essence in the divine element of the
divine source to be something divine. Before receiving God’s dispensing,
we were merely human. After God’s rebuilding with the divine
constitution, we, like the Lord Jesus, become divinely human and humanly
divine…Having been regenerated by Christ, we have become a part of Him,
and now we are the same as He is—divinely human and humanly divine.
(Life-study of Job, pp.
55-56)
Today’s Reading
The
regenerated ones, who are divinely human and humanly divine,
spontaneously become an organism, the Body of Christ, which is the
church of God as the new man in God’s new creation to carry out God’s
new “career,” that is, to build up the Body of Christ for the fullness,
the expression, of the Triune God. This fullness as the organism of the
Triune God will consummate in the New Jerusalem. The Bible begins with
God in His creation as the initiation and ends with the New Jerusalem,
which is the mingling of the Triune God and all His chosen, redeemed,
regenerated, transformed, conformed, and glorified tripartite people.
The New Jerusalem is thus a
constitution of God with man to express God for eternity.
Christ
is not only the center of the Bible but also the centrality and
universality of God’s economy. It was in this economy that Christ became
incarnated, that He went to the cross to pass through crucifixion, that
He came out from death and entered into resurrection, and that in
resurrection He was begotten of God to be God’s firstborn Son and as the
last Adam became the life-giving Spirit to regenerate all His believers
to make them the same as He is in life and nature that they might
become His brothers and the sons of God. These sons plus the Firstborn
all become a new man, with Him as the Head and with the church as
His Body, to carry out God’s eternal purpose to consummate in the New
Jerusalem.
If
we see this revelation concerning God’s economy, then we will be able
to understand the book of Job. Job suffered God’s stripping and
consuming, but he did not understand what was happening to him…He knew
that God had a purpose, but he did not know what God’s purpose was.
The
main contents of the New Testament are that the Triune God has an
eternal economy according to His good pleasure to dispense Himself into
His chosen and redeemed people in His life and in His nature, to make
all of them the same as He is in life and nature, to make them His
duplication that they may express Him. This corporate expression will
consummate in the New Jerusalem. Thus, the New Jerusalem is simply the
enlarged, the increased, incarnation consummated in full, that is, the
fullness of the Triune God for Him to express Himself in His divinity
mingled with humanity. These are the contents of the New Testament, and
this is the answer that Job needed. This is God’s answer concerning the
purpose of Job’s suffering. (Life-study of Job, pp. 56-57, 62)
Further Reading: Life-study of Job, msg. 12
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