晨興聖言-話語的職事...(W5-1)
第五週 • 週一
晨興餧養
提前一3~4 …好囑咐那幾個人,不可教導與神的經綸不同的事,也不可注意虛構無稽之事,和無窮的家譜;這等事只引起辯論,對於神在信仰裏的經綸並無助益。
弗三11 這是照着祂在我們的主基督耶穌裏,所立的永遠定旨。
神的經綸是神在基督裏所立的永遠定旨。…聖經中所啟示的基督,乃是三一神的具體化身,以及祂所經過的一切過程,包括成為肉體、為人生活、釘十字架、復活、升天和降下。…因此,基督是神永遠經綸的元素、範圍、手續、目標和標的。基督在神的經綸裏是一切。事實上,神永遠經綸的一切內容單單就是基督。
神新約的經綸是祂的計畫,要在祂的三一裏將自己分賜到祂所揀選的人裏面。…這分賜有三個步驟。首先,這是出於父神。父是源頭,起源。其次,這分賜是藉着子神,祂是流道。第三,神的分賜是在靈神裏,祂是憑藉和範圍。經過出於父神、藉着子神並在靈神裏這些步驟,神就將自己分賜到祂所揀選的人裏面。
這分賜產生召會,以顯明神萬般的智慧,這是照着祂在基督裏所立的永遠定旨(弗三9~11)。這就是說,藉着神在祂三一裏的分賜,召會得以產生,展示神諸般的智慧(新約總論第一冊,一九至二一頁)。
信息選讀
今天的光景還不是這樣。許多人沒有活在靈裏,讓神在他們裏面有分賜;他們還是活在魂裏,以自己為中心,憑自己作主。所以我們需要幫助弟兄姊妹,使基督的成分一天一天逐漸的、更多的加在我們裏面。至終,我們這些蒙神救贖、重生、變化的聖徒,藉着有分於基督的生命和性情的豐富,豫備好作基督的新婦,基督的配偶,成為新耶路撒冷,作基督與召會終極的成就,在永世裏作神所居住的帳幕,並聖徒所居住的聖殿,成為經過過程之三一神與祂重生、變化、而得榮的三部分聖徒,聯合且相調為一,終極的豐滿彰顯(啟二一1~二二5)。那時,萬有都在基督裏歸一於一個元首之下,就有完全的平安與和諧。
神的經綸不是顧到我們的成就,乃是要我們這些蒙揀選、得重生的人,全人被那靈充滿,以至於到處是主,到處是神,使我們脫離天然自我,與眾聖徒作神居所。…這是神居所的問題,毫無個人利害的問題。
神的經綸要甚麼?乃是要得着團體的彰顯。為此,在舊約裏,神按着祂的形像,照着祂的樣式造人(創一26),好將祂自己放在人裏面,作人的生命,與人成為一,叫人作祂的彰顯和代表。
這就是神所要得着的。神之所以得着你,拯救你,重生你,變化你,叫你屬靈,叫你有追求,都是為着這個。我們得救、重生、變化、屬靈、追求,不是為着我們自己,乃是為了叫我們脫離天然自我,與眾聖徒同作神的居所。這纔是神的經綸與分賜,而不是對錯、得失的問題(李常受文集一九九○年第三冊,一一六至一一七、一二○至一二二頁)。
參讀:神聖三一的神聖分賜,第一章;神的經綸與分賜,第一至二篇。
WEEK 5 — DAY 1
Morning Nourishment
1 Tim. 1:3-4 …Charge certain ones not to teach different things nor to give heed to myths and unending genealogies, which produce questionings rather than Gods economy, which is in faith.
Eph. 3:11 According to the eternal purpose which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord.
God’s economy is an eternal plan made by God in Christ…The Christ revealed in the Bible is the embodiment of the Triune God and all the processes through which He has passed, including incarnation, human living, crucifixion, resurrection, ascension, and descension…Christ, therefore, is the element, sphere, means, goal, and aim of God’s eternal economy. Christ is everything in God’s economy. In fact, all the contents of the eternal economy of God are simply Christ.
God’s New Testament economy is His plan to dispense Himself into His chosen people in His trinity…This dispensing has three steps. First, it is of God the Father. The Father is the source, the origin. Second, this dispensing is through God the Son, who is the course. Third, God’s dispensing is in God the Spirit, who is the instrument and sphere. Through these steps of God the Father, through God the Son, and in God the Spirit, God dispenses Himself into His chosen people.
This dispensing brings forth the church for the manifestation of the multifarious wisdom of God according to His eternal purpose made in Christ (Eph. 3:9-11). This means that through the dispensing of God in His trinity the church is produced to exhibit God’s manifold wisdom. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 16-18)
Todays Reading
However,
today we have not yet arrived at such a condition. Many people are not
living in the spirit to allow God to carry out His dispensing; instead,
they are still living in the soul and still have themselves as the
center and the lord. For this reason we must help the brothers and
sisters to allow the element of Christ to increase in them day by day.
Eventually, we the redeemed, regenerated, and transformed saints will be
prepared to be the bride and counterpart of Christ through partaking of
the riches of Christ’s life and nature, and will become the New
Jerusalem as the ultimate consummation of Christ and the church. The New
Jerusalem will be the tabernacle for God’s dwelling and the temple for
the saints’ dwelling in eternity and will be the ultimate and full
expression of the processed Triune God, who is joined and mingled
with His regenerated, transformed, and glorified tripartite saints (Rev.
21:1—22:5). At that time all things will be headed up under Christ, and
there will be full peace and harmony.
God’s
economy is not for our achievement but for us, the chosen and
regenerated ones, to be filled by the Spirit to the extent that the Lord
becomes everything in us so that we may be delivered from the old man
and may be built up with all the saints to be God’s habitation…This is a
matter of God’s habitation; it has nothing to do with our personal gain
or loss.
The
goal of God’s economy is a corporate expression. For this reason, in
the Old Testament God created man in His image and according to His
likeness (Gen. 1:26) so that He might put Himself into man and be man’s
life, that man might become one with Him and express and represent Him.
This
is what God is after. God saves us for this. He regenerates us,
transforms us, makes us spiritual, and causes us to be seeking, all for
this. We are not saved, regenerated, transformed, spiritual, or seeking,
for ourselves. Rather, we become such in order that we may be delivered
from the natural life and the self so that we can be built up with all
the saints into God’s habitation. This is God’s economy and dispensing.
It is not a matter of right or wrong, gain or loss. (CWWL, 1990, vol. 3,
“The Economy and Dispensing of God,” pp. 91, 94-95)
Further Reading: CWWL, 1983, vol. 2, “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity,” ch. 1; CWWL, 1990, vol. 3, “The Economy and Dispensing of God,” chs. 1—2
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