晨興聖言--極其需要新的復興(W02-1)

第二週 • 週一

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晨興餧養

約一14　　 話成了肉體，支搭帳幕在我們中間…。

林前十五45 …末後的亞當成了賜生命的靈。

啟二一2　      我又看見聖城新耶路撒冷由神那裏從天而降，豫備好了，就如新婦妝飾整齊，等候丈夫。

 

聖經作為基督徒生活的內容，乃是三一神的自傳。…神是誰？神是甚麼？神曾作過甚麼？祂現在正在作甚麼？祂將來要作甚麼？神已往在那裏？如今在那裏？將來會在那裏？只有一本自傳說到神，而這自傳就是基督徒生活的內容。

聖經是一位奇妙人物的自傳；這人物就是經過過程並終極完成的三一神（李常受文集一九九一至一九九二年第二冊，四六八至四六九頁）。

信息選讀

三一神這奇妙的人位乃是我們基督徒生活的內容。祂從亙古到永遠，無始無終的存在着。祂這樣一位永遠者，創造了宇宙和人。在創造人之後，祂有四千年之久沒有改變。有一天在時間裏，祂進到一個長的『隧道』裏，使祂自己經過過程。

在那三十三年半之後，祂有神性也有人性。…因此，有一些特別的元素加到祂裏面；那特別的元素就是人性。…祂經過了人性生活之後，就進到死裏。…按照神聖的自傳，祂這包羅萬有的死也成了祂所是的一個元素。在這死之後，祂進到祂奇妙的復活和升天裏。…今天…祂有神性、人性、人性生活、包羅萬有的死和包羅萬有的復活。…當這五樣加在一起時，我們就有今天經過過程並終極完成的三一神。

我的神乃是一個組合。祂含有神性、人性、人性生活、包羅萬有的死以及包羅萬有的復活，作了我的神、救贖主、救主、主、主人、元首、實際、生命、生活和一切。這就是我的神！

這複合的人位是由出埃及三十章二十二至三十一節裏複合的聖膏油所豫表的。這複合的膏油不只是油，乃是膏。…與這複合膏油有關的一切成分和一切數字，表徵基督的神性、人性、人性生活、死與復活。有些聖經教師看出這複合的膏油乃是聖靈的豫表。…經過我們自己的研究，我們看見橄欖油表徵獨一的神，沒藥表徵基督寶貴的死，肉桂表徵基督之死的甜美和功效，菖蒲表徵基督寶貴的復活，桂皮表徵基督復活驅除的能力。我們的神今天乃是複合的神（李常受文集一九九一至一九九二年第二冊，四七○、四七二至四七四、四七七至四七八頁）。

在聖經的開頭，只有神，再也沒有別的〔創一1〕。那時候神只有一個講究，就是三而一的父、子、靈，所以神也自稱『我們』〔26〕。…這指明神是父、子、靈三者，有三一的講究。…在聖經開頭是單個的神，到末了是團體的大神—新耶路撒冷。

聖經如何開始於神，也如何結束於神。…新耶路撒冷乃是神的擴大，神的開展，是神在永世裏的彰顯，也就是團體的神。那些有分於新耶路撒冷的人，都是神的兒女，都是神類，就是神的種類（species）（李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第五冊，三二五頁）。

參讀：基督徒的生活，第二至三篇；如何作同工與長老，並如何履行同工與長老的義務，第三至四篇。

WEEK 2 — DAY 1

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Morning Nourishment

John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us…

1 Cor. 15:45 …The last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.

Rev. 21:2 And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

The Bible as the content of the Christian life is the autobiography of the Triune God…Who is God? What is God? What has God done, what is He doing, and what will He do? Where was God, where is God, and where will God be? There is only one autobiography that speaks of God, and this autobiography is the content of the Christian life.

The Bible is an autobiography of a wonderful person—the processed and consummated Triune God. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 2, “The Christian Life,” p. 358)

Today’s Reading

The Triune God as a wonderful person is the contents of our Christian life. He exists from eternity to eternity, having no beginning or ending. As such an eternal One, He created the universe and man. After His creation of man, He remained the same for four thousand years. One day in time He entered into a long “tunnel” to get Himself processed.

After those thirty-three and a half years, He became both divine and human…Thus, some particular element was added into Him, and that particular element was humanity. After passing through human living, He entered into death. According to the divine autobiography, His allinclusive death has also become an element of His being. After this death, He entered into His marvelous resurrection with His ascension. Today…He has divinity, humanity, human living, an all-inclusive death, and an all-inclusive  resurrection…When these five things are added together, we have today’s processed and consummated Triune God.

My God is a composition. He is composed of divinity, humanity, human living, an all-inclusive death, and an all-inclusive resurrection to be my God, my Redeemer, my Savior, my Lord, my Master, my Head, my reality, my life, my living, and my everything. This is my God!

This compounded person is typified by the compounded holy ointment in Exodus 30:22-31. The compounded ointment was not merely oil. It was an ointment…All the elements plus all the numbers related to the compounded ointment signify Christ’s divinity, humanity, human life, death, and resurrection. Some Bible teachers recognized that the compounded ointment is a type of the Holy Spirit…Through our own study we saw that olive oil typifies the unique God, myrrh typifies the precious death of Christ, cinnamon typifies the sweetness and effectiveness of Christ’s death, calamus typifies the precious resurrection of Christ, and cassia typifies the repelling power of Christ’s resurrection. Our God today is the compounded God. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 2, “The Christian Life,” pp. 359-362, 364)

In the beginning of the Bible there was only God and nothing else [Gen. 1:1]. At that time God was only in His one aspect—the triune Father, Son, and Spirit. Therefore, God referred to Himself as “Us” and “Our.”…[Genesis 1:26] indicates that God is three—the Father, Son, and Spirit—and therefore has the aspect of being three…In the beginning of the Bible there is one single God, and at the end there is a great, corporate God—the New Jerusalem.

Just as the Bible begins with God, so it ends with God…The New Jerusalem is God’s enlargement and expansion, God’s expression in eternity, which is the corporate God. Those who participate in the New Jerusalem are all God’s children, God’s kind, God’s species. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 5, “How to Be a Co-worker and an Elder and How to Fulfill Their Obligations,” pp. 256-257) Further Reading: CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 2, “The Christian Life,” chs. 2—3;

CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 5, “How to Be a Co-worker and an Elder and How to Fulfill Their Obligations,” chs. 3—4