晨興聖言--極其需要新的復興(W02-2)

第二週 • 週二

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西三4    基督是我們的生命,祂顯現的時候,你們也要與祂一同顯現在榮耀裏。

彼後一4  藉這榮耀和美德,祂已將又寶貴又極大的應許賜給我們,叫你們…藉着這些應許,得有分於神的性情。

腓二5   你們裏面要思念基督耶穌裏面所思念的。

 

這些日子我有負擔釋放神話語中高品的真理,我願意抓住每一個機會作這事。其中一項高品的真理,就是有分於神的神性這件事。…何等奇妙,我們這些墮落的人竟能與主合一!這樣的思想的確非常高。現在我們需要看見更高的事—我們這些神人有神聖的權利,有分於神的神性。

『有分於』一辭的意思不只是有分,更是有分而得着享受。這指明我們有所得着,並且我們享受我們所得着的。我們這些神人有神聖的權利,有分於神的神性,不是有分於天堂。我們都需要看見,我們能有分於神的神性,就是有分於神(李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第四冊,二六九至二七○頁)。

信息選讀

我們被造,不是按着人的形像,照着人的樣式,乃是按着神的形像,照着祂的樣式〔創一26〕。因此,人有神的形像和樣式。然而,人在被造的時候沒有神的生命。但如今我們既是神人,由神所生,成為神的兒女,我們就有權利有分於神的所是,甚至在生命、性情和彰顯上(但不在神格上)成為神。

首先,我們這些神人有神聖的權利有分於神的生命。約翰三章十五節告訴我們,凡信入主耶穌的人都得永遠的生命。永遠的生命就是神聖的生命,神的生命。我們是人,卻能得着神的生命。我們是按着神的形像,照着神的樣式被造的,只是沒有神的生命。藉着重生,我們蒙神賜恩,得着祂的神聖生命。藉着重生,祂已經將祂的生命放在我們裏面,分賜到我們裏面。

基督既是神的具體化身,基督作我們的生命〔西三4〕,意思就是神作我們的生命。

我們這些神人也有神聖的權利有分於神的性情。…神在基督裏揀選我們,乃是有特別的目的—使我們成為聖別〔弗一4〕。聖別的意思不僅是成聖,分別歸神,也是與一切凡俗的不同、有別。…只有神與一切不同,與一切有別。因此,祂是聖別的;聖別是祂的性情。神的目的是要使我們成為聖別,像祂是聖別的一樣(彼前一15~16)。成為聖別就是有分於神聖別的性情。神既揀選了我們,要使我們成為聖別,祂就將祂自己這聖別者分賜到我們裏面,使我們全人被祂聖別的性情充滿並浸透,藉此使我們成為聖別。對我們這些神所揀選的人,成為聖別就是有分於神的性情(彼後一4)。

因着我們藉着重生成了神人,所以我們也有權利有分於神的心思。這就是說,我們雖是人,卻能有神聖的心思。…我們需要讓基督的心思成為我們的心思〔腓二5〕。…以弗所四章二十三節說,『在你們心思的靈裏得以更新。』這裏的靈乃是信徒重生的靈,調和了神內住的靈。這樣調和的靈擴展到我們的心思,就成了我們心思的靈。調和的靈越多滲透我們的心思、浸透我們的心思、佔有我們的心思,我們的心思就越像神的心思。這就使祂的心思成為我們的心思,這也就是有分於神的心思(李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第四冊,二七○至二七二頁)。

參讀:基督的三個時期—成肉體、總括與加強,第四篇;在神與人關係裏生機的聯結,第四篇。

WEEK 2 — DAY 2

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Morning Nourishment

Col. 3:4 When Christ our life is manifested, then you also will be manifested with Him in glory.

2 Pet. 1:4 Through which He has granted to us precious and exceedingly great promises that through these you might become partakers of the divine nature…

Phil. 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.

In these days I am burdened to release the high-level truths in the Word, and I welcome every opportunity to do this. One of these high truths is the matter of participating in God’s divinity. How marvelous that we, fallen human beings, can be one with the Lord! Such a thought is surely very high. Now we need to see something even higher—that as God-men, we have the divine right to participate in God’s divinity.

The phrase participate in means not only to partake of but to partake of for enjoyment. It indicates that we possess something and that we enjoy what we possess. We, the God-men, have the divine right to participate not in heaven but in God’s divinity. We all need to realize that we can participate in God’s divinity, that is, participate in God. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “Incarnation, Inclusion, and Intensification,” p. 214)

Today’s Reading

We were created not in man’s image and according to man’s likeness but in God’s image and according to God’s likeness [Gen. 1:26]. Thus, human beings have the image and likeness of God. However, at the time of creation, man did not have God’s life. But now as God-men, those who have been born of God to be children of God, we have the right to participate in what God is and even to become God in life, in nature, and in expression but not in the Godhead.

First, as the God-men, we have the divine right to participate in God’s life. John 3:15 tells us that everyone who believes into the Lord Jesus will have eternal life. Eternal life is the divine life, the life of God. We are human beings, but we can have God’s life. We were created in God’s image and God’s likeness but without God’s life. Through regeneration we have been graced by God with His divine life. Through regeneration He has put, has dispensed, His life into our being.

Since Christ is the embodiment of God, for Christ to be our life [Col. 3:4] means that God is our life.

As God-men, we also have the divine right to participate in God’s nature…God chose us in Christ with a particular purpose—to make us holy [Eph. 1:4]. Holy means not only sanctified, separated unto God, but also different, distinct, from everything common…Only God is different, distinct, from all things. Hence, He is holy; holiness is His nature. God intends to make us holy even as He is holy (1 Pet. 1:15-16). To be holy is to participate in God’s holy nature. Having chosen us to be holy, God makes us holy by imparting Himself, the Holy One, into our being, so that our whole being may be saturated and permeated with His holy nature. For us, God’s chosen ones, to be holy is to partake of God’s divine nature (2 Pet. 1:4).

Because we have become God-men through regeneration, we also have the right to participate in God’s mind. This means that we, who are human, can have a divine mind…We need to let Christ’s mind be our mind [Phil. 2:5]. Ephesians 4:23 says, “Be renewed in the spirit of your mind.” The spirit here is the regenerated spirit of the believers, which is mingled with the indwelling Spirit of God. Such a mingled spirit spreads into our mind, thus becoming the spirit of our mind. The more the mingled spirit penetrates our mind, saturates our mind, and possesses our mind, the more our mind becomes like God’s mind. This is to make His mind our mind, and this is to participate in God’s mind. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “Incarnation, Inclusion, and Intensification,” pp. 214-215)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “Incarnation, Inclusion, and Intensification,” ch. 4; CWWL, 1993, vol. 2, “The Organic Union in God’s Relationship with Man,” ch. 4

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