晨興聖言--極其需要新的復興(W02-4)
第二週 • 週四
晨興餧養
羅八16 那靈自己同我們的靈見證我們是神的兒女。
弗三17 使基督藉着信,安家在你們心裏…。
神人有神聖的權利成為神類—神的種類(約一12,羅八14、16)。我們已經重生成為神類。我們既是神的兒子,我們就是神類,是神的種類。
我們已經藉着信入主耶穌接受了祂,神也給了我們權柄成為神的兒女〔約一12〕。『那靈自己同我們的靈見證我們是神的兒女。』(羅八16)這樣的見證,向我們見證並保證,我們是神的兒女,我們有祂的生命。我們需要體驗這點並記住這點。我們無論在那裏,都需要記得我們是神人,有神聖的權利有分於神的神性(李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第四冊,二七六頁)。
信息選讀
我們讀聖經若沒有注意到這個重要的點,那麼,就實際意義說,聖經對我們就是一本空洞的書。這意思是,聖經本身雖然是實際的,但在我們的領會裏,它是空洞的。舉例來說,假設有個盒子很吸引人,裏面放着一顆大鑽石。小孩可能對盒子有興趣,但對鑽石沒有興趣;然而,大人卻會將注意力集中在盒子裏面的鑽石。今天,許多基督徒在意聖經這個『盒子』,但他們沒有看見,也不珍賞這盒子裏面的內容—『鑽石』,甚至可能定罪那些對『盒子』裏面的『鑽石』有正確珍賞的人。聖經這『盒子』裏的『鑽石』乃是一個啟示,就是神在基督裏已成為人,為要使人在生命和性情上(但不在神格上)成為神。
我們需要神在基督裏將祂自己作到我們的人性裏。這意思是,我們需要神在基督裏將祂自己作到我們裏面,作我們的生命、性情和構成。結果,我們不是僅僅合乎神心的人—我們乃是在生命和性情上(但不在神格上)成為神。
為要成就這事,神就在基督裏成為人,並且經過一些過程,使這人能被標出為神聖的。在復活裏,祂被標出為神的長子。在復活裏並藉着復活,神的長子基督成了賜生命的靈,現今進到我們裏面,將祂自己作為生命分賜到我們裏面,成為我們內裏的構成,使我們成為神人,就像祂自己一樣。祂是神成為人,我們是人成為神—在生命和性情上,但不在神格上。
以弗所三章十七節告訴我們,基督現今正在我們裏面作工,將祂自己建造到我們裏面,好產生〔一個〕相互的住處。…基督在我們裏面作工,是要藉着將祂自己建造到我們裏面,而建造神的居所。…這一個相互的住處也啟示在約翰十四章二十三節:『人若愛我,…我父也必愛他,並且我們要到他那裏去,同他安排住處。』這住處不僅是為着三一神,也是為着我們。神在我們裏面所建造的,要成為神的居所和我們的居所。…神要得着一個居所,不是藉着我們所行所作,乃是藉着祂的建造。基督建造召會(太十六18),乃是藉着進到我們靈裏,並將祂自己從我們的靈擴展到我們的心思、情感和意志裏,以佔有我們的魂。這召會要成為祂的居所和我們的居所。
我們不需要為神建造甚麼;反之,神需要在基督裏將祂自己建造到我們裏面,作我們的生命、性情和素質。至終,三一神要成為我們內裏的構成。我們要被三一神所構成。……新耶路撒冷就是這相互住處的終極完成;我們都要在那裏(撒母耳記生命讀經,二四九、二○五至二○七頁)。
參讀:撒母耳記生命讀經,第二十五、三十一篇;過照着神啟示之高峰的生活,第四篇。
WEEK 2 — DAY 4
Morning Nourishment
Rom. 8:16 The Spirit Himself witnesses with our spirit that we are children of God.
Eph. 3:17 That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith…
The God-men have the divine right to be Godkind—God’s species (John 1:12; Rom. 8:14, 16). We have been regenerated to be Godkind. As God’s sons, we are God’s kind, God’s species.
We have received the Lord Jesus by believing into Him, and God has given us the authority, the right, to be God’s children [John 1:12]. “The Spirit Himself witnesses with our spirit that we are children of God” (Rom. 8:16). Such a witnessing testifies to us and assures us that we are children of God, who possess His life. We need to realize this and remember it. Wherever we may be, we need to remember that we are God-men with the divine right to participate in God’s divinity. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “Incarnation, Inclusion, and Intensification,” p. 218)
Today’s Reading
If we read the Bible without paying attention to this crucial point, then, in a very real sense, the Bible is to us an empty book. This means that although the Bible is real in itself, in our understanding of it, the Bible is empty. As an illustration, let us suppose that a certain box, which is quite attractive, contains a large diamond. A child may be interested in the box but not in the diamond. An adult, however, would focus his attention on the diamond contained in the box. Today many Christians care for the Bible as the “box,” but they have not seen and do not appreciate the “diamond,” which is the content of this box, and they may even condemn those who have a proper appreciation of the “diamond” in the “box.” The “diamond” in the “box” of the Bible is the revelation that in Christ God has become man in order that man might become God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead.
We
need God to build Himself in Christ into our humanity. This means that
we need God to work Himself in Christ into us as our life, our nature,
and our constitution. As a result, we are not simply a man according to
God’s heart—we are God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead.
In
order to accomplish this, God in Christ became a man and went through
some processes that this man could be designated something divine. In
resurrection He was designated the firstborn Son of God. In and through
resurrection Christ, the firstborn Son of God, became the life-giving
Spirit, who now enters into us to impart, to dispense, Himself as life
into our being to be our inner constitution, to make us a God-man just
like Him. He was God becoming man, and we are man becoming God in life
and in nature but not in the Godhead.
Ephesians
3:17 tells us that Christ is now within us doing the work of building
Himself into us to produce [a] mutual abode…Christ is working in us to
build up God’s habitation by building Himself into us. This mutual abode
is also unveiled in John 14:23: “If anyone loves Me,…My Father will
love him, and We will come to him and make an abode with him.” This
abode will be not only for the Triune God but also for us. What God
builds up in us is both God’s habitation and our habitation. God will
have a habitation not by our doing or working but by His building.
Christ builds the church (Matt. 16:18) by coming into our spirit and
spreading Himself from our spirit into our mind, emotion, and will to
occupy our entire soul. This church will become His habitation and our
habitation.
There
is no need for us to build anything for God. Rather, God needs to build
Himself in Christ into us as our life, nature, and essence. Eventually,
the Triune God will become our intrinsic constitution. We will be
constituted with the Triune God…The New Jerusalem is the consummation of
this mutual abode, and we will all be there. (Life-study of 1 & 2
Samuel, pp. 206, 170- 171)
Further Reading: Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, msgs. 25, 31; CWWL, 1994- 1997, vol. 1, “Living a Life according to the High Peak of God’s Revelation,” ch. 4
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