晨興聖言--極其需要新的復興(W02-6)
第二週 • 週六
晨興餧養
羅十二4~5 正如我們一個身體上有好些肢體，但肢體不都有一樣的功用；我們這許多人，在基督裏是一個身體，並且各個互相作肢體，也是如此。
神人乃是由神所生的人，不僅有神聖的生命，也有神聖的性情。…我們有分於神的性情〔彼後一4〕。…我們是人，因為我們的確有人的性情。但我們也由神而生；我們乃是神的兒子，神的兒女。因此，我們有神的性情。…事實上，我們乃是在神的生命和性情上是神，只是我們無分於祂的神格。
我在主職事裏的負擔，不是要建立你們作溫和的人、善良的人或斯文的人，…〔乃〕是要培養神人。…至終，聖經是建立一個團體的人。這團體的人最終要擴大成為新耶路撒冷，就是這團體人的終極完成。聖經的教訓所產生的結果，只有一個實體，就是新耶路撒冷，作所有神人的集大成（李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第二冊，五五五至五五六頁）。
信息選讀
這裏有一個事實，就是神聖的生命與我們人的生命調和。所以，我們必須學習如何不憑我們人的生命活着，乃憑神的生命與我們人的生命相調而活，使我們成為神聖的。
我們屬人的生命（舊人）已經被釘十字架，為着神聖的生命與復活的屬人生命（新人）同過生活（加二20上，弗四22~24）。我們的舊人，天然的人，不該受培養，反該被除去，被釘十字架。這舊人已經與基督同釘十字架（羅六6）。基督已經將所有信祂的人都釘十字架，好叫所有信祂的人能不憑那被釘死的生命而活，乃憑那在得着復活之人性裏的神聖生命而活。如今神聖的生命不是活在天然的人性裏，乃是活在得復活的人性裏。那就是新人。我們都需要看見這樣一個異象。…我們該常常受提醒，我們的舊人已經被釘十字架；而在我們重生時，我們天然的人性得了復活。重生乃是復活（參徒十三33）。得重生就是憑神聖的生命而得着復活。所以，今天我們該過一種生活，是模成基督之死的生活（腓三10），使神聖的生命能有機會，與我們復活的人性同過生活。
提前三章十六節說，『大哉！敬虔的奧祕！…就是：祂顯現於肉體。』按照這節的上下文，這裏的敬虔不僅是指虔誠，乃是指神活在召會中，就是那是生命的神在召會中活了出來。敬虔的意思就是神成為人，人成為神。這是宇宙中極大的奧祕。神成了人，使人能成為神，以產生一個團體的神人，為着神在肉體顯現為新人。
這個團體的神人在長大，這乃是為着建造基督生機的身體，好完成神永遠的經綸（弗四12~13、15~16）。神的顯現乃是藉着基督的身體而成為可能的。基督的身體就是神的顯現，為着完成神永遠的經綸。不管我們天然的己得着多少建立，不管我們天然的性能得着多少培養，我們絕不能成為神的顯現，也絕不能成為基督身體的一部分。這必須是神人的責任。神人由神所生，有神的生命、性情，憑調和的生命，在調和的性情裏過生活，建造基督的身體作神的顯現。這是聖經的啟示。…聖經乃是教導，人必須由神而生，成為神人；這個神人必須得着培養，必須長大。這樣，眾神人就知道如何建造自己作基督的身體，為着神的顯現，也為着完成神的經綸（李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第二冊，五五六至五五九頁）。
參讀：異象的高峰與基督身體的實際，第一至二篇。
WEEK 2 — DAY 6
Morning Nourishment
Rom. 12:4-5 For just as in one body we have many members, and all the members do not have the same function, so we who are many are one Body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
As those who are born of God, the God-men have not only the divine life but also the divine nature…We are partakers of the divine nature [2 Pet. 1:4], which is the nature of God…We are men, for we do have the human nature. But we have also been born of God; we are God’s sons, God’s children. Thus, we have God’s nature…In fact, we are God in His life and His nature but not in His Godhead.
My burden in the Lord’s ministry is not to build you up to be a nice man, a good man, or a gentle man, but to be a God-man. Eventually, the Bible builds up a corporate man. Ultimately, this corporate man will be enlarged to be its consummation, the New Jerusalem. The issue of the Bible’s teaching is just one entity, the New Jerusalem as the aggregate of all the God-men. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 2, “The God-men,” pp. 438-439)
Today’s Reading
There is such a fact that the divine life is mingled with our human life. Therefore, we must learn how to live not by our human life but by God’s life mingling with our human life to make us divine.
Our human life (the old man) has been crucified for the living of the divine life with the resurrected human life (the new man) (Gal. 2:20a; Eph. 4:22-24). Our old man, the natural man, should not be cultivated. Rather, it should be cut off; it should be crucified. It has been crucified already with Christ on the cross (Rom. 6:6). Christ has crucified all His believers
so that His believers may live not by the crucified life but by the
divine life in a humanity that is resurrected. Now the divine life is
living not in the natural humanity but in the resurrected humanity. That
is the new man. We all need to see such a vision…We should always be
reminded that our old man was crucified. Then, in regeneration our
natural humanity was resurrected. Regeneration is a resurrection (cf.
Acts 13:33). To be regenerated is to be resurrected with the divine
life. Therefore, today we should live a life conformed to the death of
Christ (Phil. 3:10) that the divine life may have an opportunity to live
with our resurrected humanity.
First
Timothy 3:16 says, “Confessedly, great is the mystery of godliness: He
who was manifested in the flesh.” According to the context of this
verse, godliness here refers not only to piety but also to the living of
God in the church, that is, to God as life lived out in the church.
Godliness means that God becomes man and man becomes God. This is a
great mystery in the universe. God has become man so that man may become
God to produce a corporate God-man for the manifestation of God in the
flesh as the new man.
This
corporate God-man grows up for the purpose of building up the organic
Body of Christ for the fulfillment of the eternal’ economy of God (Eph.
4:12-13, 15-16). The manifestation of God is possible by the Body of
Christ. The Body of Christ is just the manifestation of God for the
fulfillment of the eternal economy of God. Regardless of how much our
natural self can be built up, and regardless of how much our natural
capacity can be cultivated, we can never be the manifestation of God,
and we can never be a part of the Body of Christ. This must be the
responsibility of the God-men. The God-men are born of God to have God’s
life and God’s nature, to live by a mingled life in a mingled nature,
to build up the Body of Christ as God’s manifestation. This is the
revelation of the Bible…The Bible teaches that a man must be born of God
to be a God-man, and this God-man must be raised up, must grow up. Then
the God-men know how to build up themselves to be the Body of Christ
for the manifestation of God and for the fulfillment of God’s economy.
(CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 2, “The God-men,” pp. 439-441)
Further Reading: CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The High Peak of the Vision and the Reality of the Body of Christ,” chs. 1—2
留言
張貼留言