晨興聖言-話語的職事...(W6-1)

第六週 週一

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晨興餧養

約十四6   …我就是道路、實際、生命;若不藉着我,沒有人能到父那裏去。

  23   …人若愛我,就必遵守我的話,我父也必愛他,並且我們要到他那裏去,同他安排住處。

 

約翰著作的主題是三一神把祂自己分賜到祂選民裏面,作生命和生命供應,使他們都成為神聖的,完滿的彰顯祂直到永遠。…整個宇宙的實際、中心和內容,就是三一神—父、子、靈—要把祂自己分賜到祂的選民裏面,作他們的生命和生命的供應,使他們成為神聖的,完滿的彰顯祂直到永遠。這也該是我們的中心、實際和內容(李常受文集一九八三年第二冊,三○九至三一○頁)。

信息選讀

約翰十四章六至二十四節…啟示,在神聖行動裏,以及在我們經歷裏的神聖三一。…六節…給我們看見,信徒藉着子到父那裏去—父是信徒的標的。十四至十六章記載主在地上與祂門徒最後一次的談話。在這最後的談話中,祂指明祂所有的信徒都應當尋求父。換句話說,他們應當以父為他們的標的。我們若要達到父這標的,必須藉着那是道路的子纔能達到。

十四章七至十四節給我們看見,父化身子裏,顯於信徒中間—子在信徒中間,乃是父的化身。在這些經文裏,主給我們看見,祂在父裏面,父也在祂裏面。子與父原是一,祂們是互相內住的。子住在父裏面,父也住在子裏面。這樣,子在信徒中間乃是父的化身。

十五至二十節繼續給我們看見,子實化成為那靈,住在信徒裏面—那靈是子的實化,住在信徒裏面。父化身在子裏,子實化成為那靈。子是父的化身,只在信徒中間;但那靈是子的實化,如今卻住在信徒裏面。…現今我們既有那靈作子的實化,住在我們裏面,我們也就有父的化身,以及父作我們的標的。事實上,父作我們的標的是在我們裏面,因為這標的是化身在子裏,子且實化成為那靈,住在我們裏面。我們若有那靈就有子,我們若有子就有父。因此,神聖三一的三者都在我們裏面。

父是標的,子是化身,那靈乃是實化;這三者都在我們這些容器裏面。…標的、化身和實化乃是在我們這些瓦器裏面超越的寶貝(林後四7)。我們是瓦器,盛裝着有三面講究的超越神性。

約翰十四章二十一和二十三節給我們看見,子向愛祂的人顯現,以及父與子同來,同愛子的人安排住處。那靈住在我們裏面之後,子就親自向愛祂的人顯現。一個人有可能是耶穌基督的信徒,卻不是愛祂的人。當我們信祂的時候,神聖三一的三者就都來住在我們裏面。但是在我們信祂,並且祂如今住在我們裏面之後,我們就需要愛祂。在二十一和二十三節裏,我們看見主要我們愛祂。我們或許是基督的信徒,但在我們中間有多少人是愛耶穌的人?父這標的是在耶穌這化身裏;這化身乃是在靈作祂的實化裏,而這實化就是如今住在我們眾人裏面的那靈。但我們需要問:我們是否每日每時享受主耶穌向我們的顯現?(李常受文集一九八八年第一冊,四一七至四一八頁)。

參讀:在神聖三一裏並同神聖三一活着,第四章。

WEEK 6 — DAY 1

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Morning Nourishment

John 14:6 …I am the way and the reality and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.

           23…If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make an abode with him.

The subject of John’s writings is the Triune God dispensing Himself into His chosen people as the life and life supply to make them all divine to express Him in full for eternity…The reality, the center, and the content of the entire universe is that the Triune God—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit— wants to dispense Himself into His chosen people as their life and life supply to make them divine to express Him in full and for eternity. This should also be our center, our reality, and our content. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 2, “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity,” p. 237)

Todays Reading

The Divine Trinity in the divine move and in our experience is revealed… in John 14:6-24…Verse 6 shows that the believers come to the Father through the Son—the Father being the object of the believers. John 14—16 records the last conversation that the Lord had with His disciples while He was on this earth. In His last talk to them He indicated that all His believers should seek after the Father. In other words, they should take the Father as their object. If we are going to reach the Father as our object, we must reach Him through the Son, who is the way.

Verses 7 through 14 [of John 14] show the Father embodied in the Son seen among the believers—the Son being the Father’s embodiment among the believers. In these verses the Lord showed us that He is in the Father and that the Father is in Him. The Son and the Father are one. They mutually indwell each other. The Son dwells in the Father, and the Father dwells in the Son. In this way the Son was the Father’s embodiment among the believers.

Verses 15 through 20 go on to show us the Son realized as the Spirit abiding in the believers—the Spirit being the realization of the Son abiding in the believers. The Father is embodied in the Son, and the Son is realized as the Spirit. The Son as the Father’s embodiment was only among the believers, but the Spirit as the realization of the Son is now abiding within the believers…Now that we have the Spirit as the realization of the Son abiding in us, we also have the Father’s embodiment and the Father as our object. Actually, the Father as our object is within us, because the object is embodied in the Son and the Son is realized as the Spirit who indwells us. If we have the Spirit, we have the Son, and if we have the Son, we have the Father. Thus, the three of the Divine Trinity are in us.

The Father as the object, the Son as the embodiment, and the Spirit as the realization are in us, the container…The object, the embodiment, and the realization are the excellent treasure in us, the earthen vessels (2 Cor. 4:7). As earthen vessels, we contain the excellent deity in three aspects.

Verses 21 and 23 of John 14 show the Son manifesting Himself to His lover and the Father coming with Him to make an abode with the Son’s lover. After the abiding of the Spirit in us, the Son will manifest Himself to His lovers. It is possible to be a believer of Jesus Christ but not be a lover of Him. When we believe in Him, the three of the Divine Trinity come to abide in us. But after we believe in Him and know that He is abiding in us, we need to love Him. In verses 21 and 23 we see the request of our love toward Him. We may be the believers of Christ, but how many among us are the lovers of Jesus? The Father as the object is in Jesus as the embodiment, this embodiment is in the Spirit as His realization, and this realization is the very Spirit who is now abiding in all of us. But we need to ask whether or not we enjoy the manifestation of the Lord Jesus to us daily and even hourly. (CWWL, 1988, vol. 1, “Living in and with the Divine Trinity,” pp. 303-304)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1988, vol. 1, “Living in and with the Divine Trinity,” ch. 4

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