晨興聖言-話語的職事...(W6-3)

第六週 • 週三

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晨興餧養

約一1　    太初有話，話與神同在，話就是神。

　三34　   神所差來的，就說神的話，因為祂賜那靈是沒有限量的。

約壹二2   祂為我們的罪，作了平息的祭物，不是單為我們的罪，也是為所有世人的罪。

 

約翰…傳講基督是太初的神（約一1）。保羅和彼得也都是這樣傳講，指出基督—神的兒子—就是神自己（羅九5，來一8，彼後一1）。…太初的意思是源頭。這位神就是生命的源頭，也是永遠的生命（約三36），這永遠的生命乃是為着分賜。然後在約翰著作的末了—啟示錄二十二章，你看見永遠的生命像生命水的河湧流（1），那生命的湧流就是生命的分賜（李常受文集一九八三年第二冊，三一○頁）。

信息選讀

根據約翰所說，基督是永遠的婁格斯（約一1，約壹一1，啟十九13）。這個辭太奇妙了！它的意思是指神的話。話解釋、闡明並發表神。這位…就是奇妙的基督，三一神的第二者。

基督是神的獨生子（約一18，三16，一34，二十31）。在永遠裏的神是為着分賜生命；永遠的婁格斯是為着分賜生命，而將神表明出來之神的獨生子也是為着分賜生命。

在約翰的著作裏，基督是永遠的生命（約壹一2，約十一25，十四6）。這是神聖的生命、神非受造的生命，不僅在時間上是永遠的，在性質上也是永遠而神聖的。永遠的生命就是為着生命的分賜。生命一直湧流着，生命也把自己分賜出來。這是永遠的生命，所以意思是永遠的分賜。

基督也是賜那靈者（三34）。那靈是三一神臨到我們。當三一神住在那不能靠近的光中，祂乃是父（提前六16）。當祂臨到我們，祂乃是那靈（林後三17）。那靈就是三一神臨到我們，而基督乃是把這樣一位臨到我們的靈賜給我們。臨到就是分賜。…臨到與分賜乃是藉着子基督所賜給我們的那靈。

基督不僅是神的兒子，有神聖的性情；祂也是人子，有人的性情。祂是人子為着救贖，除去我們的罪，解決我們與神之間的難處，使神可以分賜到我們裏面。

約翰傳講基督是神的羔羊（約一29，啟五6，十三8，二二1）。神的羔羊不是神子而是人子。神沒有血可以流出來救贖我們，神的兒子也是一樣，但是羔羊—人子—有血。這不是山羊或公牛的血，乃是道道地地的人所流真正的血，這血能救贖我們。人需要人的血來救贖。這救贖乃是為着分賜神作生命。

羔羊基督為我們的罪，作了平息的祭物（約壹二2）。…因着我們罪的緣故，神與我們之間起了風波、風暴和難處，沒有平安。人子基督是神的羔羊，死在十字架上作了我們平息的祭物。祂…解決了難處；所以祂是我們的平息。祂平靜了風波，也叫神平息下來。所以現今在神與我們之間有一種平安的光景，這是為着生命的分賜。如果沒有這種平安的光景，就沒有辦法分賜生命。你要喫東西的時候，必須停下一切爭執。你如果和妻子，或是和弟兄們爭吵，你就不能好好的喫。你如果吵架甚至打了起來，就沒有生命的分賜。喫東西與分賜生命都需要和平的光景。主耶穌在我們和神之間，為我們的罪成了平息的祭物，創造了和平的光景，乃是為着生命的分賜（李常受文集一九八三年第二冊，三一○至三一三頁）。

參讀：神聖三一的神聖分賜，第十章。

WEEK 6 — DAY 3

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Morning Nourishment

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

     3:34 For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for He gives the Spirit not by measure.

1 John 2:2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for those of the whole world.

Christ was ministered by John as God in the beginning (John 1:1). Both Paul and Peter also ministered in this way, pointing out that Christ, the Son of God, is God Himself (Rom. 9:5; Heb. 1:8; 2 Pet. 1:1)…The beginning means the source. This God is the very source of life. He is also the eternal life (John 3:36). This eternal life is for dispensing. Then at the end of John’s writings, in chapter 22 of Revelation, you can see that eternal life is flowing as the river of water of life (v. 1). That flowing of life is the dispensing of life. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 2, “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity,” pp. 237-238)

Todays Reading

According to John, Christ is the eternal Logos (John 1:1; 1 John 1:1; Rev. 19:13). This is a wonderful term. It means “the Word.” The Word defines, explains, and expresses God…This is the wonderful Christ, the second of the Trinity.

Christ is the only begotten Son of God (John 1:18; 3:16; 1:34; 20:31). God in eternity is for dispensing life; the eternal Logos is for dispensing life; and the only begotten Son of God, who declared God, is also for dispensing life.

In John’s writings Christ is the eternal life (1 John 1:2; John 11:25; 14:6). This is the divine life, the uncreated life of God, which is not only everlasting timewise but eternal and divine in nature. Eternal life is for life dispensing. Life flows, and life dispenses itself. This is the eternal life, which is an eternal dispensing.

Christ is also the Giver of the Spirit (3:34). The Spirit is the Triune God reaching us. When the Triune God stays in unapproachable light, He is the Father (1 Tim. 6:16). When He reaches us, He is the Spirit (2 Cor. 3:17). The Spirit is the Triune God reaching us, and Christ is the Giver of such a reaching Spirit. The reaching is the dispensing…The reaching and dispensing is by the Spirit given to us by Christ the Son.

Christ is not only the Son of God with the divine nature but also the Son of Man with the human nature. He is the Son of Man for redemption, to take away our sin and solve the problems between us and God, that God might be dispensed into us.

John ministered Christ as the Lamb of God (John 1:29; Rev. 5:6; 13:8; 22:1). The Lamb of God was not the Son of God but the Son of Man. God does not have blood to shed for our redemption, nor does the Son of God have blood, but the Lamb, the Son of Man, has blood. This is not the blood of goats or oxen but the genuine blood of a genuine man, which is able to redeem us. Men need a man’s blood to redeem them. This redeeming is for the dispensing of God as life.

As the Lamb, Christ is the propitiation concerning our sins (1 John 2:2)… Because of our sins there was a turmoil, a storm, a problem between God and us. There was no peace. Christ as the Son of Man who was the Lamb of God died on the cross to be our propitiation…He solved the problem. So He is our propitiation. He calmed the turmoil, and He appeased God. So now there is a kind of peaceful condition between God and us. This is for life dispensing. If there is not such a peaceful condition, there is no way to dispense life. When we are going to eat, we must stop any fighting. We cannot eat well if we are quarreling with our wife or with the brothers. If we are quarreling and fighting, there is no life dispensing. Eating and life dispensing need a peaceful situation. The Lord Jesus became the propitiation concerning our sins between us and God to create a peaceful situation for life dispensing. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 2, “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity,” pp. 238-239)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1983, vol. 2, “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity,” ch. 10