晨興聖言-話語的職事...(W6-6)

第六週 • 週六

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晨興餧養

約壹二27        你們從祂所領受的膏油塗抹，住在你們裏面，…祂的膏油塗抹…在凡事上教導你們；這膏油塗抹是真實的，不是虛謊的，你們要按這膏油塗抹所教導你們的，住在祂裏面。

啟二一9~10    …你來，我要將新婦，就是羔羊的妻，指給你看。我在靈裏，天使帶我到一座高大的山，將那由神那裏從天而降的聖城耶路撒冷指給我看。

 

當你藉着住在主裏面，並在光中生活行動而享受永遠生命的交通時，你就會有神聖膏油塗抹的教導（約壹二20、27）。神的兒女也是藉着神聖的膏油塗抹而得着教導。膏油塗抹可以看作是上油。許多機器需要上點油；機器如果不上點油，就不能運轉得順暢，反而製造出噪音來。我們這些基督徒有時候會製造出許多噪音，向着我們的妻子或丈夫，或向着長老、弟兄們而發。這就是說，我們缺少膏油的塗抹。我們需要上油。阿利路亞！我們有油的源頭，因為膏油塗抹就在我們裏面。膏油不斷的塗抹我們。這又是生命的分賜。這膏油塗抹教導我們，給我們上油，不斷的調整我們。…這就是生命的分賜（李常受文集一九八三年第二冊，三二○頁）。

信息選讀

我們都已經從神而生。我們不僅是父母生的，也是神所生的，有神聖的種子（約壹三9）。這神聖的種子就是神永遠的生命。…藉着這出生和種子的美德，我們能實行神聖的義（二29），我們能實行神聖的愛（四7，五1），我們還能勝過世界、死、罪、魔鬼、偶像（4、16~21）。…在屬靈的語言裏，美德的意思是生命動力。…我們能勝過消極的事物，因為我們有產生動力的生命。這樣產生動力就是生命的分賜。

召會也是莊稼連同初熟的果子，作生命的彰顯（啟十四1~5、15~16）。莊稼就是農場所有活產物的收成。這表徵藉着生命分賜而有生命的成熟和生命的豐富。

我們也成為羔羊的新婦，作祂的加增與滿足（約三29，啟十九7~9）。在約翰三章，基督是新郎，召會是新婦作祂的加增。在啟示錄十九章，召會是妻子，為着羔羊婚娶而自己豫備好了，叫祂得着滿足。

末了，就會有三一神分賜到人裏面的終極完成。這就是新耶路撒冷、聖城、神的帳幕、新婦、羔羊的妻，作三一神完滿的彰顯（二一2~3、9）。…這個團體的實體是以金子所表徵父神的性情，並藉着珍珠所表徵子神得勝的死和分賜生命的復活，以及寶石所表徵靈神變化的工作而建造成的（11、18~21）。…作為三一神完滿彰顯的新耶路撒冷，是由三一神供應並滋養的（二二1~2、14、17）。神（父）是源頭，靈（生命水）是流，而子（生命樹）是生命的供應。在啟示錄二十二章，一道活水的河從神的寶座流出來，在這河裏長着生命樹；這是三一神在祂的分賜裏的清楚景象。作為源頭的父在寶座上，有羔羊與祂同在，因祂是救贖的神，是『羔羊神』。…有河從這位救贖的神流出來，這河表徵那靈。在生命水河的流裏，羔羊成了生命樹。…分賜生命的河環繞全城，從羔羊神的寶座盤旋向下流。這流就是三一神分賜到祂選民裏面，完滿的作生命和生命供應，直到永遠（李常受文集一九八三年第二冊，三二一至三二四頁）。

參讀：約翰著作中帳幕和祭物的應驗，第三篇。

WEEK 6 — DAY 6

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Morning Nourishment

1 John 2:27 …The anointing which you have received from Him abides in you…His anointing teaches you concerning all things and is true and is not a lie, and even as it has taught you, abide in Him.

Rev. 21:9-10 …Come here; I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb. And he carried me away in spirit onto a great and high mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.

When we enjoy the fellowship of the eternal life by abiding in the Lord and walking in the light, we are under the teaching of the divine anointing (1 John 2:20, 27). The children of God are also brought forth to be taught by the divine anointing. The anointing may be considered as a kind of oiling. Many machines need to be oiled. If they are not oiled, they do not run smoothly. Instead, they make a lot of noise. Sometimes we Christians make a lot of noise, either to our wife or to our husband or to the elders or to the brothers. This means that we are short of anointing. We need to get oiled. Hallelujah! We have a source of oil because the anointing is within us. All the time it anoints us. This again is life dispensing. This anointing teaches us, oils us, and regulates us all the time…This is life dispensing. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 2, “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity,” p. 243)

Todays Reading

We were begotten not just of our parents but also of God with a divine seed (1 John 3:9). This divine seed is God’s eternal life…By the virtues of this birth and seed we can practice the divine righteousness (2:29), we can practice the divine love (4:7; 5:1), and we can overcome the world, death, sin, the devil, and idols (vv. 4, 16-21)…In the spiritual language virtue means life energy…We can overcome the negative things because we have the energizing life. This energizing is the dispensing of life.

The church is…the harvest with the firstfruits as the expression of life (Rev. 14:1-5, 15-16). A harvest is a gathering of all the living produce of the farm. This signifies the maturity of life and the riches of life by life’s dispensing.

We also become the bride of the Lamb as His increase and satisfaction (John 3:29; Rev. 19:7-9). In John 3 Christ is the Bridegroom, and the church is the bride as His increase. In Revelation 19 the church as the wife has made herself ready for the marriage of the Lamb for His satisfaction.

Eventually, there will be the ultimate consummation of the dispensing of the Triune God into man. This will be the New Jerusalem, the holy city, the tabernacle of God, the bride, and the wife of the Lamb as the consummate expression of the Triune God (21:2-3, 9). Such a corporate entity is built with God the Father’s nature, signified by the gold, God the Son’s overcoming death and life-imparting resurrection, signified by the pearls, and God the Spirit’s work of transformation, signified by the precious stones (vv. 11, 18-21). The New Jerusalem, as a consummate expression of the Triune God, is supplied and nourished by the Triune God (22:1-2, 14, 17). God as the Father is the source, the Spirit as the water of life is the flow, and the Son as the tree of life is the life supply. In Revelation 22 a river of living water flows from the throne of God. Within this river grows the tree of life. This is a clear view of the Triune God in His dispensing. The Father as the source is on the throne with the Lamb because He is the redeeming God, the Lamb-God…Out of this redeeming God flows the river, signifying the Spirit. In the flow of the river of water of life, the Lamb becomes the tree of life…The lifedispensing river circles the entire city as it flows downward from the throne of the Lamb-God in a spiral flowing. This flowing is the dispensing of the Triune God into His chosen people as life and the life supply in fullness for eternity. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 2, “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity,” pp. 244-246)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1982, vol. 2, “The Fulfillment of the Tabernacle and the Offerings in the Writings of John,” ch. 3