晨興聖言-極其需要新的復興(W06-綱要)
第六週 • 綱目
按着神牧養
讀經:約二一15~17,徒二十28,彼前五2、4,弗四16
週一、週二
壹 在主今日的恢復裏,迫切需要牧養。
貳 牧養是給羣羊週全、柔細的照顧—約二一15~17,徒二十28:
一 牧養是指顧到羊一切的需要。
二 所有的羊都需要得着充分的供備和妥善的照料。
叁 基督是好牧人、大牧人、牧長以及我們魂的牧人—約十9~17,來十三20~21,彼前五4,二25:
一 主耶穌作好牧人,來使我們得生命,並且得的更豐盛—約十10~11:
1 祂捨了祂的魂生命,就是人的生命,為祂的羊成功救贖,使他們能有分於祂的『奏厄』(zoe)生命,就是祂神聖的生命—11、15、17節。
2 祂領祂的羊出羊圈,進入祂自己這草場,就是得餧養的地方,使他們可以自由的喫祂,得着祂的餧養—9節。
3 主使猶太和外邦信徒在祂的牧養下合為一羣(召會,基督的身體)—16節。
二 神『憑永約之血,領羣羊的大牧人我們的主耶穌,從死人中上來』—來十三20:
1 永約乃是要藉着牧養來終極完成新耶路撒冷。
2 永約就是新遺命的約,為要得着羣羊,就是召會,結果帶進基督的身體,並終極完成於新耶路撒冷。
三 基督作牧長,藉着眾召會的長老牧養祂的羣羊—彼前五4:
1 若沒有長老的牧養,召會就無法得建造。
2 長老的牧養該是基督藉着他們的牧養。
四 是靈的基督作我們魂的牧人,監督我們裏面的光景,顧到我們內裏所是的情形—二25:
1 祂是藉着顧到我們魂的益處,並藉着監督我們內裏所是的光景,而牧養我們。
2 因為我們的魂很複雜,所以我們需要那在我們靈裏是賜生命之靈的基督,在我們的魂裏牧養我們,照顧我們的心思、情感和意志,並顧到我們的難處、需要和創傷。
週 三
肆 我們要按着神牧養,就需要與神成為一,被神構成,活神,彰顯神,代表神並供應神:
一 我們若要按着神牧養,就需要與神成為一併被神構成—約十四20,林前六17,弗三17上,西三10~11。
二 惟有活神的人,纔能按着神牧養—腓一21上。
三 神永遠的定旨是要將祂自己作到我們裏面,作我們的生命,使我們可以彰顯祂—創一26,弗一11,三11,提後一9。
四 我們要作按着神牧養的人,就需要代表神,盡代理之神的功用—林後一3~4、12、15~16,二10,十11,十一2。
五 按着神牧養,就是將神供應給人:
1 我們能將神供應給人有多少,在於我們被神破碎,好湧流生命—四10~12、16,來四12。
2 我們若要彼此供應神,就需要講說恩典、真理、靈和生命的話,供應那作到我們裏面之經過過程的神—弗三16~17上,四25、29,約六63。
週 四
伍 彼得囑咐長老們要按着神牧養神的羣羊—彼前五2:
一 『按着神』意思是我們必須活神。
二 當我們與神是一,我們就在牧養別人的事上,成為神並且就是神。
三 按着神牧養,就是按着神的性情、心意、作法和榮耀,而不是按着我們的偏好、興趣、目的和個性牧養。
四 按着神牧養,就是按着神在祂屬性上的所是牧養。
五 我們要按着神牧養,就必須在生命、性情、彰顯和功用上成為神:
1 我們必須被神聖的生命所滿溢,享受三一神作源、泉、川,而成為神聖生命的總和,甚至成為神聖生命的本身—約四14,西三4。
2 我們必須在神那愛、光、義、聖的屬性上成為神。
3 我們必須成為基督的複製,就是神的彰顯,使我們在牧養上彰顯神,而不是彰顯我們的己,連同其個性與乖僻。
4 我們必須在神的功用上成為神,照着祂的所是並照着祂經綸中的目標,牧養神的羣羊。
週五、週六
陸 那建造基督身體的牧養,乃是相互的牧養—林前十二23~26:
一 我們都需要在基督生機的牧養之下,並與祂是一,而牧養別人—約二一15~17。
二 所有的信徒,無論他們長大到那一階段,都需要牧養。
三 我們都有缺點和短處,需要別人牧養我們。
四 我們是羊也是牧人,彼此互相的牧養並接受牧養。
五 藉着這相互的牧養,基督的身體就在愛裏把自己建造起來—弗四16。
Week Six
Shepherding according to God
Scripture Reading: John 21:15-17; Acts 20:28; 1 Pet. 5:2, 4; Eph. 4:16
§ Day 1 & Day 2
I. In the Lords recovery today, there is the urgent need for shepherding.
II. To shepherd is to take all-inclusive, tender care of the flock—John 21:15-17; Acts 20:28:
A. Shepherding refers to caring for all the needs of the sheep.
B. All the sheep need to be well provided for and well tended to.
III.
Christ is the good Shepherd, the great Shepherd, the Chief Shepherd,
and the Shepherd of our souls—John 10:9-17; Heb. 13:20-21; 1 Pet. 5:4;
2:25:
A. As the good Shepherd, the Lord Jesus came that we may have life and have it abundantly—John 10:10-11:
1.
He laid down His soul-life, His human life, to accomplish redemption
for His sheep that they may share His zoe life, His divine life—vv.
11, 15, 17.
2.
He leads His sheep out of the fold into Himself as the pasture, the
feeding place, where they may eat freely of Him and be nourished by
Him—v. 9.
3.
The Lord has formed the Jewish and Gentile believers into one flock
(the church, the Body of Christ) under His shepherding—v. 16.
B.
God brought up from the dead "our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of
the sheep, in the blood of an eternal covenant"—Heb. 13:20:
1. The eternal covenant is to consummate the New Jerusalem by shepherding.
2.
The eternal covenant is the covenant of the new testament to gain a
flock, which is the church issuing in the Body of Christ and
consummating in the New Jerusalem.
C. As the Chief Shepherd, Christ shepherds His flock through the elders of the churches—1 Pet. 5:4:
1. Without the elders shepherding, the church cannot be built up.
2. The elders shepherding should be Christs shepherding through them.
D.
As the Shepherd of our souls, the pneumatic Christ oversees our
inward condition, caring for the situation of our inner being—2:25:
1. He shepherds us by caring for the welfare of our soul and by exercising His oversight over the condition of our inner being.
2.
Because our soul is very complicated, we need Christ, who is the
life-giving Spirit in our spirit, to shepherd us in our soul, to take
care of our mind, emotion, and will and of our problems, needs, and
wounds.
§ Day 3
IV.
In order to shepherd according to God, we need to become one with God,
be constituted with God, live God, express God, represent God, and
minister God:
A.
Shepherding according to God requires us to be one with God and to be
constituted with Him—John 14:20; 1 Cor. 6:17; Eph. 3:17a; Col.
3:10-11.
B. Only those who live God can shepherd according to God—Phil. 1:21a.
C.
Gods eternal purpose is to work Himself into us as our life so that we
may express Him—Gen. 1:26; Eph. 1:11; 3:11; 2 Tim. 1:9.
D.
As those who shepherd according to God, we need to represent God and
function as the acting God—2 Cor. 1:3-4, 12, 15-16; 2:10; 10:11; 11:2.
E. To shepherd according to God is to minister God to others:
1. How much we can minister God to others depends on our being broken by God for the outflow of life—4:10-12, 16; Heb. 4:12.
2.
If we would minister God to one another, we need to speak words of
grace, truth, spirit, and life, ministering the processed God who has
been wrought into our being—Eph. 3:16-17a; 4:25, 29; John 6:63.
§ Day 4
V. Peter charged the elders to shepherd the flock of God according to God—1 Pet. 5:2:
A. According to God means that we must live God.
B. When we are one with God, we become God and we are God in our shepherding of others.
C. To shepherd according to God is to shepherd according to Gods nature, desire, way, and glory, not according to our preference, interest, purpose, and disposition.
D. To shepherd according to God is to shepherd according to what God is in His attributes.
E. In order to shepherd according to God, we need to become God in life, nature, expression, and function:
1. We need to be filled to the brim with the divine life, enjoying the Triune God as the fountain, the spring, and the river to become a totality of the divine life, even to become the divine life itself—John 4:14; Col. 3:4.
2. We need to become God in His attributes of love, light, righteousness, and holiness.
3. We need to be the reproduction of Christ, the expression of God, so that in our shepherding we express God, not the self with its disposition and peculiarities.
4. We need to become God in His function of shepherding the flock of God according to what He is and according to His goal in His economy.
§ Day 5 & Day 6
VI. The shepherding that builds up the Body of Christ is a mutual shepherding—1 Cor. 12:23-26:
A. All of us need to be under the organic shepherding of Christ and be one with Him to shepherd others—John 21:15-17.
B. All believers, regardless of their growth in life, need shepherding.
C. We all have defects and shortcomings and need others to shepherd us.
D. We are both sheep and shepherds, shepherding and being shepherded in mutuality.
E. Through this mutual shepherding, the Body builds itself up in love—Eph. 4:16.
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