晨興聖言-信徒(一)-(W03-1)
第三週 • 週一
晨興餧養
太三11~12 我是將你們浸在水裏，叫你們悔改；但那在我以後來的，能力比我更大，…祂要將你們浸在聖靈與火裏。祂手裏拿着揚場的簸箕，要揚淨祂的禾場，把祂的麥子收在倉裏，把糠秕用不滅的火燒盡了。
新約用生命的麥子象徵信徒〔參太三12〕。…那些由麥子所表徵的人，裏面有生命；他們是神活的兒女。主耶穌要把他們浸在聖靈裏（11），並要把他們提去，收在空中的倉裏。…我們需要從水和靈生（約三5）。…這樣我們就重生成為神的兒女，成為由生命的麥子所象徵的信徒；這些麥子要被收在主的倉裏（新約總論第五冊，一○五至一○六頁）。
信息選讀
我們要來看，神的生命在我們裏面所遇到的難處。
神的生命在人身上，所遇到的第一個難處，可說是『不認識』的難處。每一個人得救，作了基督徒後，難得會沒有自己的想法，沒有自己的觀念。…我們裏面的觀念，都是在黑暗裏，叫我們不能認識生命，認識基督。
好比我們…剛受浸，就有個觀念要大發熱心，廣傳福音。然而…早晨…我們禱告神，與神交通時，這位活的基督在你我裏面，把我們摸了一下；祂在你我裏面，不斷的運行，把我們裏面推動了起來，結果故事就來了。…祂不停的運行，使我們看見，從前…責怪丈夫，埋怨別人，是不合宜的，應當去向他們認罪。這樣一來，我們的面子就得丟下，到他們面前，對他們說，『我從前實在對不起你，也實在得罪了神，現在求你饒恕我。』這就是基督在我們裏面的故事。
我們若真認識主，當早晨我們向主禱告，主在我們裏面運行，給我們感覺，要我們向妻子認罪，我們在禱告過後，就當謙卑下來，到妻子面前承認已過的不是。承認之後，就要對主說，『主阿，感謝你，你在我裏面所運行的，我跟從了。我沒有揀選，沒有自己的觀念；我所揀選的只有你，只有你的觀念。』我們若肯這樣作，那位活的基督就會非常有地位、有機會，〔再向我們說話，〕給我們感覺。這樣繼續運行的結果，就會運行到對待別人的事上，可能會摸着我們對待人的不當。這時，我們必須只要基督，不要面子，不要自尊，到人跟前，承認自己已往的不當。如此，我們裏面的基督，自然會越發有地位。
其次，生命在我們裏面所遇到的難處，就是假冒。從前在南京召會，有位姊妹說話慢慢的，走起路來輕輕的，無論作甚麼都是輕聲細語的。所以，南京召會的負責弟兄們都認為她很屬靈；然而實在說，那是假冒的屬靈。我們必須知道慢不一定是生命，快也不一定不是生命。
生命就是神自己，生命就是基督，生命就是聖靈。凡不是神、基督、聖靈的，就不是生命。所以，那些無論多麼彀得上道德標準，甚至超過道德標準的，都不一定是生命。
生命…就是不理睬你的天性，不管你的愛好，讓…基督…簡單的在你裏面運行，破碎你自己；這時，你憑着基督在你裏面的運行所作的，就是生命。若是你凡事都憑天性、天然去作，其結果無論是甚麼都是假冒（李常受文集一九五三年第一冊，一六八、一七○至一七二、一七四至一七五、一七七至一七八頁）。
參讀：新約總論，第一百零七篇。
WEEK 3 — DAY 1
Morning Nourishment
Matt. 3:11-12 I baptize you in water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is stronger than I…He Himself will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire, whose winnowing fan is in His hand. And He will thoroughly cleanse His threshing floor and will gather His wheat into the barn, but the chaff He will burn up with unquenchable fire.
The New Testament uses the wheat of life to symbolize the believers [cf. Matt. 3:12]…Those symbolized by wheat have life within; they are the living children of God. The Lord Jesus will baptize them in the Holy Spirit (v. 11) and gather them into His barn in heaven by rapture…We need to be born of water and of the Spirit (John 3:5)…In this way we are regenerated to become children of God, the believers symbolized by the wheat of life, which will be gathered into the Lord’s barn. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 1151-1152)
Todays Reading
We need to see the obstacles that God’s life encounters in us.
The first problem that God’s life encounters in man is the problem of ignorance. After any person is saved and becomes a Christian, he still has his thoughts and concepts…All our human concepts are in darkness, and they prevent us from knowing life and Christ.
As soon as we are baptized, we typically think that we should be zealous and preach the gospel. However, when we pray and fellowship with God in the morning, the living Christ in us may touch us in a different way according to His constant operation and move in us. Then things truly begin to happen in us. For example, as He operates in us, we will see that some things we may have done in the past are inappropriate, such as…blaming our husbands and complaining about others. We will even have a sense that we should apologize. Therefore, we need to lose our face and go to those whom we have offended and say, “I am truly sorry about how I treated you in the past. I also offended God. Now I ask you to please forgive me.” This is what Christ is doing in us.
If we genuinely know the Lord, when we pray to Him in the morning, He will move in us and give us a sense of our need to apologize to our wife. After praying, we should humble ourselves and apologize for our past wrongdoings to our wife. After apologizing, we need to say to the Lord, “O Lord, thank You. I have obeyed Your moving in me. I have no choice; I do not want to have my own concept. You are my only choice and my only concept.” If we would all do this, the living Christ would have more ground and opportunity to speak to us and to give us even more feelings. The result of this continual operation would spread to our dealings with others, or it may touch our wrong actions toward others. At such moments we need to care only for Christ, not for our face or self-esteem. We need to go to people and apologize for our past wrongdoings. In this way Christ will surely have more ground in us.
The second problem that life encounters in us is hypocrisy. There was a sister in the church in Nanking who spoke slowly and walked softly; everything she did was soft and gentle. Consequently, all the responsible brothers in the church in Nanking thought that she was very spiritual. However, strictly speaking, this was a false spirituality. We need to see that being slow is not necessarily of life and being quick is not necessarily of life.
Life is God Himself, life is Christ, and life is the Holy Spirit. Anything that is not of God, Christ, or the Holy Spirit is not life. Hence, regardless of how much a person can meet—and even go beyond—the standard of morality, this is still not necessarily life.
The expression of life involves the rejection of our natural disposition and preference and simply allowing Christ to operate in us and break us. Then our actions through the inner operation of Christ will be of life. If we always do things according to our disposition and natural being, the outcome will always be hypocrisy. (CWWL, 1953, vol. 1, “Knowing Life and the Church,” pp. 131-135, 137-138)
Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 107
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