晨興聖言-信徒(一)-(W03-綱要)

第三週 • 綱目

生命的麥子、好種、地上的鹽、世上的光和得人的漁夫

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讀經：太三12，十三38，五13~16，四16~20

週　一

壹　信徒由生命的麥子所象徵；這些麥子要被收在主的倉裏—太三11~12，十三24~30、38~42：

一　信徒是麥子，裏面有神聖的生命；生命乃是神自己給人享受—詩三六7~9，約一4，十10，十四6，六63。

二　我們若要基督的生命在我們裏面不受攔阻，就必須經歷十字架的破碎，就是基督在包羅萬有之靈裏的治死，使我們裏面的障礙能受對付並被除去，如下所述：

1　作基督徒的意思是，顧到我們裏面活的基督，並且不以基督之外的任何事物為目標；這事的障礙乃是不認識生命的路線，並且不以基督為我們的生命—太七13~14，腓三8~14，西三4，羅八28~29。

2　第二個障礙是假冒為善；人的屬靈不是以外貌來斷定，乃是以如何對待基督來斷定—太六1~6，十五7~8，約五44，十二42~43，參書七21。

週　二

3　第三個障礙是背叛；我們也許作事非常主動熱心，卻仍忽畧活的基督，而將祂監禁在我們裏面，並且不服從祂—利十四9、14~18，十一1~2、46~47，羅十六17，林前十五33。

4　第四個障礙是我們天然的才能；我們身上的這些天然才能若沒有破碎，就會成為基督生命的難處—二14~15，三12~17，猶19~21。

週三、週四

貳　信徒由好種所象徵，就是主所撒的國度之子，要在祂的國裏長大—太十三24、38：

一　種子是神的話（4、19，路八11），基督自己（彼前一23），撒在我們裏面，使我們成為好種，就是復活的眾子（太十三38，路二十36~38）。

二　神的話像麥粒，將神當作生命分賜到我們裏面，滋養我們；此外，話也像火焚燒我們和我們所信靠的許多事物，話又像大錘打碎我們的己、我們天然的生命、我們的肉體、我們的情欲和我們的觀念—耶二三28~29。

三　我們是好種，必須跟隨主落到地裏死了，在復活裏結出許多子粒；死並經歷十字架，乃是否認並拒絕我們的魂生命、我們天然的生命，而憑神的生命活着—約十二23~26、31~32。

四　好種的撒下是一種殉道，因為『你所種的，若不死就不能生』（林前十五36）；我們能在肉身上、在心理上或在屬靈上作殉道者（提後四6，太十六25，林前十六12，林後二12~14）。

五　基督情感的愛困迫我們，使我們向祂而活而死，並使我們成為祂的殉道者—五14~15，羅八35~37，十四7~9，啟二10，十二11。

六　在我們環境裏耶穌的治死，與內住的靈合作，殺死我們天然的人，並釋放神聖的生命—羅八2、13，林後四10~13，耶四八11。

七　我們對主的一切事奉必須是發源於神，而不是發源於自己，這樣我們讓主的死在我們身上發動，就使祂復活的生命能藉着我們分賜到人裏面—林後四12~13，一8~9，四5，十13：

1　大衛愛神，敬畏神，與神合作，好讓神作工；雖然大衛有能力建造神的殿，但神的話臨到他時，他就停下來—撒下七18、25、27，參路一38。

2　大衛的停下來，建立了宇宙中的雙重見證：第一，這宇宙中的一切工作必須來自神，而不是來自人；第二，要緊的是神為人作甚麼，而不是人為神作甚麼。

3　殿的建造者和殿址，都出自於大衛的罪孽得着赦免，出自神為大衛所作的—撒下十二24~25，二四1~10、18~25，代上二一18，代下三1，詩五一。

4　和受恩（M. E. Barber）姊妹說，『凡不能為神的緣故不作工的，都不能為神的緣故作工。』

叁　信徒是地上的鹽，就是在地上殺菌防腐的人—太五13，參利二13：

一　羅得的妻子變成一根鹽柱，失去她鹽的功能，是因她留戀所多瑪，回頭觀望；這指明她貪愛並寶貝神所即將毀滅的邪惡世界—創十九15、24~26，路十七32。

二　我們在跟從主的生涯中，必須為此奉獻我們的一切所有和所能作的；否則，我們就會失敗，成為失了味的鹽，從榮耀的範圍裏，被扔進羞愧的範圍—十四31~35，參啟三21，約十六33。

三　我們不該灰心或失望，乃該憑着經過過程並終極完成的三一神作全豐全足的恩典，得着加強並加力，而能活出神聖的經綸—林前十五10，林後十二9，提後四22，西四6。

週　五

肆　信徒是世上的光，就是讓他們的光照在人前，消除世界黑暗的人—太五14~16，弗五8：

一　光是神的同在；因着我們由神而生，我們現今在主裏乃是光，行事為人要像光的兒女—約壹一5，弗五8~9。

二　蒙拯救脫離着迷、自欺的路，乃是活在光中，向神的光照敞開，而不自己造光—詩三六8~9，八十17~19，一三九23~24，約壹一5、7、9，賽二5，五十10~11：

1　着迷之人的現象是，他所想所作的完全是錯的，卻自以為並相信他完全是對的—太六22~23，賽五20。

2　犯罪是污穢的問題；一個人犯了罪，卻相信自己沒有犯罪，還以為是對的，乃是黑暗的問題—約壹一8、10。

3　着迷、自欺的原因乃是不愛光倒愛黑暗（約三19~20）；驕傲（俄3）；不領受對真理的愛（帖後二10~11，箴二三23）；並且不尋求從獨一之神來的榮耀（約五44）。

三　生命來自光的照耀，光是在神的話裏，並且光是生命的內裏感覺—林後四6，詩一一九105、130，賽六六2，約八12，羅八6、14。

四　『你的眼睛就是身上的燈，你的眼睛單一的時候，全身就明亮；但你的眼睛不專的時候，身體就黑暗。所以你要察看，你裏面的光是否黑暗了。若是你全身明亮，毫無黑暗，就必完全明亮，如同燈的明光照亮你』—路十一34~36。

週　六

伍　信徒是得人的漁夫—太四16~20：

一　作得人的漁夫，就是將人從世界（由海同其死水所表徵）帶出來，帶到諸天的國裏—路五10。

二　將人從世界帶出來，帶到諸天之國裏的路，乃是藉着將國度的福音，就是神完整救恩的福音，傳遍天下—太二四14，路四18~19，弗三8~9。

Week Three

The Wheat of Life, the Good Seed, the Salt of the Earth, the Light of the World, and the Fishers of Men

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Hymns: 395

Scripture Reading: Matt. 3:12; 13:38; 5:13-16; 4:16-20

§ Day 1

I. The believers are symbolized by the wheat of life, which will be gathered into the Lords barn—Matt. 3:11-12; 13:24-30,

A. The believers as the wheat have the divine life within them; life is God Himself enjoyed by man—Psa. 36:7-9; John 1:4; 10:10; 14:6; 6:63. 

B. If we want Christs life to be unhindered in us, we must experience the breaking of the cross, the killing death of Christ in the all-inclusive Spirit, so that the following obstacles within us can be dealt with and removed:

1. Being a Christian means taking care of the living Christ in us and not taking anything other than Christ as our aim; the obstacle to this is in not knowing the pathway of life and not taking Christ as our life—Matt. 7:13-14; Phil. 3:8- 14; Col. 3:4; Rom. 8:28-29.

2. The second obstacle is hypocrisy; a persons spirituality is not determined by outward appearance but by how he takes care of Christ—Matt. 6:1-6; 15:7-8; John 5:44; 12:42-43; cf. Josh. 7:21.

§ Day 2

3. The third obstacle is rebellion; we may be very active and zealous in doing things but still imprison and disobey the living Christ within us by ignoring Him—Lev. 14:9, 14-18; 11:1-2, 46-47; Rom. 16:17; 1 Cor. 15:33.

4. The fourth obstacle is our natural capabilities; if these natural capabilities remain unbroken in us, they will become a problem to Christs life—2:14-15; 3:12-17; Jude 19-21.

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II. The believers are symbolized by the good seed, the sons of the kingdom who are sown by the Lord to grow in His kingdom—Matt. 13:24, 38: 38-42:

A. The seed is the word of God (vv. 4, 19; Luke 8:11), Christ Himself (1 Pet. 1:23), sown into us to make us the good seed, the sons of the resurrection (Matt. 13:38; Luke 20:36-38).

B. The word of God as a grain of wheat dispenses God as life into us to nourish us; also, the word as fire burns us and many of the things in which we have confidence, and the word as a hammer breaks down our self, our natural life, our flesh, our lusts, and our concepts—Jer. 23:28-29.

C. As the good seed, we must follow the Lord into the ground to die and bear much fruit in resurrection; to die and experience the cross is to deny and reject our soul-life, our natural life, to live by the divine life—John 12:23- 26, 31-32.

D. The sowing of the good seed is martyrdom, for "what you sow is not made alive unless it dies" (1 Cor. 15:36); we can be martyrs physically, psychologically, or spiritually (2 Tim. 4:6; Matt. 16:25; 1 Cor. 16:12; 2 Cor. 2:12-14).

E. Christs love of affection constrains us to live and die to Him and makes us martyrs for Him—5:14-15; Rom. 8:35-37; 14:7-9; Rev. 2:10; 12:11.

F. The putting to death of Jesus in our environment cooperates with the indwelling Spirit to kill our natural man and release the divine life—Rom. 8:2, 13; 2 Cor. 4:10-13; Jer. 48:11.

G. All our service to the Lord must originate from God, not from ourselves, as we allow His death to operate in us so that His resurrection life can be imparted through us into others—2 Cor. 4:12-
13; 1:8-9; 4:5; 10:13:

1. David loved God, feared God, and cooperated with God in order to let God work; although he had the ability to build the temple of God, he stopped when Gods word came to him—2 Sam. 7:18, 25, 27; cf. Luke 1:38.

2. Davids stopping established a twofold testimony in the universe: first, all the work in this universe should come from God, not from man; second, all that matters is what God does for man, not what man does for God.

3. The builder of the temple and the site of the temple both came out of Davids being forgiven of his sins, out of what God did for David—2 Sam. 12:24-25; 24:1-10, 18-25; 1 Chron. 21:18; 2 Chron. 3:1; Psa. 51.

4. Sister M. E. Barber said, "Whoever cannot stop working for the sake of God cannot work for the sake of God."

III. The believers are the salt of the earth, those who kill and eliminate the earths germs of corruption and rottenness— Matt. 5:13; cf. Lev. 2:13:

A. Lots wife became a pillar of salt and lost her salting function because she took a lingering look backward at Sodom, indicating that she loved and treasured the evil world that God was going to destroy—Gen. 19:15, 24- 26; Luke 17:32.

B. To make a career of following the Lord, we must give all we have and all we can do to it; otherwise, we will be a failure, becoming the tasteless salt and being thrown out of the glorious realm into a sphere of shame—14:31-35; cf. Rev. 3:21; John 16:33.

C. We should not be disappointed or discouraged but strengthened and enabled to live out the divine economy by the processed and consummated Triune God as the all-sufficient grace—1 Cor. 15:10; 2 Cor. 12:9; 2 Tim. 4:22; Col. 4:6. 

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IV. The believers are the light of the world, those who let their light shine before men to dispel the worlds darkness— Matt. 5:14-16; Eph. 5:8:

A. Light is the presence of God; because we have been born of God, we are now light in the Lord and must walk as children of light—1 John 1:5; Eph. 5:8-9.

B. The way to be saved from obsession, self-deception, is to live in the light, be open to Gods shining, and not generate our own light—Psa. 36:8-9; 80:17-19; 139:23-24; 1 John 1:5, 7, 9; Isa. 2:5; 50:10-11:

1. The symptom of a person who is obsessed is that what he thinks and does are totally wrong, yet he thinks and believes that he is totally right—Matt. 6:22- 23; Isa. 5:20.

2. To have sinned is a matter of defilement; to sin, yet believing that one has not sinned and justifying it, is a matter of darkness—1 John 1:8, 10.

3. The reasons for obsession, self-deception, are loving the darkness rather than the light (John 3:19-20), pride (Obad. 3), not receiving the love of the truth (2 Thes. 2:10-11; Prov. 23:23), and not seeking the glory that is from the only God (John 5:44).

C. Life comes from the shining of light, light is in the word of God, and light is the inner sense of life—2 Cor. 4:6; Psa. 119:105, 130; Isa. 66:2; John 8:12; Rom. 8:6, 14.

D. "The lamp of the body is your eye. When your eye is single, your whole body also is full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is dark. Watch out therefore that the light which is in you is not darkness. If therefore your whole body is full of light and does not have any dark part, the whole will be full of light as when the lamp with its rays illuminates you"—Luke 11:34-36.

§ Day 6

V. The believers are the fishers of men—Matt. 4:16-20:

A. To be a fisher of men is to bring men out of the world, signified by the sea with its death waters, into the kingdom of the heavens—Luke 5:10.

B. The way to bring others out of the world and into the kingdom of the heavens is by preaching the gospel of the kingdom, the gospel of Gods complete salvation, to the whole inhabited earth—Matt. 24:14; Luke 4:18- 19; Eph. 3:8-9.