晨興聖言-信徒(一)-(W04-4)

第四週 • 週四

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彼前一3~4 我們主耶穌基督的神與父是當受頌讚的,祂曾照自己的大憐憫,藉耶穌基督從死人中復活,重生了我們,使我們有活的盼望,可以得着不能朽壞、不能玷污、不能衰殘,為你們存留在諸天之上的基業。

 

我們需要對這事實有深刻的印象:我們的基業是三一神自己。…我們基業的憑質是聖靈。…物質的大廈不需要那靈神聖的人位作憑質、樣品、豫嘗和擔保。我們基業的憑質既是神聖的人位,就基業也必是神聖的人位—三一神自己。三一神是神要賜給我們的基業,而那靈作為三一神臨到我們的終極完成,乃是這基業的憑質。那靈作我們基業的憑質,擔保三一神要作我們的分,給我們享受。這是三一神作我們的基業(新約總論第五冊,三○至三一頁)。

信息選讀

以弗所一章十四節說,那靈是我們得基業的憑質,為使神所買的產業得贖。我們蒙神救贖的人—召會,乃是神用基督的寶血所買的產業(徒二十28)。在神的經綸裏,神成了我們的基業,我們也成了神的產業。我們是神的產業,但我們的身體仍需要得贖,因我們的身體仍在舊造裏。…一面,三一神是我們的基業;另一面,我們是祂的產業。以弗所一章十四節裏要緊的事,乃是那靈質押到我們裏面,擔保神要完滿地作我們的基業。…在榮耀裏,我們要享受神作我們的基業,祂也要享受我們作祂的產業。

我們的基業不是任何物質的事物。神聖的三一是我們的基業,並且祂那終極完成的靈已分賜到我們這人裏面作憑質。如今這憑質在我們裏面作工,救贖神的產業,直到我們享受祂作我們的分,祂也享受我們作祂產業的日子。

彼前一章三節告訴我們,藉着基督的復活,我們蒙了重生,使我們有活的盼望。然後四節繼續說,『可以得着不能朽壞、不能玷污、不能衰殘,為你們存留在諸天之上的基業。』三節末了是一個逗點,而四節開始於『可以得着』。這指明四節的『可以得着…基業』,與三節『使…有活的盼望』是同位語。這就是說,活的盼望就是基業,基業就是活的盼望。由重生所得活的盼望,乃是我們對要來之福的期望;基業乃是我們的盼望在來世和永世中的實現。…活的盼望是生命的盼望,特別是永遠生命的盼望。永遠的生命是我們的享受,也是我們的基業。神所是的一切豐富,都包含在祂的生命裏。這些豐富成了我們…的基業。我們每天對永遠生命的經歷,也是對那為我們存留在諸天上之基業的經歷和享受。這指明活的盼望與基業乃是一。

藉着我們第二次的出生,重生,我們已生入新的基業。照着彼前一章四節,這基業不是在地上,乃是存留在諸天之上。雖然這基業為我們存留在諸天之上,但我們現今在地上就能享受這基業。我們屬天、神聖、屬靈的基業是存留在諸天之上,但這基業卻不斷傳輸到我們靈裏,作我們的享受。

三一神自己是我們基本的基業。與祂作我們基業有關的,有五件其他的事:將來魂的救恩、主來臨時要顯現的恩、將要顯出的榮耀、不能衰殘的榮耀冠冕以及永遠的榮耀。這五項加在一起,乃是與神自己有關的次要基業。這些專案雖不是直接指三一神,卻與神聖的生命,就是與神自己有關(新約總論第五冊,三一至三二、三四至三五、三七頁)。

參讀:新約總論,第一百零一篇。


WEEK 4 — DAY 4

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Morning Nourishment

1 Pet. 1:3-4 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has regenerated us unto a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, unto an inheritance, incorruptible and undefiled and unfading, kept in the heavens for you.

We need to be impressed with the fact that our inheritance is the Triune God Himself…The pledge of our inheritance is the Holy Spirit…A material mansion would not need the divine person of the Spirit as a pledge, sample, foretaste, and guarantee. Since the pledge of our inheritance is a divine person, the inheritance must also be a divine person—the Triune God Himself. The Triune God is the inheritance God intends to give to us, and the Spirit as the ultimate consummation of the Triune God reaching us is the pledge of this inheritance. As the pledge of our inheritance, the Spirit guarantees that the Triune God will be our portion for our enjoyment. This is the Triune God as our inheritance. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 1086)

Todays Reading

Ephesians 1:14 says that the Spirit is the pledge of our inheritance unto the redemption of the acquired possession. We, God’s redeemed ones, the church, are God’s possession acquired by His purchase with the precious blood of Christ (Acts 20:28). In God’s economy God becomes our inheritance, and we become God’s possession. As God’s possession, we still need the redemption of our body, for our body is still in the old creation… On the one hand, the Triune God is our inheritance; on the other hand, we are His possession. The crucial matter in Ephesians 1:14 is that the Spirit is pledged into us as a guarantee that God will be our inheritance in full…In the glory, we shall enjoy God as our inheritance, and He will enjoy us as His possession.

Our inheritance is not anything material. The Divine Trinity is our inheritance, and His consummated Spirit has been imparted into our being as a pledge. Now this pledge is working within us to redeem God’s possession until the day we enjoy Him as our portion and He enjoys us as His possession.

First Peter 1:3 tells us that through the resurrection of Christ we have been  regenerated unto a living hope. Then verse 4 goes on to say, “Unto an inheritance, incorruptible and undefiled and unfading, kept in the heavens for you.” At the end of verse 3 there is a comma, and verse 4 begins with “unto.” This indicates that “unto an inheritance” in verse 4 is in apposition to “unto a living hope” in verse 3. This means that the living hope is the inheritance and that the inheritance is the living hope. A living hope, resulting from regeneration, is our expectation of the coming blessing; an inheritance is the fulfillment of our hope in the coming age and in eternity. A living hope is a hope of life. In particular, it is a hope of eternal life. Eternal life is our enjoyment and also our inheritance. All the riches of God’s being are involved in His life. These riches have become our inheritance…Our daily experience of eternal life is also an experience and enjoyment of the inheritance kept for us in the heavens. This indicates that the living hope and the inheritance are one.

Through our second birth, regeneration, we have been born into a new inheritance. According to 1 Peter 1:4, this inheritance is not on earth; rather, it is kept in the heavens. Although this inheritance is kept for us in the heavens, we can enjoy it now on earth. Our heavenly, divine, spiritual inheritance is kept in the heavens; yet it is continually being transmitted into our spirit for our enjoyment.

The Triune God Himself will be our basic inheritance. Related to Him as our inheritance we have five other matters: the coming salvation of our souls, the grace to be revealed at the Lord’s coming, the glory to be revealed to us, the unfading crown of glory, and the eternal glory. These five items, added together, are a subsidiary inheritance related to God Himself. Although these items are not the Triune God directly, they are related to the divine life, which is God Himself. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 1086-1087, 1089-1092)

Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 101 

 

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