晨興聖言-信徒(一)-(W04-5)
第四週 • 週五
晨興餧養
徒二六18 我差你到他們那裏去,叫他們的眼睛得開,從黑暗轉入光中,從撒但權下轉向神,又因信入我,得蒙赦罪,並在一切聖別的人中得着基業。
腓三21 祂要按着祂那甚至能叫萬有歸服自己的動力,將我們這卑賤的身體改變形狀,使之同形于祂榮耀的身體。
信徒在作神後嗣的身分裏,在光中與眾聖徒同享具體化在基督裏的三一神,作他們的分。行傳二十六章十八節說到因信入基督得蒙赦罪,以及在聖別的人中得着基業。…這神聖的基業乃是三一神自己並祂所有的、所作成的,以及為祂贖民所要作的一切。這位三一神具體化在包羅萬有的基督裏面(西二9);這基督是分給眾聖徒的分,作他們的基業(一12)。聖靈乃是這神聖基業的豫嘗、憑質和保證。…我們今天有分並享受這基業作為豫嘗;來世和永遠裏還要完滿的享受這基業(彼前一4)(新約總論第五冊,三二頁)。
信息選讀
信徒一般受教導說,行傳二十六章十八節裏的基業是天堂。但這裏的基業實際上乃是基督這經過過程之三一神的具體化身。…保羅說,父叫我們彀資格在光中同得『所分給眾聖徒的分』〔西一12〕。
美地豫表包羅萬有的基督賜給我們,作我們的基業。歌羅西一章十二節的『分』,原文也可譯為業分,指一塊土地。毫無疑問,當保羅寫這節時,心裏有分美地給以色列人的圖畫(書十四1),並且以舊約對土地的記載為背景,而用『分』這字。…正如迦南地對以色列人是一切;照樣,基督是美地這豫表的實際,對我們也是一切。因此,基督這位經過過程之三一神的具體化身,乃是我們在光中與眾聖徒同得的基業。
基督如今是在榮耀裏。至終我們要被帶進榮耀裏,與基督同得榮耀。當我們得榮耀時,我們卑賤的身體要改變形狀,成為榮耀的身體(腓三21)。那時候我們要完全、絕對的被帶進作我們榮耀的神自己裏面。然後我們要與基督一同顯現在榮耀裏(西三4)。
我們有些人也許對得榮嚴守一種客觀的觀念。照着這觀念,那些得救並重生的人,要忽然得榮耀。他們想像信徒的得榮要在主耶穌來臨時瞬間發生。但我們的得榮雖然看起來是忽然發生的事,實際上卻是在生命裏逐漸長大並發展之過程的完成。藉着重生,榮耀的生命已進入我們裏面,如今我們裏面有榮耀的種子。我們裏面所有作種子的生命,乃是榮耀的生命(一27)。至終,這種子要開花,這樣我們就要被帶進榮耀裏。這就像主耶穌的變化形像(太十七1~2)。主在山上變化形像時,並不是神的榮耀忽然從諸天之上降在祂身上,乃是神聖的榮耀從祂裏面照耀出來。同樣,我們要被帶進其中的榮耀,乃是現今那在我們裏面的榮耀照耀出來。這就是說,基督不是引導我們進入某種客觀的榮耀,乃是引導我們進入那作為種子已撒在我們裏面的榮耀。所以,得榮耀就是說,那作為種子已撒在我們裏面的榮耀,浸透了我們全人。當我們被榮耀的元素飽和並浸透時,那榮耀就從我們透出來。這就是我們這些神的後嗣與基督同得榮耀的意思(新約總論第五冊,三二至三四頁)。
參讀:新約總論,第一百零一篇。
WEEK 4 — DAY 5
Morning Nourishment
Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.
Phil. 3:21 Who will transfigure the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of His glory…
In their status as heirs of God, the believers share with all the saints in the light the Triune God embodied in Christ as their portion. Acts 26:18 speaks of the forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Christ…This divine inheritance is the Triune God with all He has, all He has done, and all He will do for His redeemed people. This Triune God is embodied in the all-inclusive Christ (Col. 2:9), who is the portion allotted to the saints as their inheritance (1:12). The Holy Spirit is the pledge, the guarantee, of this divine inheritance, which we are sharing and enjoying today as a foretaste and will share and enjoy in full in the coming age and for eternity (1 Pet. 1:4). (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 1087-1088)
Todays Reading
Believers are generally taught that the inheritance in Acts 26:18 is a heavenly mansion. But this inheritance is actually Christ as the embodiment of the processed Triune God…Paul says that the Father has qualified us “for a share of the allotted portion of the saints in the light” [Col. 1:12].
The good land is a type of the all-inclusive Christ given to us as our inheritance. The Greek word rendered “portion” in Colossians 1:12 can also be rendered “lot,” referring to an allotment. When Paul was writing this verse, he no doubt had in mind the picture of the allotting of the good land to the children of Israel (Josh. 14:1) and used the word portion with the Old Testament record of the land as the background…Just as the land of Canaan was everything to the children of Israel, so Christ, the reality of the type of the good land, is everything to us. Therefore, Christ, the embodiment of the processed Triune God, is our inheritance, which we share with all the saints in the light.
Christ is now in glory. Eventually we shall be brought into glory and be glorified with Christ. When we are glorified, the body of our humiliation will be transfigured into a glorious body (Phil. 3:21). At that time we shall be completely and absolutely brought into God Himself as our glory. Then we shall appear with Christ in glory (Col. 3:4).
Some of us may hold strictly an objective concept of glorification. According to this concept, those who have been saved and regenerated will suddenly be glorified. Supposedly, the glorification of the believers will take place instantaneously at the coming of the Lord Jesus. But although our glorification may appear to be a sudden occurrence, it will actually be the consummation of a process of gradual growth and development in life. Through regeneration the life of glory has come into us, and now we have a seed of glory within us. The life that we have within us as a seed is the life of glory. This is Christ in us, the hope of glory (1:27). Eventually, this seed will blossom, and thereby we shall be brought into glory. It will be like the transfiguration of the Lord Jesus (Matt. 17:1-2). When the Lord was transfigured on the mountaintop, it was not that the shekinah glory suddenly came upon Him from the heavens; it was that the divine glory shone from within Him. Likewise, the glory into which we shall be brought is the out- shining of the very glory that is within us right now. This means that Christ is not leading us into some objective glory but into the very glory that has been sown into us as a seed. Therefore, to be glorified means to have the glory that has been sown into us as a seed saturate our whole being. When we have been permeated and saturated with the element of glory, that glory will come out of us. This is what it means for us, the heirs of God, to be glorified with Christ. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 1088-1089)
Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 101
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