晨興聖言-信徒(一)-(W04-6)
第四週 • 週六
晨興餧養
弗一18 光照你們的心眼,使你們知道祂的呼召有何等盼望;祂在聖徒中之基業的榮耀,有何等豐富。
13 你們既聽了真理的話,就是那叫你們得救的福音,也在祂裏面信了,就在祂裏面受了所應許的聖靈為印記。
作為神的後嗣,信徒與基督同作後嗣,是照着永遠生命的應許和盼望,藉着因基督的恩典得稱義,並在基督的復活裏得重生,得以承受三一神作他們的基業,有聖靈作憑質,得以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,得以與基督同得榮耀,並得以承受那存留在諸天之上作活的盼望的基業。這要完成于信徒成為神所選定的基業。…〔以弗所一章十一節裏〕『成了所選定的基業』,原文…意選擇,或抽籤指定。因此全句意即,我們在祂裏面被標明為所選定的基業。我們成了所選定的基業,以承受神作基業。一面我們成了神的基業(18),給神享受;一面我們承受神作我們的基業(14),給我們享受。…藉着三一神作到我們裏面,我們被構成基業。神的元素作到我們這人裏面,我們就成為祂在實際裏的基業。所以,我們仍在成為神完滿基業的過程中(新約總論第五冊,三七至三八頁)。
信息選讀
以弗所一章十八節指明神的基業是在聖徒中。神先使我們成為祂的基業,作祂所買的產業,又使我們分享祂的一切所是、所有並所完成的,作我們的基業。總結起來,這一切成了祂在聖徒中的基業,直到永遠。…神的基業在聖徒中,也在聖徒中間。我們聖徒是神的基業。然而,我們天然的所是不能作神的基業。神不願承受我們的天然、我們的肉體、我們天然的人。祂渴望承受祂自己作到我們裏面的一切。因此,凡神自己所作到我們裏面的一切,就成為祂的基業。
我們既是神的基業,就受了聖靈為印記(13)。…因為我們已成了神所選定的基業,在我們得救時,神就把聖靈放在我們裏面作印記,將我們標出,指明我們是屬神的。…事實上,那靈自己就是印記。受了聖靈為印記,意思就是神已分賜到我們裏面。因此,這印記在我們裏面是活的、活動的,因那靈一直用神的素質印塗我們。這樣被印塗,就是被神一切的所是浸透。因此,聖靈的印塗也指明神正作到我們裏面。藉着那靈的印塗,神正將祂的素質作到我們裏面,使祂能享受我們,就是祂所買的產業,作祂的基業。
那構成神在聖徒中之基業的,乃是在我們裏面的神自己。在這基業中有神榮耀的豐富。…信徒因着被神聖的素質所浸透,對祂就成為寶貴的。…如今這價值無匹的寶貴之神,正將祂自己作到我們裏面,使我們成為祂榮耀的基業。當新耶路撒冷來臨時,我們將看見這全然是寶貴的基業,憑神的榮耀而照耀。
我們得救以後是神的兒女、神的兒子、神性情的有分者和神的後嗣。我們是神的後嗣,享受祂作我們的基業,我們也成為祂的基業給祂享受。因此,我們對神聖基業的享受,完成于我們成為神的基業。我們享受神。然後我們對祂的享受,使我們成為祂的享受(新約總論第五冊,三八至四○頁)。
參讀:新約總論,第一百零一篇。
WEEK 4 — DAY 6
Morning Nourishment
Eph. 1:18 The eyes of your heart having been enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of His calling, and what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.
13 In whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, in Him also believing, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise.
As heirs of God, the believers are joint heirs of Christ according to the promise and the hope of eternal life, through justification by the grace of Christ and regeneration in the resurrection of Christ, to inherit the Triune God as their inheritance with the Holy Spirit as the pledge, to share with all the saints in the light the Triune God embodied in Christ as their portion, to be glorified with Christ, and to inherit an inheritance kept in the heavens as a living hope. This consummates in the believers being made God’s inheritance…The Greek word rendered “were designated as an inheritance” [in Ephesians 1:11] means “to choose” or “assign by lot.” Hence, this clause literally means we were designated as a heritage. We were made an inheritance to inherit God’s inheritance. On the one hand, we were made God’s inheritance (v. 18) for God’s enjoyment; on the other hand, we were made to inherit God as our inheritance (v. 14) for our enjoyment… It is by having the Triune God wrought into us that we are constituted into an inheritance. As God’s element is wrought into our being, we become His inheritance in reality. Therefore, we are still in the process of being made God’s inheritance in full. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 1092)
Todays Reading
Ephesians 1:18 indicates that God’s inheritance is in the saints. First God made us His inheritance as His acquired possession and gave us to participate in all He is, all He has, and all He has accomplished as our inheritance. Consummately, all these become His inheritance in the saints for eternity. God’s inheritance is in and among the saints. We, the saints, are God’s inheritance. However, what we are by nature cannot be God’s inheritance. God does not desire to inherit our nature, our flesh, our natural being. He desires to inherit all that He has wrought into us of Himself. Therefore, whatever God has wrought into us of Himself becomes His inheritance.
As those who are God’s inheritance, we have been sealed with the Holy Spirit (v. 13)…Because we have been made God’s inheritance, at the time we were saved God put His Holy Spirit into us as a seal to mark us out, indicating that we belong to God. Actually the Spirit Himself is the seal. To be sealed with the Holy Spirit means that God has been dispensed into our being. Hence, this seal is living and moving within us, for the Spirit is constantly sealing us with God’s essence. To be sealed in this way is to be saturated with all that God is. Therefore, the sealing of the Holy Spirit also indicates that God is being wrought into us. Through the sealing of the Spirit, God is working His essence into our being that He may enjoy us, His acquired possession, as His inheritance.
It is God Himself within us who constitutes His inheritance among the saints. In this inheritance are the riches of God’s glory…The believers become precious to Him by being saturated with the divine essence…Now this precious God of matchless worth is working Himself into us to make us His glorious inheritance. When the New Jerusalem comes, we shall see that it will be altogether a valuable inheritance, shining with God’s glory.
After being saved, we are children of God, sons of God, partakers of the divine nature, and heirs of God. As heirs of God, we enjoy Him as our inheritance, and we become His inheritance for His enjoyment. Therefore, our enjoyment of the divine inheritance consummates in our being made God’s inheritance. We enjoy God. Then our enjoyment of Him makes us His enjoyment. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 1092-1094)
Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 101
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