晨興聖言-信徒(一)-(W10-1)

第十週 • 週一

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晨興餧養

腓三10   使我認識基督、並祂復活的大能、以及同祂受苦的交通,模成祂的死。

約六57   活的父怎樣差我來,我又因父活着,照樣,那喫我的人,也要因我活着。


在腓立比三章十節保羅說到『模成祂的死』,這發表指明保羅渴望以基督的死作他生活的模子。以認識基督為至寶、將萬事看作虧損、贏得基督、給人看出是在祂裏面、認識祂、認識祂復活的大能,以及認識同祂受苦的交通,結果都產生一件事—模成基督的死。

保羅一直過釘十字架的生活,就是在十字架下的生活,正如基督在祂為人的生活中所過的。藉着這種模成基督之死的生活,保羅就經歷並享受基督復活的大能。基督之死的模子,是指基督經歷不斷的將祂屬人的生命治死,使祂得以憑神的生命活着(約六57)。…藉着過釘十字架的生活,祂就向神活着,並且活神。祂一直治死祂屬人的生命,使祂裏面神聖的生命能流露出來(十10~11、17)。祂活着的時候,也是一直在死—向着舊造死,好使祂能過新造裏的生活(新約總論第十二冊,三五頁)。

信息選讀

基督復活的大能,就是使祂從死人中復活的復活生命(弗一19~20)。基督復活大能的實際,乃是那靈(羅一4)。…我們要經歷基督復活的大能,就需要像祂一樣,過釘十字架的生活。我們模成祂的死,就叫祂復活的大能據以興起,使祂神聖的生命在我們身上彰顯出來。…基督復活的大能乃是為着產生並建造基督的身體。我們若把自己擺在一邊,並留在十字架的死底下,就會享受復活的大能。立刻,復活的大能就會產生身體。

腓立比三章十節『同祂受苦的交通』這辭,是指有分於基督的受苦(太二十22~23,西一24)。這是模成祂的死,經歷祂復活大能的必要條件(提後二11)。…對於基督,受苦和死在先,復活在後;對於我們,祂復活的大能在先,然後纔是有分於祂的受苦,模成祂的死。我們首先接受祂復活的大能,然後藉着這大能,就能有分於祂的受苦,過釘十字架的生活,模成祂的死。這樣的受苦,主要的是為着產生並建造基督的身體(西一24)。

基督所受的苦難有兩類:一類是為成功救贖,這已經由基督自己完成了;另一類是為產生並建造召會,這需要使徒和信徒將其補滿(24)。我們不能有分於基督救贖的苦難,但我們必須有分於基督產生並建造祂身體的苦難(參啟一9,提後二10,林後一5~6,四12,六8~11)。基督是神的羔羊,為着救贖受苦(約一29);基督是一粒麥子,為着繁殖和建造受苦(十二24)。…那一粒麥子還沒有完成為建造身體所需的全部苦難;我們這許多子粒,必須像那一粒麥子那樣的受苦(24~26)。我們是這許多子粒,也必須藉着死喪失魂生命,纔能在復活裏享受這永遠的生命(25)。我們若服事主,就當跟從祂,在這喪失魂生命而活在祂復活裏的路上與祂同行(26)。召會產生並擴增的路,不是藉着人的榮耀,乃是藉着十字架的死(新約總論第十二冊,三三至三五頁)。

參讀:經歷基督,第十九章。

WEEK 10 — DAY 1

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Morning Nourishment

Phil. 3:10 To know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death.

John 6:57 As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me.

In Philippians 3:10 Paul spoke of “being conformed to His death.” This expression indicates that Paul desired to take Christ’s death as the mold of his life. The excellency of the knowledge of Christ, counting all things as loss, gaining Christ, being found in Him, knowing Him, knowing the power of His resurrection, and knowing the fellowship of His sufferings all issue in one thing—being conformed to Christ’s death.

Paul lived a crucified life continually, a life under the cross, just as Christ did in His human living. Through such a life of being molded to Christ’s death, Paul experienced and enjoyed the resurrection power of Christ. The mold of Christ’s death refers to Christ’s experience of continually putting to death His human life that He might live by the life of God (John 6:57)…By living a crucified life He was alive to God and lived Him. He always put His human life to death so that the divine life within Him could flow out (10:10- 11, 17). As He was living, He was also dying—dying to the old creation in order to live a life in the new creation. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3507-3508)

Todays Reading

The power of Christ’s resurrection is His resurrection life, which raised Him from the dead (Eph. 1:19-20). The reality of the power of Christ’s resurrection is the Spirit (Rom. 1:4)…To experience the power of Christ’s resurrection, we need to live a crucified life, as He did. Our conformity to His death affords the power of His resurrection a base from which to rise up that His divine life may be expressed in us…The power of Christ’s resurrection is for the producing and building up of the Body. If we put ourselves aside and remain under the death of the cross, we will enjoy the power of resurrection. Spontaneously, the power of resurrection experienced by us will produce the Body.

The expression the fellowship of His sufferings in Philippians 3:10 refers to the participation in Christ’s sufferings (Matt. 20:22-23; Col. 1:24), a necessary condition for the experience of the power of His resurrection (2 Tim. 2:11) by being conformed to His death…With Christ, the sufferings and death came first, followed by the resurrection; with us, the power of His resurrection comes first, followed by the participation in His sufferings and conformity to His death. We first receive the power of His resurrection; then by this power we are enabled to participate in His sufferings and live a crucified life in conformity to His death. Such sufferings are mainly for producing and building up the Body of Christ (Col. 1:24).

Christ’s sufferings are of two categories: those for accomplishing redemption, which were completed by Christ Himself, and those for producing and building the church, which need to be filled up by the apostles and the believers (v. 24). We cannot participate in Christ’s suffering for redemption, but we must take part in the sufferings of Christ for the producing and building up of the Body (cf. Rev. 1:9; 2 Tim. 2:10; 2 Cor. 1:5-6; 4:12; 6:8-11). Christ as the Lamb of God suffered for redemption (John 1:29); Christ as the grain of wheat suffered for reproducing and building (12:24)… The one grain did not complete all the sufferings that are needed for the building up of the Body; as the many grains, we must suffer in the same way the one grain suffered (vv. 24-26). As the many grains, we also must lose our soul-life through death that we may enjoy eternal life in resurrection (v. 25). This is to follow Him that we may serve Him and walk with Him on the way of losing the soul-life and living in resurrection (v. 26). The way for the church to come into being and to increase is not by human glory but by the death of the cross. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3506-3507)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1978, vol. 1, “The Experience of Christ,” ch. 19

 

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