晨興聖言-信徒(一)-(W12-5)

第十二週 • 週五

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晨興餧養

歌六4    我的佳偶阿,你美麗如得撒,秀美如耶路撒冷,威武如展開旌旗的軍隊。

弗六12~13 因我們並不是與血肉之人摔跤,乃是與那些執政的、掌權的、管轄這黑暗世界的、以及諸天界裏那邪惡的屬靈勢力摔跤。所以要拿起神全副的軍裝…。


最終,佳偶成為展開旌旗的威武軍隊和書拉密女(歌六4下、10下、13)。

當我們與神成為一,作神的居所時,我們在神眼中就美麗如得撒,秀美如耶路撒冷。然而,對仇敵而言,這佳偶,這得勝者威武如展開旌旗的軍隊。旌旗指明豫備好爭戰,也是得了勝利的意思。…當她成為美麗如月亮,皎潔如日頭時,她也成了威武如展開旌旗的軍隊(10)。

她成為園子時,只是園子,但她成為得撒和耶路撒冷時,就有個東西建造起來,表明神的美麗和神的秀美。那時候,神的仇敵戰抖,因為這微小的鄉村女子成了展開旌旗的軍隊。威武的軍隊表徵主的這些得勝者使神的仇敵撒但懼怕,並且在神子民眼中成為威武的。軍隊在神的子民墮落時為神的國爭戰,成為答應主呼召的得勝者(啟二7、11、17、26,三5、12、21)(李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第三冊,四四二至四四四頁)。

信息選讀

〔在雅歌六章四節,〕主…乃是從天上以聖所的眼光來看祂的信徒。所以這是幔子裏的事。

『得撒』乃是王宮的所在(王上十四17)。『耶路撒冷』乃是大君的京城。得撒代表天上的聖所,神的住處。耶路撒冷乃是代表屬天的耶路撒冷。…主現在乃是在這裏察看我們屬天的性質和我們聖所裏的生活。在那一個耶路撒冷裏,沒有一樣不是秀美的;在那一個得撒裏,沒有一樣不是美麗的,因為此二者,都是神的新造。這一個信徒在今天的時候,就已經顯出將來聖所的美麗和秀美。

軍隊中在爭戰的時候,最緊要的乃是兵器;在得勝的時候,最緊要的乃是旌旗。…展開的旌旗,意即得勝的榮耀。這裏的意思就是:基督的佳偶在主面前乃是美麗並秀美的,像天城那樣的堅固,像聖所那樣的安靜;同時在仇敵和世人的面前,她顯出她得勝的榮耀來。幔子裏的生活,不只是在主面前的生活,也是在仇敵面前的生活。因為聖徒所住的天上,也正是仇敵所來攻擊的天上。神從來沒有意思要祂的信徒只有屬天的美麗而無爭戰的性質。屬天的爭戰,從來沒有在主面前被忘記的。

信徒應該是可愛的,但是,也該是可怕的。今天的信徒,在主的面前失去了他的可愛,在仇敵和世人面前也失去了他的可怕。…聖經裏常說到主的可怕,這乃是因為主的聖潔。如果我們保守自己聖潔而且得勝,許多的時候,你要看見仇敵退後,而世人不敢進前。但是,今天的信徒卻犧牲了他們的可怕,以致不大看見被人怕、被鬼怕了。

『威武如展開旌旗的軍隊。』她不只有一個充滿盼望的前途,也不只有了完全屬天的生活,並且還是時常歌唱得勝的凱歌者。她乃是可畏如『展開旌旗的軍隊』,是從得勝一直到得勝的。你認識她是誰麼?你見過她麼?(倪柝聲文集第二輯第三冊,一一五至一一六、一二一頁)

參讀:雅歌結晶讀經,第十二篇;歌中的歌,第四段。

WEEK 12 — DAY 5

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Morning Nourishment

S. S. 6:4 You are as beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, as terrible as an army with banners.

Eph. 6:12-13 …Our wrestling is not against blood and flesh but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenlies. Therefore take up the whole armor of God…

Ultimately, the lover becomes a terrible army with banners and the Shulammite (S. S. 6:4b, 10b, 13).

When we become one with God to be God’s dwelling place, we are as beautiful as Tirzah and as lovely as Jerusalem in the eyes of God. However, to the enemy this lover, this overcomer, is as terrible as an army with banners. Banners indicate a readiness to fight and also mean that the victory is won… When she becomes as beautiful as the moon and as clear as the sun, she is also as terrible as an army with banners (v. 10).

When she becomes the garden, she is nothing more than a garden, but when she becomes Tirzah and Jerusalem, something is built up to show God’s beauty and God’s loveliness. At that time God’s enemy trembles because this little country girl has become an army with banners. A terrible army signifies that these overcomers of the Lord terrify God’s enemy, Satan, and become terrible in the eyes of God’s people. An army fights the battle for God’s kingdom in the degradation of God’s people to be the overcomers answering the Lord’s call (Rev. 2:7, 11, 17, 26; 3:5, 12, 21). (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 3, “Crystallization-study of Song of Songs,” pp. 346-347)

Todays Reading

[In Song of Songs 6:4] the Lord is viewing the believers from heaven, from within the sanctuary. Hence, this is something which happens within the veil.

Tirzah is where the palace is (1 Kings 14:17). Jerusalem is the city of the great King. Tirzah signifies the heavenly sanctuary, the dwelling of God. Jerusalem signifies the heavenly Jerusalem. The Lord is examining our heavenly nature and life within the sanctuary. In that Jerusalem everything is comely, and in that Tirzah everything is beautiful, because both are God’s new creation. Today believers are already displaying the beauty and comeliness of the coming sanctuary.

Weapons are the most important thing to an army in battle, whereas the banner is the most important thing in victory…An unfurled banner signifies the glory of victory. This verse indicates that the maiden is beautiful and comely before the Lord, as solid as the heavenly city and as serene as the sanctuary. At the same time, she displays the glory of her victory before the enemy and the world. A life within the veil is not just a life before the Lord, but a life before the enemy, because the heaven in which the saints dwell is the very heaven which the enemy assails. God has no intention for His believers to possess only the heavenly beauty without possessing a warring nature. The heavenly warfare is never abated before the Lord.

Believers ought to be lovable and terrible at the same time. Believers today have lost their loveliness before the Lord, and they have lost their terribleness before the enemy and the world…The Bible often mentions the terribleness of the Lord; He is terrible because He is holy. If we maintain our holiness and victory, we will see the enemy retreating and the world standing back. But believers today have sacrificed their terribleness, and neither men nor demons are afraid of them any longer.

“Terrible as an army with banners.” Not only does she have a future that is full of hope, and a life that is absolutely heavenly, but she is a victor who constantly triumphs in her victory. She is “terrible as an army with banners.” She goes from victory to victory. Do you know such a one? Have you seen her? (CWWN, vol. 23, “The Song of Songs,” pp. 96-97, 101)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 3, “Crystallization-study of Song of Songs,” msg. 12; CWWN, vol. 23, “The Song of Songs,” sec. 4

 

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