晨興聖言-亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各的神-(W2-4)
第二週■週四
晨興餧養
創十五 5 ～ 6『於是領他走到外邊，說，你向天觀看，數算眾星，能數得過來麼？又對他說，你的後裔將要如此。亞伯蘭信耶和華，耶和華就以此算爲他的義。』
亞伯拉罕的神是至高的神，天地的主，這是見於祂在亞伯拉罕與四王爭戰後，藉着祂的祭司麥基洗德，將祂神聖的供應帶給亞伯拉罕，並爲亞伯拉罕祝福。（創十四 17 ～ 20。）…亞伯拉罕帶了三百一十八個精練的家僕，擊敗了擄去羅得的四王。（14 ～15。）在那次勝利中，亞伯拉罕救回了羅得和他的家人，以及他們的財物。（16。）那時亞伯拉罕需要一些供應和使人舒爽的飲食。神的祭司來供應他餅和酒，作爲一種使人舒爽的飲食，那樣使人舒爽的飲食與主的桌子相似。（太二六 26 ～ 28。）在主的桌子上，主供應我們，使我們這些疲累困乏的罪人得舒暢。（李常受文集一九九一至一九九二年第四册，一三一頁。）
信息選讀
神在第五次向亞伯拉罕說話時（這次在異象中），顯示爲那是盾牌並極大賞賜的神。（ 創 十 五 1 ～6。）…亞伯拉罕擊敗四王之後，可能懼怕四王報復；因此神來告訴亞伯拉罕，神要作盾牌保護他。神也要因亞伯拉罕救了羅得而作他的賞賜。神關心羅得，而亞伯拉罕與神合作，救了羅得。…這給我們看見，神在照顧祂子民的事上，是很細緻的。
神…也應許亞伯拉罕，那些按神聖性情是他屬天後裔的，要如天上的星那樣多，是地上任何人所不能摸着的。亞伯拉罕信耶和華，耶和華就以此算爲他的義。（5 ～ 6。）在羅馬四章，保羅把這事看作稱義的表樣。神是盾牌，神是極大的賞賜，神也是稱義者。神稱義亞伯拉罕，意思是說，神對亞伯拉罕感到快樂，亞伯拉罕也完全與神和諧一致。他完全蒙神悅納，與神沒有問題。
神…第六次向〔亞伯拉罕〕說話時，顯示爲信實的神。…在創世記十五章十二至二十一節，…神在夢中對亞伯拉罕說話，豫言那些按屬人性情是『地上的塵沙』，（十三 16，）是他屬地後裔的，必寄居埃及…，到了第四代要回到迦南。因着神信守祂的應許，所以神也與亞伯拉罕立約，向亞伯拉罕保證，祂必信守祂的應許，把從埃及河（就是尼羅河），直到伯拉大河（就是幼發拉底河）之地賜給他的後裔。
我們也看見，神對亞伯拉罕是靜默的神。這是由於亞伯拉罕在八十六歲時聽從他妻子撒拉，娶了夏甲，憑着肉體得着一個兒子。（十六 1 ～ 4，15 ～ 16。）那件事得罪神到了極點。然後神向亞伯拉罕靜默了十三年，直到他九十九歲，神纔再向他顯現。（十七 1。）
亞伯拉罕的姪兒羅得與他離別之後，留下他孤單一人，沒有後嗣承受他的產業，那時神對他說，『凡你所看見的一切地，我都要賜給你和你的後裔，直到永遠。我也要使你的後裔如同地上的塵沙那樣多。』（十三 15 ～ 16。）這是重複在十二章七節對亞伯拉罕的應許，堅定的保證神的應許是不變的，必使亞伯拉罕的後裔如同地上的塵沙那樣多。
當亞伯拉罕救回他的姪兒羅得和他家人脫離擄掠的四王之後，他懼怕四王可能來尋仇，那時神在十五章，在異象中對亞伯拉罕說話。神應許亞伯拉罕，他的後裔必像天上的星那樣多，（5，）並且與他立約。（李常受文集一九九一至一九九二年第四册，一三一至一三四頁。）
參讀：神在祂與人聯結中的歷史，第七章。
WEEK 2 — DAY 4
Morning Nourishment
Gen. 15:5-6 And He brought him outside and said, Look now toward the heavens, and count the stars, if you are able to count them. And He said to him, So shall your seed be. And he believed Jehovah, and He accounted it to him as righteousness.
The God of Abraham is seen as God the Most High, the Possessor of heaven and earth, in His divine supply with His blessing to Abraham through His priest Melchizedek after Abraham fought the battle against the four kings (Gen. 14:17-20)…Abraham took three hundred eighteen of his trained servants to defeat the four kings who captured Lot (v. 14). In that victory he recovered Lot and his family with their possessions (v. 16). At that time Abraham needed some supply and refreshment. The priest of God came to serve him with bread and wine as a kind of refreshment, and that refreshment resembled the Lord’s table (Matt. 26:26-28). In the Lord’s table, He supplies us and refreshes us, the tired, weary sinners. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 4, “The History of God in His Union with Man,” p. 98)
Todays Reading
The God of Abraham is revealed as the God of shield and exceedingly great reward in His fifth speaking (this time in a vision) to Abraham (Gen. 15:1- 6)…After defeating the four kings, Abraham may have been afraid of their avenging. Thus, God came in to tell Abraham that He would be a shield to protect him. He would also be Abraham’s reward for his rescue of Lot. God was concerned for Lot, and Abraham cooperated with God to rescue him… This shows us that God is very fine in taking care of His people.
God also promised Abraham that his heavenly seed in their divine nature would be as many as the stars in heaven, which could never be touched by anyone on earth. Abraham believed in Jehovah, and Jehovah accounted this believing to him for righteousness (vv. 5-6). In Romans 4 Paul considers this as the example of justification. God is the shield, God is the exceedingly great reward, and God is also the Justifier. God’s justifying of Abraham meant that God became happy with Abraham and that Abraham was altogether in harmony with God. He was altogether acceptable to God, having no problem with God.
God is revealed as the God of faithfulness in His sixth speaking to Abraham…In Genesis 15:12-21…God spoke to Abraham in a dream, foretelling that his earthly seed in their human nature as “the dust of the earth” (13:16) would be sojourners in Egypt…and in the fourth generation return to Canaan. Because of His faithfulness in keeping His promise, He also made a covenant with him to assure him of His faithfulness in His promise that He has given to his seed the land from the river of Egypt, the Nile, to the great river, the river Euphrates.
God is also seen as the God of silence to Abraham. This was due to the fact that Abraham listened to his wife Sarah and married Hagar to get a son by the exercise of his flesh when he was eighty-six years old (16:1-4, 15-16). That offended God to the uttermost. Then God became silent to Abraham for thirteen years, until he became ninety-nine years old, and God appeared to him again (17:1).
When Abraham’s nephew Lot was separated from him, leaving him lonely with no heir to inherit his possession, God said to him, “All the land that you see I will give to you and to your seed forever. And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth” (13:15-16). This was to repeat the promise to Abraham in 12:7, with a strong confirmation of God’s unchangeable promise to make his seed as numerous as the dust of the earth.
When Abraham was afraid that the four kings might come to seek vengeance, after he had recovered his nephew Lot and his family from the four capturing kings, at this point in Genesis 15 God spoke to Abraham in a vision. God promised him that his seed would be as many as the stars in heaven (v. 5) and made a covenant with him. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 4, “The History of God in His Union with Man,” pp. 98-100)
Further Reading: CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 4, “The History of God in His Union with Man,” ch. 7
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