第九週■週四

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晨興餧養

林前十五45『…「首先的人亞當成了活的魂；」末後的亞當成了賜生命的靈。』

羅八2『因爲生命之靈的律，在基督耶穌裏已經釋放了我，使我脫離了罪與死的律。』

     6『因爲心思置於肉體，就是死；心思置於靈，乃是生命平安。』

在基督的復活裏，一切神所揀選的人都重生成爲神許多的兒子，成爲神長子的許多弟兄。（彼前一3，來二10，羅八29。）在基督的復活裏，神的靈終極完成爲賜生命的靈；（林前十五45 下；）這靈就是基督的靈—是靈的基督，靈化的基督；（羅八9；）又是經過過程並終極完成之三一神的終極完成，具體化在靈化的基督這賜生命的靈裏；也是復活的實際，就是基督自己，以及經過過程並終極完成的三一神。（約十一25，約壹五6。）

因着基督第二次的成了（祂在復活裏成了包羅萬有賜生命的靈）有這麼多複雜的講究，所以我們可用『總括』一辭來說到基督這第二個時期。這個成了所產生的結果並不簡單，乃是複合的；不僅僅是油（表徵神的靈），更是膏油（表徵賜生命的靈）。這靈就是那是靈的基督，在第二時期—總括時期—的基督。（李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第四册，二三九至二四○頁。）

信息選讀

羅馬八章二節說到三一神的生命，十節啓示這生命已經分賜到我們的靈裏，使我們的靈成爲生命。…按照六節，這生命還能分賜到我們的心思裏，使我們的心思也是生命。末了，十一節又揭示，神聖的生命甚至能彀分賜到我們必死的身體裏。…靈是中心，身體是圓周，心思則介乎其間。三一神的生命乃是從中心，經過中間部分達到圓周，一直分賜到我們全人裏面。

當我們將心思置於靈時，我們的心思（代表我們的魂）也就成爲奏厄。〔6。〕…這就是神聖的生命分賜到我們的魂裏。…你要說閒話麼？將心思轉向靈。你受試探要發脾氣麼？將心思轉向靈。要丟棄道德、宗教的教訓，回到神活的話上；這話啓示我們，三一神的生命分賜到我們的靈裏，使我們的靈成爲生命；又啓示我們，心思置於靈，乃是生命。

我們需要對主說，『主，我感謝你。自從你進到我裏面，我的靈就成爲生命。現今我若將心思置於靈，我的心思就也是生命。主阿，我何等讚美你！藉着你內住的靈，你的奏厄生命甚至能分賜到我必死的身體裏。主，爲着這事，我敬拜你。我享受這個，我也在這分賜裏與你是一。』這就是三一神的生命分賜到三部分的人裏面。…乃是藉着神聖生命這樣的分賜，我們得以成爲神的兒子。不僅如此，藉着這樣的分賜，我們就被變化，並模成基督的形像。這就是基督徒的生活，也是召會生活。

我們的神乃是三一神，祂經過了成爲肉體、釘十字架、復活和升天的過程。如今祂是那包羅萬有的靈，成了神聖的奏厄，給我們有分、經歷並享受。首先，祂將自己分賜到我們的靈裏，到我們全人的中心裏。從中心，祂就擴展到我們的心思裏，用奏厄浸透我們的心思。然後，祂還擴展到我們必死的身體裏，使我們全人成爲奏厄。這樣，我們就成爲『奏厄人』。阿利路亞，…我們乃是生命人！（羅馬書生命讀經，七六六、七七○至七七三頁。）

參讀：神生機救恩的祕訣—『那靈自己同我們的靈』，第六章。

WEEK 9 — DAY 4

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Morning Nourishment

1 Cor. 15:45 …”The first man, Adam, became a living soul”; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.

Rom. 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life has freed me in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and of death.

           6 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is
life and peace.

In Christ’s resurrection all of God’s chosen people were regenerated to be the many sons of God and the many brothers of the firstborn Son of God (1 Pet. 1:3; Heb. 2:10; Rom. 8:29). In Christ’s resurrection the Spirit of God was consummated to be the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b): the Spirit of Christ—the pneumatic Christ, the pneumatized Christ (Rom. 8:9); the ultimate consummation of the processed and consummated Triune God, who is embodied in the pneumatized Christ as the life-giving Spirit; and the reality of resurrection, which is Christ Himself and the processed and consummated Triune God (John 11:25; 1 John 5:6).

Because so many complications are involved in Christ’s second becoming, His becoming the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit in resurrection, we may use the word inclusion in speaking of this second stage of Christ. The issue of this becoming was not something simple but something compounded, that is, not just oil signifying the Spirit of God but the ointment signifying the lifegiving
Spirit, the Spirit who gives life. This Spirit is the pneumatic Christ, the Christ in the second stage—the stage of inclusion. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “Incarnation, Inclusion, and Intensification,” p. 193)

Todays Reading

Romans 8:2 speaks of the life of the Triune God. Verse 10 reveals that this life has been dispensed into our spirit and has caused our spirit to become life… According to verse 6, this life can be dispensed into our mind and can cause our mind to be life also. Ultimately, as verse 11 discloses, the divine life can even be imparted into our mortal bodies…The spirit is the center, the body is the circumference, and the mind is in between. From the center through the middle to the circumference, the life of the Triune God is being dispensed into our entire being.

When we set our mind on the spirit, our mind, which represents our soul, becomes zoe [v. 6]…This is the dispensing of the divine life into our soul. Are you about to gossip? Turn your mind to the spirit. Are you tempted to lose your temper? Turn your mind to the spirit. Drop the ethical and religious teachings and come back to God’s living Word, which reveals that the life of the Triune God is dispensed into our spirit to make our spirit life and also reveals that the mind set on the spirit is life.

We need to say to the Lord, “Lord, I thank You. Since You came into me, my spirit has become life. Now if I set my mind on my spirit, my mind also will be life. O Lord, how I praise You! Through Your indwelling Spirit, Your zoe life can be dispensed even into my mortal body. Lord, I worship You for this, I enjoy this, and I am one with You in this dispensing.” This is the dispensing of the life of the Triune God into the tripartite man…It is through this dispensing of the divine life that we become sons of God. Furthermore, it is by this dispensing that we are transformed and conformed to the image of Christ. This is the Christian life and the church life.

Our God is the Triune God who has passed through incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension. Now He is the all-inclusive Spirit to be the divine zoe for our participation, experience, and enjoyment. First, He dispenses Himself into our spirit, the center of our being. From the center He spreads into our mind and saturates it with zoe. Then He expands into our mortal body and thereby makes our whole being zoe. In this way we become men of zoe. Hallelujah,…we are men of life! (Life-study of Romans, pp. 648, 651-653)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “The Secret of God’s Organic Salvation—’the Spirit Himself with Our Spirit,’” ch. 6