第十二週   成爲新耶路撒冷

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詩歌：775

讀經：啓三12，十九7，二一2，9 ～ 11，22，二二17

【週一】

壹 爲着我們的基督徒生活和召會生活，我們需要有新耶路撒冷的異象—啓二一9 ～ 11：

一 新耶路撒冷是神性與人性調和、相調並建造在一起，所組成的一個實體；一切組成成分都有相同的生命、性情和構成，因此是一個團體人—約十四20，23，啓二一2 ～ 3，9 ～ 23。

二 新耶路撒冷乃是神經綸中心異象與神聖啓示高峯的終極完成—2，9 ～ 11 節：

1 新耶路撒冷，就是聖經的終極完成，乃是神成爲人，並且人在生命和性情上（但不在神格上）成爲神—2節，三12：

a 神在基督裏成爲人，爲要使人在生命和性情上成爲神，使救贖的神與蒙救贖的人得以調和並構成在一起，成爲一個實體，就是新耶路撒冷—二一
3，22。

b 至終，三一、永遠的神成了與我們眾人合併的新耶路撒冷；我們也藉着神生機救恩的過程，成爲新耶路撒冷—羅五10，啓三12。

【週二】

2 新耶路撒冷是蒙神揀選、救贖、重生、聖別、更新、變化、模成、並榮化而得成爲神的一班人組成的—約三6，來二11，羅十二2，八29 ～ 30：

a 我們成爲神的意思是，我們由經過過程並終極完成的三一神所構成，使我們在生命和性情上成爲神，作祂團體的彰顯，直到永遠—啓二一11。

b 信徒成爲神乃是一個過程，這個過程要終極完成於新耶路撒冷；這是最高的真理，最高的福音—羅一1，3 ～ 4，五10，啓二一2，三12。

3 新耶路撒冷是團體的神人，就是神的擴大、擴展和彰顯，也就是團體的神—羅八29，來二10 ～ 12，啓四3，二一10 ～ 11：

a 新耶路撒冷是經過過程並終極完成的三一神，在祂那些被建造起來之子民身上的擴展與彰顯—10 ～ 11 節。

b 新耶路撒冷是神的擴大和擴展，是神在永世裏的彰顯，也就是團體的神—創一1，約一1，14，林前十五45 下，啓二二17。

【週三】

貳 新耶路撒冷是『新婦，就是羔羊的妻，…聖城耶路撒冷』—二一9 ～ 10：

一 使徒約翰看見『聖城…豫備好了，就如新婦妝飾整齊，等候丈夫』—2 節：

1 新耶路撒冷是新婦，這指明新耶路撒冷不是一座物質的城，乃是一個團體的人位，使基督得滿足。

2 新耶路撒冷作爲新婦，羔羊的妻，乃是基督永遠的配偶—十九7。

二 新耶路撒冷是神聖羅曼史的終極完成一對宇宙的配偶，『永世對耦』—二二17：

1 聖經的主題乃是宇宙對耦的神聖羅曼史；男方是神自己，女方是神所揀選並救贖的人—賽五四5，耶二2，三1，14，三一32，何二7，19，約三29，林後十一2，啓十九7。

【週四】

2 這神聖羅曼史在雅歌中詩意的描繪出來—一2，八14：

a 尋求者經過一個過程，成爲書拉密女，就是所羅門的複本，也是新耶路撒冷的表號—六13，4。

b 新耶路撒冷將是團體的書拉密女，包括所有蒙神揀選並救贖的人。

3 基督的婚配和婚姻生活涵蓋召會時代、國度時代和永世：

a 在召會時代，我們許配給基督—林後十一2。

b 婚娶之日將是千年國時代—啓十九7。

c 婚姻生活將是在新耶路撒冷裏，直到永遠—二一2，9 ～ 10。

4 新耶路撒冷在千年國將是新婦，爲時千年，如同一日；（彼後三8；）到新天新地裏將是妻子，直到永永遠遠（啓二一2）：

a 在千年國時，新婦僅包括得勝的聖徒—三12。

b 在新天新地裏，妻子包括所有蒙救贖並得重生之神的眾子—二一7。

三 啓示錄二十二章十七節指明，基督與作祂妻子的新耶路撒冷將是宇宙的對耦，直到永遠：

1 那是經過過程之三一神總和的那靈，與那些如今已完全成熟、作祂新婦的信徒成爲一—參弗四13，15 ～ 16。

2 經過過程之三一神的終極完成，與蒙神揀選、救贖、重生、變化之子民的終極完成，要成爲一，並要成爲宇宙的對耦，彰顯三一神，直到永遠。

四 恢復的召會中的得勝者將是在千年國中的新耶路撒冷—啓三7 ～ 8，12。

【週五】

叁 主耶穌要使恢復的召會中那得勝的作柱子，建造到神的殿中；神的殿就是三一神自己—12 節上，二一22：

一 在啓示錄二十一章二十二節我們看見，在新耶路撒冷裏，三一神自己就是殿：

1 得勝者在殿中作柱子，意思就是要在三一神裏作柱子—三12 上。

2 這包含與三一神調和，並由三一神構成—弗三16 ～17 上。

二 主藉着變化我們，就是藉着帶走我們天然的元素，並以祂神聖的元素來頂替，叫我們作柱子—羅十二2，林後三18：

1 啓示錄三章十二節裏的『叫…作』的意思，就是將我們構成一樣東西，以創造的方式來構造我們。

2 在今天的召會生活中，主渴望將我們作成、構成神殿中的柱子。

三 主在恢復的召會裏的工作，乃是將祂自己作到我們裏面，將我們構成神殿中的柱子—弗三16 ～ 17 上，啓三12 上。

【週六】

肆 在恢復的召會中得勝的，主耶穌要將祂神的名，神城新耶路撒冷的名，並主的新名，都寫在他上面—12 節下：

一 神的名，新耶路撒冷的名，並主的新名，寫在得勝者上面，指明得勝者爲神、新耶路撒冷和主所得着；神自己、神的城（新耶路撒冷）和主自己，全屬於得勝者；並且他與神、與新耶路撒冷、與主也是一。

二 神的名意卽神自己；新耶路撒冷的名意卽城本身；主的名意卽主自己—12 節下。

三 將神的名，新耶路撒冷的名，並主的名，寫在得勝者上面，指明神的所是，新耶路撒冷的性質，並主的人位，全都作到得勝者裏面—約十四19 ～ 20，23，弗三16 ～ 17。

四 新耶路撒冷要作得勝者獎賞的話，指明這應許要在千年國成就；千年國的新耶路撒冷是單給得勝者的獎賞—啓三12 下。

Week Twelve

Becoming the New Jerusalem

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Hymns: 976

Scripture Reading: Rev. 3:12; 19:7; 21:2, 9-11, 22; 22:17

§ Day 1

I. For our Christian life and church life we need to have a vision of the New Jerusalem—Rev. 21:9-11:

A. The New Jerusalem is a composition of divinity and humanity mingled, blended, and built up together as one entity; all the components have the same life, nature, and constitution and thus are a corporate person—John 14:20, 23; Rev. 21:2-3, 9-23.

B. The New Jerusalem is the consummation of the central vision of Gods economy and of the high peak of the divine revelation—vv. 2, 9-11:

1. The New Jerusalem, the ultimate consummation of the Bible, involves God becoming man and man becoming God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead—v. 2; 3:12:

a. In Christ, God has become man to make man God in His life and in His nature so that the redeeming God and the redeemed man can be mingled, constituted, together to be one entity—the New Jerusalem—21:3, 22.

b. Eventually, the triune, eternal God becomes the New Jerusalem incorporated with all of us, and we also become the New Jerusalem through the process of Gods organic salvation—Rom. 5:10; Rev. 3:12.

§ Day 2

2. The New Jerusalem is a composition of Gods chosen, redeemed, regenerated,
sanctified, renewed, transformed, conformed, and glorified people who have been deified—John 3:6; Heb. 2:11; Rom. 12:2; 8:29-30:

a. For us to be deified means that we are being constituted with the processed and consummated Triune God so that we may be made God in life and nature to be His corporate expression for eternity—Rev. 21:11.

b. The deification of the believers is a process that will consummate in the New Jerusalem; this is the highest truth and the highest gospel— Rom. 1:1, 3-4; 5:10; Rev. 21:2; 3:12.

3. The New Jerusalem is the corporate God-man—the enlargement, expansion, and expression of God—the corporate God—Rom. 8:29; Heb. 2:10-12; Rev. 4:3; 21:10-11:

a. The New Jerusalem is the expansion and expression of the processed and consummated Triune God with His built-up people—vv. 10-11.

b. The New Jerusalem is Gods enlargement and expansion, Gods expression in eternity, which is the corporate God—Gen. 1:1; John 1:1, 14; 1 Cor. 15:45b; Rev. 22:17.

§ Day 3

II. The New Jerusalem is "the bride, the wife of the Lamb…the holy city, Jerusalem"—21:9-10:

A. The apostle John saw "the holy city… prepared as a bride adorned for her husband"—v. 2:

1. The New Jerusalem is a bride, indicating that she is not a material city but a corporate person for Christs satisfaction.

2. As the bride, the wife of the Lamb, the New Jerusalem is Christs eternal counterpart—19:7.

B. The New Jerusalem is the ultimate consummation of the divine romance— a universal couple, "a loving pair eternally"—22:17:

1. The subject of the Bible is a divine romance of a universal couple; the male is God Himself, and the female is Gods chosen and redeemed people—Isa. 54:5; Jer. 2:2; 3:1, 14; 31:32; Hosea 2:7, 19; John 3:29; 2 Cor. 11:2; Rev. 19:7.

§ Day 4

2. The divine romance is portrayed poetically in Song of Songs—1:2; 8:14:

a. The seeker passes through a process to become the Shulammite, the duplication of Solomon and a figure of the New Jerusalem—6:13, 4.

b. The New Jerusalem will be a corporate Shulammite, including all of Gods chosen and redeemed people.

3. Christs espousal and marriage life cover the church age, the kingdom age, and the eternal age:

a. In the church age we are betrothed to Christ—2 Cor. 11:2.

b. The wedding day will be the age of the millennial kingdom—Rev. 19:7.

c. The marriage life will be in the New Jerusalem eternally—21:2, 9-10.

4. The New Jerusalem will be the bride in the millennium for one thousand years as one day (2 Pet. 3:8) and then the wife in the new heaven and new earth for eternity (Rev. 21:2):

a. The bride in the millennium will include only the overcoming saints—3:12.

b. The wife in the new heaven and new earth will include all the redeemed and  regenerated sons of God—21:7.

C. Revelation 22:17 indicates that Christ and the New Jerusalem as His wife will be a universal couple for eternity:

1. The Spirit, who is the totality of the processed Triune God, becomes one with the believers, who are now fully matured to be His bride—cf. Eph. 4:13, 15-16.

2. The consummation of the processed Triune God and the consummation of Gods chosen, redeemed, regenerated, and transformed people will be one and will be a universal couple expressing the Triune God for eternity.

D. The overcomers in the recovered church will be the New Jerusalem in the millennial kingdom—Rev. 3:7-8, 12.

§ Day 5

III. The Lord Jesus will make the overcoming one in the recovered church a pillar built into the temple of God, which is the Triune God Himself—v. 12a; 21:22:

A. In Revelation 21:22 we see that in the New Jerusalem the Triune God Himself will be the temple:

1. For the overcomer to be a pillar in the temple means that he will be a pillar in the Triune God—3:12a.

2. This involves being mingled with the Triune God and constituted with the Triune God—Eph. 3:16-17a.

B. The Lord makes us pillars by transforming us, that is, by carrying away our natural element and replacing it with His divine element—Rom. 12:2; 2 Cor. 3:18:

1. The meaning of make in Revelation 3:12 is to constitute us into something, to
construct us in a creative way.

2. In the church life today the Lord desires to make us, constitute us, into pillars in the temple of God.

C. The Lords work in the recovered church is to work Himself into us, constituting us into pillars in the temple of God—Eph. 3:16-17a; Rev. 3:12a.

§ Day 6

IV. Upon the one in the recovered church who overcomes, the Lord Jesus will write the name of His God, the name of the city of God, the New Jerusalem, and His new name—v. 12b:

A. The fact that the name of God, the name of the New Jerusalem, and the Lords new name are written upon the overcomer indicates that the overcomer is possessed by God, by the New Jerusalem, and by the Lord; that God Himself, His city (New Jerusalem), and the Lord Himself all belong to him; and that he is one with God, with the New Jerusalem, and with the Lord.

B. The name of God denotes God Himself, the name of the New Jerusalem denotes
the city itself, and the name of the Lord denotes the Lord Himself—v. 12b.

C. That the name of God, the name of the New Jerusalem, and the name of the Lord are written on the overcomer indicates that what God is, the nature of the New Jerusalem, and the person of the Lord have all been wrought into the overcomer—John 14:19-20, 23; Eph. 3:16-17.

D. The mentioning of the New Jerusalem as a prize to the overcomer indicates that this promise will be fulfilled in the millennial kingdom; the New Jerusalem in the millennium will be a prize only to the overcomers—Rev. 3:12b.