第十二週■週一

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晨興餧養

啓二一9 ～ 11『…你來，我要將新婦，就是羔羊的妻，指給你看。我在靈裏，天使帶我到一座高大的山，將那由神那裏從天而降的聖城耶路撒冷指給我看。城中有神的榮耀；城的光輝如同極貴的寶石，好像碧玉，明如水晶。』

新約的主要內容，乃是三一神照着祂的喜悅有一個永遠的經綸，要在生命和性情上，將祂自己分賜到祂所揀選並救贖的人裏面，使他們作祂的複製以彰顯祂；這團體的彰顯要終極完成於新耶路撒冷。（弗三9，一9 ～ 23。）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。（啓二一2，三12。）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。）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，（羅五10，）成爲新耶路撒冷。（新約總論第十四册，二九四頁。）

信息選讀

聖經教訓的結果就是一個實體—新耶路撒冷，也就是所有神人的集大成。（啓二一7，來二10 ～11，十二22。）神新約的經綸是要使信徒成爲神人，以構成基督的身體，使新耶路撒冷得以終極完成爲經過過程並終極完成之三一神永遠的擴大和彰顯。（加三26，四7，26，31。）新耶路撒冷乃是已經變化、榮化，且與經過過程並終極完成之三一神調和的神人。（約十七22 ～ 23 上，弗四4 ～ 6。）

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；（約十四20，23，啓二一2 ～ 3，9 ～ 23；）一切的組成成分都有相同的生命、性情和構成，因此是一個團體人。這二者—神與人，人與神，藉着調在一起而建造在一起；（約十四20，23，十五4 上，林前六17；）這就是神成爲人，並且人在生命和性情上（但不在神格上）成爲神。（新約總論第十四册，二九五頁。）

召會是神顯現於肉體的擴增，擴大。這是神更廣泛的顯現於肉體。這是照着新約成爲肉體，卽神顯現於肉體的原則。

神顯明的最後階段是在新耶路撒冷，這是在新造裏終結團體的彰顯。啓示錄二十一章一至三節說，『我又看見一個新天新地；…我又看見聖城新耶路撒冷由神那裏從天而降，豫備好了，就如新婦妝飾整齊，等候丈夫。我聽見有大聲音從寶座出來，說，看哪，神的帳幕與人同在，祂要與人同住。』在已過的永遠裏，神就定意要得着一個團體的彰顯，使祂得着完滿的彰顯和榮耀；（弗三9 ～ 11，一9 ～12；）爲此祂創造了諸天、地和人類。

從歷世歷代神的舊造裏，神一直以重生和復活的方式作祂建造的工作。這建造工作的終極結果和終極完成，將是在新天新地裏的新耶路撒冷，作神在祂新造裏的顯明，直到永遠。這不是憑着神的神聖能力，以稱無爲有的方式而有的創造；乃是憑着神的神聖生命，以復活的生命使存在之物重生而有的建造，使其在神的神聖生命和性情上與祂是一，作祂的彰顯。（新約總論第一册，一五四至一五七頁。）
參讀：新約總論，第十三、二百五十五篇。

WEEK 12 — DAY 1

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Morning Nourishment

Rev. 21:9-11 …Come here; I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb. And he carried me away in spirit onto a great and high mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, as clear as crystal.

The main content of the New Testament is that the Triune God has an eternal economy according to His good pleasure to dispense Himself in His life and nature into His chosen and redeemed people, thereby making them His duplication so that they may express Him; this corporate expression will consummate in the New Jerusalem (Eph. 3:9; 1:9-23). 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 (Rev. 21:2; 3:12). 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). 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 God’s organic salvation (Rom. 5:10). (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 4361)

Todays Reading

The issue of the Bible’s teaching is just one entity, the New Jerusalem, as the aggregate of all the God-men (Rev. 21:7; Heb. 2:10-11; 12:22). God’s New Testament economy is to make the believers God-men for the constitution of the Body of Christ so that the New Jerusalem may be consummated as the eternal enlargement and expression of the processed and consummated Triune God (Gal. 3:26; 4:7, 26, 31). The New Jerusalem is the God-men who have been transformed, glorified, and mingled with the processed and consummated Triune God (John 17:22-23a; Eph. 4:4-6).

The New Jerusalem is a composition of divinity and humanity mingled, blended, and built up together as one entity (John 14:20, 23; Rev. 21:2- 3, 9-23). All the components have the same life, nature, and constitution and thus are a corporate person. God and man, man and God, are built up together by being blended and mingled together (John 14:20, 23; 15:4a; 1 Cor. 6:17). This is a matter of God becoming man and man becoming God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead.

The church is…the increase, the enlargement, of the manifestation of God in the flesh. This is God manifested in the flesh in a wider way. This is according to the New Testament principle of incarnation, which is God manifested in the flesh.

The final stage of God’s manifestation will be in the New Jerusalem as the consummated corporate expression in the new creation. Revelation 21:1-3 says, “I saw a new heaven and a new earth…And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice out of the throne, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will tabernacle with them.” In eternity past God purposed to have a corporate expression so that He might be fully expressed and glorified (Eph. 3:9-11; 1:9-11). For this, He created the heavens, the earth, and mankind.

Out of His old creation through all the dispensations, God has been doing His building work in the way of regeneration and resurrection. The ultimate result and the ultimate consummation of this building work will be the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and new earth as God’s manifestation in His new creation for eternity. It is not a creation by God’s divine power in the way to call things not being as being; but it is a building by God’s divine life in the way to regenerate the things which exist with the resurrection life that they may be one with God in His divine life and nature for His expression. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 4362, 132-134)

Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msgs. 13, 255