第十二週■週五

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晨興餧養

啓二一22『我未見城內有殿，因主神全能者和羔羊爲城的殿。』

  三12『得勝的，我要叫他在我神殿中作柱子，他也絕不再從那裏出去…。』

柱子…是在來世和永世神殿中信徒當中的得勝者。啓示錄三章十二節說，『得勝的，我要叫他在我神殿中作柱子，他也絕不再從那裏出去。』這裏我們看見，得勝者要成爲建造在神殿中的柱子。他旣建造在神的建築裏，就『絕不再從那裏出去』。這應許要在千年國裏得着成就，作得勝者的獎賞。

在十二節，『叫』字非常有意義。主說，祂要叫得勝者作柱子。主藉着變化我們，就是藉着帶走我們天然的元素，並以祂神聖的素質頂替，叫我們作柱子。所以，這節裏『叫』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。在今天的召會生活中，主正在將我們作成、構成神殿中的柱子。主在召會裏的工作，乃是將自己作到我們裏面，作神聖的水流，帶走我們天然的所是，並以祂的本質頂替，使我們藉着祂變化的元素逐漸經過過程。因着這變化的工作，我們就成爲神殿中的柱子。（新約總論第五册，一八五頁。）

信息選讀

啓示錄三章十二節告訴我們，得勝者要在來世神的殿中作柱子。然而，二十一章二十二節說到來世和永世裏的新耶路撒冷：『我未見城內有殿，因主神全能者和羔羊爲城的殿。』這裏我們看見，在新耶路撒冷裏，三一神自己要成爲殿。這就是說，得勝者在殿中作柱子，意思就是他們要在三一神裏作柱子。這包含與三一神調和，並由祂構成。這是一個奧祕。

甚至在今天的召會生活中，得勝的聖徒也是在三一神裏的柱子。不僅如此，這些聖徒有時會感覺到召會實際上不是別的，乃是三一神。…今天召會裏的柱子，就是三一神裏的柱子。在來世，這些得勝的信徒要在神殿中作柱子；神的殿就是神自己。由此我們看見，作成柱子包含三一神調和並構成到得勝者的裏面。（新約總論第五册，一八五至一八六頁。）

神和羔羊旣是殿，祂就不能住在殿內，殿也不是祂們的居所。反之，殿乃是所有蒙救贖之聖徒的居所，他們憑着住在三一神裏面，而事奉三一神。一面，新耶路撒冷由所有蒙救贖的聖徒所組成，作神的居所，乃是帳幕；另一面，新耶路撒冷由經過過程之三一神所構成，作所有蒙救贖之聖徒的居所，乃是殿。因此，新耶路撒冷是救贖之神與祂的贖民相互的居所。她是帳幕也是殿。帳幕是蒙救贖的人，殿是救贖的神。這強有力的指明，這位救贖的神，藉着祂所經過的過程並蒙祂救贖的人所有分的步驟，就與這些蒙救贖的人相調和，好叫祂得着永遠的彰顯。

在約翰十五章四節，主耶穌說，『你們要住在我裏面，我也住在你們裏面。』這個住實際上是一件居住的事。這裏我們看見彼此互住，相互的居住。當我們以主作我們的居所時，我們也就成爲祂的居所。何等奇妙！新耶路撒冷乃是一個相互的居所，因爲我們要住在神裏面，使祂也可以住在我們裏面。（新約總論第八册，二○二至二○三頁。）

參讀：新約總論，第三十三、二百六十二篇；聖經中的基本啓示，第八至十一章。

WEEK 12 — DAY 5

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Morning Nourishment

Rev. 21:22 And I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

        3:12 He who overcomes, him I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall by no means go out anymore…

The pillars are…the overcomers among the believers in the temple of God in the coming age and in eternity…[In Revelation 3:12] we see that the overcomer will be made a pillar built into the temple of God. Because he is built into God’s building, “he shall by no means go out anymore.” This promise will be fulfilled in the millennial kingdom as a prize to the overcomer.

In Revelation 3:12 the word make is very significant. The Lord says that He will make the overcomer into a pillar. The Lord makes us pillars by transforming us, that is, by carrying away our natural element and by replacing it with His divine essence. Therefore, the meaning of make in 3:12 is to constitute us into something, to construct us in a creative way. In the church life today the Lord is making us, constituting us, into pillars in the temple of God. The Lord’s work in the church is to work Himself into us as the divine flow to carry away our natural being and replace it with His substance that we may be gradually processed by His transforming element. As the result of this transforming work, we become pillars in the temple of God. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 1215)

Todays Reading

Revelation 3:12 tells us that the overcomers will be pillars in the temple of God in the coming age. However, Revelation 21:22, speaking of the New Jerusalem in the coming age and in eternity, says, “I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.” Here we see that in the New Jerusalem the Triune God Himself will be the temple. This means that for the overcomers to be pillars in the temple means that they will be pillars in the Triune God. This involves being mingled with the Triune God and constituted of Him. This is a mystery.

Even in today’s church life, the overcoming saints are pillars in the Triune God. Furthermore, these saints sometimes have the consciousness that the church is actually nothing other than the Triune God…The pillars in the church today are pillars in the Triune God. In the coming age these overcoming believers will be pillars in the temple of God, which is God Himself. From this we see that being made a pillar involves the Triune God being mingled with and constituted into the faithful overcomers.

Since God and the Lamb are the temple, They cannot dwell in it, and it is not Their dwelling place. Rather, it is the dwelling place of all the redeemed saints, who serve the Triune God by dwelling in Him. On the one hand, the New Jerusalem, which is composed of all the redeemed saints, as the habitation of God, is the tabernacle; on the other hand, the New Jerusalem, which is constituted of the processed Triune God, as the dwelling place of all the redeemed saints, is the temple. Therefore, the New Jerusalem is the mutual dwelling of both the redeeming God and His redeemed. It is both the tabernacle and the temple. The tabernacle is the redeemed, and the temple is the redeeming God. This indicates strongly that the redeeming God is mingled with His redeemed, through the processes through which He has passed and the procedures in which they have shared, for His eternal expression.

In John 15:4 the Lord Jesus said, “Abide in Me and I in you.” This abiding is actually a matter of dwelling. Here we have a mutual abiding, a mutual dwelling. When we take the Lord as our dwelling place, we become His dwelling place. How marvelous! The New Jerusalem will be a mutual dwelling place, for we will dwell in God that He may dwell in us. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 1215-1216, 2730)

Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msgs. 33, 262; CWWL, 1983, vol. 3, “The Basic Revelation in the Holy Scriptures,” chs. 8-11