第三週■週一

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晨興餧養

約八12『…我是世界的光，跟從我的，…必要得着生命的光。』

     32『你們必認識真理，真理必叫你們得以自由。』

約壹一5 ～ 6『神就是光，在祂裏面毫無黑暗；…我們若說我們與神有交通，卻在黑暗裏行，就是說謊話，不行真理了。』

憑着我們天然的生命努力效法基督是錯誤的。…當我們相信主耶穌而得救時，神就把我們放在作爲模子的基督裏。這模子就是記載在四福音書裏耶穌的生活，這是完全照着實際而有的生活。實際（真理）是光的照耀，光的彰顯。因爲神就是光，（約壹一5，）所以實際（真理）就是神的彰顯。福音書裏所記載耶穌的生活，每一面都是神的彰顯。祂所說所行的，都彰顯神。…耶穌這照着實際而有的生活乃是模型，神已經把我們放在其中。在這模型裏，我們照着那在耶穌身上是實際者，學了基督。這意思是，我們照着福音書所給我們看見的實際，亦卽照着主耶穌那完全照着神實際的生活，學了基督。這生活是光的照耀。光的照耀是實際（真理），而實際（真理）是神的彰顯。所以，在耶穌的生活裏有實際。主耶穌所設立的模型，其素質乃是實際。這意思是，耶穌之生活的素質乃是實際。（以弗所書生命讀經，四七七頁。）

信息選讀

我們也許有了更多的知識，但這不是說，我們就有更多的真理。照新約的啓示來看，真理乃是光的結果。道理是甚麼？真理是甚麼？沒有光的知識就是道理，滿了光的知識就是真理。神學博士也許有許多聖經的知識，卻沒有多少光。生命讀經對你可能僅僅是道理，也可能是真理。分別乃在於你有帶着光的知識，那就是真理；沒有光，那不過是道理。你無須愛主就能得着道理；你可以進神學院或聖經學院，得着許多知識，但你可能並沒有接受光，因爲光乃是主自己。祂從來沒有告訴我們祂是知識；祂說，祂就是光，（約八12，）就是真理（實際）。（十四6。）如果我們不愛主，我們可以讀聖經，可以守晨更，但我們所讀的不過是沒有光的知識。如果我們有主的同在調和在我們的知識裏，這種知識就是真理，因爲主的同在就是光。

我們必須火熱尋求主，然後聖經和生命讀經對我們纔有幫助；不是幫助我們得着道理，乃是得着真理，得着帶着光的真知識。這樣，我們就有真理，有實際。我們領頭的人不該過於要求聖徒，我們自己必須帶頭。倘若我們不帶頭火熱尋求主，而盼望別人火熱，我們所說的就成了道理或教訓，全無衝擊力。（李常受文集一九八三年第一册，八三至八四頁。）

今天在基督徒中間普徧有許多東西，卻沒有賜生命的靈。天主教裏有故事，也有某些迷信；但這一切都沒有賜生命的靈。在更正教裏，有許多合乎聖經並基要的東西，但也許欠缺賜生命的靈。因這緣故，更正教也缺少實際。在這事上，主恢復的目標是甚麼？主恢復的目標乃是要恢復聖經裏所啓示之事物的實際、生命、活力、力量、能力和衝擊力。…賜生命的靈乃是聖經裏一切道理和故事的命脈、實際、能力和衝擊力。（出埃及記生命讀經，一四四○頁。）

參讀：提摩太前書生命讀經，第一篇；路加福音生命讀經，第七十四篇；彼得後書生命讀經，第十篇。

WEEK 3 — DAY 1

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Morning Nourishment

John 8:12 ...I am the light of the world; he who follows Me...shall have the light of life.

          32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

1 John 1:5-6 ...God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and are not practicing the truth.

It is a mistake to endeavor to imitate Christ by the efforts of our natural life...When we believed in the Lord Jesus and were saved, God put us into Christ as the mold. This mold is the life of Jesus recorded in the four Gospels, a life absolutely according to reality, truth. Truth is the shining of light, the expression of light. Since God is light (1 John 1:5), truth is the expression of God. Every aspect of the life of Jesus recorded in the Gospels is an expression of God. In everything He said and did, He expressed God...This life of Jesus according to [truth], reality, is the pattern in which God has placed us. In this pattern we have learned Christ as the reality is in Jesus. This means that we have learned Christ according to the reality shown in the Gospels, that is, according to the life of the Lord Jesus, which was wholly according to God’s reality, God’s truth. This life is the shining of light. The shining of the light is truth, and truth is the expression of God. Therefore, in the life of Jesus there is truth, reality. The essence of the pattern set up by the Lord Jesus is reality. This means that the essence of the life of Jesus is reality. (Life-study of Ephesians, second edition, p. 383)

Today’s Reading

We may have more knowledge, but this does not mean that we have more truth. According to the New Testament revelation, truth is the issue of light. What is doctrine? What is truth? Knowledge without light is doctrine. Knowledge full of light is truth. Doctors of theology may have much knowledge of the Bible, but they may not have much light. The Life-studies may be just doctrine to you, or they may be truth. The difference is that when you have the knowledge with light, it is truth. Without the light it is only doctrine. You can get doctrines without loving the Lord. You may go to a seminary or to a Bible college and gain a lot of knowledge, but you may not receive light, because light is the Lord Himself. He never tells us that He is knowledge; He says that He is the light (John 8:12) and the truth (14:6). If we do not love the Lord, we may come to the Bible, we may have morning watch, but what we read may be just knowledge without light. If we have the Lord’s presence mingled in our knowledge, then that knowledge is the truth because the Lord’s presence is the light.

We must have a zeal to seek after the Lord. Then the Bible helps, the Lifestudies help—help to get not doctrines but the truth, the real knowledge with light. Then we have the truth, the reality. We, the leading ones, should not put too many requirements on the saints. We ourselves have to take the lead. If we do not take the lead to be zealous after the Lord but expect others to be zealous, whatever we say becomes a doctrine, or a teaching, all with no impact. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 1, “Practical Talks to the Elders,” pp. 59-60)

It is common among Christians today to have many things without the lifegiving Spirit. In Catholicism there are stories and also certain superstitions, but all of this is without the life-giving Spirit. In Protestantism there are many scriptural and fundamental things, but the life-giving Spirit may be lacking. For this reason, in Protestantism there is also the shortage of reality. Regarding this matter, what is the goal of the Lord’s recovery? The goal of the Lord’s recovery is to recover the reality, life, livingness, strength, power, and impact of the matters revealed in the Scriptures...The life-giving Spirit is the life pulse, the reality, the power, and the impact of all the doctrines and stories in the Bible. (Life-study of Exodus, p. 1259)

Further Reading: Life-study of 1 Timothy, msg. 1; Life-study of Luke, msg. 74; Life-study of 2 Peter, msg. 10