第三週■週二

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晨興餧養

提前三15『…活神的召會，真理的柱石和根基。』

      四6『你將這些事題醒弟兄們，便是基督耶穌的好執事，在信仰的話，並你向來所緊緊跟隨善美教訓的話上，得了餧養。』

提後二15『你當…將自己呈獻神前，…作無愧的工人，正直的分解真理的話。』

倘若你僅僅讀生命讀經〔而不加以研讀〕，你只會得着暫時的滋養。那對你只會成爲一種靈感，…好像空中的蒸氣。但是當我們所讀的在我們裏面成爲真理，這種滋養便永遠存留。…你必須有真理。要真理進入你裏面，惟一的路是經過你的思考。那樣它就留在你的記憶裏。如果你不明白，真理就無法進入你裏面。真理是藉着你的思考、你的悟性而進入你裏面的。如果真理進入你的記憶裏，它就成了常時、長期的滋養。這樣，你就有真理的儲存，你就是一個常時在滋養之下的人。到那時候你就曉得如何向別人陳明真理，不是僅僅激發或激動人，而是使人扎實，得着真理的構成。（李常受文集一九八四年第二册，四○二至四○三頁。）

信息選讀

基於多年的經歷，我們必須承認，在教育聖徒的事上，我們不太成功。許多聖徒和我們聚會多年了，但他們還沒有進入主恢復中基本的內在元素。…沒有多少神聖啓示的內在元素真正作到並構成到他們裏面。…我們中間沒有太多人能充分的陳明某些真理。（李常受文集一九八四年第二册，三九五至三九六頁。）

聖城〔新耶路撒冷〕的牆同其根基的…功用，乃是保護神的神性豐富在地上的權益，以及祂終極的成就。…今天神的神性受到輕視。有人說，相信我們由神所生而成爲祂的兒女，並且相信我們是神的家人，在生命和性情上（不在神格上）成爲神，這乃是異端。反對這重大的真理，就是輕視神的神性豐富在地上的權益。（李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第三册，二九五頁。）

保羅在提前二章四節…說，『祂〔神〕願意萬人得救，並且完全認識真理。』看見『並且』這辭很重要。我們可能只看見神願意萬人得救，卻沒有看見神也願意他們完全認識真理。得救是人在神定旨裏的第一步；但人若不完全認識真理，對召會的建造就沒有用。我們也需要完全認識真理，好幫助別人也完全認識真理。

『完全認識』這辭的意思不是僅僅明白，而是包括明白和經歷。真要認識糖是甜的，就必須嘗它；你嘗到糖的甜味後，就在經歷上認識糖是甜的，沒有人能推翻你的認識。所有人都需要以同樣的方式完全認識真理。太多的人對真理的認識只是『道聽塗說』，並未真正認識或經歷真理到一個地步，以至於沒有人能推翻他們的認識。所有人都需要逐項、逐點並從經歷上認識真理，直到完全認識真理。（召會—召會的異象與建造〔第五級課本〕，二三五頁。）

參讀：召會—召會的異象與建造（第五級課本），第二十三課。

WEEK 3 — DAY 2

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Morning Nourishment

1 Tim. 3:15 ...The church of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth.

          4:6 If you lay these things before the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, being nourished with the words of the faith and of the good teaching which you have closely followed.

2 Tim. 2:15 ...Present yourself...to God, an unashamed workman, cutting straight the word of the truth.

If you merely read [and do not study] the Life-studies, you will receive only a temporary nourishment. That will become only a kind of inspiration to you,...like a vapor in the air. When what we read becomes a truth in our being, this nourishment remains forever...You must have the truth. The only way for the truth to get into you is through your mentality. Then it remains in your memory. If you do not understand, the truth cannot get into you. The truth gets into you through your mentality, your understanding. Also, if the truth gets into your memory, it becomes a constant and long-term nourishment. Then you have an accumulation of the truth, and you are a person continually under the constant nourishment. You will then know how to present the truth to others, not merely to inspire them or to stir them up but to make them solid and constituted with the truth. (CWWL, 1984, vol. 2, “Elders’ Training, Book 3: The Way to Carry Out the Vision,” pp. 312-313)

Today’s Reading

Based upon our experience over the years, we must admit that in the matter of educating the saints we have not been very successful. A number of the saints have been meeting with us for years and years, but they still have not gotten into the basic intrinsic element of the Lord’s recovery...Not much intrinsic element of the divine revelation has been really wrought and constituted into their being...Not many among us can present particular truths in an adequate way. (CWWL, 1984, vol. 2, “Elders’ Training, Book 3: The Way to Carry Out the Vision” pp. 307-308)

The wall of the holy city [New Jerusalem] with its foundations is to protect the interest of the riches of God’s divinity on the earth and the attainments of His consummation...Today God’s divinity has been mocked. Some say that it is a heresy to believe that we are born of God to be His children and that we are God’s family and have become God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead. To oppose this great truth is to mock the interest of the riches of God’s divinity on the earth. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 3, “The Application of the Interpretation of the New Jerusalem to the Seeking Believers,” p. 230)

1 Timothy 2:4b [says], “And to come to the full knowledge of the truth.” It is crucial to see the word and. We may only see that God desires all men to be saved, and neglect to see that God also desires that they come to the full knowledge of the truth. Getting saved is the initial step for men to be in God’s purpose. Men are not useful for the building up of the church unless they have come to the full knowledge of the truth. We also need to come to the full knowledge of the truth in order to help others come to the full knowledge of the truth.

The term full knowledge does not merely mean understanding; it includes understanding and experience. To really know that sugar is sweet, you must taste it. After tasting its sweetness, you will know sugar is sweet, experientially, and no one will be able to convince you otherwise. All men need to come to the full knowledge of the truth the same way. Too many people know only “hearsay” truth. They do not really know nor have they experienced the truth to the extent that no one could convince them otherwise. All should know the truth item by item, point by point, and also know it experientially, until they have come to the full knowledge of the truth. (A Lesson Book, Level 5: The Church— the Vision and Building Up of the Church, pp. 274-275)

Further Reading: A Lesson Book, Level 5: The Church—the Vision and Building Up of the Church, lsn. 23