第三週■週四

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晨興餧養

羅一7『寫信給一切在羅馬，爲神所愛，蒙召的聖徒。願恩典與平安，從神我們的父，並主耶穌基督歸與你們。』

弗四6『一位眾人的神與父，就是那超越眾人，貫徹眾人，也在眾人之內的。』

聖經中每一個基本啓示都有兩面，就是客觀的一面和主觀的一面。…我們需要領悟，僅僅看見聖經真理客觀的一面，不足以建造基督的身體，無法完成神永遠的定旨。爲着完成神永遠的定旨，客觀和主觀這兩面的真理都是需要的。許多世紀以來，狡猾者撒但允許聖徒在真理客觀一面的知識上進展，卻使信徒盲目，以致無法看見真理主觀的一面。撒但這樣狡猾的作工，因爲他領悟，一旦聖徒進入真理主觀的一面，基督的身體就會產生。

〔例如，〕關於神，有客觀和主觀的真理。在客觀一面，神是我們的創造者，（創一1，26）救贖者，（詩七八35，）救主，（提前二3，）牧人，（詩二三1，）主，（路一32，）和主人。（徒四24。）神作爲這一切寶貴的項目，對我們是客觀的，因爲祂還在我們外面。然而，神也是我們的父。（羅一7。）神作我們的父，對我們是主觀的，因爲祂的生命已經分授到我們裏面。在肉身一面我們有父親的生命，但我們父親的人位無法進入我們裏面；然而，就着屬靈的實際說，父神的人位是在我們裏面作生命。就這面意義說，我們不僅有父神的生命，也有父神自己在我們裏面。〔弗四6。〕（李常受文集一九七七年第三册，七一、七三至七五頁。）

信息選讀

如果我們只注意客觀的道理，而忽畧主觀的一面，我們就不能成就神永遠的旨意。神永遠的旨意就是召會。客觀的道理是爲着主觀的真理，而主觀真理的經歷乃是爲着產生召會。因着今日的基督教對於主觀的真理是如此忽畧，所以他們沒有實際的召會生活。實際的召會生活乃是出於我們對於主觀真理的經歷。我們有了主觀真理的經歷，召會自然就產生出來。

再者，所有主觀的真理都是聯於靈，也都是聯於生命。靈和生命就是主觀真理的本質。你若是把靈和生命拿掉，就沒有所謂的主觀真理。客觀的道理是用字句組成的，主觀的真理不是用字句，乃是用靈和生命構成的。你若沒有靈、沒有生命，就沒有主觀真理。所以召會的產生，乃是因着靈，因着生命。因爲我們憑靈活着，也活在生命中，我們就有主觀真理的經歷，也就有召會生活。

建造召會必須要有主觀的真理，因爲召會不僅是組織，也不僅是人羣的聚集，召會乃是生機體，是基督的身體。（弗一22 ～ 23，西一18。）…作基督身體的召會是生機的，出於生命。我們是身體上的肢體，不僅事關我們承認自己的罪，相信主耶穌爲我們死在十字架上，好叫我們的罪得赦免，使我們得着潔淨而已。把召會看作一班信主且得了赦免和潔淨的人，並沒有錯，但若僅止於這樣的定義，就遠遠不及召會真正的意義。召會遠遠不只是一班得了潔淨和赦免的信徒，因爲召會裏面有生命，就是神聖的生命。信徒若沒有神聖的生命，神的生命，就是基督自己，（約一4，十一25，十四6，）就僅僅是一班人來在一起，建立或成爲一個組織。（李常受文集一九七七年第三册，一四○至一四一、八五至八六頁。）

參讀：李常受文集一九七七年第三册，聖經中真理主觀的一面，第一至三章。

WEEK 3 — DAY 4

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Morning Nourishment

Rom. 1:7 To all who are in Rome, beloved of God, the called saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Eph. 4:6 One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

Every basic revelation in the Bible has two aspects: the objective aspect and the subjective aspect...We need to realize that seeing the truths in the Scriptures only in the objective aspect is not sufficient for the building up of the Body of Christ, which fulfills God’s eternal purpose. Both the objective and subjective aspects of the truth are needed for the fulfillment of God’s purpose. For many centuries Satan, the subtle one, has allowed the saints to go on with the knowledge of the truth in its objective aspect, but he has blinded them from seeing the truth in its subjective aspect. He has worked in such a subtle way because he realizes that once the saints enter into the subjective aspect of the truth, the Body of Christ will be produced.

[For example], concerning God there are the objective and the subjective truths. On the objective side God is our Creator (Gen. 1:1, 26), Redeemer (Psa. 78:35), Savior (1 Tim. 2:3), Shepherd (Psa. 23:1), Lord (Luke 1:32), and Master (Acts 4:24). As all these precious items, God is objective to us because He remains outside of us. However, God is also our Father (Rom. 1:7). God as our Father is subjective to us because His life has been imparted into us. Physically, we have our father’s life, but our father’s person cannot enter into us; however, in the spiritual reality, the person of God the Father is in us as life. In this sense, we have not only God the Father’s life but also God the Father Himself within us [Eph. 4:6]. (CWWL, 1977, vol. 3, pp. 57-59)

Today’s Reading

If we pay attention only to the objective doctrines and neglect the subjectiveaspect, we will not be able to fulfill God’s eternal purpose, which is that He be expressed through the church. The objective doctrines are for the subjective truths, and the subjective truths are for the producing of the church. Because today’s Christianity has neglected the subjective truths, it does not have the practical church life. The practical church life is an issue of our experience of the subjective truths. When we have the experience of the subjective truths, the church is spontaneously produced.

Furthermore, all the subjective truths are linked to the Spirit and life. The Spirit and life are the substance of the subjective truths. If you take away the Spirit and life, there will be no subjective truths. Objective doctrines are composed of letters, whereas subjective truths are constituted with the Spirit and life, not with letters. Without the Spirit and life you do not have subjective truths. Therefore, it is by the Spirit and life that the church is produced. Because we live by the Spirit and in life, we have the experience of the subjective truths and therefore have the church life. (CWWL, 1977, vol. 3, “The Subjective Truths in the Holy Scriptures,” p. 109)

The subjective truths are required for the building up of the church because the church is not merely an organization or a gathering of people but an organism, the Body of Christ (Eph. 1:22-23; Col. 1:18)...The church as the Body of Christ is organic, something of life. Being members of the Body is not merely a matter of confessing our sins and believing that the Lord Jesus died for us on the cross so that our sins can be forgiven and we can be cleansed. Although it is not wrong to consider the church as a group of forgiven and cleansed people who believe in the Lord, to stop at this definition is to fall short of the real meaning of the church. The church is much more than a group of cleansed and forgiven believers, because within the church there is life, the divine life. If the believers did not possess the divine life, the life of God, which is Christ Himself (John 1:4; 11:25; 14:6), they would be only a group of people who come together to establish or to be an organization. (CWWL, 1977, vol. 3, pp. 67-68)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1977, vol. 3, pp. 59-83