第三週   那地有小麥與大麥

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詩歌：899 英譯中

讀經：申八8 上，約十一25，十二24 ～ 25，林前十五20，弗一20

【週一】

壹 申命記八章八節上半的小麥豫表成爲肉體、被釘死並埋葬的基督—約十二24：

一 基督在祂成肉體時期的豐滿職事裏，將無限的神帶到有限的人裏面—一1，14：

1 基督作爲在肉體裏有限的人，受時間和空間的限制—七6，10：

a 主是永遠無限、不受限制的神，卻作了人在地上生活，在時間上受到限制—6 節。

b 主雖然是全能的神，卻作了受逼迫的人，在行動上受到限制—10 節。

2 基督作爲在肉體裏有限的人，在知識上受到限制—太二四36，路二40，52，參約七15，可六1 ～ 3。

3 基督作爲在肉體裏有限的人，有天然、屬人的生命，並過倚靠的生活—約十11，15，17，六57 上，太十四19。

【週二】

二 基督藉着成爲肉體而有的人性，成了遮藏祂神性的外殼，因而遮藏了祂的榮耀—約一14，十二23 ～ 24，路十二50：

1 主耶穌因着祂神性的榮耀遮藏在祂人性的外殼裏，祂受困迫和拘禁，渴望受死的浸，使祂神性的榮耀得以釋放出來—50 節。

2 主需要經過肉身的死，使祂那不受限制且無限的神聖所是，連同祂神聖的生命，得以從祂的肉體裏釋放出來。

3 主耶穌落在地裏死了，這死將祂從人性的外殼裏釋放出來—約十二24：

a 祂落在地裏死了，好使祂神聖的元素、神聖的生命，能從祂人性的外殼裏釋放出來。

b 主耶穌這一粒麥子落在地裏，藉着死喪失魂生命，好釋放祂神聖的生命。

【週三】

三 我們在受限制、受壓迫的處境中，可以經歷基督作一粒麥子—24 節：

1 無論何時當主的主宰權柄把我們擺在一種處境中，使我們受限制，使我們受壓迫，我們就能經歷主作小麥—羅八28。

2 當我們在那些限制並約束我們的環境中接觸主時，我們就領悟到祂是那無限的神，卻成了有限的人，並且領悟到在祂裏面有能力承受任何限制—腓四13。

3 基督作我們的生命，在我們裏面乃是一粒麥子，過那成爲肉體者、受限制者的生活—西一27，三4。

4 我們若接觸主，就會經歷祂是一粒麥子；在祂裏面，我們對我們的景況就能知足—腓四11 ～ 12。

5 基督作爲小麥，乃是我們的生命，使我們願意受限制，願意受死，願意被埋葬，願意成爲無有；這就是經歷基督作小麥—約十二24 ～ 25。

【週四】

貳 小麥表徵成爲肉體、被釘死並埋葬的基督，而大麥表徵復活的基督—申八8 上：

一 在美地大麥比其他穀物先成熟；因此，大麥是初熟的果子—林前十五20：

1 因着大麥成熟得早，所以大麥是莊稼中的初熟果子—這豫表復活、不受限制的基督—20 節。

2 我們喜樂的學知基督是大麥，是在我們裏面復活的基督，祂能應付每個處境。

3 基督這復活的初熟果子，乃是從死人中的首生者，使祂成爲身體的頭；（西一18，弗一20 ～ 23；）祂這身體的頭旣已復活，我們作爲身體也必復活。

4 作爲初熟的果子，基督已經成爲生命的糧（餅）；因此，大麥餅表徵在復活裏的基督是我們的食物—約六48：

a 五這數字表徵負責任；這指明復活的基督能承擔責任。

b 我們從基督這大麥餅得餧養時，我們就成爲大麥餅，以我們所經歷的基督餧養別人。

5 主耶穌用五個大麥餅能使五千人喫飽，還剩下十二籃的零碎；這就是復活—太十四14 ～ 21，約六9，13。

二 正如大麥所豫表的，復活的基督乃是無限的—腓四13：

1 小麥指基督的成爲肉體、受死與埋葬，隨後，大麥指祂的復活，就是復活的基督—約十一25，弗一20。

【週五】

2 一面，我們可以經歷小麥所表徵有限的耶穌；另一面，我們可以經歷大麥所表徵無限的基督—約十二24，六9，13：

a 耶穌在祂的成爲肉體裏，是非常受限制；但在祂的復活裏，祂是不受限制的—路十二49～50，二四5～6，26，34，46。

b 小麥是死亡谷，但大麥是復活山。

3 爲要經歷小麥，就是受限制的耶穌，我們必須應用大麥，就是不受限制的基督；我們在復活基督的大能裏，跟從受限制的耶穌—來十三12 ～ 13。

4 我們在那加我們能力者的裏面，凡事都能作，因爲祂是復活且無限的基督—腓四13。

5 何時我們有基督作小麥的經歷，就保證必有基督作大麥的經歷隨之而來—申八8 上。

6 事實上，爲要經歷基督作小麥，作受限制的耶穌，我們必須應用祂作大麥，作復活的基督—約十二24 ～ 25。

【週六】

7 我們在自己裏面無法應付我們的需要，但我們裏面有大麥餅，有一分不受限制的復活基督，能應付每一需要，甚至會產生富餘—十一25。

8 復活的基督乃是大麥餅；沒有甚麼能阻擋或限制祂。

9 我們若記得基督是我們裏面的大麥，當我們來到聚會中，就能藉着禱告或見證，應用基督作大麥以餧養別人。

Week Three

A Land of Wheat and Barley

Hymns: 899

Scripture Reading: Deut. 8:8a; John 11:25; 12:24-25; 1 Cor. 15:20; Eph. 1:20

§ Day 1

I. The wheat in Deuteronomy 8:8a typifies the incarnated, crucified, and buried Christ—John 12:24:

A. In His full ministry in the stage of His incarnation, Christ brought the infinite God into the finite man—1:1, 14:

1. As a finite man, Christ in the flesh was limited in time and space—7:6, 10:

a. The Lord is the eternal, infinite, unlimited God, but He lived here on earth as a man, being limited in the matter of time—v. 6.

b. Although the Lord is the almighty God, as a man under persecution, He was limited in relation to His activity—v. 10.

2. As a finite man, Christ in the flesh was limited in knowledge—Matt. 24:36; Luke 2:40, 52; cf. John 7:15; Mark 6:1-3.

3. As a finite man, Christ in the flesh had a natural, human life and a dependent
existence—John 10:11, 15, 17; 6:57a; Matt. 14:19.

§ Day 2

B. Christs humanity through His incarnation became a shell that concealed His divinity and thereby concealed His glory—John 1:14; 12:23-24; Luke 12:50:

1. Because the glory of His divinity was concealed by the shell of His humanity, the Lord Jesus was pressed and constrained, longing to be baptized with the baptism of His death for the release of the glory of His divinity—v. 50.

2. The Lord needed to undergo physical death that His unlimited and infinite divine being with His divine life might be released from His flesh.

3. The Lord Jesus fell into the ground and died, and that death released Him from His human shell—John 12:24:

a. He fell into the ground and died so that His divine element, His divine life, might be released from within the shell of His humanity.

b. The Lord Jesus, as a grain of wheat falling into the ground, lost His soulish life through death in order to release His divine life.

§ Day 3

C. In the midst of situations that limit us and press us, we may experience Christ as a grain of wheat—v. 24:

1. Whenever we are put into a situation by the Lords sovereignty in which we are limited, in which we are pressed, we may experience the Lord as wheat— Rom. 8:28.

2. When we contact the Lord in our limiting and restricting circumstances, we will realize that He is the infinite God who became a finite man and that there is power in Him to bear any kind of limitation—Phil. 4:13.

3. Christ our life is within us as a grain of wheat to live the life of the incarnated One, the limited One—Col. 1:27; 3:4.

4. If we contact the Lord, we will experience Him as a grain of wheat, and in Him we will be content with our situation—Phil. 4:11-12.

5. As wheat, Christ is our life to make us willing to be limited, willing to die, willing to be buried, willing to be nothing; this is the experience of Christ as wheat—John 12:24-25.

§ Day 4

II. Whereas wheat signifies the incarnated, crucified, and buried Christ, barley signifies the resurrected Christ—Deut. 8:8a:

A. In the good land, barley ripens earlier than any other grain; therefore, it is the firstfruits—1 Cor. 15:20:

1. Because barley ripens early, it is the firstfruits of the harvest—a type of the resurrected and unlimited Christ—v. 20.

2. We rejoice to learn that Christ is the barley, the resurrected Christ within us, and that He is able to meet every situation.

3. Christ as the firstfruits of resurrection is the Firstborn from the dead that He might be the Head of the Body (Col. 1:18; Eph. 1:20-23); since He, the Head of the Body, has been resurrected, we, the Body, will also be resurrected.

4. As the firstfruits, Christ has become the bread of life; hence, barley loaves signify Christ in resurrection as food to us—John 6:48:

a. The number five signifies responsibility; this indicates that the resurrected Christ is able to bear responsibility.

b. As we feed on Christ as the barley loaves, we become a loaf of barley to feed others with the Christ whom we have experienced.

5. With five barley loaves, the Lord Jesus could feed five thousand people with twelve baskets of broken pieces left over; this is resurrection—Matt. 14:14-21; John 6:9, 13.

B. As typified by barley, the resurrected Christ is unlimited—Phil. 4:13:

1. Wheat points to Christs incarnation, death, and burial, and following this, the barley points to His resurrection, the resurrected Christ—John 11:25; Eph. 1:20.

§ Day 5

2. On the one hand, we may experience the limited Jesus as signified by wheat; on the other hand, we may experience the unlimited Christ as signified by barley—John 12:24; 6:9, 13:

a. In His incarnation Jesus was exceedingly limited, but in His resurrection He is unlimited—Luke 12:49-50; 24:5-6, 26, 34, 46.

b. Whereas wheat is the valley of death, barley is the mountain of resurrection.

3. In order to experience the wheat, the limited Jesus, we need to apply the barley, the unlimited Christ; we follow the limited Jesus in the power of the resurrected Christ—Heb. 13:12-13.

4. We can do all things in the One who empowers us because He is the resurrected and unlimited Christ—Phil. 4:13.

5. Whenever we experience Christ as the wheat, we are assured that an experience of Christ as the barley will follow—Deut. 8:8a.

6. Actually, in order to experience Christ as the grain of wheat, the limited Jesus, we must apply Him as the barley, the resurrected Christ—John 12:24-25.

§ Day 6

7. We cannot meet our needs in ourselves, but within us a barley loaf, a portion of the unlimited resurrected Christ, meets every need and may even produce a surplus—11:25.

8. The resurrected Christ is the loaf of barley; nothing can hinder or limit Him.

9. If we remember that Christ is barley in us, when we come to a meeting, we can apply Him as barley to feed others by our prayer or our testimony.