第十一週•週六

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晨興餧養

約四24『神是靈；敬拜祂的，必須在靈和真實裏敬拜。』

約叁1『作長老的寫信給親愛的該猶，就是我真實所愛的。』

約十四6『耶穌說，我就是…實際…。』

基督徒的生活乃是天天經歷我們所接受的基督。…這樣經歷基督就產生了我們用以敬拜神的祭物。…我們該在靈裏，帶着我們日常生活中一直經歷的基督，來參加召會的聚會。在召會的聚會裏，我們該在我們的靈裏，帶着我們所經歷作祭物的基督來敬拜神。我們可以將祂獻上作贖罪祭或贖愆祭，…作燔祭、素祭、或平安祭。這些祭物都是我們主觀經歷的基督。（約翰一書生命讀經，一○三頁。）

信息選讀

當我們經歷基督時，我們實際上是在享受父、子、靈。因此，經歷基督就是享受三一神。這享受產生一種實際，乃是非常主觀而實用的。這實際一面是我們裏面的基督，另一面也是我們的實際。

假定在召會生活裏，有些弟兄對基督漠不關心，也在經歷基督的事上閒懶。…他們已經相信了主的名，也接受了主，但就是這樣而已；他們在日常生活中對基督沒有甚麼經歷。這些弟兄也許很有倫理道德，沒有犯甚麼大罪。但因着他們在日常生活中對基督沒有甚麼經歷，等到他們來參加召會的聚會時，他們就空手而來。他們不會禱告，或爲主說話。他們可能喜歡坐在會中看別人盡功用。這對神是一種侮辱。這種敬拜不僅被神棄絕，更是神所定罪的。

我們不該空手朝見神。每當我們朝見神時，該有一些出於我們日常生活所經歷之基督的東西。…神要我們所經歷的基督。祂渴望我們以每天所經歷的基督來敬拜祂。

我們經歷基督時，是在享受父神、子神、靈神。這享受產生一個實際，我們可以稱之爲我們個人的實際。這個人的實際乃是基督浸透我們裏面的人。當我們有這個實際時，就有基督在我們的靈、心、心思、情感和意志裏。這是我們所經歷的基督成了我們的實際。…這不僅是給我們享受的神聖實際，也是從我們對神聖實際的享受而來之屬人的實際，就是我們個人的實際。這屬人的實際乃是我們每天所享受之神聖實際的流出。

多年前，我聽到一些信息說，我們敬拜神需要真誠，這真誠就是主耶穌在約翰四章二十三至二十四節裏所說的真實。比方說，有人可能對會眾說，『你們來敬拜神，但是你們的心不在這裏。…你敬拜神需要真誠的心。』…然而，將這兩節裏的真實一辭解釋爲真誠，乃是以天然、宗教的方式解釋神的話。…這裏神聖啓示的真理乃是說，我們需要在真實裏敬拜神，這真實就是我們享受神作實際的結果。我們若天天經歷基督，就會享受三一神作我們的實際。這享受要產生美德，這美德要成爲我們屬人的實際，這實際乃是神聖實際的結果。…這美德一點不差就是我們所經歷的基督，這基督乃是一切的祭物。我們所經歷的基督是我們的贖罪祭、贖愆祭、燔祭、素祭以及平安祭。（約翰一書生命讀經，一○三至一○六頁。）

參讀：爲着召會聚會經歷基督作祭物，第五章。

WEEK 11 — DAY 6

Morning Nourishment

John 4:24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truthfulness.

3 John 1 The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truthfulness.

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, I am…the reality…

The Christian life is a life of daily experiencing the Christ we have received…This experience of Christ produces the offerings with which we worship God. We should come to the meetings of the church in spirit and with the Christ whom we have been experiencing in our daily living. In the church meetings we should worship God in our spirit and with the very Christ whom we have experienced as the offerings. We may offer Him as the sin offering or as the trespass offering,…as the burnt offering, as the meal offering, or as the peace offering. All these offerings are the Christ whom we
experience subjectively. (Life-study of 1 John, 2nd edition, p. 83)

Today’s Reading

When we experience Christ, we are actually enjoying the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. Hence, to experience Christ is to enjoy the Triune God. This enjoyment results in a reality that is very subjective and practical. On the one hand, this reality is Christ in us; on the other hand, this is also our reality.

Suppose certain brothers in the church life are indifferent concerning Christ and idle with respect to the experience of Christ…They have believed in the Lord’s name and received Him, and that is all. They do not have any experience of Christ in their daily living. These brothers may be ethical and moral, not committing any gross sins. But because they do not have any experience of Christ in their daily living, when they come to the church meetings, they come empty-handed. They are not able to pray or give a word for the Lord. They may like to sit in the meeting and watch others function. This is an insult to God. This kind of worship is not only rejected by Him—it is condemned.

We should not come to God empty-handed. Whenever we come to Him, we should have something of the Christ we have experienced in our daily living…God wants the Christ we have experienced. His desire is that we worship Him with the Christ we experience day by day.

In experiencing Christ we enjoy God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit. This enjoyment issues in a reality that we may call our personal reality. This personal reality is a matter of having Christ saturating our inner being. When we have this reality, we have Christ in our spirit, heart, mind, emotion, and will. This is the Christ whom we have experienced becoming our reality…This is not only the divine reality for our enjoyment; this is also our human reality, our personal reality, which comes out of our enjoyment of the divine reality. This human reality…is the issue of the divine reality that we enjoy daily.

Years ago, I heard messages saying that we need to be sincere in our worship of God and that this sincerity is what the Lord Jesus meant by truthfulness in John 4:23 and 24. For example, one may say to the members of a congregation,” You have come to worship God, but your heart is not here…For the worship of God, you need a sincere heart.” To interpret the word truthfulness in John 4:23 and 24 as sincerity is to expound the Word of God in a way that is natural and religious…The truth of the divine revelation here is that we need to worship God in truthfulness, which is the issue of our enjoyment of the Triune God as reality. If we experience Christ daily, we will enjoy the Triune God as our reality. This enjoyment will result in a virtue, and
this virtue will become our human truthfulness, a reality that is the outcome of the divine reality…This virtue is nothing less than Christ experienced by us, and this Christ is all the offerings. The Christ we have experienced is our sin offering, trespass offering, burnt offering, meal offering, and peace offering. (Life-study of 1 John, second edition, pp. 83-85)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1982, vol. 1, “Experiencing Christ as the Offerings for the Church Meetings,” ch. 5