第十二週•週四

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晨興餧養

西三16『當用各樣的智慧，讓基督的話豐豐富富的住在你們裏面，用詩章、頌辭、靈歌，彼此教導，互相勸戒，心被恩感歌頌神。』

林前十四26『弟兄們，這卻怎麼樣？每逢你們聚在一起的時候，各人或有詩歌，或有教訓，或有啓示，或有方言，或有繙出來的話，凡事都當爲建造。』

我們要在聚會中作說話的人，…必須〔每天〕累積對基督的經歷。…保羅乃是竭力追求基督。〔參腓三8 ～ 10，12 ～ 14。〕…因着他這樣追求基督，就不斷累積對基督的經歷。…這就是爲甚麼保羅對於基督有這麼多可說的。許多時候，當我們來到聚會，我們沒有許多對基督的經歷，作爲我們說話的基礎和根基。我們缺少經歷。我們能說話，但我們的說話需要後盾，而這後盾就是我們對基督真實的經歷。（李常受文集一九八八年第一册，二五八頁。）

信息選讀

我們也必須對主的話有豐富的積存。（西三16，約十五7，約壹二14。）我們只要實行每早晨禱讀二至四節聖經裏的話，並且週週、月月這樣實行，我們就會有主活的話豐富的積存。話不只是在我們的記憶裏，更會積存在我們裏面。…基督的豐富具體化在聖言裏。這是聖經與其他一切的書不同的地方。

我們該在一切聚會中經常有話語說出來，作爲向神和聽眾所獻上的甘心祭。（林前十四26 與註1。）在我們一切的聚會中，我們不該只是勉強或被迫說話。我們的說話該是我們向神並向與會者所獻上的甘心祭，使神得着榮耀和滿足，並使與會者得着光照、滋養和建造。（李常受文集一九八八年第一册，二五九、二六四頁。）

〔林前十四章二十六節〕指明我們來到召會的聚會中，該有一些出於主的東西與別人分享：或有詩歌讚美主；或有（教師的）教訓，將基督的豐富供應人，好造就並滋養人；或有申言者的啓示，（30，）給人看見神永遠定旨的異象，就是關於基督是神的奧祕，以及召會是基督的奧祕；或有方言，給不信的人作表記，（22，）使他們認識並接受基督；或有繙出來的話，使論到基督和祂身體的方言，成爲人明白的話。我們來聚會之前，應當對主有經歷，對主的話有享受，並且在禱告中與主有交通，使我們有前文所說那些從主而來，並出於主的東西；藉着這些，我們就能爲聚會豫備自己。到了會中，我們就不需要，也不該等候靈感，乃該運用靈，使用受過訓練的心思盡功用，擺上我們所豫備的，使主得着榮耀和滿足，並使與會者得着益處，就是得着光照、滋養和建造。

這就像古時的住棚節，以色列人將美地的出產，就是他們經營那地所得的收穫，帶來過節獻給主，好在與主的交通並彼此的交通中，讓主有享受，也彼此在主面前有享受。我們必須經營基督，就是我們的美地，使我們從祂的豐富收穫出產，帶到召會的聚會中獻上。這樣，召會的聚會，就是展覽基督的豐富，也是全體與會者在神面前並同着神，彼此分享基督，使眾聖徒與召會得着建造。（哥林多前書生命讀經，六六九至六七○頁。）

參讀：爲着建造基督的身體講說基督，第三至四章；哥林多前書生命讀經，第六十三至六十四篇。

WEEK 12 — DAY 4

Morning Nourishment

Col. 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God.

1 Cor. 14:26 What then, brothers? Whenever you come together, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.

To be the speaking ones in our meetings, we must…accumulate the experiences of Christ…day after day. Paul was pursuing Christ [cf. Phil. 3:8- 10, 12-14]…Because he sought after Christ in such a way, he accumulated the experiences of Christ continually…This is why Paul had so much to say about Christ. Many times when we come to the meetings, we do not have much experience of Christ as a base, or a foundation, for our speaking. We are short of experiences. We can speak the word, but our speaking of the word needs a backing, and this backing is our real experience of Christ. (CWWL, 1988, vol. 1, “Speaking Christ for the Building Up of the Body of Christ,” p. 184)

Today’s Reading

We also must keep a rich storage of the Lord’s word (Col. 3:16; John 15:7; 1 John 2:14). If we would just practice to pray-read two to four verses from the Word every morning, and we do this week after week and month after month, we will gain a rich storage of the living word. The word will not be just in our memory, but it will be something stored within us…The riches of Christ are embodied in the holy Word. This is what makes the Bible different from all the other books.

We should always have something to speak in all the meetings as a freewill offering to God and to the audience (1 Cor. 14:26 and footnote 1). In all our meetings we should not speak merely out of being forced or compelled to speak. Our speaking should be an offering of our free will to God for His glory and satisfaction and to the attendants for their enlightening, nourishing, and building up. (CWWL, 1988, vol. 1, “Speaking Christ for the Building Up of the Body of Christ,” pp. 185, 188)

[First Corinthians 14:26] indicates that when we come to the church meeting, we should have something of the Lord to share with others, whether a psalm to praise the Lord, a teaching (of the teacher) to minister the riches of Christ to edify and nourish others, a revelation (of the prophet, v. 30) to give visions of God’s eternal purpose concerning Christ as God’s mystery and the church as Christ’s mystery, a tongue as a sign to the unbelievers (v. 22) that they may know and accept Christ, or an interpretation to make a tongue concerning Christ and His Body understandable. Before coming to the meeting, we should prepare ourselves for the meeting with such things from the Lord and of the Lord, either through our experience of Him or through our enjoyment of His word and fellowship with Him in prayer. After coming
into the meeting, we should not wait for an inspiration; there is no need to wait. We should exercise our spirit and use our trained mind to function in presenting what we have prepared to the Lord for His glory and satisfaction and to the attendants for their benefit—their enlightenment, nourishment, and building up.

[In] the Feast of Tabernacles in ancient times, the children of Israel brought the produce of the good land, which they had reaped from their labor on the land, to the feast and offered it to the Lord for His enjoyment and for mutual participation in fellowship with the Lord and with one another. We must labor on Christ, our good land, that we may reap some produce of His riches to bring to the church meeting and offer. Thus, the meeting will be an exhibition of Christ in His riches and will be a mutual enjoyment of Christ shared by all the attendants before God and with God for the building up of the saints and the church. (Life-study of 1 Corinthians, second edition, p. 562)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1988, vol. 1, “Speaking Christ for the Building Up of the Body of Christ,” chs. 3-4; Life-study of 1 Corinthians, msgs. 63-64