第一週

建立操練靈的習慣，將神賜給我們的靈如火挑旺起來，藉此活在神永遠經綸的實際裏，以完成這經綸

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詩歌：628

讀經：提前四7 ～ 8，提後一6 ～ 7，四22

【週一】

壹 神永遠的經綸乃是祂的家庭行政，要在基督裏將祂自己分賜到祂所揀選的人裏面，使祂得着一個家彰顯祂自己，這家就是召會—基督的身體；神永遠的經綸乃是祂永遠的計畫，而祂神聖的分賜乃是祂完成祂計畫的憑藉— 提前一3 ～ 4， 三15， 羅十二5，弗一10，三8 ～ 9，二10：

一 基督是神經綸的中心、圓周、元素、範圍、憑藉、
目標和目的；事實上，神永遠經綸的一切內容就是基督—太十七5，弗三6，路二四44。

二 除非我們認識神的經綸，否則我們就無法明白聖經；聖經的中心題目乃是神的經綸，整本聖經都是關乎神的經綸—45 節，伯十13，參弗三9。

三 神的經綸就是要將神自己分賜到我們裏面，使我們這人由祂的所是構成；這惟有藉着神將祂自己這神聖的生命分賜到我們裏面，纔能完成—約十10，十四6 上，林前十五45 下，羅八2，6，10 ～ 11。

四 新約職事中的領導，乃是神所賜關於神永遠經綸那控制之啓示的領導—徒二六19，箴二九18。

五 與神的經綸不同的教訓，使我們離開對那位作我們生命和一切的主耶穌基督這寶貴人位真正的珍賞、愛和享受；（林後十一2 ～ 3；）異議者不同的教訓（提前一3）引起信徒中間的嫉妒與不合，這違反使徒關於留在神經綸教訓裏之囑咐的目的（目標），就是愛。（5，約十三34，加五13 ～ 14。）

六 神的神聖分賜把信徒作成神，使他們在生命和性情上，但不在神格上，成爲神，好建造召會作基督的身體，並豫備基督的新婦，以引進基督的國；爲這緣故，神來成爲一個人，使祂自己『人化』了；然後祂將自己作爲生命分賜到我們裏面，使我們在祂的生命和性情上『神化』了，但無分於祂的神格。

七 神在祂經綸裏的目的，是要把祂自己在祂神聖的三一—父、子、靈—裏，分賜到祂所揀選的人裏面；神在時間裏惟一的目標，是要把祂自己一天過一天的分賜到我們裏面。

【週二】

貳 在神原初心意的『藍圖』裏，人是整個宇宙的中心，而人的中心乃是他的靈—亞十二1，創二7，箴二十27：

一 諸天是爲着地，地是爲着人，神給人造了靈，使人可以接觸神，接受神，盛裝神，敬拜神，活神，爲神完成神的定旨，彰顯神，並與神成爲一—約四24，林前六17。

二 神若不是靈，我們若沒有靈來接觸神，與神成爲一，整個宇宙就是空洞的，我們也一無所是—傳一2，三11，伯三二8，十二10，林後四13，16 ～ 18。

三 由於人的墮落，人不僅疏忽並忽畧人的靈，甚至拒絕承認人有靈—帖前五23，來四12，參猶19。

四 人是器皿，原該藉着操練他的靈，接受在基督裏的神作爲生命樹，使生命如同河在人的最深處流進流出，使他得變化成爲寶貴的材料，爲着神的建造，就是神永遠的彰顯—創一26，二7 ～ 12，22，提前四7 ～ 8：

1 神的氣成了我們人的靈，我們的靈乃是神的燈，以盛裝神作油，並給我們亮光—創二7，箴二十27。

2 人的靈因着墮落，成了殘破的燈，但藉着神在祂救恩裏的恢復，人的靈由那賜生命且七倍加強的靈所重生、重建並加強—創二7，箴二十27，約三6，啓四5，林前十五45 下。

【週三】

3 人裏面的中央政府並最重要的部分應當是他的靈；一個受自己的靈管治並支配的人就是屬靈的人—二14 ～ 15，三1，十四32，林後二12 ～ 15，弗三16，彼前三4，但六3，10。

五 神的經綸戰畧、中心的點，乃是神聖的靈住在我們人的靈裏，二者調和一起成爲一靈，就是調和的靈—約三6，四24，羅八16，林後三17，提後四22，林前六17，提前一4，林後四13：

1 完成神經綸偉大的路，乃是我們藉着操練我們的靈，照着那靈生活並作一切的事—伯十13，弗三9，羅八4，加五25。

2 每當我們轉向我們的靈，並操練我們的靈，我們就摸着基督的身體，因爲基督的身體乃是在我們靈裏—弗一17，二22，三5，16，四23，五18，六18。

3 當我們在靈裏，我們就勝過世界，我們不能犯罪，那惡者也不能摸我們，並且我們蒙保守，遠避偶像—約壹五4，18 ～ 19，21，約十四30。

【週四】

叁 接受神聖三一的神聖分賜並作這分賜的管道，使聖徒們在生命裏長大並享受基督，關鍵乃是操練我們的靈，就是將神所賜給我們的靈如火挑旺起來—腓一25，提前四7 ～ 8，提後一6 ～ 7，四22，徒六10，林前十四32：

一 敬虔是彰顯神的生活，是爲着神聖經綸之神聖分賜的結果，這分賜是在於操練我們的靈，在日常生活中活基督，使神在召會生活中得着團體的顯出—提前一3 ～ 4，三15 ～ 16，四7 ～ 8，提後一6 ～ 7。

二 『操練』這辭含示勉強；我們基督徒若要剛強並在主裏長大，就必須勉強自己用我們的靈，直到我們建立起操練靈的堅強習慣—提前四7。

三 操練我們的靈，就是將我們的靈如火挑旺起來—提後一6 ～ 7：

1 六節說到『神的恩賜』，七節指明神賜給我們的乃是我們重生的靈，就是我們調和的靈，這靈乃是能力、愛、並清明自守的靈；因此，神的恩賜就是神所賜給我們的靈。

2 我們得救的人有本錢過基督徒生活和召會生活；這本錢乃是神所賜給我們的靈。

3 在我們那有聖靈內住之重生的靈裏有火；事實上，我們的靈就是火—路十二49 ～ 50，羅十二11，啓四5，箴二十27。

【週五】

四 我們要操練我們的靈，就必須對付那包圍我們靈之魂的各部分—我們的心思、情感和意志—參彼前三4：

1 能力的靈乃是靈帶着被征服並復活的意志，愛的靈乃是靈帶着被神這愛所充滿的情感，清明自守的靈乃是靈帶着被更新的心思—提後一7。

2 我們親愛的主耶穌是我們魂的牧人和監督；我們的魂是我們內裏的所是—真人位；主藉着顧到我們裏面各部分的益處，並監督我們真人位的光景，而牧養我們—彼前二25，詩二三1 ～ 6，參來十三17。

3 因着操練靈是聯於我們魂的各部分，並且對於活在神經綸的實際中極爲重要，我們就需要憑着『堅固門徒的魂』而與我們主天上的職事合作—徒十四22。4 堅固門徒的魂就是：㈠堅固他們的心思，使他們認識並領會主和關於主的事；（林前二16，腓三10；）㈡堅固他們的情感，使他們愛主並有心爲着主的權益；（可十二30，羅十六4；）㈢堅固他們的意志，使他們剛強與主同在，行主所喜悅的事。（徒十一23，西一10，帖前四1。）

五 操練我們的靈，將神賜給我們的靈如火挑旺起來，乃是要常常喜樂，不住的禱告，凡事謝恩，以享受內住的靈作爲在基督裏作一切事的祕訣—林後十二2 上，腓四11 ～ 13，詩九一1，帖前五16 ～ 18。

六 操練我們的靈，將神賜給我們的靈如火挑旺起來，乃是將我們的心思置於靈—羅八6，瑪二15 ～ 16：

1 當我們將心思置於靈，我們就有內裏生命平安的感覺，就是剛強、飽足、安息、釋放、活潑、滋潤、明亮和舒適的感覺。

2 當我們將心思置於肉體，我們就有內裏死的感覺，就是輭弱、虛空、不適、不安、下沉、枯乾、黑暗和痛苦的感覺。

3 我們基督徒的生活不是按照對錯的標準，乃是照着靈，並且我們憑着內裏生命平安的感覺認識靈—羅八6，林後二13 ～ 14。

【週六】

七 操練我們的靈，將神賜給我們的靈如火挑旺起來，乃是辨明我們的靈與魂—來四12：

1 我們應當一直保持警覺，辨明並拒絕一切不是出於靈，而是出於魂，出於己的事—太十六25，參路九25。

2 我們的一切所是、所有並所作，都必須在靈裏；神之於我們的一切，都是在我們的靈裏—羅二28 ～29，一9，八4，十二11。

八 操練我們的靈，將神賜給我們的靈如火挑旺起來，就是藉着同那些清心呼求主的人追求基督，而過正常的召會生活，並勝過召會的墮落—提後二22。

九 操練我們的靈，將神賜給我們的靈如火挑旺起來，乃是爲着神的權益—基督、神的國、以及神的家—作爲神永遠經綸的目標，有個人傾心吐意的禱告、親近神—一6 ～ 8，提前一3 ～ 4，二1 ～ 3，8，王上八48，猶19 ～ 21。

Week One

Living in the Reality of God’s Eternal Economy for Its Fulfillment by Building Up a Habit of Exercising Our Spirit, Fanning Our God-given Spirit into Flame

Hymns: 866

Scripture Reading: 1 Tim. 4:7-8; 2 Tim. 1:6-7; 4:22

§ Day 1

I. God’s eternal economy is His household administration to dispense Himself in Christ into His chosen people that He may have a house to express Himself, which house is the church, the Body of Christ; God’s eternal economy is His eternal plan, and His divine dispensing is the means by which He accomplishes His plan—1 Tim. 1:3-4; 3:15; Rom. 12:5; Eph. 1:10; 3:8-9; 2:10:

A. Christ is the center, circumference, element, sphere, means, goal, and aim of God’s economy; in fact, all the contents of God’s eternal economy are simply Christ— Matt. 17:5; Eph. 3:6; Luke 24:44.

B. Unless we know God’s economy, we will not understand the Bible; the central subject of the Bible is the economy of God, and the entire Bible is concerned with the economy of God—v. 45; Job 10:13; cf. Eph. 3:9.

C. God’s economy is to dispense Himself into our being so that our being may be constituted with His being; this can be accomplished only by God’s dispensing Himself into us as the divine life—John 10:10; 14:6a; 1 Cor. 15:45b; Rom. 8:2, 6, 10-11.

D. The leadership in the New Testament ministry is the leadership of the controlling, God-given revelation of God’s eternal economy—Acts 26:19; Prov. 29:18.

E. Different teachings other than God’s economy separate us from the genuine appreciation, love, and enjoyment of the precious person of the Lord Jesus Christ as our life and our everything (2 Cor. 11:2-3); the different teachings of the dissenting ones (1 Tim. 1:3) caused envy and discord among the believers, which are contrary to love, the end (the objective and purpose) of the apostle’s charge to remain in the teaching of God’s economy (v. 5; John 13:34; Gal. 5:13-14).

F. God’s divine dispensing deifies the believers, making them God in life and nature but not in the Godhead for the building up of the church as the Body of Christ and for the preparation of the bride of Christ to usher in the kingdom of Christ; for this purpose God became a man to “man-ize” Himself; then He dispenses Himself as life into us to “God-ize” us in His life and nature but not in His Godhead.

G. God’s intention in His economy is to dispense Himself in His Divine Trinity— the Father, the Son, and the Spirit—into His chosen people; God’s only goal in time is to dispense Himself into us day by day.

§ Day 2

II. In the “blueprint” of God’s original intention, man is the center of the entire universe, and the center of man is his spirit—Zech. 12:1; Gen. 2:7; Prov. 20:27:

A. The heavens are for the earth, the earth is for man, and man was created by God with a spirit that he may contact God, receive God, contain God, worship God, live God, fulfill God’s purpose for God, express God, and be one with God—John 4:24; 1 Cor. 6:17.

B. Without God being the Spirit and without us having a spirit to contact God, to be one with God, the whole universe is empty, and we are nothing—Eccl. 1:2; 3:11; Job 32:8; 12:10; 2 Cor. 4:13, 16-18.

C. Due to the fall, men have not only overlooked and neglected the human spirit but also have even refused to admit that man has a spirit—1 Thes. 5:23; Heb. 4:12; cf. Jude 19.

D. Man as a vessel, through the exercise of his spirit, was to receive God in Christ as the tree of life so that life as a river would flow in and out of his innermost being for his transformation into precious materials for God’s building, God’s eternal expression—Gen. 1:26; 2:7-12, 22; 1 Tim. 4:7-8:

1. The breath of God has become our human spirit, and our spirit is God’s lamp to contain God as the oil and to give us light—Gen. 2:7; Prov. 20:27.

2. Man’s spirit became a broken lamp through his fall, but through God’s recovery in His salvation, man’s spirit is regenerated, rebuilt, and reinforced with the vivifying, sevenfold intensified Spirit—Gen. 2:7; Prov. 20:27; John 3:6; Rev. 4:5; 1 Cor. 15:45b.

§ Day 3

3. The central government and most prominent part of man’s being should be his spirit; a man who is ruled and controlled by his spirit is a spiritual man— 2:14-15; 3:1; 14:32; 2 Cor. 2:12-15; Eph. 3:16; 1 Pet. 3:4; Dan. 6:3, 10.

E. The strategic and central point of God’s economy is the divine Spirit dwelling in our human spirit and the two mingled together as one spirit, the mingled spirit— John  3:6; 4:24; Rom. 8:16; 2 Cor. 3:17; 2 Tim. 4:22; 1 Cor. 6:17; 1 Tim. 1:4; 2 Cor. 4:13:

1. The great way to fulfill God’s economy is for us to live and do everything according to the Spirit by exercising our spirit—Job 10:13; Eph. 3:9; Rom. 8:4; Gal. 5:25.

2. Whenever we turn to our spirit and exercise our spirit, we touch the Body, because the Body is in our spirit—Eph. 1:17; 2:22; 3:5, 16; 4:23; 5:18; 6:18.

3. When we are in our spirit, we overcome the world, we cannot sin, the evil one cannot touch us, and we are guarded from idols—1 John 5:4, 18-19, 21; John 14:30.

§ Day 4

III. The key to receiving the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity and being a channel of this dispensing for the saints’ growth in life and their enjoyment of Christ is to exercise our spirit, which is to fan our God-given spirit into flame— Phil. 1:25; 1 Tim. 4:7-8; 2 Tim. 1:6-7; 4:22; Acts 6:10; 1 Cor. 14:32:

A. Godliness, a living that is the expression of God, is the issue of the divine dispensing for the divine economy, and this dispensing depends on the exercise of our spirit to live Christ in our daily life for the corporate manifestation of God in the church life—1 Tim. 1:3-4; 3:15-16; 4:7-8; 2 Tim. 1:6-7.

B. The word exercise implies forcing; if we Christians want to be strong and want to grow in the Lord, we must force ourselves to use our spirit until we build up a strong habit of exercising our spirit—1 Tim. 4:7.

C. To exercise our spirit is to fan our spirit into flame—2 Tim. 1:6-7:

1. Second Timothy 1:6 refers to “the gift of God,” and verse 7 indicates that what God has given us is our regenerated spirit, our mingled spirit, of power, of love, and of sobermindedness; thus, the gift of God is our Godgiven spirit.

2. We saved ones have the capital to live the Christian life and the church life, and this capital is our God-given spirit.

3. Fire is in our regenerated spirit, which is indwelt by the Holy Spirit; actually, our spirit is the fire—Luke 12:49-50; Rom. 12:11; Rev. 4:5; Prov. 20:27.

§ Day 5

D. To exercise our spirit, we must deal with the parts of our soul surrounding our spirit—our mind, emotion, and will—cf. 1 Pet. 3:4:

1. A spirit of power is a spirit with a subdued and resurrected will, a spirit of love is a spirit with an emotion filled with God as love, and a spirit of sobermindedness is a spirit with a renewed mind—2 Tim. 1:7.

2. Our dear Lord Jesus is the Shepherd and Overseer of our souls; our soul is our inner being, our real person; our Lord shepherds us by caring for the welfare of our inner being and by exercising His oversight over the condition of our real person—1 Pet. 2:25; Psa. 23:1-6; cf. Heb. 13:17.

3. Because the exercise of the spirit is linked to the parts of our soul and is so vital to living in the reality of God’s economy, we need to cooperate with our Lord in His heavenly ministry by “establishing the souls of the disciples”— Acts 14:22.

4. To establish the souls of the disciples is to establish them (1) in their mind, that they may know and understand the Lord and the things concerning Him (1 Cor. 2:16; Phil. 3:10); (2) in their emotion, that they may love the Lord and have a heart for the Lord’s interest (Mark 12:30; Rom. 16:4); and (3) in their will, that they may be strong to remain with the Lord and do the things that please the Lord (Acts 11:23; Col. 1:10; 1 Thes. 4:1).

E. To exercise our spirit, to fan our God-given spirit into flame, is to rejoice always, pray unceasingly, and give thanks in everything in order to enjoy the indwelling Spirit as the secret of doing all things in Christ—2 Cor. 12:2a; Phil. 4:11-13; Psa. 91:1; 1 Thes. 5:16-18.

F. To exercise our spirit, to fan our God-given spirit into flame, is to set our mind on the spirit—Rom. 8:6; Mal. 2:15-16:

1. When we set our mind on the spirit, we have the inner sense of life and peace, the sense of strength, satisfaction, rest, release, liveliness, watering, brightness, and comfort.

2. When we set our mind on the flesh, we have the inner sense of death, the sense of weakness, emptiness, uneasiness, restlessness, depression, dryness, darkness, and pain.

3. Our Christian life is not according to the standard of right and wrong but according to the inner sense of life and peace in our spirit—Rom. 8:6; 2 Cor. 2:13-14.

§ Day 6

G. To exercise our spirit, to fan our God-given spirit into flame, is to discern our spirit from our soul—Heb. 4:12:

1. We should always be on the alert to discern and deny anything that is not of the spirit but of the soul, the self—Matt. 16:25; cf. Luke 9:25.

2. Whatever we are, whatever we have, and whatever we do must be in spirit; everything that God is to us is in our spirit—Rom. 2:28-29; 1:9; 8:4; 12:11.

H. To exercise our spirit, to fan our God-given spirit into flame, is to live the normal church life and overcome the church’s degradation by pursuing Christ with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart—2 Tim. 2:22.

I. To exercise our spirit, to fan our God-given spirit into flame, is to pray, to approach God in a personal and confiding manner, for the interests of God—Christ, the kingdom of God, and the house of God—as the goal in God’s eternal economy—1:6-8; 1 Tim. 1:3-4; 2:1-3, 8; 1 Kings 8:48; Jude 19-21.