第四週■週一

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晨興餧養

提後一10『…我們救主基督耶穌…已經把死廢掉，藉着福音將生命和不朽壞照耀出來。』

來二9『惟獨看見耶穌得了榮耀尊貴爲冠冕，祂爲着受死的苦，成爲比天使微小一點的，好叫祂因着神的恩，爲樣樣嘗到死味。』

基督已經把死廢掉〔提後一10〕。這意思是說，基督藉着祂廢除魔鬼的死（來二14），並祂吞滅死的復活（林前十五52 ～ 54），使死失效。…藉着祂的復活，死成爲無效；死已失去它的權勢，甚至失去它的味道。基督能把死廢掉，因祂廢除了魔鬼，就是那掌死權的。藉着勝過撒但，把死廢掉，主耶穌當然也擊敗了陰間和墳墓。…基督藉着祂的復活，已使這一組麻煩的事物失效。祂的復活證明祂勝過了撒但、死亡、陰間和墳墓（來二14，徒二31）（新約總論第十二册，二三四至二三五頁）。

信息選讀

希伯來二章九節說，主耶穌爲樣樣嘗到死味。…這指明基督所完成的救贖，不僅是爲着人，也是爲着神所造的每樣東西；因此，神能藉着祂叫萬有與自己和好。歌羅西一章二十節說，神藉着基督的死，叫萬有都與自己和好了。挪亞方舟的救贖是這事清楚的豫表：在方舟裏，不只八個人得救了，連神所造的活物，也都得救了（創七13 ～ 23）。方舟在這方面是基督的豫表、圖畫。希伯來二章九節有這深奧的啓示：基督不僅爲人，也爲萬有嘗到死味。由於舊造的元首亞當的罪，每樣東西都在死亡之下。基督在祂十字架的工作裏，爲每樣東西嘗到這死味。這就是我們說基督的死是包羅萬有之死的原因（新約總論第三册，二八二頁）。

信徒的身體得贖，…是他們全人裏面的死被復活的生命吞滅而致成得勝。時候將到，那時最後的仇敵—死，不僅要被毀滅，更要被復活的生命吞滅。…林前十五章五十四節說，『幾時這必朽壞的穿上不朽壞，這必死的穿上不死，經上所記「死被吞滅而致成得勝」的話，就應驗了。』幾時，卽我們這必朽壞、必死的身體，復活或改變形狀，脫離朽壞和死，進入榮耀和生命之時。…這是我們藉着在基督裏的救贖和救恩，在神新約經綸中所同享之復活的完成。這復活開始於我們死了的靈活過來，完成於我們必朽壞的身體改變形狀，中間的過程乃是我們墮落的魂，藉着基督那賜生命的靈，就是復活的實際，而有新陳代謝的變化。

死乃是人的失敗。藉着基督在復活生命裏的救恩，死要被吞滅，而致成我們這些受益於基督復活生命之人的得勝。這節裏的得勝，與復活是同義辭。
復活就是生命勝過死亡。

當我們全人裏的死被基督復活的生命吞滅，必朽壞的就穿上不朽壞。生命是神聖的元素，就是神自己，分賜到我們靈裏；不朽壞乃是生命浸透我們身體的結果（羅八11）。…在主回來之時，我們身體改變形狀的時候，我們的身體就成爲不朽壞的。這樣，必朽壞的就穿上了不朽壞（新約總論第六册，四五○至四五一頁）。

參讀：新約總論，第七十二、一百八十一篇；提摩太後書生命讀經，第一篇；哥林多前書生命讀經，第六十八篇。

WEEK 4 — DAY 1

Morning Nourishment

2 Tim. 1:10 …Our Savior Christ Jesus, who nullified death and brought life and incorruption to light through the gospel.

Heb. 2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little inferior to the angels because of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death on behalf of everything.

That Christ nullified death [2 Tim. 1:10]…means that He made death of none effect through His devil-destroying death (Heb. 2:14) and death-swallowing resurrection (1 Cor. 15:52-54)…Through His resurrection, death has become of none effect; death has lost its power, even its taste. Christ could nullify death because He destroyed the devil, the one who has the might of death. Of course, by overcoming Satan and nullifying death, the Lord Jesus also defeated Hades and the grave…Christ through His resurrection has made this troublesome group of none effect. His resurrection demonstrated that He triumphed over Satan, death, Hades, and the grave (Heb. 2:14; Acts 2:31). (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3676-3677)

Todays Reading

Hebrews 2:9 says that the Lord Jesus tasted death on behalf of everything… This indicates that Christ’s redemption was accomplished not only for people but for everything created by God. Thus God could reconcile all things to Himself by Him. Colossians 1:20 says that God has reconciled all things to Himself through the death of Christ. This is clearly typified by the redemption of Noah’s ark, in which not only eight persons but all other living things created by God were saved (Gen. 7:13-23). The ark is a type, a picture, of Christ in this respect. In Hebrews 2:9 we have the profound revelation that Christ tasted death not only for man but also for all other things. Due to the sin of Adam, the head of the old creation, everything is under death. In His work on the cross Christ tasted this death, a death on behalf of everything. This is the reason we say that Christ’s death was an all-inclusive death.

For the believers to be redeemed in their body is…to have death in their entire being swallowed up by the resurrection life in victory. The time is coming when the last enemy, death, will not only be destroyed but also swallowed up by resurrection life. First Corinthians 15:54 says, “When this corruptible will put on incorruption and this mortal will put on immortality, then the word which is written will come to pass, ‘Death has been swallowed up unto victory.’” The word when refers to the time that our corrupted and mortal body will be resurrected or transfigured from corruption and death into glory and life…This is the consummation of the resurrection we share in God’s New Testament economy through redemption and salvation in Christ. This resurrection begins with the making alive of our dead spirit and is completed with the transfiguration of our corruptible body. In between is the process of the metabolic transformation of our fallen soul by the life-giving Spirit, who is the reality of resurrection.

Death means defeat to man. Through Christ’s salvation in the resurrection life, death will be swallowed up unto victory to us, the beneficiaries of Christ’s resurrection life. In this verse victory is a synonym of resurrection. Resurrection is the victory of life over death.

When death in our entire being is swallowed up by Christ’s resurrection life, the corruptible will put on incorruption. Life is the divine element, even God Himself, imparted into our spirit; incorruption is the consequence of life saturating our body (Rom. 8:11)…When our body is transfigured at the time of the Lord’s coming, our body will become incorruptible. In this way the corruptible will put on incorruption. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 773, 1965)

Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msgs. 72, 181; Lifestudy of 2 Timothy, msg. 1; Life-study of 1 Corinthians, msg. 68