第五週■週一

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晨興餧養

創二 7『耶和華神用地上的塵土塑造人，將生命之氣吹在他鼻孔裏，人就成了活的魂。』

約二十 22『…〔耶穌〕就向他們吹入一口氣，說，你們受聖靈。』

吹進人身體裏的生命之氣，成了人的靈（參伯三二 8）。人的靈是人裏面的器官，使人能接觸神，接受神，盛裝神，並將神吸收到他全人裏面，作他的生命和一切。這靈是神特別造的，在神的聖言中列爲與天地並重（亞十二 1）。人的靈是爲着讓人敬拜神（約四 24），由神重生（三 6 下），並聯於神（林前六 17，提後四 22），使人得以在與神生機的聯結裏行事、生活（羅八 4 下），以完成神的定旨。

吹在人鼻孔裏的生命之氣，不是神永遠的生命，也不是神的靈。…主在復活那天將聖靈吹到祂門徒裏面（約二十 22），在此之前，人並沒有得着神的靈。然而，因爲人的靈是出於神的生命之氣，所以和神的靈非常接近。因此，神的靈與人的靈之間能有傳輸，人的靈也能接觸神，並與神成爲一（聖經恢復本，創二 7 註 5）。

信息選讀

〔約翰二十章二十二節所說的聖靈〕就是七章三十九節所期待的那靈，也是十四章十六至十七、二十六節，十五章二十六節，十六章七至八、十三節所應許的那靈。因此，主將聖靈吹入門徒裏面，乃是成就祂關於聖靈作保惠師的應許。這成就與行傳二章一至四節者不同，那是主成就路加二十四章四十九節所說父的應許。…在使徒行傳，爲着門徒的工作，聖靈像一陣暴風颳過，降在他們身上作能力（一 8）。在〔約翰二十章二十二節〕，爲着門徒的生命，聖靈像一口氣，吹入他們裏面作生命。主把聖靈吹入門徒裏面，藉此將自己分賜到他們裏面作生命和一切。這樣，祂在十四至十六章所說的一切就能成就了。

落在地裏死了，又從地裏長出來，怎樣使一粒麥子變成另一種又新又活的形態；照樣，主的死與復活也使祂從肉體變成那靈。祂在肉體裏是末後的亞當，經過死與復活的過程，成了賜生命的靈（林前十五 45）。…祂是那靈，就得以吹入門徒裏面。祂是那靈，就能給祂的信徒接受到裏面，並且如同活水的江河，從他們裏面湧流出來（約七 38 ～ 39）。祂是那靈，就能藉着死與復活回到門徒中間，進入他們裏面作保惠師，開始住在他們裏面（十四 16 ～17）。祂是那靈，就能活在門徒裏面，門徒也能因祂活着，並與祂同活（19）。祂是那靈，就能住在門徒裏面，門徒也能住在祂裏面（20，十五 4 ～ 5）。祂是那靈，就能與父到愛祂的人那裏，同他安排住處（十四 23）。祂是那靈，就能使祂一切的所是和所有，全被門徒實化（十六 13 ～ 16）。

主是『話』，這話就是永遠的神（一 1）。爲着完成神永遠的定旨，祂採取了兩個步驟：第一個步驟是成爲肉體，成了在肉體裏的人（14），作神的羔羊，爲人成功救贖（29），將神向人表明出來（18），並將父顯給祂的信徒看（十四 9 ～ 11）；第二個步驟是死而復活，化身成爲那靈，使祂能將自己分賜到信徒裏面，作他們的生命和一切，並使祂能產生神的眾子，就是祂的許多弟兄，爲要建造祂的身體，就是召會，神的居所，以彰顯三一神，直到永遠（聖經恢復本，約二十 22 註 1）。

參讀：提摩太後書生命讀經，第六篇。

WEEK 5 — DAY 1

Morning Nourishment

Gen. 2:7 Jehovah God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

John 20:22 …He breathed into them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit.

The breath of life breathed into man’s body became the spirit of man, the human spirit (cf. Job 32:8). Man’s spirit is his inward organ for him to contact God, receive God, contain God, and assimilate God into his entire being as his life and his everything. It was specifically formed by God and is ranked in importance with the heavens and the earth in God’s holy Word (Zech. 12:1). The spirit of man is for man to worship God (John 4:24), to be regenerated by God (3:6b), and to be joined to God (1 Cor. 6:17; 2 Tim. 4:22) that man may walk and live in an organic union with God (Rom. 8:4b) to fulfill God’s purpose.

The breath of life breathed into man’s nostrils was not the eternal life of God nor the Spirit of God…Man did not receive the Spirit of God until the Lord breathed the Holy Spirit into His disciples on the day of His resurrection (John 20:22). Nevertheless, because the human spirit came out of God’s breath of life, it is very close to the Spirit of God. Thus, there can be a transmission between God the Spirit and man’s spirit, and the human spirit is able to contact God and be one with God. (Gen. 2:7, footnote 5)

Todays Reading

[The Holy Spirit mentioned in John 20:22] was the Spirit expected in 7:39 and promised in 14:16-17, 26; 15:26; and 16:7-8, 13. Hence, the Lord’s breathing of the Holy Spirit into the disciples was the fulfillment of His promise of the Holy Spirit as the Comforter. This fulfillment differs from the one in Acts 2:1-4, which was the fulfillment of the Father’s promise in Luke 24:49…In Acts 2 the Spirit as a rushing, violent wind came as power upon the disciples for their work (1:8). Here [in John 20:22] the Spirit as breath was breathed as life into the disciples for their life. By breathing the Spirit into the disciples, the Lord imparted Himself into them as life and everything. Thus, all that He had spoken in chapters 14—16 could be fulfilled.

As falling into the ground to die and growing out of the ground transform the grain of wheat into another form, one that is new and living, so the death and resurrection of the Lord transfigured Him from the flesh into the Spirit. As the last Adam in the flesh, through the process of death and resurrection He became a life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45)…It is as the Spirit that He was breathed into the disciples. It is as the Spirit that He is received into His believers and flows out of them as rivers of living water (John 7:38-39). It is as the Spirit that through His death and resurrection He came back to the disciples, entered into them as their Comforter, and began to abide in them (14:16-17). It is as the Spirit that He can live in the disciples and enable them to live by and with Him (v. 19). It is as the Spirit that He can abide in the disciples
and enable them to abide in Him (v. 20; 15:4-5). It is as the Spirit that He can come with the Father to His lover and make an abode with him (14:23). It is as the Spirit that He can cause all that He is and has to be fully realized by the disciples (16:13-16).

The Lord was the Word, and the Word is the eternal God (1:1). For the accomplishing of God’s eternal purpose, He took two steps. First, He took the step of incarnation to become a man in the flesh (v. 14), to be the Lamb of God to accomplish redemption for man (v. 29), to declare God to man (v. 18), and to manifest the Father to His believers (14:9-11). Second, He took the step of death and resurrection to be transfigured into the Spirit that He might impart Himself into His believers as their life and their everything, and that He might bring forth many sons of God, His many brothers, for the building of His Body, the church, the habitation of God, to express the Triune God for eternity. (John 20:22, footnote 1)

Further Reading: Life-study of 2 Timothy, msg. 6