第二週 • 週五

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晨興餧養

羅六3~5  …我們這浸入基督耶穌的人，是浸入祂的死…所以我們藉着浸入死，和祂一同埋葬，好叫我們在生命的新樣中生活行動，…我們若在祂死的樣式裏與祂聯合生長，也必要在祂復活的樣式裏與祂聯合生長。

神聖的生命進到人的生命裏面時，神聖的生命就成為內容，人的生命成為容器和彰顯。但這裏並沒有生命的替換或交換。
    …神聖的氣，屬天的『紐瑪』分賜到我們裏面，但並沒有把我們人的生命替換掉。…這氣乃是分賜到我們裏面，與我們調和。…我們基督徒的生命並非替換的生命；我們的生命完全是神聖的生命分賜、注入到我們屬人的生命裏面（羅馬書生命讀經，七七八至七七九頁）。

信息選讀

〔主〕的生命在復活裏成為我們的。祂提高我們原初受造所得的功能，並豐富、加強甚至浸透我們全人。這新生命是二命接成一命的生命。在這聯結裏有得勝、生命、亮光、能力和一切其他神聖的屬性。這一切都是我們的，不是藉着替換，不是藉着算，乃是藉着被接到祂裏面（李常受文集一九七九年第一冊，三八五至三八六頁）。

我們原是神按着祂的形像，照着祂的樣式創造的。但是因着亞當墮落了，我們的生命就成了在亞當裏舊造的天然生命。

…在這舊造的天然生命裏，有兩個最大的成分，第一就是罪，第二就是死〔羅五~七〕。…罪藉着亞當一人進入了世界，死又是藉着罪來的（五12）。罪就藉着死，在我們身上作王（21上，六12），而死也藉着亞當一人的過犯，作了我們眾人的王（五17上、14）。所以我們在亞當裏，不是在生命中作王，乃是在罪與死的作王管轄之下。但基督在十字架上以末後亞當的身分，包羅萬有的死了，就把一切屬亞當生命的，都帶到十字架上去，在那裏有一個大的結束（六6）。…乃是藉着基督包羅萬有的死，就不再讓罪與死在我們身上作王，而讓基督的生命在我們身上作王。這樣，就不再是罪與死作王，乃是恩典與生命作王（五21）。

我們的天然生命，必須在我們與基督的同死裏與亞當同被除滅、滅絕、滅種。當我們受浸時，我們就與基督一同埋葬歸入死，而把我們在亞當裏舊人的天然生命除滅了（六3~4上）。

我們在生命中作王，就不僅與亞當同死，也與基督同活（4下、5下、8下，加二20下）。羅馬六章八節…表明我們在基督的死與復活裏，與祂生機的聯結。這生機的聯結最好的說明，就是接枝。…我們乃是在基督的死與復活裏，與祂接枝而聯合生長。

我們天然的生命，雖然因着墮落而被罪和死玷污了，但是藉着與基督同死同復活，祂復活的生命得以在我們裏面，而這復活的生命就是賜生命的靈。這靈在我們裏面點活我們，叫我們能與基督一同復活。在復活裏，我們身上神所造的功能得以恢復，且被基督復活的生命所充實、提高並浸透，而得以經歷並享受基督一切的所是。

我們的天然生命是屬於舊造，舊人的範圍。我們受浸時已經脫去了舊人，並且這舊人已經與基督同釘十字架。但在實際的經歷中，我們必須讓內住於我們裏面重生之靈的那靈擴展到我們的心思，使我們在這調和的靈裏，因着基督復活生命新鮮的供應得着滋養，而得以更新（李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第五冊，六一九至六二一頁）。

參讀：羅馬書生命讀經，第六十三至六十四篇。

WEEK 2—DAY 5

Morning Nourishment

Rom. 6:3-5 …All of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death…We have been buried therefore with Him through baptism into His death…that…we might walk in newness of life. For if we have grown together with Him in the likeness of His death, indeed we will also be in the likeness of His resurrection.

When the divine life enters into the human life, the divine life becomes the content, and the human life becomes the container and the expression. But there is no exchange, or trade, of lives…The divine air, the heavenly pneuma, is dispensed into us, but it is not exchanged for our human life. Rather,…it is dispensed into us and mingled with us.

Our Christian life is not an exchanged life. It is altogether a matter of the divine life dispensed, infused, into our human life. (Life-study of Romans, 2nd ed., pp. 636-637)

Today’s Reading

[The Lord’s] life becomes ours in resurrection. He uplifts the original functions given to us at creation and enriches, strengthens, and even saturates our whole being. This new life is a life of two lives grafted into one. In this union are victory, life, light, power, and all the other divine attributes. All of these are ours not by an exchange, not by reckoning, but by being grafted into Him. (CWWL, 1979, vol. 1, “Life Messages, Volume 2,” p. 288)

We were created by God in His image and according to His likeness. However, due to Adam’s fall our life became the natural life of the old creation in Adam.

There are two main elements in our natural life of the old creation. The first element is sin, and the second is death [cf. Rom. 5—7]…Through one man, Adam, sin entered into the world, and through sin, death (5:12). Thus, sin reigned in us through death (v. 21a; 6:12), and death reigned over us through the offense of the one, Adam (5:17a, 14). Therefore, in Adam we did not reign in life; rather, we were under the ruling of sin and death. However, as the last Adam, Christ died an all-inclusive death on the cross, and through such a death He brought everything of the adamic life to the cross and had a great ending there (6:6)…It is through the all-inclusive death of Christ that we allow the life of Christ to reign in us instead of sin and death. Thus, it is no longer sin and death that reign in us; rather, it is grace and life that reign in us (5:21).

Our natural life needs to be annihilated, completely destroyed, put out of existence, with Adam in our co-death with Christ. In our baptism we have been buried with Christ into His death, and thereby the natural life of our old man in Adam has been annihilated (6:3-4a).

We reign in life not only in our dying with Adam but also in our living with Christ (vv. 4b, 5b, 8b; Gal. 2:20b). Romans 6:8…shows our organic union with Christ in His death and resurrection. Such an organic union is best illustrated in grafting…We were grafted with Christ and have grown together with Him in His death and resurrection.

Although our natural life was defiled by sin and death through the fall, we have received the resurrection life of Christ into us through our death and resurrection with Him. This resurrection life of Christ is the life-giving Spirit, who enlivens us from within that we may be raised with Christ. In resurrection our God-created faculties are restored; moreover, they are enriched with, uplifted by, and saturated with Christ’s resurrection life for us to experience and enjoy all that Christ is.

Our natural life belongs to the realm of the old creation, the old man. In baptism we put off our old man; moreover, our old man was crucified with Christ. In our practical experience, however, we need to allow the Spirit, who indwells our regenerated spirit, to spread to our mind so that in such a mingled spirit we may be nourished and renewed by the fresh supply of the resurrection life of Christ. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 5, “The Experience of God’s Organic Salvation Equaling Reigning in Christ’s Life,” pp. 492-494)

Further Reading: Life-study of Romans, msgs. 63-64