第五週

享受生命的流帶着生命的供應， 出於並為着神宏偉的殿， 藉此過基督徒的生活

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讀經：結四七1~12，林後三6，林前九11，三6、9，四15，三2、12

週　一

壹　我們要過基督徒的生活，就需要享受那出於神的殿之生命的流—結四七1~12：

一　神終極的行動乃是祂在人裏面的行動，用祂生命、性情、元素和素質一切的所是將人浸透，藉此使人成為神，而使神得着榮耀，得着彰顯—林後三18，約壹三2。

二　水從門檻下流出—結四七1：

1　要使水流出，必須有門檻，就是出口—參詩八一10。

2　我們若與主親近並多接觸祂，就會有一個出口，讓活水從召會流出來—詩歌六一四首。

三　河往東流—結四七1：

1　神的河是往神榮耀的方向流—參民二3，結四三2。

2　倘若召會中的每一個人，都尋求並顧到神的榮耀，活水就會從召會流出來—約七18，林前十31。

四　水由殿的右邊流出—結四七1（南邊，直譯，右邊）：

1　在聖經裏，右邊是至高的地位、首位—參來一3。

2　生命的流該在我們裏面居首位，在我們的生活和工作中成為管治的因素—啟二二1，西一18下。

五　水流是在祭壇的旁邊，說出我們需要十字架的對付與完全的奉獻，以享受生命的流—結四七1。

週　二

六　為着生命之流的增加，我們需要為主這銅人所量度—四十3，四七2~5，啟一15，參約七37~39：

1　量度就是察驗、試驗、審判並據有；量了四次一千肘（一千是完整的單位—參詩八四10），指明我們這些受造之物需要被主徹底的量度，使祂能佔有並完全據有我們全人（賽六1~8）。

2　我們越讓主察驗、試驗並審判以據有我們，水流就越深；水流的深度在於我們被主量度有多少—參約壹一5、7。

3　我們越為主所量度，就越受生命之恩的湧流所約束並限制，直到至終消失在湧流的三一神這可洑的河裏，被這河帶往前；就一面說，我們失去一切的自由，但就另一面說，我們是真正的自由了—結四七4~6。

週　三

七　河使百物得活；河流產生樹木、魚和牲畜—7、9~10、12節。

八　河滋潤乾焦之地並醫治死水；這滋潤和醫治的目的是為着產生生命—8節：

週　四

1　河無法醫治泥濘之地與窪濕之處；泥濘之地或窪濕之處是中立地帶，半路涼亭，妥協和不冷不熱之處—11節，參啟三15~16。

2　為着生命的流並為着召會生活，主耶穌渴望並要求絕對；因着絕對，我們就會在流中，這流不是涓涓細流，乃是可洑的河；這樣，河水所到之處，百物都必生活。

週　五

貳　我們享受基督作生命的流，乃是為使我們成為撒種者、栽種者、澆灌者、生育者、餧養者和建造者，有供應生命的職事，為着神奇妙的生機建造，就是神宏偉的殿—林後三6：

一　生命的執事乃是撒屬靈種子的撒種者：

1　在林前九章十一節保羅對哥林多人說，『我們…把屬靈之物撒給你們』；『屬靈之物』指屬靈的種子。

2　種子是生命的容器，撒屬靈的種子就是在我們靈裏，同着並出於我們的靈而分賜生命；主耶穌來作撒種者，將祂自己作為生命的種子撒在人類裏面—太十三3、37。

3　在主的恢復裏，我們作為新約的執事，需要作撒種者分賜生命，好在人裏面生長並產生基督。

二　生命的執事乃是栽種者，將基督栽種到神的子民裏面—林前三6：

1　在基督裏得了重生，有神生命的信徒，乃是神新造裏的耕地、農場—9節。

2　我們要將基督栽種到別人裏面，就需要在我們靈裏真實的經歷基督作生命。

三　生命的執事乃是用基督澆灌人的澆灌者；一旦我們將基督栽種到別人裏面，我們就需要用生命水澆灌他們—6節：

1     我們可將神農場上的澆灌者比喻為有貯水槽的灌溉系統，用水供應農場；我們該是神聖的『灌溉系統』，有活水貯存在我們裏面，可以澆灌作神農場的召會。
2　我們需要對基督作生命水有真實的經歷，並與祂有活的接觸，如此我們就能作活水的管道，就是神聖的灌溉系統，能用生命水供應別人—約四14，七37~39。

四　生命的執事乃是生育者，就是將生命分賜到自己所生之兒女裏面的父親—林前四15：

1　生育就是產生屬靈的兒女，藉着生命的分賜將他們生出來。

2　我們需要有神聖的『生命胚芽』，為要將神聖的生命分賜到別人裏面，將他們生為神的兒女。

週　六

五　生命的執事乃是餧養者；餧養是生命的事，不同於教導，教導是知識的事：

1　給人奶喝或食物喫，就是餧養人（三2）；使徒供應給哥林多信徒的，乃是奶，這必定滋養了他們。

2　使徒健全的教訓，將健康的教訓當作生命的供應供給人，滋養他們，或醫治他們—提前一10下，六3，提後一13，多一9。

六　生命的執事乃是建造者，用金、銀、寶石建造：

1　金表徵父神神聖的性情，銀表徵基督救贖的工作，寶石表徵那靈變化的工作；這與表徵人性情的木、表徵肉體裏之人的草、與表徵無生命之光景的禾稭相對—林前三12。

2　雅歌描繪在正確的召會生活中，得成全的聖徒與變化的靈配搭，成全愛基督的尋求者，將三一神供應給他們，使他們因三一神的屬性作到他們裏面成為他們的美德而得變化—一10~11。

3　這是為着建造召會作基督生機的身體，終極完成新耶路撒冷，以完成神永遠的經綸—林前三12，啟二一18~21。

Week Five

Living the Christian Life by Enjoying the Flow of Life with the Ministry of Life out of
and for the Magnificent House of God

Hymns: E1115

Scripture Reading: Ezek. 47:1-12; 2 Cor. 3:6; 1 Cor. 9:11; 3:6, 9; 4:15; 3:2, 12

§ Day 1

I. In order to live the Christian life, we need to enjoy the flow of life out of the house of God—Ezek. 47:1-12:

A. Gods ultimate move is His move in man to deify man by saturating man with all that He is in His life, nature, element, and essence for the glory, the expression, of God—2 Cor. 3:18; 1 John 3:2.

B. The water flows out from under the threshold—Ezek. 47:1:

1. In order for the water to flow, there must be a threshold, an opening—cf. Psa. 81:10.

2. If we draw closer to the Lord and have more contact with Him, there will be an opening that will allow the living water to flow out from the church— Hymns, #846.

C. The flow is toward the east—Ezek. 47:1:

1. The river of God flows in the direction of Gods glory—cf. Num. 2:3; Ezek. 43:2.

2. If everyone in the church seeks and cares for Gods glory, the living water will flow out from the church—John 7:18; 1 Cor. 10:31.

D. The water flows out from the right side of the house—Ezek. 47:1:

1. In the Bible the right side is the highest position, the first place—cf. Heb. 1:3.

2. The flow of life must have the preeminence within us, becoming the controlling factor in our living and work—Rev. 22:1; Col. 1:18b.

E. The flowing is by the side of the altar, showing that we need the dealing of the cross and a full consecration to enjoy the flow of life—Ezek. 47:1.

§ Day 2

F. For the increase of the flow of life, we need to be measured by the Lord as the man of bronze—40:3; 47:2-5; Rev. 1:15; cf. John 7:37-39:

1. To measure is to examine, test, judge, and possess; the four measurings of a thousand cubits, which is a complete unit (cf. Psa. 84:10), indicate that as creatures, we need to be thoroughly measured by the Lord so that He may take over and thoroughly possess our entire being (Isa. 6:1-8).

2. The more we allow the Lord to examine, test, and judge us to possess us, the deeper the flow becomes; the depth of the flow depends on how much we have been measured by the Lord—cf. 1 John 1:5, 7.

3. The more we are measured by the Lord, the more we are restricted and limited by the flowing of the grace of life until eventually we are lost in and carried along by the flowing Triune God as a river in which to swim; in one sense we lose all our freedom, but in another sense we are really free—Ezek. 47:4-6.

§ Day 3

G. The river causes everything to live; the flow of the river produces trees, fish, and cattle—vv. 7, 9-10, 12.

H. The river waters the dry, parched land and heals the death waters; this watering and healing are for the purpose of producing life—v. 8:

§ Day 4

1. The river is unable to heal the swamps and marshes; a swamp or marsh is a neutral place, a halfway place, a place of compromise and lukewarmness—v. 11; cf. Rev. 3:15-16.

2. For the flow of life and for the church life, the Lord Jesus desires and requires absoluteness; by being absolute we will be in the flow, and the flow will not be a trickle but a river to swim in; then everything shall live wherever the river comes.

§ Day 5

II. Our enjoyment of Christ as the flow of life is for us to be sowers, planters, waterers, begetters, feeders, and builders with the ministry of life for the marvelous organic building of God, the magnificent house of God—2 Cor. 3:6:

A. A minister of life is a sower who sows spiritual seeds:

1. In 1 Corinthians 9:11 Paul says to the Corinthians, “We have sown to you the spiritual things”; the spiritual things refers to spiritual seeds.

2. A seed is a container of life, and to sow a spiritual seed is to impart life in, with, and out of our spirit; the Lord Jesus came as a Sower to sow Himself as the seed of life into the human race—Matt. 13:3, 37.

3. In the Lords recovery we, as ministers of the new covenant, need to be sowers who impart life to grow and produce Christ in others.

B. A minister of life is a planter who plants Christ into Gods people—1 Cor. 3:6:

1. The believers, who have been regenerated in Christ with Gods life, are Gods cultivated land, Gods farm, in Gods new creation—v. 9.

2. In order for us to plant Christ into others, we need the genuine experience of Christ as life in our spirit.

C. A minister of life is a waterer who waters people with Christ; once we plant Christ into others, we need to water them with the water of life— v. 6:

1. We may liken a waterer in Gods farm to an irrigation system with a reservoir that supplies a farm with water; we should be a divine “irrigation system” with a reservoir of living water stored within us to water the church as Gods
farm.

2. We need to have the genuine experience of Christ as the water of life and a living contact with Him so that we can be a channel of living water, a divine irrigation system, that can supply others with the water of life—John 4:14; 7:37-39.

D. A minister of life is a begetter, a father, who imparts life to his children, whom he begets—1 Cor. 4:15:

1. To beget is to generate spiritual children, to bring them forth, through the impartation of life.

2. We need to have the divine “life germ” in order to impart the divine life into others so that they may be begotten as children of God.

§ Day 6

E. A minister of life is a feeder; feeding is a matter of life; it differs from teaching, which is a matter of knowledge:

1. To give milk to drink or food to eat is to feed others (3:2); what the apostle ministered to the Corinthian believers was milk, and it should have nourished them.

2. The sound teaching of the apostles ministers the healthy teaching as the supply of life to people, either nourishing them or healing them—1 Tim. 1:10b; 6:3; 2 Tim. 1:13; Titus 1:9.
F. A minister of life is a builder who builds with gold, silver, and precious stones:

1. Gold symbolizes God the Father in His divine nature, silver symbolizes Christ in His redemptive work, and precious stones signify the Spirit in His transforming work (this is versus wood, which signifies the human nature; grass, which signifies man in the flesh; and stubble, which signifies lifelessness)—1 Cor. 3:12.

2. Song of Songs portrays that in the proper church life, the perfected believers coordinate with the transforming Spirit to perfect Christs loving seekers by ministering the Triune God to them for their transformation by the Triune Gods attributes being wrought into them to become their virtues—1:10-11.

3. This is for the building up of the church as the organic Body of Christ to consummate the New Jerusalem for the accomplishing of Gods eternal economy—1 Cor. 3:12; Rev. 21:18-21.