第二週 · 週五

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📖晨興餧養

太十三3 『祂就用比喻對他們講許多事，說，看哪，那撒種的出去撒種。』

西二19  『…持定元首；本於祂，全身藉着節和筋，得了豐富的供應，並結合一起，就以神的增長而長大。』

馬太福音開始於大衛的子孫（一1），結束於三一神（二八19）。在〔兩者〕之間，我們看見撒種者（十三3）。主耶穌明確的將自己視為撒種者。…在教導真理和傳揚福音時，祂乃是撒種者，並且祂的一生乃是撒種的一生。主耶穌是撒種者，是神聖生命的分授者。

撒種者乃是主耶穌這奇妙的人位；所撒的種子也是主自己這三一神的具體化身。基督已將祂自己當作生命的種子撒在我們裏面（4上、8）。基督是種子，由話所表徵（19）。我們這些神所揀選的人，乃是土壤。…因此，基督這話乃是生命的種子，撒在我們這土壤裏（新約總論第九冊，五八頁）。

📖信息選讀

基督來到地上，不只為了與我們同在，也為了要撒在我們裏面。藉着成為肉體，祂成了生命的種子；在祂的職事裏，祂將這種子撒在人裏面。這意思是，祂將自己這三一神的具體化身撒在祂的信徒裏面。作為撒種者，基督已將祂自己當作生命的種子撒在我們心裏，好使祂能活在我們裏面，長在我們裏面，並從我們裏面彰顯出來。

就如生命的種子種在地裏，與地土的元素調和，與地土一同生長而產生植物；照樣，基督也已將祂自己當作生命的種子撒在我們這地土裏，與我們一同生長。祂這生命的種子有某種元素，我們這生長的地土也有某種元素，兩者調和在一起，生長在一起，成為一棵植物。這是基督的身體，由神聖的生命調和人性所構成。基督的身體實際上是一棵植物，由基督這生命種子長出來，並長到人心這生長的地土中。

我們需要看見基督這撒種者的異象，祂將自己當作生命的種子撒在人裏面。這異象正是主恢復的心臟，因為這聯於主心頭的願望。…祂渴望進到我們這些祂所揀選的人裏面，用調和的方式作我們的生命，為了使祂自己成為我們的元素，並使我們成為祂的彰顯。基督是三一神的具體化身和彰顯，祂已將祂自己撒在我們裏面（新約總論第九冊，五八至五九頁）。

基督是種子，我們是土壤，有養分為着種子的長大。在復活裏的基督，就是那是賜生命之靈的基督，已將祂自己撒到我們裏面，不僅要留在我們裏面，更要在我們裏面長大。基督在我們裏面的長大，就等於建造。…那將自己撒到我們裏面的基督，現今正在我們裏面作特別的工作，就是安家在我們裏面的人裏，在我們的心裏（弗三17）。這就是建造，藉着神性與人性的調和而得以完成。約翰十四章二十三節提到這樣的建造：『人若愛我，…我父也必愛他，並且我們要到他那裏去，同他安排住處。』這住處不僅是為着三一神，也是為着我們。因此，這是一個相互的住處。

基督…建造召會，不僅是藉着拯救罪人，將他們作成信徒並祂的肢體，更是藉着將祂自己建造到他們裏面。…神正在基督裏將祂自己作到我們裏面〔而〕建立家室。…這家室要成為神的家和我們的家，就是一個相互的住處。至終，三一神和蒙救贖的人要調和並建造成為一個實體，這實體就是新耶路撒冷。…我們今天的需要，…乃是讓神在我們裏面完成祂建造的工作（撒母耳記生命讀經，二三五至二三七頁）。

參讀：撒母耳記生命讀經，第二十九至三十篇。

WEEK 2 — DAY 5

Morning Nourishment

Matt. 13:3 And He spoke many things to them in parables, saying, Behold, the sower went out to sow.

Col. 2:19 …Holding the Head, out from whom all the Body, being richly supplied and knit together by means of the joints and sinews, grows with the growth of God.

The Gospel of Matthew begins with the Son of David (1:1) and ends with the Triune God (28:19). In between…we have the Sower (13:3). The Lord Jesus clearly considered Himself a Sower…In teaching the truth and in preaching the gospel, He was a Sower, and His life was a life of sowing. As the Sower, the Lord Jesus was the Distributor of the divine life.

The Sower is the wonderful person of the Lord Jesus, and the seed sown is also the Lord Himself as the embodiment of the Triune God. Christ has sown Himself as the seed of life into us (vv. 4a, 8). Christ is the seed signified by the word (v. 19), and we, the chosen ones of God, are the soil…Therefore, Christ as the word is the seed of life sown into us as the soil. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 2801)

Today’s Reading

Christ came to earth not only to be with us but also to be sown into our being. Through incarnation He became the seed of life, and in His ministry He sowed this seed into others. This means that He sowed Himself as the embodiment of the Triune God into His believers. As the Sower, Christ has sown Himself as the seed of life into our hearts so that He may live in us, grow in us, and be expressed from within us.

Just as the seed of life is planted into the earth, is mingled with the element of the earth, and grows together with the earth to produce the plant, Christ has sown Himself as the seed of life into us as the earth and both He and we grow together. He as the life seed has a certain kind of element, and we as the growing earth also have a certain kind of element, and the two mingle together and grow together to be one plant. This is the Body of Christ constituted with the divine life mingled with humanity. The Body of Christ in reality is a plant growing out of Christ as the life seed into the human heart as the growing earth.

We need to see the vision of Christ, the Sower, sowing Himself as the seed of life into human beings. This vision is the very heart of the Lord’s recovery, for it is related to the desire of the Lord’s heart…He desires to come into us, His chosen people, to be our life in the way of mingling in order to make Himself our element and to make us His expression. Christ, the embodiment and expression of the Triune God, has sown Himself into our being. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 2801-2802)

Christ is the seed, and we are the soil with the nutrients for the growth of the seed. Christ in resurrection, Christ as the life-giving Spirit, has sown Himself into us not simply to stay in us but to grow in us. The growth of is now doing a particular work in us—the work of making His home in our inner being, in our hearts (Eph. 3:17). This is building, and it is carried out through the mingling of divinity with humanity. Such a building is mentioned in John 14:23: “If anyone loves Me,…My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make an abode with him.” This abode is not only for the
Triune God but is also for us. Hence, it is a mutual abode.

Christ…builds the church not merely by saving sinners and making them believers and members of Himself but by building Himself into them. God is working Himself in Christ into us to make a house…This house will be both God’s house and our house, a mutual abode. Eventually, the Triune God and redeemed humanity will be mingled, blended, and built up to be one entity, and this entity will be the New Jerusalem…Our need [today] is for God to carry out His building work within us. (Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, pp. 191-
193)

Further Reading: Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, msgs. 29—30