第四週 · 週四

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📖晨興餧養

可九1~2 『耶穌又對他們說，我實在告訴你們，站在這裏的，有人還沒有嘗到死味，必看見神的國帶着能力來臨。過了六天，耶穌帶着彼得、雅各和約翰，暗暗的領開他們上了高山，就在他們面前變了形像。』

主耶穌變化形像乃是國度的來臨。這證明國度不是物質的範圍。…國度是一個變化形像的人。

我們需要在經歷的光中，來思想我們對國度是主耶穌的變化形像這個領會。…正如土壤所接受的種子是一粒還未變化形像的種子；照樣，在我們的經歷中，我們所接受的基督，也是還未變化形像的基督。一粒種子改變形像，需要種子生長，並長成一棵成熟且開花的植物。…照樣，我們所接受的主耶穌需要在我們裏面長大，直到祂從我們裏面開出花來（馬可福音生命讀經，六三五至六三六頁）。

📖信息選讀

我們是土壤，主耶穌就是國度的種子。…我們都能強有力的見證，我們都接受了主，祂也在我們裏面。但主有沒有在你們裏面變化形像？主在你們裏面若還沒有變化形像，別人就不能在你們身上看見神的國。我們既然還未經歷這種變化形像，就需要主在我們裏面長大，直到祂開花。這樣的開花就是主耶穌在我們裏面實際的變化形像。這種變化形像正是神的國。

當主耶穌在我們日常生活中，實際的在我們裏面變化形像時，這樣的變化形像就成了神的國，管治我們生活中的每一件事。這國度管治我們，也使我們能完全享受神。

多年來我熟悉主變化形像的故事，卻沒有看見這種變化形像必須在日常生活中對我們是可以經歷的，且是實際的。我們都有主耶穌在我們裏面，但祂還沒有在我們裏面變化形像。所以，我們需要祂在我們裏面長大，直到祂變化形像，而在我們的經歷裏開花，成為神國的彰顯。

主耶穌在馬可一章十五節說，『時期滿了，神的國已經臨近了。』然後，主在講述種子的比喻時，說，『神的國是這樣，如同人把種子撒在地上。』（四26）之後在九章一節，主告訴門徒，站在那裏的，有人還沒有嘗到死味，必看見神的國帶着能力來臨。主耶穌這樣論到國度以後，緊接着就在山上，在彼得、雅各、約翰面前變了形像。…這很強的指明，神的國實在就是主耶穌的變化形像。

為甚麼今天在許多真正的基督徒中間，缺少神的國？原因在於這些基督徒缺少基督的變化形像。活在許多信徒裏面的基督現今只是一粒種子，祂還沒有變化形像。我們的光景也許就是這樣。不錯，我們有主耶穌活在我們裏面，但我們也許沒有給祂機會在我們裏面變化形像。所以，我們也許只有國度的種子，卻沒有國度的出現。

主在山上變化形像的當天，乃是國度的來臨、出現。由此我們看見，我們要國度從我們裏面出現，就必須經歷主在我們裏面的變化形像。…今天，這樣的變化形像產生了召會生活，就是神的國（馬可福音生命讀經，六三六至六三八頁）。

參讀：國度之於信徒，第二至六、八篇；國度，第二章。

WEEK 4 — DAY 4

Morning Nourishment

Mark 9:1-2 And He said to them, Truly I say to you, there are some of those standing here who shall by no means taste death until they see the kingdom of God having come in power. And after six days Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John, and brought them up alone into a high mountain privately. And He was transfigured before them.

The transfiguration of the Lord Jesus was the coming of the kingdom. This proves that the kingdom is not a material realm…The kingdom is a person transfigured.

We need to consider this understanding of the kingdom as the transfiguration of the Lord Jesus in the light of our experience…Just as the seed received by the soil is a seed that has not yet been transfigured, so in our experience the Christ we received was a Christ not transfigured. The transfiguration of a seed requires the growth of that seed into a mature plant and the blossoming of that plant…In a similar way, the Lord Jesus we received needs to grow in us until He blossoms from within us. (Life-study of Mark, 2nd ed., p. 550)

Today’s Reading

We are the soil, and the Lord Jesus is the seed of the kingdom…We all can testify strongly that we have received the Lord and that He is in us. But has the Lord been transfigured in you? If the Lord who is in you has not yet been transfigured, others will not be able to see the kingdom of God in you. Since we have not yet experienced this kind of transfiguration, we need the Lord to grow in us until He blossoms. That blossoming will be the transfiguration of the Lord Jesus in us in a practical way. Such a transfiguration is the kingdom of God.

When the Lord Jesus is transfigured in us in a practical way in our daily living, that transfiguration becomes the kingdom of God ruling everything in our life. This kingdom rules us and also gives us the full enjoyment of God.

For years I was familiar with the story of the Lord’s transfiguration without realizing that this transfiguration should be something experiential and practical to us in our daily living. We all have the Lord Jesus within us, but He has not yet been transfigured in us. Hence, we need Him to grow in us until by transfiguration He blossoms into the expression of the kingdom of God in our experience.

In Mark 1:15 the Lord Jesus said, “The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God has drawn near.” Then in the parable of the seed, the Lord said, “So is the kingdom of God: as if a man cast seed on the earth” (4:26). Later, in 9:1, the Lord told His disciples that some standing there would not taste death until they saw the kingdom of God having come in power. Immediately after speaking this word concerning the kingdom, the Lord Jesus was transfigured on the mountaintop before Peter, James, and John…This is a strong indication that the kingdom of God is actually the transfiguration of the Lord Jesus.

Among many genuine Christians there is the lack of the kingdom of God today. The reason is that among these Christians there is the lack of the transfiguration of Christ. The Christ who lives in so many believers is still a seed; He has not yet been transfigured. This may also be our situation. Yes, we have the Lord Jesus living within us, but we may not have given Him the opportunity to be transfigured in us. Therefore, with us there may be only the seed of the kingdom but not the appearing of the kingdom.

On the day of the Lord’s transfiguration on the mountaintop, there was the coming, the appearing, of the kingdom. From this we see that in order to have the appearing of the kingdom from within us, we need to experience the Lord’s being transfigured within us. Today such a transfiguration produces the church life, which is the kingdom of God. (Life-study of Mark, 2nd ed., pp. 550-552)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1957, vol. 2, “What the Kingdom Is to the Believers,” chs. 2—6, 8; CWWL, 1972, vol. 2, “The Kingdom,” ch. 2