第四週 · 週六

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📖晨興餧養

太十三43 『那時，義人在他們父的國裏，要發光如同太陽。有耳可聽的，就應當聽。』

腓三21 『祂要按着祂那甚至能叫萬有歸服自己的動力，將我們這卑賤的身體改變形狀，使之同形於祂榮耀的身體。』

很少基督徒領悟，基督的變化形像，就是祂在祂國裏的來臨。…主的來臨不會突然發生，乃會逐漸來臨。就一面說，主將從天上回來；但就另一面說，祂將從我們裏面出來。當祂自己完全從我們裏面活出來，那就是祂來臨的時候。照着馬太十七章一至二節和十六章二十八節，祂的來臨就是祂的變化形像，祂的變化形像就是祂的得榮耀。當祂變化形像時，祂就得了榮耀（馬太福音生命讀經，六五○至六五一頁）。

📖信息選讀

現在我們必須看見得榮耀的意義。基督這位神成了人時，祂的神性化身在祂的人性裏。祂是獨一兼有神性和人性的人。祂的神性隱藏在祂的人性裏。祂外面是人，裏面卻是神。神隱藏、包含、隱匿在這人裏面。榮耀就是神得着顯明，神得着彰顯。…隱藏在耶穌人性裏的神，就是榮耀。因此，榮耀神聖的元素隱藏在耶穌人性的元素裏。祂在地上行走時，沒有人能看見祂榮耀的神性。許多人看見了神跡，領悟祂是不尋常的人，但在祂變化形像之前，從來沒有人看見過隱藏在祂裏面的榮耀。有一天，祂把三個最親密的門徒領到高山，在他們面前變了形像。主耶穌變化形像，意思就是祂的人性被祂的神性所浸透、飽和。…這個變化形像，就是祂的得榮耀，等於祂在祂國裏的來臨。這指明基督在祂國裏的來臨，聯於祂的變化形像。…國度的來臨乃是主的得榮耀，主的變化形像；祂的得榮耀就是祂的人性被祂的神性所浸透。…因着主已經變化形像，祂現今就在榮耀裏。

在那時之前，神在祂裏面，但祂的人性不在神的榮耀裏。當祂變化形像時，祂的人性完全被祂榮耀的神性所浸透。在將來國度的實現裏，基督就是這樣。祂將是兼有神性和人性的基督，但祂的人性將被祂的神性所浸潤。

現今我們裏面有神聖的生命同神聖的性情。然而，我們仍有天然的人性。不論我們多屬靈，多聖別，我們的人性仍是天然的，還沒有被神聖的榮耀所浸透。但在國度實現的時候，我們的人性要被我們裏面榮耀的神性所榮化。

反對者也許會指稱這是進化到神裏面。但這並不是進化到神裏面—這乃是得榮耀。反對者需要讀羅馬八章三十節：『祂所豫定的人，又召他們來；所召來的人，又稱他們為義；所稱為義的人，又叫他們得榮耀。』…得榮耀就是被神的榮耀所浸透。那就是變化形像，不是從外面來的，乃是從裏面來的。有一天我們要使不信的人大喫一驚。帖後一章九節說，『在那日，當主來，在祂聖徒身上得榮耀，並在一切信的人身上顯為希奇的時候。』不信的人會因着我們得榮耀感到震驚。…日子將到，他們要看見榮耀的不同，因為我們的人性要被神性所浸透，並且我們要成為榮耀的子民。我們不僅是屬靈、聖別、純淨、清潔的，我們也是榮耀的。這就是國度的來臨。我們等待着這事發生（馬太福音生命讀經，六五一至六五三頁）。

參讀：馬太福音生命讀經，第三十七篇。

WEEK 4 — DAY 6

Morning Nourishment

Matt. 13:43 Then the righteous will shine forth like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Phil. 3:21 Who will transfigure the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of His glory, according to His operation by which He is able even to subject all things to Himself.

Not many Christians realize that Christ’s transfiguration was His coming in His kingdom…The Lord’s coming will not take place suddenly; rather, it will come gradually. In a sense, the Lord will come back from heaven; but in another sense, He will come out of us. When He fully lives Himself out of us, that will be the time of His coming. According to Matthew 17:1-2 with 16:28, His coming was His transfiguration, and His transfiguration was His glorification. When He was transfigured, He was glorified. (Life-study of Matthew, 2nd ed., p. 559)

Today’s Reading

Now we must see what it means to be glorified. When Christ, who is God, became a man, His divinity was incarnated in His humanity. He was a unique person, one possessing both divinity and humanity. His divinity was concealed within His humanity. Outwardly, He was a man, but inwardly, He was the very God. God was hidden, contained, concealed, within this man. Glory is God manifested, God expressed…The God hidden within the humanity of Jesus was the very glory. Thus, the glorious divine element was concealed within the human element of Jesus. As He walked on earth, no one could see His glorious divinity. Many saw the miracles and realized that He was someone extraordinary, but prior to His transfiguration no one had ever seen the glory concealed within Him. Then one day He brought three of His most intimate disciples to a high mountain and was there transfigured before them. For the Lord Jesus to be transfigured meant that His humanity was saturated and permeated with His divinity… This transfiguration, which was His glorification, was equal to His coming in His kingdom. This indicates that Christ’s coming in His kingdom is linked with His transfiguration…The coming of the kingdom is the Lord’s glorification, His transfiguration; and His glorification is the saturation of His humanity by His divinity…Because the Lord has been transfigured, He is now in glory.

Before that time God was in Him, but His humanity was not in God’s glory. In His transfiguration His humanity was thoroughly saturated with His glorious divinity. In the coming manifestation of the kingdom, Christ will be like this. He will be the very Christ with both divinity and humanity, but His humanity will be soaked with His divinity.

We now have the divine life with the divine nature within us. However, we still have our natural humanity. No matter how spiritual and holy we may be, our humanity is still natural. It has not yet been saturated with the divine glory. But at the time of the manifestation of the kingdom, our humanity will be glorified by the glorious divinity within us.

Perhaps the opposers will label this “evolution into God.” But this is not evolution into God—it is glorification. The opposers need to read Romans 8:30: “Those whom He predestinated, these He also called; and those whom He called, these He also justified; and those whom He justified, these He also glorified.”…To be glorified is to be saturated with God’s glory. It is to be transfigured, not from without but from within. One day we will be a great surprise to the unbelievers. Second Thessalonians 1:10 says, “When He comes to be glorified in His saints and to be marveled at in all those who have believed.” The unbelievers will be shocked by our glorification…The day is coming when they will see a glorious difference, for our humanity will be saturated with divinity, and we will become a glorious people. We will not just be spiritual, holy, pure, and clean. We will be glorious. This is the coming of the kingdom. We are waiting for this to take place. (Life-study of Matthew, 2nd ed., pp. 559-561)

Further Reading: Life-study of Matthew, msg. 37