第七篇

生命的糧

讀經：約六22～71

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【週  一】

壹 我們若仔細讀過約翰六章，應該對這章有深刻的印象，也該注意七個重點的次序：

一 主是生命的糧—35、48節。

二 主把祂生命的糧賜給我們喫—51節。

三 主還把祂的血給我們喝—53節。

四 主不僅死了，也復活了—56節。

五 因着基督活在我們裏面，我們就因祂活着，並且活在神面前—57節。

六 不是祂物質的肉，乃是祂的靈，賜我們生命和生命的供應—63節上。

七 那靈乃是在主所說的話裏面；祂的話就是靈，就是生命—63節下。

貳 主耶穌從天上降到地上來，最主要的目的是要成就一件中心的事，就是把祂自己當作食物（生命的糧）賜給我們，好使我們能喫祂作屬靈的養分，並消化祂而使祂成為我們的構成—50~51節。

【週  二】

叁 約翰六章詳論主耶穌作生命的糧；祂宣告說，『我就是生命的糧』—48節：

一 在六章，有許多經節啟示基督是生命的糧，為要給我們經歷並享受—27、32~35、47~58、63節上，68節：

1 約翰六章整章最重要的點乃是，基督是我們的食物，是生命的糧—35、48節。

2 喫主不是一次永遠的事；反之，我們每日都需要接觸主並喫主，因為祂是可喫的—50節。

3 我們需要操練我們的靈，從祂得餵養，接受祂，消化祂，經歷祂，享受祂，並且每時每刻應用祂—56~57節。

4 我們都該專注於一件事—喫基督，然後憑着我們所喫的基督而活—54節。

二 『不要為那必壞的食物勞力，要為那存到永遠生命的食物勞力，就是人子要賜給你們的』—27節：

1 永遠的生命就是神的生命，神非受造的生命，不僅在時間上是永久的，在性質上也是永遠、神聖的—三15。

2 那存到永遠生命的食物能供應我們，並將我們帶進永遠的生命—六27。

三 『我父把那從天上來的真糧賜給你們。因為神的糧，就是那從天上降下來賜生命給世人的』—32~33節：

1 只有屬靈的事才是真實的；『那靈就是實際』—約壹五6下。

2 基督作為真糧，乃是真理、實際的糧；基督是真實、實際的。

3 我們都需要對這事實有深刻的印象：我們需要基督作生命的真糧，為神所差，將永遠的生命帶給我們。

4 約翰六章三十三節裏『神的糧』就是三十二節裏的『真糧』。

5 基督作為從天上降下來的糧，乃是屬天的糧；祂作為神的糧，乃是屬神的，是受神差遣，也與神同在的—33節。

6 我們喫了這糧並加以消化，這糧就成為我們的構成，我們也與主聯結並調和為一—林前六17。

7 人若喫這從天上降下來的活糧，就必永遠活着—約六50~51上。

【週三、四】

四 在五十一節下半主耶穌說，『我所要賜的糧，就是我的肉，為世人的生命所賜的』：

1 到了這裏，糧變成了肉。

2 主捨了祂的身體，就是祂的肉，為我們死，好叫我們得着生命。

五 『我實實在在地告訴你們，你們若不喫人子的肉，不喝人子的血，就沒有生命在你們裏面』—53節：

1 血和肉分開是指明死。

2 主在這裏清楚指明祂的死，也就是祂的被殺。

3 祂為我們捨了身體，流了血，使我們得着永遠的生命：

a 喫祂的肉，就是憑信接受祂為我們捨了身體所作成的一切。

b 喝祂的血，就是憑信接受祂為我們流血所完成的一切。

4 這樣喫祂的肉喝祂的血，就是藉相信祂在十字架上為我們所作成的，好在祂的救贖裏，接受祂作生命和生命的供應。

5 我們把五十三節與四十七節相比，就能看見，喫主的肉，喝主的血，等於相信祂，因為信或信入，就是接受—一12。

六 『我的肉是真正的食物，我的血是真正的飲料』—六55：

1 我們若不喫人子的肉，不喝人子的血，就沒有永遠的生命在我們裏面。

2 我們若喫祂並喝祂，就要因祂得着生命。

七 約翰六章五十七節是整本聖經中最強烈、最奇特的一句話：『活的父怎樣差我來，我又因父活着，照樣，那喫我的人，也要因我活着』：

1 喫就是把食物接受到我們裏面，並生機的吸收到我們體內。

2 喫主耶穌就是將祂接受到我們裏面，為重生的新人以生命的方式所吸收：

a 然後，我們就憑着所接受的主而活。

b 藉此，祂這位復活者就活在我們裏面—十四19~20。

【週  五】

肆 『賜人生命的乃是靈，肉是無益的；我對你們所說的話，就是靈，就是生命』—六63：

一 約翰六章的末了一段論到基督成為賜生命的靈與話。

二 因着基督是那靈，我們能在裏面接觸祂這靈—林前十五45。

三 因着祂是賜生命的靈，我們就能從祂得餧養，並吸收祂作為我們的食物。

四 我們要接受主耶穌作生命的糧，作生命的供應，以滋養我們，就需要看見祂是賜生命的靈，並且這靈具體化在話裏—約六63。

五 主所賜給我們的，乃是賜人生命的靈；這靈就是復活裏的主自己—林前十五45。

【週  六】

六 在約翰六章六十三節，『話』是在靈之後提到的：

1 主指明為着賜人生命，祂要成為那靈。

2 然後祂說，祂所說的話就是靈，就是生命；這指明祂所說的話，乃是賜生命之靈的具體化—63節。

3 我們若沒有摸着話中的靈，就無法得着生命。

4 我們天天都需要來到主面前，摸着祂作話中的靈；我們若這麼作，就會從基督這生命的糧得餧養—35節。

七 約翰六章結束於生命的話，就是我們接受主這生命之糧的憑藉—63節：

1 我們接受了話，就有了那靈；我們裏面有了那靈，就有基督作內裏的生命供應。

2 盼望我們都領悟我們需要基督作生命的供應，然後天天接觸祂這具體化於話裏的賜生命之靈。

Week Seven

The Bread of Life

Scripture Reading: John 6:22-71

§ Day 1

I. If we read John 6 carefully, we should have a deep impression of this chapter and pay attention to the sequence of seven crucial points:

A. The Lord is the bread of life—vv. 35, 48.

B. The Lord gives His bread of life for us to eat—v. 51.

C. The Lord also gives His blood for us to drink—v. 53.

D. The Lord not only died but also resurrected—v. 56.

E. Because Christ lives in us, we live because of Him and live before God—v. 57.

F. His Spirit, not His physical flesh, gives us life and the life supply—v. 63a.

G. The Spirit is in the Lords spoken words; His words are spirit and life—v. 63b.

II. The primary purpose for which the Lord Jesus came down out of heaven to the earth was to accomplish one central matter—to give Himself to us as food—the bread of life—so that He could be eaten by us as spiritual nourishment and be digested by us to become our constitution—vv. 50-51.

§ Day 2

III. Chapter 6 of the Gospel of John is a detailed discourse on the Lord Jesus being the bread of life; He declared, "I am the bread of life"—v. 48:

A. Many verses in John 6 reveal that, for our experience and enjoyment, Christ is the bread of life—vv. 27, 32-35, 47-58, 63a, 68:

1. The most important point in the entire chapter of John 6 is that Christ is our food, the bread of life—vv. 35, 48.

2. To eat Him is not a once-for-all matter; rather, we need to contact the Lord and eat Him daily, for He is edible—v. 50.

3. We need to exercise our spirit to feed on Him, receiving Him, digesting Him, experiencing Him, enjoying Him, and applying Him moment by moment—vv. 56-57.

4. We all should concentrate on one thing—eating Christ and then living by what we have eaten of Him—v. 54.

B. "Work not for the food which perishes, but for the food which abides unto eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you"—v. 27:

1. Eternal life is the divine life, the uncreated life of God, which not only is everlasting with respect to time but also is eternal and divine in nature—3:15.

2. The food which abides unto eternal life can supply us and bring us into eternal life—6:27.

C. "My Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. For the bread of God is He who comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world"—vv. 32- 33:

1. Only spiritual things are real; "the Spirit is the reality"—1 John 5:6b.

2. As the true bread, Christ is the bread of truth, of reality; Christ is true, real.

3. We all need to be deeply impressed with the fact that we need Christ as the true bread of life sent by God to bring us eternal life.

4. "The bread of God" in John 6:33 is "the true bread" in verse 32.

5. As the bread that came down out of heaven, Christ is the heavenly bread, and as the bread of God, He is of God, He was sent by God, and He was with God—v. 33.

6. When we eat this bread and digest it, it becomes our constitution, and we are joined and mingled with the Lord as one—1 Cor. 6:17.

7. Anyone who eats the living bread which came down out of heaven will live forever—John 6:50-51a.

§ Day 3 & Day 4

D. In verse 51b the Lord Jesus said, "The bread which I will give is My flesh, given for the life of the world":

1. At this point the bread becomes the flesh.

2. The Lord gave His body, that is, His flesh, dying for us that we might have life.

E. "Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you do not have life within yourselves"—v. 53:

1. The separation of blood and flesh indicates death.

2. Here the Lord clearly indicated His death, that is, His being slain.

3. He gave His body and shed His blood for us so that we may have eternal life:

a. To eat His flesh is to receive by faith all that He did in giving His body for us.

b. To drink His blood is to receive by faith all that He accomplished in shedding His blood for us.

4. To eat His flesh and drink His blood is to receive Him, in His redemption, as life and the life supply by believing in what He did for us on the cross.

5. By comparing verse 53 with verse 47, we see that to eat the Lords flesh and drink His blood is to believe in Him, because to believe or to believe into is to receive—1:12.

F. "My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink"—6:55:

1. Unless we eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, we do not have eternal life within ourselves.

2. If we eat Him and drink Him, we will have life because of Him.

G. The strongest and strangest sentence in the entire Bible is John 6:57: "As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me":

1. To eat is to take food into us that it may be assimilated organically into our body.

2. To eat the Lord Jesus is to receive Him into us that He may be assimilated by the regenerated new man in the way of life:

a. Then we live by Him whom we have received.

b. It is by this that He, the resurrected One, lives in us—14:19-20.

§ Day 5

IV. "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life"— 6:63:

A. The last part of John 6 is the section about Christ becoming the life-giving Spirit and the Word.

B. Since Christ is the Spirit, we can contact Him as the Spirit within us—1 Cor. 15:45.

C. Because He is the life-giving Spirit, we can feed upon and assimilate Him as our food.

D. In order to receive the Lord Jesus as the bread of life, our life supply to nourish us, we need to see that He is the life-giving Spirit and that this Spirit is embodied in the Word—John 6:63.

E. What the Lord gives us is the Spirit who gives life; this Spirit is the Lord Himself in resurrection—1 Cor. 15:45.

§ Day 6

F. In John 6:63 "the words" follow the Spirit:

1. The Lord indicated that for giving life He would become the Spirit.

2. Then He said that the words He speaks are spirit and life; this indicates that His spoken words are the embodiment of the life-giving Spirit—v. 63.

3. If we do not touch the Spirit in the Word, we cannot receive life.

4. Daily we need to come to the Lord and touch Him as the Spirit in the Word; if we do this, we will feed on Christ as the bread of life—v. 35.

G. Chapter 6 of John closes with the word of life, which is the means for us to receive the Lord as the bread of life—v. 63:

1. If we receive the Word, we will have the Spirit, and if we have the Spirit within us, we will have Christ as the inner supply of life.

2. May we all realize that our need is Christ as our life supply and then daily contact Him as the life-giving Spirit embodied in the Word.