第七週 · 週二

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📖晨興餧養

約六27 『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…。』

    32 『耶穌說，我實實在在的告訴你們，不是摩西把那從天上來的糧賜給你們，乃是我父把那從天上來的真糧賜給你們。』

約翰六章全章最重要的點就是：主是我們的食物，是生命的糧〔27、32~35、47~58、63上、68下〕。喫祂不是一次永遠的事，乃是天天的事，甚至是時時刻刻對主的經歷。…我們都必須接觸主，並喫主。我們不僅僅是輭弱的人，更是饑餓的人，需要主作我們生命的供應。主是可喫的，因為祂是生命的糧。祂像糧一樣，是給我們喫的。我們必須運用我們的靈，從祂這話這靈得餧養。然後我們就要將祂接受到我們裏面，消化祂，經歷祂，並且時時刻刻應用祂。這就是一切—再沒有別的了。我們必須忘記我們的作，我們的行，並學習喫基督，且憑我們所喫的活着。這就是我們日常生活所走的神聖、生命的路（約翰福音生命讀經，二二八至二二九頁）。

📖信息選讀

為要給我們經歷並享受，〔基督〕是生命的糧。…就屬靈上而言，每個人都是饑餓的，都需要基督這生命的糧。…我們唯一的需要就是基督作我們的食物。…即使你可能作了基督徒多年，你仍需要基督作你每日的食物。基督不僅是你的生命；祂這生命的糧也是你的生命供應，是你每日的食物。

〔約翰六章二十七節〕所說…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。…存到永遠生命的食物就是主耶穌基督自己。祂從天降下，不僅為作我們的救主—祂也來作我們的食物。這意思是祂來作生命樹。今天我們所需要的，乃是那作永遠食物，作生命樹的基督。

在三十二節主耶穌說祂自己是真糧。…基督作為真糧，乃是真理、實際的糧。基督是真實、實際的。基督是真食物，其他一切的食物不過是祂這真食物的影兒。我們每日所喫物質的食物只是基督的影兒，我們每日所喫食物的實際乃是耶穌基督。基督是真正的生命之糧，為神所差，將永遠的生命帶給我們。我們都需要基督作我們的生命之糧、真糧。我們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。因此，我們需要藉着話，從基督這活糧得餧養。

在三十三節我們看見，基督是神的糧，藉着成為肉體從天上降下來賜生命給世人。作為神的糧，祂乃是神，祂為神所差，卻與神同在。基督就是神，但祂成為肉體，好作生命的糧給我們喫。…在三十五節主耶穌說，『我就是生命的糧。』在五十一節祂說，『我是…活糧。』『生命的糧』，指糧的性質是生命；『活糧』，指糧的情形是活的。…在四十七節主耶穌說，『我實實在在的告訴你們，信的人有永遠的生命。』從這裏我們看見，信祂的人得着永遠的生命。

按照主耶穌在二十九節的話，我們『信入神所差來的』，就是作神的工。主認為，人之於神，是要信入祂，就是接受祂作生命和生命的供應。這是創世記二章帶進生命之生命樹的原則，與帶進死亡之知識樹的原則是相反的（新約總論第九冊，一四一至一四三頁）。

參讀：新約總論，第二百七十九篇。

WEEK 7 — DAY 2

Morning Nourishment

John 6:27 Work not for the food which perishes, but for the food which abides unto eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you…

          32 Jesus therefore said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Moses has not given you the bread out of heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.

The most important point in the whole chapter of John 6 is that the Lord is our food, the bread of life [vv. 27, 32-35, 47-58, 63a, 68b]. To eat Him is not a once-for-all matter. It is a daily matter and even a moment-by-moment experience of the Lord…We all must…contact the Lord and eat Him. We are not merely weak people but hungry people who need the Lord as our life supply. The Lord is edible because He is the bread of life…We must exercise our spirit to feed on Him as the word and as the Spirit. Then we will receive Him into us, digest Him, experience Him, and apply Him moment by moment. This is all—there is nothing else. We must forget about our doing and our working and learn to eat Christ and live by what we have eaten of Him. This is the divine way of life for our daily living. (Life-study of John, 2nd ed., p. 194)

Today’s Reading

For our experience and enjoyment Christ is the bread of life…He is the bread with eternal life. Spiritually speaking, everyone is hungry and in need of Christ as the bread of life. Our unique need…is Christ as our food…Even though you may have been a Christian for many years, you still need Christ as your food every day. Christ is not only your life; He, as the bread of life, is also your life supply, your daily food.

[In John 6:27] eternal life is the divine life, the uncreated life of God, which is not only everlasting with respect to time but also is eternal and divine in nature. The food which abides to eternal life is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. He came from the heavens not only to be our Savior—He came also to be our food. This means that He came to be the tree of life. What we need today is Christ as the eternal food, as the tree of life.

In verse 32 the Lord Jesus referred to Himself as the true bread…As the true bread Christ is the bread of truth, or reality. Christ is true, real. He is the true food, and all other kinds of food are mere shadows of Him as the real food. The physical food we take in every day is a shadow of Christ. The reality of the food we eat daily is Jesus Christ. Christ is the true bread of life sent by God to bring us eternal life. We all need Christ to be the bread of life, the true bread, to us. We 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. Therefore, through the Word we need to feed on Christ as the living bread.

In verse 33 we see that Christ is the bread of God who, through incarnation, came down out of heaven and gives life to the world. As the bread of God He is God, He was sent by God, and He was with God. Although Christ is the very God, He became flesh in order to be the bread of life for us to eat. In verse 35 the Lord Jesus said, “I am the bread of life,” and in verse 51 He said, “I am the living bread.” Bread of life refers to the nature of the bread, which is life; living bread refers to the condition of the bread, which is living. In verse 47 the Lord Jesus said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, He who believes has eternal life.” From this we see that everyone who believes in Him receives eternal life.

According to the word of the Lord Jesus in verse 29, the work of God is that we “believe into Him whom He has sent.” The Lord’s concept concerning God is that man should believe into Him, that is, receive Him as life and the life supply. This is the principle of the tree of life, which brings in life, as seen in Genesis 2. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 2873-2875)

Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 279