第九週■週六

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晨興餧養

約十四 23『耶穌回答說，人若愛我，就必遵守我的話，我父也必愛他，並且我們要到他那裏去，同他安排住處。』

   十五 5『我是葡萄樹，你們是枝子；住在我裏面的，我也住在他裏面，這人就多結果子；因爲離了我，你們就不能作甚麼。』

這父的家乃是藉着父和子同着內住蒙救贖之選民的那靈，不斷的眷臨蒙救贖的選民而得以建造起來，成爲終極完成之三一神與祂所救贖之選民相互的居所。…約翰十四章二節告訴我們，在父的家裏有許多住處，在二十三節我們看見這些住處是藉着父和子眷臨愛祂的人而得以建造起來的。二十三節…含示了那靈，因爲那靈住在所有愛主耶穌之人重生的靈裏。

我們可能在家裏、在學校或在工作中，但無論我們在那裏，父和子都來眷臨我們，在我們裏面作建造的工作，安排住處，這住處乃是三一神和我們相互居住的地方。父的家就是這樣藉着三一神不斷的眷臨而得以建造起來。（李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第五册，四三一至四三二頁。）

信息選讀

我〔所看見〕的葡萄樹乃是基督這真葡萄樹。這葡萄樹需要全球來伸展。主在約翰十五章說，『我是真葡萄樹。』（1。）…惟有一棵葡萄樹是真的，就是那伸展到全球的基督。基督這棵真葡萄樹已經將祂自己從美國擴展到俄國、波蘭、羅馬尼亞、南非、南美、紐西蘭和澳洲等地。

真葡萄樹作包羅萬有之基督的表號，乃是經過過程並終極完成之三一神的生機體。…其枝子乃是基督的信徒，他們按天性原是野橄欖樹的枝子，藉着信入基督，（三 15，）已被接枝在栽種的橄欖樹上。（羅十一 17，24。）栽種的橄欖樹和真葡萄樹，二者都是表徵基督。因此，接枝在栽種的橄欖樹上，就是接枝在真葡萄樹上。…其接上的枝子已得着重生而有了神聖的生命，被帶進與釘死並復活之基督的生命聯結裏，且與經過過程並終極完成的三一神合併一起。

這是爲使無限的三一神得着繁殖，作那不可度量之基督，就是經過過程並終極完成之三一神具體化身的擴增，（約三 29 ～ 30，）爲着祂宇宙的擴展。這乃是藉着基督的信徒這些枝子忠信的住在基督裏面而結果子，（十五 4 ～ 5，16，）使父得着榮耀。（8。）

終極完成的那靈生了一個新孩子，新人。（十六21，13 ～ 15。）這新人乃是由基督在十字架上，藉着在祂的肉體裏廢掉了那規條中誡命的律法所創造的。（弗二 15。）…這新人也是同復活的基督在祂的復活中，由父所重生，（彼前一 3，羅一 4，）並由那靈在信徒的靈裏所生。（約三 6 下。）因着基督受死離開他們而受苦的第一班信徒，乃是生產的婦人。（十六 20 ～ 21。）在復活中回來的基督，乃是新生的孩子，（22，）成爲新人。（西三 10 ～ 11。）

我們藉着在心思的靈裏得着更新而穿上這新人，至終就要終極完成基督的身體；這基督的身體就是召會，要終極完成新耶路撒冷。（李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第五册，四四五至四四七頁。）

參讀：活力排，第二、四篇；基督徒的生活，第七篇。

WEEK 9 — DAY 6

Morning Nourishment

John 14:23 Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make an abode with him.

       15:5 I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me you can do nothing.

The Father’s house is built up by the constant visitation to the redeemed elect of the Father and the Son with the Spirit who indwells the redeemed elect to be the mutual dwelling place of the consummated Triune God and His redeemed elect…John 14:2 tells us that in the Father’s house there are many abodes, and in verse 23 we see that these abodes are built up by the Father and the Son’s visitation to those who love Him. The Spirit…is implied [in verse 23], for the Spirit dwells in the regenerated spirit of all those who love the Lord Jesus.

We may be at home, at school, or at work, but wherever we may be, the Father and the Son come to visit us to do a building work in us, making an abode that will be a mutual dwelling place for the Triune God and for us. This is the building up of the Father’s house through the constant visitation of the Triune God. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 5, “The Issue of Christ Being Glorified by the Father with the Divine Glory,” pp. 342-343)

Today’s Reading

The vine tree I have seen is Christ as the true vine. This vine needs the entire globe for its spreading. In John 15 the Lord said, “I am the true vine” (v. 1)…Only one vine is uniquely true. This is Christ spreading around the globe. Christ as the true vine has spread Himself from America to places such as Russia, Poland, Romania, South Africa, South America, New Zealand, and Australia.

The true vine is a sign of the all-inclusive Christ as the organism of the processed and consummated Triune God. Its branches are the believers of Christ, who by nature were branches of the wild olive tree and have been grafted into the cultivated olive tree (Rom. 11:17, 24) through their believing into Christ (John 3:15). Both the cultivated olive tree and the true vine signify Christ. Hence, to be grafted into the cultivated olive tree is to be grafted into the true vine. Its grafted branches have been regenerated with the divine life, brought into the life union with the crucified and resurrected Christ, and incorporated with the processed and consummated Triune God.

This is for the unlimited Triune God’s multiplication as the increase of the immeasurable Christ, the embodiment of the processed and consummated Triune God (vv. 29-30), for His universal spreading through the fruit-bearing of the believers of Christ as the branches by their faithful abiding in Christ (15:4-5, 16) for the glorification of the Father (v. 8).

A new child, a new man, was born by the consummated Spirit (16:21, 13- 15). This new man was created by Christ on the cross by abolishing in His flesh the law of the commandments in ordinances (Eph. 2:15)…Also, this new man was regenerated by the Father with the resurrected Christ in His resurrection (1 Pet. 1:3; Rom. 1:4) and born by the Spirit in the believers’ spirit (John 3:6b). The first group of Christ’s believers, who suffered Christ’s departure through His death, was the delivering woman (16:20-21). The Christ who returned in His resurrection was the newborn child (v. 22) to be the new man (Col. 3:10-11).

Our putting on the new man by being renewed in the spirit of our mind will eventually consummate the Body of Christ, and this Body of Christ, which is the church, will consummate the New Jerusalem. (CWWL, 1994- 1997, vol. 5, “The Issue of Christ Being Glorified by the Father with the Divine Glory,” pp. 352-354)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 5, “The Vital Groups,” chs. 2, 4; CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 2, “The Christian Life,” ch. 7