第一週•週四

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晨興餧養

路一79『要照亮坐在黑暗中死蔭裏的人，把我們的腳引到平安的路上。』

弗四18〜19『他們在悟性上旣然昏暗，就因着那在他們裏面的無知，因着他們心裏的剛硬，與神的生命隔絕了；他們感覺從然喪盡…。』

無論不信的人多何道德 他們只有人的良心可遵照；而因着人的堕落，良心已大大受了破壊。…他們受破壊的良心不太有作用。卽使不信者的良心的確起作用，那也是他們僅有的。

我們信徒不僅有受造的良心，也有得更新的良心。我們的良心，是我們靈的一部分，(羅九1，參八16，)藉着我們靈的重生得了更新。除了這得更新的良心以外，我們還有這五樣重大的東西：神聖的生命、神聖生命的律、聖靈、基督和神。因此，不信者受造的良心，和那有三一神這神聖生命內住的信徒得更新的良心，其間是無法比較的。(李常受文集一九七九年第一册，七三四至七三五頁。)

信息選讀

任何有生命的東西都有感覺。生命越高，感覺就越強。神聖的生命是最强、最高的生命，所以有最豐富、最強、最敏銳的感覺。(18〜19。)…我們基督徒該是一 直滿了感覺的人。我們不該遲鈍或麻木。我們必須冨有感覺，滿了感覺，因爲我們在生命裏是活潑而豐富的。這是因爲我們有重生的靈，帶着更新的良心。我們也有神聖的生命、神聖生命的律、聖靈、基督和神。所以生命的感覺在我們裏面是高的、豐富的、強的和敏銳的。

我們若活在天然的生命裏，感覺就是死的，完全是在消極的一面。…我們若活在神聖的生命裏，感覺就是生命的，完全是在積極的一面：於是我們有生命平安的感覺，同其一切積極的點。生命的感覺使我們知道我們是活在天然的生命裏，或活在神聖的生命裏。生命的感覺引導我們，支配我們，管制我們，並指引我們。…旣然我們追求基督作我們的生命，我們就必須顧到這生命的感覺。我們若沒有剛強、飽足、平安、安息、釋放、活潑、滋潤、明亮、舒服等積極的感覺，就必須知道，我們不是活在神聖的生命裏；我們就必是活在天然的生命裏。…活在天然的生命裏是一件事，活在肉體裏是另一件事。你也許認爲天然的生命和肉體是一樣的，但二者仍有一些不同。…絕無良善的肉體。但天然的生生命有時候也許是良善的。天然的生命與神聖的生命相對，肉體與靈相對。

所以，關於生命感覺的功用有兩方面。第一方面是讓你知道你是否活在神聖的生命裏，第二方面是讓你知道你是否活在你的靈裏。消極的說，生命感覺的功用使你知道你是否活在天然的生命裏，作天然的人，也讓你知道你是否活在肉體裏。…許多時候我們覺得自己是在肉體裏生活、行事爲人並行動。有時候我們不是那麼屬肉體，但我們仍然感覺到，我們是在天然的生命裏，在我們天然的人裏行事爲人，而不在神聖的生命裏。…我們需要許多禱告，將自己禱告到生命的感覺裏。然後我們釋放話語就能實際的在交通裏，而非僅在教訓上。我們的信息會是一種交通，告訴人我們如何經歷了這些事，生命的感覺對我們是如何的真實且實際，我們又如何天天在裏面這種管制、引導、指引的元素之下。(李常受文集一九七九年第一册，七三三、七三五至七三七頁。)

參讀：約翰一書生命讀經，第五、二十六篇。

WEEK 1 — DAY 4

Morning Nourishment  

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Luke 1:79 To shine upon those sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

Eph. 4:18-19 Being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance which is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; who, being past feeling…

Regardless of how moral the unbelievers are, they have only the human conscience to go by, and this has been greatly damaged by the fall of man … Their damaged conscience does not work very well. Even if the unbelievers’ conscience did work well, it is the only thing that they have.

We believers have not only a created conscience but also a renewed conscience. Our conscience, as a part of our spirit (Rom. 9:1; cf. 8:16), has been renewed through the regeneration of our spirit. In addition to this renewed conscience we have these five great things: the divine life, the law of the divine life, the Holy Spirit, Christ, and God. Thus, there is no comparison between the created conscience of the unbelievers and the renewed conscience of the believers who are indwelt by the Triune God as the divine life. (CWWL, 1979, vol. 1, “Basic Lessons on Life,” p. 547)

Today’s Reading

Anything that has life has feeling. The higher the life is, the stronger the feeling is. The divine life is the strongest and highest life, so it has the richest, strongest, and keenest feeling [cf. Eph. 4:18-19]. We Christians should be persons full of feeling all the time. We should not be dull or numb. We must be very sensitive, full of sensations because we are living and rich in life. This is because we have a regenerated spirit with our conscience renewed. We also have the divine life, the law of this divine life, the Holy Spirit, Christ, and God. Therefore, the sense of life is high, rich, strong, and keen within us.

If we are living in the natural life, the sense is of death and is entirely on the negative side…If we are living in the divine life, the sense is of life and is entirely on the positive side. Then we have the feeling of life and peace with all its positive points. The sense of life makes us know whether we are living in the natural life or in the divine life. The sense of life guides us, governs us, controls us, and directs us…Since we are seeking after Christ as our life, we must take care of this sense of life. If we do not have the positive sensations of strength, satisfaction, peace, rest, release, liveliness, watering, brightness, comfort, etc., we must realize that we are not living in the divine life; it must be that we are living in the natural life. To live in the natural life is one thing, and to live in the flesh is another thing. You may consider that these are one, but still there is a little difference…There is no good flesh. But the natural life sometimes may be good. The natural life is versus the divine life, and the flesh is versus the spirit.

Therefore, there are two aspects concerning the function of the sense of life. The first aspect is to let you know whether you are living in the divine life, and the second aspect is to let you know whether you are living in your spirit. Negatively speaking, it makes you know whether you are living in the natural life, as a natural person, and also whether you are living in the flesh…Many times we have the sense that we are living, walking, and acting in the flesh. Sometimes we are not that fleshly, but still we have the sense that we are walking in our natural life, in our natural man, not in the divine life. We need much prayer to pray ourselves into the sense of life. Then we can give a word not merely in teaching but practically in fellowship. Our message will be a kind of fellowship, telling people how we have experienced these things, how the sense of life is so real and practical to us, and how we are under this kind of controlling, guiding, directing element within us day by day. (CWWL, 1979, vol. 1, “Basic Lessons on Life,” pp. 546-549)

Further Reading: Life-study of 1 John, chs. 5, 26