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晨興聖言-活在神國的實際裏(W7-3)
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第七週.週三

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晨興餧養

西一13『祂拯救了我們脫離黑暗的權勢,把我們遷入祂愛子的國裏。』

來二14『兒女既同有血肉之體,祂也照樣親自有分於血肉之體,為要藉着死,廢除那掌死權的,就是魔鬼。』

黑暗的權勢指撒但的權勢。神是光,而撒但是黑暗。神拯救了我們脫離撒但黑暗的權勢,進入神奇妙的光中。黑暗是作為死亡的撒但,但光是作為生命的神。蒙拯救脫離黑暗的權勢,乃是蒙拯救脫離掌死權的魔鬼。(來二14,約十七15。)我們已經藉着基督的死,(西二1415,)並藉着在復活裏基督的生命,(約五24,)蒙了拯救脫離魔鬼撒但。(新約總論第八冊,三八至三九頁。)

信息選讀

我們不僅蒙了拯救脫離黑暗的權勢,也遷入神愛子的國裏。子的國乃是基督的權柄。(啟十一15,十二10。)

按照新約,神的兒子是神聖生命的彰顯及其具體化身。這就是說,子的國乃是生命的範圍。我們所遷入的國,是神愛子的國,這事實指明這生命的範圍乃是在愛裏,不是在懼怕裏。今天我們…所在其中的國,乃是充滿生命、光與愛的範圍。

子是父這生命源頭的彰顯。(約一418,約壹一2。)父作生命的源頭,彰顯在子裏。愛子是父愛的對象,在神聖的愛裏帶着在復活裏的權柄,對我們作生命的具體化身。子作神聖生命的具體化身,是父愛的對象。具體化身在子裏的神聖生命,在神聖的愛裏賜給我們。因此,神聖之愛的對象,在神聖的愛裏帶着在復活裏的權柄,對我們成為生命的具體化身。這就是父愛子的國。

遷入父愛子的國裏,乃是遷入那是我們生命的子裏。(約壹五12。)在復活裏的子,(彼前一3,羅六45,)現今是賜生命的靈;(林前十五45下;)祂在祂復活的生命裏用愛來管理我們。這是父愛子的國。當我們在復活裏,憑着子作我們的生命而活,我們就活在祂的國裏,在父的愛裏享受祂。

我們已經遷入一個範圍,在其中我們是在愛裏並憑着生命受管理。在此,我們在屬天的管理與約束之下,有在愛中、憑着生命、並在亮光下的真正自由,正當的自由。這就是蒙拯救脫離黑暗的權勢,並遷入父愛子之國裏的意義。在這國裏,我們享受基督,並過召會生活。

『神的兒子』一辭,對父是何等悅耳。主耶穌受浸時,父宣告說,『這是我的愛子,我所喜悅的。』(太三17。)主變化形像時,父作了同樣的宣告。(十七5。)因為父喜悅祂的兒子,父愛子的國就是喜樂的事,喜悅的事。因這緣故,父愛子的國僅僅包括三部分—召會生活的部分,在千年國時諸天之國的屬天部分,以及新天新地同新耶路撒冷作召會與國度的完成。在這三部分的每一部分,神愛子的國都是喜悅的事。父藉着祂的憐憫與恩典,將我們從撒但的黑暗,遷入國度這喜樂的部分。(新約總論第八冊,三九至四○頁。)

參讀:新約總論,第二百四十四篇。

WEEK 7 — DAY 3

 
Morning Nourishment
 
Col. 1:13 Who delivered us out of the authority of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.
 
Heb. 2:14 Since therefore the children have shared in blood and flesh, He also Himself in like manner partook of the same, that through death He might destroy him who has the might of death, that is, the devil.
 
The authority of darkness denotes the authority of Satan. God is light, and Satan is darkness. God has delivered us out of Satan’s authority of darkness into God’s marvelous light. Darkness is Satan as death, but light is God as life. To be delivered out of the authority of darkness is to be delivered from the devil, who has the might of death (Heb. 2:14; John 17:15). We have been delivered from the devil, Satan, by the death of Christ (Col. 2:14-15) and by the life of Christ in resurrection (John 5:24). (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 2581-2582)
 
Today’s Reading
 
We have not only been delivered out of the authority of darkness but also transferred into the kingdom of the Son of God’s love. The kingdom of the Son is the authority of Christ (Rev. 11:15; 12:10).
 
According to the New Testament, the Son of God is the expression of the divine life and its embodiment. This means that the kingdom of the Son is a realm of life. The fact that the kingdom into which we have been transferred is the kingdom of the Son of God’s love indicates that this realm of life is in love, not in fear. The kingdom in which we find ourselves today is a realm full of life, light, and love.
 
The Son of the Father is the expression of the Father as the source of life (John 1:18, 4; 1 John 1:2). The Father as the source of life is expressed in the Son. The Son of the Father’s love is the object of the Father’s love to be the embodiment of life to us in the divine love with the authority in resurrection. The Son, as the embodiment of the divine life, is the object of the Father’s love. The divine life embodied in the Son is given to us in the divine love. Therefore, the object of the divine love becomes to us the embodiment of life in the divine love with the authority in resurrection. This is the kingdom of the Son of His love.
 
To be transferred into the kingdom of the Son of the Father’s love is to be transferred into the Son who is life to us (1 John 5:12). The Son in resurrection (1 Pet. 1:3; Rom. 6:4-5) is now the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b). He rules us in His resurrection life with love. This is the kingdom of the Son of the Father’s love. When we live by the Son as our life in resurrection, we are living in His kingdom, enjoying Him in the Father’s love.
 
We have been transferred into a realm where we are ruled in love with life. Here, under the heavenly ruling and restriction, we have genuine freedom, the proper freedom in love, with life, and under light. This is what it means to be delivered out of the authority of darkness and transferred into the kingdom of the Son of the Father’s love. Here in this kingdom we enjoy Christ and have the church life.
 
The words the Son of God are a delight to the Father’s ears. When the Lord Jesus was baptized, the Father declared, “This is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I have found My delight” (Matt. 3:17). When the Lord was transfigured, the Father made the same declaration (Matt. 17:5). Because the Father delights in His Son, the kingdom of the Son of the Father’s love is a pleasant thing, a matter of delight. This is the reason it comprises only three sections—the section of the church life, the section of the heavenly part of the kingdom of the heavens in the millennium, and the new heaven and the new earth with the New Jerusalem as the consummation of the church and the kingdom. In each of these three sections the kingdom of the Son of God’s love is a matter of delight. The Father, by His mercy and grace, has transferred us out of the darkness of Satan into this pleasant part of the kingdom. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 2582-2583)
 
Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 244
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