第三週■週一

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晨興餧養

彼後一3 ～ 4『神的神能，藉着我們充分認識那用祂自己的榮耀和美德呼召我們的，已將一切關於生命和敬虔的事賜給我們。藉這榮耀和美德，祂已將又寶貴又極大的應許賜給我們，叫你們旣逃離世上從情慾來的敗壞，就藉着這些應許，得有分於神的性情。』

生命的事和生命的結果，就是建造。實際上這乃是全本新約的主題。生命就是三一神經過了漫長的過程，成了生命的靈。…建造就是召會，也就是基督的身體。這個建造乃是出於生命。召會是神聖生命的結果。

我們一旦接受了這個生命，這生命就開始在我們裏面長大，浸透我們，變化我們，把我們建造在一起，成爲神的居所。在今世，神的居所是召會；在永世，神的居所乃是新耶路撒冷。居所乃是神作我們生命的結果。祂的生命在我們裏面長大的時候，我們就被變化；這個變化的目的乃是建造神的居所。長大、變化和建造是新約的重點。（李常受文集一九八○年第二册，二六七至二六八頁。）

神要我們彰顯祂；…我們…不能用自己受造的生命彰顯神。我們要彰顯神，就必須有神的生命。這生命就是神聖的生命，永遠的生命。實際上，這生命乃是具體化於基督，又實化爲賜生命之靈的三一神。（申命記生命讀經，一七六頁。）

信息選讀

神…已賜給我們奇妙、奧祕的神聖能力。神這神聖的能力經過創造、救贖和復活，成爲賜生命的靈。（林前十五45 下。）…創造中看得見的事物是藉着神的神聖能力而產生。救贖也是藉着神的神聖能力而成就。耶穌一人因着神聖的能力，就能替眾人死，成就永遠的救贖。（來九12。）今天祂是賜生命的靈，在復活裏將自己給我們作神聖的能力。我們接受主耶穌，三一神在復活裏就進入我們裏面作生命。這…生命就是神聖的能力。

彼後一章三節的神聖能力，是神聖生命的能力，這神聖生命的能力，已將一切關於生命和敬虔的事賜給了我們。關於生命的事是無窮無盡的，包括生命的律、（羅八2，來八10、）人性、智慧、歡樂、愛、喜樂、盼望、服從、良善、溫柔、恩慈、恆忍與平安。神已把關於生命的一切賜給了我們。一種植物的種子，它裏面生命的能力，包括那種植物的一切。在種子裏生命的能力，包括植物的莖、枝、葉、花和果。在我們裏面作種子之神聖生命的能力，其中有爲着神聖生命長大所需要的一切東西。在神聖的能力裏，有愛、忍耐、謙卑、恩慈、和恆忍這樣的美德。神聖的能力、生命的能力，不但包括裏面生命所需要的一切，也包括外面敬虔所需要的一切。

神所賜給我們的〔另一〕項大事，是又寶貴又極大的應許。彼後一章四節的應許，主要與我們屬靈的生命有關。這些是爲着裏面生命和外面生命的彰顯而有的應許。其中一個這樣的應許是在以弗所三章二十節。…這個成就一切超過我們所求所想的應許，不是關於今生物質的事，乃是關於召會生活屬靈的事。主要照着運行在我們裏面，那內裏作工的大能，爲着召會生活，極其充盈的成就一切，超過我們所求所想的。還有一些又寶貴又極大的應許是在馬太二十八章二十節，約翰六章五十七節，七章三十八至三十九節，十章二十八至二十九節，十四章十九至二十節、二十三節，十五章五節，和十六章十三至十五節。（李常受文集一九六九年第二册，六七四至六七五頁。）

參讀：聖經中關於生命的重要啓示，第十六章。

WEEK 3 — DAY 1

Morning Nourishment

2 Pet. 1:3-4 Seeing that His divine power has granted to us all things which relate to life and godliness, through the full knowledge of Him who has called us by His own glory and virtue, through which He has granted to us precious and exceedingly great promises that through these you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption which is in the world by lust.

The matter of life and its issue, which is the building,…is actually the theme of the whole New Testament. Life is simply the Triune God, who, after passing through a lengthy process, became the Spirit of life…The building is the church, the Body of Christ. This building comes out of life. The church is the issue of the divine life.

Once we receive this life,…it begins to grow within us, to saturate us, to transform us, and to build us together as God’s dwelling place. In this age His dwelling place is the church; in the eternal age it is the New Jerusalem. The dwelling place is the issue of God’s being life to us. As His life within us grows, we are transformed; the purpose of this transformation is the building up of God’s dwelling place. Growth, transformation, and building are the crucial points in the New Testament. (CWWL, 1980, vol. 2, “The Completing Ministry of Paul,” p. 203)

God wants us to express Him…Our created life cannot express God. In order to express God, we must have the life of God. This life is the divine life, the eternal life. Actually, this life is the Triune God embodied in Christ, who is realized as the life-giving Spirit. (Life-study of Deuteronomy, p. 150)

Today’s Reading

God has…given us the marvelous and mysterious divine power. God as the divine power passed through creation, redemption, and resurrection to become the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b)…The visible things of the creation came into being through God’s divine power. Redemption was also accomplished by God’s divine power. The one man Jesus could die on behalf of all men to accomplish an eternal redemption (Heb. 9:12) because of the divine power. Today as the life-giving Spirit, He offers Himself to us as the divine power in resurrection. When we receive the Lord Jesus, the very Triune God enters into us as life in resurrection, [which] is the divine power.

The divine power in 2 Peter 1:3 is the power of the divine life, and this divine life power has given us all things that relate to life and godliness. The things that relate to life are inexhaustible. They include the law of life (Rom. 8:2; Heb. 8:10), humility, wisdom, rejoicing, love, joy, hope, submission, goodness, meekness, kindness, long-suffering, and peace. Everything related to life has been given to us. The life power within the seed of a certain plant includes everything related to the plant. The life power within the seed includes the stem, branches, leaves, blossoms, flowers, and fruit of the plant. Within the power of the divine life as the seed in us are all the things necessary for the growth of the divine life. In the divine power are virtues such as love, patience, humility, kindness, and long-suffering. The divine power, the power of life, includes all things needed not only for life inwardly but also for godliness
outwardly.

[Another] category of great things given to us by God is the precious and exceedingly great promises. The promises in 2 Peter 1:4 are mainly related to our spiritual life. These are promises for the inner life and the outward expression of life. One such promise is in Ephesians 3:20… This promise to do above all that we ask or think is not concerning the material things of the present life but concerning the spiritual things for the church life. The Lord is going to do superabundantly above all that we ask or think for the church life, according to the inner working power that operates in us. Other precious and exceedingly great promises are in Matthew 28:20; John 6:57; 7:38-39; 10:28-29; 14:19-20, 23; 15:5; and 16:13-15. (CWWL, 1969, vol. 2, “The Crucial Revelation of Life in the Scriptures,” pp. 512-513)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1969, vol. 2, “The Crucial Revelation of Life in the Scriptures,” ch. 16