第三十一週■週二

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晨興餧養

西一27『神願意叫他們知道，這奧祕的榮耀在外邦人中是何等的豐富，就是基督在你們裏面成了榮耀的盼望。』

林後四17『因爲我們這短暫輕微的苦楚，要極盡超越的爲我們成就永遠重大的榮耀。』

這位奇妙的人耶穌，是我們的模型、榜樣、先鋒、開拓者和元帥；有一天，祂進到我們裏面。我們可能不大覺得，但祂的確已進到我們裏面。…這位進入我們裏面的耶穌是誰？祂不僅是救主，更是那領先奔入榮耀的一位，也是那已經進入神完滿彰顯裏的一位，並且祂今天就是神完滿的彰顯。這位是神彰顯、是神榮耀之光輝的耶穌，（來一3，）就是那進入我們裏面的耶穌。…過去，我們最多只能說，那在我們裏面的耶穌，是永遠的生命。我們若沒有〔歌羅西一章二十七節〕，就根本不會想到，那在我們裏面的耶穌竟是榮耀的盼望。我們榮耀的盼望就是基督自己。（希伯來書生命讀經，一三六至一三七頁。）

信息選讀

一面，這位奇妙者是在幔內，住在神的彰顯裏，並且祂也就是神的彰顯。另一面，祂已經進到我們裏面。…基督…在我們裏面。祂不必離開榮耀，然後纔進到我們裏面。當祂在幔內時，祂也在我們裏面，祂乃是從那邊供應到我們這邊。祂是開拓者，是先鋒，率先進入幔內，進入了榮耀，就是神那完滿榮耀的彰顯。現今祂在榮耀裏作了我們救恩的元帥。…這位救恩的元帥進到我們裏面，但祂並沒有離開榮耀，反而把榮耀帶到我們裏面來。何等奇妙！當救恩的元帥進到我們裏面，榮耀也隨祂而來。換句話說，救恩的元帥進到我們裏面，成了我們的榮耀。最低限度，祂進到我們裏面，是一粒榮耀的種子。現今，我們每個人裏面都有這榮耀的種子，就是那位救恩的元帥自己。…祂是第一個進入榮耀的，所以祂是我們的先鋒，足彀資格作我們的元帥。

爲甚麼祂的苦難，使祂彀資格作元帥？〔來二10。〕因爲不經過苦難，祂就不能進入榮耀；祂若不能進入榮耀，就不完全，不合格。但藉着苦難，祂進入了榮耀，就完全彀資格、被成全，來承擔元帥的職分。因此，祂能進到我們裏面作元帥，也作榮耀。

祂不僅是元帥，更是大祭司。祂是大祭司，祂自己作爲餅和酒供應我們。主不斷的以祂自己作恩典供應我們。彼前五章十節說到全般恩典的神。保羅因着肉體上的一根刺，曾三次求主爲他挪去。（林後十二7 ～ 8。）但是主說，『我的恩典彀你用的。』（9。）主似乎對保羅說，『…我是要把彀用的恩典供應給你。在你經過所有的苦難時，我要以我自己作供應，作恩典，作餅和酒來扶持你，幫助你。這些苦難會在你裏面產生榮耀。』

保羅深知苦難能幫助我們進入榮耀。…在林後四章十七節，保羅…把『短暫輕微的苦楚』與『永遠重大的榮耀』相比。他說，那永遠重大的榮耀遠超過這短暫輕微的苦楚。他作了三個比較：苦楚對榮耀，輕微對重大，短暫對永遠。我們所受的一切苦楚，都是輕微的。這短暫輕微的苦楚無法與永遠重大的榮耀相比。不要被你的苦難所困。…真正重大的乃是榮耀。我們所有的苦難都是輕微的。這短暫輕微的苦楚，要爲我們成就永遠重大的榮耀。（希伯來書生命讀經，一三七至一四○頁。）

參讀：經過過程的神聖三一之分賜與超越基督之輸供的結果，第一章。

WEEK 31 — DAY 2

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Morning Nourishment

Col. 1:27 1:27 To whom God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

2 Cor. 4:17 For our momentary lightness of affliction works out for us, more and more surpassingly, an eternal weight of glory.

This wonderful man Jesus, who is the model, example, Forerunner, Pioneer, and Captain, one day entered into us. We might have been unconscious of it, but He entered into us…Who is this Jesus who has come into us? He is not only the Savior; He is the One who took the lead to run the race into glory, the One who has entered into the full expression of God, the One who, even today, is this full expression of God. This Jesus, who is God’s expression, the effulgence of God’s glory (Heb. 1:3), is the Jesus who has come into us…In the past, probably the most we could say was that Christ was the eternal life in us. If we did not have Colossians 1:27, we would never imagine that the Jesus who is in us is the hope of glory. Our hope of glory is just Christ Himself. (Life-study of Hebrews, pp. 111-112)

Todays Reading

On the one hand, this wonderful One is within the veil, dwelling there in the expression of God and as the expression of God. On the other hand, He has come into us…He is within us. He does not have to leave the glory in order to come into us. While He is within the veil and within us, He is ministering from there to here. He entered within the veil as the Pioneer, the Forerunner, entering into the glory that is the full, glorious expression of the Divine Being. Now He is in glory as the Captain of our salvation…In His coming into us, He never left the glory. Rather, He brought the glory into us. This is wonderful. When the Captain of salvation came into us, the glory came with Him. In other words, the Captain of salvation came into us to be the glory. At the very least, He came in to be the seed of glory. Now we all have this seed of glory, that is, the Captain of salvation Himself, within us…Since He was the first to enter into glory, He, as our Forerunner, is fully qualified to be our Captain.

How is it that His sufferings qualified Him to be the Captain [Heb. 2:10]? Because without passing through sufferings, He could not be in the glory, and, if He were not in the glory, He would not be perfected or qualified. But by passing through the sufferings, He entered into glory. He is now fully qualified, fully perfected, to fulfill His office of Captain. Therefore, He can come into us as the Captain as well as the glory.

He is not only the Captain but also the High Priest. He is the High Priest ministering Himself to us as bread and wine. The Lord continually ministers Himself to us as grace. First Peter 5:10 speaks of the God of all grace. When Paul was suffering because of a thorn in the flesh, he asked the Lord three times to remove it (2 Cor. 12:7-8). But the Lord answered Paul, saying, “My grace is sufficient for you” (v. 9). The Lord seemed to be telling Paul, “…I will afford you My sufficient grace. I will minister Myself to you as the supply, as the grace, as the bread and wine, that will sustain and support you as you pass through all the sufferings. These sufferings will produce glory in you.”

Paul knew that sufferings help to bring us into glory…In 2 Corinthians 4:17 Paul [compares] the “momentary lightness of affliction” with the “eternal weight of glory.” He was saying that the eternal weight of glory far surpasses the momentary lightness of affliction. Here we see three comparisons: affliction with glory, lightness with weight, and momentary with eternal. Whatever sufferings we pass through are the lightness. This momentary lightness of affliction cannot compare with the eternal weight of glory. Do not be troubled by your sufferings…The real weight is the glory. All our sufferings are just the lightness, the momentary lightness of affliction that works for us the eternal weight of glory. (Life-study of Hebrews, pp. 112-114)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1993, vol. 2, “The Issue of the Dispensing of the Processed Trinity and the Transmitting of the Transcending Christ,” ch. 1