第三十一週■週三

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晨興餧養

來十三12『所以耶穌爲要藉自己的血聖別百姓，也就在城門外受苦。』

帖前五23『且願和平的神，親自全然聖別你們，又願你們的靈、與魂、與身子得蒙保守，在我們主耶穌基督來臨的時候，得以完全，無可指摘。』

神的經綸乃是祂心頭願望的目的，神把這個目的作成一個定旨。…聖別是完成神聖經綸的主持線（holding line）。…我們說聖別是主持線，因爲神在我們身上經綸的工作，每一步都是使我們聖別。

今天我們都被神聖聖別的〔釣魚〕線『鈎』住了。我們原在人類的『大海』中，但這條線臨到我們，我們就被鈎住了。我們被鈎住，這要完成於我們改變形狀時。然後這條線就完成了。…有人來向我們說到基督的事。這個人的談話裏隱藏了一個『鈎子』，鈎子就把我們鈎住了。我們被折服，就悔改並相信。然後我們得着重生，使我們繼續在神聖聖別的主持線上。（李常受文集一九九三年第二册，二九一、二九四頁。）

信息選讀

神在已過的永遠裏立了一個經綸，在那個經綸裏祂定規要得着許多兒子。祂造人以後，人墮落了。然後靈神來聖別人。（彼前一2。）我們失落在亞當裏、在罪裏、並在死裏。我們是在崩潰的亂堆中，滿了罪和死。但那靈來把我們尋找出來，祂找着我們，又使我們知罪自責。然後祂激動我們的靈悔改。這是我們初步的聖別，使我們悔改。（路十五8 ～10。）這是尋找的聖別，結果使我們悔改，將我們帶回歸神。（17 ～ 21。）…救贖的聖別，地位上的聖別，是藉着基督的血，（來十三12，）將我們從亞當遷移到基督。這改變了我們原來所在的地方。

我們的重生是一種聖別。重生是性情上聖別的開始，從我們的靈裏更新我們。（林後五17。）…這使我們這些曾作神仇敵的罪人成爲神的兒子。（約一12 ～ 13。）…更新的聖別，是從我們的心思到我們魂的各部分，更新我們的魂，（羅十二2，弗四23，）藉此繼續在性情上聖別我們。…我們的魂有三部分：心思、情感和意志。…變化的聖別乃是日常的聖別，用基督的元素新陳代謝的把我們重新構成，使我們成爲新的構成，作基督生機身體的一部分。（林前三12。）…我們要作基督活的肢體，就需要由基督的元素來構成，使我們成爲新的構成，以建造基督的身體。

模成的聖別就是成形的聖別，將我們形成榮耀之基督的形像。（林後三18。）果樹裏面有生命成形的原則。…當聖別的靈聖別我們時，有成形的元素，將我們形成榮耀之基督的形像。這成形使我們成爲基督的彰顯。…得榮的聖別乃是完成的聖別，終極完成的聖別，藉着將我們的身體改變形狀，而救贖我們的身體。（腓三21。）我們卑賤並墮落的身體要蒙救贖，脫離疾病、輭弱、死亡、情慾和罪惡，使我們在榮耀裏完滿的成爲基督的彰顯。（羅八23。）這時，神的救恩和神的聖別，爲着完成神的經綸，就達到最高的層次。

神聖的聖別，從開始到結束，全然是作三一神具體化身的基督那終極完成、複合、賜生命、內住之靈的細緻工作。（李常受文集一九九三年第二册，二九五至二九八頁。）

參讀：那靈同我們的靈，第十一至十二篇。

WEEK 31 — DAY 3

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Morning Nourishment

Heb. 13:12 Therefore also Jesus, that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate.

1 Thes. 5:23 And the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

God’s economy is the intention of His heart’s desire, and God made this intention a purpose…[Sanctification] is the holding line in the carrying out of the divine economy…We say that sanctification is the holding line because every step of God’s economy in His work with us is to make us holy.

Today we all have been “hooked” by the [“fishing”] line of the divine sanctification. We were in the “ocean” of humanity, but this line reached us, and we have been hooked. Our being hooked will be consummated when we are transfigured. Then the line will be completed…Someone came and spoke something about Christ to us. There was a “hook” hidden in this one’s speaking, and a hook got into us. We were convicted, and we repented and believed. Then we were regenerated in order for us to continue on the holding line of the divine sanctification. (CWWL, 1993, vol. 2, “The Spirit with Our Spirit,” pp. 219, 221)

Todays Reading

God in eternity past made an economy, and in that economy He decided to have many sons. After He created man, man became fallen. Then God the Spirit came to sanctify man (1 Pet. 1:2). We were lost in Adam, in sin, and in death. We were in a heap of collapse, full of sin and death. But the Spirit came to seek us out, and He found us. Then He convicted us and stirred up our spirit to repent. This was our initial sanctification unto repentance (Luke 15:8-10). This seeking sanctification resulted in our repentance to bring us back to God (vv. 17-21). The redeeming sanctification, the positional sanctification, is through the blood of Christ (Heb. 13:12) to transfer us from Adam to Christ. This changed the place where we were.

Our regeneration is a kind of sanctification. Regeneration is the beginning of the dispositional sanctification to renew us from our spirit (2 Cor. 5:17)… This makes us, the sinners who were the enemies of God, sons of God (John 1:12-13). The renewing sanctification continues our dispositional sanctification by renewing our soul from our mind through all the parts of our soul (Rom. 12:2b; Eph. 4:23)…Our soul has three parts: the mind, emotion, and will. The transforming sanctification is the daily sanctification, which reconstitutes us with the element of Christ metabolically to make us a new constitution as a part of the organic Body of Christ (1 Cor. 3:12)…In order for us to be the living members of Christ, we need to be constituted with Christ’s element to make us a new constitution for the building up of the Body of Christ.

The conforming sanctification is the shaping sanctification to shape us in the image of the glorious Christ (2 Cor. 3:18). A fruit tree has the shaping principle of life within it…When the sanctifying Spirit sanctifies us, there is a shaping element to shape us into the image of the glorious Christ. This shaping makes us the expression of Christ. The glorifying sanctification is the consummating sanctification, the completing sanctification to redeem our body by transfiguring it (Phil. 3:21). Our vile and fallen body will be redeemed from sickness, from weakness, from death, and from lust and sinfulness to make us Christ’s expression in full and in glory (Rom. 8:23). At this point God’s salvation and God’s sanctification to carry out God’s economy have reached the highest level.

The divine sanctification, from its beginning to its ending, is altogether the fine work of the consummated, compound, life-giving, and indwelling Spirit of Christ, the embodiment of the Triune God. (CWWL, 1993, vol. 2, “The Spirit with Our Spirit,” pp. 222-224)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1993, vol. 2, “The Spirit with Our Spirit,” chs. 11—12