第四週 • 綱目

藉着活在神的國作為神聖種類的範圍裏，過神人的生活

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讀經：可一15，約三3、5~6，一12~13，彼後一4，約壹三1

週　一

壹　因着我們已經由神而生，我們就是神的種類；也就是說，我們在生命和性情上（但不在神格上）是神—約三3、5~8。

貳　神人有神聖的權利，有分於神的種類—3、5~6節，十八36。

週　二

叁　作為在基督裏的信徒，我們過神人的生活—可一15，約十四17下、20，羅八9上、10，加五25：

一　在基督裏，神構造到人裏面，人也構造到神裏面；神與人調和在一起，成了一個實體，稱為神人—太一21、23，路一35，多二13，提前二5。

二　眾神人，就是神的眾子，乃是第一個神人基督的複製和繼續—約十二24，來二10，羅八29。

三　神人乃是由神所生，有分於神的生命和性情，在神的生命和性情上與神成為一，因而彰顯神的人—約一12~13，三15，彼後一4，林前六17。

四　神人由神構成，有神作他的生命、性情和一切；神人乃是人而神者，神而人者—弗三16~17上。

五　基督的人性生活乃是人活神，在由神聖屬性所充滿、調和、並浸透的人性美德裏彰顯神的屬性—路一26~35，七11~17，十25~37，十九1~10。

週　三

六　作為第一個神人的繁殖與複製，我們該過與祂所過同樣的生活：

1　主的神人生活為我們的神人生活設立了模型—被釘十字架以活神，好使神在人性裏得彰顯—加二20。

2　主耶穌不是活出一種努力要屬靈、聖別並得勝的生活；祂乃是活出一種完全照着神新約經綸，並為着神新約經綸的生活。

3　在四卷福音書裏，我們看見耶穌過神人的生活；在使徒行傳裏，我們看見門徒也過這樣的生活。

4　基督過一種苦難的生活，受苦的生活；現今我們是祂的同夥，過與祂同樣的生活；當我們為基督受苦，我們的苦難就被神算為基督的苦難—來三15。

5　我們必須憑基督之靈全備的供應，否認己，模成基督的死，並顯大祂—太十六24，腓三10，一19~21上。

6　過神人生活的那一位，如今乃是那靈，在我們裏面並藉着我們活着；我們必須棄絕修養自己和建立天然的人，單單讓這一位充滿我們並佔有我們，好使我們個人的並團體的在祂的身體召會中，活祂並彰顯祂—弗三16~19，一22~23。

週　四

肆　作為在基督裏的信徒，我們活在神的國裏—羅十四17：

一　神的國就是神自己—可一15，太六33。

二　神的國乃是神在基督裏作神聖生命連同其一切活動的總和—約十一25，十10下，十四6。

三　神的國乃是神聖生命的範圍，讓這生命行動、工作、治理、管治，使生命能完成其目的。

四　神的國是由神的生命所構成的生機體，作為讓祂得以治理的生命範圍，在其中祂以祂的生命掌權，並在神聖生命裏彰顯祂自己這神聖的三一—十五1~8、16、26。

週　五

五　神的國是一個範圍，不僅是神聖管治的範圍，也是神聖種類的範圍，在其中有一切神聖的事物—三3、5~6，十八36：

1　在約翰三章，神的國指神的種類，過於指神的掌權。

2　神成為人，進到人的種類裏；而人在生命和性情上（但不在神格上）成為神，進到神聖的種類裏—一1、12~14，羅八3，一3~4。

3　要進入神聖種類的範圍，我們就必須從神而生，得着神聖的生命和神聖的性情—約一12~13，三3、5~6、15，彼後一4：

a　神造人，不是照着人的類，乃是按着神的形像並照着祂的樣式，成為神的類，神的種類—創一26。

b　信徒藉着重生由神而生，成為祂的兒女，有祂的生命和性情，但無分於祂的神格；他們比亞當更從神類—約一12~13：

㈠  亞當只有神聖生命外面的樣子，而沒有神聖生命的實際。

㈡  我們是基督裏的信徒和神的兒女，有神聖生命的實際，而且全人正被變化並模成主的形像—林後三18，羅十二2，八29。

㈢  我們的第二次出生，重生，使我們得進神的國，成為神的種類—約三3、5~6。

㈣  我們已經重生成為神類；我們既是神的兒子，我們就是神類，神的種類—羅八19，來二10。

㈤  神所有的兒女都是在神聖種類的神聖範圍裏—約一12~13，三3、5。

㈥  信徒是在神聖種類裏（也就是在神國裏）的神人—約壹三1上，約三3、5。

六　我們憑生命的感覺活在神的國這神聖生命的範圍裏—羅八6。

七　在召會中，我們正活在今天神的國裏；羅馬十四章十七節有力的證明，今天的召會生活就是國度。

週　六

八　我們運用我們這人新造的那一部分—基督自己作為神國的元素—我們就活在神的國裏。

九　得勝者要承受基督和神的國，好進入諸天之國的實現裏—提後四18。

伍　在約翰福音裏，我們看見信徒活在神聖種類範圍裏的許多方面—一16，十五4上、9、11，四23~24，十四2、20、23，十七22~24：

一　『從祂的豐滿裏我們都領受了，而且恩上加恩』—一16。　

二　『我所賜的水，要在他裏面成為泉源，直湧入永遠的生命』—四14下。

三　『那喫我的人，也要因我活着』—六57下。

四　『若有人服事我，就當跟從我；我在那裏，服事我的人也要在那裏。若有人服事我，我父必尊重他』—十二26。

五　『在我父的家裏，有許多住處；…我去是為你們豫備地方』—十四2。

六　『到那日，你們就知道我在我父裏面，你們在我裏面，我也在你們裏面』—20節。

七　『人若愛我，就必遵守我的話，我父也必愛他，並且我們要到他那裏去，同他安排住處』—23節。

八　『你們要住在我裏面，我也住在你們裏面』—十五4上。

九　『你們若住在我裏面，我的話也住在你們裏面，凡你們所願意的，祈求就給你們成就』—7節。

十　『我愛你們，正如父愛我一樣；你們要住在我的愛裏』—9節。

十一　『這些事我已經對你們說了，是要叫我的喜樂可以在你們裏面，並叫你們的喜樂可以滿足』—11節。

十二　『我將這些事對你們說了，是要叫你們在我裏面有平安；』『我將我的平安賜給你們』—十六33上，十四27中。

十三　『聖父阿，求你在你的名，就是你所賜給我的名裏，保守他們，使他們成為一，像我們一樣』—十七11下。

十四　『你所賜給我的榮耀，我已賜給他們，使他們成為一，正如我們是一一樣』—22節。

十五　『我在他們裏面，你在我裏面，使他們被成全成為一』—23節上。

十六　『父阿，我在那裏，願你所賜給我的人，也同我在那裏，叫他們看見你所賜給我的榮耀』—24節上。

Week Four

Living the Life of a God-man by Living in the Kingdom of God as the Realm of the Divine Species

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Hymns: E947

Scripture Reading: Mark 1:15; John 3:3, 5-6; 1:12-13; 2 Pet. 1:4; 1 John 3:1

§ Day 1

I. Because we have been born of God, we are Gods species; that is, we are God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead—John 3:3, 5-8.

II. The God-men have the divine right to participate in Gods species—vv. 3, 5-6; 18:36.

§ Day 2

III. As believers in Christ, we are living the life of a God-man— Mark 1:15; John 14:17b, 20; Rom. 8:9a, 10; Gal. 5:25:

A. In Christ God has been constituted into man, man has been constituted into God, and God and man have been mingled together to be one entity, which is called the God-man—Matt. 1:21, 23; Luke 1:35; Titus 2:13; 1 Tim. 2:5.

B. The God-men, the sons of God, are the duplication and continuation of Christ, the first God-man—John 12:24; Heb. 2:10; Rom. 8:29.

C. A God-man is one who has been born of God and partakes of Gods life and nature, becoming one with God in His life and nature and thereby expressing Him—John 1:12-13; 3:15; 2 Pet. 1:4; 1 Cor. 6:17.

D. A God-man is constituted with God, having God as his life, nature, and everything; a God-man is man yet God and God yet man—Eph. 3:16-17a.

E. Christs human living was man living God to express the attributes of God in the human virtues, which were filled, mingled, and saturated with the divine attributes—Luke 1:26-35; 7:11-17; 10:25-37; 19:1-10.

§ Day 3

F. As the reproduction and duplication of the first God-man, we should live  the same kind of life that He lived:

1. The Lords God-man living set up a model for our God-man living—being crucified to live God so that God might be expressed in humanity—Gal. 2:20.

2. The Lord Jesus did not live a life of trying to be spiritual, holy, and victorious; He lived a life that was fully according to and for Gods New Testament economy.

3. In the four Gospels we see Jesus living the life of a God-man, and in Acts we see the disciples also living such a life.

4. Christ lived a life of suffering, a suffering life; now we are His partners living the same kind of life; when we suffer for Christ, our sufferings are counted by God as the sufferings of Christ—Heb. 3:14.

5. We must deny ourselves, be conformed to Christs death, and magnify Him by the bountiful supply of His Spirit—Matt. 16:24; Phil. 3:10; 1:19-21a.

6. The One who lived the life of a God-man is now the Spirit living in us and through us; we must reject self-cultivation and the building up of our natural man and allow nothing other than this One to fill us and occupy us so that we may live Him and express Him personally and corporately in the church, which is His Body—Eph. 3:16-19; 1:22-23.

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IV. As believers in Christ, we are living in the kingdom of God— Rom. 14:17:

A. The kingdom of God is God Himself—Mark 1:15; Matt. 6:33.

B. The kingdom of God is God in Christ being the totality of the divine life with all its activities—John 11:25; 10:10b; 14:6.

C. The kingdom of God is the realm of the divine life for this life to move, to work, to rule, and to govern that life may accomplish its purpose.

D. The kingdom of God is an organism constituted with Gods life as the realm of life for His ruling, in which He reigns by His life and expresses Himself as the Divine Trinity in the divine life—15:1-8, 16, 26.

§ Day 5

E. The kingdom of God is a realm, not only of the divine dominion but also of the divine species, in which are all the divine things—3:3, 5-6; 18:36:

1. In John 3 the kingdom of God refers more to the species of God than to the reign of God.

2. God became man to enter into the human species, and man becomes God in life and nature but not in the Godhead to enter into the realm of the divine species—1:1, 12-14; Rom. 8:3; 1:3-4.

3. In order to enter into the realm of the divine species, we need to be born of God to have the divine life and the divine nature—John 1:12-13; 3:3, 5-6, 15; 2 Pet. 1:4:

a. God created man not according to mans kind but in His image and according to His likeness to be Gods kind, Gods species—Gen. 1:26.

b. The believers, who are born of God by regeneration to be His children in His life and nature but not in His Godhead, are more Gods kind than Adam was—John 1:12-13:

⑴ Adam had only the outward appearance without the inward reality of the divine life.

⑵ We, the believers in Christ and the children of God, have the reality of the divine life, and we are being transformed and conformed to the Lords image in our entire being—2 Cor. 3:18; Rom. 12:2; 8:29.

⑶ Our second birth, regeneration, caused us to enter into the kingdom of God to become the species of God—John 3:3, 5-6.

⑷ We have been regenerated to be Godkind; as Gods sons, we are Gods kind, Gods species—Rom. 8:19; Heb. 2:10.

⑸ All the children of God are in the divine realm of the divine species— John 1:12-13; 3:3, 5.

⑹ The believers are God-men in the divine species, that is, in the kingdom of God—1 John 3:1a; John 3:3, 5.

F. We live in the kingdom of God as the realm of the divine life by the sense of life—Rom. 8:6.

G. In the church, we are living in the kingdom of God today; Romans 14:17 is a strong proof that todays church life is the kingdom.

§ Day 6

H. When we exercise that part of us which is the new creation—Christ Himself as the element of the kingdom of God—we are living in the kingdom of God.

I. The overcomers will inherit the kingdom of Christ and of God so that they can enter into the manifestation of the kingdom of the heavens—2 Tim. 4:18.

V. In the Gospel of John we see many aspects of the believers living in the realm of the divine species—1:16; 15:4a, 9, 11; 4:23-24; 14:2, 20, 23; 17:22-24:

A. "Of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace"—1:16.

B. "The water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into eternal life"—4:14b.

C. "He who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me"—6:57b.

D. "If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there also My servant will be. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him"— 12:26.

E. "In My Fathers house are many abodes…I go to prepare a place for you"—14:2.

F. "In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you"—v. 20.

G. "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make an abode with him"—v. 23.

H. "Abide in Me and I in you"—15:4a.

I. "If you abide in Me and My words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you"—v. 7.

J. "As the Father has loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love"— v. 9.

K. "These things I have spoken to you that My joy may be in you and that your joy may be made full"—v. 11.

L. "These things I have spoken to you that in Me you may have peace"; "My peace I give to you"—16:33a; 14:27b.

M. "Holy Father, keep them in Your name, which You have given to Me, that they may be one even as We are"—17:11b.

N. "The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, even as We are one"—v. 22.

O. "I in them, and You in Me, that they may be perfected into one"—v. 23a.

P. "Father, concerning that which You have given Me, I desire that they also may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory"—v. 24a.