第六週 • 綱目

神長子基督的眾弟兄

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讀經：撒下七12上、14上，羅一3~4，八28~30，來二10~12，林前十五31、36

週　一

壹　『我必興起你…的後裔…，我要作他的父，他要作我的子』—撒下七12上、14上：

一　這話符合保羅在羅馬一章三至四節的話，論到基督是大衛的後裔，在復活裏，在祂的人性裏被標出為神的兒子。

二　撒下七章的內在意義，乃是三一神在祂經過過程並終極完成的三一裏，將祂自己作到祂所揀選的人裏面。

三　按希伯來一章五節下半（那裏引用了撒下七章十四節上半），大衛的後裔就是基督作神的長子，兼有神性和人性—來一5上、6。

四　撒下七章十二節上半『你…的後裔』和十四節上半『我的子』，含示大衛的後裔要成為神的兒子，也就是說，人的後裔要成為神聖的子—羅一3~4。

五　這含示神在祂經綸裏的心意，是要使祂自己成為人，使人在生命和性情上，但不在神格上，成為神。

六　關於大衛的後裔成為神的兒子，這話在新約裏繼續且強有力的發展—太二二41~45，啟二二16。

週　二

貳　在行傳十三章保羅說，從大衛的後裔中，『神已經照着所應許的，給以色列帶來一位救主，就是耶穌』（23），並且『神已經…完全應驗〔這應許〕，叫耶穌復活了，正如詩篇第二篇上所記：「你是我的兒子，我今日生了你」』（徒十三33）：

一　在行傳十三章三十二至三十三節我們看見，基督作為神的長子，乃是神向祖宗的應許，並且神藉着叫耶穌復活，應驗這應許。

二　復活對那人耶穌乃是出生：

1　在復活裏，祂被神生為許多弟兄中的長子—羅八29。

2　祂從永遠就是神的獨生子—約一18，三16。

3　成為肉體以後，祂藉着復活，在人性裏被神生為神的長子—來一6。

三　保羅能在詩篇二篇七節看見主的復活：『你是我的兒子，我今日生了你』：

1　保羅把『今日』一辭應用到主復活的日子。

2　這就是說，基督的復活就是祂生為神的長子。

3　人子耶穌藉着從死人中復活，生為神的兒子；所以，神使耶穌從死人中復活，乃是將祂生為神的長子—徒十三33。

四　神的獨生子藉着成為肉體穿上人性，成了神人（約一14、18，路一35）；然後這神人在復活裏由神而生，成為神的長子（徒十三33，來一6，羅八29）：

1　神的獨生子在成為肉體以前，沒有屬人的性情，只有神聖的性情。

2　神的長子在復活裏，有神聖的性情，也有屬人的性情。

五　基督藉着祂的復活，生為神的長子，同時祂所有的信徒也生為神許多的兒子—彼前一3，來二10：

1　在神許多兒子當中，只有長子是神的獨生子—彼前一3，來二10。

2　這位神的獨生子在祂復活的人性裏，也是神的長子—羅八29。

3　神的長子兼有神性和人性，我們這些作神許多兒子的信徒，也兼具屬人的性情和神聖的性情—彼後一4。

週　三

叁　『大衛的後裔成了神的兒子』說出基督藉着復活，被標出為神長子的過程—撒下七12~14上，羅一3~4，太二二45，啟二二16：

一　保羅說他被分別出來，歸於那論到神的兒子之神的福音，這指明神的福音乃是兒子名分的福音，為着基督身體的實際—羅一1、3~4，八28~30，十二5。

二　撒下七章十二至十四節上半用豫表所說的豫言，在羅馬一章三至四節得了應驗，將神成為人，為要使人在生命和性情上（但不在神格上）成為神的這個奧祕揭示出來：

1　基督在祂的神性裏是神的獨生子（約一18），藉着成為肉體，穿上與神性毫無關係的肉體（就是人性）；在祂的人性裏，祂不是神的兒子：

a　耶穌在祂的人性裏是大衛的後裔，是屬於神舊造（舊人—羅六6）的人性後裔—西一15下。

b　當基督在祂的人性裏以大衛後裔的身分死在十字架上時，祂將舊人連同舊造釘死在十字架上，廢除了魔鬼，在肉體中定罪了罪，並審判了世界—羅六6，來二14，羅八3，林後五21，約三14，十二31。

2　在復活裏，祂的人性成為神聖的，得以『子化』，意思是說，祂不僅在祂的神性裏是神的兒子，也在祂的人性裏成為神的兒子—羅一3~4：

a　在復活裏祂被標出為神的兒子，成為神的長子，兼有神性和人性—八29。

b　釘十字架乃是使祂被標出、得榮耀並復活最好的路：

㈠  一粒種子若埋在土裏死了，至終就會發芽、生長並開花，因為種子生命的作用在種子死的時候就同時得以發動—約十二23~24。

㈡  基督死的時候，在祂裏面的神性（就是聖別的靈）起了作用，在復活裏，祂就『開花』成了神的兒子。

㈢  就着祂的肉體說，基督被釘十字架，但就着祂的靈說，祂得了加強，非常活躍，而將神性加到基督的人性裏，使其成為神聖的；這就是標出的意思，這也就是子化—彼前三18。

c　基督的人性，被聖別的靈（就是基督的神性）所標出、標明、拔高；如此，基督的人性就被拔高而進入神性；這也就是說，基督在祂的人性裏再生一次，成為神的長子—徒十三33：

㈠  基督是第一個在復活裏重生者—羅八29：

⑴     祂的人性是在祂母親腹中生的；那是屬人的，不能看作是神的兒子，而是人子。

⑵     基督的復活拔高了祂的人性，而將祂的神性加到這人性裏；因此藉着這復活，祂的人性再生一次，成為神兒子的一部分。

週　四

㈡  原型是神的長子，複製品是神的眾子，就是原型的肢體，成為祂的身體，終極完成於新耶路撒冷—彼前一3。

肆　『大衛的後裔成了神的兒子』說出我們藉着復活，被標出為神眾子的過程—來二10~11：

一　基督已經被標出為神的兒子，但我們仍在被標出的過程中，就是在得以子化，被作成神的過程中—羅八28~29。

二　神兒子的生命已經栽種到我們的靈裏—10節：

1　我們現今就像種在土裏的種子，必須經過死而復活的過程—約十二24~25。

2　這使外面的人被銷毀，卻使內裏的生命得以長大、發展，至終開花；這就是復活—林前十五31、36，林後四10~12、16。

3　我們越在生命裏長大，使我們在生命裏被變化，就越被標出為神的兒子：

a　我們要長大，就需要有轉向主的心，並有純一向着祂的心—三16、18，太五8，提後二22。

b　我們要長大，就需要得着話中純淨之奶和乾糧的餧養—彼前二2，來五12~14。

c　我們要長大，就需要有恩賜之肢體的澆灌—林前三6下，約七37~39，箴十一25。

d　藉着我們環境中一切的事故，並我們的失敗，我們醜陋的己就被拆毀，使主有更多的機會在我們裏面作工—羅八28~29。

e　有一天這個過程要完成，我們在靈、魂、體裏都要永遠與神的長子基督一樣—約壹三2，羅八19、23，詩歌七六四首第二節。

週　五

三　在復活裏，基督在祂的人性裏被標出為神的兒子；藉着這樣的復活，我們也在被標出為神兒子的過程中—羅八11：

1　我們被標出、得以子化、被作成神的過程，乃是復活的過程，有四個主要的方面—聖別、變化、模成和得榮—六22，十二2，八29~30。

2　被標出之過程的關鍵是復活，就是內住的基督作為我們靈裏興起的靈，標出的靈，生命的能力—約十一25，羅八10~11，徒二24，林前十五36，五4：

a　我們急需學習如何照着靈而行，以享受並經歷標出的靈—羅八4、14。

b　我們越接觸那靈，就越被聖別、變化、榮化，而在生命和性情上（但不在神格上）成為神，好建造基督的身體，以終極完成新耶路撒冷—林前十二3，羅十12，八15~16，加四6。

週　六

伍　神的旨意是要產生祂長子的許多弟兄，使祂得着彰顯：

一　羅馬八章二十九節告訴我們，神豫定我們模成神兒子的形像，使祂兒子『在許多弟兄中作長子』。

二　長子有許多弟兄，這是奇妙的事實—太二八10，約二十17。

三　基督是長子，具有神性和人性；我們是祂的許多弟兄，也具有人性和神性；長子和許多兒子都在復活裏由同一位父神所生。

四　希伯來二章十一節說，『那聖別人的，和那些被聖別的，都是出於一；因這緣故，祂稱他們為弟兄，並不以為恥。』

五　長子是原型；我們是大量生產；基督是模型、模子、榜樣，神已將我們放在祂裏面，使我們被模成祂的形像。

六　我們作為祂的許多弟兄，現今是在成熟的過程中，就是在模成祂的形像。

七　希伯來二章十二節引用詩篇二十二篇二十二節說，『我要向我的弟兄宣告你的名，在召會中我要歌頌你。』

八　照着希伯來二章十二節，召會是神長子的弟兄團體的組成，有兩種性情和兩種生命結合並調和在一起。

Week Six

Brothers of Christ as the Firstborn Son of God

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Hymns: 948

Scripture Reading: 2 Sam. 7:12a, 14a; Rom. 1:3-4; 8:28-30; Heb. 2:10-12; 1 Cor. 15:31, 36

§ Day 1

I. "I will raise up your seed… I will be his Father, and he will be My son"—2 Sam. 7:12a, 14a:

A. This word corresponds with Pauls in Romans 1:3-4 concerning Christ as the seed of David being designated the Son of God in His humanity in resurrection.

B. The intrinsic significance of 2 Samuel 7 is that the Triune God is working Himself in His processed and consummated Trinity into His chosen people.

C. According to Hebrews 1:5b, which quotes 2 Samuel 7:14a, Davids seed is Christ as Gods firstborn Son, who has both divinity and humanity—Heb. 1:5a, 6.

D. Your seed in 2 Samuel 7:12a and My son in verse 14a imply that the seed of David would become the Son of God, that is, that a human seed would become a divine Son—Rom. 1:3-4.

E. This implies that Gods intention in His economy is to make Himself man in order to make man God in life and nature but not in the Godhead.

F. This word concerning the seed of David becoming the Son of God is continued and developed strongly in the New Testament—Matt. 22:41- 45; Rev. 22:16.

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II. In Acts 13 Paul says that from Davids seed "God, according to promise, brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus" (v. 23), and that "God has fully fulfilled this promise…in raising up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, You are My Son; this day have I begotten You" (v. 33):

A. In verses 32 and 33 we see that Christ as the firstborn Son of God was promised to the fathers, and God fulfilled this promise by raising up Jesus.

B. Resurrection was a birth to the man Jesus:

1. He was begotten by God in His resurrection to be the firstborn Son of God among many brothers—Rom. 8:29.

2. He was the only begotten Son of God from eternity—John 1:18; 3:16.

3. After His incarnation, through resurrection He was begotten by God in His humanity to be Gods firstborn Son—Heb. 1:6.

C. Paul was able to see the Lords resurrection in Psalm 2:7: "You are My Son; / Today I have begotten You":

1. Paul applies the word today to the day of the Lords resurrection.

2. This means that Christs resurrection was His birth as the firstborn Son of God. 

3. Jesus, the Son of Man, was born to be the Son of God through being raised from the dead; therefore, Gods raising up Jesus from the dead was His begetting of Him to be His firstborn Son—Acts 13:33.

D. Through incarnation Gods only begotten Son put on humanity and became the God-man (John 1:14, 18; Luke 1:35); then in resurrection this God-man was born of God to be His Firstborn (Acts 13:33; Heb. 1:6; Rom. 8:29):

1. Before incarnation Gods only begotten Son did not have the human nature; He had only the divine nature.

2. In resurrection Gods firstborn Son has the human nature as well as the divine nature.

E. Through His resurrection Christ was born to be the firstborn Son, and at the same time all His believers were born to be the many sons of God—1 Pet. 1:3; Heb. 2:10:

1. Among these many sons, only the Firstborn is Gods only begotten Son—1 Pet. 1:3; Heb. 2:10.

2. This only begotten Son of God, in His resurrected humanity, is also the firstborn Son of God—Rom. 8:29.

3. The Firstborn has both divinity and humanity, and we, His believers as Gods many sons, also possess both the human nature and the divine nature—2 Pet. 1:4.

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III. The seed of David becoming the Son of God speaks of the process of Christs being designated the firstborn Son of God by resurrection—2 Sam. 7:12-14a; Rom. 1:3-4; Matt. 22:45; Rev. 22:16:

A. Paul says that he was separated unto the gospel of God concerning Gods Son, which indicates that the gospel of God is a gospel of sonship for the reality of the Body of Christ—Rom. 1:1, 3-4; 8:28-30; 12:5.

B. Romans 1:3-4 is the fulfillment of the prophecy in typology in 2 Samuel 7:12-14a, unveiling the mystery of God becoming man to make man God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead:

1. By incarnation, Christ, the only begotten Son of God in His divinity (John 1:18), put on the flesh, the human nature, which had nothing to do with divinity; in His humanity, He was not the Son of God:

a. Jesus in His humanity was the seed of David, a human seed belonging to the old creation (the old man—Rom. 6:6) of God—Col. 1:15b.

b. When Christ died on the cross as the seed of David in His humanity, He crucified the old man with the old creation, destroyed the devil, condemned sin in the flesh, and judged the world—Rom. 6:6; Heb. 2:14; Rom. 8:3; 2 Cor. 5:21; John 3:14; 12:31.

2. In resurrection His humanity was deified, "sonized," meaning that He became the Son of God not only in His divinity but also in His humanity— Rom. 1:3-4:

a. In resurrection He was designated the Son of God, made the firstborn Son of God, possessing both divinity and humanity—8:29.

b. Crucifixion was the best way for Him to be designated, glorified, resurrected:

1) If a seed dies by being buried in the soil, it will eventually sprout, grow, and blossom, because the operation of the seeds life is activated simultaneously with its death—John 12:23-24.

2) The divinity, the Spirit of holiness, in Christ became operative in His death, and in resurrection He "blossomed" as the Son of God.

3) According to His flesh, He was crucified, but according to His Spirit, He was made strong, very active, to put divinity into the humanity of Christ to make it divine; this is what it means to designate, and this is to sonize—1 Pet. 3:18.

c. The humanity of Christ was designated, marked out, uplifted, by the Spirit of holiness, the divinity of Christ; in this way the humanity of Christ was uplifted into divinity; that is, Christ was begotten again in His humanity to be the firstborn Son of God—Acts 13:33:

1) Christ was the first One regenerated in resurrection—Rom. 8:29:

a) His humanity was born in His mothers womb; that was human and could not be considered the Son of God but the Son of Man.

b) Christs resurrection uplifted His humanity and put His divinity into this humanity; so by this resurrection His humanity was born again to be a part of the Son of God.
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2) The prototype is the firstborn Son of God, and the reproduction is the many sons of God, the members of the prototype to be His Body, which consummates in the New Jerusalem—1 Pet. 1:3.
IV. The seed of David becoming the Son of God speaks of the process of our being designated the many sons of God by resurrection—Heb. 2:10-11:

A. Christ has already been designated the Son of God, but we are still in the process of designation, the process of being sonized, deified—Rom. 8:28-29.

B. The life of the Son of God has been implanted into our spirit—v. 10:

1. Now we, like the seed that is sown into the earth, must pass through the process of death and resurrection—John 12:24-25.

2. This causes the outer man to be consumed, but it enables the inner life to grow, to develop, and ultimately, to blossom; this is resurrection—1 Cor. 15:31, 36; 2 Cor. 4:10-12, 16.

3. The more we grow in life for our transformation in life, the more we are designated the sons of God:

a. In order to grow, we need a heart turned to the Lord and a heart that is pure toward Him—3:16, 18; Matt. 5:8; 2 Tim. 2:22.

b. In order to grow, we need to feed on the guileless milk and the solid food of the word—1 Pet. 2:2; Heb. 5:12-14.

c. In order to grow, we need the watering of the gifted members—1 Cor. 3:6b; John 7:37-39; Prov. 11:25.

d. Through all the things in our environment and by our failures, our ugly self is torn down, and the Lord has a greater opportunity to work within us—Rom. 8:28-29.

e. One day this process will be completed, and for eternity we will be the same as Christ, Gods firstborn Son, in our spirit, soul, and body— 1 John 3:2; Rom. 8:19, 23; Hymns, #948, stanza 2.

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C. In resurrection Christ in His humanity was designated the Son of God, and by means of such a resurrection we also are in the process of being designated sons of God—Rom. 8:11:

1. The process of our being designated, sonized, deified, is the process of resurrection with four main aspects—sanctification, transformation, conformation, and glorification—6:22; 12:2; 8:29-30.

2. The key to the process of designation is resurrection, which is the indwelling Christ as the rising-up Spirit, the designating Spirit, the power of life in our spirit—John 11:25; Rom. 8:10-11; Acts 2:24; 1 Cor. 15:36; 5:4:

a. We urgently need to learn how to walk according to the spirit, to enjoy and experience the designating Spirit—Rom. 8:4, 14.

b. The more we touch the Spirit, the more we are sanctified, transformed, and glorified to become God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead for the building up of the Body of Christ to consummate the New Jerusalem—1 Cor. 12:3; Rom. 10:12; 8:15-16; Gal. 4:6.

§ Day 6

V. Gods purpose is to produce many brothers of His firstborn Son for His expression:

A. Romans 8:29 tells us that God predestinated us to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He may be "the Firstborn among many brothers."

B. It is a wonderful fact that the Firstborn has many brothers—Matt. 28:10; John 20:17.

C. Christ is the Firstborn with divinity and humanity, and we are His many brothers with humanity and divinity; both the Firstborn and the many sons are born of the same Father God in resurrection.

D. Hebrews 2:11 says, "He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of One, for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brothers."

E. The Firstborn is the prototype, and we are the mass production; Christ is the model, the mold, the pattern, and God has put us into Him so that we may be molded into His image.

F. As His many brothers, we are now in the process of maturity, being conformed to His image.

G. Hebrews 2:12, a quotation from Psalm 22:22, says, "I will declare Your name to My brothers; in the midst of the church I will sing hymns of praise to You."

H. According to Hebrews 2:12, the church is a corporate composition of the brothers of the firstborn Son of God with two natures and two lives combined and mingled.