第六週 • 週一

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晨興餧養

撒下七12~14上   …我必興起你腹中所出的後裔接續你，我也必堅定他的國。他必為我的名建造殿宇；我必堅定他的國位，直到永遠。我要作他的父，他要作我的子。

撒下七章是個豫言，豫先說到神自己要在祂新約的子民中間建造召會。基督是真正建造神的家、神的殿的那一位。基督也是召會（神的家）在其中並憑以得着建造的元素。在本章神似乎是對大衛說，『大衛，到目前為止，你仍是空虛的。不要認為你該作些甚麼好為我建殿。你必須領悟，你需要我將自己作為父、子、靈建造到你裏面。這樣你就有家，那個家也是我的家。』

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。因此，撒下七章就是說到三一神將祂自己作到我們裏面，把我們作成祂的家（基督同召會），並產生後裔（包羅萬有的基督）。…基督是家，基督也是後裔。基督是元素，基督也是結果；基督乃是一切（撒母耳記生命讀經，一九九頁）。

信息選讀

基督乃是神的家和我們的家。因此，我們與神有一個相互的住處。基督住在我們裏面，我們也住在祂裏面。祂與我們，我們與祂，調和在一起成為一個實體。宇宙在等待這個。羅馬八章告訴我們，整個宇宙正熱切的等待，要看見三一神與三部分人之調和的彰顯；這是藉着祂的建造，這建造乃是憑祂自己、用祂自己、在祂自己裏面並為着祂自己而有的。

作為基督身體的召會，藉着屬靈新陳代謝的過程而有的生機建造，實際上就是撒下七章十二至十四節上半，耶和華用豫表對大衛所說的豫言。…惟有藉着這過程，人性（人的後裔）纔能成為神聖的（神的兒子）。當神告訴大衛，他的後裔要作神的兒子，神是用豫表對大衛豫言這事。這指明人的後裔要成為神聖的子。這就是今天我們正在經歷的。因此，我們這些在基督裏的信徒，乃是一班特別、奇特的子民。在神眼中，我們是神的珍寶。

在十二至十四節上半，…論到『你…的後裔』和『我的子』，指明大衛的後裔要成為神的兒子，就是人的後裔要成為神的兒子。…這個思想在新約有非常強的延續，特別是在羅馬一章三至四節，那裏保羅說，『論到祂的兒子，我們的主耶穌基督：按肉體說，是從大衛後裔生的，按聖別的靈說，是從死人的復活，以大能標出為神的兒子。』…這兩節經文啟示：一面，基督是大衛的後裔；另一面，祂這位大衛的後裔，已被標出為神的兒子。我們比較這兩處神的話時，就看見舊約和新約都說到大衛的後裔成為神的兒子這件事。

大衛有心為神建殿，但神向大衛指明，這不是他所需要的，也不是神所需要的。神告訴大衛，祂要建造一位成為大衛的後裔，這後裔要稱為神的兒子。這後裔兼有神性和人性。希伯來一章五節指明，這是指基督作神的長子。不僅如此，我們也已經看見，羅馬一章三至四節與撒下七章十二至十四節上半相符，告訴我們在復活裏，大衛的後裔被標出為神的兒子。撒下七章十二至十四節上半和羅馬一章三至四節這二處經節的內在意義，是向我們啟示一個兼有人性和神性的人位（撒母耳記生命讀經，一九九至二○○、二一三、二○一至二○二、二○四至二○五頁）。

參讀：撒母耳記生命讀經，第二十四至二十六篇；李常受文集一九九三年第一冊，二七五至二七八頁。

WEEK 6 — DAY 1

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Morning Nourishment

2 Sam. 7:12-14a …I will raise up your seed after you, which will come forth from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. It is he who will build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be his Father, and he will be My son…

Second Samuel 7 is a prophecy predicting that the church will be built up by God Himself among His people in the New Testament. Christ is the One who actually builds God’s house, God’s temple. Christ is also the element in which and with which the church as God’s house is built. In this chapter God seemed to be saying to David, “David, thus far you are still vacant and empty. Do not think that you should do something to build a house for Me. You need to realize that you need Me to build Myself into you as the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. Then you will have a house, and that house will also be My house.”

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. Therefore, 2 Samuel 7 is a chapter on the Triune God working Himself into us to make us His home (Christ with the church) and to produce a seed (the all- inclusive Christ)…Christ is the house, and Christ is also the seed. Christ is the element, and Christ is also the issue. Christ is everything. (Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, pp. 165-166)

Todays Reading

Christ is both God’s house and our house. Hence, we and God have a mutual abode. Christ abides in us, and we abide in Him. He and we, we and He, are mingled together as one entity. The universe is waiting for this. Romans 8 tells us that the whole universe is eagerly awaiting the expression of the Triune God mingled with the tripartite man through His building, which is by Himself, with Himself, in Himself, and for Himself.

[The] organic building up of the church as the Body of Christ through the process of spiritual metabolism is actually what Jehovah prophesied to David in the way of typology in 2 Samuel 7:12-14a…It is only through this process that something human—the human seed—can become divine—the sons of God. In typology God prophesied to David regarding this when He told David that his seed would be God’s son. This indicates that a human seed would become a divine son. This is what we are experiencing today. Therefore, we, the believers in Christ, are a very particular and peculiar people. We are a precious treasure in the eyes of God.

In 2 Samuel 7:12-14a…the word concerning “your seed” and “My son” indicates that the seed of David would become the Son of God, that the seed of a man would become God’s Son. This thought is continued very strongly in the New Testament, particularly in Romans 1:3 and 4. Here Paul says, “Concerning His Son, who came out of the seed of David according to the flesh, who was designated the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness out of the resurrection of the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.”…These verses reveal, on the one hand, that Christ is the seed of David and, on the other hand, that He, the seed of David, has been designated the Son of God. When we compare these two portions of the Word, we see that both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament we have the matter of the seed of David becoming the Son of God.

David had the heart to build a house for God, but God indicated to David that this was neither what he needed nor what God needed. God told David that He would build One to be David’s seed and that this seed would be called God’s Son. This seed would be both divine and human. Hebrews 1:5 indicates that this refers to Christ as God’s firstborn Son. Furthermore, as we have seen, Romans 1:3-4, which corresponds to 2 Samuel 7:12-14a, tells us that in resurrection the seed of David was designated the Son of God. In their intrinsic significance 2 Samuel 7:12-14a and Romans 1:3-4 reveal to us a human and divine person. (Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, pp. 166, 176, 167-169)

Further Reading: Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, msgs. 24—26; CWWL, 1993, vol. 1, pp. 227-228