第二週 • 週五

晨興餧養

西一18『祂也是召會身體的頭；祂是元始，是從死人中復活的首生者，使祂可以在萬有中居首位。』

林前十二 12~13『就如身體是一個，卻有許多肢體，而且身體上一切的肢體雖多，仍是一個身體，基督也是這
                                樣。因爲我們不拘是猶太人或希利尼人，是爲奴的或自主的，都已經在一位靈裏受浸，成了一
                               個身體，且都得以喝一位靈。』

     照着歌羅西三章十至十一節，在新人裏，基督是一切，又在一切之內。這就是說，祂是新人一切的肢體，又在一切肢體之內。我們也許想，召會作基督的身體，怎能是基督，基督又怎能是新人一切的肢體。在我們的經歷中，這在於是誰活着。我們若單憑自己活，我們就不是基督。我們若活基督，讓基督活在我們裏面，那麼我們就活在祂裏面，並且我們就是基督。…基督徒的生活該是這樣（一九九○年秋全時間訓練信息合輯，一六四至一六五頁）。

信息選讀

     我們在主的恢復裏，不該在意無關重要的事，或被道理、作法所打岔。我們只該在意三一神分賜到我們裏面，使我們成爲祂生機身體的肢體，以彰顯祂，藉此成爲活的見證。我們不期望大多數的基督徒會看見這異象或走這條路。但我們相信少數主所揀選、愛祂並尋求祂的人，會被帶進這中心的異象，使他們在生命裏長大，且被那靈變化，成爲基督活的身體的一部分，這乃是出於主。至終，這活的身體會成爲基督愛的新婦，爲祂的回來豫備道路（哥林多前書生命讀經，二二二頁）。

     現在我們一點一點的來看召會這基督的奧祕。第一大點，在創世以前，奧祕的在基督裏，爲父神所揀選、豫定（弗一3~5）。…我們原是神的造物，不是神的兒子，但神已經揀選了我們，豫定了我們，召我們來得祂兒子的名分。現今我們因着有分於神的生命，成了神的兒子。

     第二大點，在創世以後，奧祕的在那蒙愛者裏面，得蒙救贖（6~12）。…我們都是在永遠裏蒙神揀選，而蒙救贖卻是在時間裏，並且有早晚先後的不同。我們這樣得蒙救贖，乃是照着神洋溢恩典的豐富，在那蒙愛者裏面，所恩賜召會的，也是照祂所喜悅之旨意中奧祕的經綸所安排的。

     第三大點，我們在蒙救贖時，奧祕的受了聖靈爲印記，並得着聖靈作憑質（13~14）。當我們信主的時候，就受了聖靈爲印記。這聖靈的印記會在我們裏面運行、作工，題醒我們，使我們有個感念，我們乃是信耶穌的人，是屬神的人。我信我們每個人都有這樣的經歷。這說出我們是得救的人，有聖靈爲印記在我們裏面，這聖靈就是那是靈的基督（羅八9），也就是三一神（太二八19）。

     第四大點，基督的奧祕—召會，奧祕的有分於基督復活的大能，並祂升天所達到並所得着的一切，而成爲基督的身體（弗一19~23）。…基督的身體完全是由基督的復活和升天所產生出來的。基督復活後成了賜生命的靈，而後升天成爲澆灌的靈。這樣，祂就成了素質、經綸、複合的靈，…在我們裏面，並在我們身上，就叫我們成爲基督的身體（神新約經綸中的奧祕，四三至四六頁）。

     參讀： 哥林多前書生命讀經， 第二十篇；神新約經綸中的奧祕，第一篇；新約總論，第一百九十篇；過照着聖經中神聖啓示高峯之生活實行的路，第四、六章。



WEEK 2 — DAY 5

Morning Nourishment

Col. 1:18 "And He is the Head of the Body, the church; He is the beginning, the Firstborn from the dead, that
                    He Himself might have the first place in all things."

1 Cor. 12:12-13 "For even as the body is one and has many members, yet all the members of the body, being
                                 many, are one body, so also is the Christ. For also in one Spirit we were all baptized into one 
                                Body...and were all given to drink one Spirit."

     According to Colossians 3:10-11, in the new man Christ is all and in all. This means that He is all the members of the new man and in all the members. We may wonder how the church as the Body of Christ can be Christ and how Christ can be all the members of the new man. In our experience, this depends upon who lives. If we live alone by ourselves, we are not Christ. If we live Christ, letting Christ live in us, then we live in Him, and we are Christ....The Christian life should be like this. (Messages to the Trainees in Fall 1990, p. 142)

Today's Reading

     We in the Lord's recovery...should not care for insignificant things or be distracted by doctrines or practices. We should care only to become a living testimony by having the Triune God dispensed into us to make us members of His organic Body to express Him. We do not expect that the majority of Christians will see this vision or take this way. But we do believe that it is of the Lord that a minority of His chosen people, who love Him and seek Him, will be brought into this central vision that they may grow in life and be transformed by the Spirit to become parts of the living Body of Christ.Eventually, this living Body will become Christ's loving bride, who will prepare the way for His coming back. (Life-study of 1 Corinthians, p. 184)

     Let us consider the church as the mystery of Christ point by point. First,the church was mysteriously chosen and predestinated in Christ by God the Father before the foundation of the world (Eph. 1:3-5)....We were God's creation; we were not His sons. But God chose us, predestinated us, and called us to sonship. Now through partaking of the life of God, we become the sons of God.

     Second, after the foundation of the world, the church was mysteriously redeemed in the Beloved (Eph. 1:6-12)....We were all chosen by God in eternity.But we were redeemed in time and even at different times. Our redemption is according to the riches of God's abounding grace with which He graced the church in the Beloved. It is also according to the dispensation of the mysterious economy in God's will, which is according to His good pleasure.

     Third, at the time of our redemption, we were mysteriously sealed with the Holy Spirit, and we received the Holy Spirit as the pledge (Eph. 1:13-14). At the time we believed in the Lord, we received the Holy Spirit as the seal. This seal of the Holy Spirit operates and works, reminding us and giving us the feeling that we have believed in the Lord Jesus and that we belong to God. I believe every one of us has had this experience. This tells us that we are the saved ones, and we have the Holy Spirit in us as the seal. This Holy Spirit is
the pneumatic Christ (Rom. 8:9), who also is the Triune God (Matt. 28:19).

     Fourth, the mystery of Christ, the church, participates mysteriously in the resurrection power of Christ and in everything that He has attained and obtained in ascension, thereby becoming the Body of Christ (Eph.1:19-23)....The Body of Christ is produced fully from the resurrection and ascension of Christ. After Christ resurrected, He became the life-giving Spirit.In His ascension He became the outpoured Spirit. In this way He becomes the essential, economical, and compound Spirit...in us and also upon us, making us the Body of Christ. (The Mysteries in God's New Testament Economy, pp. 43-46)

     Further Reading: Life-study of 1 Corinthians, msg. 20; The Mysteries in God's New Testament Economy, ch. 1; The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 190; The Practical Way to Live a Life according to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures, chs. 4, 6