第一週．週三
晨興餧養
羅八６ 『因為心思置於肉體，就是死；心思置於靈，乃是生命平安。』
六６ 『知道我們的舊人已經與祂同釘十字架，使罪的身體失效，叫我們不再作罪的奴僕。』
靈是我們最裏面的部分，體是我們最外面的部分，而魂是我們這人的主要部分，處於靈、體之間。墮落的結果，使撒但這知識樹進到人的肉體中。我們相信基督的結果，使神這生命樹進到我們的靈裏。因此，那從前在人身外園子中的兩棵樹，現今到了我們的裏面，一棵在我們的肉體裏，另一棵在我們的靈中。我們仔細讀羅馬七章，就會看到保羅說，在他的肉體中沒有善，只有罪。罪實在就是撒但邪惡的性情。說罪住在我們的肉體中，意思就是說，撒但那邪惡者在我們的肉體中。八章十六節證明神在我們的裏面。那裏說，那靈自己同我們的靈見證。因此，每一個真正的基督徒都是伊甸園的縮影。你魂的心思代表你自己，你肉體中的罪代表撒但，而你靈中的那靈代表神。就像在伊甸園裏，這三方在我們裏面形成了三角的局面。（創世記生命讀經，二一七至二一八頁。）
信息選讀
我們的身體盛裝我們內裏的所是，其被造乃是作純淨、清潔並良善的器皿。然而有一天，神的仇敵進來，藉著人的喫，把他自己注射到人裏面。人喫了知識樹的果子，那棵樹的實際就進到人物質的身體裏。…人的身體原是純淨的，但是自從撒但把他自己注射到人裏面，人的身體加進了另一種外來的元素，就成了肉體。因此，肉體有兩種元素—一種是神所造的，另一種是撒但自己。…藉此我們能看見，有一種外來的、在神創造之外的東西，進到了神所造的人身體裏。在人類的宗教和文化裏，一切倫理道德的教訓從未題到這一點，因為他們沒有關於人肉體的啟示。聖經告訴我們，肉體乃是我們玷污且變質的身體。
羅馬六章六節告訴我們，今天我們的身體是『罪的身體』，不是義的身體。七章二十四節說我們的身體是『那屬這死的身體』。…罪是丈夫，死是妻子，二者絕不離婚。…罪必然愛死，死總是服從罪，…我們的身體乃是屬罪和死的身體。你愛你的身體麼？我們需要痛擊己身。（林前九27。）我們的身體乃是肉體，因為它不再是純淨的。不論我們禱告有多少，與主同行有多少，我們必須領悟，就在我們裏面的人旁邊，有屬罪和死的身體這醜陋的東西，一直與我們同在。只要我們仍然活著，直到我們得贖的日子之前，罪和死的身體總是與我們同在。
罪、死和撒但…都同時在肉體裏。…我們許多人花時間到聚會所參加召會的聚會。撒但也有一個聚會所；撒但的聚會所就是我們的肉體。…撒但總是同罪和死在肉體裏。
這個肉體充滿了撒但、罪和死。肉體、撒但、罪與死乃是一。我們不該以為我們有甚麼好東西，或者我們有可能變好。我們必須蒙光照，看見我們的肉體是個醜陋的東西。我們必須定罪肉體，不要想去改良肉體。有些基督徒受了欺騙，以為他們得救之後，肉體就得著救治；然而神從來不救治肉體；我們的肉體是無可救藥的。我們對肉體不該存有任何積極的期望。（李常受文集一九七五至一九七六年第一冊，二○○至二○二、二○六至二○七頁。
參讀：人的肉體與人的靈，第一至三章。
WEEK 1 — DAY 3
Morning Nourishment
Rom. 8:6 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.
6:6 Knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin as slaves.
The spirit is our innermost part, the body is our outermost part, and the soul, the main part of our being, stands between them. As a result of the fall, Satan as the tree of knowledge came into man’s flesh. As a result of our believing in Christ, God as the tree of life came into our spirit. Therefore, the two trees that were once in the garden outside of man are now within us, one in our flesh and the other in our spirit. If we read Romans 7 carefully, we will see that Paul said in his flesh nothing good dwells, only sin. Sin is actually the evil nature of Satan. To say that sin dwells in our flesh means that Satan, the evil one, is in our flesh. Romans 8:16, a verse which proves that God is in us, says that the Spirit of God witnesses with our spirit. Thus, every genuine Christian is a miniature garden of Eden. The mind of your soul represents your self, sin in your flesh represents Satan, and the Spirit in your spirit represents God. As in the garden of Eden, the three parties form a triangular situation within us. (Life-study of Genesis, p. 177)
Todays Reading
Our body, which contains our inner being, was created as a pure, clean, and good vessel. But one day God’s enemy came in to inject himself into man by the way of man’s eating. Man ate of the tree of knowledge, and the actuality and reality of that tree got into man’s physical body…Man’s body was originally pure. But since Satan injected himself into man, man’s body has another element, a foreign element, added to it, and it has become flesh. Thus, the flesh has two elements—one element created by God and another element, the element that is Satan himself…By this we can see that
something foreign, something strange, something other than God’s creation, got into man’s body created by God. All the ethical and moral teachings in human religion and human culture never touch this point because they do not have the revelation concerning man’s flesh. The Scriptures show that the flesh is our polluted and transmuted body.
Romans 6:6 tells us that our body today is “the body of sin.” It is not the body of righteousness. Romans 7:24 says that our body is “the body of this death.”…Sin is the husband, and death is the wife. They never have a divorce… Sin surely loves death, and death is all the time submitted to sin…Our body is a body of sin and death. Do you love your body? We need to buffet our body (1 Cor. 9:27). Our body is the flesh because it is no longer pure. Regardless of how much we pray and walk with the Lord, we have to realize that right beside our inner being, this ugly thing, the body of sin and death, is here with us all the time. As long as we are still living, until the day of our redemption,
the body of sin and death is always with us.
Sin, death, and Satan…are all together in the flesh…Many of us spend our time attending the meetings of the church in the church meeting hall. Satan also has a meeting hall. The meeting hall of Satan is our flesh…Satan is always in the flesh with sin and death.
This flesh is filled up with Satan, sin, and death. The flesh, Satan, sin, and death are one. We should not think that we have anything good or that we have any possibility of being good. We must be enlightened to see that our flesh is an ugly thing. We have to condemn it, not try to improve it. Some Christians get deceived into thinking that after they are saved, their flesh has been recovered. But God would never recover the flesh. Our flesh is a hopeless case. We should not have any kind of positive expectation concerning our flesh. (CWWL, 1975-1976, vol. 1, “The Flesh and the Spirit,” pp. 150-151, 153-154)
Further Reading: CWWL, 1975-1976, vol. 1, “The Flesh and the Spirit,” chs. 1—3
