第五週■週五
晨興餧養
腓三10『使我認識基督、並祂復活的大能、以及同祂受苦的交通，模成祂的死。
加二20『我已經與基督同釘十字架；現在活着的，不再是我，乃是基督在我裏面活着…。
約六57『活的父怎樣差我來，我又因父活着，照樣，那喫我的人，也要因我活着。
在腓立比三章十節…〔模成祂的死〕這話指明保羅渴望以基督的死作他生活的模子。基督的死是一個模子，把我們模成這模子的形狀，就像把麵團放進蛋糕模子裏，模成其形狀一樣。保羅一直在過釘十字架的生活，就是在十字架下的生活，正如基督在祂爲人的生活中所過的。藉着這樣的生活，我們就能經歷並彰顯基督復活的大能。基督之死的模子，是指基督不斷的將祂人的生命治死，使祂得以憑神的生命活着（約六57）。我們的生活應當模成祂這模子的形狀，就是向我們人的生命死，而活神的生命。模成基督的死，乃是認識並經歷基督、和祂復活的大能、以及同祂受苦之交通的條件（新約總論第五册，五六二至五六三頁）。
信息選讀
基督在地上的一生中不斷的經歷死。當祂活着的時候，也是一直在死—向着舊造死，好使祂能活新造裏的生命。這就是腓立比三章十節裏『祂的死』的意義。模成基督的死，該是我們天天的經歷。我們必須天天治死天然的生命，不照着這生命而活。我們若治死天然的生命，就會感覺到我們裏面有另一個生命，就是神聖的生命。一旦我們外面天然的生命被治死，裏面神聖的生命就得釋放。然後在我們的經歷中，我們就模成基督的死。
三章十節有四件重要的事：認識基督、認識祂復活的大能、認識同祂受苦的交通以及模成祂的死。事實上，模成基督的死，與認識基督復活的大能以及同祂受苦的交通都有關係。『模成』這辭指明我們如何能認識基督復活的大能，以及同祂受苦的交通。藉着模成基督的死，我們經歷祂復活的大能，並進入同祂受苦的交通。…模成基督的死，是經歷基督的依據。我們若不模成基督的死，就沒有經歷基督的依據。我們要經歷基督，就必須模成祂的死。但要模成基督的死，我們必須有同祂受苦的交通。藉着有分於基督的受苦，我們被引進經歷祂復活大能的地位上。然後，當我們經歷基督復活的大能時，我們就認識祂。
當我們有分於基督爲身體所受的苦難，我們就模成祂的死。主耶穌在地上時，過着釘十字架的生活。祂不斷的治死天然的生命。藉着過這種釘十字架的生活，祂就向神活着，並且活祂。當我們甘願爲基督和祂的身體受苦，我們也要單單向祂活着。然後我們就真正模成祂的死，因我們有分於祂的死。一天過一天，我們要經歷祂復活的大能。這就是在經歷上認識基督的路。藉着這樣認識基督，就是在祂復活的大能裏經歷祂，我們就得着祂。…主耶穌…藉着過釘十字架的生活，…一直治死祂屬人的生命，使祂裏面神聖的生命能流露出來（約十10 ～ 11、17）（新約總論第五册，五六三至五六四頁；第十二册，三五頁）。
參讀：新約總論，第一百四十三篇。
WEEK 5 — DAY 5
Morning Nourishment
Phil. 3:10 To know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death.
Gal. 2:20 I am crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me…
John 6:57 As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me.
In Philippians 3:10…this expression [being conformed to His death] indicates that Paul desired to take Christ’s death as the mold of his life. Christ’s death is a mold to which we are conformed in much the same way that dough is put into a cake mold and conformed to it. Paul continually lived a crucified life, a life under the cross, just as Christ did in His human living. Through such a life the resurrection power is experienced and expressed. The mold of Christ’s death refers to the continual putting to death of His human life that He might live by the life of God (John 6:57). Our life should be conformed to such a mold—dying to our human life in order to live the divine life. Being conformed to the death of Christ is the condition for knowing and experiencing Him, the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 1549-1550)
Today’s Reading
Christ’s death took place throughout His life on earth. As He was living,He was also dying, dying to the old creation in order to live a life in the new creation. This is the meaning of “His death” in Philippians 3:10. Being conformed to Christ’s death should be our experience day by day. Daily we must put our natural life to death and not live according to it. If we put to death our natural life, we shall have the consciousness that we have another life, the divine life, within us. Once our outward natural life is put to death, the inner divine life will be released. Then in our experience we shall be conformed to Christ’s death.
There are four important matters in 3:10: to know Christ, to know the power of His resurrection, to know the fellowship of His sufferings, and to be conformed to His death. Actually, being conformed to Christ’s death is related to knowing both the power of Christ’s resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings. The words being conformed indicate how we may know the power of Christ’s resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings. By being conformed to the death of Christ we experience the power of His resurrection and enter into the fellowship of His sufferings. Being conformed to Christ’s death is the base of the experience of Christ. If we are not conformed to the death of Christ, we do not have the base for the experience of Christ. In order to experience Christ, we must be conformed to His death. But to be conformed to the death of Christ, we must have the fellowship of His sufferings. By participating in Christ’s sufferings, we are ushered into a position to experience the power of His resurrection. Then, when we experience the power of Christ’s resurrection, we know Him.
As we partake of Christ’s sufferings for the Body, we are conformed to His death. When the Lord Jesus was on earth, He lived a crucified life. He continually put His natural life to death. By living such a crucified life He was alive to God and lived Him. When we are willing to suffer for Christ and His Body, we also shall live only to Him. Then we shall truly be conformed to His death, for we shall share in His death. Day by day we shall experience the power of His resurrection. This is the way to know Christ in an experientialway. By knowing Christ in this way, experiencing Him in the power of His resurrection, we obtain Him. The Lord Jesus,…by living a crucified life,… always put His human life to death so that the divine life within Him could flow out (John 10:10-11, 17). (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 1550-1551, 3508)
Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 143
