第十六週．週四
晨興餧養
林前十１６～１７ 『我們所祝福的福杯，豈不是基督之血的交通麼？我們所擘開的餅，豈不是基督身體的交通麼？因著只有一個餅，我們雖多，還是一個身體，因我們都分受這一個餅。』
林前十章十六節的交通，是指信徒一同有分於基督的血和身體的交通。這使我們這些有分於主的血和身體的人，不僅彼此是一，也與主是一。我們這些有分的人，在主血和主身體的交通中，得以與主聯合為一。使徒這裏的意思，是要說明喫喝如何使喫喝的人，與他們所喫所喝的成為一。
信徒的交通含示他們藉著喫喝基督而彼此享受基督。…以色列人將他們美地的出產帶來過節獻給神，與神並與彼此一同過節，使他們得著享受。同樣的，主的筵席是主的節期。我們來赴主的筵席時，就得享祂的血和祂的身體這兩道佳餚，二者都是為著信徒的交通。（新約總論第十冊，一七四至一七五頁。）
信息選讀
基督之血和身體的交通，含示基督的血與祂的身體分開；這指明我們現今可以享受祂作筵席。…基督要成為我們的筵席，就必須經過過程。在林前十章十六節我們看見，現今祂的血和祂的身體在桌子上，就是坐席的地方。這含示基督已成為肉體、釘十字架、並且復活。基督若沒有成為肉體，祂就無法有血和身體；…藉著成為肉體，基督穿上有血有肉之人的身體；（來二14；）藉著釘十字架，祂的血與祂的身體分開；（約六53～55；）在復活裏，祂成為桌上的筵席給我們享用，作我們的滋養和享受。所以，在主的筵席上，我們看見基督的成為肉體、釘十字架和復活。
我們有分於基督、享受基督，使我們與祂聯合為一，與祂成為一。這一個餅，乃是象徵基督那是一的身體。…我們有分於基督，就使我們眾人成為祂的一個身體。我們眾人所分受的這位基督，把我們構成祂的一個身體。
當我們一同分受這象徵基督個別身體的餅時，這餅就進入我們裏面，使我們成為一個餅，這餅表徵基督團體的身體。一面，這餅表徵主物質的身體，就是祂在十字架上為我們所捨的，為要將祂的生命分授到我們裏面；另一面，這餅表徵主奧祕的身體，由許多肢體構成，他們藉著耶穌基督的復活得了重生，為三一神的生命所點活，而被帶進與三一神生機的聯結裏。因此，餅指明主犧牲了祂物質的身體，為要產生祂奧祕的身體。
在林前十章十七節，餅象徵生機的組成，就是一個團體的身體，基督的身體。就這面而言，餅象徵主復活的結果。主耶穌在受死之前，是獨一的麥粒；但在祂的復活裏，祂的死產生許多子粒，就是一個團體的實體，一個麵團，那餅，一個團體的身體。這含示基督是那一粒麥子落在地裏死了，又在復活裏長出來，結出許多信徒作許多子粒，為要產生這一個餅，就是祂的身體—召會。所有的信徒，就是許多的子粒，（約十二24，）被磨成細麵，然後調成一個餅。在這一個餅裏，我們看見神所有的兒女乃是一；基督奧祕身體的所有肢體都由這餅所代表。（新約總論第十冊，一七五、一八一至一八二頁。）
參讀：新約總論，第三百一十篇。
WEEK 16 — DAY 4
Morning Nourishment
1 Cor. 10:16-17 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the fellowship of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the fellowship of the body of Christ? Seeing that there is one bread, we who are many are one Body; for we all partake of the one bread.
In 1 Corinthians 10:16…the word fellowship refers to the believers’ communion in the joint participation in the blood and body of Christ. This makes us, the participants in the Lord’s blood and body, not only one with one another but also one with the Lord. We, the participants, make ourselves identified with the Lord in the fellowship of His blood and body. The apostle’s thought here is to illustrate how eating and drinking make the eaters and drinkers one with what they eat and drink.
The believers’ fellowship implies their mutual enjoyment of Christ by eating and drinking Christ…The children of Israel brought their produce of the good land to the feast, offered it to God, and feasted with God and with one another for their enjoyment. Likewise, the Lord’s table is the Lord’s feast. When we come to the Lord’s table, we come to a feast of two courses, His blood and His body, both of which are for the believers’ fellowship. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3157-3158)
Todays Reading
The fellowship of the blood and the body of Christ implies that Christ’s blood is separate from His body, indicating that it is now possible for us to feast on Him. In order to become our feast, Christ…had to be processed. In 1 Corinthians 10:16 we see that His blood and His body are now on the table, a place of feasting. This implies that Christ has been incarnated, crucified, and resurrected. If Christ had not been incarnated, He could not have blood and a body…Through incarnation Christ put on a human body with blood and flesh (Heb. 2:14), through crucifixion His blood was separated from His body (John 6:53-55), and in resurrection He is served to us on the table as a feast for our nourishment and enjoyment. Therefore, on the table we see Christ’s incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection.
Our partaking of Christ, our enjoying of Christ, identifies us with Him, making us one with Him. The one bread signifies the one Body of Christ… Our joint partaking of the one bread makes us all one. This indicates that our partaking of Christ makes us all His one Body. The very Christ of whom we all partake constitutes us His one Body.
When we jointly partake of the bread, which symbolizes the individual body of Christ, it comes into us to make us one bread, which signifies the corporate Body of Christ. On the one hand, the bread signifies the Lord’s physical body that He gave for us on the cross in order to impart His life into us. On the other hand, the bread signifies the Lord’s mystical Body constituted of many members regenerated through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, having been enlivened with the Triune God’s life and brought into an organic union with the Triune God. Therefore, the bread indicates that the Lord sacrificed His physical body in order to bring forth His mystical Body.
In 1 Corinthians 10:17 the bread is a symbol of an organic composition, a corporate body, the Body of Christ. In this sense the bread signifies that which issued from the Lord in resurrection. Before His death the Lord Jesus was a single grain of wheat, but what issued out of His death in His resurrection was much fruit, a corporate entity, a loaf, the bread, a corporate Body. This implies that as the one grain of wheat, Christ fell into the ground and died, and grew up in resurrection to bring forth many believers as many grains for the producing of the one bread, which is His Body, the church. All the believers, the many grains (John 12:24), are ground into fine flour and then blended together to form one loaf. In this one loaf we see that all the children of God are one; all the members of Christ’s mystical Body are represented in the loaf. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3158, 3162-3163)
Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 310
