第一週 • 週三
晨興餧養
彌五2 …祂是從亙古，從太初而出。
賽四二4 祂不灰心，也不喪膽，直到祂在地上設立公理；眾海島都要等候祂的訓誨。
五三10~11 …祂必看見後裔，並且延長年日；…祂必看見自己勞苦的果效…。
基督雖是出於伯利恒，卻是從亙古，從太初而出。
在成為肉體時，祂開始出來。…祂繼續出來，經過人性生活、受死、復活、升天、終極完成之靈（就是基督自己的實際）的澆灌以及藉着福音的傳揚將祂擴展至整個居人之地；…基督的出來、顯現，要終極完成於祂同着得勝者，就是大能者（珥三11），回來擊敗敵基督，並將敵基督扔在火湖裏（啟十九19~20）的時候，就是撒但被扔在無底坑裏（二十2~3），以及基督設立祂的寶座作王掌權…的時候。那時，祂的顯現就完全了（聖經恢復本，彌五2註2）。
信息選讀
在地上設立公理〔賽四二4〕，意思就是設立神的救恩，這救恩乃是神在基督身上審判的結果。神的救恩有兩面：法理一面的稱義，以及生機一面的分賜生命。…基督在地上設立神的公理，神的救恩，當這事完成了，祂就要再來（聖經恢復本，賽四二4註3）。
〔以賽亞五十三章十節下半至十一節〕是指在復活裏的基督。這裏的後裔是團體的後裔，就是召會作基督的身體，由基督作那一粒麥子而死，並藉着祂繁增的復活所產生的許多子粒，就是所有的信徒所組成的。…基督作耶和華的僕人，乃是復活的賜生命者，就是賜生命的靈，…產生了一個後裔，以建造祂的身體作祂的延續，使耶和華喜悅，並使基督得滿足。
今天基督乃是藉着活在祂的信徒裏而延長祂的年日（加二20，見徒二八9註1）。祂的信徒作祂的身體，就是祂的延長。
神的喜悅（弗一5、9，腓二13）乃是要看見許多兒子，由祂而生，成為基督的肢體，構成召會作基督的身體，就是基督團體的彰顯。這完全在於基督的死與復活（賽五三10註3、4、5）。
基督的魂勞苦的果效，含示一切在基督的復活裏，並藉着基督的復活，所產生的專案，如下：（一）作為經過過程者，就是末後的亞當，基督成了賜生命的靈，作是靈之基督的實際，為要藉着分賜生命而繁增；…（二）作為居首位者，就是在萬有中居首的一位，基督成了從死人中復活的首生者，使神的新造有新生的起頭，並使基督成為身體的頭；…（三）作為神而人者，基督在祂的人性裏由神所生，…成為神的長子，兼有神性和人性，作為模型，使許多兒子模成祂的形像；…（四）作為復活的生命，…基督重生了祂所有的信徒，…使他們成為祂的弟兄，就是神許多的兒子，…他們是神家中的人，成為神的國，…和神寶貴的基業；…（五）作為一粒麥子，基督成了許多子粒，…這些子粒就是祂的擴增，…也是祂身體—一個餅、召會—的組成分子；…（六）藉着祂釋放生命的死，並用祂分賜生命的復活，基督產生了團體的後裔，作為祂的魂勞苦的果效；祂在祂的復活裏必看見這後裔，便心滿意足；…（七）作為信徒的生命，復活的基督乃是新人的一切肢體，又在一切肢體之內（賽五三11註2）。
參讀：由基督與召會的觀點看新約概要（卷一），第六、八章。
WEEK 1 — DAY 3
Morning Nourishment
Micah 5:2 …His goings forth are from ancient times, from the days of eternity.
Isa. 42:4 He will not faint, nor will He be discouraged, until He has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands will wait for His instruction.
53:10-11…He will see a seed, He will extend His days,…He will see the fruit of the travail of His soul…
From ancient times, from the days of eternity, the Triune God was preparing to come forth out of eternity into time.
At the time of His incarnation He began to come forth…He continued to go forth through His human living, His death, His resurrection, His ascension, His outpouring of the consummated Spirit (who is the reality of Christ Himself), and His spreading through the preaching of the gospel to the whole inhabited earth…Christ’s going forth…will consummate when He comes back with the overcomers as the mighty ones (Joel 3:11) to defeat Antichrist and cast him into the lake of fire (Rev. 19:19-20), when Satan is cast into the abyss (Rev. 20:2-3), and when Christ sets up His throne to reign as King…At that time His appearing will be complete. (Micah 5:2, footnote 1)
Today’s Reading
To establish justice in the earth [Isa. 42:4] means to establish God’s salvation as the issue of God’s judgment on Christ. God’s salvation is of two aspects— justification as the judicial aspect and the impartation of life as the organic aspect…Christ will come again when He finishes the establishing of God’s justice, God’s salvation, in this earth. (Isa. 42:4, footnote 3)
Isaiah 53:10b-11 refers to Christ in His resurrection. The seed here, a corporate seed, is the church as the Body of Christ, comprising all the believers produced as the many grains by the death of Christ as the one grain and by His reproductive resurrection…Christ as the Servant of Jehovah is the resurrected Life-giver, the life-giving Spirit…, to produce a seed for the building up of His Body as His continuation for Jehovah’s pleasure and for Christ’s satisfaction. (Isa. 53:10, footnote 2)
Today Christ is extending His days by living in His believers (Gal. 2:20; see footnote 1 on Acts 28:9). His believers as His Body are His extension. (Isa. 53:10, footnote 3)
The pleasure of God (Eph. 1:5, 9; Phil. 2:13) is to see many sons born of Him to become the members of Christ, who constitute the church as the Body of Christ, the corporate expression of Christ. This depends altogether on Christ’s death and resurrection. (Isa. 53:10, footnote 4)
The fruit of the travail of Christ’s soul implies all the items produced in and through Christ’s resurrection, as follows: ⑴ As the processed One, the last Adam, Christ became the life-giving Spirit as the reality of the pneumatic Christ for His propagation through life-imparting…; ⑵ as the preeminent One, the One who has the first place in all things, Christ became the Firstborn from the dead for the germinating of God’s new creation and for Christ to be Head of the Body…; ⑶ as the God-man, Christ was begotten of God in His humanity…to be the firstborn Son of God in both the divine and human natures, to be a model for conforming many sons to His image…; ⑷ as the resurrection life…, Christ regenerated all His believers…, making them His brothers and the many sons of God…, who are the members of God’s household to be God’s kingdom…and God’s precious inheritance…; ⑸ as the one grain of wheat, Christ became the many grains…, who are His increase… and the components of His Body, that is, the one bread, the church…; ⑹ through His life-releasing death and with His life-imparting resurrection, Christ produced a corporate seed as the issue of the travail of His soul, which seed He saw in His resurrection and was satisfied…; and ⑺ as the life of the believers, the resurrected Christ is all the members and in all the members ofthe new man. (Isa. 53:11, footnote 1)
Further Reading: CWWL, 1964, vol. 2, “A General Sketch of the New Testament in the Light of Christ and the Church, Part 1—the Gospels and Acts,” chs. 6, 8
