第四週 • 週三
晨興餧養
約七39 耶穌這話是指着信入祂的人將要受的那靈說的；那時還沒有那靈，因為耶穌尚未得着榮耀。
羅八9 …神的靈若住在你們裏面，你們就不在肉體裏，乃在靈裏了；然而人若沒有基督的靈，就不是屬基督的。
三一神所經過的過程，清楚的啟示在新約裏，但大多數基督徒都忽畧了這事。在聖經裏雖然找不到『經過過程』和『神聖三一』這些辭，但這些辭所描述的事實，卻明確的啟示在聖經裏。早期教父之一，安提阿的提阿非羅（Theophilus，主後一一五至一八八年），是第一個在著作中用『神聖三一』（Trinity）這辭的人。『三一』（Triune）這辭也是大約同時開始使用。
在馬太二十八章十九節，主耶穌囑咐門徒要將萬民『浸入父、子、聖靈的名裏』。在這節裏，『名』是單數的，但這一個名卻指三個身位。這表明神聖三一的名只有一個（李常受文集一九九○年第一冊，三一九頁）。
信息選讀
父、子、靈不是分開的三個身位或三位神；祂們是一位神，一個實際，一個身位。因此，父、子、靈是由一個名所指。名指人位，人位是名的實際。神聖三一的名是神聖所是的總和，等於祂的人位。神是三一的（triune），也就是說，祂是三一（three-one）。…祂是…一位神，有父、子、靈為其實際，為其人位。…父、子、靈不是三個不同的名，乃是神聖三一獨一的名。…在聖經裏有許多神聖的名稱，就如『父神』，『主耶穌』，『主靈』（弗六23，林後三18），都是複合的名稱。在馬太二十八章十九節的複合名稱是由父、子、聖靈這三部分組成的。
三一神採取了幾個重要步驟，經過過程成為賜生命的靈。第一，祂成為肉體。祂是神，進入童女腹中，留在那裏九個月。這樣，祂穿上了人性作祂的遮蔽處，作祂的居所。祂的成為肉體當然是一個過程。第二，祂在地上生活行動，經過了三十三年半漫長為人生活的『隧道』。這也是一個過程。第三，祂進入死並經過死，包括墳墓和陰間。第四，三天後祂從死和陰間裏走出來，進入復活。祂的死與復活也是一個過程。
主復活以後，與門徒同在四十天之久（徒一3）。在這段期間，祂與他們同在，有時看得見，有時看不見。然後，祂帶領他們到耶路撒冷，並從橄欖山升到三層天上（12、9）。藉着升天，主耶穌完成了祂的過程。…父、子、靈三者都在主的升天裏完全得以終極完成。
『終極完成』這辭指明一種工作或過程已經完成、結束了。…在神成為肉體之前，神是『生』的，有神性卻沒有人性。經過了成為肉體、為人生活、釘十字架、復活、升天之後，神就經過了過程而終極完成了。現今祂不再是『生』的神；祂乃是終極完成、完整的三一神，帶着神性、人性、為人生活、包羅萬有的死、大能的復活、超越的升天。這一切都是在經過過程並終極完成之三一神裏的元素或成分（李常受文集一九九○年第一冊，三二○至三二二頁）。
參讀：為着建造基督的身體那合乎聖經的聚會與事奉之路，第十二章。
WEEK 4 — DAY 3
Morning Nourishment
John 7:39 But this He said concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed into Him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
Rom. 8:9 …You are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Yet if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not of Him.
The process of the Triune God is clearly revealed in the New Testament, but this matter has been missed by most Christians. Although such words as process and Trinity cannot be found in the Bible, the facts that these words describe are definitely revealed in the Bible. Theophilus of Antioch (A.D. 115-188), one of the early church fathers, was the first to use the word Trinity in his writings. The word triune also began to be used at about the same time.
In Matthew 28:19 the Lord Jesus charged the disciples to baptize the nations “into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” In this verse name is singular in number, yet the one name refers to three persons. This shows that there is one name for the Divine Trinity. (CWWL, 1990, vol. 1, “The Triune God to Be Life to the Tripartite Man,” pp. 265-266)
Today’s Reading
The Father, the Son, and the Spirit are not three separate persons or three Gods; they are one God, one reality, one person. Hence, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are denoted by one name. The name denotes the person, and the person is the reality of the name. The name of the Divine Trinity is the sum total of the Divine Being, equivalent to His person. God is triune; that is, He is three-one…He is one God, with the Father, the Son, and the Spirit as His reality, His person…Father, Son, and Spirit are not three different names; they are the unique name of the Divine Trinity…Many of the divine titles in the Bible, such as God the Father, the Lord Jesus, and the Lord Spirit (2 Cor. 3:18), are compound titles. The compound name in Matthew 28:19 is composed of three parts— Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
The Triune God took several crucial steps in being processed to be the lifegiving Spirit. First, He was incarnated. As God, He entered into the womb of a human virgin and stayed within that womb for nine months. In this way He took on humanity as His shelter, His dwelling place. His incarnation surely was a process. Second, He lived and walked on the earth, passing through the long “tunnel” of human living for thirty-three and a half years. This also was a process. Third, He entered into death and passed through death, which included the grave and Hades. Fourth, after three days, He walked out of death and Hades and entered into resurrection. His death and resurrection also were a process.
After the Lord’s resurrection He stayed with the disciples for forty days (Acts 1:3), during which time He made His presence both visible and invisible to them. Then He led them to Jerusalem and ascended to the third heaven from the Mount of Olives (vv. 12,9). Through His ascension the Lord Jesus completed His process…All three—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit—were fully consummated in the Lord’s ascension.
The word consummation indicates that a work or a process has been completed, or finished…Before His incarnation God was “raw,” having the divine nature but not the human nature. Through incarnation, human living, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension, God was processed and consummated. Now, He is no longer the “raw” God; He is the consummated and completed Triune God with divinity, humanity, human living, the allinclusive death, the powerful resurrection, and the transcendent ascension.
All of these are elements, or ingredients, in the processed and consummated Triune God. (CWWL, 1990, vol. 1, “The Triune God to Be Life to the Tripartite Man,” pp. 266-267)
Further Reading: CWWL, 1987, vol. 3, “The Scriptural Way to Meet and to Serve for the Building Up of the Body of Christ,” ch. 12
