第四週 • 週五
晨興餧養
啟二一10 我在靈裏，天使帶我到一座高大的山，將那由神那裏從天而降的聖城耶路撒冷指給我看。
太十六18 …我要把我的召會建造…，陰間的門不能勝過她。
弗三17 使基督藉着信，安家在你們心裏…。
新耶路撒冷是神性與人性調和在一起，成為一個實體的組成。一切的組成分子都有相同的生命、性情和構成，因此是一個團體人。這就是神成為人，並且人在生命和性情上（但不在神格上）成為神。這二者—神與人，人與神—藉着調和在一起而建造在一起；這就是神建造的完成和總結。我們都需要看見這異象（撒母耳記生命讀經，二四四頁）。
信息選讀
神建造的異象會影響我們今日的工作。我們若看見神的建造，就不會試着幫助人更謙卑或更溫柔。…我要請你們思想約伯的例子：在建立自己的純全、正直和完全上，約伯達到了最高的成就。至終，神剝奪約伯一切的成就，為要給他看見，他惟一的需要乃是神自己。
大衛這合乎神心的人，曾有一次大的失敗。這指明…一個人可以合乎神的心，卻仍是空虛的，沒有神作到他的心裏。在撒下七章，神似乎是說，『大衛，你是合乎我心的人，但你需要我作到你的心裏。你需要我建造到你裏面，使你在生命和性情上成為我。…你必須能說，「在我，活着就是神。」』大衛若是這樣的人，就不會墮落。
大衛的墮落說明一個事實，就是我們即使是合乎神心的人，若沒有神作到我們裏面，我們就不比別人更好。…我們若看見，神渴望將祂自己作到祂所揀選的人裏面，並看見這就是我們的需要；那麼，我們工作的目標就會是供應人基督，好叫三一神能將祂自己建造到他們裏面。
的確，我們必須拯救罪人，餧養並成全聖徒；然而，最重要的事乃是要將神供應給人。我們所供應的神，不僅是建造的神，祂也是被建造的神。我們若不這樣供應神，我們的工作就是木、草、禾秸（林前三12）。
我們若誠懇真實，就會謙卑下來，承認沒有太多的三一神作到那些我們帶來歸神的人裏面。因此，我們必須實行一件事，就是供應經過過程的三一神到人裏面，使祂將祂自己建造到他們裏面的人裏。在我們工作的每一面—傳揚福音、餧養信徒、成全聖徒，其內在的元素必須是將建造和被建造的神供應給人。我催促你們向主禱告，求祂教導你們這樣作工。
經過過程的三一神已具體化身在基督裏，並實化為終極完成的靈。這是我們所敬拜、傳揚並供應給人的神。今天祂正將祂自己建造到祂所救贖的人裏面，為要以祂自己為元素，並用出於他們蒙救贖並拔高之人性的東西，來產生一個家。這家就是召會，基督的身體。這家是那作為三一神具體化身，並實化為那靈之基督的擴大、擴展。我們實行神命定之路的四個步驟—生、養、成全和建造時，我們的工作必須建立在經過過程之三一神的根基上；祂正將祂自己建造到祂所揀選的人裏面（撒母耳記生命讀經，二四四至二四七頁）。
參讀：撒母耳記生命讀經，第三十篇；一的真正立場，第六章。
WEEK 4 — DAY 5
Morning Nourishment
Rev. 21:10 And he carried me away in spirit onto a great and high mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.
Matt. 16:18 …I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
Eph. 3:17 That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith…
The New Jerusalem is a composition of divinity and humanity blended and mingled together as one entity. All the components have the same life, nature, and constitution and thus are a corporate person. This is a matter of God becoming man and man becoming God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead. These two, God and man, man and God, are built up together by being blended and mingled together. This is the completion, the consummation, of God’s building. We all need to see this vision. (Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, 2nd ed., p. 201)
Today’s Reading
The vision of God’s building will affect our work today. If we see God’s building, we will not try to help others to be more humble or gentle…I would ask you to consider the case of Job, a person who had the highest attainment in building up himself in integrity, uprightness, and perfection. Eventually, God stripped Job of all his attainments in order to show him that his only need was God Himself.
David, a man according to God’s heart, had a great failure. This indicates that…one may be according to God’s heart but still be empty, not having God wrought into his heart. In 2 Samuel 7 God seemed to be saying, “David, you are a man according to My heart, but you need Me to be wrought into your heart. You need Me to be built into your being to make you Me in life and in nature… You must be able to say, ‘To me, to live is God.’” If David had been such a person, he would not have fallen.
The fall of David illustrates the fact that even if we are a person according to God, if we do not have God wrought into us, we are no better than others… If we realize that God desires to work Himself into His chosen people and if we realize that this is what we all need, then the goal of our work will be to minister Christ to others so that the Triune God may build Himself into their being.
Yes, we need to save sinners and to feed the saints and perfect them. The crucial matter, however, is that we minister God to others. The God whom we minister is not just the building God—He is also the builded God. If we fail to minister God in this way, our work will be wood, grass, and stubble (1 Cor. 3:12).
If we are sincere and genuine, we will humble ourselves and confess that not very much of the Triune God has been wrought into the ones we have brought to God…We need to practice one thing—to minister the processed Triune God into others so that He may build Himself into their inner man. In every aspect of our work—preaching the gospel, feeding the believers, perfecting the saints—the intrinsic element must be that we minister the building and builded God to others. I would urge you to pray that the Lord would teach you to work in this way.
The processed Triune God is embodied in Christ and realized as the consummated Spirit. This is the God whom we worship, preach, and minister to others. Today He is building Himself into His redeemed people in order to produce a house with Himself as the element and also with something from their redeemed and uplifted humanity. This house is the church, the Body of Christ. This house is the enlargement, the expansion, of Christ, the embodiment of the Triune God realized as the Spirit. As we carry out the God-ordained way in the four steps of begetting, nourishing, perfecting, and building, our work must be based upon the processed Triune God, who is building Himself into His chosen people. (Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, 2nd ed., pp. 202-203)
Further Reading: Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, msg. 30; CWWL, 1979, vol. 2, “The Genuine Ground of Oneness,” ch. 6
