第五週 • 週五
晨興餧養
出三一13 …你們務要守我的安息日；因為這是我與你們之間世世代代的記號，使你們知道我是把你們分別為聖的耶和華。
徒二4 他們就都被聖靈充溢，並且按着那靈所賜的發表，用別種不同的語言說起話來。
我們必須在神的工作上與祂是一。這需要我們享受祂。我們若不知道如何享受神並被神充滿，就不會知道如何與祂同工，如何在祂的工作上與祂是一。
使徒們的新約職事是開始於他們在五旬節那天的享受。門徒們不是工作了六天，然後在五旬節那天纔享受主。真實的光景乃是主吩咐他們要等候，直到那靈降臨在他們身上，以充滿他們。…他們是充滿了對主的享受。因為他們被那靈充滿，別人就以為他們喝醉了酒。事實上，他們是充滿了對屬天之酒的享受。他們被這種享受充滿了以後，纔開始與神同工。這就是與神同工、與祂是一而作工的路。彼得同着使徒們站起來傳福音，藉此為神作工時，乃是在神的工作上與祂是一（出埃及記生命讀經，二○九四頁）。
信息選讀
五旬節是指七週或四十九天之後的第五十天。…五旬節是第八週的第一日。因此，我們由五旬節看見了第一日的原則。…按照舊約的安息日，人的安息日是他的第一日。…按照新約，第八日，就是人安息的日子，也是第一日。…按照舊約的原則，人的安息日是在神的工作完成以後。人不是在自己的工作完成後安息的，乃是在神的工作完成以後，就安息了，並且享受神完成的工作。神作工，而人享受；人享受神在祂的工作上所已經成就的。
人一從神的手中被造出來，他的第一日就是神的第七日。因此，他與神同享受，與神同生活，與神同行，最終就豫備好與神同工。神將他安置在伊甸園，使他耕種看守（創二15）。也許亞當在第一天與神一同享受安息之後，另外六天就作工照顧園子。到了第八日，就是另一個第一日，他又與神一同安息。這是一個週而復始的循環，其間有安息與作工。對神而言，是作工而安息；對人而言，是安息而作工。
神把帳幕和器物的啟示賜給人，選出建造者，並且把囑咐他們的話告訴摩西以後，接着又一次說到安息日。神似乎是說，『不要忘了我的安息日，…你不該認為，因為你是在作工建造我的居所，就能天天持續的作工。不，甚至你在作我的神聖工作，就是建造帳幕的工作時，仍必須帶着一個記號，指明你是我的子民，並且你需要我。因此，你必須先享受我，然後你就能不僅僅為我作工，乃是與我同工，並且與我是一而作工。我是你作工的力量，和勞苦的能力。…你必須同着我、憑着我、與我是一來作建造我居所的工作。…你是我的子民，你應當帶着一個記號，說明你需要我作你的享受、力量和能力。你需要我作你的一切，使你能為我作工。藉着這樣作工，你就尊崇我，並榮耀我。這就是帶着一個記號，指明你是我的子民。』（出埃及記生命讀經，二○九四至二○九六頁）
參讀：出埃及記生命讀經，第一百七十二篇。
WEEK 5 — DAY 5
Morning Nourishment
Exo. 31:13 …You shall surely keep My Sabbaths; for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am Jehovah who sanctifies you.
Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, even as the Spirit gave to them to speak forth.
We need to be one with God in His work. This requires that we enjoy Him. If we do not know how to enjoy God and be filled with God, we will not know how to work with Him, how to be one with Him in His work.
The New Testament ministry of the apostles began with the enjoyment they had on the day of Pentecost. The disciples did not work for six days and then enjoy the Lord on the day of Pentecost. The actual situation was that the Lord had told them to wait until the Spirit came upon them to fill them…They were filled with the enjoyment of the Lord. Because they were filled with the Spirit, others thought that they were drunk with wine. Actually, they were filled with the enjoyment of the heavenly wine. Only after they had been filled with this enjoyment did they begin to work with God. This is the way to work with God, the way to work in oneness with Him. When Peter stood up with the apostles to preach the gospel and thereby do a work for God, they all were one with God in His work. (Life-study of Exodus, 2nd ed., pp. 1762-1763)
Today’s Reading
Pentecost denotes the fiftieth day after a period of seven weeks, or fortynine days…Pentecost was the first day of the eighth week. Therefore, concerning the day of Pentecost, we see the principle of the first day. According to the Old Testament Sabbath, the day of man’s rest was his first day…According to the New Testament, the eighth day, the day of rest for man, was also the first day. According to the principle in the Old Testament, man’s day of rest is a day that comes after God’s work has been completed. Man does not rest after his own work is finished; he rests after the completion of God’s work and enjoys it. God works, and man enjoys. Man enjoys what God has accomplished in His work.
When man came forth from God’s creating hand, his first day was God’s seventh day. Therefore, he had enjoyment with God, he lived with God, he walked with God, and eventually, he was ready to work with God. God had put him into the garden of Eden to work it and to keep it (Gen. 2:15). Perhaps after enjoying rest with God on his first day, Adam worked to care for the garden for another six days. Then on what was his eighth day, another first day, he again rested with God. This is a cycle that would continue again and again with intervals of resting and working. With God it is a matter of working and resting; with man, a matter of resting and working.
After God gave the revelation concerning the tabernacle and the furniture, and after God selected the builders and gave Moses a charge regarding them, He went on to speak again of the Sabbath. It seems as if God were saying, “Do not forget My Sabbath…You should not think that because you are working to build My dwelling place, you can work every day continually. No, even in doing My divine work, the work of building the tabernacle, you must still bear a sign to indicate that you are My people and you need Me. Therefore, you need to enjoy Me first. Then you will be able to work not only for Me but also with Me and by being one with Me. I will be your strength to work and your energy to labor…You must do the work of building My dwelling place with Me, by Me, and in oneness with Me… You are My people, and you should bear a sign that you need Me to be your enjoyment, strength, and energy. You need Me to be your everything so that you may be able to work for Me. By working in this way, you honor Me and glorify Me. This is to bear a sign indicating that you are My people.” (Lifestudy
of Exodus, pp. 1763-1764)
Further Reading: Life-study of Exodus, msg. 172
