第一週 • 週六
晨興餧養
弗三18~19 使你們滿有力量，能和眾聖徒一同領畧何為那闊、長、高、深，並認識基督那超越知識的愛，使你們被充滿，成為神一切的豐滿。
基督的擴展是無法測量的。當我們在基督的擴展上經歷祂時，我們要看見宇宙的量度就是基督的量度。
我們對基督的經歷，需要從二度進到三度，從『平面』進到『立方體』。…在會幕和聖殿裏的至聖所都是立方體。在會幕和聖殿中這個立方體的量度分別是十肘和二十肘。新耶路撒冷將是一個永遠的立方體，長寬高各是一萬二千斯泰底亞。今天召會生活也必須是『立方體』。…我們在召會中對基督的經歷也必須是『立方體』，是三度的…。當我們成為一立方體時，我們就既不倒也不破。基督是宇宙的立方體，召會生活今天也是『立方體』，不是『線』，甚至也不是『地毯』。…當我們對基督有來、去、上、下的經歷，至終我們就會有扎實的『立方體』（以弗所書生命讀經，三四八至三四九頁）。
信息選讀
真正的召會生活，乃是基督親自安家在我們心裏，佔有我們裏面每一角落的結果。召會的內容，乃是我們以其為人位的基督，就是作到我們裏面的基督。要使基督在馬太十六章十八節論到召會建造的話得着應驗，召會必須進入一種光景，有許多聖徒都讓基督安家在他們心裏，據有、佔有並浸透他們整個裏面的人。基督越佔有我們裏面的人，我們就越能在身體裏與別人建造在一起（弗二21~22，四16）。身體生活的實際乃是這樣對內住基督的內在經歷。基督的身體，乃是我們享受基督追測不盡之豐富的完成，也是我們經歷無限的基督安家於我們整個裏面之人的完成。新耶路撒冷乃是基督安家在我們心裏的終極結果。
基督安家在我們心裏，結果使我們滿有力量，能領畧基督的量度—闊、長、高、深。…要領畧基督的量度，需要眾聖徒；不是個別的，乃是團體的。…我們經歷基督，先是經歷祂所是的闊，再經歷祂所是的長，這是平面的。當我們在基督裏長進時，就經歷祂豐富的高和深，這是垂直的。
我們滿有力量，不僅是要領畧基督的量度，也是要認識基督那超越知識的愛。…基督是不可度量的，祂的愛也是這樣，因此，是超越知識的愛。然而，我們能在靈裏藉着經歷認識這愛。我們若以目前為止所經歷基督那不可度量的愛，與祂一切可經歷的愛相比，就如一滴水與大海相比一樣。基督的宇宙量度和祂不可度量的愛，猶如廣大無垠的大海，讓我們來經歷。
我們領畧基督的量度，並認識祂那超越知識的愛，結果使我們被充滿，成為神一切的豐滿。這裏『神的豐滿』一辭，是指構成在我們裏面之基督豐富的滿溢。神的豐滿，含示神所是的豐富成了祂的彰顯。神的豐富在神裏面，乃是神的豐富；這豐富彰顯出來，就成了祂的豐滿（約一16）。神這豐滿都居住在基督裏面（西一19，二9）。基督藉着祂的內住，將神這豐滿分賜到我們裏面，使我們被充滿，甚至成為神一切的豐滿，作召會實際的出現，使神在其中得着祂彰顯的榮耀（弗三21）（新約總論第十一冊，一七四至一七六頁）。
參讀：新約總論，第三百三十八篇。
WEEK 1 — DAY 6
Morning Nourishment
Eph. 3:17-19 That you…may be full of strength to apprehend with all the saints what the breadth and length and height and depth are and to know the knowledge-surpassing love of Christ, that you may be filled unto all the fullness of God.
Christ is immeasurable in His spreading forth. As we experience Christ in His spreading, we come to see that the dimensions of the universe are the very dimensions of Christ.
In our experience of Christ, we should go on from the two dimensions to three, from a “square” to a “cube.”…Both in the tabernacle and in the temple, the Holy of Holies was a cube. The dimensions of this cube in the tabernacle and temple respectively were ten cubits and twenty cubits. The New Jerusalem will be an eternal cube, twelve thousand stadia in three dimensions. The church life today must also be a “cube.”…Our experience of Christ in the church must be “cubical,” three-dimensional… When we become a cube, we cannot fall, and we cannot be broken. Christ is the universal cube, and the church life today is also a “cube,” not a “line” or even a “carpet.”…As we go back and forth and up and down in our experience of Christ, we eventually have a solid “cube.” (Life-study of Ephesians, pp. 276-277)
Todays Reading
The genuine church life is the issue of Christ personally making His home in our heart to occupy every corner of our inner being. The content of the church is the Christ whom we take as our person, the Christ who is wrought into our being. In order for Christ’s word in Matthew 16:18 concerning the building up of the church to be fulfilled, the church must enter into a state where many saints allow Christ to make His home in their heart, possessing, occupying, and saturating their entire inner being. The more Christ occupies our inner being, the more we will be able to be built up with others in the Body (Eph. 2:21-22; 4:16). The reality of the Body life is such an inner experience of the indwelling Christ. The Body of Christ is the consummation of our enjoyment of the unsearchable riches of Christ and the consummation of the experience of the unlimited Christ making His home in our entire inward being. The New Jerusalem is the ultimate issue of Christ making His home in our heart.
The result of Christ’s making His home in our hearts is that we are full of strength to apprehend…the breadth, length, height, and depth…To apprehend the dimensions of Christ, we need all the saints, not individually but corporately…We first experience the breadth of what He is and then the length. This is horizontal. When we advance in Christ, we experience the height and depth of His riches. This is vertical.
We become strong not only to apprehend the dimensions of Christ but also to know the knowledge-surpassing love of Christ…Just as Christ is immeasurable, so also is His love; hence, it is knowledge-surpassing. Yet, we can know it in our spirit by experiencing it. If we compare what we have thus far experienced of the immeasurable love of Christ to all that there is to experience, it is like comparing a raindrop to the ocean. Christ in His universal dimensions and in His immeasurable love is like a vast, limitless ocean for us to experience.
The result of apprehending the dimensions of Christ and knowing the knowledge-surpassing love of Christ is that we are filled unto all the fullness of God. Here the expression the fullness of God denotes the overflow of the riches of Christ that have been constituted into us. The fullness of God implies that the riches of all that God is have become His expression. When the riches of God are in God Himself, they are His riches, but when the riches of God are expressed, they become His fullness (John 1:16). All the fullness of God dwells in Christ (Col. 1:19; 2:9). Through His indwelling, Christ imparts the fullness of God into our being that we may be filled even unto the fullness of God to be the practical manifestation of the church, in which God may be glorified in His expression (Eph. 3:21). (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3391-3392)
Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 338
