第一週 • 綱目
與主合作帶進新的復興，以結束這個世代
讀經：哈三2，徒二六19、22，太十四19、22~23，腓一19~22、25，約二一15~17
週 一
壹 在神的選民中間，一直有復興的渴望—哈三2，何六2，羅八20~22，詩一一九25、50、107、154，約六57、63，林後三3、6。
貳 我們藉着達到神所賜給我們之神聖啟示—神永遠經綸之啟示—的最高峰（提前一3~4，林前九17，徒二六19、22），就能進入一個新的復興；這是關於神創造人並對付祂選民之目的（創一26，伯十13，參弗三9）這個重大問題的重大答案：
一 隱藏在神心裏的奧祕乃是神永遠的經綸（一10，三9，提前一4），就是神永遠的目的和祂的心願，要把祂自己在祂神聖的三一裏，就是父在子裏藉着靈，分賜到祂所揀選的人裏面，作他們的生命和性情，使他們能與祂一樣，作祂的複製（羅八29，約壹三2），成為一個生機體，就是基督的身體，作為新人（弗二15~16），成為神的豐滿，就是神的彰顯（一22~23，三19），而終極完成於新耶路撒冷（啟二一2~二二5）。
二 神成為人，好使人在生命和性情上（但不在神格上）成為神，為着產生並建造基督的身體，以終極完成新耶路撒冷；這是整本聖經的要素，是聖經這『盒子』裏的『鑽石』，也就是神永遠的經綸—創一26，約十二24，羅八29：
1 神藉着成了肉體而成為人，有分於人的人性；人藉着變化而在生命和性情上（但不在神格上）成為神，有分於神的神性—約一14，林後三18，西三4，彼後一4，腓二5，羅八29，來二10，弗一5，羅八19，約壹三2，約一12~13。
2 這神、人的羅曼史，乃是整本聖經的主題，是神經綸的內容，也是整個宇宙的祕密—歌一1，六13，參哈一1，二4，羅一17：
a 基督是神又是人，愛祂而得了變化的人是人又是神；二者在生命和性情上相同，彼此完全相配。
b 三一神終極完成為丈夫，三部分的人變化為新婦，二者要成為一對夫婦，一個團體至大的神人—啟二一2、9，二二17上。
週 二
三 神中心的啟示以及主的恢復中心的啟示乃是神成了肉體（約一1、14），肉體成了賜生命的靈（林前十五45下），賜生命的靈成了七倍加強的靈（啟一4，三1，四5，五6），為要建造召會（太十六18），成為基督的身體（弗四15~16），終極完成新耶路撒冷（啟二一2、9，二二17上，參創二22，約十九34）。
四 神與人要成為一個實體，而這一個實體就是神性與人性的調和；這個調和要終極完成於新耶路撒冷，作為整本聖經的總結—啟二一3、22、2、9，參利二4~5，詩九二10。
五 『我盼望全地眾召會的聖徒，尤其是同工和長老，都看見這啟示，然後起來禱告，求神給我們新的復興—一個歷史上從未有過的復興』—歷代志生命讀經，一七頁。
叁 我們若實行過神人的生活，這生活就是基督身體的實際，自然而然就會有團體的模型，就是活在神經綸裏的模型，建立起來；這模型要成為召會歷史中最大的復興，把主帶回來—詩四八2與註1，啟三12、21：
週 三
一 神需要一班團體的人，藉着神聖啟示的高峰，憑着祂的恩典被興起來，過一種照着這啟示的生活；復興乃是我們所看見之異象的實行。
二 基督的跟從者（太五1，二八19）被構成為門徒，乃是藉着基督在地上的人性生活，作神人的模型，就是祂在人性裏否認自己而活神（約五19、30）；這徹底改變了他們對人的觀念（腓三10，一21上）。
三 我們的生活該是基督這第一個神人之生活模型的翻版，複製—彼前二21，太十一28~29，弗四20~21，約十七4，五17，腓一19~22、25。
四 吹入門徒裏面之生命與實際的靈，要引導他們進入他們與主同在三年半之久對主所觀察之一切的實際—約十六13，二十22：
週 四
1 在第一個神人之職事的開始，祂受浸好盡全般的義，承認按祂的肉體（祂的人性—一14，羅一3，八3）說，祂一無用處，只配死和埋葬（太三15~17）。
2 祂在用五餅二魚食飽五千人的神蹟上，訓練門徒要跟祂學（十一29）；祂『望着天』祝福五餅二魚（十四19），指明祂知道祝福的源頭不是祂這受差遣者，而是父那差遣者（約十30，五19、30，七6、8、18）。
3 主沒有與羣眾在一起留在所行神蹟的結果裏，乃是離開他們，在山上在禱告中獨自與父在一起—太十四22~23，路六12。
4 主過接觸神的生活（可一35，路五16，六12，九28，來七25），不住的活在神的同在裏（徒十38下，約八29，十六32），並過接觸人的生活，將神供應到人裏面，把他們帶進神新約經綸的禧年（路四18~19，來八2，參創十四18，徒六4）。
5 在祂這人裏面，這世界的王撒但毫無所有（在任何事上都沒有立場、沒有機會、沒有盼望、沒有可能）—約十四30下，參20，林後十二2上，西一27，提後四22，約三6下，四23~24，約壹五4、18。
五 照着主的模型過神人生活惟一的路，乃是把我們全人置於調和的靈，照着調和的靈行事、生活並為人—羅八2、4、10、6、11、16，林前六17，羅十12，加五25，弗六17~18，帖前五16~20，提前四6~7，提後一6~7。
六 『我們都該宣告，我們要過神人的生活。至終，神人將是勝利者，得勝者，作耶路撒冷裏的錫安。這要帶進歷史上前所未見新的復興，也要結束這個世代』—歷代志生命讀經，三四頁。
週 五
肆 我們藉着有分於基督天上的職事，餧養祂的小羊並牧養祂的羊，以照顧神的羣羊，就是召會，結果帶進基督的身體，就能進入一個新的復興；這是把使徒的職事和基督天上的職事合併—約二一15~17，彼前二25，五1~4，來十三20~21，啟一12~13：
一 我們必須照着主耶穌在祂盡職時的榜樣牧養人，以完成神永遠的經綸—太九36，約十11，來十三20，彼前五4：
1 在神完整的救恩中，神整個新約經綸的內容，乃是基督作為人子來救贖我們脫離罪，藉着祂的死完成祂法理的救贖，藉此顧惜我們（提前一15，弗一7），並作為神子來將神聖的生命豐盛的分賜到我們裏面，在祂的復活裏完成祂生機的拯救，藉此餧養我們（約十10，林前十五45下，弗五29）。
2 我們沒有父的愛和赦免的心，也沒有救主牧養和尋找的靈，這是我們不結果子的原因—路十五1~24。
3 我們必須在耶穌的人性裏顧惜人（使他們快樂，並使他們覺得愉快和舒適）（太九10，路七34）；我們必須在基督的神性裏餧養人（以那在三個時期中盡其職事之包羅萬有的基督餧養他們）（太二四45~47）。
4 基督必須經過撒瑪利亞，特意繞道去敘加，要得着一個不道德的婦人，藉着請那婦人給祂水喝而顧惜她，好用湧流的三一神作生命的水餧養她—約四3~14，啟二二1。
5 主是沒有罪的一位，但祂不定罪那行淫的婦人，卻顧惜她，在法理一面赦免她的罪，並在生機一面使她從罪得自由（約八1~11、32、36）；基督藉着釘十字架而拯救的第一個人，乃是一個判處死刑的強盜，這也是很有意義的（路二三42~43）。
6 主到耶利哥，只為探訪並得着一個人，就是稅吏長，而祂的傳揚乃是一種牧養（十九1~10）；祂也藉着給孩子們按手，而顧惜他們的父母（太十九13~15）。
週 六
二 我們必須照着使徒保羅的榜樣牧養人；保羅牧養聖徒，就像乳養的母親和勸勉的父親一樣，照顧神的羣羊—帖前二7~8、11~12，提前一16，徒二十28：
1 保羅牧養在以弗所的聖徒，『或在公眾面前，或挨家挨戶』（20）教導他們，並且流淚勸戒每一位聖徒，三年之久（31、19），將神一切的旨意告訴他們（27）。
2 保羅親密的關切信徒（林後七2~7，門7、12），他下到輭弱之人的水準，好能得着他們（林後十一28~29，林前九22，參太十二20）。
3 為着聖徒的緣故，他樂意花費他所有的，指他的財物；並花費他所是的，指他這人（林後十二15）；他是奠祭，與基督這產生酒者是一，犧牲他自己，使別人得以享受基督（腓二17，士九13，弗三2）。
4 保羅憑靈而行而尊重神，好叫他能將那靈服事給人而尊重人—林後三3、6、8，加五16、25，士九9。
5 保羅在他的教訓裏指明，召會是養育人的家，是醫治並恢復人的醫院，也是教導並造就人的學校—弗二19，帖前五14，林前十四31。
6 他啟示，為着建造基督的身體，在我們的所是和所作上，愛乃是極超越的路—八1，十二31，十三4~8上，弗一4，三17，四2、15~16，五2，六24，啟二4~5，西一18下，帖前一3。
三 『我盼望因着我們接受有關牧養的這個負擔，在我們中間會有真正的復興。眾召會若都接受這教訓，有分於基督奇妙的牧養，在主的恢復裏就會有一次大的復興』—李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第五冊，活力排，一二七頁。
Week One
Cooperating with the Lord to Bring In a New Revival That Will End This Age
Hymns: E797
Scripture Reading: Hab. 3:2; Acts 26:19, 22; Matt. 14:19, 22-23; Phil. 1:19-22, 25; John 21:15-17
§ Day 1
I. Among Gods elect there has always been an aspiration to be revived—Hab. 3:2; Hosea 6:2; Rom. 8:20-22; Psa. 119:25, 50, 107, 154; John 6:57, 63; 2 Cor. 3:3, 6.
II. We can enter into a new revival by arriving at the highest peak of the divine revelation given to us by God—the revelation of the eternal economy of God (1 Tim. 1:3-4; 1 Cor. 9:17; Acts 26:19, 22); this is the great answer to the great question concerning Gods purpose in His creation of man and in His dealing with His chosen people (Gen. 1:26; Job 10:13; cf. Eph. 3:9):
A. The mystery hidden in Gods heart is Gods eternal economy (1:10; 3:9; 1 Tim. 1:4), which is Gods eternal intention with His hearts desire to dispense Himself in His Divine Trinity as the Father in the Son by the Spirit into His chosen people to be their life and nature that they may be the same as He is as His duplication (Rom. 8:29; 1 John 3:2) to become an organism, the Body of Christ as the new man (Eph. 2:15-16), for Gods fullness, Gods expression (1:22-23; 3:19), which will consummate in the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:2— 22:5).
B. God becoming man that man might become God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead for the producing and building up of the Body of Christ to consummate the New Jerusalem is the essence of the entire Bible, the "diamond" in the "box" of the Bible, the eternal economy of God—Gen. 1:26; John 12:24; Rom. 8:29:
1. God became man through incarnation by participating in mans humanity; man becomes God in life and nature but not in the Godhead through transformation by participating in Gods divinity—John 1:14; 2 Cor. 3:18; Col. 3:4; 2 Pet. 1:4; Phil. 2:5; Rom. 8:29; Heb. 2:10; Eph. 1:5; Rom. 8:19; 1 John 3:2; John 1:12-13.
2. This divine-human romance is the subject of the entire Bible, the content of Gods economy, and the secret of the entire universe—S. S. 1:1; 6:13; cf. Hab. 1:1; 2:4; Rom. 1:17:
a. Christ is divine and human, and His transformed lover is human and divine; they are the same in life and nature, perfectly matching each other.
b. The Triune God consummated to be the Husband and the tripartite man transformed to be the bride are to be one couple, a corporate, great God-man—Rev. 21:2, 9; 22:17a.
§ Day 2
C. The central revelation of God and of the Lords recovery is God becoming the flesh (John 1:1, 14), the flesh becoming the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b), and the life-giving Spirit becoming the sevenfold intensified Spirit (Rev. 1:4; 3:1; 4:5; 5:6) to build up the church (Matt. 16:18) that becomes the Body of Christ (Eph. 4:15-16) and that
consummates the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:2, 9; 22:17a; cf. Gen. 2:22; John 19:34).
D. God and man will become one entity, and that one entity is the mingling of divinity with humanity, which will consummate in the New Jerusalem as the conclusion of the entire Bible—Rev. 21:3, 22, 2, 9; cf. Lev. 2:4-5; Psa. 92:10.
E. "I hope that the saints in all the churches throughout the earth, especially the co-workers and the elders, will see this revelation and then rise up to pray that God would give us a new revival—a revival which has never been recorded in history"—Life-study of 1 and 2 Chronicles, p. 15.
III. If we practice living the life of a God-man, which is the reality of the Body of Christ, spontaneously a corporate model will be built up, a model living in the economy of God;
this model will be the greatest revival in the history of the church to bring the Lord back—Psa. 48:2 and footnote 1; Rev. 3:12, 21:
§ Day 3
A. God needs a corporate people to be raised up by His grace through the high peak of the divine revelation to live a life according to this revelation; a revival is the practice, the practicality, of the vision we have seen.
B. The followers of Christ (Matt. 5:1; 28:19) were discipled through Christs human living on the earth, as the model of a God-man—living God by denying Himself in humanity (John 5:19, 30), revolutionizing their concept concerning man (Phil. 3:10; 1:21a).
C. Our life should be a copy, a reproduction, of the model of the life of Christ, the first God-man—1 Pet. 2:21; Matt. 11:28-29; Eph. 4:20-21; John 17:4; 5:17; Phil. 1:19-22, 25.
D. The Spirit of life and reality who was breathed into the disciples would guide them into all the reality of what they had observed of the Lord when they were with Him for three and a half years—John 16:13; 20:22:
§ Day 4
1. At the commencement of the first God-mans ministry, He was baptized to fulfill all righteousness, recognizing that according to His flesh (His humanity—1:14; Rom. 1:3; 8:3), He was good for nothing but death and burial (Matt. 3:15-17).
2. He trained His disciples to learn from Him (11:29) in the miracle of feeding five thousand people with five loaves and two fish; His "looking up to heaven" to bless the five loaves and two fish (14:19) indicates His realizing that the source of blessing was not Him, the sent One, but the Father, the sending One (John 10:30; 5:19, 30; 7:6, 8, 18).
3. The Lord did not remain in the issue of the miracle with the crowds but went away from them to be with the Father privately on the mountain in prayer— Matt. 14:22-23; Luke 6:12.
4. The Lord lived a life of contacting God (Mark 1:35; Luke 5:16; 6:12; 9:28; Heb. 7:25), living in the presence of God without ceasing (Acts 10:38c; John 8:29; 16:32), and of contacting people, ministering God into them to bring them into the jubilee of Gods New Testament economy (Luke 4:18-19; Heb. 8:2; cf. Gen. 14:18; Acts 6:4).
5. He was a man in whom Satan, the ruler of the world, had nothing (no ground, no chance, no hope, no possibility in anything)—John 14:30b, cf. v. 20; 2 Cor. 12:2a; Col. 1:27; 2 Tim. 4:22; John 3:6b; 4:23-24; 1 John 5:4, 18.
E. The only way to live the life of a God-man according to the Lords model is to set our entire being on the mingled spirit, walking, living, and having our being according to the mingled spirit—Rom. 8:2, 4, 10, 6, 11, 16; 1 Cor. 6:17; Rom. 10:12; Gal. 5:25; Eph. 6:17-18; 1 Thes. 5:16-20; 1 Tim. 4:6-7; 2 Tim. 1:6-7.
F. "We should all declare that we want to live the life of a God-man. Eventually, the God-men will be the victors, the overcomers, the Zion within Jerusalem. This will bring in a new revival that has never been seen in history, and this will end this age"—Life-study of 1 and 2 Chronicles, p. 28.
§ Day 5
IV. We can enter into a new revival by participating in Christs heavenly ministry to feed His lambs and shepherd His sheep in order to take care of Gods flock, which is the church that issues in the Body of Christ; this is to incorporate the apostolic ministry with Christs heavenly ministry—John 21:15-17; 1 Pet. 2:25; 5:1-4; Heb. 13:20-21; Rev. 1:12-13:
A. We need to shepherd people according to the pattern of the Lord Jesus in His ministry for carrying out Gods eternal economy—Matt. 9:36; John 10:11; Heb. 13:20; 1 Pet. 5:4:
1. The content of Gods entire New Testament economy in His complete salvation is Christ as the Son of Man cherishing us by redeeming us from sin, accomplishing His judicial redemption through His death (1 Tim. 1:15; Eph. 1:7), and Christ as the Son of God nourishing us to impart the divine life into us abundantly, carrying out His organic salvation in His resurrection (John 10:10; 1 Cor. 15:45b; Eph. 5:29).
2. Our not having the Fathers loving and forgiving heart and the Saviors shepherding and seeking spirit are the reason for our barrenness—Luke 15:1-24.
3. We need to cherish people (to make them happy and to make them feel pleasant and comfortable) in the humanity of Jesus (Matt. 9:10; Luke 7:34); we need to nourish people (to feed them with the all-inclusive Christ in His ministry of three stages) in the divinity of Christ (Matt. 24:45-47).
4. Christ had to pass through Samaria, purposely detouring to Sychar to gain one immoral woman, cherishing her by asking her to give Him something to drink in order to nourish her with the flowing Triune God as the river of water of life—John 4:3-14; Rev. 22:1.
5. As the One without sin, He did not condemn the adulterous woman but cherished her for the forgiveness of her sins judicially and for the setting free from her sins organically (John 8:1-11, 32, 36); it is also significant that the first one saved by Christ through His crucifixion was a robber sentenced to death (Luke 23:42-43).
6. The Lord went to Jericho just to visit and gain one person, a chief tax collector, and His preaching was a shepherding (19:1-10); He also cherished the parents by laying His hands on their children (Matt. 19:13-15).
§ Day 6
B. We need to shepherd people according to the pattern of the apostle Paul, who shepherded the saints as a nursing mother and an exhorting father in order to take care of Gods flock—1 Thes. 2:7-8, 11-12; 1 Tim. 1:16; Acts 20:28:
1. Paul shepherded the saints in Ephesus by teaching them "publicly and from house to house" (v. 20) and by admonishing each one of the saints with tears for three years (vv. 31, 19), declaring to them all the counsel of God (v. 27).
2. Paul had an intimate concern for the believers (2 Cor. 7:2-7; Philem. 7, 12), and he came down to the weak ones level so that he could gain them (2 Cor. 11:28-29; 1 Cor. 9:22; cf. Matt. 12:20).
3. He was willing to spend what he had, referring to his possessions, and to spend what he was, referring to his being, for the sake of the saints (2 Cor. 12:15); he was a drink offering, one with Christ as the wine producer, sacrificing himself for others enjoyment of Christ (Phil. 2:17; Judg. 9:13; Eph. 3:2).
4. Paul walked by the Spirit to honor God so that he could minister the Spirit to honor man—2 Cor. 3:3, 6, 8; Gal. 5:16, 25; Judg. 9:9.
5. Paul indicated in his teaching that the church is a home to raise up people, a hospital to heal and recover them, and a school to teach and edify them— Eph. 2:19; 1 Thes. 5:14; 1 Cor. 14:31.
6. He revealed that love is the most excellent way for us to be anything and to do anything for the building up of the Body of Christ—8:1; 12:31; 13:4-8a; Eph. 1:4; 3:17; 4:2, 15-16; 5:2; 6:24; Rev. 2:4-5; Col. 1:18b; 1 Thes. 1:3.
C. "I hope that there will be a genuine revival among us by our receiving this burden of shepherding. If all the churches receive this teaching to participate in Christs wonderful shepherding, there will be a big revival in the recovery"—The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994–1997, vol. 5, "The Vital Groups," p. 92.
