第一週 • 週一
晨興餧養
哈三2 …耶和華阿，求你在這些年間復興你的工作…。
何六2 過兩天祂必使我們活過來，第三天祂必使我們興起…。
復興這件事是小申言者書『外殼』裏面的『核仁』。…哈巴谷三章二節上半說到復興。…在神的選民中間，一直有復興的渴望。…我們可能沒有感覺，但這樣的渴望在我們多年的基督徒生活中，一直在我們裏面。…哈巴谷求復興的禱告…代表全體。神總是將祂的選民看作團體的身體。…因此，當哈巴谷禱告求復興時，我們也禱告。…這樣的禱告是永存的禱告（瑪拉基書生命讀經，五一二至五一三頁）。
信息選讀
新約的主要內容，乃是三一神照着祂美意而有的永遠經綸，要在祂的生命和性情上，將祂自己分賜到祂所揀選並救贖的人裏面，使他們都在生命和性情上與祂一模一樣，使他們成為祂的複製，以彰顯祂。這團體的彰顯要終極完成於新耶路撒冷。因此，新耶路撒冷就是〔三一神〕成為肉體的擴大和擴增，達到完滿的總結，就是三一神的豐滿，讓祂在祂調和着人性之神性裏彰顯祂自己（約伯記生命讀經，七三至七四頁）。
在撒下七章十二節神提到大衛的後裔，在十四節上半祂說，『我要作他的父，他要作我的子。』這裏我們看見一件非常有意義的事—大衛的後裔成了神的兒子。這些經節清楚揭示，人的後裔，就是人的兒子，能成為神的兒子。這含示神的目的，是要使祂自己成為人，為要使人在生命和性情上（但不在神格上）成為神。這樣的含示意義極其重大。至終，整本聖經終極完成於這件事。新耶路撒冷，就是聖經的終極完成，乃是神成為人，並且人在生命和性情上（但不在神格上）成為神；神和人調和在一起，成為一個實體（撒母耳記生命讀經，二四八至二四九頁）。
在神的羅曼史中，祂渴望與人成為一。祂藉着成為與人一樣，來完成這事。神因着祂心頭的願望，就在成為肉體時成為人，並且接觸人，與人展開一部羅曼史。神在新約中開啟祂的心意以前，天使和人都不知道神在作甚麼（弗三9）。他們不領悟，他們的神成為丈夫，要娶妻子。這位丈夫是神聖的，祂所要娶的妻子是屬人的。
雖然神成了低微的人，但…祂的心意是要將祂的人性提高到祂神性的水準。…藉着在聖別的靈裏神聖的能力，耶穌的人性被提高到神聖的兒子名分裏，提高到神性裏〔羅一3~4〕。藉此祂由神而生，不是作神的獨生子，乃是作神的長子（八29），這指明有許多兒子要隨着。今天我們的基督在神聖的意義上是神，在屬人的意義上是人。祂是神人。
這神人是神聖、宇宙羅曼史中的新郎（約三29），但祂的配偶僅僅是人，仍與祂不相配。沒有神聖源頭的人，無法作神人的配偶。所以，神重生祂所揀選的人。重生是將神性放在人性裏，將人性提高到神性的標準。然而，重生還沒有完成這過程。…神為了提高我們整個人，首先必須重生我們的靈，然後變化我們的魂。我們魂的變化是需要時間的。
基督是神而人者，祂變化過的佳偶是人而神者。他們在生命和性情上是同樣的，彼此完全相配（李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第三冊，四一八至四二一頁）。
參讀：瑪拉基書生命讀經，第四篇；撒母耳記生命讀經，第三十一篇。
WEEK 1 — DAY 1
Morning Nourishment
Hab. 3:2 …O Jehovah, revive Your work in the midst of the years…
Hosea 6:2 He will enliven us after two days; on the third day He will raise us up…
[The] matter of revival is the “kernel” within the “shell” of the books of the Minor Prophets…Habakkuk 3:2a speaks of revival…Among God’s elect there has always been an aspiration to be revived…Although we may not realize it, such an aspiration has been within us through all the years of our Christian life…Habakkuk’s prayer for revival…represents the whole. God always considers His elect as a corporate Body…Thus, when Habakkuk prayed for revival, we also prayed…Such a prayer is an everlasting prayer. (Life-study of Malachi, p. 19)
Today’s Reading
The main contents of the New Testament are that the Triune God has an eternal economy according to His good pleasure to dispense Himself into His chosen and redeemed people in His life and in His nature, to make all of them the same as He is in life and nature, to make them His duplication that they may express Him. This corporate expression will consummate in the New Jerusalem. Thus, the New Jerusalem is simply the enlarged, the increased, incarnation consummated in full, that is, the fullness of the Triune God for Him to express Himself in His divinity mingled with humanity. (Life-study of Job, p. 62)
In [2 Samuel 7:12] God spoke of David’s seed, and in verse 14a He said, “I will be his Father, and he will be My son.” Here we have something of very great significance—the seed of David becoming the Son of God. These verses clearly unveil that a seed of man, that is, a son of a man, can become the Son of God. This implies that God’s intention is to make Himself man in order to make man God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead. Such an implication is exceedingly great. Eventually, the whole Bible consummates with this matter. The New Jerusalem, the ultimate consummation of the
Bible, involves God becoming man and man becoming God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead, and God and man being mingled together to be one entity. (Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, pp. 205-206)
In God’s romance He desires to be one with man. He carried this out by becoming the same as man. God, because of His heart’s desire, became a man in incarnation, and He contacted man by the way of a romance. Before God opened up in the New Testament what was on His heart, both angels and men did not know what God was doing (Eph. 3:9). They did not realize that their God was becoming a Husband to marry a wife. This Husband was divine, and the wife He was going to marry was human.
Although God became a lowly man,…His intention was to bring His humanity up to the level of His divinity. Through the divine power in the Spirit of holiness, Jesus’ humanity was uplifted into the divine sonship, into divinity [Rom. 1:3-4]. By this He was born of God not as God’s only begotten Son but as God’s firstborn Son (8:29), which indicates that many sons would follow. Today our Christ is God in the divine sense and man in the human sense. He is a God-man.
This God-man is the Bridegroom in the divine, universal romance (John 3:29), but His counterpart, being merely human, still does not match Him. A human without a divine source cannot be the counterpart of the God-man. Therefore, God regenerated His human elect. Regeneration is to put divinity into humanity, to uplift humanity to the standard of divinity. However, regeneration does not complete the process…In order to uplift our entire being, God first has to regenerate our spirit and then transform our soul. The transformation of our soul takes time.
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. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 3, “Crystallization-study of Song of Songs,” pp. 325-326)
Further Reading: Life-study of Malachi, msg. 4; Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, msg. 31
