第一週 • 綱目
門徒、信徒、聖徒和基督徒
讀經：太五1，二八19，林後六14~16，林前一2，彼前四16
週一、週二
壹 我們是基督的門徒，就是跟從基督，並照着那在耶穌身上是實際者（就是耶穌神人生活的真實光景，如四福音所記載的）而學基督的人；這是在基督的經歷裏經歷祂，好使我們能成為祂生機的繁殖和複製，使祂得着祂自己團體的彰顯，而在召會中並在新耶路撒冷裏得着榮耀—太五1，二八19，弗四20~24，三21，賽四三7，啟二一11：
一 我們正在從一個天然的人被訓練成一個神人，照着基督這第一個神人的榜樣，否認我們天然的生命，而活神聖的生命；這就是學基督，並在祂裏面照着那在耶穌身上是實際者受教導，好在我們心思的靈裏被神的話更新，使我們成為新的、團體的神人—弗四23，申十七18~20：
1 『你們若住在我的話裏，就真是我的門徒；你們必認識真理，真理必叫你們得以自由』—約八31~32、36，十五7。
2 我們禱讀主話，並有耳可聽那靈藉着話語職事向眾召會所說的話，就藉着心思的更新而變化，受主訓練作門徒—弗六17~18，啟二7，羅十二2，弗四23。
3 我們的心思得更新，乃是在一切對人生事物的觀念上，受聖經的教訓和聖靈的光照，以接受神新的思想，而有的去舊更新—詩一一九105、130。
4 我們要作主的門徒，在基督自己這生命裏得救，而在生命中作王，勝過撒但、罪與死，就必須被神的聖言重新構成，好使我們受祂的話指教、管治、管理並控制—羅五10、17，申十七18~20，提後三15~17。
週 三
二 我們學基督，就是藉着喫基督而被基督頂替；那在耶穌身上是實際者（耶穌個人的神人生活），得以成為基督身體的實際（團體基督的神人生活），乃是藉着我們喫基督以享受祂作供應，供給我們，加力量給我們，加強我們，並使我們有能力，以揀選並實行神的旨意，使祂在召會中得榮耀—約六57，賽七14~15，約十七4，來五8，腓二8，約六63，耶十五16，來四16，羅五5、17，十二2，林後五14，弗三20~21。
三 我們學基督，是藉着每早晨被祂喚醒，使我們能有受教者的耳朵和舌頭，好用言語扶助疲乏的人；我們是主的門徒、受教者，應當依賴祂，信靠祂的名，不自行造光—賽五十4~5、10~11。
四 我們學基督作那心裏柔和謙卑者，祂的軛是容易的，祂的擔子是輕省的，並且祂將自己賜給我們，作我們魂的安息（完全的平安和完滿的滿足）—太十一28~30。
五 我們學基督作那內住於我們之充足的祕訣，使我們在祂人性的美德裏彰顯神的屬性，在各種環境、光景和境遇中活基督以顯大基督—腓四5~13。
六 我們照着基督愛和赦免的心並祂牧養和尋找的靈，學基督作那喜愛憐憫者—太九12~13。
七 門徒跟從主三年半，看見主所作的、主如何行事為人並如何說話；吹入他們裏面的生命與實際之靈（約二十22），要引導他們進入他們對主所觀察之一切的實際（十六13）。
八 主耶穌是在復活中，不憑自己，乃憑另一個源頭—祂的父—而過人性生活的人；當我們憑另一個生命—內住於我們的基督—而在人性裏活着，這種生活就使我們成為主真正的門徒。
九 主的門徒有三一神真實的同在作他們的大喜樂，而使他們成為那有『耶穌的人性』的人，對他們所接觸者是甜美、迷人、吸引人的，毫無虛謊或偽善—太一23，詩四三4，羅十四17，尼八10，腓一25，四5、8~9，提前四15~16。
十 跟從基督的人受門徒訓練，乃是藉着基督在地上的人性生活，作為神人的模型—藉着在人性裏否認祂自己而活神（約五19、30）；這徹底改變了他們關於人的觀念（腓三10，一21上）。
十一 『我在主的恢復中觀察倪弟兄如何行事為人十八年之久。我在他身上所觀察到的一切，都成了將我構成門徒的事物。』（李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第五冊，活力排，一○二頁）
週 四
貳 我們是基督裏的信徒，就是憑神兒子的信得生並活着的人；信廢除我們，並使我們活神、彰顯神且將神供應到人裏面—林後六14~16，羅一17，來十一6，加二20：
一 在基督裏的信徒（約三15~16）已經從亞當裏遷到基督裏（林前十五22），已經重生成為在基督裏的新造（林後五17），現今在基督永遠的生命裏與祂聯結，並與基督聯合成為一靈（林前六17）：
1 我們在基督裏的信徒已經出生兩次，第一次出生為天然的人，但有一天我們再次出生，成為有神聖、永遠生命之重生的人—約三6~7。
2 我們的第二張出生證明（屬靈出生證明），見於羅馬八章十六節，那裏說，那靈同我們的靈見證我們是神的兒女；我們神聖奧祕的出生證明乃是一個雙重的靈，就是那靈同我們的靈（我們的靈已與主成為一靈）。
二 人聽見基督，認識祂，欣賞祂，寶貴祂，祂就在人裏面生髮出信，叫人相信祂；這樣，祂就成了人裏面對祂的信—來十二2。
三 信來自聽見話；當我們聽見基督，在神寫出來的話裏接觸祂這神活的話，祂就成了應用的話，作為那靈分賜到我們裏面，成為我們的信；因此，神化身在基督裏，又實化為那靈，與我們的靈調和，這就是信—羅十17，約一1，五39~40，六63。
四 聽信仰喚起我們愛的珍賞，我們越愛主，信就越運行，帶我們進入那包羅萬有之靈的豐富和益處裏—加三2、5，五6。
五 羅馬十二章三節說，『不要看自己過於所當看的，乃要照着神所分給各人信心的度量，看得清明適度』：
1 看自己過於所當看的，而不清明適度，就是抹煞身體生活中正確的等次；神給我們的信心，在質上是同樣的，在量上卻是不同的；量的多少乃在於我們如何長大；如果我們今天像使徒保羅一樣長大，我們所接受那一分的信心就要大大的擴充。
2 神分給我們多少信心，乃在於我們的態度；如果我們不是清明適度的（看自己過於所當看的，不看別人比自己強，以及自以為是甚麼，其實我們甚麼也不是），神就不會在分給我們的信心上增加度量，甚至可能會把它減少—腓二2~3，加六3，林前八1~3。
六 我們信徒在以下與基督的關係裏憑信而活：
1 基督是葡萄樹，我們是祂的枝子—約十五1~8。
2 基督是頭，我們是祂的肢體—林前十二27。
3 基督是生命的氣、生命的水、生命的糧，我們是呼吸祂、喫祂並喝祂的人—約二十22，四10、14，七37~39上，六35、51~63、68。
4 基督是新郎，我們是祂的新婦—三29，弗五25~27，啟十九7~9，林後十一2~3。
5 基督是孤兒的父，我們是孤兒，成了祂的兒女，享受祂的照顧和拯救（含示祂每天的救拔和解救）—約十四18，詩六八5~6，賽九6，二二19~22，約一12~13，十四10，詩一○七1~43，一一○4，啟二1、7，來七25，羅五10。
6 基督是我們的醫生，我們是祂的病人，享受祂作我們的醫治者，成為我們的赦免、享受、喜樂、滿足和自由—出十五23~26，可二1~三6。
7 基督是世界的光，我們是跟從祂的人，使我們得着生命的光，並成為擴散祂神聖之光的透光體—約八12，太五14~16，腓二12~16，約壹一5、7、9，啟二一23。
週 五
叁 我們是神的聖徒，是被分別且聖別歸神的人—羅一7，林前一2、30，參民六1~9：
一 我們在地位上，藉祂救贖的血已經得着聖別—來十三12。
二 我們在性質上，藉祂聖別的性情正在被聖化—帖後二13，來二10~11，林前六11，弗五26，帖前五23~24。
週 六
肆 我們是基督徒，基督人，與基督是一，因着與基督生機的聯結，有祂作我們全備供應的內容，好在日常生活中活祂，使祂得以顯大—徒十一26，二六28，彼前四16，林前六17，林後四7，腓一19~21上：
一 作基督徒的目標，以及神在祂的經綸裏為我們所定的定命，乃是要我們憑那靈生活行動，好活基督，使神得着榮耀，就是得着彰顯—加二20，五16、25，六17，賽四三7，林前六20，十31。
二 每一個基督徒在地上，都有主在他身上所定的特別路程，作基督盡功用的肢體，為着祂身體的建造；這路程需要每一個基督徒自己走，沒有人能取代他，他也不能取代任何人—徒十三22、25、36，二十24，林前九24，十二14~22，提後四7~8。
Week One
Disciples, Believers, Saints, and Christians
Hymns: 535
Scripture Reading: Matt. 5:1; 28:19; 2 Cor. 6:14-16; 1 Cor. 1:2; 1 Pet. 4:16
§ Day 1 & Day 2
I. We are disciples of Christ, those who are following and learning Christ according to the reality that is in Jesus, which is the actual condition of the God-man living of Jesus
recorded in the four Gospels; this is to experience Christ in His experiences so that we might become His organic reproduction and duplication for Him to have a corporate
expression of Himself for His glory in the church and in the New Jerusalem—Matt. 5:1; 28:19; Eph. 4:20-24; 3:21; Isa. 43:7; Rev. 21:11:
A. We are being discipled from being a natural man to being a God-man, living the divine life by denying our natural life according to the model of Christ as the first God-man; this is to learn Christ and be taught in Him as the reality is in Jesus, to be renewed in the spirit of our mind by the word of God so that we may become a new and corporate God-man—Eph. 4:23; Deut. 17:18-20:
1. "If you abide in My word, you are truly My disciples; and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free"—John 8:31-32, 36; 15:7.
2. By the prayerful reading of the Scriptures and by having an ear to hear what the Spirit says to the churches through the ministry of the word, we are being discipled by the Lord through being transformed by the renewing of our mind—Eph. 6:17-18; Rev. 2:7; Rom. 12:2; Eph. 4:23.
3. For us to be renewed in our mind is to get rid of all the old concepts concerning the things of the human life through receiving the new thoughts of God by the teaching of the Holy Scriptures and the enlightening of the Holy Spirit—Psa. 119:105, 130.
4. In order to be the Lords disciples who are being saved in Christ Himself as life to reign in life over Satan, sin, and death, we must be reconstituted with the holy word of God so that we may be instructed, governed, ruled, and controlled by the word of God—Rom. 5:10, 17; Deut. 17:18-20; 2 Tim. 3:15-17.
§ Day 3
B. To learn Christ is for us to be replaced with Christ by eating Christ; the reality that is in Jesus (the God-man living of the individual Jesus) becomes the reality of the Body of Christ (the God-man living of the corporate Christ) by our eating Christ to enjoy Christ as our supplying, energizing, empowering, and enabling supply, so that we may choose and carry out the will of God for His glory in the church—John 6:57; Isa. 7:14-15; John 17:4; Heb. 5:8; Phil. 2:8; John 6:63; Jer. 15:16; Heb. 4:16; Rom. 5:5, 17; 12:2; 2 Cor. 5:14; Eph. 3:20-21.
C. We are learning Christ by being awakened by Him morning by morning so that we can have the ear and tongue of an instructed one to sustain the weary with a word; as the Lords disciples, His instructed ones, we should rely on Him, trust in His name, and not generate our own light—Isa. 50:4- 5, 10-11.
D. We are learning Christ as the One who is meek and lowly in heart, as the One whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light, and as the One who gives us Himself as rest (perfect peace and full satisfaction) for our souls—Matt. 11:28-30.
E. We are learning Christ as our indwelling secret of sufficiency to express Gods attributes in Christs human virtues, living Him for His magnification in every kind of environment, situation, and circumstance—Phil. 4:5-13.
F. We are learning Christ as the One who desires mercy according to His loving and forgiving heart and His shepherding and seeking spirit—Matt. 9:12-13.
G. The disciples who followed the Lord for three and a half years saw what He did, how He behaved, and how He spoke; the Spirit of life and of reality who was breathed into them (John 20:22) would guide them into all the reality of what they had observed of the Lord (16:13).
H. The Lord Jesus was a person living a human life in resurrection, not by Himself but by another source, that is, His Father; when we live in our humanity by another life, by the Christ who indwells us, this kind of living makes us the Lords genuine disciples.
I. The disciples of the Lord have the real presence of the Triune God as their exceeding joy to make them persons who are "Jesusly human," those who are sweet, charming, and attractive to those whom they contact, without any deception or hypocrisy—Matt. 1:23; Psa. 43:4; Rom. 14:17; Neh. 8:10; Phil. 1:25; 4:5, 8-9; 1 Tim. 4:15-16.
J. The followers of Christ 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).
K. "I was in the recovery observing how Brother Watchman Nee acted for eighteen years. All that I observed in him became things discipling me" (The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, vol. 5, "The Vital Groups," p. 76).
§ Day 4
II. We are believers in Christ, those who have life and live by the faith of the Son of God; faith annuls us and causes us to live God, to express God, and to minister God into people—2 Cor. 6:14-16; Rom. 1:17; Heb. 11:6; Gal. 2:20:
A. The believers in Christ (John 3:15-16) have been transferred from Adam into Christ (1 Cor. 15:22), they have been regenerated to be a new creation in Christ (2 Cor. 5:17), they are united with Christ in His eternal life, and they are joined to Christ to be one spirit with Him (1 Cor. 6:17):
1. As believers in Christ, we have been generated twice; we were generated the first time to be the natural man, but one day we were regenerated to be born anew with the divine, eternal life—John 3:6-7.
2. Our second birth certificate of our spiritual birth is seen in Romans 8:16, which says that the Spirit witnesses with our spirit that we are children of God; our divine and mystical birth certificate is a double spirit, the Spirit with our spirit, which has become one spirit with the Lord.
B. When man hears Christ, knows Him, appreciates Him, and treasures Him, He causes faith to be generated in man, enabling man to believe in Him; thus, He becomes the faith in man by which man believes in Him—Heb. 12:2.
C. Faith comes out of the hearing of the word; when we hear Christ and contact Him as the living word of God in the written word of God, He becomes the applied word as the Spirit dispensed into us to be our faith; thus, God embodied in Christ and realized as the Spirit mingled with our spirit is faith—Rom. 10:17; John 1:1; 5:39-40; 6:63.
D. The hearing of faith awakens our loving appreciation, and the more we love the Lord, the more faith operates to bring us into the riches, the profit, of the all-inclusive Spirit—Gal. 3:2, 5; 5:6.
E. Romans 12:3 says, "Not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think, but to think so as to be sober-minded, as God has apportioned to each a measure of faith":
1. To think more highly of ourselves than we ought to think without a sober mind annuls the proper order of the Body life; God gave us the same faith in quality but not in quantity; the matter of quantity depends upon how we grow; if we grow today as the apostle Paul grew, the portion of faith we receive will be greatly enlarged.
2. How much faith God apportions to us depends upon our attitude; if we are not sober-minded (thinking more highly of ourselves than we ought to think, not considering one another more excellent than ourselves, and thinking that we are something when we are nothing), God would not increase His apportioning of faith to us, and He probably would even decrease it—Phil. 2:2-3; Gal. 6:3; 1 Cor. 8:1-3.
F. We believers live by faith in the following relationships with Christ:
1. Christ is the vine, and we are His branches—John 15:1-8.
2. Christ is the Head, and we are His members—1 Cor. 12:27.
3. Christ is the breath of life, the water of life, and the bread of life, and we are His breathers, eaters, and drinkers—John 20:22; 4:10, 14; 7:37-39a; 6:35, 51- 63, 68.
4. Christ is the Bridegroom, and we are His bride—3:29; Eph. 5:25-27; Rev. 19:7-9; 2 Cor. 11:2-3.
5. Christ is the Father of the orphans, and we are the orphans who have become His children, enjoying His care and deliverance, which imply His rescue and saving every day—John 14:18; Psa. 68:5-6; Isa. 9:6; 22:19-22; John 1:12-13; 14:10; Psa. 107:1-43; 110:4; Rev. 2:1, 7; Heb. 7:25; Rom. 5:10.
6. Christ is our Physician, and we are His patients, enjoying Him as our Healer to be our forgiveness, enjoyment, joy, satisfaction, and freedom—Exo. 15:23- 26; Mark 2:1—3:6.
7. Christ is the light of the world, and we are His followers so that we may have the light of life and be His diffuser to spread the divine light—John 8:12; Matt. 5:14-16; Phil. 2:12-16; 1 John 1:5, 7, 9; Rev. 21:23.
§ Day 5
III. We are saints of God, those who have been separated and made holy unto God—Rom. 1:7; 1 Cor. 1:2, 30; cf. Num. 6:1-9:
A. We have been sanctified with His redeeming blood positionally—Heb. 13:12.
B. We are being sanctified with His holy nature dispositionally—2 Thes. 2:13; Heb. 2:10-11; 1 Cor. 6:11; Eph. 5:26; 1 Thes. 5:23-24.
§ Day 6
IV. We are Christians, Christ-men, those who are one with Christ, having Christ as our bountifully supplying contents in an organic union with Him to live Him for His magnification in our daily life—Acts 11:26; 26:28; 1 Pet. 4:16; 1 Cor. 6:17; 2 Cor. 4:7; Phil. 1:19-21a:
A. The goal of being a Christian and the destiny that God has ordained for us in His economy is for us to walk by the Spirit in order to live Christ for Gods glory, His expression—Gal. 2:20; 5:16, 25; 6:17; Isa. 43:7; 1 Cor. 6:20; 10:31.
B. Every Christian on this earth has a special journey that the Lord has assigned to him as a functioning member of Christ for the building up of His Body; he has to take the journey himself; no one else can replace him, nor can he replace anyone else—Acts 13:22, 25, 36; 20:24; 1 Cor. 9:24; 12:14-22; 2 Tim. 4:7-8.
