第一週  綱目

認識並經歷亞伯拉罕的神、以撒的神和雅各的神，而成爲神的以色列

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讀經：創二八13，三三20，出三6，14〜15，徒三13，加六16，帖前一1

週  一

壹  我們的神乃是三個特別人物—亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各—的神；這含示祂是三一神—出三15，太二八19，林後十三14：

一  亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各是以色列國的根基；若沒有他們，就沒有以色列國—出三 15〜16：

1神的子民所以能成爲神的子民，是因爲他們有了亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各的經歷；他們的經歷最終使他們成爲神的子民以色列。

2我們都需要有亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各的成分；沒有這些成分，我們就不能成爲神的子民，神的以色列。

二 在創世記這卷書中，亞伯拉罕、以撒、雅各的記載是重疊的；創世記描繪他們，不是三個分開的個人，乃是一個團體人的構成分子：

1亞伯拉罕的經歷表徵對父神這獨一源頭的經歷，祂呼召人、稱義人、裝備人，使人憑信而活，且活在與祂的交通裏—十二1，十五6，十七〜十八，十九29，二一1〜13，二二1〜18。

2以撒的經歷表徵對子神的經歷，祂救贖人、祝福人，使人承受祂一切的豐富，過享受祂豐盛的生活，並活在平安中—1〜14節，二五5，二六3〜4，12〜33。

3雅各(連同約瑟)的經歷，表徵對父神的經歴，祂愛人並揀選人；(瑪一2，羅九10〜13；)也表徴對靈神的經歷，祂使萬有互相効力，叫愛祂的人得益處，並且變化人，使人在神聖的生命裏成熟，能祝福所有的人，治理全地，並以子神作生命供應，滿足所有的人—創二七41，二八1〜三五12，三七，三九〜四九，羅八28〜29。

週  三

貳  我們需要認識並經歷亞伯拉罕的神、以撒的神和雅各的神：

1       亞伯拉罕信神是獨一的源頭，是那『稱無爲有』者—四17：

1神的目標必須按着神的時候並藉着神的能力達成—創十七17，19，21。

2神在亞伯拉罕身上作特別的工作，爲要給他看見，神作爲父的意義是甚麼—弗四6 :

a認識神是父，乃是認識祂是源頭，就是獨一的發起者，並且一切都是源於祂太十五13。

b我們都需要認識神是父，一切都是從祂而出—羅十一-36，林前八6，弗三14〜16。

二     以撒是子最佳的表徵：在他身上我們看見，一切都是從父而來—創二四36，二五5 :

1按照創世記二十二章的圖畫，以撒很詳細的豫表基督。

2以撒的原則乃是領受的原則—二五5，林前四7：

a子神的意義是一切都是領受，沒有一件事由祂發起—約十六15，十七10，五 19，30。

b在以撒身上我們看見，一切都是從父而來，我們的地位乃是領受—創二六12〜13，羅十一36，林前四7：

㈠ 以撒與亞伯拉罕的關係是領受的關係；認識以撒的神，就是認識神是供給 者—創二四36。

㈡ 神是父，一切都從祂而出；我們是眾子，我們所有的一切，都從祂而來—林前八6，十一12下。

週  四

三 雅各是對我們說到聖靈：他的經歷代表聖靈的工作，他的歷史豫表聖靈的管治：

1雅各的一生乃是代表神的對付，而雅各的神乃是對付的神—創三一38〜41： a 『雅各的神』這名稱含示聖靈如何管敎雅各，對付他的天然生命，把基督構 成到他裏面，並且在他裏面結出聖靈的果子—加五22〜23，來十二11。

b我們要認識雅各的神、就得讓聖靈在我們身上作工，對付我們的天然生命，把基督構成到我們裏面。

2雅各的歷史乃是一幅聖靈管治的圖畫—創四七9，四八15〜16上，來十二9〜11 :

a聖靈的管治是指聖靈在我們外面的環境裏作工，祂安排一切的人、事和遭遇，使我們藉此受管教—羅八28。

b 神藉着聖靈的管治，完全拆毀我們裏面舊造的元素，使新造的元素得以在我們裏面建造起來。

3神藉着聖靈的管治，對付我們天然的生命・使基督得以作到我們裏面、構成到我們裏面、並成形在我們裏面，使三一神得着團體的彰顯—加四19，弗三16〜21。

週  五

四     亞伯拉罕的神、以撒的神和雅各的神，就是耶和華，伊羅欣—自有永有的三一神，永遠、偉大的我是—出三6，14，啓一4。

五     亞伯拉罕的神、以撒的神和雅各的神，乃是復活的神—出三6，15，太二二23〜 33，徒三13。

六     亞伯拉罕的神、以撒的神和雅各的神，乃是帳幕的神；亞伯拉罕、以撒和雅各都住在帳棚裏：他們住在帳棚裏時，熱切等候神永遠的帳幕，就是新耶路撒冷城—岀四十34〜35，創十二8 ，十三18，二六17，25，三三18，三五21，來十一9〜10，啓一二2〜3。

七  亞伯拉罕的神是稱義的神，(創十五6，羅四2〜3，)以撒的神是恩典的神， (林後十三14，)雅各的神是藉着神聖的管教變化人的神；(三18，來十二5〜11；)至終，雅各的神成了以色列的神，(創三三20，出五1，)就是經過變化之雅各的神。

週  六

叁  經歷亞伯拉罕的神、以撒的神和雅各的神，結果乃是神的以色列，就是在三一神裏的召會—創三五10，三三20，加六16，帖前一1，太二八19：

一 神的以色列是真以色列人，(羅九6下，二28〜29，腓三3，)包括在基督裏所有外邦和猶太的信徒，他們是亞伯拉罕的真子孫，是信仰之家的人，也是新造裏的人—加三7，29，六10，15〜16：

1真以色列人，靈裏的以色列人，乃是召會—16節，太十六18。

2在神新約的經綸裏，我們已成爲神的兒子和神的以色列；我們的定命是作神的兒子彰顯神，並作君王在神的國裏掌權—加三26，六10，16，啓五10，二一7，二二5下，十二5上。

3我們作爲神的以色列，代表神，行使祂的權柄，並在地上執行祂的行政，以完成祂的定旨—創一26，28，路十19，啓十二5，7〜11。

二 神的以色列乃是在三一神裏的召會—帖前一1，太二八19：

1當保羅說到在父神和主耶穌基督裏的召會，事實上他的意思是說，召會是在三一神裏—帖前一1，林前一2，十二4〜6 :

a 『父神』和『主耶穌基督』這樣的說法，都含示那靈；因此，帖前一章一節 含示那靈是不言而喻的，我們可以說，召會是在三一神裏的。

b 按照聖經，我們找不到召會只在神裏這回事：反之，召會乃是在經過過程的 三一神裏—太二八19，林後十三14。

c 召會在父神和主耶穌基督裏，意思是說，召會乃是在經過過程的三一神裏， 就是在那帶着父和子成了賜生命之靈的一位裏—太二八19，弗四4〜6，約十四20。

2我們若看見召會在三一神裏的異象，這異象會支配我們的思想、活動，以及我們整個的生活—箴二九18上，徒二六19。

Week One

Knowing and Experiencing the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob
to Become the Israel of God

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Hymns: 608

Scripture Reading: Gen. 28:13; 33:20; Exo. 3:6, 14-15; Acts 3:13; Gal. 6:16; 1 Thes. 1:1

§ Day 1

I. Our God is the God of three particular persons—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; this implies that He is the Triune God— Exo. 3:15; Matt. 28:19; 2 Cor. 13:14:

A. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are the foundations of the nation of Israel; without them there would not be the nation of Israel—Exo. 3:15-16:

1. Gods people became His people through the experiences of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; their experiences culminated in Israel, the people of God.

2. We all need to have the elements of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; without these elements we cannot be the people of God, the Israel of God.

§ Day 2

B. In the book of Genesis the records of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob overlap; Genesis does not portray them as three separate individuals but as constituents of one corporate person:

1. The experience of Abraham signifies the experience of God the Father, the unique source, in His calling man, justifying man, and equipping man to live by faith and to live in fellowship with Him—12:1; 15:6; chs. 17— 18; 19:29; 21:1-13; 22:1-18.

2. The experience of Isaac signifies the experience of God the Son in His redeeming man and His blessing man with the inheritance of all His riches, with a life of the enjoyment of His abundance, and with a life in peace—vv. 1-14; 25:5; 26:3-4, 12-33.

3. The experience of Jacob (with Joseph) signifies the experience of God the Father in His loving man and choosing man (Mal. 1:2; Rom. 9:10-13) and of God the Spirit in His causing all things to work together for the good of those who love Him, in His transforming man, and in His making man mature in the divine life so that man may be able to bless all the people, rule over all the earth, and satisfy all, the people with God the Son as the life supply—Gen. 27:41; 28:1-35:12; chs. 37; 39-49; Rom. 8:28-29.

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II. We need to know and experience the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob:

A. Abraham believed in God as the unique source, as the One who "calls the things not being as being"—4:17:

1. Gods goal must be achieved according to Gods time and through Gods power—Gen. 17:17, 19, 21.

2. God did a special work on Abraham in order to show him what it means for God to be the Father—Eph. 4:6:

a. To know God as the Father is to know that He is the source, the unique Initiator, and that everything originates from Him—Matt. 15:13.

b. We all need to know that God is the Father and that everything proceeds from Him—Rom. 11:36; 1 Cor. 8:6; Eph. 3:14-16.

B. In Isaac, the best figure of the Son, we see that everything comes from the Father—Gen. 24:36; 25:5:

1. According to the picture in Genesis 22, Isaac typifies Christ in a detailed way.

2. The principle of Isaac is the principle of receiving—25:5; 1 Cor. 4:7:

a. The significance of God the Son is that everything is received and that nothing is initiated by Him—John 16:15; 17:10; 5:19, 30.

b. In Isaac we see that everything comes from the Father and that our place is to receive—Gen. 26:12-13; Rom. 11:36; 1 Cor. 4:7:

1) Isaacs relationship with Abraham was one of receiving; to know the God of Isaac is to know God as the Supplier—Gen. 24:36.

2) God is the Father, and everything proceeds from Him; we are sons, and everything we have is from Him—1 Cor. 8:6; 11:12b.

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C. Jacob speaks to us of the Holy Spirit; his experiences represent the work of the Holy Spirit, and his history is a type of the discipline of the Holy Spirit:

1. Jacobs life is a life that represents Gods dealings, and the God of Jacob is the God of dealings—Gen. 31:38-41:

a. The title the God of Jacob implies how the Holy Spirit disciplined Jacob, dealt with his natural life, constituted Christ into him, and bore the fruit of the Spirit in him—Gal. 5:22-23; Heb. 12:11.

b. If we would know the God of Jacob, we need to allow the Spirit to perform His work in us, dealing with our natural life and constituting Christ into us.

2. Jacobs history is a picture of the discipline of the Holy Spirit—Gen. 47:9; 48:15-16a; Heb. 12:9-11:

a. The discipline of the Holy Spirit refers to what the Holy Spirit is doing in our outward environment—to His arranging of all people, things, and happenings—through which we are being disciplined—Rom. 8:28.

b. Through the discipline of the Holy Spirit, God completely tears down the element of the old creation in us so that the element of the new creation may be built up in us.

3. God deals with our natural life through the discipline of the Holy Spirit so that Christ may be wrought into us, constituted into us, and formed in us for the corporate expression of the Triune God—Gal. 4:19; Eph. 3:16-21.

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D. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob is Jehovah, Elohim—the self-existing and ever-existing Triune God, the eternal great I Am—Exo. 3:6, 14; Rev. 1:4.

E. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob is the God of resurrection—Exo. 3:6, 15; Matt. 22:23-33; Acts 3:13.

F. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob is the God of the tabernacle; Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob each lived in a tent; while they were living in tents, they were eagerly waiting for the eternal tabernacle of God, the city of New Jerusalem—Exo. 40:34-35; Gen. 12:8; 13:18; 26:17, 25; 33:18; 35:21; Heb. 11:9-10; Rev. 21:2-3.

G. The God of Abraham is the God of justification (Gen. 15:6; Rom. 4:2-3), the God of Isaac is the God of grace (2 Cor. 13:14), and the God of Jacob is the God of transformation through divine discipline (3:18; Heb. 12:5-11); eventually, the God of Jacob became the God of Israel (Gen. 33:20; Exo. 5:1), the God of the transformed Jacob.

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III. The issue of experiencing the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob is the Israel of God, the church in the Triune God—Gen. 35:10; 33:20; Gal. 6:16; 1 Thes. 1:1;
Matt. 28:19:

A. The Israel of God is the real Israel (Rom. 9:6b; 2:28-29; Phil. 3:3), including all the Gentile and Jewish believers in Christ, who are the true sons of Abraham, who are the household of the faith, and who are those in the new creation—Gal. 3:7, 29; 6:10, 15-16:

1. The real Israel, the spiritual Israel, is the church—v. 16; Matt. 16:18.

2. In Gods New Testament economy we have been made both the sons of God and the Israel of God; our destiny is to be sons of God expressing God and also kings reigning in the kingdom of God—Gal. 3:26; 6:10, 16; Rev. 5:10; 21:7; 22:5b; 12:5a.

3. As the Israel of God, we represent God, exercise His authority, and carry out His administration on earth for the fulfillment of His purpose—Gen. 1:26, 28; Luke 10:19; Rev. 12:5, 7-11.

B. The Israel of God is the church in the Triune God—1 Thes. 1:1; Matt. 28:19:

1. When Paul speaks of the church in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, he actually means that the church is in the Triune God—1 Thes. 1:1; 1 Cor. 1:2; 12:4-6:

a. The expressions God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ both imply the Spirit; therefore, in 1 Thessalonians 1:1 the Spirit is implied and understood, and we may speak of the church being in the Triune God.

b. According to the Bible, there is no such thing as the church being merely in God; rather, the church is in the processed Triune God— Matt. 28:19; 2 Cor. 13:14.

c. For the church to be in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ means that the church is in the processed Triune God—the One who has become the life-giving Spirit with the Father and the Son—Matt. 28:19; Eph. 4:4-6; John 14:20.

2. If we see the vision of the church in the Triune God, this vision will control our thinking, our activities, and our entire life—Prov. 29:18a; Acts 26:19.