第四週■週六
晨興餧養
腓三 10『使我認識基督、並祂復活的大能、以及同祂受苦的交通，模成祂的死。』
來十二 22 ～ 23『但你們乃是來到錫安山，來到活神的城，屬天的耶路撒冷，來到千萬天使整體的聚集，來到名字記錄在諸天之上眾長子的召會…。』
在創世記二十二章二節神吩咐亞伯拉罕往摩利亞地去，在神所要指示他的山上獻以撒。下節告訴我們，亞伯拉罕『就起身往神所指示他的地方去』。…四節告訴我們：『到了第三日，亞伯拉罕舉目遠遠的看見那地方。』亞伯拉罕沒有照着他的觀念或揀選作甚麼，他是照着神的啓示作一切。
亞伯拉罕在創世記二十二章所作的，乃是聖經中一粒重要的種子。…神吩咐亞伯拉罕的後裔以色列人，要每年三次上摩利亞山去敬拜神，在那裏將他們的燔祭獻給祂。我們已經看見，摩利亞山成了錫安山，那是美地的中心。亞伯拉罕是頭一個帶着燔祭在錫安山上敬拜神的人。最終，我們都要在錫安山上敬拜神。一面，在今天的召會生活中，我們這些亞伯拉罕的真後裔，是在錫安山上；另一面，我們是在往那裏去的路上。亞伯拉罕在創世記二十二章所作的，乃是種子。他的後裔以色列人，是這粒種子的發展，而我們今天是這粒種子進一步的發展。（創世記生命讀經，九二一至九二二頁。）
信息選讀
我們要在基督身體的實際裏，就需要完全在基督復活的生命裏。在眾地方召會中，我們的確有些美好的配搭，但是我要問：『這種配搭是憑天然的生命，還是在復活裏作出來的？』在復活裏，意思就是我們天然的生命被釘死，然後我們這人裏神所造的部分就在復活裏被拔高，在復活裏與基督成爲一。在腓立比三章十節保羅說，我們都需要憑着基督復活的大能，模成祂的死。我們都需要問自己：我們中間的配搭是憑着基督復活的大能，或僅僅是憑着我們天然的人。
任何一件照着聖經卻在天然生命裏完成的事，卽使是合乎聖經，也不是基督身體的實際。基督的身體完全是在基督復活生命裏的事。…今天，在眾地方召會中，我們一般所能看見的，多半是在聚會、活動、工作和事奉上的『召會』；我們看不見多少在復活裏，就是在那靈裏，在那是靈的基督裏，並在終極完成的神裏面。…我們需要竭力，在召會生活中達到基督身體之實際的最高峯，就是今日的錫安，直到我們完成於新耶路撒冷，包括錫安。…我們有相調，就是要應付這需要。
在召會時代，被成全並得成熟的神人乃是錫安，就是得勝者，也就是召會中的活力排。…在新天新地，…整個新耶路撒冷都要成爲錫安。…錫安就是神所在之處，也就是至聖所。…有一個表號，表徵新耶路撒冷將是至聖所。新耶路撒冷的量度是個正方體的量度，長一萬二千斯泰底亞，寬一萬二千斯泰底亞，高一萬二千斯泰底亞。（啓二一 16。）那就是至聖所；因爲在舊約裏，不論在帳幕或聖殿中，至聖所都是立方的，其長、寬、高都相等。（出二六 2 ～ 8，王上六 20。）
在啓示錄這卷書中，主所要得着的，並主所要建造的，乃是錫安，就是得勝者。得勝者就是錫安，就是神所在之處。這是神聖言中屬靈啓示的內在實際。…主的恢復就是要建造錫安。（李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第一册，一四○至一四一、一七一、一七三頁。）
參讀：關於相調的實行，第二至五章。
WEEK 4 — DAY 6
Morning Nourishment
Phil. 3:10 To know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death.
Heb. 12:22-23 But you have come forward to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem; and to myriads of angels, to the universal gathering; and to the church of the firstborn…
In Genesis 22:2 God told Abraham to go to the land of Moriah and offer Isaac on one of the mountains of which He would tell him. In the next verse we are told that Abraham “rose up and went to the place of which God had told him.”…In verse 4 we are told that “on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.” Abraham did nothing according to his concept or choice; he did everything according to God’s revelation.
What Abraham did in Genesis 22 is an important seed in the Bible… Abraham’s descendants, the children of Israel, were commanded by God to go three times a year to Mount Moriah to worship God and there to offer to Him their burnt offerings. We have seen that Mount Moriah became Mount Zion, the very center of the good land. Abraham was the first to worship God with the burnt offering on Mount Zion. Eventually, we all will be on Mount Zion worshipping God. On the one hand, in the church life today, as true descendants of Abraham, we are on Mount Zion; on the other hand, we are on our way there. What Abraham did in chapter 22 was the seed. His descendants, the Israelites, were the development of this seed, and we today are the further development of the seed. (Life-study of Genesis, pp. 757-758)
Todays Reading
To be in the reality of the Body of Christ, we need to be absolutely in the resurrection life of Christ. We do have some good coordination in the local churches. However, I would ask, “Is this kind of coordination carried out by the natural life or in resurrection?” To be in resurrection means that our natural life is crucified, and then the God-created part of our being is uplifted in resurrection to be one with Christ in resurrection. In Philippians 3:10 Paul says that we all need to be conformed to the death of Christ by the power of His resurrection. We all need to ask ourselves whether the coordination among us is by the power of Christ’s resurrection or merely by our natural man.
Anything that is carried out even scripturally but in the natural life is not the reality of the Body of Christ. The Body of Christ is absolutely something in the resurrection life of Christ. It is common today that in the local churches what we can see is mostly the “church” in its meetings, activities, works, and services. But we cannot see much of the reality of the Body of Christ in resurrection, that is, in the Spirit, in the pneumatic Christ, and in the consummated God…We need to endeavor to reach in the church life the highest peak, today’s Zion, of the reality of the Body of Christ until we consummate in the New Jerusalem, including Zion…To have the blending is to meet this need.
In the church age, the God-men who were perfected and matured are Zion, the overcomers, the vital groups within the churches…In the new heaven and new earth…the entire New Jerusalem will become Zion…Zion is the very spot where God is, that is, the Holy of Holies…There is a sign signifying that the New Jerusalem will be the Holy of Holies. Its dimensions are the dimensions of a cube, twelve thousand stadia long, twelve thousand stadia wide, and twelve thousand stadia high (Rev. 21:16). That is the Holy of Holies, because the Holy of Holies in the Old Testament in both the tabernacle and the temple was a cube, equal in length, breadth, and height (Exo. 26:2-8; 1 Kings 6:20).
In the book of Revelation what the Lord wants and what the Lord will build up is Zion, the overcomers. The overcomers are the very Zion, where God is. This is the intrinsic reality of the spiritual revelation in the holy Word of God…The Lord’s recovery is to build up Zion. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning Blending,” pp. 113, 138-140)
Further Reading: CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning Blending,” chs. 2—5
