第三週 • 週六
晨興餧養
弗三 18~19『使你們滿有力量，能和眾聖徒一同領畧何爲那闊、長、高、深，並認識基督那超越知識的
愛，使你們被充滿，成爲神一切的豐滿。』
因爲召會不僅是基督的身體，有基督作生命，召會也是新人，有基督作人位，所以保羅在以弗所三章十七節強調基督安家在我們心裏的重要性。雖然我們的靈是盛裝神的器皿，但靈不是人格的中心；人格的中心乃是心。我們人格的各種功用—我們的心思、情感和意志—直接與我們的心有關，而不是與我們的靈有關。因爲人格所有的功用都集中於心，所以心是基督渴望安家的地方。基督這賜生命的靈，現今是在我們的靈裏。然而，祂想要擴展到我們心裏，並安家在其中（以弗所書生命讀經，八○九頁）。
信息選讀
藉着重生，我們有基督作那靈在我們的靈裏。但藉着變化，基督要從我們的靈擴展到我們的心裏。每一個重生的人，都有基督在他的靈裏，但沒有多少人讓基督擴展到他的心裏。因這緣故，保羅禱告，要我們得以加強到裏面的人裏，使基督能安家在我們心裏（弗三16~17）。 我們不僅需要接受基督在我們的靈裏作生命，也需要接受祂在我們的心裏作人位。當基督在我們的靈裏時，祂是我們的生命。然而，當祂擴展到我們心裏，祂也成了我們的人位（以弗所書生命讀經，八一○頁）。
至終，照着以弗所三章十九節，我們會『被充滿，成爲神一切的豐滿』。首先，有裏面之人的加強。第二，基督安家在我們心裏，佔有我們全人。第三，我們全人被充滿，成爲神一切的豐滿。當召會所有的肢體都是這樣的人，我們就會滿有力量，領畧那闊、長、高、深（18）。這就是說，我們會領悟基督無限無量的量度（李常受文集一九六五年第二冊，四六四頁）。
基督安家在我們心裏，我們在祂的愛裏生根立基，我們就能與眾聖徒一同領畧基督有多闊、多長、多高、多深。至終，我們甚至能經歷那超越知識的大愛。從這一切出來的結果、流出，乃是經過過程、終極完成之三一神的一切豐滿（19）。神的豐滿就是基督的身體，作三一神至完滿、至極的彰顯。神一切的豐滿，就是三一神團體彰顯的終極完成，而這終極、完成、團體的彰顯，乃是基督的身體。
我們需要有一種召會生活是享受基督豐富的結果，也是無限之基督親自安家在我們全人裏面的結果。這樣，我們就會有平靜的召會生活。至終，我們要在新耶路撒冷完全看見這個。在新耶路撒冷裏，我們不會爭執。這是因爲新耶路撒冷是我們享受基督，並讓祂安家在我們心裏的終極結果。基督的身體是信徒享受基督那追測不盡之豐富的終極完成，也是信徒經歷無限之基督安家在我們心裏的終極完成（基督身體的內在觀點，五八至六○頁）。
召會的內容必須是我們所接受進來，作生命和人位的基督。我們若接受基督作我們的人位，當我們聚在一起時，基督就要從我們的靈，藉着我們的心彰顯出來。所有與會的人會感覺到，基督與我們同在，作我們的生命和我們的人位（以弗所書生命讀經，八一二頁）。
參讀：以弗所書生命讀經，第八十篇；保羅的完成職事
WEEK 3 — DAY 6
Morning Nourishment
Eph. 3:18-19 May be full of strength to apprehend with all the saints what the breadth and
length and height and depth are and to know the knowledge-surpassing love of
Christ, that you may be filled unto all the fullness of God.
Because the church is not only the Body with Christ as life but also the new man with Christ as the person, Paul in Ephesians 3:17 emphasizes the importance of Christ making His home in our hearts. Although our spirit is a vessel to contain God, the spirit is not the center of personality. The center of personality is the heart. The various functions of our personality—our mind, emotion, and will—are directly related to our heart, not to our spirit. Because all the functions of personality are concentrated in the heart, it is the place where Christ desires to make His home. Christ as the life-giving Spirit is now in our spirit. However, He wants to spread into our hearts and make His home there. (Life-study of Ephesians, p. 669)
Today's Reading
Through regeneration we have Christ as the Spirit in our spirit. But through transformation Christ will spread from our spirit into our heart. Every regenerated person has Christ in his spirit, but not many have allowed Christ to spread into their hearts. This is the reason Paul prayed that we would be strengthened into our inner man so that Christ may make His home in our hearts (Eph. 3:16~17).
We need to take Christ not only as the life in our spirit, but also as the person in our heart. When Christ is in our spirit, He is our life. However, when He spreads into our heart, He also becomes our person. (Life-study of Ephesians, pp. 669-670)
Eventually, according to Ephesians 3:19, we will be"filled unto all the fullness of God." First, there is the strengthening of the inner man. Second, Christ makes His home in our hearts, occupying our whole being. Third, our whole being is filled unto all the fullness of God. When all the members of the church are such people, we will be full of strength to apprehend the breadth, length, height, and depth (v. 18). This means that we will realize the unlimited, immeasurable dimensions of Christ. (Christ as the Content of the Church and the Church as the Expression of Christ, p. 9)
Christ makes His home in our heart, we are rooted and grounded in His love, and then we can apprehend with all the saints how broad, how long, how high, and how deep Christ is. Eventually, we can even experience a great love that is knowledge-surpassing. The result, the issue, the coming out of all of this is all the fullness of the processed, consummated Triune God
(Eph. 3:19). The fullness of God is the Body of Christ as the expression of the Triune God to the fullest, to the uttermost. All the fullness of God is the ultimate consummation of the corporate expression of the Triune God, and this ultimate, consummated, corporate expression is the Body of Christ.
We need to have a church life which is the issue of the enjoyment of Christ's riches and the issue of the unlimited Christ personally making His home in our entire inward being. Then we can have a tranquil church life. Eventually, we will see this fully in the New Jerusalem. We will not quarrel in the New Jerusalem. This is because the New Jerusalem is the ultimate issue
of our enjoyment of Christ and of Christ making His home in our hearts. The Body of Christ is the consummation of the believers' enjoyment of the unsearchable riches of Christ and the consummation of the experience of the unlimited Christ making His home in our hearts. (The Intrinsic View of the Body of Christ, pp. 51-52)
The content of the church must be the very Christ whom we take as life and as our person. If we take Christ as our person, then as we come together in the meetings Christ will be expressed from our spirit and through our heart. All those who come will sense that Christ is present both as our life and as our person. (Life-study of Ephesians, p. 671)
Further Reading: Life-study of Ephesians, msg. 80; The Completing Ministry of Paul, chs. 2-4;
The Intrinsic View of the Body of Christ, ch. 3
WEEK 3 - HYMN
Hymns, #499
1
Oh, what a life! Oh, what a peace!
The Christ who's all within me lives.
With Him I have been crucified;
This glorious fact to me He gives.
Now it's no longer I that live,
But Christ the Lord within me lives.
2
Oh, what a joy! Oh, what a rest!
Christ now is being formed in me.
His very nature and life divine
In my whole being inwrought shall be.
All that I am came to an end,
And all of Christ is all to me.
3
Oh, what a thought! Oh, what a boast!
Christ shall in me be magnified.
In nothing shall I be ashamed,
For He in all shall be applied.
In woe or blessing, death or life,
Through me shall Christ be testified.
4
Oh, what a prize! Oh, what a gain!
Christ is the goal toward which I press.
Nothing I treasure, nor aught desire,
But Christ of all-inclusiveness.
My hope, my glory, and my crown
Is Christ, the One of peerlessness.
Hymns, #500
1
Oh, what a might! Oh, what a strength!
God wrought to raise Christ from the dead.
Far above all at His right hand,
O'er all to us He is the Head.
All this great pow'r is to the Church
That she o'er all her foes may tread.
2
Oh, what a fact! Oh, what a bliss!
That I of Christ a member am.
With all the saints I blend as one
And share the life of the new man.
Joined to our great ascended Head,
We'll be the Church of His own plan.
3
Oh, what a breadth! Oh, what a length!
The height, the depth unsearchable!
Christ the Lord is unlimited,
So vast, immense, immeas'rable.
All that He is and all He has
Is now our life unspeakable.
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