第八週 • 週四
晨興餧養
林後四10~12 身體上常帶着耶穌的治死，使耶穌的生命也顯明在我們的身體上。因為我們這活着的人，是常為耶穌被交於死，使耶穌的生命，也在我們這必死的肉身上顯明出來。這樣，死是在我們身上發動，生命卻在你們身上發動。
沒有十字架就沒有生命，也沒有生命的職事。受苦的目的乃是為着完全並豐滿的職事。理論不能代替這個。職事的貧乏乃是因着揀選容易的道路；過輕鬆日子的人往往只有很少的供應。他們不明白人的需要。當然我不是說，我們要自惹麻煩，或要苛刻惡待自己的身體。那靈自己要為我們的經歷負責，帶領我們在身體、心或靈各方面經歷『耶穌的死』，使我們的職事得着豐富。我們的責任只是跟隨而已（倪柝聲文集第二輯第二十冊，一五二頁）。
信息選讀
或許你要問，你如何纔能被神使用，來供應生命給身體。不是決心要作很多事，或是退隱甚麼事也不作，乃是簡單的讓十字架在你平常與主同行的路上運行。那些藉着說話或工作來服事的人，如果有一天被禁止活動或說話，他們就發現自己沒有職事了。但你職事的度量，不是決定於你活動的程度。只要讓『耶穌的治死』在你裏面作工，生命就必顯明在別人身上。『死是在我們身上發動，生命卻在你們身上發動。』這是身體不變的律，是沒有例外的。所以你不需要特別勞苦，在這方面帶進身體的增長，因為神藉着十字架帶你經過的，自然會帶進擴增。
你也不需要講很多，因為你不必將自己死的經歷見證出來，為要對別人供應生命。只要你樂意死，別人就會得着生命。實際會將自己表達出來，不需要人的傳達。我們並非『藐視申言者的話』（帖前五20），但我們確信，身體裏的職事不是在於傳講或見證。我們私下與主的交通，就足以供應生命給祂的肢體。我們若為主受苦，不必使別人知道受苦的故事，那個苦難自然會使別人有長進。談論我們所受的苦，不只是多餘的，有時反而使人生厭。
基督的身體得着供應，首先不是藉着傳講和工作，而是憑着裏面的實際。聖靈所關切的乃是真實的事，祂絕不會為虛假的事作見證。你用話語所傳達的，不過是你所已經帶給召會的基督；就如我們說過的，身體乃是藉着生命的交通得着供應。當死在我們身上發動時，生命就很簡單、自然地傳輸給別人。所以問題不是你所作或所說的有多少，乃是你在神手中經過的有多少。
在身體合一的根基以外，沒有真實的職事。你常常懷疑自己怎能盡功用，直到你看見這個事實；當你看見了，你就知道自己若領受了甚麼，身體立刻就得着了。你所有的就是身體所有的，你無須努力去傳輸。你想要建造召會麼？那麼，就讓召會在你身上得建造。你從頭所領受的，祂的身體—召會，自然就得到；你沒有領受甚麼，召會就絕不能藉着你得到甚麼。領受的問題解決了，職事的問題也就解決了；而領受的問題，是藉着『耶穌的死』得解決的（倪柝聲文集第二輯第二十冊，一五二至一五四頁）。
我們從主所得的生命流出來，就叫基督身體的身量加增了。神是藉着肢體來加增身體的身量（倪柝聲文集第二輯第二十四冊，一三六頁）。
參讀：倪柝聲文集第二輯第二十冊，一三八至一五九頁；哥林多後書生命讀經，第三十至三十五篇。
WEEK 8 — DAY 4
Morning Nourishment
2 Cor. 4:10-12 "Always bearing about in the body the putting to death of Jesus that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. For we who are alive are always being delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So then death operates in us, but life in you."
Where there is no Cross there is no life, and no ministry of life. The object of suffering is that there may be a full and abundant ministry. Theory is no substitute for this. Poverty of ministry results from the choice of an easy road. Those who have an easy time all too often have little to give. They do not understand men’s needs. Of course I don’t mean we are to invite trouble, or by austerity to ill-treat our bodies. The Spirit Himself takes responsibility for our experience, leading us in paths where we encounter, in body, heart, or spirit, that measure of “the dying of Jesus” that will mean enrichment to our ministry. It is our part only to follow. (CWWN, vol. 40, p. 125)
Today's Reading
You ask me how you can be used to minister life to the Body. Not by setting out deliberately to do a lot, nor indeed by running away into retirement and doing nothing, but simply by letting the Cross operate in the normal course of your walk with the Lord. Those who only serve by words and works find they have no ministry if at any time they are reduced to inactivity or silence. But the measure of your ministry is not determined by the measure of your activity. Only let “the slaying of Jesus” work in you, and life must manifest itself in others. It cannot be otherwise, for it is an abiding principle of the Body that “death worketh in us, but life in you.” So you need make no special effort to bring increase to the Body in this way, for anything God takes you through by way of the Cross will spontaneously bring increase there.
Nor need you talk a lot, for it is not necessary to testify to your death experience in order for it to become vital to others. Provided you are willing for death, others will know life. Reality communicates itself; it is not dependent upon human communications. We “despise not prophesyings,” but we affirm nevertheless that ministry in the Body is not only a question of preaching or testifying. What we go through in secret with the Lord is quite sufficient to minister life to His members. If we suffer for the Lord’s sake, that suffering will bring increase to others, without our making known the story of our suffering. Talking about it is not only superfluous; in some circumstances it is an abomination.
The Body of Christ is ministered to, not first of all by preaching and working, but by inward reality. The Holy Spirit is concerned with what is real and true, and will never witness to what is not real. What you communicate by words is what you are already bringing of Christ to the Church, for as we have said, the Body is ministered to by a communication of life. And life is communicated to others, quite simply and spontaneously, as death operates in us. So the question is not, How much are you doing or saying? but, How much are you going through under the hand of God?
Ministry on any basis other than the oneness of the Body is unreal. Until you have seen that fact, you constantly wonder how you can function; but when you see it, you know that as soon as you yourself have received something, the Body has received it. What is yours is the Body’s, and there is no need to struggle to pass it on. Do you want to build up the church? Then let it be built up in you. What you receive from the Head, the Church, His Body, spontaneously receives; and what you have not received, it can never receive through you. The question of ministry is settled when the question of receiving is settled; and the question of receiving is settled by “the dying of Jesus.” (CWWN, vol. 40, pp. 125-127)
When the life we receive from the Lord flows into the Body, the measure of the stature of the Body increases. God increases the measure of the stature of the Body through the members. (CWWN, vol. 44, pp. 845)
Further Reading: CWWN, vol. 40, pp. 110-130; Life-study of 2 Corinthians, msgs. 30-35
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