创世结晶021-创世记一章_7:六日谈神创造之第六日
创一 24『神说，地要生出有生命的物，各从其类；牲畜、爬物、走兽，各从其类；事就这样成了。』
26『神说，我们要按著我们的形像，照著我们的样式造人，使他们管理海里的鱼、空中的鸟、地上的牲畜、和全地、并地上所爬的一切爬物。』
地上的牲畜和走兽，是比鱼和禽鸟更高的生命，具有较高的意识，这生命能在地上成就一些事。地上的走兽和牲畜，豫表基督生命的丰富，见於基督是得胜的狮子（启五 5），为神的经纶争战；见於基督是羊和牛，为著献给神，以完成神完全的救赎（利一 2~3、10，三 1、6、12，四 3，五 6，约一 29，彼前一 19，启五 6~9）；也见於基督是公牛，为著承担责任并忠信劳苦，以完成神的旨意（太二十 28，约六 38）。在基督里的信徒，藉著在神圣生命里进一步的长大，就能在地上过一种对完成神旨意有用的生活（参林前三 2，加六 2，林前十五 58）（圣经恢复本，创一 24 注 1）。
到第六天，有较高意识的更高生命生出了（创一 24~25）。…创世记四十九章九节说到狮子，把犹大比作能作许多事的狮子。撒上六章七节、十节，说到两只用来拖拉载著约柜的车的母牛。这些经节表明走兽与牲畜都能在这地上成就一些事。…这是生命长大的第三步。
我们还需要往前，直到第六天的末了部分。…在第六天的末了部分，出现具有最高意识的生命，人的生命，就是彰显神的形像，并且为神管治一切的生命（创世记生命读经，五四、五八页）。
亚当，
头一个人，豫表基督（ 罗五14，林前十五45、47，诗八 4~8，来二 6~9）是神创造的中心（西一 16~17），是一切受造之物和众人的元首（15，林前十一 3），在神的形像和样式上是神的彰显（来一3，林后四4，西一15），也是神的代表，管理神一切的造物（诗八 6~8，太二八 18）（圣经恢复本，创一 26 注 3）。
神的目的是要人有他的形像彰显他，有他的管治权代表他，这不是在亚当这头一个人（林前十五 45 上）─旧人（罗六 6）─身上得著完成，乃是在基督这第二个人（林前十五 47 下与注 2）─新人（弗二 15 与注 8）─身上得著完成。这新人是由基督自己作头，以及召会作他的身体（一 22~23，林前十二 12 与注 2，西三 10~11 与11 注 9）所组成的。这要完全在得胜的信徒身上得著完成，他们活基督，作他团体的彰显（腓一 19~26），并要得著权柄制伏列国，在千年国里与基督一同作王（启二26~27，二十 4、6）。这要终极完成於新耶路撒冷，彰显神的形像，有他的荣耀和他显出的样子（四 3 上，二一11、18 上），并且运用神的神圣权柄，维持神对全宇宙的管治权，直到永远（24，二二 5）（创一 26 注 5）。
在他的创造里，神没有要人作甚么。人按著神的形像被造，然后受神托付有他神圣的权柄。人所得著的生命，是带著神的形像彰显神，并带著神的权柄代表神的生命，不是为神作事或作工的生命。许多时候你遇见一些基督徒，你觉得他们是忙於为神作工的人。他们殷勤又忠信，但你感觉不到神的彰显和神的权柄。另一面，有些圣徒似乎不是那么忙，不是那么殷勤作工，但你感觉到神的彰显和神的权柄，你觉得神与他们同在。他们是满了神同在的人，每当你遇见他们的时候，你就感觉到神的彰显和神的元首权柄。这就是神所要的（神中心的思想，二○页）。
参读：创世记生命读经，第七至八篇。
Gen. 1:24 "And God said, Let the
earth bring forth living animals according to their kind, cattle and creeping
things and animals of the earth...and it was so." 26 "And God said,
Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and
over the birds of heaven and over the cattle
and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon
the earth."
The cattle and the animals on the land are a higher life with a higher
consciousness than that of the fish and the birds, a life that can accomplish
something on the earth. The animals and the cattle on the land typify the
riches of the life of Christ as seen in Christ as the conquering lion (Rev.
5:5) to fight for God's economy, as seen in Christ as the sheep and oxen for
offering to God for the fulfillment of God's full redemption (Lev. 1:2-3,
10;...Rev. 5:6-9), and as seen in Christ as the ox to bear the responsibility
and to labor faithfully for the accomplishing of God's will (Matt. 20:28; John
6:38). Through further growth in the divine life the believers in Christ are
able to live on the earth a life that is useful for the fulfilling of God's
will (cf. 1 Cor. 3:2...). (Gen. 1:24, footnote 1)
On the sixth day the higher life with the higher consciousness came into
existence (Gen. 1:24-25)....Genesis 49:9
speaks about the lion, likening Judah to a lion which can do many things. First
Samuel 6:7, 12a tells about two milch cows which were used to carry the cart
with the ark. These verses show that both the beasts and the cattle can
accomplish something on this earth....This is the third step of the growth of
life.
We need to go on to the last part of the sixth day...[on which] comes
the life with the highest consciousness, the human life, a life which expresses
the image of God and has dominion over all things for God. (Life-study of
Genesis, pp. 43, 46)
Adam, the first man, typifies Christ (Rom. 5:14...) as the center of
God's creation (Col. 1:16-17), as the Head of all creation (Col. 1:15) and of
all men (1 Cor. 11:3), as God's expression in God's image and likeness (...Col.
1:15), and as God's representative to rule over all things created by God (Psa.
8:6-8...). (Gen. 1:26, footnote 2)
God's intention that man would express God in His image and represent
God with His dominion is fulfilled not in Adam as the first man (1 Cor.
15:45a), the old man (Rom. 6:6), but in Christ as the second man (1 Cor. 15:47b
and footnote 2), the new man (Eph. 2:15 and footnote 8), comprising Christ
Himself as the Head and the church as His Body (Eph. 1:22-23; 1 Cor. 12:12 and
footnote 2; Col. 3:10-11 and footnote 119). It is fully fulfilled in the
overcoming believers, who live Christ for His corporate expression (Phil. 1:19-26)
and will have authority over the nations and reign as co-kings with Christ in
the millennium (Rev. 2:26-27; 20:4, 6). It will ultimately be fulfilled in the
New Jerusalem, which will express God's image, having His glory and bearing His
appearance (Rev. 4:3a; 21:11, 18a), and also exercise God's divine
authority to maintain God's dominion
over the entire universe for eternity (Rev. 21:24; 22:5). (Gen. 1:26, footnote
5)
In His creation, God did not tell man to do anything. Man was created in
the image of God and then committed by God with His divine authority. Man had a
life with the image of God to express God and with the authority of God to
represent God, not a life to do something or to work something for God. Many
times when you meet some Christians, you have the sense that they are busy
people working for God. They are diligent and faithful. But you do not sense
the expression and the authority of God. On the other hand, with some saints,
it seems that they are not so busy and not so diligent working for God, yet you
sense the expression of God and the authority of God. You have the sense that
God is with them. They are people full of the presence of God. Whenever you
meet them, you sense the expression and the headship, the authority, of God. This
is what God is after. (The Central Thought of God, pp. 22-23)
Further Reading: Life-study of Genesis, msgs. 7-8
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