创世记结晶读经(40): 生命树与善恶知识树_6
出三三 14『耶和华说，我的同在必和你同去，我必使你得安息。』
约六 57『活的父怎样差我来，我又因父活着，照样，那吃我的人，也要因我活着。』
神显现摩西火烧荆棘的异象
神在火烧荆棘的异象中向摩西显现，荆棘被火烧火着却没有烧毁（出三 2、16）。摩西感到惊奇，转过去看这荆棘。神似乎对摩西说，『摩西，你必须像这火烧的荆棘。不要凭你自己来烧，或凭你自己行动。你有一颗好心，但你行事的方法错了。』…摩西学会停下自己的知识、自己的作法、自己的力量和自己的活动。摩西开始像他先祖所作的，活在主的同在和显现中。他的行动不再出於他自己。从那时起，他就与神是一。为着带领以色列人走他们的旅程，主对他说，『我的同在必和你同去，我必使你得安息。』他对神说，『你的同在若不和我们同去，就不要把我们从这里领上去。』这表明摩西知道，为主工作需要有主的同在。他是在神的同在中行动。
摩西带以色列人出埃及之后，神呼召摩西到山顶上，在那里停留四十天。他在山顶上时，完全被神的荣光所注入。从山上下来时，神的荣耀从他脸上照射出来（出三四 29）。在这山顶上，摩西经历了对神作生命树完满的享受。生命树虽然对於不信的人已经消失不见，对於像摩西这样的人却又显出来了。摩西在荣耀的山上享受神作生命树。
大卫是一个信靠神并仰望神的人（撒上十七 37、45，三十 6）。大卫一生的秘诀是渴慕一直住在神的殿中，瞻仰他的荣美（诗二七 4、8、14）。这就是说，他享受神的同在。此外，他享受神作肥甘和乐河的水（三六 8~9）。大卫说，『在你那里，有生命的源头。』这证明甚至在古时，大卫就享受神的生命作生命树，并作涌流在他里面的江河。
但以理的祷告生活，是从圣别生活产生出来的。他在异教之地的巴比伦，过着圣别的生活。例如但以理拒绝吃王膳，这食物是先向偶像献祭，然后才给王和他人民食用的（但一 8）。但以理拒绝了那些食物，却大大的享受了神。他享受神作生命树。
新约中第一位在生命线上的人，就是主耶稣。耶稣不但享受生命树，他就是那生命树。他自己说，他从父而来，并因父活着（约六 57）。他不照着知识学问活着，他的生活、行事为人和工作，都是照着在他里面作工的父（十四 10）。
我们今天该作甚么？我们甚么都不该作，只要简单的留在生命树的线上，享受神作我们的生命和生命的供应。神会照顾一切。因着享受主作我们生命的供应，我们就有日常的生活、行事为人、工作以及召会的建造。这样，我们所有的一切就会照着神的神圣成分，而不照着我们自己的观念。…愿主怜悯我们，使我们都继续在生命线上。
林后三章六节…说，『那字句杀死人，那灵却叫人活。』…死字句的圣经属於知识树，是杀死人的；而那灵属於生命树，是赐人生命的。所以我们有一个选择。为这选择赞美主！生命的选择！在知识线之外，还有生命线。我们必须在知识与生命之间有一个选择。我们必须在生命和死亡之间选择一个。
参读：创世记生命读经，第十六篇。
Exo. 33:14 "And He said, My
presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest."
John 6:57 "As the living Father
has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall
live because of Me."
God appeared to Moses in a vision of a burning bush, a bush that burned
without being consumed (Exo. 3:2, 16). Moses was surprised and turned aside to
see this bush. It was as if God was saying to Moses, “Moses, you must be like
this burning bush. Do not burn by yourself or act by yourself. You had a good
heart, but you acted in the wrong way.”...Moses learned to cease from his own knowledge,
his own way, his own energy, and his own activities. Moses began to live, as
his grandfathers had done, in the presence and the appearing of the Lord. No
longer did he act out of himself. From that time onward, he was one with God.
For the leading of the Israelites on their journey, the Lord told him, "My
presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest." And he said to the
Lord, "If Your presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from
here" (Exo. 33:13-15). This shows that Moses knew the necessity of the
Lord's presence for his work for the Lord. He was acting in the presence of
God. (Life-study of Genesis, pp. 189-190)
After Moses had brought the children of Israel out of Egypt, God called
him to the mountaintop, where he remained for forty days. While he was on the
mountaintop, he was thoroughly infused with the shekinah glory of God. As he
descended along the side of the mountain, the glory of God radiated from his
face (Exo. 34:29). On this mountaintop Moses experienced the full enjoyment of
God as the tree of life. Although the tree of life had disappeared from
unbelieving men, it nevertheless appeared to a person like Moses. Moses enjoyed
God as the tree of life on the mount of glory.
David was a man who trusted in God and looked to Him (1 Sam. 17:37, 45;
30:6). The secret of David's life was that he desired to dwell continually in
the house of God and to behold His beauty (Psa. 27:4, 8, 14). This means that
he enjoyed the presence of God. Moreover, he enjoyed God as the fatness and as
the river of joy (Psa. 36:8-9). David said, “With You is the fountain of life.”
This proves that even in ancient times David enjoyed God's life as the tree of
life and as the river flowing within him.
Daniel's prayer life issued out of a holy life. He lived a holy life in
the heathen land of Babylon. For example, Daniel refused to eat the king's
food, the food which was first offered to idols and then used to feed the king
and his people (Dan. 1:8). Daniel refused that food, and he enjoyed God very
much. He enjoyed God as the tree of life.
The first person on the line of life in the New Testament was the Lord
Jesus. Jesus not only enjoyed the tree of life; He was the tree of life. He
Himself said that He came from the Father and that He lived because of the
Father (John 6:57). He did not live according to knowledge and learning. He
lived, walked, and worked according to the Father who was working within Him
(John 14:10).
What should we do today? We should not do anything. We should simply
stay on the line of the tree of life, enjoying God as our life and as our life
supply. God will take care of everything. Out of the enjoyment of the Lord as
our life supply, we will have our daily life, walk, work, and the building up
of the churches. Then everything we have will be according to God's divine
element, not according to our own concepts....May the Lord have mercy on us
that we all may continue on the line of life.
Second Corinthians 3:6...says, “the letter kills, but the Spirit gives
life.”...The Bible in dead letters, which belongs to the tree of knowledge,
kills, while the Spirit, who belongs to the tree of life, gives life.
Therefore, we do have a choice. Praise the Lord for this choice! The choice of
life! Besides the line of knowledge there is the line of life. We must make a choice
between life and knowledge. We must choose between death and life. (Life-study
of Genesis, pp. 190, 192-195, 211-212)
Further Reading: Life-study of Genesis, msg. 16
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