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创世记结晶读经(二十六):基督从神的独生子到神的长子，圣徒们是他的众弟兄
启四 3『那位坐著的，显出来的样子好像碧玉和红宝石，又有虹围著宝座，显出来
的样子好像绿宝石。』
二一 11『城中有神的荣耀；城的光辉如同极贵的宝石，好像碧玉，明如水晶。』
〔林后三章十八节所说〕的变化要达到变化成为『与他同样的形像』的目标。
这形像就是复活并得荣之基督的形像。变化成为与他同样的形像，意即我们渐渐被
模成复活并得荣的基督，使我们与他一样（罗八 29）。
当我们观看并返照主的荣光，主就用他所是及所作的元素灌注我们，分赐到我
们里面。结果我们就藉他生命的大能，凭他生命的素质，渐渐新陈代谢的变化，而
有他生命的形状，并要藉著我们心思的更新，渐渐变化…成为他的形像（真理课程
三级卷三，三七页）。
当〔康乃馨的种子〕凭生命的素质，藉生命的大能生长时，就形成某种特定的
形状。神圣的生命也是一样。这生命有其素质、大能和形状。神圣生命的形状就是
基督的形像。因此，当我们凭基督生命的素质，藉他生命的大能成长时，我们就会
渐渐变化成为与基督同样的形像，就是复活并得荣之基督的形像（真理课程三级卷
三，三七至三八页）。
基督是神的独生子，有神性而无人性，乃是与神同样的自有永有。他成为神的
长子，兼有神性和人性，乃是从他的复活开始。他这长子，是神产生众子的根据、
标本、元素和凭藉；所产生的众子，就是信入他，与他联结为一的众信徒，在生命
和性情上完全与他相同，也像他一样兼有人性和神性，作他的扩增和彰显，以彰显
那永远的三一神，直到永永远远。今日的召会，是这彰显的雏形（弗一 23），永世
里的新耶路撒冷，就成为这彰显的终极表现（启二一 11）。
神豫定我们，目的不是仅仅要我们圣别、属灵、得胜，乃是要我们模成他儿子
的形像。这是我们的定命，是神在已过的永远所决定的。模成是变化的最终结果，
包括我们里面素质和性情的变化，和我们外面样式的变化，好使我们与神而人者的
基督，在荣耀里的形像相配。他是原型，我们是大量产品（新约总论第十册，八三
页）。
在启示录四章三节，神坐在宝座上，显出来的样子好像碧玉。到了二十一章十
八节约翰告诉我们，城墙是用碧玉造的。这两节告诉我们，新耶路撒冷看起来和神
一样。这城要成为神团体的彰显。
神创造人的时候，也指明他要得著一个团体的彰显。神在创世以前，就豫定我
们得儿子的名分。然后神照著他的豫定，按著自己的形像造人，目的乃是有一天这
受造的人要成为他团体的彰显。那一天还没有来到。当四个时代─列祖时代、律法
时代、恩典时代、国度时代─过去了，神把我们模成长子形像的工作就完成了。那
时我们要成为一个活的团体实体，带有神的形像。
新耶路撒冷是众子的集大成，作神团体的彰显，乃是由所有亲爱的圣徒，就是
神在新旧约一切时代救赎回来的人所构成。他们就是这圣城的构成分子，是神圣儿
子名分的集大成，团体的彰显神，以实现他心头的愿望，正如神按著自己的形像造
人所指明的。启示录二十一章和二十二章应验了创世记一章二十六节─神得著一个
有他形像的人（圣经中的基本启示，一七四至一七五页）。
参读：真理课程三级卷三，第四十三至四十四课；神圣启示的中心路线，第五
至六篇。
Rev. 4:3 "And He who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius in
appearance, and there was a rainbow around the throne like an emerald in
appearance."
21:11 "Having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone,
like a jasper stone, as clear as crystal."
The goal of transformation is to be “transformed into the same image”
of the resurrected and glorified Christ [2 Cor. 3:18]. To be transformed
to have the same image as Christ means that we are gradually being conformed
to the resurrected and glorified Christ, to be made the same as He (Rom.
8:29).
When we behold and reflect the glory of the Lord, the Lord infuses and
dispenses into us the elements of what He is and what He has done. Through
His life power and by His life essence, we are gradually transformed metabolically
to have His life shape, and through the renewing of our mind, we are gradually
transfigured into His image. (Truth Lessons─Level Three, vol. 3, p. 33)
As the seed of a carnation grows by its life essence and through its
life power, it takes on a characteristic shape. The divine life is the same.
This life has an essence, power, and shape. The shape of the divine life
is the image of Christ. Therefore, when we grow by the essence of Christ's
life and through the power of His life, we are gradually transformed into
Christ's image, that is, into the image of the resurrected and glorified
Christ. (Truth Lessons─Level Three, vol. 3, p. 33)
With His firstborn Son as the base, pattern, element, and means, God
is producing many sons, and the many sons who are produced are the many
believers who believe into God's firstborn Son and are joined to Him as
one. They are exactly like Him in life and nature, and, like Him, they have
both humanity and divinity. They are His increase and expression in order
that they may express the eternal Triune God for eternity. The church today
is a miniature of this expression (Eph. 1:23), and the New Jerusalem in eternity
will be the ultimate manifestation of this expression (Rev. 21:11).
God has predestinated us not simply that we may be sanctified, spiritual,
and victorious but that we may be fully conformed to the image of His Son.
This is our destiny, determined by God in eternity past. Conformation is
the end result of transformation. It includes the changing of our inward
essence and nature, and it also includes the changing of our outward form,
that we may match the glorified image of Christ, the God-man. He is the
prototype, and we are the mass reproduction. (The Conclusion of the New
Testament, pp. 3081-3082)
In Revelation God sitting on the throne looks like jasper (4:3). Then
in 21:18 John tells us that the wall of the city was made of jasper. These
two verses tell us that the New Jerusalem will look like God. The city will
be a corporate expression of God.
That God will have a corporate expression is also indicated in His creation
of man. Before the ages God predestinated us unto sonship. Then He created
man in His own image, according to His predestination, with the intention
that one day this created man would be His corporate expression. That day
is not here yet. When the four dispensations are over─the dispensations
of the Patriarchs, of the law, of grace, and of the kingdom─God's work
of conforming us to the image of the Firstborn will be completed. Then we
will be a living corporate entity, bearing the image of God.
The New Jerusalem is the aggregate of all the sons together as a corporate
expression. It is a composition of all the dear saints redeemed by God in
all the dispensations, both of the Old and of the New Testaments. They together
will be the components of this holy city, the aggregate of the divine sonship,
expressing God corporately to fulfill His heart's desire, as indicated
in His creating man in His own image. Revelation 21 and 22 are the fulfillment
of Genesis 1:26─God having a man in His image. (The Basic Revelation in
the Holy Scriptures, p. 144)
Further Reading: Truth Lessons─Level Three, vol. 3, lsns. 43-44; The
Central Line of the Divine Revelation, msgs. 5-6
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创世记结晶读经(二十七):神造人的定旨是去征服神的仇敌恢复
神的管理权
神按着自己的形像样式造人作他的彰显
创世记结晶读经(二二): 神在基督里复制我们成神人
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