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请我们先祷告
主，给我们话语，给我们发表，让你自由的说出你所要说的，叫我们实在摸着你的心意，在这个世代里作你心坎上的人，走这条在灵中复活的道路！
诗歌:546♫
神的心意是要我们 模成祂儿子形像；
因此祂灵变化工作， 必须完成我身上。
求主将我魂的各部， 全都变成你形像；
用你那灵将我浸透， 使我全像你模样。
今日经节及注解： 帖二13～三18
重点经节
帖前5:23
来4:12
且愿和平的神，亲自全然圣别你们，又愿你们的灵、与魂、与身子得蒙保守，在我们主耶稣基督来临的时候，得以完全，无可指摘。
因为神的话是活的，是有功效的，比一切两刃的剑更锋利，能以刺入、甚至剖开魂与灵，骨节与骨髓，连心中的思念和主意都能辨明。
生命供应
按照帖前五章二十三节，我们这个人是由三部分构成的，也就是说我们有三部分：灵、魂和身体。
我们基督徒每逢同来召会聚会时，都必须尽功用。我们需要祷告、赞美或作见证。这就是运用我们的灵，不让我们的灵静止不动，或是留在死沉的光景里。
我们心理的心有三个主要的动脉，就是魂的三部分─心思、意志和情感。我们要知道怎样实际的除去这些动脉的阻塞，是很重要的。为了要除去我们物质之心动脉的阻塞，医生会开一些药方，但有许多时候需要动手术才能除去。除去心理之心三个主要动脉的阻塞之路，就是向主彻底的认罪。我从经历中学会，我们必须停留在主面前一段时间，承认我们的缺点、失败、错误、恶行和罪。我们若花够多的时间清除心理之心三个主要动脉的阻塞，就会感觉到我们全人活了。我们的心思、意志和情感，都会非常健康。这些“沟渠”里面的“污秽”都被挖除了。
持守我们的身体，事实上非常困难。保守我们的灵与魂，比持守我们的身体容易。在这玷污人、污秽人的世界中，我们最难作到的，就是持守自己的身体。我们需要谨慎，任何会玷污我们身体的东西，我们都不要看、不要听、也不要摸。
神渴望全然圣别我们，并保守我们的灵、与魂、与身子得以完全。然而，我们必须与祂合作。合作的路就是常常喜乐，不住的祷告，凡事谢恩，不销灭那灵，在召会聚会中不藐视申言者的话。我们若这样的合作，我们的灵就会蒙保守，不至死沉；我们的魂会蒙保守，使心思、意志、情感不受污染；我们的身体也会蒙保守不受这世代的污染。这样，我们就能实际的过为着召会生活的圣别生活。（帖撒罗尼迦前书生命读经，二四一、二四四至二四五、二五○、二五二、二五五至二五六页。）
问答:
1、 请说明人有三部分？（参读 帖前五23注5。）
2、 神的话如何剖开魂与灵？（参读 来四12注2，第二段。）
3、 我们如何经历那灵的圣别？（参读 西三16注2，注4。）
明天:神在信仰里的经纶
What Is Man?
Let's Pray:
Lord, grant us the utterance that we may touch Your will in a real way, that we could be those who are in Your heart in this age and who take this way of resurrection in spirit.
Hymn:750
God's intention is to have us
All conformed to His dear Son'
Thus a work of transformation
By the Spirit must be done.
Lord, transform us to Thine image
In emotion, mind and will;
Saturate us with Thy Spirit,
All our being wholly fill.
Today's Verses and Footnotes: 2 Thes. 2:13-3:18
Key Verses:
1 Thes. 5:23 And the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Heb. 4:12 For the word of God is living and operative and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit and of joints and marrow, and able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Life Supply:
According to 1 Thessalonians 5:23, we are tripartite beings; that is, we have three parts: spirit, soul, and body.
Whenever we Christians come together in a church meeting, we need to function. We need to pray, praise, or give a word of testimony. This is to exercise our spirit and not allow it to remain dormant or in a deadened condition.
Our psychological heart has three main arteries. These arteries, which are also the three parts of the soul, are the mind, the will, and the emotion. It is important to know how in a practical way to have these arteries unclogged. For the unclogging of the arteries of our physical heart, doctors may prescribe medication. But in many cases surgery is required to remove the blockage. The way to unclog the three main arteries of our psychological heart is to make a thorough confession to the Lord. From experience I have learned that we need to stay with the Lord for a period of time to confess our defects, failures, defeats, mistakes, wrongdoings, and sins.
If we take the time necessary to unclog the three main arteries of our psychological heart, we shall have the sense that our entire being has become living. Our mind, will, and emotion will all be in a very healthy condition. All the “dirt” in these “ditches” will then be dug away.
To preserve our body is actually very difficult. It is much easier to preserve our spirit and our soul than to preserve our body. The most difficult thing for us to do in this defiling, contaminating world is to preserve our body. We need to be careful not to look at anything, listen to anything, or touch anything that will defile our body.
God desires to sanctify us wholly and to preserve our spirit, soul, and body complete. However, we need to cooperate with Him. The way to cooperate is to rejoice, pray unceasingly, give thanks to Him in everything, not quench the Spirit, and not despise prophesying in the church meetings. If we cooperate in this way, our spirit will be preserved from deadness, our soul will be preserved from pollution in mind, will, and emotion, and our body will be preserved from the defilement of this age. Then in a practical way we shall have a holy life for the church life. Paul’s aim in writing 1 Thessalonians, a book for new believers, was that they would live such a sanctified and holy life for the church life. (Life-Study of 1 Thessalonians, pp. 202, 205, 209, 211, 213-214)
Questions:
1. Please explain the three parts of man. (See 1 Thes. 5:23 note 5)
2. How does the word of God pierce even to the dividing of the soul and spirit? (See Heb. 4:12 note 2, paragraph 2)
3. How do we experience the sanctification of the Spirit? (See 2 Thes. 2:13 note 3)
Tomorrow: God's Economy, Which Is in Faith
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