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出三一13~14 …你们务要守我的安息日；…使你们知道我是把你们分别为圣的耶和华。…凡在这日作工的，那人要从民中剪除。
16 故此，以色列人要谨守安息日，要世世代代守这安息日为永远的约。
我们开始守安息日，就指明我们签了一分合同、一分契约，向神保证我们要这样与祂是一。我们与祂是一，是藉着先享受祂，然后纔为祂作工、与祂同工、并且与祂是一而作工。这是一个永远的约，不仅仅是为着一个时代，一个时期，或一个世代，乃是我们与神之间永远的合同。
凭着我们自己为主作工，而不向祂祷告、不信靠祂，乃是一件严重的事。事实上，我们…需要…把祂接受进来，藉着吃祂而享受祂。在五旬节那天，彼得不仅信靠主，也被主充满，甚至畅饮祂。…彼得传扬耶稣时，他里面有分于耶稣。…他是传扬他所吃的，见证他所享受的（出埃及记生命读经，二○九八至二○九九页）。
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安息日使我们圣别，标明我们，把我们标出来。我们享受主，然后与祂同工、为祂作工并与祂是一而作工，自然而然我们就圣别了。我们成为圣别，从凡俗的事物中分别出来。
出埃及三十一章十四至十五节…清楚的说，若有人不守安息日、不带着这个记号、不尊重这约，好被圣别的，必要被处死。这是表征遭受属灵的死亡。这个原则适用于我们今天的经历。我若没有与主是一而说话，就会在说话中遭受死亡，并从神的子民中被剪除。从神的子民中被剪除，就是从交通中被剪除。
在召会生活中，我们也许作许多事，却没有先享受主，没有同着主、与主是一而事奉。这样事奉的结果乃是遭受属灵的死亡。…每当我们那样事奉时，我们就从身体的交通中将自己剪除了。
帐幕及其器物都引到神的安息日，…引到享受神所定意并作成的。这意思是，帐幕及其一切的器物都将我们引到安息。祭物是为着使我们安息的。我们若没有到燔祭坛这里来经历基督作祭物，就没有安息；反之，我们会有定罪和控告。照样，我们若没有到陈设饼桌子这里，我们就会饥饿，得不着饱足，这也指明我们没有安息。我们若没有来到灯台这里，就没有甚么光；我们会在黑暗里，而黑暗不会给我们安息。…我们若没有来到幔内的约柜，没有来到香坛这里，也不会有安息。凡与神的居所有关的事，都将我们引到一件事—主的安息日及其安息与舒畅。因此，帐幕及其器物将我们引到享受神所定意并作成的。阿利路亚，在召会生活中，我们是在帐幕里，而帐幕将我们引到安息，引到享受神所定意并作成的！
帐幕及其一切器物的建造工作应当开始于对神的享受，而其间继续有享受神而得的舒畅。这指明我们为神作工，不是凭着我们自己的力量，乃是藉着享受祂并与祂是一。这就是安息日的意义，也是论到建造神在地上的居所之后，紧接着说到安息日的原因。愿我们都看见这件事并有深刻的印象（出埃及记生命读经，二一○○至二一○二页）。
参读：出埃及记生命读经，第一百七十二篇。
WEEK 5 — DAY 6
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Morning Nourishment
Exo. 31:13-14 …You shall surely keep My Sabbaths;…that you may know that I am
Jehovah who sanctifies you…Keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you… Whoever does
any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
16 Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the
Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.
When we begin to keep the Sabbath, this indicates that we have signed an
agreement, a contract, that assures God that we will be one with Him in this
way. We would be one with Him by first enjoying Him and then by working for Him,
with Him, and in oneness with Him. This is an eternal covenant. It is not merely
for one age, dispensation, or generation. It is an eternal agreement between us
and God.
It is a serious matter to work for the Lord by ourselves without praying to Him
and without trusting in Him. Actually,…we need…to take Him in and enjoy Him by
eating Him. On the day of Pentecost Peter was not only trusting in the Lord; he
was filled with the Lord, even drinking Him…While Peter was preaching Jesus,
inwardly, he was partaking of Jesus…He preached what he had been eating. He
testified what he had been enjoying. (Life-study of Exodus, 2nd ed., pp.
1766-1767)
Today’s Reading
The Sabbath day sanctifies us, designates us, marks us out. When we enjoy the
Lord and then work with Him, for Him, and by being one with Him, spontaneously,
we are sanctified. We become holy, separated from what is common.
[Exodus 31:14-15 says] clearly that if anyone did not keep the Sabbath, bear the
sign, and honor the covenant in order to be sanctified, that one would be put to
death. This signifies the suffering of spiritual death. The principle applies in
our experience today. If I do not speak in oneness with the Lord, I will suffer
death in my speaking, and I will be cut off from God’s people. To be cut off
from God’s people is to be cut off from fellowship.
In the church life we may do many things without first enjoying the Lord and
without serving with the Lord and by being one with the Lord. That kind of
service results in the suffering of spiritual death…Whenever we serve in that
way, we cut ourselves off from the fellowship in the Body.
All the tabernacle and its furniture lead to the Sabbath of God,…to the
enjoyment of what God has purposed and done. This means that the tabernacle and
all its furniture lead us into rest. The offerings are for us to rest. If we do
not come to the altar of burnt offering to experience Christ as the offerings,
we will not have rest. Instead, we will have condemnation and accusation.
Likewise, if we do not come to the table of the bread of the Presence, we will
be hungry and not have satisfaction. This is another indication that we do not
have rest. If we do not come to the lampstand, we will not have any light. We
will be in darkness, and darkness will not give us rest…If we do not come to the
Ark within the veil and to the incense altar, we will not have rest. Everything
related to God’s dwelling place leads us to one matter—to the Sabbath with its
rest and refreshment of the Lord. Therefore, the tabernacle with its furniture
leads us to the enjoyment of what God has purposed and done. Hallelujah, in the
church life we are in the tabernacle, and the tabernacle leads us to rest, to
the enjoyment of God’s purpose and of what He has done!
The building work of the tabernacle and all its furniture should begin with the
enjoyment of God and continue in intervals with the refreshment by enjoying God.
This will indicate that we do not work for God by our own strength but by the
enjoyment of Him and by being one with Him. This is the meaning of the Sabbath,
and this is the reason that a word about the Sabbath immediately follows the
word concerning the building up of God’s dwelling place on earth. May we all see
this matter and be impressed with it. (Life-study of Exodus, 2nd ed., pp.
1767-1769)
Further Reading: Life-study of Exodus, msg. 172