1读经：列王纪上11:9-13，29-37，12:1—14:31a。领会圣经有许多不同的方法。倪弟兄曾说，你有怎样的圣经，乃是按著你是怎样的人。每个公会和团体都有自己领会圣经的方法。灵恩派的人按他们自己的方法来认识圣经，他们解释圣经没有任何管制的原则。罗马天主教徒按著罗马天主教的教训来认识圣经。内里生命派的人按著自己特别的方法来领会圣经。五十年前，倪弟兄和我认为弟兄会的教训是最好的，那些年间，我时常参考达秘的圣经略解。但已过几年，在豫备关于约伯记和历史书的生命读经时，我没有参考弟兄会的教训。这些年间，主已给我们看见更高、更深奥的事－神永远的经纶，其中心和实际乃是基督作经过过程之三一神的具体化身，以及召会作基督生机的身体。神为著完成祂的经纶，正将祂自己分赐到我们里面。神圣的分赐启示在以弗所书里。弟兄会强调说，在以弗所一章神拣选并豫定我们;但他们没有指出，神的拣选和豫定乃是生机的事。四节说，神在基督里拣选了我们，使我们成为圣别。成为圣别的意思是在生命和性情上，但不是在神格上成为神。在整个宇宙中，惟有神是圣别的。神惟有藉著将祂圣别的性情，就是祂圣别的元素，分赐到我们这人里面，才能使我们成为圣别。神重生我们时，就将祂自己分赐到我们里面作圣别的元素。五节说，神豫定了我们得儿子的名分。这就是说，神藉著分赐，豫定我们作祂的儿子。照著以弗所一章，召会是三一神分赐并升天基督传输的结果。已过十年，主已带我这样来领会圣经。几乎所有基要的教训都是好的。我们珍赏这些教训，并在其上有所建造。然而，这些教训也延误我们，遮蔽了我们。许多基要派的教师满足于基要的教训，我们多少也满足于我们对圣经的领会。若是基要的教训对我们成了一种传统，我们就不会寻求改进我们对圣经的认识。倪弟兄从不满足于这些教训。他一直开拓，要有进一步的看见。
1Scripture Reading: 1 Kings 11:9-13, 29-37; 12:1—14:31a There are many different ways of understanding the Bible. Brother Nee said that the kind of Bible you have is according to the kind of person you are. Every denomination and group has its own way of understanding the Bible. The Pentecostals know the Bible in their way, interpreting it without any governing principles. Roman Catholics know the Bible according to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. The inner-life people understand the Bible in their particular way. Fifty years ago Brother Nee and I considered the Brethren teachings to be the best, and during the years I have often consulted John Nelson Darby’s Synopsis of the Books of the Bible. But in the past few years, in preparing for the life-studies on Job and the books of history, I did not consult the Brethren teachings. In these years the Lord has shown us something higher and more profound—God’s eternal economy, the center and reality of which are Christ as the embodiment of the processed Triune God and the church as the organic Body of Christ. For the carrying out of His economy, God is dispensing Himself into us. The divine dispensing is revealed in the book of Ephesians. The Brethren stress God’s choosing and predestinating us in Ephesians 1, yet they do not point out that God’ss election and predestination are organic matters. Verse 4 says that God has chosen us in Christ to be holy. To be holy means to be God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead. In the entire universe, only God is holy. God can make us holy only by dispensing His holy nature—that is, His holy element—into our being. When God regenerated us, He dispensed Himself into us as the holy element. Verse 5 says that God predestinated us unto sonship. This means that God has predestinated us to be His sons by dispensing. According to Ephesians 1 the church is the issue of the Triune God’s dispensing and the ascended Christ’s transfusing. In the last ten years the Lord has brought me to understand the Bible in this way. Nearly all fundamental teachings are good. We appreciate these teachings and have built upon them. However, they have also delayed us and veiled us. Many fundamental teachers have become contented with the fundamental teachings, and we also have become somewhat contented with our understanding of the Bible. If fundamental teachings become a tradition to us, we will not seek to improve our knowing of the Bible. Brother Nee was never content with these teachings. He always pioneered to see something further.