启二5　 所以要回想你是从哪里坠落的，并要悔改，行起初所行的。不然，我就要临到你那里；你若不悔改，我就把你的灯台从原处挪去。

　　　　7　 ……得胜的，我必将神乐园中生命树的果子赐给他吃。

　　吃生命树，就是享受基督作我们生命的供应，该是召会生活中首要的事。召会生活的内容在于享受基督；我们越享受基督，召会生活的内容就越丰富。我们若要享受基督，就必须用起初的爱爱祂。我们若离弃对主起初的爱，就要失去对基督的享受，并且会失去耶稣的见证；结果，灯台要从我们挪去。爱主、享受主以及成为主的见证，这三者乃是并行的（圣经恢复本，启二7注6）。

　　Rev. 2:5 Remember therefore where you have fallen from and repent and do the first works; but if not, I am coming to you and will remove your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.

　　7…To him who overcomes, to him I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.

　　Eating the tree of life, that is, enjoying Christ as our life supply, should be the primary matter in the church life. The content of the church life depends on the enjoyment of Christ. The more we enjoy Him, the richer the content will be. But to enjoy Christ requires us to love Him with the first love. If we leave our first love toward the Lord, we will miss the enjoyment of Christ and lose the testimony of Jesus; consequently, the lampstand will be removed from us. These three things—loving the Lord, enjoying the Lord, and being the testimony of the Lord—go together. (Rev. 2:7, footnote 6)

　　在像以弗所这样好而有次序、正式的召会里，我们必须首先胜过失去起初的爱。我们所需要的第二件事，乃是维持吃基督作生命树。

　　我们若在凡事上让基督居首位，并且每日享受祂作生命树，我们就是奇妙、得胜的基督徒。当我们享受基督作生命树，我们就有神的乐园〔参启二7〕。……今天我们的乐园乃是召会生活。

　　你如果不让主居首位，也不享受主，即使只过了一个月，召会生活就可能对你成为不愉快的地方。……但是当你胜过了失去起初的爱，并维持吃基督，就是维持对主的享受，召会生活立即要成为你的乐园。因此，我们对召会的感觉和态度乃在于我们的光景。我们若在凡事上让主居首位，并终日享受祂作生命树，不管召会的情形怎样，召会要立即成为我们的乐园。这就是为什么主说，我们必须吃神乐园中的生命树。

　　我们必须胜过离弃起初的爱，维持吃基督作生命树，并且作为灯台，照耀出神圣的光（参启二5下）。爱与生命有关，生命与光有关。爱、生命和光乃是三而一。你若使基督在凡事上居首位，你就有爱。你若有这爱，你就有生命，你就会享受主。你若有生命，这生命要成为你的光。灯台（召会）的光乃是团体的而非个人的，照耀在召会时代的黑夜里。

　　我们若享受基督作我们的爱、生命和光，我们就会在我们所在的地方，如同灯台照耀，持守耶稣的见证（十二17下）。我们见证基督的身位，祂是神也是人。我们也见证基督的为人生活、钉十字架、复活、升天、降下和第二次的显现。光的照耀乃是见证。在我们日常生活中的每一面，我们应当照耀基督。

　　我们必须记得这四个辞：爱、生命、光、灯台。……我们必须在各方面、在凡事上让主耶稣居首位，以恢复起初的爱。这样，我们就会享受祂作生命树，而这生命立即成为生命之光（约八12）。我们就会在日常生活中照耀，并团体地作为灯台照耀。否则，灯台就要在个人一面从我们挪去，并在团体一面从召会挪去。……如果我们今天在凡事上以基督为第一，我们就会有爱，我们就会享受祂作生命，我们就会将祂如同光照耀出来，我们也会成为照耀的灯台，作耶稣的见证（李文集一九九一至一九九二年第四册，二七三至二七六页）。

　　参读：启示录生命读经，第十篇；出埃及记生命读经，第九十二至九十三、九十五篇；主的恢复—吃，第一篇。

　　In such a good, orderly, and formal church like the church in Ephesus, we need to first overcome the loss of the first love. The second thing that we need is to maintain the eating of Christ as the tree of life.

　　If we give the preeminence to Christ in everything and enjoy Him as the tree of life every day, we will be marvelous, overcoming Christians. When we enjoy Christ as the tree of life, we have the Paradise of God [cf. Rev. 2:7]… Today our paradise is the church life.

　　If you do not give the preeminence to the Lord or enjoy the Lord, even for a month, the church life may become an unpleasant place to you… But when you overcome the loss of the first love and maintain your eating of Christ, your enjoying of the Lord, right away the church life becomes paradise to you. Thus, our sensation and our attitude toward the church depend upon our situation. If we give the Lord the preeminence in everything and enjoy Him as the tree of life throughout the day, right away the church, regardless of its condition, becomes paradise to us. This is why the Lord says that we have to eat the tree of life in the Paradise of God.

　　We need to overcome the leaving of the first love, to maintain the eating of Christ as the tree of life, and to shine forth the divine light as the lampstand (Rev. 2:5b). Love is related to life, and life is related to light. Love, life, and light are a trinity. If you make Christ the first in everything, you have love. If you have this love, you have life, and you will enjoy the Lord. If you have life, this life becomes light to you. The light of the lampstand, the church, shines forth corporately versus individualistically in the dark night of the church age.

　　If we are enjoying Christ as our love, life, and light, we will keep the testimony of Jesus as the shining of the lampstand in our locality (12:17b). We will testify of Christ’s person as God and as man and of Christ’s human living, crucifixion, resurrection, ascension, descension, and second appearing. The shining of the light is a testimony. In every aspect of our daily life, we should be shining forth Christ.

　　We need to remember these four words that begin with the letter l—love, life, light, and lampstand… We must give the Lord Jesus the preeminence in every way and in everything to recover the first love. Then we will enjoy Him as the tree of life, and this life right away becomes the light of life (John 8:12). Then we will be shining in our daily life and corporately as the lampstand. Otherwise, the lampstand will be removed from us individually and from the church corporately. If today we take Christ as the first in everything, we will have love, we will enjoy Him as life, we will shine forth with Him as light, and we will become the shining lampstand as the testimony of Jesus. (CWWL, 1991-1992, vol. 4, “The Overcomers,” pp. 204-206)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Revelation, msg. 10; Life-study of Exodus, msgs. 92-93, 95; CWWL, 1972, vol. 1, “The Lord’s Recovery of Eating,” ch. 1