在腓立比二章十七节保罗说，“然而，即使我成为奠祭，浇奠在你们信心的祭物和供奉上，也是喜乐，并且与你们众人一同喜乐。”在提后四章六节保罗也说到自己是奠祭：“我现在被浇奠，我离世的时候到了。”既然保罗在腓立比书所论到的每件事，都与经历基督有关，那么二章十七节所题到的奠祭，必然也是如此。我们对基督的经历若尚未达到被构成为奠祭的地步，我们就还没有完满的经历基督。当我们经历基督到极其高超的程度时，我们就会成为奠祭。
构成为奠祭
奠祭乃是在利未记一至六章所启示的基本祭物之外附加的（民十五1-10，二八7-10）。基本的祭物豫表基督的各方面，奠祭豫表献祭的人所享受的基督。基督这属天的酒充满献祭的人，甚至使他们成为献给神的酒。使徒保罗因着这样享受基督，就成了这样的奠祭（提后四6），使他能藉着流血，浇奠在信徒的信心这献给神的祭物上。
燔祭、素祭、平安祭、赎罪祭和赎愆祭，乃是基本的祭物，奠祭却不是。利未记一至六章所说到的五种基本的祭物，豫表基督为我们的缘故之于神的各方面。我们若读民数记十五章一至十节和二十八章七至十节，就会看见，奠祭乃是附加的。基本的祭若没有同着奠祭献上，就指明这样献基本的祭有不及之处。献基本祭的那人必定极为贫乏。实际上，奠祭表征献祭的人本身成了奠祭。然而，这不是说，献祭的人凭着自己天然的构成就能成为这样的奠祭。反之，他必须享受基督到一个地步，使基督充满他、浸透他并弥漫他。基督乃是属天的酒，给我们享受。当我们藉着将祂接受进来而享受祂时，我们就要被祂充满，彻底被祂浸透。这样，我们就成为酒，作奠祭浇奠在我们向神所献的祭物上。
保罗以旧约的豫表为根据，将自己视为奠祭，浇奠在信徒信心的祭物和供奉上。多年来，保罗一直饮于基督、享受基督，以致被基督充满，被基督浸透。至终，基督这属天的酒使保罗这人里面被酒所构成。这就是为甚么保罗认为自己是酒，如同奠祭浇奠在信徒的信心这献给神的祭物上。
信息重点：奠祭不是出于人天然的牺牲，乃是人不断经历并享受基督，被基督这属天的酒充满、浸透并构成，至终使自己成为可以浇奠给神的祭。
应用祷告：主耶稣，求你使我天天更多经历并享受你，让你充满、浸透并构成我。愿我不凭天然的自己事奉你，乃被你作成属天的酒，使我的一生成为献给神的奠祭。阿们！
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The Drink Offering and Sacrifice (1) — Gen. 35:13-15
In Philippians 2:17 Paul says, “But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all.” In 2 Timothy 4:6 Paul also speaks of himself as a drink offering: “For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come.” Since everything Paul speaks of in Philippians is related to the experience of Christ, the drink offering mentioned in 2:17 must be the same. If our experience of Christ has not yet reached the point of being constituted a drink offering, we have not yet had a full experience of Christ. When we experience Christ to an extremely high degree, we become a drink offering.
Being Constituted a Drink Offering
The drink offering is something added to the basic offerings revealed in Leviticus 1–6 (Num. 15:1-10; 28:7-10). The basic offerings typify the various aspects of Christ, while the drink offering typifies the Christ enjoyed by the one who offers the sacrifice. Christ as the heavenly wine fills the offerer, even making him wine offered to God. Through such an enjoyment of Christ, the apostle Paul became this kind of drink offering (2 Tim. 4:6), enabling him, through the shedding of his blood, to be poured out upon the sacrifice of the believers’ faith offered to God.
The burnt offering, the grain offering, the peace offering, the sin offering and the trespass offering are the basic offerings, but the drink offering is not. The five basic offerings spoken of in Leviticus 1–6 typify the various aspects of what Christ is to God on our behalf. If we read Numbers 15:1-10 and 28:7-10, we see that the drink offering is an addition. If the basic offerings were not presented together with the drink offering, this would indicate a deficiency in the offering of the basic offerings; the one presenting them would surely be very poor. In fact, the drink offering signifies that the offerer himself becomes the drink offering. However, this does not mean that the offerer can become such a drink offering by his own natural constitution. Rather, he must enjoy Christ to the extent that Christ fills him, saturates him and permeates him. Christ is the heavenly wine given to us for our enjoyment. As we receive and enjoy Him, we are filled with Him and thoroughly saturated with Him. In this way we become wine, poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice we offer to God.
Based on the type in the Old Testament, Paul regarded himself as a drink offering, poured out upon the sacrifice and service of the believers’ faith. For years Paul drank of Christ and enjoyed Christ, until he was filled with Christ and saturated with Christ. Eventually, Christ as the heavenly wine constituted Paul, within his very being, into wine. This is why Paul considered himself wine, poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice of the believers’ faith offered to God.
Message Main Points: The drink offering is not a natural sacrifice made by man; rather, it is the result of a person continually experiencing and enjoying Christ, being filled, saturated, and constituted by Christ as the heavenly wine, until he himself becomes an offering that can be poured out to God.
Daily Prayer: Lord Jesus, I ask You to cause me to experience and enjoy You more every day, letting You fill, saturate and constitute me. May I not serve You by my natural self, but be made by You into the heavenly wine, so that my whole life may become a drink offering poured out to God. Amen!