生命的经历(四): 圣徒们平面的相交
相交(交通)==Fellowship
经上约壹一2~3 , 说:"
这生命已经显现出来，我们也看见过，现在又作见证，将原与父同在，且显现与我们那永远的生命传与你们；我们将所看见并听见的，也传与你们，使你们也可以与我们有交通；而且我们的交通，又是与父并与他儿子耶稣基督所有的。"
徒二42 他们都坚定持续在使徒的教训和交通里…。
利十四17 将手掌里所剩的油抹些在那求洁净之人的右耳垂上，和右手的大拇指上，并右脚的大拇指上，就是抹在赎愆祭牲的血上。
太十六24 於是耶稣对门徒说，若有人要跟从我，就当否认己，背起他的十字架，并跟从我。
新约启示，基督徒的聚会、基督徒的婚姻生活以及基督徒的工作，就是神圣的交通。神圣的交通是基督徒生活的一切。在行传二章，得救的人被带进并坚定持续在使徒的交通里。使徒们想与信徒们有交通，这是平面的交通。
然后使徒们说明他们的交通是与三一神的交通，这是垂直的交通。垂直的交通带我们进入平面的交通里。然后平面的交通带我们进入范围更广大的垂直交通。这范围更广大的交通就是聚会。在聚会中所有的功用都该彰显神圣的交通。
整个聚会都是一个交通。我们该与主有垂直的交通，同时彼此之间有平面的交通。
至终，在这神圣的交通中，神就与我们交织在一起。这交织就是神与人的调和。
所有的聚会都该是垂直与平面两面交织的交通。我们的婚姻生活也应该是交织的交通。夫妻不该单单彼此有交织，也该与主有交织。真实的基督徒婚姻应该是神圣的交通。我们一同配搭和工作，也该是神圣的交通。
我们必须领悟，当交通没有了，神也消失了；神是作为交通而来。今天我们的聚会、我们的婚姻生活、同工之间的配搭，以及众地方教会之间的交通是不正常的，因为我们缺少这交通。今天众地方教会之间不够有交通，众教会没有在交通中完全是一。
神圣的交通乃是基督徒生活的一切。使徒保罗活在这交通中。当我们活在神圣的交通中，我们的基督徒生活就变得非常活泼、活跃，并且满了冲击力。我们需要借着二灵，完全进入神圣交通两面的经历。
然而，在我们的经历中，我们与神之间总是有拦阻和障碍。神圣的交通在垂直与平面两面都有许多障碍。需要甚么来对付这些障碍呢？在全宇宙中，只有一个东西能除去我们与神之间的障碍，那就是十字架。
没有十字架，我们的交通是肤浅的。十字架治死的工作加深我们的交通，那灵复活的吹气拔高我们的交通。交通释放我们，借着十字架使我们脱离有罪的己。没有十字架，我们就不会从己得释放。没有那灵和十字架，我们就无法有真实的交通。
诗歌二百二十七首的第一句说，『后是膏油先是血。』血是十字架强有力的表号，而膏油是豫表包罗万有、复合的灵。利未记十四章六至十节以及十四至十八节提到这两种成分。
利未记十四章六至十节以及十四至十八节…告诉我们，麻风患者先是借血得着洁净。血是基础。然后在血的基础上抹油，就是涂上膏油。血和膏油是涂在患者的右耳垂上、右手的大拇指上，并右脚的大拇指上。
耳表征我们的聆听，手表征我们的工作，脚表征我们的行动。我们的聆听是很大的难处。我们受搅扰，因为我们听了许多消极的事。因着这是有罪的，所以我们的耳，我们的聆听，需要血。
在某种意义上，我们对许多事最好是『聋子』。我们的工作和行动也需要血的洁净。
因为我们的聆听、工作和行动错了，所以我们是患麻风的，需要先借基督救赎的血所洁净。然后我们需要在血之上涂抹膏油。涂抹的膏油连同血完成了我们的洁净。最终，我们的洁净是借着基於基督洁净之血而有那灵的神圣交通。
神圣的交通乃是三一神分赐到我们这些三部分的人里面，使我们与神成为一。实际上，这一乃是交通。交通的希腊原文意『一同参与』，这一同参与就产生了一。当丈夫有分於妻子，而妻子有分於丈夫时，他们就是一。实际上，交通就是一。
当神与我们有交通，我们也与神有交通，那就使神与我们成为一。在全宇宙中有一个大的一，这个大的一就是神圣的交通。我们这些三部分
的人与三一神是一。在约翰十七章，主祷告说，『使他们成为一，正如我们是一一样。』主的愿望是要使我们众人成为一，正如父、子、灵是一一样。教会的一是神圣三一那神圣之一的一部分。至终，教会与神圣的三一在交通中是一。
因着你里面对另一位弟兄有障碍，你与他的交通就不会那么彻底。因着我们里面神圣交通的障碍，我们可能回避和某些圣徒的接触。我们的交通不是彻底的，里面仍有障碍存留，因为我们在经历中没有十字架。
十字架将基督带给我们。我已经与基督同钉十字架，现在活着的不再是我，乃是基督在我里面活着。这就是十字架。基督活在我里面作忍耐。他活在我里面作一切属人的美德，这些美德就是人所认为的伦常道德。
我们需要基督，但如果我们没有经历十字架，我们就无法经历基督。诗歌四百六十四首说，『不死就不生。』这意思就是：『没有十字架，就没有基督。』不仅如此，『如果没有基督，就没有那灵；如果没有那灵，就没有交通。』
这就是需要十字架的原因。主在马太十六章二十四节…用『他的十字架』这辞，指明我们每个人都有特别一分的十字架，要除去我们这个人。
十字架主要是为着对付己。主说我们若要跟从他，就必须否认己，背起自己的十字架。实际上，背十字架就是否认己，把己置於死地，一直应用基督的十字架在己身上。
如果我们有很强的己，被每一件事和每一个人得罪，我们就无法有真实的交通。为要有平面的交通，我们需要否认自己。否认己的意思就是对自己没有感觉。这样，我们就绝不会被得罪。我们需要经历十字架，好加深我们对神圣交通的经历。
参读：三一神作三部分人的生命，第十八章，第十九章。
English Version
1 John 1:2-3 "(...We have seen and testify and report to you
the eternal life, which was with the Father and was manifested to us); that
which we have seen and heard we report also to you that you also may have
fellowship with us, and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with His
Son Jesus Christ."
Acts 2:42 "And they continued steadfastly in the teaching and
the fellowship of the apostles..."
Lev. 14:17 "And from the rest of the oil that is in the palm
of his hand the priest shall put some on the lobe of the right ear of the one
who is to be cleansed and some on the thumb of his right hand and some on the
big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering."
Matt. 16:24 "...If anyone wants to come after Me, let him deny
himself and take up his cross and follow Me."
Just as the current of electricity is the electricity itself, the
fellowship of the divine life, the flow of the divine life, is the divine life
itself....Similarly, our Christian life is a life of the fellowship of the
divine life. The New Testament reveals that the Christian meeting, the
Christian married life, and the Christian work are just the divine fellowship. The
divine fellowship is everything in the Christian life. Those who were saved in
Acts 2 were brought into and continued steadfastly in the apostles’ fellowship
(v. 42). (The Triune God to Be Life to the Tripartite Man, p. 154)
Today's Reading
The apostles wanted to have fellowship with the believers;
this is horizontal fellowship. Then the apostles stated that their fellowship
was with the Triune God; this is vertical fellowship [1 John 1:2-3]. The
vertical fellowship brings us into the horizontal fellowship. The horizontal
fellowship then brings us into the vertical fellowship on a larger scale. This
larger scale of fellowship is the meetings....All the functioning in the
meetings should be an expression of the divine fellowship. To prophesy is an
expression of this fellowship....The entire meeting should be a fellowship. We
should be vertically fellowshipping with the Lord and, at the same time, be
horizontally fellowshipping with one another.
Eventually, in this divine fellowship God is
interwoven with us. This interweaving is the mingling of God with man. All of
the meetings should be an interwoven fellowship with both the vertical and
horizontal aspects.Our married life should also be an interwoven fellowship.
The husband and the wife should not only be interwoven with each other but also
with the Lord. The real Christian marriage should be the divine fellowship. Our
coordination and work together should also be the divine fellowship.
We must realize that when fellowship disappears,
God also disappears.God comes as the fellowship. Today our meetings, our
married life, the coordination among the co-workers, and the fellowship among
the local churches are abnormal because we are short of this fellowship. Today
there is not enough fellowship among the local churches, and the churches are
not absolutely one in the fellowship.
The divine fellowship is everything in the
Christian life. The apostle Paul lived in this fellowship. When we live in the
divine fellowship, our Christian life becomes very living, active, and full of
impact. We need to fully enter into the experience of the divine fellowship in
its two aspects by the two spirits.
In our experience, however, there are always
frustrations and obstacles between us and God. There are many obstacles to the
divine fellowship in its vertical and horizontal aspects. What is needed to
deal with these obstacles? In the whole universe, there is only one thing which
takes away all the obstacles between us and God—the cross.
Without the cross, our fellowship is
superficial. The cross of death deepens our fellowship, and the Spirit’s breath
as the resurrection uplifts our fellowship. Fellowship frees us from our sinful
self through the cross. Without the cross, there is no release, freedom, or
liberty from the self....Without the Spirit and the cross, we cannot have real
fellowship.
The first line of [Hymns], #279 says, “First the
blood, and then the ointment.” The blood is a strong sign of the cross, and the
ointment is a type of the all-inclusive, compound Spirit. These two elements
are mentioned in Leviticus 14:6-10, 14-18. (The Triune God to Be Life to the
Tripartite Man, pp.154-155, 158-159)
In Leviticus 14:6-10, 14-18...we are told that a leper is to
be cleansed firstly by the blood. The blood is the base. Then upon the base of
the blood,the oil, the ointment, is applied. The blood and the ointment are
applied to the lobe of the leper’s right ear, to the thumb of his right hand,
and to the big toe of his right foot. The ear signifies our hearing, the hand
signifies our working, and the foot signifies our walking. Our hearing is a big
problem.We are troubled because we listen to many negative things. Because this
is
sinful, our ear, our hearing, needs the blood. In a sense, it is good for us to
be “deaf” to many things. Our working and walking also need the cleansing of
the blood.
Because we are wrong in our hearing, working,
and walking, we are lepers.Because we are lepers, we need to first be cleansed
by Christ’s redeeming blood. Then upon the blood we need the anointing oil. The
anointing oil with the blood consummates our cleansing. Consummately, our
cleansing is by the divine fellowship of the Spirit based upon the cleansing
blood of Christ.(The Triune God to Be Life to the Tripartite Man, p. 159)
Today's Reading
The divine fellowship is the dispensing of the
Triune God into us,the tripartite men, making us and God one. Actually, this
oneness is the fellowship. The Greek word for fellowship, koinonia, means joint
participation, and this joint participation issues in oneness. When a husband
participates in his wife and his wife participates in him, they are
one.Actually, fellowship is just oneness. When God is fellowshipping with
us,and when we are fellowshipping with God, that makes God and us one. In the
whole universe, there is a big oneness, and this big oneness is the divine
fellowship. We, the tripartite men, are one with the Triune God. In John 17 the
Lord prayed, “That they may be one, even as We are one” (v. 22b). The
Lord’s desire is to make us all one like the Father, the Son, and the Spirit
are one. The church’s oneness is a part of the divine oneness of the Divine
Trinity. Eventually, the church and the Divine Trinity are one in fellowship.
Because there is an obstacle within you toward
another brother, your fellowship with him is not that thorough. We may avoid
contact with certain saints because of the obstacles within us to the divine
fellowship. Our fellowship is not thorough and obstacles remain within us
because we do not have the cross in our experience.
The cross brings Christ to us. I have been
crucified with Christ,and I no longer live but Christ lives in me. This is the
cross. Christ lives in me as patience. He lives in me as all the human virtues,
which
are considered by others as ethics. We need Christ, but without the experience
of the cross, we cannot experience Christ. Hymns, #631 says, “If no death, no
life.” This means, “If no cross, no Christ.” Furthermore, “If no Christ, no
Spirit, and if no Spirit, no fellowship.” This is why the cross is
needed....[In Matthew 16:24] the Lord used the words his cross. There is a
particular portion of the cross for each one of us to cross each one of us out.
The cross is mainly for dealing with ourselves.
The Lord said that if we desire to follow Him, we must deny ourselves and take
up our cross. Actually, to bear the cross is to deny the self, to put the self
to death, to apply the cross of Christ to the self all the time. If we have a
strong self and are offended by
everything and by everyone, we cannot have real fellowship. In order for us to
have the horizontal fellowship, we need to deny ourselves. To deny ourselves
means to be senseless about ourselves. Then we can never be offended. We need
the experience of the cross to deepen our experience of the divine
fellowship. (The Triune God to Be Life to the Tripartite Man, pp. 159-161, 163)
Further Reading: The Triune God to Be Life to the Tripartite Man,
ch. 18 , ch. 19
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