生命的經歷(四): 聖徒們平面的相交
相交(交通)==Fellowship
經上約壹一2~3 , 說:"
這生命已經顯現出來，我們也看見過，現在又作見證，將原與父同在，且顯現與我們那永遠的生命傳與你們；我們將所看見並聽見的，也傳與你們，使你們也可以與我們有交通；而且我們的交通，又是與父並與他兒子耶穌基督所有的。"
徒二42 他們都堅定持續在使徒的教訓和交通里…。
利十四17 將手掌里所剩的油抹些在那求潔淨之人的右耳垂上，和右手的大拇指上，並右腳的大拇指上，就是抹在贖愆祭牲的血上。
太十六24 於是耶穌對門徒說，若有人要跟從我，就當否認己，背起他的十字架，並跟從我。
新約啟示，基督徒的聚會、基督徒的婚姻生活以及基督徒的工作，就是神聖的交通。神聖的交通是基督徒生活的一切。在行傳二章，得救的人被帶進並堅定持續在使徒的交通里。使徒們想與信徒們有交通，這是平面的交通。
然後使徒們說明他們的交通是與三一神的交通，這是垂直的交通。垂直的交通帶我們進入平面的交通里。然後平面的交通帶我們進入範圍更廣大的垂直交通。這範圍更廣大的交通就是聚會。在聚會中所有的功用都該彰顯神聖的交通。
整個聚會都是一個交通。我們該與主有垂直的交通，同時彼此之間有平面的交通。
至終，在這神聖的交通中，神就與我們交織在一起。這交織就是神與人的調和。
所有的聚會都該是垂直與平面兩面交織的交通。我們的婚姻生活也應該是交織的交通。夫妻不該單單彼此有交織，也該與主有交織。真實的基督徒婚姻應該是神聖的交通。我們一同配搭和工作，也該是神聖的交通。
我們必須領悟，當交通沒有了，神也消失了；神是作為交通而來。今天我們的聚會、我們的婚姻生活、同工之間的配搭，以及眾地方教會之間的交通是不正常的，因為我們缺少這交通。今天眾地方教會之間不夠有交通，眾教會沒有在交通中完全是一。
神聖的交通乃是基督徒生活的一切。使徒保羅活在這交通中。當我們活在神聖的交通中，我們的基督徒生活就變得非常活潑、活躍，並且滿了衝擊力。我們需要借着二靈，完全進入神聖交通兩面的經歷。
然而，在我們的經歷中，我們與神之間總是有攔阻和障礙。神聖的交通在垂直與平面兩面都有許多障礙。需要甚麼來對付這些障礙呢？在全宇宙中，只有一個東西能除去我們與神之間的障礙，那就是十字架。
沒有十字架，我們的交通是膚淺的。十字架治死的工作加深我們的交通，那靈復活的吹氣拔高我們的交通。交通釋放我們，借着十字架使我們脫離有罪的己。沒有十字架，我們就不會從己得釋放。沒有那靈和十字架，我們就無法有真實的交通。
詩歌二百二十七首的第一句說，『後是膏油先是血。』血是十字架強有力的表號，而膏油是豫表包羅萬有、複合的靈。利未記十四章六至十節以及十四至十八節提到這兩種成分。
利未記十四章六至十節以及十四至十八節…告訴我們，麻風患者先是借血得着潔淨。血是基礎。然後在血的基礎上抹油，就是塗上膏油。血和膏油是塗在患者的右耳垂上、右手的大拇指上，並右腳的大拇指上。
耳表徵我們的聆聽，手錶征我們的工作，腳表徵我們的行動。我們的聆聽是很大的難處。我們受攪擾，因為我們聽了許多消極的事。因着這是有罪的，所以我們的耳，我們的聆聽，需要血。
在某種意義上，我們對許多事最好是『聾子』。我們的工作和行動也需要血的潔淨。
因為我們的聆聽、工作和行動錯了，所以我們是患麻風的，需要先借基督救贖的血所潔淨。然後我們需要在血之上塗抹膏油。塗抹的膏油連同血完成了我們的潔淨。最終，我們的潔淨是借着基於基督潔淨之血而有那靈的神聖交通。
神聖的交通乃是三一神分賜到我們這些三部分的人裡面，使我們與神成為一。實際上，這一乃是交通。交通的希臘原文意『一同參與』，這一同參與就產生了一。當丈夫有分於妻子，而妻子有分於丈夫時，他們就是一。實際上，交通就是一。
當神與我們有交通，我們也與神有交通，那就使神與我們成為一。在全宇宙中有一個大的一，這個大的一就是神聖的交通。我們這些三部分
的人與三一神是一。在約翰十七章，主禱告說，『使他們成為一，正如我們是一一樣。』主的願望是要使我們眾人成為一，正如父、子、靈是一一樣。教會的一是神聖三一那神聖之一的一部分。至終，教會與神聖的三一在交通中是一。
因着你裡面對另一位弟兄有障礙，你與他的交通就不會那麼徹底。因着我們裡面神聖交通的障礙，我們可能迴避和某些聖徒的接觸。我們的交通不是徹底的，裡面仍有障礙存留，因為我們在經歷中沒有十字架。
十字架將基督帶給我們。我已經與基督同釘十字架，現在活着的不再是我，乃是基督在我裡面活着。這就是十字架。基督活在我裡面作忍耐。他活在我裡面作一切屬人的美德，這些美德就是人所認為的倫常道德。
我們需要基督，但如果我們沒有經歷十字架，我們就無法經歷基督。詩歌四百六十四首說，『不死就不生。』這意思就是：『沒有十字架，就沒有基督。』不僅如此，『如果沒有基督，就沒有那靈；如果沒有那靈，就沒有交通。』
這就是需要十字架的原因。主在馬太十六章二十四節…用『他的十字架』這辭，指明我們每個人都有特別一分的十字架，要除去我們這個人。
十字架主要是為着對付己。主說我們若要跟從他，就必須否認己，背起自己的十字架。實際上，背十字架就是否認己，把己置於死地，一直應用基督的十字架在己身上。
如果我們有很強的己，被每一件事和每一個人得罪，我們就無法有真實的交通。為要有平面的交通，我們需要否認自己。否認己的意思就是對自己沒有感覺。這樣，我們就絕不會被得罪。我們需要經歷十字架，好加深我們對神聖交通的經歷。
參讀：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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