第七週 • 綱目
三一神將祂自己分賜到我們裏面的永遠福分，為作我們的享受並完成祂的經綸
讀經：林後十三14，約壹一2~7、9，啟二二1
【週 一】
壹 『願主耶穌基督的恩，神的愛，聖靈的交通，與你們眾人同在』（林後十三14）—這乃是三一神將祂自己分賜到我們裏面的永遠福分，為作我們的享受並完成祂的經綸：
一 聖靈作為基督的恩同父的愛的循環，傳輸，乃是我們基督徒生活和召會生活中的供應。
二 整個召會生活乃在於林後十三章十四節；這節經文描述在我們裏面神聖、屬靈的循環。
三 林後十三章十四節所啟示，神聖三一的流作為神聖三一內裏的循環，乃是我們屬靈的命脈。
四 神在祂經綸裏的心意，是要將祂自己在祂神聖的三一—父、子、靈—裏分賜到祂所揀選的人裏面；神在時間裏惟一的目標，就是要把祂自己一天過一天的分賜到我們裏面—詩三六8~9。
【週 二】
貳 我們要享受三一神將祂自己分賜到我們裏面的永遠福分，就需要進入並保守自己在神永遠的愛裏—耶三一3：
一 『我們愛，因為神先愛我們』（約壹四19）；神先愛我們，將祂的愛注入我們裏面，並且在我們裏面產生出愛來，使我們能用這愛愛神，並愛眾弟兄（20~21）。
二 申命記三十章十九至二十節說，『我將生命與死亡，祝福與咒詛，陳明在你面前，所以你要揀選生命，使你和你的後裔都得存活；且愛耶和華你的神，聽從祂的話，緊聯於祂，因為祂是你的生命，你的日子長久也在乎祂』：
1 這些經文啟示，揀選生命是藉着愛主，愛主是藉着聽從祂的話，緊聯於祂—19~20節，啟二4、7，歌三4，八13~14。
2 行傳十一章二十三節啟示我們如何緊聯於祂—當巴拿巴到了安提阿，他『勸勉眾人，要立定心志，一直與主同在』：
a 緊聯於主，就是要立定心志，一直與主同在。
b 這就是要堅定不移的忠於主，依附主，活在與主緊密的交通中。
三 當我們愛主耶穌，我們就在祂那被神性所豐富的人性裏成為與祂一樣一式；全備之神豐富的屬性藉着我們芬芳之『耶穌的』人性美德得着彰顯—林後二15。
四 這些『耶穌的』人性美德包括超凡的愛、極廣的寬恕、無上的信實、盡致的卑微、絕頂的純潔、至聖至義以及光明正大；這些美德描述主耶穌的真實生活，如四福音書所記載的，現今是內住於我們的生命，給我們經歷、享受並彰顯—弗四20~21。
五 基督作內住於我們的生命，使我們能過一種絕對為着神，並且為着神的滿足的生活—我們的生活成為那由燔祭所豫表之耶穌人性生活的複製—利一4、13。
六 我們都需要花彀多個人的時間與主同在，在靈裏與祂有情深、私下、屬靈的交通，使我們能被祂愛的素質所充滿，好讓祂藉着我們牧養人，並使我們能被祂照耀的元素所充滿，好讓人在我們身上看見祂—歌一1~4，約四24，路十五20，太五15~16。
七 事奉主者的人格，乃是藉着愛主纔得到保障；我們愛主，就保守自己在耶穌的人性這範圍和領域裏；我們若不愛主，就會失去主吸引的管制，甚麼事都可能作得出來—提後四10、14，弗四17~21。
【週 三】
叁 我們要享受三一神將祂自己分賜到我們裏面的永遠福分，就需要進入並保守自己站在基督的恩典，就是三一神作我們的享受中—羅五2：
一 日復一日，我們需要主開通我們的耳朵，使我們聽見祂口中所出的恩言，好使我們能經歷父在那蒙愛者裏面所恩賜我們的恩典，並能將恩典供給聽見我們的人—弗一6，賽五十4~5，歌八13，路四22，徒二十32，弗四29。
二 我們需要在召會生活中享受生命的恩典這降下的甘露，以保守自己在真正的一裏，使基督的身體在神聖三一的神聖分賜裏逐漸得着建造—詩一三三。
【週 四】
肆 我們要享受三一神將祂自己分賜到我們裏面的永遠福分，就需要進入並保守自己在聖靈的交通，就是神聖生命內裏的流裏—林後十三14，民六22~27：
一 交通就是所有已經接受並得着神聖生命之信徒裏面永遠生命的流；這是新耶路撒冷裏生命水河的湧流所描繪的—啟二二1。
二 約壹一章二至三節及六至七節啟示，神聖生命的交通有垂直的一面，也有平面的一面：
1 二至三節說，『（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，又是與父並與祂兒子耶穌基督所有的』：
a 交通垂直的一面是指我們與三一神的交通；交通平面的一面是指我們彼此之間的交通。
b 使徒們起首的經歷是垂直的，但是當使徒們將永遠的生命傳與別人時，他們就經歷神聖交通平面的一面。
2 六節說，『我們若說我們與神有交通，卻在黑暗裏行，就是說謊話，不行真理了；』這是交通垂直的一面。
3 七節說，『但我們若在光中行，如同神在光中，就彼此有交通；』這是交通平面的一面。
4 生命的交通，生命內裏的流，帶進喜樂和生命之光內裏的照耀，就是內裏的管制—4~5節，約一4，八12，參林後五13。
三 我們需要看見神聖交通垂直的一面與平面的一面之間的關係：
1 如果我們與主沒有正確的交通，就很難與同作信徒的人有交通；同樣的，我們若與同作信徒的人沒有正確的交通，就很難與主有交通；原因是神聖的交通乃是一個交通—徒二42。
2 我們若不是實際的在這交通裏，我們就是在那靈以外，在三一神以外，在神聖的生命以外—參林後十三14，林前一9，腓二1。
3 我們應當盡可能的，與同作信徒的人有交通；這神聖的交通不只改正我們，也塑造我們，甚至將我們重新構成；這交通將神聖的構成成分，帶進我們屬靈的所是裏，使我們這人裏面有所改變。
【週 五】
四 平面的交通與垂直的交通交織在一起；這種交織的交通乃是真實的交通：
1 我們藉着操練靈而彼此有真正的交通時，就會渴望禱告並接觸主；這表明垂直與平面這兩面交通之間的關係是何等密切。
2 我們與聖徒平面的交通，帶我們進入與主垂直的交通裏；然後，我們與主垂直的交通，又帶我們進入與聖徒平面的交通裏。
【週 六】
伍 神聖的交通是基督徒生活中的一切；我們必須領悟，當交通沒有了，神也消失了；神乃是作為交通而來：
一 正如電流就是電的本身，照樣，神聖生命的交通，神聖生命的流通，就是神聖生命的本身。
二 我們基督徒的生活乃是在生命交通裏的生活；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。
三 神聖的交通乃是三一神分賜到我們這些三部分的人裏面，使我們與神成為一；『交通』的希臘原文意『一同參與』，這一同參與就產生了一。
四 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。
五 主的願望是要使我們眾人成為一，正如父、子、靈是一一樣；在約翰十七章，主禱告說，『使他們成為一，正如我們是一一樣；』（22下）；基督身體的一乃是神聖三一之一的擴大（21上）。
六 神聖的交通乃是在基督身體裏生活的實際：
1 主還沒有回來（啟二二20）的原因，乃是信徒持個人主義，都是單獨、有意見並且分裂的。
2 藉着在神聖的交通裏受限制，基督的身體就蒙保守在一裏，職事的工作就繼續往前；那使一切都活起來的乃是交通—弗四11~12，參結四七9。
七 交通也指明為着某一共同的目的，把個人的利益放在一邊，並聯於別人；因此，活在神聖的交通裏，乃是放下我們個人的利益，聯於使徒和三一神，為着完成神的定旨—徒二42，約壹一3，林前一9，三6、12。
八 至終，召會與神聖的三一在交通中乃是一—約十四21、23。
陸 我們在神聖的交通中享受基督，就在屬靈的生活中不斷的經歷一個循環，其中有四件要緊的事物，就是永遠的生命、永遠生命的交通、神聖的光以及神兒子耶穌的血；這樣的循環，在神聖生命的成長上帶我們向前，直到我們在生命上成熟，團體的達到長成的人，達到基督豐滿之身材的度量—約壹一1~9，來六1，弗四13。
Week Seven
The Eternal Blessing of the Triune God Dispensing Himself into Us for Our Enjoyment
and the Accomplishing of His Economy
R. A.; Hymns: E12
Scripture Reading: 2 Cor. 13:14; 1 John 1:2-7, 9; Rev. 22:1
§ Day 1
I. “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all” (2 Cor. 13:14)—this is the eternal blessing of the Triune God dispensing Himself into us for our enjoyment and the accomplishing of His economy:
A. The Holy Spirit as the circulation, the transmission, of the grace of Christ with the love of the Father is the supply in our Christian life and church life.
B. The entire church life depends upon 2 Corinthians 13:14, which is a description of the divine and spiritual circulation within us.
C. The current of the Divine Trinity as the inner circulation of the Divine Trinity revealed in 2 Corinthians 13:14 is our spiritual pulse.
D. God’s intention in His economy is to dispense Himself in His Divine Trinity—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit—into His chosen people; God’s only goal in time is to dispense Himself into us day by day—Psa. 36:8-9.
§ Day 2
II. In order to enjoy the eternal blessing of the Triune God dispensing Himself into us, we need to enter into and keep ourselves in the eternal love of God—Jer. 31:3:
A. “We love because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19); God first loved us in that He infused us with His love and generated within us the love with which we love Him and the brothers (vv. 20-21).
B. Deuteronomy 30:19 and 20 say, “I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life that you and your seed may live, in loving Jehovah your God by listening to His voice and holding fast to Him; for He is your life and the length of your days”:
1. These verses reveal that the way to choose life is to love the Lord, and the way to love the Lord is to listen to His voice and hold fast to Him—vv. 19-20; Rev. 2:4, 7; S. S. 3:4; 8:13-14.
2. Acts 11:23 reveals how we can hold fast to Him; when Barnabas went to Antioch, he “encouraged them all to remain with the Lord with purpose of heart”:
a. To hold fast to the Lord is to remain with the Lord with purpose of heart.
b. This is to be persistently faithful to the Lord, cleave to Him, and live in close fellowship with Him.
C. As we love the Lord Jesus, we become the same as He is in His divinely enriched humanity; the bountiful God in His rich attributes is expressed through our aromatic “Jesusly” human virtues—2 Cor. 2:15.
D. These “Jesusly” human virtues include extraordinary love, boundless forbearance, unparalleled faithfulness, absolute humility, utmost purity, supreme holiness and righteousness, and brightness and uprightness; these virtues describe the actual life of Jesus as recorded in the four Gospels, which is now our indwelling life for us to experience, enjoy, and express—Eph. 4:20-21.
E. Christ as our indwelling life enables us to live a life that is absolutely for God and for God’s satisfaction—our living becomes a reproduction of the human living of Jesus typified by the burnt offering—Lev. 1:4, 13.
F. We all need to spend an adequate amount of personal time with the Lord to have affectionate, private, and spiritual fellowship with Him in our spirit so that we can be filled with His loving essence for Him to shepherd others through us and so that we can be filled with His shining element for others to see Him in us—S. S. 1:1-4; John 4:24; Luke 15:20; Matt. 5:15-16.
G. The humanity of one who serves the Lord is safeguarded through his loving the Lord; our loving the Lord keeps us in the realm and sphere of Jesus’ humanity; if we do not love the Lord, we lose the restraint that comes from His attraction, and we are liable to do anything and everything—2 Tim. 4:10, 14; Eph. 4:17-21.
§ Day 3
III. In order to enjoy the eternal blessing of the Triune God dispensing Himself into us, we need to enter into and keep ourselves standing in the grace of Christ, which is the Triune God as our enjoyment—Rom. 5:2:
A. Day by day we need the Lord to open our ears and cause us to hear the words of grace proceeding out of His mouth so that we can experience the Father’s gracing us with His grace in the Beloved and can give grace to those who hear us—Eph. 1:6; Isa. 50:4-5; S. S. 8:13; Luke 4:22; Acts 20:32; Eph. 4:29.
B. We need to enjoy the descending dew of the grace of life in the church life to keep ourselves in the genuine oneness for the gradual building up of the Body of Christ in the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity—Psa. 133.
§ Day 4
IV. In order to enjoy the eternal blessing of the Triune God dispensing Himself into us, we need to enter into and keep ourselves in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, the inner flow of the divine life—2 Cor. 13:14; Num. 6:22-27:
A. The fellowship is the flow of the eternal life within all the believers, who have received and possess the divine life; it is illustrated by the flow of the river of water of life in the New Jerusalem—Rev. 22:1.
B. First John 1:2-3 and 6-7 reveal that the fellowship of the divine life has both a vertical aspect and a horizontal aspect:
1. First John 1:2-3 says, “(And the life was manifested, and 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”:
a. The vertical aspect of fellowship refers to our fellowship with the Triune God; the horizontal aspect of fellowship refers to our fellowship with one another.
b. The initial experience of the apostles was vertical, but when the apostles reported the eternal life to others, they experienced the horizontal aspect of the divine fellowship.
2. Verse 6 says, “If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and are not practicing the truth”; this is the vertical aspect of fellowship.
3. Verse 7 says, “But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another”; this is the horizontal aspect of fellowship.
4. The fellowship of life, the inner flow of life, results in joy and in the inner shining, the inner ruling, of the light of life—vv. 4-5; John 1:4; 8:12; cf. 2 Cor. 5:13.
C. We need to see the relationship between the vertical and horizontal aspects of the divine fellowship:
1. If we do not have the proper fellowship with the Lord, it is difficult to have fellowship with our fellow believers; in the same way, if we do not have the proper fellowship with our fellow believers, it is difficult to have fellowship with the Lord; the reason for this is that the divine fellowship is one fellowship—Acts 2:42.
2. When we are not in this fellowship in a practical way, we are out of the Spirit, out of the Triune God, and out of the divine life—cf. 2 Cor. 13:14; 1 Cor. 1:9; Phil. 2:1.
3. We should try to have fellowship with our fellow believers as much as possible; this divine fellowship not only corrects us, but it also molds us and even reconstitutes us; this fellowship brings the divine constituent into our spiritual being, causing a change in our being.
§ Day 5
D. The horizontal fellowship is interwoven with the vertical fellowship; this interwoven fellowship is the real fellowship:
1. When we fellowship with one another in a genuine way by exercising our spirit, we are eager to pray and contact the Lord; this shows how close the relationship is between the vertical and horizontal aspects of fellowship.
2. Our horizontal fellowship with the saints brings us into vertical fellowship with the Lord; then our vertical fellowship with the Lord brings us into horizontal fellowship with the saints.
§ Day 6
V. The divine fellowship is everything in the Christian life; we must realize that when fellowship disappears, God also disappears; God comes as the fellowship:
A. 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.
B. Our Christian life is a life in the fellowship of life; eventually, in this divine fellowship God is interwoven with us; this interweaving is the mingling of God with man.
C. The divine fellowship is the dispensing of the Triune God into us, the tripartite men, making us and God one; the Greek word for fellowship means “joint participation,” and this joint participation issues in oneness.
D. 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.
E. The Lord desires to make us all one as the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are one; in John 17 the Lord prayed, “That they may be one, even as We are one” (v. 22b); the oneness of the Body of Christ is the enlarged oneness of the Divine Trinity (v. 21).
F. The divine fellowship is the reality of living in the Body of Christ:
1. The reason that the Lord has not yet come back (Rev. 22:20) is that the believers are individualistic, independent, opinionated, and divided.
2. By being restricted in the divine fellowship, the Body of Christ is kept in oneness, and the work of the ministry continues to go on; the thing that makes everything alive is fellowship—Eph. 4:11-12; cf. Ezek. 47:9.
G. Fellowship also indicates a putting away of private interests and a joining with others for a certain common purpose; hence, to live in the divine fellowship is to put aside our private interests and join with the apostles and the Triune God for the carrying out of God’s purpose—Acts 2:42; 1 John 1:3; 1 Cor. 1:9; 3:6, 12.
H. Eventually, the church and the Divine Trinity are one in fellowship—John 14:21, 23.
VI. As we are enjoying Christ in the divine fellowship, we continually experience a cycle in our spiritual life of four crucial things—the eternal life, the fellowship of the eternal life, the divine light, and the blood of Jesus the Son of God; such a cycle brings us onward in the growth of the divine life until we reach the maturity of life to corporately arrive at a full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ—1 John 1:1-9; Heb. 6:1; Eph. 4:13.
