第七週 • 週五
晨興餧養
約壹一6~7 我們若說我們與神有交通，…但我們若在光中行，如同神在光中，就彼此有交通，祂兒子耶穌的血也洗淨我們一切的罪。
神聖交通的垂直與平面兩面，關係非常密切。我們從經歷中可以看見這點。有時，我們可能假藉交通聖徒的近況為名，而談論他們，但我們的談話實際上是閒聊。之後我們通常不能禱告，因為我們禱告的靈被我們的閒話銷滅了。但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何等密切。…如果兩位弟兄操練他們的靈，有真正、正確、平面的交通，他們至終會被引進非常誠懇、真摯的代求裏。當他們一同禱告時，神聖交通的兩方面就交織在一起了。…這種交織的交通乃是真實的交通（李常受文集一九九○年第一冊，四四九頁）。
信息選讀
你若花充分的時間與主有垂直的交通，就會急切想見別的聖徒，好與他們有交通。你一旦藉着禱告而與聖徒有了交通，你就再次被帶進與主垂直的交通裏。你與聖徒們平面的交通，帶你進入與主垂直的交通裏。然後，你與主的交通，又把你帶進與聖徒們平面的交通裏。因此，這兩面總是交織在一起的。
林後十三章十四節給我們看見藉着那靈而有垂直一面的神聖交通。這一節說到基督的恩，父的愛，和聖靈的交通。這裏說到三一神—基督、父和聖靈。不僅如此，這裏還提到三樣東西—恩、愛和交通。那靈是神聖三一的終極完成，照樣，交通
乃是愛與恩的終極完成。愛是源頭，恩是流道，交通是應用。應用就是神聖三一之流的終極完成。
在神聖的三一裏，父是源頭，子是流道，那靈將三一神的所是應用於我們。…我們有了那靈，就有了子與父，因為父具體化身在子裏面，子又實化為那靈。因此，那靈是三一神的終極完成。在這靈裏面有一種特別的性能，就是神聖的交通。聖靈的交通乃是神聖交通垂直的一面。
腓立比二章一節說到平面一面的神聖交通，就是『靈的交通』。這裏的『靈』是指信徒得重生的靈。神聖的靈用神聖的生命重生了我們人的靈（約三6下），如今我們人的靈正與神聖的靈調和（羅八16，林前六17）。神聖的靈是為着垂直的交通，人的靈是為着平面的交通。神聖交通的這兩面是分不開的。我們若在垂直的一面與神有交通，就會被帶到與同作信徒的人有平面的交通。我們若有神聖交通平面的一面，也會有垂直的一面；神聖交通的這兩面是交織在一起的。
真實的交通是憑着我們的靈。當我們操練我們的靈時，就不會談論世俗的消遣或娛樂。我們操練靈，我們談話的性質就會改變，因為我們的靈是聖別的（參林後六6）。某個召會若有難處，我們可能只是想談論一下局面如何，但我們裏面的靈會催促我們禱告。我們的靈不容許我們閒聊別人的錯誤與失敗。我們惟有藉着操練我們的靈，纔有平面交通的實際（李常受文集一九九○年第一冊，四四九至四五○、四五三至四五四、四四八頁）。
參讀：今日主恢復中內在的難處及其合乎聖經的救治，第一章。
WEEK 7 — DAY 5
Morning Nourishment
1 John 1:6-7 If we say that we have fellowship with Him…; but if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from every sin.
The horizontal and vertical aspects of the divine fellowship are very closely related. We can see this from our experience. Sometimes we may talk about other saints under the pretense of having fellowship about their situation, but our conversation is actually gossip. Afterward, we often cannot pray because our praying spirit is quenched by our gossip. But when we fellowship 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…If two brothers exercise their spirit to have genuine, proper, horizontal fellowship, they will eventually be ushered into a very honest and sincere intercession. When they pray together, the two aspects of the divine fellowship are interwoven…This interwoven fellowship is the real fellowship. (CWWL, 1990, vol. 1, “The Triune God to Be Life to the Tripartite Man,” pp. 362-363)
Todays Reading
If you have a good time with the Lord in vertical fellowship, you will be eager to see the other saints in order to have fellowship with them. Once you have fellowship with the saints through prayer, you are brought into vertical fellowship with the Lord again. Your horizontal fellowship with the saints brings you into vertical fellowship with the Lord. Then your fellowship with the Lord brings you into horizontal fellowship with the saints. Thus, these two aspects are always interwoven.
Second Corinthians 13:14 is a verse that shows the vertical aspect of the divine fellowship by the Spirit. This verse speaks of the grace of Christ, the love of the Father, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. The Triune God is referred to in this verse—Christ, the Father, and the Holy Spirit. Furthermore, three things are covered—grace, love, and fellowship. Just as the Spirit is the consummation of the Divine Trinity, fellowship is the consummation of love and grace. Love is the source, grace is the course, and fellowship is the application. The application is the consummation of the flow of the Divine Trinity.
In the Divine Trinity the Father is the source, the Son is the course, and the Spirit is the application of what the Triune God is to us…If we have the Spirit, we have the Son and the Father because the Father is embodied in the Son, and the Son is realized as the Spirit. Thus, the Spirit is the consummation of the Triune God. With this Spirit there is the particular capacity of the divine fellowship. The fellowship of the Holy Spirit is the vertical aspect of the divine fellowship.
Philippians 2:1 speaks of the horizontal aspect of the divine fellowship, the “fellowship of spirit.” This refers to the regenerated human spirit of the believers. The divine Spirit regenerated our human spirit with the divine life (John 3:6b), and now our human spirit is mingled with the divine Spirit (Rom. 8:16; 1 Cor. 6:17). The divine Spirit is for vertical fellowship, and the human spirit is for horizontal fellowship. These two aspects of the divine fellowship are inseparable. If we have the vertical aspect with God, it will bring us to the horizontal aspect with our fellow believers. If we are in the horizontal aspect of the divine fellowship, we are also in the vertical aspect. These two aspects of the divine fellowship are woven together.
Real fellowship is by our spirit. When we exercise our spirit, we are unable to talk about worldly amusements and entertainment. When we exercise our spirit, the nature of our conversation will change because our spirit is holy (cf. 2 Cor. 6:6). If there are problems in a certain church, we may have a desire to merely talk about the situation, but our spirit within will urge us to pray. Our spirit will not allow us to gossip about others’ mistakes and failures. The only way to have the reality of horizontal fellowship is by exercising our spirit. (CWWL, 1990, vol. 1, “The Triune God to Be Life to the Tripartite Man,” pp. 363, 367-368, 362)
Further Reading: CWWL, 1990, vol. 2, “The Intrinsic Problem in the Lord’s Recovery Today and Its Scriptural Remedy,” ch. 1
