第一週 • 週三
晨興餧養
羅十二5 我們這許多人，在基督裏是一個身體，並且各個互相作肢體，也是如此。
腓三10 使我認識基督、並祂復活的大能、以及同祂受苦的交通，模成祂的死。
〔有些人〕可能認為主的恢復只是為着地方召會的恢復。我說『不錯』，然而有一個『但是』。…地方召會有許多顯於物質事物的方面。你必須安排長老、設立執事，以照顧許多外面的事務。但就基督的身體而言，沒有物質的事物。地方召會幾乎百分之九十是物質的，但卻該是為着屬靈的一面，這屬靈的一面就是基督的身體。
基督身體的實際乃是一種團體的生活，不是個人的生活。這團體的生活是許多聖徒的集大成，這些聖徒被他們裏面那經過過程並終極完成的神所救贖、重生、聖別並變化。藉着這內住之終極完成的神，這些蒙救贖的聖徒就被作成實際的神人（李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第一冊，一五七頁）。
信息選讀
一個人在重生時就成為神人，但還不是成熟的神人。…召會工作的手續是生、養，然後教導並成全，好叫聖徒能彀成熟，在地方召會中被建造，為着建造基督的身體。
我們知道，神成為人，來作神人。…祂向祂的門徒和百姓顯為真正的人。…但這人不憑自己活，不憑祂自己人的生命活。相反的，祂拒絕祂屬人的生命。祂否認自己。…祂告訴我們，凡祂所作，凡祂所說的，都不是出於祂自己，而是出於差祂來的父（約十四10、24）。祂是一個真實的人活在那裏，但卻向祂天然的生命死。…祂向天然的生命死，就是十字架；祂憑着神的生命而活，就是在復活裏。…這位神人耶穌，乃是一個真正的人，…但祂不憑那個真正的人活着，而是把那個真正的人一直擺在十字架上。然後，在復活的意義上，祂活出神的生命。神的生命，帶着其一切的屬性，從這神人耶穌裏面活出來，彰顯為這神人的美德。
這〔在個人耶穌基督裏的〕生命現今已經在許多人身上被重複、複製出來，這些人蒙了救贖、重生，如今在他們裏面有神的生命。…基督身體的實際乃是被成全之神人所過的團體生活，他們是真正的人，但他們不憑自己的生命，乃憑經過過程之神的生命而活；經過過程之神的屬性藉着他們的美德彰顯出來。
保羅活着，是藉死而活〔加二20上〕。他向他天然的人死，而憑他的新人同神聖的生命活着。所以他說，藉着耶穌基督之靈全備的供應，他活基督，並顯大基督（腓一19~21上）。
基督身體的實際不僅僅是一個團體的生活，也是一個調和的生活。…這生活還在調和之中，尚未完成，仍在進行。…這種調和的生活，乃是在基督的復活裏，而這復活的實際就是那靈。
假若在我們中間有這樣的生活（即使不是全部，至少也是部分），那麼基督身體的實際就在我們中間了。…任何一個人過這樣一種調和的生活，就絕不會成為任何人的難處。他們已經蒙拯救脫離自己，得着變化，得着成全了。他們不藐視別人，不定罪別人，也不受別人的攪擾。他們不會有分於異議、背叛和分裂。反之，他們要在這裏，在主的恢復裏作耶路撒冷的高峰—錫安山（李常受文集一九九四至一九九七年第一冊，一五七至一六二頁）。
參讀：關於相調的實行，第四至五章；神人的生活，第一至二、八、十至十一、十三至十五篇。
WEEK 1 — DAY 3
Morning Nourishment
Rom. 12:5 So we who are many are one Body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
Phil. 3:10 To know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death.
[Some] may consider that the recovery is for the recovery of the local churches. I say yes with a but…The local churches are too much in the expression of physical things. You have to arrange the elders and set up the deacons to take care of so many outward affairs. But with the Body of Christ there are no physical things. The local churches are nearly ninety percent physical, but they should be for something spiritual, and this spiritual thing is the Body of Christ.
The reality of the Body of Christ is a kind of corporate living, not a living by any individual. This corporate living is the aggregate of many saints who have been redeemed, regenerated, sanctified, and transformed by the processed and consummated God within them. By this indwelling consummated God, these redeemed saints have been made actual God-men. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning Blending,” p. 127)
Todays Reading
In regeneration a person is made a God-man, but he is not a matured God- man…The procedure in the church work is to beget, to nourish, and then to teach and perfect so that the saints may be mature to be built in the local churches for the building up of the Body of Christ.
We know that God became a man to be a God-man…He appeared to His disciples and to the people as a genuine man…Yet this man would not live by Himself, by His own human life. Rather, He rejected His human life. He denied Himself…He told us that whatever He did and whatever He spoke were not of Himself but of the Father who sent Him (John 14:10, 24). He was a real man living there, yet He was dying to His natural life…That dying to His natural life is the cross, and His living by the divine life is in resurrection. [Jesus was a human being, a genuine man], but He did not live by that genuine man. Instead, He kept that genuine man on the cross. Then, in the sense of resurrection, He lived God’s life. God’s life with all its attributes was lived within this God-man Jesus and expressed as this God- man’s virtues.
This life [in an individual man, Jesus Christ], has now been repeated, reproduced, in many men who have been redeemed and regenerated and who now possess the divine life within them…The reality of the Body of Christ is the corporate living by the perfected God-men, who are genuine men but are not living by their life but by the life of the processed God, whose attributes have been expressed through their virtues.
Paul lived by dying to live [cf. Gal. 2:20]. He was dying to his natural man and living by his new man with the divine life. So he said that by the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, he lived and magnified Christ (Phil. 1:19-21a).
The reality of the Body of Christ is not just a corporate living but a mingling living…This living is not completed; it is still going on…Such a mingling living is in the resurrection of Christ, and the reality of this resurrection is the Spirit.
If among us there is, if not in full at least in part, such a living, the reality of the Body of Christ is among us…Anyone who lives such a mingling life would never be a trouble to anyone. They have been delivered out of themselves and have been transformed and perfected. They would not despise or condemn anyone, nor would they be bothered by others. They would not have anything to do with dissension, rebellion, or division. Instead, they would be here in the recovery as the high peak, Mount Zion, in Jerusalem. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning Blending,” pp. 127-131)
Further Reading: CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning Blending,” chs. 4—5; CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 3, “The God-man Living,” chs. 1—2, 8, 10—11, 13—15
