林前十二27　　你们就是基督的身体，并且各自作肢体。

　　12　　就如身体是一个，却有许多肢体，而且身体上一切的肢体虽多，仍是一个身体，基督也是这样。

　　士师记十八章三十节所说的“为自己”非常有意义。许多宣称敬拜神的人，实际上是为自己作事。背道就是以敬拜神为掩饰，为自己作事。耶罗波安无心为神，反之，他的心是为着他自己的小王国。他心里恐惧国度会归回大卫家（王上十二26）。他用神的名为掩饰，尽一切可能保全他的王国。这就是背道（创世记生命读经，一五七六页）。

　　1 Cor. 12:27 Now you are the Body of Christ, and members individually.

　　12 For even as the body is one and has many members, yet all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.

　　The words for themselves in Judges 18:30 are very significant. Many who claim to be worshipping God are really doing something for themselves. Apostasy is doing something for the self under the cloak of worshipping God. Jeroboam had no heart for God. Rather, his heart was for his own little empire. In his heart he feared that the kingdom would return to the house of David (1 Kings 12:26). Using the name of God as a cloak, he did everything possible to preserve his empire. This is apostasy. (Life-study of Genesis, p. 1321)

　　今天整个基督教国是背道的。许多人在耶稣基督的名下，在敬拜神的掩饰下，为他们自己作事。这是主需要恢复的原因。主的恢复总会得罪人。只要这里有恢复，分裂的团体就被定罪。只要殿在耶路撒冷，金牛犊就在定罪之下。但可能爱耶路撒冷么？不，但与耶路撒冷之间不可能妥协。常有人来向我说，“李弟兄，请不要这样放胆直言，为什么不温和一点？”我回答说，“我该对谁温和？对蛇？对虺？对雕像？对金牛犊？…”我们怎能对今日的背道仁慈？这里不能有妥协。不要想和蛇、虺妥协。你若对蛇仁慈，你会中毒。你若对今日的背道温和，你会受破坏。…在耶路撒冷有神的殿作祂的见证，在但却有背道。在召会的历史和我们自己的经历中，我们都见过这事。…我们可能说，我们在为主作工，实际上却是为别的作工，这就是背道。

　　但不关心别的支派，只关心自己的支派，他赢得胜利，得了扩张、扩大之后，就为自己作事。这是他背道的源头。按照旧约，主从不忘记但的背道。在神眼中，这是在祂经纶中最败坏的罪。没有一件事比分裂更破坏人。没有一件事比神子民中间的分裂更有害。分裂的敬拜中心常与偶像有关。因为魔鬼是潜伏在偶像背后，所以但设立偶像，就成为一条蛇。什么时候你变成分裂了，不管你的理由多美好，在你背后必定有个东西—那狡猾者蛇。整个召会历史都见证这事，我们的经历也证实这事。每当你不关心别人，只关心自己的利益，只为自己作事，蛇就在近处。防止落到背道中，最好的路是顾到别人。假定但曾和别的支派商量说，“弟兄们，你们同意我在但城设立另一个敬拜中心么？”他若这样作，对方会说，“弟兄，不可这样作。申命记十二、十四、十五、十六章禁止我们有别的敬拜中心，为要使我们到唯一的中心去。”如果但和别的支派商讨，他就不至于背道了。然而因着单独，他设立了另一个敬拜中心，就落到背道之中。

　　原则上，每一个分裂的敬拜中心都是一样。那些设立这种中心的人，只关心自己的利益，自己的愿望，而忽略了别的圣徒。他们象但一样。但只关心自己的支派，不关心别的支派（创世记生命读经，，一五七六至一五七八页）。

　　参读：一的真正立场，第三章；列王纪生命读经，第八篇。

　　The whole of Christendom today is an apostasy. So many are doing things for themselves under the name of Jesus Christ and under the cloak of the worship of God. This is the reason the Lord needs a recovery. The Lord’s recovery will always offend others. As long as the recovery is here, the divisive groups will stand condemned. As long as the temple was in Jerusalem, the golden calf was under condemnation. Was it possible for Dan to love Jerusalem? No, there could be no reconciliation between Dan and Jerusalem. Often others have come to me and said, “Brother Lee, please don’t be so bold. Why not be a little nice?” I replied, “To whom should I be nice? To the serpent? To the horned snake? To the graven image? To the golden calf?…” How can we be kind to today’s apostasy? There can be no compromise. Do not try to compromise with the serpent, the horned snake. If you are kind to the snake, you will be poisoned by it. If you try to be nice to today’s apostasy, you will be damaged…. In Jerusalem there was God’s temple as His testimony, but in Dan there was apostasy. Both in church history and in our own Christian experience we have seen this very thing….We might have said that we were working for the Lord when we were actually working for something else. This is apostasy.

　　Dan did not care for the other tribes; he cared only for his own tribe. After he won the victory and gained the expansion, the enlargement, he did something for himself. This was the source of his apostasy. According to the Old Testament, the Lord never forgot Dan’s apostasy. In the eyes of God it was the worst sin in His economy. Nothing is more damaging than divisiveness. Nothing is more destructive than division among God’s people. Divisive worship centers are often related to idols. Because the devil lurks behind idols, by setting up an idol Dan became a serpent. Whenever you become divisive, no matter how good your reason may be, there will be something behind you—the serpent, the subtle one. The whole history of the church testifies of this and our experience confirms it. Whenever you do not care for others, but only for your interests, doing something merely for yourself, the serpent is at hand. The best way to be safeguarded from falling into apostasy is taking care of others. Suppose Dan had contacted the other tribes and said, “Brothers, do you agree that I set up another worship center in the city of Dan?” Had he done this, the others would have said, “Brother, don’t do this. Deuteronomy 12,14,15, and 16 forbid us to have any other center of worship that we may come to the unique center.” If Dan had consulted the other tribes, he would have been kept from apostasy. But being individualistic, he set up another worship center and fell into apostasy.

　　In principle, every divisive center of worship is the same. Those who establish them care only for their interests, their desires, and they neglect all the other saints. They are like Dan, who cared only for his tribe, not for the others. (Life-study of Genesis, pp. 1321-1323)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1972, vol. 2, “The Genuine Ground of Oneness,” ch. 3; Life-study of 1 & 2 Kings, msg. 8