生命的事奉(一):三十四要点及经文
1 主恢复中的众教会需要生命的职事─约壹五14~17，林后三6，四1、12。
2 职事是基於构成；我们需要以基督所是、所作、所达到并所得著的为构成─弗三8、17。
3 职事乃是由包罗万有、赐生命之灵的构成所产生出来的结果；基督连同他所是、所有，并所达到的一切，必须构成到我们的所是里面；这是得著职事惟一的路。
4 新约的职事不仅是生命的事，更是在生命里并出於生命的构成─林后四12。
5 那灵，就是经过过程的三一神终极的表现，将神圣的生命，就是神自己，分赐到使徒和所有其他的信徒里面，使他们成为新约（生命之约）的执事；因此，他们的职事乃是凭著神的赐生命之灵，用那是生命的三一神构成的─三6，林前十五45下，罗八2、11。
6 新约的职事乃是赐人生命之灵的职事，因为新约带进神的义，叫人得生命─五17、21。
7 新约的执事经历神是复活的神，并将他这位复活的神供应给人─林后一8~10。
8 使徒约翰的职事是生命的修补职事，圣经也结束於这个职事─太四21，约一4，十10，十一25，二十31。
9 我们有永远的生命，而且经历并享受永远的生命，就可以将这生命供应给身体上的其他肢体─约壹一2，五14~17。
10 供应生命就是分赐生命；我们有生命的富余时，才能将这富余供应给人─16节。
11 在约壹五章十六节里，『当为他祈求』与『将生命赐给他』这两句话的主词都是指上文的同一个人，就是那看见弟兄犯罪而为弟兄祈求的人。
12 这样一个住在主里面，与主是一的祈求者，成了神赐生命的灵能将生命赐给他所代求之人的凭藉、管道；这就是在神圣生命的交通里供应生命─林前六17，约壹一3、7。
13 我们要成为能将生命分赐给别人的人，就必须住在神圣的生命里，并在神圣的生命里生活、行事、为人─约十五4~5、7，约壹一1~7。
14 我们需要经历并享受我们里面永远的生命，我们也需要藉著成为管道，让永远的生命经过我们，流到身体上别的肢体，而供应这生命─五16。
15 我们在生命的职事里，需要与主是一，鼓励圣徒经历并享受神作活水的泉源，以他作他们独一的源头─耶二13，启七17：
16 神在他经纶里的心意，是要作活水的泉源，源头，以满足他的选民，作他们的享受─耶二13，诗三六8~9：
17 神要我们接受他作活水的泉源，作我们生活独一的源头─罗十一36：
18 神不要他所拣选并救赎的人接受他自己以外的任何事物作源头─林前八6，耶二13。
19 我们该接受神作我们的源头，与他是一，并接受出於他的一切─罗十一36。
20 神在他经纶里的目的，乃是要得著一班里面有他的生命和性情，外面有他的形像和样式的人；这班人是一个团体的实体，就是基督的身体，他们与他是一，并且活他作他团体的彰显─创一26，弗一10，三9，四16。
21 神作活水泉源的目标，是要产生教会作他的扩增，好成为他的丰满来彰显他；这是神在他经纶里的心愿，喜悦─一5、9、22~23。
22 神需要成为他选民的活水泉源，因为他有一个经纶，他的经纶是要为自己产生一个配偶，新妇─约三29上，四14，启十九7~8。
23 神要作活水的泉源给他的选民喝，目的是要得著扩增并扩大─耶二13。
24 神的经纶是要将他自己作活水分赐出来，以产生他的扩增，他的扩大，好作他的彰显─西二19。
25 我们饮於神这活水的泉源，乃是为著教会作他的扩增；我们喝神，乃是为著产生他的扩大，他的丰满，作他的彰显─约四14，三29上，林前十二12~13。
26 除了神这活水的泉源，没有甚么能解我们的乾渴，没有甚么能满足我们；除了神分赐到我们里面，没有甚么能使我们成为他的扩增，作他的彰显─启二二1、17。
27 神的愿望是要作他所拣选之人的一切，使他们凡事信靠他并依赖他；他们若这样作，就会接受神的分赐─耶十七7~8。
28 接受神作活水的泉源，惟一的路就是喝他；藉著喝他，我们将流自神这活水泉源的活水接受到我们里面─约四14，七37，耶二13。
29 三一神已经过过程并得著完成，为要将他自己分赐到我们三部分人里面─约七37~39，罗八11。
30 神的经纶就是要将他自己分赐到我们里面，使我们这人能由他的所是构成；这惟有藉著神将他自己放在我们里面作神圣的生命，才能完成─2、6、10~11节。
31 藉著将他自己分赐到我们里面作生命，神就能完成他的经纶，使他得著自己团体的彰显，直到永远─启二一9~10，二二1。
32 我们需要饮於神这活水的泉源，这样他就能扩增，以完成他的经纶，藉著他的配偶得著彰显─耶二13，林前十二13，约四14。
33 当我们饮於神这活水的泉源，他就与我们成为一，我们也与他成为一─诗三六8~9。
34 我们越饮於神，他就越与我们成为一，我们也越与他成为一，而在他的生命和性情上由他所构成，作他团体的彰显、他的配偶，以完成他心头的愿望，终极完成他永远的经纶─约三15，彼后一4，弗一5、9，五27。
English Version
The Ministry of Life
Scripture Reading: 1 John 5:14-17; 2
Cor. 3:6; 4:1, 12; Jer. 2:13
I. The churches in the Lord’s recovery
need the ministry of life (1 John 5:14-17; 2 Cor. 3:6; 4:1, 12).
2. Ministry is based on constitution;
we need to be constituted with what Christ is, with what He has done, with what
He has attained, and with what He has obtained (Eph. 3:8, 17).
3. The ministry is brought forth as a
result of being constituted with the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit; Christ,
with all that He is, has, and has attained, must be constituted into our being;
this is the only way to have a ministry.
4. The new covenant ministry is not
only a matter of life; it is a constitution in life and of life (2 Cor. 4:12).
5. The Spirit, who is the ultimate
expression of the processed Triune God, imparts the divine life, even God
Himself, into the apostles and all the other believers, making them ministers
of a new covenant, the covenant of life; hence, their ministry is one
constituted with the Triune God of life by His life-giving Spirit (3:6; 1 Cor.
15:45b; Rom. 8:2, 11).
6. The ministry of the new covenant is
of the Spirit who gives life, because the new covenant brings in God’s
righteousness unto life (5:17, 21).
7. The ministers of the new covenant
experience God as the God of resurrection and minister Him to others as the God
of resurrection (2 Cor. 1:8-10).
8. The ministry of the apostle John,
the ministry with which the Bible concludes, was a mending ministry of life
(Matt. 4:21; John 1:4; 10:10; 11:25; 20:31).
9. We who have eternal life and
experience and enjoy eternal life may minister this life to other members of
the Body (1 John 1:2; 5:14-17):
10. To minister life is to impart
life; when we have a surplus of life, we can minister from this supply to
others (v. 16).
11. In 1 John 5:16 he shall ask and he
will give life refer to the same person, that is, to the one who sees his
brother sinning and asks concerning him:
12. Such an asker, who is abiding in
the Lord and who is one with the Lord, becomes the means, the channel, by which
God’s life-giving Spirit can give life to the one for whom he is asking; this
is the ministering of life in the fellowship of the divine life (1 Cor. 6:17; 1
John 1:3, 7).
13. To be one who can give, impart,
life to others, we must abide in the divine life and live, walk, and have our
being in the divine life (John 15:4-5, 7; 1 John 1:1-7).
14. We need to experience and enjoy
the eternal life within us, and we need to minister this life by being a
channel through which eternal life can flow to other members of the Body
(5:16).
15. In the ministry of life we need to
be one with the Lord to encourage the saints to experience and enjoy God as the
fountain of living waters, taking Him as their unique source (Jer. 2:13; Rev.
7:17).
16. God’s intention in His economy is
to be the fountain, the source, of living waters to satisfy His chosen people
for their enjoyment (Jer. 2:13; Psa. 36:8-9):
17. God wants us to take Him as the
fountain of living waters, the unique source of our living (Rom. 11:36).
18. God does not want His chosen and
redeemed people to take anything other than Himself as the source (1 Cor. 8:6;
Jer. 2:13).
19. We should take God as our source
to be one with Him and to receive whatever issues from Him (Rom. 11:36).
20. God’s aim in His economy is to
have a group of human beings who have His life and nature inwardly and His
image and likeness outwardly; this group of people is a corporate entity, the
Body of Christ, to be one with Him and live Him for His corporate expression
(Gen. 1:26; Eph. 1:10; 3:9; 4:16).
21. God’s goal in being the fountain
of living waters is to produce the church as His increase to be His fullness
for His expression; this is the heart’s desire, the good pleasure, of God in
His economy (1:5, 9, 22-23).
22. God needs to be the fountain of
living waters to His elect because He has an economy, and His economy is to
produce a counterpart, a bride, for Himself (John 3:29a; 4:14; Rev. 19:7-8).
23. God’s purpose in wanting to be the
fountain of living waters for His elect to drink is that He would be increased
and enlarged (Jer. 2:13).
24. God’s economy is to dispense
Himself as the living water to produce His increase, His enlargement, for His
expression (Col. 2:19).
25.Our drinking of God as the fountain
of living waters is for the church as His increase; our drinking is for the
producing of His enlargement, His fullness, for His expression (John 4:14;
3:29a; 1 Cor. 12:12-13).
26. Nothing apart from God as the
fountain of living waters can quench our thirst and satisfy us; nothing apart
from God dispensed into our being can make us His increase for His expression
(Rev. 22:1, 17).
27. God’s desire is to be everything
to His chosen people so that they may trust in Him and rely on Him for
everything; if they do this, they will receive God’s dispensing (Jer. 17:7-8).
28. The only way to take God as the
fountain of living waters is to drink Him; by drinking Him, we take into us the
living water that issues from God as the fountain of living waters (John 4:14;
7:37; Jer. 2:13).
29. The Triune God has been processed
and consummated in order to dispense Himself into our tripartite being (John
7:37-39; Rom. 8:11).
30. God’s economy is to dispense
Himself into our being so that our being can be constituted with His being;
this can be accomplished only by God putting Himself into us as the divine life
(vv. 2, 6, 10-11).
31. By dispensing Himself into us as
life, God is accomplishing His economy, that He may have a corporate expression
of Himself for eternity (Rev. 21:9-10; 22:1).
32. We need to drink of God as the
fountain of living waters so that He may increase for the fulfillment of His
economy to have His expression through His counterpart (Jer. 2:13; 1 Cor.
12:13; John 4:14).
33. When we drink of God as the
fountain of living waters, He becomes one with us, and we become one with Him
(Psa. 36:8-9).
34. The more we drink of God, the more
He is one with us and the more we are one with Him and constituted with Him in
His life and nature to be His corporate expression, His counterpart, for the
fulfillment of the desire of His heart and the consummation of His eternal
economy (John 3:15; 2 Pet. 1:4; Eph. 1:5, 9; 5:27).
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