生命的事奉(五):神的百姓作了两件恶事

耶利米二章十三节,"因为我的百姓，作了两件恶事，就是离弃我这活水的泉源，为
自己凿出池子，是破裂不能存水的池子。"


启七17　因为宝座中的羔羊必牧养他们，领他们到生命水的泉；神也必从他们眼中
擦去一切的眼泪。


全本圣经，包括耶利米书，都是为著神的计划写的。主从他的话中所指示我们关于
神计划的事。你若看见这异象，你的生活会受到影响，主的恢复也会得以丰富。


根据耶利米二章十三节，〕在神的计划里，他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。这享受的目标，是要产生召会作神的扩增，神的扩
大，好成为神的丰满来彰显他。这是神在他计划里的心意，喜悦（弗一5、9）。这
思想的完满发展是在新约里，但其种子是撒在耶利米二章十三节。


神向我们所要的，主要的是在耶利米二章十三节题起，这节启示神是活水的泉源。
神要我们为著我们的生活，接受他作活水的泉源。这就是说，他要我们接受他作我
们全人的源头、泉源。


圣经里的原则乃是：神不要他的选民接受他自己以外的任何事物作源头。神造人以
后，将人安置在那表徵神作生命的生命树跟前。神这样作，指明他要人有分於生命
树，而不是有分於别的。有分於生命树，就是接受神作我们独一的源头，作我们一
切的源头。


耶利米三十四至四十五章这段有十二章，给我们看见以色列在犯罪干犯耶和华上的
顽梗。在这段经文里指明一件事─以色列离弃神这活水的源头、泉源。例如，想想
基大利的情况。


虽然他忠信的照顾神的申言者耶利米（四十5~6），但他没有寻求主的话（13~14），
因为这不是他的习惯。他没有接受神作他的源头，与他是一，并接受出於他的一切。
他若是这样的人，他所要作的第一件事，就是接受神的话。


神有一个计划，这计划包含一个带著许多安排的计画。神在他计划里的目的，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。


当神不仅凭著身体，也藉著身体得著彰显时，他就得著荣耀。他得著荣耀的时候，
他的子民也就在他的得荣里得著荣耀。这样神与人就在荣耀里是一。


神需要对他的选民作活水的泉源，因为他有一个计划，要为自己产生一个配偶，新
妇。神计划的目的是神不再独居，乃要得著一个妻子，作他的扩增，他的扩大，好
与他这丈夫相配。这是约翰三章三十节里『扩增』一辞的意义。


在这节里，施浸者约翰提到基督说，『他必扩增。』在前一节约翰说过：『娶新妇
的，就是新郎。』三十节的扩增，就是二十九节的新妇。新郎是基督，新妇是他的
扩增，他的扩大。


正如夏娃是亚当的扩增，是用亚当的肋骨建造的，照样，神的选民是新妇，是基督
这新郎的扩增。


参读：耶利米书生命读经，第一、三篇。




Jer. 2:13 "For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, 
the fountain of living waters, to hew out for themselves cisterns, broken 
cisterns, which hold no water."


Rev. 7:17 "For the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd 
them and guide them to springs of waters of life; and God will wipe away 
every tear from their eyes."


The entire Bible, including the book of Jeremiah, was written for God’s 
economy. My burden...is that you would see what the Lord has shown me from 
the Word concerning God’s economy. If you see this vision, your life will 
be affected, and the Lord’s recovery will be enriched.


    [According to Jeremiah 2:13], God’s intention in His economy is to be 
the fountain, the source, of living waters to satisfy His chosen people 
for their enjoyment. The goal of this enjoyment is to produce the church 
as God’s increase, God’s enlargement, to be God’s fullness for His expression.
 This is the heart’s desire, the good pleasure (Eph. 1:5, 9), of God in 
His economy. The full development of this thought is in the New Testament, 
but it is sown as a seed in Jeremiah 2:13. (Life-study of Jeremiah, p. 17)


    What God wants from us is mentioned mainly in Jeremiah 2:13, which reveals 
that God is the fountain of living waters. God wants us to take Him as the 
fountain of living waters for our living. This means that He wants us to 
take Him as the source, the fountain, of our being.


    The principle in the Bible is that God does not want His chosen people 
to take anything other than Himself as their source. After God created man, 
He placed him in front of the tree of life, which signifies God as life. 
By doing this God was indicating that He wanted man to partake of the tree 
of life, not anything else. To partake of the tree of life is to take God 
as our unique source, as our source of everything.


    Jeremiah 34─45 is a section of twelve chapters showing us the stubbornness 
of Israel in sinning against Jehovah. In these chapters one thing is made 
clear─that Israel has forsaken God as the source, the fountain, of living 
waters. Consider, for example, the situation with Gedaliah. Although he 
was faithful in caring for Jeremiah, God’s prophet (40:5-6), he did not 
seek the Lord’s word (vv. 13-14), because this was not his habit. He did 
not take God as his source to be one with Him and to receive whatever issued 
from Him. If he had been such a person, the first thing he would have done 
would have been to receive the word of God.


    God has an economy, and this economy involves a plan with many arrangements.
 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. As God is expressed not only 
by the Body but also through the Body, He is glorified. When He is glorified,
 His people are also glorified in His glorification. In this way God and 
man are one in glory.


    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. The purpose of God’s economy is that God would no longer be alone 
but would have a wife to be His increase, His enlargement, and thus to match 
Him as the Husband. This is the significance of the word increase in John 
3:30. In this verse John the Baptist, speaking of Christ, says, “He must 
increase.” In the previous verse John had said, “He who has the bride is 
the bridegroom.” The increase in verse 30 is the bride in verse 29. The 
Bridegroom is Christ, and the bride is His increase, His enlargement. Just 
as Eve was the increase of Adam, being built from Adam’s rib, so God’s elect 
as the bride are the increase of Christ as the Bridegroom. (Life-study of 
Jeremiah, pp. 259, 217-218, 82, 27)


Further Reading: Life-study of Jeremiah, msgs. 1, 3


-未完待续

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