林前十二13『因为我们不拘是犹太人或希利尼人，是为奴的或自主的，都已经在一位灵里受浸，成了一个身体，且都得以喝一位灵。』
结四七5『他又量了一千肘，水便成了河，使我不能淌过；因为水势涨起，成为可的水，不可淌的河。』
神需要对他的选民作活水的泉源，因为他有一个经纶，要为自己产生一个配偶，新妇。神经纶的目的是神不再独居，乃要得着一个妻子，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。』在二十九节约翰说过，『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.
我们饮於神这活水，乃是为着召会作他的扩增；我们喝神，乃是为着产生他的扩大，他的丰满，作他的彰显。
〔在耶利米二章十三节，〕神有负担，叫以色列人喝他，好成为他的扩增，作他的丰满，使他们彰显他。以色列人应该喝神这活水的泉源，但他们反而作了两件恶事。第一件恶事是离弃神；第二件恶事是凿出池子作另一个源头。然而，那些池子是破裂不能存水的。这指明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。除了神自己分赐到我们里面作活水以外，没有甚么能使我们成为他的扩增，作他的彰显（耶利米书生命读经，二二至二三页）。
〔以西结四十七章一节〕的水表征三一神作生命水从永远里流出来，解他子民的乾渴（创二10，出十七6，林前十4，诗三六8 下，四六4，亚十四8，约四14，七37~39，启二二1、17）。使河从殿中流出的因素是：1. 殿的建造与完成；2. 百姓照着殿的样式、法则和定例生活（结四三10~11）；3. 祭司的事奉（四四）；以及4. 各样祭物的献上（四五~四六）。这些因素越多出现在召会中，神的水流就越多流出（圣经恢复本，结四七1 注1）。
水越深，越难行走。这指明我们里面恩典的流越深，我们就越放弃自己的努力，弃绝自己的方向，让水流带我们往前（结四七5 注1）。
〔约翰福音〕描绘一位涌流的三一神。三一神在神圣的三一里涌流，有三个阶段。四章十四节下半较好的番译该是这样：『我所赐的水，要在他里面成为水源，涌上来〔成为水泉〕，直涌入永远的生命。』当水源涌上来成为水泉，那就是水源显出来；然后就有河涌流。父是源，子是泉，灵是河。
这涌流的三一神是『直涌入永远的生命』。译为『直涌入』的介词，在原文里含意很丰富。这辞在此说到目的地；永远的生命乃是涌流之三一神的目的地。水源在我们里面，作为水泉涌上来，而成为河，直涌入目的地，这目的地就是永远的生命。新耶路撒冷是神圣、永远生命的总和，这永远的生命至终乃是新耶路撒冷。因此，『直涌入永远的生命』，意思就是『直涌成为新耶路撒冷』。我们必须有东西涌流成为那神圣的新耶路撒冷，好使我们能达到那里（约翰福音结晶读经，一七一页）。
参读：耶利米书生命读经，第四篇；约翰福音结晶读经，第十四至十五篇。
1 Cor. 12:13 "For also in one
Spirit we were all baptized into one Body,whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and were all given to
drink one Spirit."
Ezek. 47:5 "Then He measured a
thousand cubits, and it was a river that I could not passthrough; for the water
had risen, enough water to swim in, a river that could not be crossed."
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, p. 27)
Our drinking of God as the living water is for the church as His increase;
our drinking is for the producing of His enlargement, His fullness, for His
expression.
[In Jeremiah 2:13] God was burdened that Israel would drink Him to
become His increase as His fullness that they might express Him. Israel should
have drunk of God as the fountain of living waters, but instead they committed
two evils. The first evil was to forsake God; the second
evil was to hew out cisterns as
another source. Those cisterns, however, were broken and could hold no water.
This indicates that apart from God as the fountain of living waters, nothing
can quench our thirst, nothing can satisfy us. Nothing apart from God Himself
dispensed into us as
living water can make us His increase
for His expression. (Life-study of Jeremiah, pp. 18-19)
The water [in Ezekiel 47:1] signifies the Triune God as the water of
life flowing out from eternity to quench the thirst of His people (Gen. 2:10;
Exo. 17:6; 1 Cor. 10:4; Psa. 36:8b; 46:4; Zech. 14:8; John 4:14; 7:37-39;
Rev.22:1, 17). The factors that caused the river to flow forth out of the house
were (1) the building up and completion of the house; (2) the living of the
people
according to the pattern, laws, and
statutes of the house (Ezek. 43:10-11); (3) the service of the priests (ch.
44); and (4) the offering of all the offerings (chs. 45─46). The more these
factors are present in the church, the more the flow of God will issue forth.
(Ezek. 47:1, footnote 1)
The deeper the water the more difficult it is to walk. This indicates
that the deeper the flow of grace in us, the more we abandon our self-effort,
forsake our own direction, and allow the flow to carry us on. (Ezek. 47:5,
footnote)
[The Gospel of John] portrays a flowing Triune God. The Triune God flows in the Divine Trinity in
three stages....[John 4:14b says,] “The water that I will give him will become
in him a fountain of water springing up into eternal life.” When the fountain
springs up, that is the fountain emerging.Then a river flows. The Father is the
fountain, the Son is the spring, and the
Spirit is the river.
This flowing Triune God is “into eternal life.” The Greek preposition
translated as “into” is rich in meaning. Here it speaks of the destination. The
eternal life is the destination of the flowing Triune God. A fountain is in us
springing up as a river into a destination. This destination is the eternal
life. The New Jerusalem is the totality of the divine, eternal life. The
eternal life eventually will be the New Jerusalem. Thus, into eternal life
means into the New Jerusalem. We must have something flowing into that divine
New Jerusalem in order for us to arrive there. (The Crystallization-study of
the Gospel of John, p. 139)
Further
Reading: Life-study of Jeremiah, msg. 4; Crystallization-study of the Gospel of
John, msgs. 14-15
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