创世记结晶读经(47):生命水的河_6
约四14『人若喝我所赐的水，就永远不渴；我所赐的水，要在他里面成为泉源，直涌入永远的生命。』
启二二1『天使又指给我看在城内街道当中一道生命水的河，明亮如水晶，从神和羔羊的宝座流出来。』
当〔三一神〕涌流到我们里面，他就带着我们一同涌流。他要把我们涌流入新耶路撒冷里，而成为新耶路撒冷。『入』这个介词，也有『成为』的意思。涌入新耶路撒冷，意思就是成为新耶路撒冷。如果我们不成为新耶路撒冷，我们就绝不可能在新耶路撒冷里。我们必须是新耶路撒冷，然后我们才能在新耶路撒冷里.
得着永远的生命，意思就是联於、有分於新耶路撒冷。…经过种种过程之三一神，成肉体、死、复活之万有主，终极完成、内住之生命灵，都以新耶路撒冷为目标。当我写这段话时，我知道少有人会明白我为甚么把它用在约翰福音结晶读经上，但这的确是我读约翰福音的结论。…这卷福音书，特别是一至四章，乃是记载涌流之神的三个阶段─父是源，子是泉，灵是涌流的河。不仅如此，三者都以新耶路撒冷为永远的目标。表面上，约翰福音没有提到新耶路撒冷。然而，新耶路撒冷乃是见於四章十四节永远的生命。这里『永远的生命』乃是神圣生命的总和。一个人就是属人生命的总和；我们每一个人都是属人生命的总和。但在全宇宙中，神圣的生命只有一个总和，就是新耶路撒冷。
『涌入永远的生命』，意思不仅是进入那是永远生命的新耶路撒冷，更是成为那是永远生命的新耶路撒冷。要来的新耶路撒冷将是你和我；我们就是新耶路撒冷。新耶路撒冷现今还在完成的工作中，这完成的工作就是神圣生命的涌流。这是非常深邃的（对同工长老们以及爱主寻求主者爱心的话，二一至二二页）。
神是借着从宝座流出来的河将他自己分赐到我们里面。按照启示录二十二章一节，这河称为『生命水的河』。这河就如创世记二章十至十四节，诗篇四十六篇四节，以西结四十七章五至九节的河所豫表的，是表征在其流中生命的丰盛。这是一道河，流遍圣城的四方，就像创世记二章十至十四节的一条河分为四道。这一道河连同它的丰富，在我们对神生命之灵各面的丰富所有不同的经历中，成了许多道河，如约翰七章三十八节所指明的。
生命水象征神在基督里成为那灵，将自己流进他所救赎的人里面，作他们的生命和生命的供应。这是从裂开磐石流出的水（出十七6，民二十11）所豫表的，也是从主耶稣被扎的肋旁流出的水（约十九34）所象征的。这里的生命水成了一道河，从神和羔羊的宝座流出来，供应并浸透整个新耶路撒冷，所以这城充满神圣的生命，在神生命的荣耀中彰显他。
〔启示录二十二章一节里〕『神和羔羊的宝座』，一个宝座既为着神，也为着羔羊，表征神和羔羊乃是一─他是羔羊神，是救赎的神，是神那救赎者。在永世里，坐宝座的神乃是我们救赎的神，从他的宝座有生命水的河流出来，作我们的供应和满足。这描述三一神─神、羔羊和生命水所象征的那灵─如何在他元首权柄（宝座的权柄所含示的）之下，将自己分赐给他所救赎的人，直到永远。
参读：启示录生命读经，第六十五篇；新耶路撒冷的解释应用於寻求的信徒，第五篇。
John 4:14 "But whoever drinks of
the water that I will give him shall by no means thirst
forever; but the water that I will give him
will become in him a fountain of water springing up into eternal life."
Rev. 22:1 "And he showed me a
river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God
and of the Lamb in the middle of its street."
When [the Triune God] flows into us, He flows with us. He will flow us
into the New Jerusalem to be the New Jerusalem. The preposition into also means
“to become.” Into the New Jerusalem means “to become the New Jerusalem.” If we
are not becoming the New Jerusalem, we can never be in the New Jerusalem. We
have to be the New Jerusalem; then we can be in the New
Jerusalem. (Crystallization-study of
the Gospel of John, p. 142)
To have eternal life means to be joined to, to participate in, the New
Jerusalem....The Triune God who passed through all the processes, the
allinclusive Christ who was incarnated to die and resurrect, and the
life-giving Spirit who was consummated to indwell us all take the New Jerusalem
as Their eternal goal. When I wrote this utterance, I realized that few would
understand why I used it for a crystallization-study of John, but it is the conclusion
of my study of John....This Gospel, especially from chapter 1 to chapter 4, is
the record of the flowing God in His three stages: the Father as the fountain,
the Son as the spring, and the Spirit as the flowing river. Moreover, They all
take the New Jerusalem as Their eternal goal. Apparently, the New Jerusalem is
not mentioned in John. However, it is seen in the eternal life in 4:14. Eternal
life here is the totality of the divine life. A man is the totality of the
human life; each one of us is the totality of the human life, but the divine
life has only one totality in the whole universe─the New Jerusalem.
Into eternal life does not merely mean to enter into the New Jerusalem
as the eternal life but to become the New Jerusalem as the eternal life. The
coming New Jerusalem will be you and me. We are the New Jerusalem. The New
Jerusalem is still under a consummating work, and this consummating work is the
flow of the divine life. This is very deep. (A Word of Love to the
Co-workers, Elders, Lovers, and
Seekers of the Lord, pp. 23-24)
God dispenses Himself into us by means of the river proceeding out of
the throne. According to Revelation 22:1, this river is called “a river of
water of life.” The river, as typified by the rivers in Genesis 2:10-14, Psalm
46:4, and Ezekiel 47:5-9, signifies the abundance of life in its flow. It is
one river, flowing through the four directions of the holy city like the four
heads of the one river in Genesis 2:10-14. This one river with its riches
becomes many rivers in our experience, as indicated in John 7:38.
The water of life is a symbol of God in Christ as the Spirit flowing
Himself into His redeemed people to be their life and life supply. It is
typified by the water that came out of the riven rock (Exo. 17:6; Num. 20:11)
and is symbolized by the water that flowed out of the pierced side of the Lord
Jesus (John 19:34). Here, this water of life becomes a river, proceeding out of
the throne of God and of the Lamb to supply and saturate the entire New Jerusalem.
Thus, it is filled with the divine life to express God in His glory of life.
[In Revelation 22:1] the throne of God and of the Lamb, one throne for
both God and the Lamb, signifies that
God and the Lamb are one─the Lamb-God, the redeeming God, God the
Redeemer. In eternity, the very God who will sit on the throne is our redeeming
God, from whose throne proceeds the river of water of life for our supply and
satisfaction. This depicts how the Triune God─God, the Lamb, and
the Spirit, symbolized by the water of life─dispenses Himself
into His redeemed under His headship (implied in the authority of the throne)
for eternity. (Life-study of Revelation, pp. 742-743, 740)
Further Reading: Life-study
of Revelation, msg. 65; The Application of the Interpretation of the New
Jerusalem to the Seeking Believers, msg. 5
- 未完待续
