林前十二13『因為我們不拘是猶太人或希利尼人，是為奴的或自主的，都已經在一位靈里受浸，成了一個身體，且都得以喝一位靈。』
結四七5『他又量了一千肘，水便成了河，使我不能淌過；因為水勢漲起，成為可的水，不可淌的河。』
神需要對他的選民作活水的泉源，因為他有一個經綸，要為自己產生一個配偶，新婦。神經綸的目的是神不再獨居，乃要得着一個妻子，作他的擴增，他的擴大，好與他這丈夫相配。這是約翰三章三十節里『擴增』一辭的意義。在這節里，施浸者約翰提到基督說，『他必擴增。』在二十九節約翰說過，『娶新婦的，就是新郎。』三十節的擴增，就是二十九節的新婦。新郎是基督，新婦是他的擴增，他的擴大。正如夏娃是亞當的擴增，是用亞當的肋骨建造的，照樣，神的選民是新婦，是基督這新郎的擴增.
我們飲於神這活水，乃是為着召會作他的擴增；我們喝神，乃是為着產生他的擴大，他的豐滿，作他的彰顯。
〔在耶利米二章十三節，〕神有負擔，叫以色列人喝他，好成為他的擴增，作他的豐滿，使他們彰顯他。以色列人應該喝神這活水的泉源，但他們反而作了兩件惡事。第一件惡事是離棄神；第二件惡事是鑿出池子作另一個源頭。然而，那些池子是破裂不能存水的。這指明除了神這活水的泉源，沒有甚麼能解我們的乾渴，沒有甚麼能滿足我們。除了神自己分賜到我們裡面作活水以外，沒有甚麼能使我們成為他的擴增，作他的彰顯（耶利米書生命讀經，二二至二三頁）。
〔以西結四十七章一節〕的水錶征三一神作生命水從永遠里流出來，解他子民的乾渴（創二10，出十七6，林前十4，詩三六8 下，四六4，亞十四8，約四14，七37~39，啟二二1、17）。使河從殿中流出的因素是：1. 殿的建造與完成；2. 百姓照着殿的樣式、法則和定例生活（結四三10~11）；3. 祭司的事奉（四四）；以及4. 各樣祭物的獻上（四五~四六）。這些因素越多出現在召會中，神的水流就越多流出（聖經恢復本，結四七1 注1）。
水越深，越難行走。這指明我們裡面恩典的流越深，我們就越放棄自己的努力，棄絕自己的方向，讓水流帶我們往前（結四七5 注1）。
〔約翰福音〕描繪一位涌流的三一神。三一神在神聖的三一里涌流，有三個階段。四章十四節下半較好的番譯該是這樣：『我所賜的水，要在他裡面成為水源，湧上來〔成為水泉〕，直湧入永遠的生命。』當水源湧上來成為水泉，那就是水源顯出來；然後就有河涌流。父是源，子是泉，靈是河。
這涌流的三一神是『直湧入永遠的生命』。譯為『直湧入』的介詞，在原文裡含意很豐富。這辭在此說到目的地；永遠的生命乃是涌流之三一神的目的地。水源在我們裡面，作為水泉湧上來，而成為河，直湧入目的地，這目的地就是永遠的生命。新耶路撒冷是神聖、永遠生命的總和，這永遠的生命至終乃是新耶路撒冷。因此，『直湧入永遠的生命』，意思就是『直涌成為新耶路撒冷』。我們必須有東西涌流成為那神聖的新耶路撒冷，好使我們能達到那裡（約翰福音結晶讀經，一七一頁）。
參讀：耶利米書生命讀經，第四篇；約翰福音結晶讀經，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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