2003感恩节
总题：主对生命的恢复并借生命的恢复
第一篇　活水的泉源
Message One The Fountain of Living Waters
读经：耶二13，诗三六8~9，约四14，七37，启二二17
Scripture Reading: Jer. 2:13; Psa. 36:8-9; John 4:14; 7:37; Rev. 22:17
壹　“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”─耶二13：
I.　"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"—Jer. 2:13:
一　在神的经纶里，祂的心意是要作活水的泉源，源头，以满足祂的选民，作他们的享受：
A.　God's intention in His economy is to be the fountain, the source, of living waters to satisfy His chosen people for their enjoyment:
1　这享受的目标是要产生召会作神的扩增，神的扩大，好成为神的丰满彰显祂─弗一22~23。
1.　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—Eph. 1:22-23.
2　神需要成为祂选民的活水泉源，因为祂有一个经纶，要为祂自己产生一个配偶，新妇─约三29上，启十九7~8。
2.　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; Rev. 19:7-8.
3　神的经纶是要将祂自己作活水分赐出来，以产生祂的扩增，祂的扩大，作祂的彰显─西二19。
3.　God's economy is to dispense Himself as the living water to produce His increase, His enlargement, for His expression—Col. 2:19.
4　除了神这活水的泉源，没有什么能解我们的干渴，并满足我们;除了神自己分赐到我们里面以外，没有什么能使我们成为祂的扩增，作祂的彰显─约四13~14，七37，启二二17。
4.　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—John 4:13-14; 7:37; Rev. 22:17.
5　神的心意是要作祂所拣选之人的一切，使他们凡事信靠祂并依赖祂;他们若这样作，就会接受神的分赐─耶十七7~8。
5.　God's intention is to be everything to His chosen people 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.
二　神的心意是要将祂自己分赐到人里面作人的满足，使神得着扩大，但人成为不忠信、不贞洁的，并为着偶像离弃神─二13：
B.　God's intention is to dispense Himself into man as man's satisfaction that God might be enlarged, but man became unfaithful and unchaste and forsook God for idols—2:13:
1　亚当因着离弃生命树，转向另一棵树─善恶知识树，而堕落了─创二9，16~17，三1~13。
1.　Adam fell by forsaking the tree of life and turning to another tree—the tree of the knowledge of good and evil—Gen. 2:9, 16-17; 3:1-13.
2　以色列人因着离弃神这活水的泉源，转向神以外的源头，而堕落了;这源头由池子所表征─耶二13。
2.　Israel fell by forsaking God as the fountain of living waters and turning to a source other than God; this source is signified by the cisterns—Jer. 2:13.
3　基督徒中间任何不照着圣经的教训或作法，都是偶像─约壹五21。
3.　Any teaching or practice among Christians that is not according to the Bible is an idol—1 John 5:21.
4　许多人为着他们的娱乐和消遣，敬拜某种的金牛犊偶像─出三二7~29。
4.　Many worship some kind of golden-calf idol for their amusement and entertainment—Exo. 32:7-29.
三　罪就是离弃神而凭着自己、为着自己作某些事;这正是以色列人所作的─耶二13：
C.　Sin is to forsake God and to do something by ourselves and for ourselves; this is exactly what the children of Israel did—Jer. 2:13:
1　他们离弃神这活水的泉源作他们的供应。
1.　They forsook God as the fountain of living waters for their supply.
2　他们按自己的意见，尽所能的凭自己作出一些东西，给自己享受。
2.　According to their opinion, they did whatever they could to work out something by themselves for their enjoyment.
四　以色列惯行背道，不守忠信─19节：
D.　Israel practiced apostasy rather than keeping her faithfulness—Jer. 2:19:
1　背道就是离弃神的路，走别的路，跟从神之外的事物─徒九2，十八26，彼后二2，15，21，犹11：
1.　Apostasy is a matter of leaving the way of God and taking another way to follow things other than God—Acts 9:2; 18:26; 2 Pet. 2:2, 15, 21; Jude 11:
a　背道的意思是从跟从神的正路上岔开。
a.　Apostasy means to be distracted from the right way in following God.
b　背道就是以敬拜神为掩饰，为自己作事。
b.　Apostasy is doing something for the self under the cloak of worshipping God.
2　但的背道乃是设立分裂的敬拜中心─士十八30~31，十七9~10，王上十二26~31，王下十29：
2.　Dan's apostasy was setting up a divisive center of worship—Judg. 18:30-31; 17:9-10; 1 Kings 12:26-31; 2 Kings 10:29:
a　按照旧约的历史，历代以来没有一件事比但设立分裂的敬拜中心这个行动更有罪、更损害神的百姓。
a.　Nothing throughout the history in the Old Testament was more sinful or more damaging to God's people than Dan's act of setting up a divisive center of worship.
b　但背道的源头乃是不关心别的支派;不关心身体其它的部分.乃是背道的源头。
b.　The source of Dan's apostasy was in not caring for the other tribes; not caring for the other parts of the Body is the source of apostasy.
贰　“在你那里，有生命的源头”─诗三六9上：
II.　"With You is the fountain of life"—Psa. 36:9a:
一　主的恢复，首先乃是恢复生命这件事─约壹一1~2。
A.　The Lord's recovery is first to recover the matter of life—1 John 1:1-2.
二　神圣的生命可视为神首要且基本的属性─弗四18，约五26，约壹五11~12，罗八2：
B.　The divine life may be considered the first and the basic attribute of God— Eph. 4:18; John 5:26; 1 John 5:11-12; Rom. 8:2:
1　照神的生命那神圣、永远的性质说，神的生命乃是惟一的生命;惟有神的生命才算为生命─约一4，十10下，十一25，十四6。
1.　According to the divine and eternal nature of the life of God, God's life is the unique life; only the life of God can be counted as life—John 1:4; 10:10b; 11:25; 14:6.
2　生命就是神的内容和神的流出;神的内容是神的所是，神的流出是祂自己作生命分赐给我们─弗四18，启二二1。
2.　Life is the content of God and the flowing out of God; God's content is God's being, and God's flowing out is the impartation of Himself as life to us— Eph. 4:18; Rev. 22:1.
3　生命就是基督，生命是基督活在我们里面，并从我们活出来─约十四6，西三4，加二20，腓一21上。
3.　Life is Christ, and life is Christ living in us and lived out from us—John 14:6; Col. 3:4; Gal. 2:20; Phil. 1:21a.
4　生命就是圣灵─约十四16~17，林前十五45下，罗八2，林后三6。
4.　Life is the Holy Spirit—John 14:16-17; 1 Cor. 15:45b; Rom. 8:2; 2 Cor. 3:6.
5　生命乃是三一神分赐到我们里面，并活在我们里面─罗八10，6，11。
5.　Life is the Triune God dispensed into us and living in us—Rom. 8:10, 6, 11.
三　神要我们接受祂作我们生命和全人的泉源、源头─耶二13，诗三六9上：
C.　God wants us to take Him as the fountain, the source, of our life and our being—Jer. 2:13; Psa. 36:9a:
1　在神的经纶里，祂的心意是要作祂选民活水的泉源、源头，给他们享受。
1.　God's intention in His economy is to be the fountain, the source, of living waters to His chosen people for their enjoyment.
2　圣经给我们看见，神是各面的源头;圣经里的原则乃是：神不要祂的选民接受祂自己以外的任何事物作源头─罗十一36，林前八6，太十五13。
2.　The Bible shows us that God is the source in every way; the principle in the Bible is that God does not want His chosen people to take anything other than Himself as the source—Rom. 11:36; 1 Cor. 8:6; Matt. 15:13.
四　三一神已经经过了过程并终极完成，为要将祂自己分赐到我们全人里面─约七37~39，罗八11：
D.　The Triune God has been processed and consummated in order to dispense Himself into our being—John 7:37-39; Rom. 8:11:
1　神的经纶是要将祂自己分赐到我们里面，使我们全人由祂的所是构成;这惟有借着神将祂自己放在我们里面作神圣的生命，才能完成。
1.　God's economy is to dispense Himself into our being that our being can be constituted with His being; this can be accomplished only by God putting Himself into us as the divine life.
2　借着将祂自己分赐到我们里面作生命，神正在完成祂的经纶，使祂得着祂自己团体的彰显，直到永远─启二一9~10，二二1。
2.　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.
五　我们需要饮于神这活水的泉源，这样祂就能扩增，以完成祂的经纶，借着祂的配偶使祂得着彰显─耶二13，林前十二13：
E.　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:
1　当我们饮于神这活水的泉源，祂就与我们成为一，我们也与祂成为一─诗三六8~9。
1.　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.
2　我们越饮于神，祂就越与我们成为一，我们也越与祂成为一，而在祂的生命和性情上由祂所构成。
2.　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.
1　附：关于生命的十四句话：
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1　生命是神首要和基本的属性。
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2　生命就是神自己。
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3　生命是神完成祂定旨的凭藉，也是神完成祂恢复的路。
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4　我们需要基督作我们的生命和生命的供应。
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5　我们需要凭生命的原则而活。
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6　我们需要在生命里长大以致于成熟。
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7　我们需要在生命里蒙拯救。
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8　我们需要在生命中作王。
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9　我们需要供应生命。
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10　我们应当注意生命过于工作。
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11　生命乃是经过过程、终极完成的三一神分赐到我们三部分的人里。
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12　生命是简单的。
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13　我们里面神圣的生命乃是身体的生命─是身体的生命，不是肢体的生命。
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14　我们需要一个基本的、内在的转向生命。
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