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　　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.

　　1 Cor. 12:13 …In one Spirit we were all baptized into one Body…and were all given to drink one Spirit.

　　The Triune God flows in the Divine Trinity in three stages…. [In John 4:14b] when the fountain springs up, that is the fountain emerging. Then a river flows. This flowing Triune God is “into eternal life” [v. 14]. 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….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 entire Bible is needed to interpret John 4:14. The Father is the fountain as the source, the Son is the spring, the Spirit is the flowing river, and this flowing issues in the eternal life, which is the New Jerusalem….God flows through speaking, through spreading, through dispensing. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “Crystallization-study of the Gospel of John,” p. 455)

　　The New Jerusalem is the totality of God joined with man and man mingled with God. The number that represents the New Jerusalem is twelve, signifying that God in His eternal administration is mingled with His creature, man. The Triune God is signified by the number three, and man is signified by the number four. Three times four is twelve. In the New Jerusalem there are the twelve foundations, inscribed with the names of the twelve apostles (Rev. 21:14); the twelve gates, which are twelve pearls, inscribed with the names of the twelve tribes (v. 12); and the twelve fruits of the tree of life (22:2). This shows that the New Jerusalem is the mingling of God and man.

　　The Triune God becomes the living water, which the Lord Jesus presented to the Samaritan woman in John 4…. [The] fountain is the Father. When this fountain emerges, or springs up, that is the Son. When the spring flows into a river, that is the Spirit. This is into, or for, the New Jerusalem. When we drink of this water, it becomes a fountain in us… [that] emerges as a spring, and the spring flows out as a river for the New Jerusalem….When He 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.”…We have to be the New Jerusalem; then we can be in the New Jerusalem.

　　The springing up is the spring flowing. The river is implied in the flowing. Into here means “issuing in,” or “to be, to become.” The New Jerusalem will be there through the Triune God’s flowing. In the beginning of the Bible, God was there. At the end of the Bible is the New Jerusalem. In the beginning, in eternity past, was the Word, who was God. In eternity future the Word becomes the New Jerusalem.

　　First Corinthians 12:13 says, “We were all baptized into one Body.” This does not mean that the Body is apart from us and that we have been put into the Body. It means that we have been baptized into the Body. The baptism of the Spirit put us all together to be the Body. Into means “to be.” We have been baptized to be the Body. Eventually, we will be the New Jerusalem, which is God mingled, blended, and incorporated with man. Now we can see that one half of a verse, John 4:14b, covers the entire Bible. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “Crystallization-study of the Gospel of John,” pp. 456-458)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 2, “The Governing and Controlling Vision in the Bible,” chs. 1-3; CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 5, “A Word of Love to the Co-workers, Elders, Lovers, and Seekers of the Lord,” ch. 2