耶二三5~6 ……我要给大卫兴起一个公义的苗；……人要称呼祂的名为，耶和华我们的义。

　　三一33 耶和华说，那些日子以后，我与以色列家所立的约，乃是这样：我要将我的律法放在他们里面，写在他们心上；我要作他们的神，他们要作我的子民。

　　我们基督徒……违犯了与神是一的原则。我们也许无心与神是一，但我们喜欢作祂的子民。结果我们没有赞同神的旨意或神的心思，却发表自己的意见，顾到自己的爱恶。这是今天信徒中间缺少一的原因。我们若没有与神是一，就无法彼此是一。那些没有与神是一的人，没有接受神的旨意和喜悦，却发表自己的意见，并追求自己的偏好。这样作，就是凿出破裂不能存水的池子（耶利米书生命读经，二六一至二六二页）。

　　Jer. 23:5-6 …I will raise up to David a righteous Shoot….And this is His name by which He will be called: Jehovah our righteousness.

　　31:33 But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares Jehovah: I will put My law in their inward parts and write it upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be My people.

　　We as Christians have…transgressed the principle of being one with God. We may not have a heart to be one with God, yet we like to be His people. The result is that we do not go along with God’s will or God’s mind, but rather express our opinions and care for our likes and dislikes. This is the reason for the lack of oneness among believers today. If we are not one with God, we cannot be one with one another. Those who are not one with God do not take His will and good pleasure but express their opinions and pursue their preferences. To do this is to hew out broken cisterns that can hold no water. (Life-study of Jeremiah, pp. 220-221)

　　因着我们和以色列人一样，没有与神是一，也无心行神的旨意或接受祂的喜悦，我们就得罪神，违背祂的典章，干犯祂的诫命。我们这些人的心诡诈，无法医治（耶十七9）。我们被暴露为有罪恶和背叛的性情，这性情……是不能改变的（十三23）。既然我们的光景是这样，我们怎能与神和好？

　　在耶利米二十三章五至六节〔有〕答案。……我们能与神和好并得祂称义，唯一的路是借着基督，那新的嫩条，公义的苗，就是称为耶和华我们的义的。祂是公义的苗，在肉体里来，作大卫的后裔，在十字架上受死流血，为要完成救赎，叫我们得称义。

　　基于基督的救赎，我们已得称义，并且三一神已进入我们里面，作我们的生命、人位和一切。这造出一种情况，使神能借着将祂自己分赐到我们里面，而在我们里面自由的完成祂永远的经纶。我们若看见并抓住这原则，就能领会全本耶利米书。

　　耶利米书不是照着历史的顺序写的，但这卷书的确有属灵的顺序。首先，耶利米给我们看见神百姓基本的罪—离弃神并凿出自己的池子。然后人心逐渐被暴露为诡诈且无法医治的。我们是邪恶、无望的，有着无法改变的堕落性情。我们要与神是一，就需要基督作大卫的苗，成为我们的救赎和称义。这将三一神带到我们里面作我们的生命、我们内里生命的律、我们的性能和我们的一切。这就是新约（耶三一33）。在新约里，我们不作什么。反之，我们只要与神是一，让祂将自己写在我们里面作生命的律。这生命的律含示三一神带着最高的性能，使我们尽功用。神活在我们里面，在大小的事上都有自由，将祂自己分赐到我们这人里面，来完成祂的经纶。这分赐要带进万物的复兴，并终极完成于新天新地里的新耶路撒冷。新耶路撒冷就是神经纶的完成，是借着神永远的分赐所成就的。

　　在耶利米书中，我们看见我们蒙救赎、得称义并且与神成为一。至终我们要认识神，活神，并在祂的生命和性情上由神构成，使我们作祂团体的彰显。这是圣经（特别是新约）完整的教训，这也是耶利米书的素质（耶利米书生命读经，二六二至二六四页）。

　　参读：耶利米书生命读经，第一至五、二十六、三十二至三十三篇；加拉太书生命读经，第九、十六篇。

　　Because we, like the children of Israel, were not one with God and did not have the heart to do God’s will or take His good pleasure, we offended God, transgressed His ordinances, and committed sins against His commandments. We were a people whose heart was deceitful and incurable (Jer. 17:9). We were exposed as having a nature that is sinful and rebellious, a nature that…could not be changed (13:23). Since this was our situation, how could we be reconciled to God?

　　The answer [is] in 23:5-6….The only way that we can be reconciled to God and justified by Him is by Christ, the new Sprout, the righteous Shoot, who is called Jehovah our righteousness. As the righteous Shoot, He came in the flesh as the descendant of David to die on the cross and shed His blood in order to accomplish redemption for our justification.

　　Based upon Christ’s redemption we have been justified, and the Triune God has come into us to be our life, our person, and our everything. This creates a situation in which God is free to work out His eternal economy in us by His dispensing of Himself into our being. If we see this principle and grasp it, we will understand the entire book of Jeremiah.

　　The book of Jeremiah was not written according to the historical sequence, but this book surely has a spiritual sequence. First, Jeremiah shows us the basic sins of God’s people—forsaking God and hewing out their own cisterns. Then the human heart is gradually exposed as being deceitful and incurable. We are wicked and hopeless, having a fallen nature that cannot change. In order to be one with God, we need Christ as the Shoot of David to be our redemption and justification. This ushers the Triune God into us to be our life, our inner life law, our capacity, and our everything. This is the new covenant (31:33). In the new covenant, we do not do anything. Rather, we are simply one with God to let Him write Himself into us as the law of life. This law of life implies the Triune God with the highest capacity for our function. God lives in us and has the freedom, in matters great and small, to dispense Himself into our being to carry out His economy. This dispensing will bring in the restoration of all things and will consummate in the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and new earth. The New Jerusalem is the consummation of the economy of God accomplished by His eternal dispensing.

　　In Jeremiah we see that we are redeemed, that we are justified, and that we have become one with God. Eventually we will know God, live God, and be constituted with God in His life and nature that we may be His corporate expression. This is the complete teaching of the Bible, especially in the New Testament, and this is the essence of the book of Jeremiah. (Life-study of Jeremiah, pp. 221-222)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Jeremiah, msgs. 1-5, 26, 32-33; Life-study of Galatians, msgs. 9, 16