约十10 ……我来了，是要叫羊〔人〕得生命，并且得的更丰盛。

　　林前十五45 ……末后的亚当成了赐生命的灵。

　　罗八6　　　 因为心思置于肉体，就是死；心思置于灵，乃是生命平安。”

　　圣经六十六卷书只为着一件事：神在基督里借着那灵，要将祂自己分赐到我们里面，作我们的生命、性情和一切，好使我们能活基督并彰显基督。这该是管制我们生活的原则。在实际一面，这该是今天作我们享受的生命树。

　　圣经主要不是一本预言、教训或预表的书；圣经乃是一本神经纶的书。单单说圣经前后一贯都论到基督，这是不够的；圣经乃是论到在神经纶里的基督。神的经纶是要将祂自己在祂神圣的三一里，在基督里借着那灵，分赐到我们里面，使我们得着祂作我们的生命、性情和一切。当我们经历这个，现在活着的，就不再是我们，乃是基督在我们里面活着（加二20）。这就是生命树（约伯记生命读经，五九至六○页）。

　　John 10:10 …I have come that they may have life and may have it abundantly.

　　1 Cor. 15:45 …The last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.

　　Rom. 8 6 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.

　　The Bible of sixty-six books is for only one thing: for God in Christ by the Spirit to dispense Himself into us to be our life, our nature, and our everything that we may live Christ and express Christ. This should be the principle that governs our life. In a practical way, it should be today’s tree of life for our enjoyment.

　　The Bible is not mainly a book of prophecy, teaching, or types. The Bible is a book of God’s economy. To say merely that the Bible is a book consistently on Christ is not adequate. The Bible is on Christ in God’s economy. God’s economy is to dispense Himself in His Divine Trinity in Christ by the Spirit into us that we may have Him as our life, nature, and everything. When we experience this, it is no longer we who live, but it is Christ who lives in us (Gal. 2:20). This is the tree of life. (Life-study of Job, p. 51)

　　重生的人在人性里带着神性，又在神性里带着人性，自然而然成了一个生机体，就是基督的身体；基督的身体就是神的召会作神新造里的新人，以完成神的新“事业”，就是建造基督的身体，作三一神的丰满和彰显。这丰满乃是三一神的生机体，要终极完成于新耶路撒冷。圣经开始于神在祂的创造里，这乃是起初；圣经结束于新耶路撒冷，就是三一神和一切祂所拣选、救赎、重生、变化、模成并荣化之三部分人的调和。因此，新耶路撒冷乃是神和人的构成，要彰显神，直到永远。这样的看见，就是对整本圣经的概览。我们读圣经时，需要将我们的注意力集中在神那为着神圣分赐的永远经纶上。除非我们认识神的经纶，否则我们就无法明白圣经。

　　基督不仅是圣经的中心，也是神经纶的中心和普及。在这经纶中，基督成为肉体，上十字架，经过钉死；从死里出来，进入复活；在复活里，祂从神而生，成为神的长子，并且祂这末后的亚当成了赐生命的灵，重生祂所有的信徒，使他们在生命和性情上与祂一样，成为祂的众弟兄，并神的众子。这些神的众子，加上神的长子，就成了一个新人，以基督作头，召会作身体，以完成神永远的定旨，终极完成于新耶路撒冷。

　　我们若看见这个关于神经纶的启示，就能明白约伯记。约伯受神的剥夺和销毁，却不明白发生在他身上的事。约伯只能说，“然而你待我的这些事，早已藏在你心里；我知道这是你的意思。”（伯十13）他知道神有一个定旨，却不知道神的定旨是什么。

　　约伯和他三个朋友—以利法、比勒达和琐法—都是在善恶知识树的范围里。约伯的水平虽然比他的朋友高一点，但仍和他们在同一个范围里。神要把他们从那个范围里拯救出来，摆到生命树的范围里。神必须作的头一件事，就是把约伯剥夺、销毁并拆毁，使他在受苦之下成为一无所是。这成为一个根据，使神能用神圣的三一重建约伯，使约伯能成为一个新人，神新造的一部分，以完成神永远的经纶，使神得着彰显（约伯记生命读经，六七至六八页）。

　　参读：约伯记生命读经，第九、三十一篇。

　　The regenerated ones, who are divinely human and humanly divine, spontaneously become an organism, the Body of Christ, which is the church of God as the new man in God’s new creation to carry out God’s new “career,” that is, to build up the Body of Christ for the fullness, the expression, of the Triune God. This fullness as the organism of the Triune God will consummate in the New Jerusalem. The Bible begins with God in His creation as the initiation and ends with the New Jerusalem, which is the mingling of the Triune God and all His chosen, redeemed, regenerated, transformed, conformed, and glorified tripartite people. The New Jerusalem is thus a constitution of God with man to express God for eternity.

　　To see this is to have an overview of the entire Bible. In our reading of the Bible, we need to focus our attention on God’s eternal economy for the divine dispensing. Unless we know God’s economy we will not understand the Bible.

　　Christ is not only the center of the Bible but also the centrality and universality of God’s economy. It was in this economy that Christ became incarnated, that He went to the cross to pass through crucifixion, that He came out from death and entered into resurrection, and that in resurrection He was begotten of God to be God’s firstborn Son and as the last Adam became the life-giving Spirit to regenerate all His believers to make them the same as He is in life and nature that they might become His brothers and the sons of God. These sons plus the Firstborn all become a new man, with Him as the Head and with the church as His Body, to carry out God’s eternal purpose to consummate in the New Jerusalem.

　　If we see this revelation concerning God’s economy, then we will be able to understand the book of Job. Job suffered God’s stripping and consuming, but he did not understand what was happening to him. Job could say, “You have hidden these things in Your heart; / I know that this is with You” (Job 10:13). He knew that God had a purpose, but he did not know what God’s purpose was.

　　Job and his three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, were in the realm of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Even though Job was on a somewhat higher level than his friends, he and they were still in the same realm. God was trying to rescue them from that realm and put them into the realm of the tree of life. The first thing God had to do was to strip Job, consume him, and tear him down so that he would become nothing as a person under suffering. This became the base for God to rebuild Job with the Divine Trinity, that Job could be a new man, a part of God’s new creation, to fulfill God’s eternal economy for God’s expression. (Life-study of Job, pp. 58-59)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Job, msgs. 9, 31