约三6 “从肉体生的，就是肉体；从那灵生的，就是灵。”

　　六63 “赐人生命的乃是灵，肉是无益的；我对你们所说的话，就是灵，就是生命。”

　　约翰三章三十节说到基督的扩增，这个扩增就是基督的繁增与复制。我们要知道，我们这人重生的部分乃是基督的复制、繁增，这是很要紧的。基督的扩增就是祂的新妇。

　　我们天然的生命和生活不是基督扩增的一部分。例如，如果你说话随随便便、开开玩笑，你的生活就不是基督扩增的一部分。反之，这种说话乃是蛇性所是的一部分，而蛇性的所是无法成为基督新妇、基督扩增的一部分。唯有我们这人重生的部分、我们重生的灵，才是基督的扩增（李文集一九八二年第二册，一九三至一九四页）。

　　John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

　　6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

　　John 3:30 speaks of Christ’s increase. This increase is the multiplication and reproduction of Christ. It is important for us to know that the regenerated part of our being is the reproduction, the multiplication, of Christ. This increase of Christ is His bride.

　　Our natural life and living are not part of the increase of Christ. For example, if you speak in a natural, joking manner, you are not living as part of Christ’s increase. On the contrary, that way of speaking is part of the serpentine being, and the serpentine being cannot be part of Christ’s bride, His increase. Only the regenerated part of our being, our regenerated spirit, is Christ’s increase. (CWWL, 1982, vol. 2, “The Fulfillment of the Tabernacle and the Offerings in the Writings of John,” p. 150)

　　按照约翰三章三十四节，基督是神所差来的，就说神的话。译作“话”的希腊字是雷玛（rhema），意思是即时、现时说出的话，与娄格斯（logos）不同；娄格斯的意思是常时的话，如一章一节者。…六章六十三节…也用到雷玛这个希腊字。那灵是活的、实际的，但是相当奥秘、摸不着，我们也很难领会。然而主的话是具体的。首先主指明，为着分赐生命，祂要成为那灵。然后祂说，祂所说的话就是灵，就是生命。这表明祂所说的话，乃是赐生命之灵的具体化。如今祂在复活里是赐生命的灵，这灵具体化于祂的话。我们运用灵来接受祂的话，就接受了那是生命的灵。

　　在新约里，神只借着一个人说话，这个人就是祂的儿子〔来一1~2〕。…所有新约的话语执事，都是神在祂儿子里面说话的一部分。例如，保罗在他的职事里说话，就是神在祂儿子里面说话的一部分。

　　我们说话的时候，渴望与神的儿子基督成为一灵。我常常在服事话语以前祷告说，“主，在我的说话中与我成为一灵。主，我要在传讲你话的时候，与你成为一灵。”倘若我没有与主成为一灵的把握，我就不愿意说话。在我们说话的时候与主成为一灵，意思就是说，我们真在神的儿子里面。新约所有真正传讲神圣话语的人，都是神在祂儿子里说话的一部分。今天父神在子里说话，而子包含了新约所有的话语执事。

　　我们尽话语职事时，是在作什么？我们乃是把神说到人里面。我们把神圣的素质说到人里面。我们许多人能作见证，听到真正话语的职事，结果就叫我们得着神的素质。…我们接受了话以后，话在我们里面就成为灵，成为生命。那灵实际上就是神的素质成了我们里面的生命。…我们所服事的话语，必须是神的素质。

　　我们成为无限基督的宇宙扩增，唯一的路就是接受那灵，被那灵充满。我们越得着那灵，就越成为基督的扩增。这扩增开始于我们得着重生，终结于我们被没有限量的灵所充满（李文集一九八二年第二册，二○○至二○三、二○六页）。

　　参读：约翰著作中帐幕和祭物的应验，第六至七、九、十一至十三篇。

　　According to John 3:34, Christ as the One sent by God speaks the words of God. The Greek word translated “words” is rhema, which refers to the instant and present spoken word. It differs from logos, which refers to the constant word, as in John 1:1. In John 6:63…the Greek word rhema is used. The Spirit is living and real but rather mysterious and intangible and difficult for us to comprehend. But the Lord’s words are substantial. First, the Lord indicated that for giving life, He would become the Spirit. Then He said that the words He speaks are spirit and life. This shows that His spoken words are the embodiment of the life-giving Spirit. He is now the life-giving Spirit in resurrection, and the Spirit is embodied in His words. When we receive His words by exercising our spirit, we receive the Spirit who is life.

　　In the New Testament God speaks through only one person, and that person is His Son [Heb. 1:1-2a]…. All the New Testament ministers of the Word are part of God’s speaking in the Son. Paul’s speaking in his ministry, for example, was part of this speaking of God in His Son.

　　In our speaking we desire to be one spirit with Christ, the Son of God. Often before I minister the Word, I pray, “Lord, be one spirit with me in my speaking. Lord, I want to practice being one spirit with You in the speaking of Your word.” If I do not have the assurance that I am one spirit with the Lord, I do not have any desire to speak. To be one spirit with the Lord in our speaking of the word means that we are truly in the Son of God. All the genuine speakers of the divine word of the New Testament are part of God’s speaking in the Son. Today God the Father speaks in the Son, and the Son includes all the New Testament ministers of the Word.

　　What are we doing as we carry on the ministry of the Word? We are speaking God into people. We are speaking the divine essence into others. Many of us can testify that as a result of listening to the genuine ministry of the Word, we receive the essence of God….Then after the word has been received by us, it becomes spirit and life in us. The Spirit is actually the essence of God becoming the very life within us.…The word in our ministry must be the very essence of our God.

　　The unique way for us to become the universal increase of the unlimited Christ is to receive the Spirit and be filled with the Spirit. The more we have of the Spirit, the more we will be Christ’s increase. This increase begins with our regeneration, and it consummates with our being filled with the immeasurable Spirit. (CWWL, 1982, vol. 2, “The Fulfillment of the Tabernacle and the Offerings in the Writings of John,” pp. 156-158, 161)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1982, vol. 2, “The Fulfillment of the Tabernacle and the Offerings in the Writings of John,” chs. 6-7, 9, 11-13