弗三16~17　　愿祂…用大能使你们得以加强到里面的人里，使基督借着信，安家在你们心里，叫你们在爱里生根立基。

　　以弗所三章十四至十九节启示使徒向父祷告；父借着那灵加强信徒；基督安家在信徒心里；以及信徒在爱里生根立基，领略基督的量度，并认识基督那超越知识的爱，以致被充满，成为〔三一〕神一切的丰满。（李文集一九八八年第一册，四三九至四四○页。）

　　〔为使〕召会…被构成为基督的丰满和神的丰满，…保罗就祷告，要我们得以加强到里面的人里，结果基督就能安家在我们心里，进而以祂自己来占有、充满、浸润、并浸透我们整个内里的部分。这样，我们就被基督充满，而满有力量，能领略基督的量度，并认识基督那超越知识的爱。最终，我们要被基督充满到一个地步，使我们成为神的丰满。（以弗所书生命读经，三四四页。）

　　Eph. 3:16-17 That He would grant you…to be strengthened with power through His Spirit into the inner man, that Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and grounded in love.

　　Ephesians 3:14-19 reveals the apostle praying to the Father; the Father strengthening the believers through the Spirit; Christ making His home in the believers’ hearts; and the believers being rooted and grounded in love, apprehending the dimensions of Christ, and knowing the knowledge-surpassing love of Christ to be filled unto all the fullness of [the Triune] God. (CWWL, 1988, vol. 1, “Living in and with the Divine Trinity,” p. 319)

　　[For] the church [to] be constituted to become the fullness of Christ and the fullness of God,…Paul prayed that we might be strengthened into our inner man with the result that Christ could make His home in our heart and thereby occupy, possess, permeate, and saturate our whole inner being with Himself. In this way we are filled with Christ, and we become strong to apprehend the dimensions of Christ and to know the knowledge-surpassing love of Christ. Eventually, we shall be filled with Christ to such an extent that we become the fullness of God. (Life-study of Ephesians, p. 285)

　　首先，保罗向父这源头祷告。然后，父借着那灵作凭借、作管道，加强信徒。接着，基督来运行并作工，安家在信徒心里。最后，父和灵的运行，以及子安家在我们心里的结果乃是三一神的丰满。父是源头，灵是凭借，子是标的，而三一神的丰满乃是结果。

　　源头是父，凭借是灵，目的、目标是子，因为子是中心。…保罗向父这源头祷告，求父借着灵的管道，加强信徒，好达到一个目标。这目标乃是基督安家在信徒的心里。

　　三一神可以比喻作一部大机器，保罗是操作这部机器的人。他的祷告“使机器转动起来”。我们必须学习…在整个宇宙里，有一个很高的原则。这原则就是神要作一件事，但祂只愿意作“机器”，祂需要有操作的人。今天，我盼望召会是操作的人。凡是使徒保罗所作的，都是一种代表。他是整个基督身体的代表。现今三一神这宇宙“机器”的操作者乃是召会，基督的身体。但是虽然召会在操作，这并不是说召会本身来完成。召会操作，但三一神这“机器”来完成。…父、子、灵是这宇宙“机器”的三个“零件”，而基督的身体乃是操作者。父是源头，灵是凭借，子是目的、目标。按照以弗所三章来看，操作者求“机器”借着一个管道加强操作者。那灵就是管道，在我们里面作工，将我们全人的每一部分加强到里面的人里，使子这目标、这标的，能安家在我们心的各部分里。（李文集一九八八年第一册，四四○至四四一页。）

　　“到里面的人里”这个句子中，“到…里”一辞是非常有意义的。说我们需要得以加强到里面的人里，就表示我们不是在里面的人里，我们大部分都活在外面的人里。当一位弟兄告诉妻子他很疲倦，他乃是在外面的人里，在心思里，照着他肉身的疲倦而活。…你有里面的人，为什么不留在那里？为什么留在你的疲倦里？你需要操练向父屈膝，求祂加强你，好从你的疲倦进到你里面的人里。（李文集一九八三年第二册，四一一至四一二页。）

　　参读：召会的异象与建造，第六章。

　　First, Paul prayed to the Father as the source. Then the Father strengthens the believers through the Spirit as the means, the channel. Then Christ moves and works to make His home in the believers’ hearts. Eventually, the issue of the moving of the Father and the Spirit and the issue of the Son making His home in our hearts is the fullness of the Triune God. The Father is the source, the Spirit is the means, the Son is the object, and the fullness of the Triune God is the issue.

　　The source is the Father, the means is the Spirit, and the aim, the goal, is the Son because the Son is the center…. Paul prayed to the Father as the source, asking the Father to strengthen the believers through the channel of the Spirit that a goal might be reached. The goal was that Christ would make His home in the hearts of the believers.

　　The Triune God may be likened to a big machine, of which Paul was the operator. His prayer “turned the wheel.” We have to learn…that there is a high principle in the entire universe. This principle is that God wants to do something, but He will only be the “machine,” and He needs someone to be the operator. Today I hope that the church would be the operator. Whatever the apostle Paul did was done in a representing way. He was a representative of the entire Body of Christ. Now the operator of the universal “machine,” the Triune God, is the church, the Body of Christ. But just because the church operates does not mean that the church in itself carries out. The church operates, but the “machine,” the Triune God, carries out. The Father, the Son, and the Spirit are the three “parts” of this universal “machine,” and the Body is the operator. The Father is the source, the Spirit is the means, and the Son is the aim, the goal. According to Ephesians 3, the operator asks the “machine” to strengthen the operator…. The Spirit as the channel does the work within us to strengthen every part of our being into the inner man so that the goal, the aim, the Son, might make His home within all the parts of our heart. (CWWL, 1988, vol. 1, “Living in and with the Divine Trinity,” pp. 319-321)

　　In the phrase into the inner man [v. 16], the word into is very significant. To say that we need to be strengthened into the inner man indicates that we are not in the inner man, that we live mostly in the outer man. When a brother tells his wife that he is tired, he is in the outer man, in the mind, living according to his physical tiredness…. You have an inner man. Why not stay there? Why stay in your tiredness? You need to practice bowing your knees unto the Father, that He would strengthen you into your inner man from your tiredness. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 2, “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity,” p. 311)

　　Further Reading: The Way to Build Up the Church (booklet)