约壹二27 你们从祂所领受的膏油涂抹，住在你们里面，……祂的膏油涂抹……在凡事上教导你们；这膏油涂抹是真实的，不是虚谎的，你们要按这膏油涂抹所教导你们的，住在祂里面。

　　启二一9~10 ……你来，我要将新妇，就是羔羊的妻，指给你看。我在灵里，天使带我到一座　高大的山，将那由神那里从天而降的圣城耶路撒冷指给我看。

　　当你借着住在主里面，并在光中生活行动而享受永远生命的交通时，你就会有神圣膏油涂抹的教导（约壹二20、27）。神的儿女也是借着神圣的膏油涂抹而得着教导。膏油涂抹可以看作是上油。许多机器需要上点油；机器如果不上点油，就不能运转得顺畅，反而制造出噪音来。我们这些基督徒有时候会制造出许多噪音，向着我们的妻子或丈夫，或向着长老、弟兄们而发。这就是说，我们缺少膏油的涂抹。我们需要上油。阿利路亚！我们有油的源头，因为膏油涂抹就在我们里面。膏油不断的涂抹我们。这又是生命的分赐。这膏油涂抹教导我们，给我们上油，不断地调整我们。……这就是生命的分赐（李文集一九八三年第二册，三二○页）。

　　1 John 2:27 …The anointing which you have received from Him abides in you…His anointing teaches you concerning all things and is true and is not a lie, and even as it has taught you, abide in Him.

　　Rev. 21:9-10 …Come here; I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb. And he carried me away in spirit onto a great and high mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.

　　When we enjoy the fellowship of the eternal life by abiding in the Lord and walking in the light, we are under the teaching of the divine anointing (1 John 2:20, 27). The children of God are also brought forth to be taught by the divine anointing. The anointing may be considered as a kind of oiling. Many machines need to be oiled. If they are not oiled, they do not run smoothly. Instead, they make a lot of noise. Sometimes we Christians make a lot of noise, either to our wife or to our husband or to the elders or to the brothers. This means that we are short of anointing. We need to get oiled. Hallelujah! We have a source of oil because the anointing is within us. All the time it anoints us. This again is life dispensing. This anointing teaches us, oils us, and regulates us all the time…This is life dispensing. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 2, “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity,” p. 243)

　　我们都已经从神而生。我们不仅是父母生的，也是神所生的，有神圣的种子（约壹三9）。这神圣的种子就是神永远的生命。……借着这出生和种子的美德，我们能实行神圣的义（二29），我们能实行神圣的爱（四7，五1），我们还能胜过世界、

　　死、罪、魔鬼、偶像（4、16~21）。……在属灵的语言里，美德的意思是生命动力。……我们能胜过消极的事物，因为我们有产生动力的生命。这样产生动力就是生命的分赐。

　　召会也是庄稼连同初熟的果子，作生命的彰显（启十四1~5、15~16）。庄稼就是农场所有活产物的收成。这表征借着生命分赐而有生命的成熟和生命的丰富。

　　我们也成为羔羊的新妇，作祂的加增与满足（约三29，启十九7~9）。在约翰三章，基督是新郎，召会是新妇作祂的加增。在启示录十九章，召会是妻子，为着羔羊婚娶而自己预备好了，叫祂得着满足。

　　末了，就会有三一神分赐到人里面的终极完成。这就是新耶路撒冷、圣城、神的帐幕、新妇、羔羊的妻，作三一神完满的彰显（二一2~3、9）。……这个团体的实体是以金子所表征父神的性情，并借着珍珠所表征子神得胜的死和分赐生命的复活，以及宝石所表征灵神变化的工作而建造成的（11、18~21）。……作为三一神完满彰显的新耶路撒冷，是由三一神供应并滋养的（二二1~2、14、17）。神（父）是源头，灵（生命水）是流，而子（生命树）是生命的供应。在启示录二十二章，一道活水的河从神的宝座流出来，在这河里长着生命树；这是三一神在祂的分赐里的清楚景象。作为源头的父在宝座上，有羔羊与祂同在，因祂是救赎的神，是“羔羊神”。……有河从这位救赎的神流出来，这河表征那灵。在生命水河的流里，羔羊成了生命树。……分赐生命的河环绕全城，从羔羊神的宝座盘旋向下流。这流就是三一神分赐到祂选民里面，完满地作生命和生命供应，直到永远（李文集一九八三年第二册，三二一至三二四页）。

　　参读：约翰著作中帐幕和祭物的应验，第三篇。

　　We were begotten not just of our parents but also of God with a divine seed (1 John 3:9). This divine seed is God’s eternal life…By the virtues of this birth and seed we can practice the divine righteousness (2:29), we can practice the divine love (4:7; 5:1), and we can overcome the world, death, sin, the devil, and idols (vv. 4, 16-21)…In the spiritual language virtue means life energy…We can overcome the negative things because we have the energizing life. This energizing is the dispensing of life.

　　The church is…the harvest with the firstfruits as the expression of life (Rev. 14:1-5, 15-16). A harvest is a gathering of all the living produce of the farm. This signifies the maturity of life and the riches of life by life’s dispensing.

　　We also become the bride of the Lamb as His increase and satisfaction (John 3:29; Rev. 19:7-9). In John 3 Christ is the Bridegroom, and the church is the bride as His increase. In Revelation 19 the church as the wife has made herself ready for the marriage of the Lamb for His satisfaction.

　　Eventually, there will be the ultimate consummation of the dispensing of the Triune God into man. This will be the New Jerusalem, the holy city, the tabernacle of God, the bride, and the wife of the Lamb as the consummate expression of the Triune God (21:2-3, 9). Such a corporate entity is built with God the Father’s nature, signified by the gold, God the Son’s overcoming death and life-imparting resurrection, signified by the pearls, and God the Spirit’s work of transformation, signified by the precious stones (vv. 11, 18-21). The New Jerusalem, as a consummate expression of the Triune God, is supplied and nourished by the Triune God (22:1-2, 14, 17). God as the Father is the source, the Spirit as the water of life is the flow, and the Son as the tree of life is the life supply. In Revelation 22 a river of living water flows from the throne of God. Within this river grows the tree of life. This is a clear view of the Triune God in His dispensing. The Father as the source is on the throne with the Lamb because He is the redeeming God, the Lamb-God…Out of this redeeming God flows the river, signifying the Spirit. In the flow of the river of water of life, the Lamb becomes the tree of life…The life-dispensing river circles the entire city as it flows downward from the throne of the Lamb-God in a spiral flowing. This flowing is the dispensing of the Triune God into His chosen people as life and the life supply in fullness for eternity. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 2, “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity,” pp. 244-246)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1982, vol. 2, “The Fulfillment of the Tabernacle and the Offerings in the Writings of John,” ch. 3