第二週 • 週三
晨興餧養
約四14 …我所賜的水，要在他裏面成為泉源，直湧入永遠的生命。
啟二一6 …我要將生命泉的水白白賜給那口渴的人喝。
我們一因信，得着主的生命，我們的名字就記在主的生命冊上〔啟三5〕。主的生命是永遠的生命，我們得着主這永遠的生命，就永不滅亡（約十28）。…我們因信得着永遠的生命，就永不滅亡，是沒有條件的。但主在這裏所應許的，名字不至於從生命冊上被塗抹，是以得勝為條件的。所以〔啟示錄三章五節〕…是一個賞賜的問題，不是一個恩賜的問題。因為恩賜是白賜的，賞賜纔是有條件的。既是賞賜，就是在千年國時。以永遠的救恩說，所有蒙恩的人都永不滅亡；以國度的賞賜說，只有得勝的信徒，得在千年國時，有名字享受永生的福分。…〔恩賜〕是白得的，〔賞賜〕是換得的（李常受文集一九三二至一九四九年第三冊，三○四至三○五頁）。
信息選讀
永世享永生，是在新天新地的時候，乃是神救恩的完滿享受，是所有蒙恩得救的人，都永遠有分的。…主所賜我們的水，就是祂的生命。這生命要在我們裏面成為泉源，一直湧流，直到把我們湧流到永遠的生命裏面〔約四14〕，在永世裏永遠享受生命的福分。…神救恩的完滿福分，都在將來的新耶路撒冷裏，給蒙恩的人在永世裏永遠享受。這福分是所有有了主永遠的生命，名字記在主生命冊上的人都有分的〔參啟二一27〕。
所有得救的人，將來在新耶路撒冷裏所享受的永生的福分，其中有一種就是生命泉的水〔6，參二二1〕。…所有蒙恩的人在永世裏，永遠喝這生命的水，永遠享受神永活的生命。…所有得救的人將來在新耶路撒冷裏所享受的福分，還有一種，就是生命樹〔14〕。…我們蒙恩的人將來在永世裏所享受的，就是神永活的生命，使我們永永遠遠不飢也不渴。
我們在今世一信，就得着永生，就是得着主的生命。從得着這生命之後，我們就能享受這生命，而靠着這生命活着。我們若是在今天靠着這生命的能力，作一個得勝者為主而活，我們就得以在來世國度裏，和主一同在生命中作王，享受生命的榮耀，豫嘗永生的福分。以後永世來到時，我們就和所有蒙恩有永生的人，在新耶路撒冷裏，永永遠遠享受永生的福分（李常受文集一九三二至一九四九年第三冊，三○五至三○七頁）。
彼後一章四節說到『有分於神的性情』。…我們這些在基督裏的信徒是得着同樣寶貴之信的人，我們應當也是有分於神聖性情的人。…神聖的性情是指神的所是，也就是神所是的豐富、元素和構成成分（約四24，約壹一5，四8、16）。神聖的性情，主要指神聖生命的構成，神的構成，乃是由那靈、愛、光所構成。神聖的生命和神聖的性情是分不開的；神聖的性情是神聖生命的本質，並且在神聖生命裏面（一1~2，五11~13）。我們這些神的兒女乃是神人，從神而生，擁有神的生命和性情，屬於神的種類（三1，約一12~13）。…神聖的性情是在神聖的生命裏，所以使我們得以重生的神聖生命裏面有神聖的性情（三3、5~6、15）。凡信入神兒子的人就由神而生，並有權利成為神的兒女；因此，信徒有權利有分、享受神的性情（一12~13）（新約總論第十三冊，二八四至二八五頁）。
參讀：新約總論，第三百八十九篇。
WEEK 2 — DAY 3
Morning Nourishment
John 4:14 …The water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into eternal life.
Rev. 21:6 …I will give to him who thirsts from the spring of the water of life freely.
As soon as we believe and obtain the Lord’s life, our names are written in the book of life [Rev. 3:5]. The Lord’s life is the eternal life, so if we obtain the Lord’s eternal life, we will never perish (John 10:28)…Obtaining eternal life by faith and not perishing in eternity have no requirements related to overcoming. But the Lord’s promise to not erase our names from the book of life has the requirement of overcoming. Therefore, Revelation 3:5 is related to the matter of reward, not to the gift of grace. A gift is given freely, but a reward has requirements. Since this is a reward, it is related to the millennial kingdom. With respect to eternal salvation, no saved person can perish; with
respect to the reward of the millennial kingdom, only overcoming believers will enjoy the blessing of having their names in the book of life during the millennial kingdom…The gift is free; the reward is earned. (CWWL, 1932- 1949, vol. 3, “Crucial Truths in the Holy Scriptures, Volume 1,” pp. 226-227)
Todays Reading
The enjoyment of eternal life in eternity in the new heaven and new earth is the full enjoyment of God’s salvation, which all the saved ones will share in eternity. The water the Lord gives is His life. This life will become a fountain of water in us, springing up and flowing us into eternal life [John 4:14]. Thus, we will enjoy the blessing of eternal life in eternity. The full blessing of God’s salvation is the coming New Jerusalem, which is given to all the saved ones for their enjoyment in eternity. All those who have the Lord’s eternal life and whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life will participate in this blessing [Rev. 21:27].
All the saved ones will enjoy the blessings of eternal life in the New Jerusalem, and one of these blessings will be the water of life [v. 6; 22:1]… All the saved ones will eternally drink of this water of life and eternally enjoy God’s ever-living life. All the saved ones will enjoy the blessings of the New Jerusalem, including another blessing—the tree of life [v. 14]… In eternity future we will enjoy God’s ever-living life, causing us to never
hunger or thirst.
In this age we obtain eternal life as soon as we believe. After obtaining eternal life, we can enjoy it and live by it. If we live for the Lord today by the power of this eternal life, we will be overcomers. Then during the coming kingdom age, we will reign in life together with the Lord, we will enjoy the glory of life, and we will have a foretaste of the blessings of eternity. Finally, when eternity arrives, we, who have received eternal life through salvation, will enjoy the blessings of eternal life in the New Jerusalem for eternity. (CWWL, 1932-1949, vol. 3, “Crucial Truths in the Holy Scriptures, Volume 1,” pp. 227-228)
Second Peter 1:4 speaks of the “partakers of the divine nature.”…As those who have received equally precious faith, we, the believers in Christ, should be partakers of the divine nature. The divine nature refers to what God is, that is, the riches, the elements, and the constituents of God’s being (John 4:24; 1 John 1:5; 4:8, 16). The divine nature, which mainly refers to the constitution of the divine life, the constitution of God, is constituted with Spirit, love, and light. The divine life and the divine nature are inseparable; the divine nature is the substance of the divine life and is within the divine
life (1:1-2; 5:11-13). As the children of God, we are God-men, born of God, possessing the life and nature of God, and belonging to the species of God (3:1; John 1:12-13)…Because the divine nature is in the divine life, the divine life with which we were born again has the divine nature within it (3:3, 5-6, 15). Whoever believes into the Son of God is born of God and has the right to become a child of God; thus, a believer has the right to partake of, to enjoy, the nature of God (1:12-13). (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3932-3933)
Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 389
