约翰福音-John 15 章 1~3 节
| 15:1 |
我是真葡萄树，我父是栽培的人。 I am the true vine, and My Father is the husbandman. |
| 15:2 |
凡在我里面不结果子的枝子，祂就剪去；凡结果子的，祂就修理干净，使枝子结果子更多。 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes it away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it that it may bear more fruit. |
| 15:3 |
现在你们因我讲给你们的话，已经干净了。 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. |
Enlightenment:
The husbandman is God the Father. The Father as the husbandman is the source, the author, the planner, the planter, the life, the substance, the soil, the water, the air, the sunshine, and everything to the vine. As we have already pointed out, whatever God the Father is, has, and can do has all been embodied in the vine tree. The Son as the vine is the center of God’s economy and the embodiment of all the riches of the Father. The Father, by cultivating the Son, works Himself with all of His riches into this vine, and eventually the vine expresses the Father through its branches in a corporate way. This is the Father’s economy in the universe.
In the Old Testament the children of Israel were a vine in the eyes of God (Psa. 80:8; cf. Isa. 5:2; Jer. 2:21; Ezek. 19:10; 15:2). But Israel failed God as the vine, for they did not give God the opportunity to express Himself through them. Although God tried to express Himself through them, they failed Him. Finally, in the New Testament the real Israel came. The Lord Jesus as the true Israel is the true vine which can fully express God. This true vine is the very embodiment of God and the full manifestation of God. What God is and what God has are embodied in this true vine and fully manifested through this true vine.
亮光
栽培的人乃是父神。父是栽培的人，是葡萄树的源头、创始者、计划者、种植者、生命、本质、土壤、水分、空气、阳光和一切。正如我们所已经指出的，父神的一切所是、所有并所能，都已经具体化身在葡萄树里了。子是葡萄树，是神经纶的中心，也是父一切丰富的具体化身。父藉着栽培子，将祂自己连同祂一切的丰富，都作到这葡萄树里面；至终，这葡萄树藉着枝子，作父团体的彰显。这就是父在宇宙中的经纶。
在旧约里，在神眼中，以色列人是葡萄树。（诗八十8，参赛五2，耶二21，结十九10，十五2。）但是以色列人这葡萄树，却使神失望，因为他们未给神机会藉他们彰显神自己。虽然神曾试图藉着他们彰显祂自己，他们却令祂失望。最后在新约中，真以色列来了。主耶稣是真以色列，是能完满彰显神的真葡萄树。这真葡萄树是神的具体化身，也是神的完满彰显。神的所是和神的所有都已经具体化身在这真葡萄树里面，并藉这真葡萄树得以完满的彰显。