We need to pray for much fruit-bearing that the Father may be glorified

请你读撒迦利亚二章八至十一节。

This is marvelous. He will not only be the One who abides in you, but He will also be your abode.

In order for the Lord to abide in us, it is necessary to let His words abide in us.

The Lord has the resurrection life, the resurrection power, but it needs our cooperation. It needs our submission. What is our submission? It is simply the giving up of our opinion. You must forsake your opinion and allow the Lord to speak.

主应付了我们一切的需要。在这一切之后，我们还有洗脚的需要。

If we all live by the Lord’s life as the source, in the Lord’s love as the condition, and for fruit-bearing as the goal, we surely will love one another.

The Greek word for Comforter is the same as that for Advocate in 1 John 2:1

重生是为着基督的扩增，是为着产生新妇。重生是为叫你成为基督新妇的一部分。约翰三章是讲重生，为着基督的扩增。许多基督徒只看见重生本身，并未看见重生的目的。重生是单为叫你有永远的生命吗？不是！不只这么多。重生乃是为着把我们建造到新妇里，这新妇就是基督的扩增。

Lord would prepare a place, accomplish redemption, open up the way, and make a standing for man to get into God.

The Spirit and the Word will bring us into the principle of life in resurrection. If we take Him in the Spirit and through the Word, we shall then be satisfied, enlightened, freed, and resurrected.

主虽然是永远无限的神，（罗九5，）却作了人在地上生活，甚至受时间的限制。主甘愿失去祂的自由，受时间的约束，实行父的旨意，好将生命的活水供应我们。

The day mentioned in this verse is the day of resurrection.

三节指明主为门徒洗脚的原因

那灵，就是基督的灵，（罗八9，）耶稣基督的灵，（腓一19，）在主说这话时还没有，因为祂尚未得着荣耀。耶稣是在复活时得着荣耀的。（路二四26。）祂复活后，神的灵就成了那成为肉体、钉十字架、复活之耶稣基督的灵。基督在祂复活的晚上，已将这灵吹到门徒里面。（约二十22。）

This warns us that the real foot-washing is only for the people who are genuinely in the fellowship with the Lord.

The death and resurrection of the Lord glorified God the Father because His death and resurrection released God’s divine element from within Him.