7主的救赎不是为我们在天上预备地方,主的救赎乃是为我们在神里面预备地方。……这个思想是在最高的水平上。主救赎了我们,将我们带进神里面,在神里面为我们预备地方。……当我们蒙了救赎、得救、重生之后,我们在哪里?我们在基督里面,也在神里面。连约翰一书也启示,我们住在神里面,神也住在我们里面(四13)。整本新约的中心思想乃是说,在我们得救重生之后,我们就在神里面,也在基督里面。神与基督是我们的居所。再者,我们也成了神的居所。这样,神与我们,我们与神,乃是互为居所。主……预备地方,使我们能进入神里面,使主能借着祂的救赎,将我们带进神里面。借着祂的死而复活,祂已将我们带进神里面。赞美主,我们每个人在神里面都有地方!(约翰福音生命读经,四○五页)。 7The Lord’s redemption was not to prepare a place for us in heaven. The Lord’s redemption was to prepare a place for us in God…This thought is on the highest plane. The Lord redeemed us to bring us into God, to prepare a place for us in God…After we have been redeemed, after we have been saved, after we have been regenerated, please tell me where we are. We are in Christ and in God. Even John’s first Epistle reveals that we abide in God and that God abides in us (4:13). Throughout the whole New Testament the central thought is that after we have been saved and regenerated, we are in God and in Christ. God and Christ are our dwelling place. Furthermore, we have become the dwelling place for God. Thus, God and we, we and God, are a mutual abode…[The Lord] was preparing a place that we might get into God, that the Lord might bring us into God by His redemption. By His death and resurrection He has brought us into God. Praise the Lord that each one of us has a place in God! (Life-study of John, 2nd ed., pp. 346-347)