5让我们来看约翰三章尼哥底母的例子，以说明我们理解神圣事物的困难。主耶稣对尼哥底母说，我实实在在的告诉你，人若不重生，就不能见神的国。（3。）尼哥底母不明白这话，回答说，人已经老了，如何能重生？岂能再进母腹生出来么？』（4。）这是一个多么可怕的误解！主耶稣继续对尼哥底母说到从水和灵生，告诉他说，『从那灵生的，就是灵。』(6。)尼哥底母又问：『怎能有这事？』（9。）至终，主耶稣对他说，『我对你们说地上的事，你们尚且不信，若对你们说天上的事，你们如何能信？』（12。）重生，即再生一次，是关乎神圣的生命，却在地上发生。尼哥底母若无法明白在地上发生的事，如何能明白在天上发生的事？约翰三章不仅说到重生，也说到基督的扩增。（30。）所有重生的人都成为基督的扩增；基督的扩增就是祂的新妇。（29。）约翰三章有两个重要的辞：『新妇』和『扩增』。我们需要看见，我们这些基督徒，乃是基督的扩增。但今天许多信徒都不领会这件事。在约翰十四章，主耶稣在被出卖的那一晚，抓住机会对神的门徒说到一些关于神圣三一的事；神圣的三一要产生新妇，作基督的扩增。在约翰十六章主告诉祂的门徒，虽然祂还有好些事要告诉他们，但那时他们担当不了。（12。）以后，等基督经过死，进入复活，成为神的长子和赐生命的灵之后，实际的灵就要引导他们进入一切的实际。（13。）在祂复活的那天晚上，主耶稣向门徒显现，并且『向他们吹入一口气，说，你们受圣灵』。（二十22。）但甚至在那时，神圣的启示仍未完全的赐下；基督还需要升天，并将祂自己作为那灵，浇灌在祂的门徒身上，使他们成为召会，这是使徒行传头一部分所记载的。但甚至在那时仍无完整的启示。后来，保罗被神兴起，关于神的奥秘－基督（西二2下）以及基督的奥秘－召会（弗三4）的完全启示才启示给他。召会乃是三一神的产物，作三一神的生机体。这生机体就是基督的身体；基督的身体就是新人。至终，这一切要终极完成于新耶路撒冷，就是新天新地里三一神团体、永远的彰显。这一切，从三一神的成为肉体，到新耶路撒冷的终极完成，都是神向约伯显现时心头的愿望。
5As an illustration of our difficulty in understanding the divine things, let us consider the case of Nicodemus in John 3. The Lord Jesus said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless one is born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (v. 3). Not understanding this, Nicodemus replied, " How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born, can he?" (v. 4). What a terrible misunderstanding! The Lord Jesus went on to speak to Nicodemus about being born of water and the Spirit, telling him that "that which is born of the Spirit is spirit" (v. 6). Nicodemus then asked, "How can these things be?" (v. 9). Eventually, the Lord Jesus said to him, "If I told you of the things on earth and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you of the things in heaven?" (v. 12). Regeneration, being born anew, concerns the divine life, yet it takes place on earth. If Nicodemus could not understand something that takes place on earth, how could he understand the things that take place in heaven? Chapter three of John speaks not only about regeneration but also about the increase of Christ (v. 30). All the regenerated people will become the increase of Christ, and the increase of Christ is His bride (v. 29). In John 3 two crucial words are "bride" and " increase. " We need to see that as Christians we are Christ ' sin crease. However, many of today's believers have no understanding concerning this. In John 14 the Lord Jesus, on the night He was to be betrayed, took the opportunity to speak to His disciples certain matters concerning the Divine Trinity, who would produce the bride as the increase of Christ. In John 16 the Lord told His disciples that although He had yet many things to say to them, at that time they could not bear them (v. 12). Later, after Christ had passed through death and had entered into resurrection to become the firstborn Son of God and the life-giving Spirit, the Spirit of reality would come to guide the disciples into all the reality (v. 13). On the evening of the day of His resurrection, the Lord Jesus appeared to them, and " He breathed into them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit" (20:22). However, not even at that time was the divine revelation given in full. There was still the need for Christ to ascend and to pour out Himself as the Spirit upon His disciples to make them the church, as recorded in the first part of Acts. But not even then was the complete revelation given. Later, Paul was raised up by God, and to him was given the full revelation concerning the mystery of God, which is Christ (Col. 2:2b), and the mystery of Christ, which is the church (Eph. 3:4). The church is the issue of the Triune God to be the organism of the Triune God. This organism is the Body of Christ, and the Body of Christ is the new man. Eventually, all this will consummate in the New Jerusalem, the corporate expression of the Triune God for eternity in the new heaven and new earth. All these things—beginning with the incarnation of the Triune God and consummating with the New Jerusalem—were on God'she art when He appeared to Job.