4月11日 道德上的神性

我们若在他死的形状上与他联合,也要在他复活的形状上与他联合。(罗六5)

一同复活。要证明我的确已与耶稣同钉十字架,就是我明显有像他的地方。耶稣的灵进入我里面,重整了我向神的生命。耶稣的复活,使他有权柄把神的圣灵充满我;而我这生命,是必须建造在他生命的根基上。我现在有耶稣复活的生命,在圣洁上可表明出来。

在使徒保罗的书信中,有个一贯的思想,就是决志——作这道德上的抉择,承认与耶稣同死后,耶稣复活的生命就充满我每一部分。人在肉身活出神儿子的生命,必须有超人的能力才行。

圣灵绝不处于客人的地位,他是无孔不入的。我一旦决志让旧人(罪的遗传)与耶稣同死,圣灵就开始进袭我。他要管理一切,要我行在光中,要使我顺服。我既对罪作了道德的判决,就很容易向罪死,因为耶稣的生命已经住在我里面。

人性若只有一个印记,圣洁同样也只有一个,就是耶稣的圣洁,而这圣洁正是他赐给我的。神把他儿子的圣洁放在我里面,我就属于一个新的属灵族类。

祈祷◆噢,主啊,在这新的一天,以你的恩典帮助我完全感受到你的大能,并你在我周围。让我面对着你的荣耀,以致我可以“变成主的形状,荣上加荣”。

April 11 Moral Divinity

“For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection.” Romans 6:5

Co-Resurrection. The proof that I have been through crucifixion with Jesus is that I have a decided likeness to Him. The incoming of the Spirit of Jesus into me readjusts my personal life to God. The resurrection of Jesus has given Him authority to impart the life of God to me, and my experimental life must be constructed on the basis of His life. I can have the resurrection life of Jesus now, and it will show itself in holiness.

The idea all through the apostle Paul’s writings is that after the moral decision to be identified with Jesus in His death has been made, the resurrection life of Jesus invades every bit of my human nature. It takes omnipotence to live the life of the Son of God in mortal flesh. The Holy Spirit cannot be located as a Guest in a house, He invades everything. When once I decide that my “old man” (i.e., the heredity of sin) should be identified with the death of Jesus, then the Holy Spirit invades me. He takes charge of everything, my part is to walk in the light and to obey all that He reveals. When I have made the moral decision about sin, it is easy to reckon actually that I am dead unto sin, because I find the life of Jesus there all the time. Just as there is only one stamp of humanity, so there is only one stamp of holiness, the holiness of Jesus, and it is His holiness that is gifted to me. God puts the holiness of His Son into me, and I belong to a new order spiritually.