4月12日


章伯斯原著 | 听见录制 | 主播:胡正军


死也不再作祂的主了……祂活是向神活着。这样,你们看罪也当看自己是死的,向神在基督耶稣里,却当看自己是活的。(罗6:9-11)

同享永生,永生是耶稣基督以人的身份所表现的生命。若我们从神而生,在这必朽的肉身所彰显的生命,正是这种生命,而非它的副本。


永生不是从神而来的恩赐,乃是神把自己赐给我们。耶稣所彰显出来的能力与权柄,在我们对罪作道德判决时,因着神的恩典,在我们身上彰显出来。


“圣灵降临在你们身上,你们就必得着能力。”——这能力并不是从圣灵而来的恩赐,乃是圣灵本身。换言之,这并不是圣灵所赐的什么东西。我们一旦与祂的死认同后,就藉着十字架得着耶稣的生命。


若觉得与神和好是件难事,那就一定是我们对罪未肯做确定的判决。只要一做决定,神丰盛的生命就立即进来。耶稣来了,是要供应永恒的生命:


“叫神一切所充满的,充满了你们。”


永生与时间原不相关,永生是耶稣在地上时的生命。生命唯一的源头就是主耶稣基督。


只要肯“放手”,最软弱的信徒也能经历神儿子的能力。我们旧我的能力,若有任何残余存在,都会叫耶稣的生命受阻。我们要慢慢地放手,让神生命的洪流涌进我们每一部分,以致人就认出我们是耶稣的门徒。

祈祷


主啊,我感到自己渴望祢的同在,并得着祢极之美好和满有喜乐的赐福。主啊,我将此心愿交给祢,若祢认为是好的话,请赐给我。

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Complete and Effective Dominion


Death no longer has dominion over Him.…the life that He lives, He lives to God. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God… —Romans 6:9-11


Co-Eternal Life. Eternal life is the life which Jesus Christ exhibited on the human level. And it is this same life, not simply a copy of it, which is made evident in our mortal flesh when we are born again. Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift of God. The energy and the power which was so very evident in Jesus will be exhibited in us by an act of the absolute sovereign grace of God, once we have made that complete and effective decision about sin.


“You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you…” (Acts 1:8)— not power as a gift from the Holy Spirit; the power is the Holy Spirit, not something that He gives us. The life that was in Jesus becomes ours because of His Cross, once we make the decision to be identified with Him. If it is difficult to get right with God, it is because we refuse to make this moral decision about sin. But once we do decide, the full life of God comes in immediately. Jesus came to give us an endless supply of life— “…that you may be filled with all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:19). Eternal life has nothing to do with time. It is the life which Jesus lived when He was down here, and the only Source of life is the Lord Jesus Christ.


Even the weakest saint can experience the power of the deity of the Son of God, when he is willing to “let go.” But any effort to “hang on” to the least bit of our own power will only diminish the life of Jesus in us. We have to keep letting go, and slowly, but surely, the great full life of God will invade us, penetrating every part. Then Jesus will have complete and effective dominion in us, and people will take notice that we have been with Him.