生命的长大(七): 对付人的灵_1

路九54~55 他的门徒雅各、约翰看见了，就说，主阿，你要我们吩咐火从天上降下
来，烧灭他们麽？耶稣却转身责备他们，说，你们的灵如何，你们并不知道。

神当初对人的安排，是把人的灵摆在人的魂和体之上，要人凭灵而活，一面用灵接
触神，受神管理，一面用灵管制全人。但是当人堕落之後，体和魂就夺取了灵的地
位，人就不凭灵活著，而凭肉体、凭魂活著了。

等到神来拯救人的时候，他的灵进到人的灵里，就是要叫人的灵复苏、壮大起来，好
使人重新凭灵而活。但人的灵既被包围在肉体、己意和天然里面，并且人又是凭这
些活惯了，所以神就要人藉著主十字架杀死的功效，治死这些，对付这些，破碎这
些，叫这些有了裂口，然後灵才得以出来。

人的灵出来了，神的灵也就被带出来，人就可以凭灵活著，凭灵使用魂，凭灵支配
体，凭灵作真人，凭灵生活行动，凭灵敬拜事奉。

灵的本身既不污秽，为何灵出来还有不清洁、不正当的光景？这是因为灵出来的时
候，还要经过我们里面许多部分。这些部分里面有污秽，灵从其中经过，就受到玷
污，而将这些污秽带了出来。

所以灵出来显在外面，就有那些污秽、不正当的光景。

灵在我们的深处，也是纯洁无污的。但在灵的周边，乃是魂和体。这魂和体已经搀
进了撒但邪恶的成分，变为污秽、败坏的，所以当灵经过这魂和体，往外出来的时
候，也就沾染了其中的污秽、败坏，因此显在外面的时候，就带著污秽、败坏、不
纯、不正，各种不该有的光景。

如果一个人魂里骄傲，他的灵出来也是骄傲的。一个人肉体里动了血气，他的灵出
来也是带著血气。我们常碰到急躁的灵、妒忌的灵、弯曲的灵、傲慢的灵等等，这
些都不是灵的本身有问题，乃是灵所经过的魂和体，其中那些不好的成分，染到灵
上面来了。所染上的是甚麽成分，出来的也就是甚麽灵。

所以甚麽样的人，就有甚麽样的灵（生命的经历下册，三四六至三四七页）。

在圣经里，人的灵本身是没有性质的。灵是根据我们外面的人，根据我们魂的性质
而定性质的。灵本身是超越好坏、对错、是非、善恶的，灵乃是神所给信徒的新本
能。灵的特点乃是它本身没有性质，它的性质是取於别的作为它的性质。

你说它没有性质，它本身的确是没有性质；你说它有性质，它的确也是有性质，
它的性质乃是我们外面魂的性质。灵的性质如何，就看它所附於之东西的性质是如
何。┅我们是怎样的人，就使我们的灵生出怎样的性质来。

许多时候，弟兄姊妹的话语、行为是对的，但灵不对，因为他这个人不对。

怎麽样才能有对的灵呢？一个人的灵乃是将那个人的味道、色彩带出来，作它自己
的味道、色彩。当你的灵出来，就代表你这个人的味道、色彩。所以一个人的灵要
对，那个人就得受对付。一个人的品质如何，他灵的品质也如何。

参读：倪柝声文集第三辑第十六册，第四十一篇。

English Version:

Luke 9:54-55 "And seeing this, the disciples James and John said, Lord, 
do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them? 
But turning, He rebuked them and said, You do not
know of what kind of spirit you are."

In God’s original arrangement for man, He placed the spirit of man above 
his soul and body in order that man might live by the spirit, on one hand 
exercising the spirit to contact God and be ruled by Him, and on the other 
hand exercising the spirit to control his whole being. But after the fall, 
the body and the soul usurped the position of the spirit so that man no 
longer lived by the spirit but by the flesh and the soul....When God comes 
to save man, His Spirit enters into man’s spirit so that it might be revived 
and strengthened, enabling man to live again by the spirit. Nevertheless, 
the spirit of man is surrounded by the flesh, selfopinion, and the natural 
constitution, plus the fact that man is so accustomed to live by these; 
therefore, God requires that man, through the killing effect of the Lord’s 
cross, put all these to death, dealing with them and breaking them, so that 
there will be some crack or opening for the spirit to come forth. When man’s 
spirit comes forth, it brings forth also the Spirit of God. Thus, man can 
live by the spirit, directing his soul, controlling his body, being a genuine 
man, living and acting, worshipping, and serving God by the spirit. (The Experience of Life, pp. 
281-282)

If the spirit itself is not filthy, why does it sometimes manifest itself 

in an unclean and improper manner? It is because the spirit must pass through 
many of our inward parts when it comes forth. Within the inward parts is 
filthiness so that when the spirit passes through them, it is defiled, and 
thus the filthiness is brought forth also. Therefore when the spirit is released 
and manifested, it exhibits certain defiled and improper conditions.

The spirit in our innermost part is pure and undefiled. However, surrounding 
the spirit are the soul and body, both of which have been mixed with the 
wicked elements of Satan and are thus filthy and corrupt. Therefore, when 
the spirit comes forth and passes through the soul and body, it becomes 
contaminated by this filthiness and corruption. Hence, when being manifested,
 the spirit bears certain filthiness, corruption, impurity, impropriety, 
and various other undesirable conditions. If a person
is proud in his soul, the spirit also manifests itself in pride; if a person 
is angry in the flesh, his spirit also reveals the anger. We often encounter 
the spirit of anxiety, the spirit of jealousy, a crooked spirit, or a rude 
spirit, all of which are not the problem of the spirit itself, but the defiling 
influence of the undesirable elements of the soul and body upon the spirit 
as it passes through them. We can tell the kind of defilement from the kind 
of spirit, and the kind of spirit reveals the kind of man. 

In the Bible man’s spirit is neutral. Its characteristics take on that 
of the outer man, that is, the characteristics of the soul. The spirit itself 
transcends good and bad, right and wrong, yes and no, and good and evil. 
The spirit is the new capacity that God gives to the believers. It is special 
in the sense that it bears no characteristics of its own. It takes its characteristics 
from other things....In one sense it does not have any characteristics of 
its own, but in another sense it does have its characteristics. Its characteristics 
are the characteristics of our soul. We judge the characteristics of the 
spirit by the characteristics of the things that are attached to it....The 
kind of person we are produces the kind of characteristics our spirit carries.
 Many times the brothers and sisters are right in their words and conduct, 
but their spirit is wrong because their very person is wrong. How can we 
have a right spirit? A man’s spirit carries his own taste and color. When 
our spirit is released, it expresses the tastes and color of our very person.

In order to be right in our spirit, we have to go through dealings. The 
quality of a man determines the quality of his spirit. 

Further Reading: CWWN, vol. 62, ch. 41

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