约七39『耶稣这话是指着信入他的人将要受的那灵说的；那时还没有那灵，因为耶稣尚未得着荣耀。』
罗八10『但基督若在你们里面，身体固然因罪是死的，灵却因义是生命。』
约翰七章三十九节里的『那灵』一辞，不是仅仅指神的灵，是指终极完成的灵:即那经过了成为肉体、人性生活、钉十字架与复活等过程的灵[经过过程的三一神的灵]。这灵在三十九节的时候还没有，因为耶稣尚未得着荣耀[尚未复活升天]。
当基督在复活里得着荣耀之后，他就成了赐生命的灵（林前十五45 下）。这赐生命的灵乃是『那灵』，就是那终极完成的灵。
神的灵经过了过程，我们的灵也经过了过程。我们的灵是神所造的；但由於亚当，这灵堕落了，并且死了。然而，我们死了的灵由基督所赎回；既已赎回，就被那重生我们的灵所复苏、点活。终极完成的灵就在我们得重生的灵里。
我们说『那灵同我们的灵』，意思就是说，终极完成的灵是同着信徒那被造、得重生的灵。现在我们要看见，那灵同我们的灵，乃是对神生机救恩一切经历的秘诀，这生机的救恩包括：重生、喂养、圣别、更新、变化、建造、模成和得荣。
我…的负担，是要陈明最好的神学，论到神生机救恩的八段，加上神加强救恩的一段。神生机救恩的八段乃是重生、喂养、圣别、更新、变化、建造、模成和得荣；附加的一段乃是加强的一段。
当我们说到『重生的秘诀』…，我们用『秘诀』一辞，意指在作某些事情或制作某些东西上的技巧。保罗在腓立比四章十二节用到这辞：『我知道怎样处卑贱，也知道怎样处富余；或饱足、或饥饿、或富余、或缺乏，在各事上，并在一切事上，我都学得秘诀。』
保罗学得面对各种情形的秘诀、技巧。神生机救恩八段的秘诀，就是那灵同我们的灵。这二灵一起作工，就是一切属灵事物，特别是神生机救恩之各面的技巧、秘诀。
约翰三章三节和五节告诉我们，重生乃是再生一次。那灵使罪人知罪自责，是要叫他们从水（受浸的水表徵死），和那灵（他已将罪人从其余的人中间圣别出来，并且他就是复活的实际），在他们那被复活的基督所点活的灵里，得以重生。
受浸的水指明，我们若要得重生，就必须承认我们一无用处，只配与基督同钉十字架，并被埋葬。这就是说，我们已经了了，我们的已往、我们的历史已经过去。因着那圣别我们的灵乃是复活的实际，所以我们有了他，就有了复活。这复活就重生我们。
重生乃是借着基督的复活，使他将神圣的生命分赐到失丧的罪人里面作权柄，叫他们成为神亲生的儿女，作他的种类。当基督复活时，他所有的信徒，就是神所拣选并赐给他的人，全都包括在他里面。
因此他们都与他一同复活（弗二6），并借着他得了重生，使他们得着永远的生命作权柄，成为神的儿女，作他的种类。借着重生，我们人成了神人；我们成了神类。参读：神生机救恩的秘诀─『那灵自己同我们的灵』，第一章。
John 7:39 "...This He said
concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed into Him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet,
because Jesus had not yet been glorified."
Rom. 8:10 "But if Christ is in
you, though the body is dead because of sin,the spirit is life because of
righteousness."
The term the Spirit [in John 7:39] does not refer merely to the Spirit
of God but to the
consummated Spirit─the Spirit who has
passed through the processes of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, and
resurrection. This is the Spirit who, in John 7:39, was not yet, because Jesus
had not yet been glorified." After Christ was glorified in resurrection,
He became the life giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b). This life-giving Spirit is
the Spirit, that is, the consummated Spirit.
The Spirit of God has passed through a process, and our spirit also has
passed through a process. Our spirit was created by God, but through Adam it
became fallen and deadened. However, our deadened spirit was redeemed by Christ
and, having been redeemed, it has been quickened, enlivened, by the Spirit, who
regenerated us. The consummated Spirit is in our regenerated spirit. When we
speak of the Spirit with our spirit, we mean that the consummated Spirit is
with the believers' created and regenerated spirit. Now we need to see that the
Spirit with our spirit is the secret of all the experiences of God's organic
salvation: regeneration, feeding, sanctification,renewing, transformation,
building, conformation, and glorification. (The Secret of God's Organic
Salvation─“the
Spirit Himself with Our Spirit," p. 11)
My burden...is to present the best theology in eight sections concerning
God's organic salvation plus one section
concerning God's intensified salvation. The eight sections of God's organic
salvation are regeneration,feeding, sanctification, renewing, transformation,
building, conformation,and glorification. The additional section is
intensification.
[When we speak of the secret of regeneration,] we are using the word
secret as a noun meaning skillfulness in doing things or in making things.Paul
used this word in Philippians 4:12:"I know also how to be abased, and I
know how to abound; in everything and in all things I have learned the secret
both to be filled and to hunger, both to abound and to lack." Paul had
learned the secret, the skillfulness, of facing every kind of situation. The
secret of these eight sections of God's organic salvation is the Spirit with
our spirit. These two spirits working together is the skillfulness, the secret,
of all spiritual things, especially of all the aspects of God's organic salvation.
John 3:3 and 5 tell us that regeneration is to be born anew. The Spirit
convicts sinners that they may be born anew of water (the water of baptism
signifying death) and of the Spirit (who has sanctified the sinners from among
others and who is the reality of resurrection) in their spirit enlivened by
Christ in resurrection. The water of baptism indicates that, if we would
be regenerated, we must admit that we
are good only to be put on the cross with Christ and buried. This means that we
are finished and that our past,our history, is gone. Because the Spirit who
sanctifies us is the reality of resurrection, when we have Him, we have
resurrection. It is resurrection that regenerates us.
Regeneration is through the resurrection of Christ that He may impart
the divine life into the lost sinners as the authority for them to be the
children of God, begotten of God as His species (1 Pet. 1:3; John 1:12-13).When
Christ was resurrected, all His believers, chosen and given to Him by God, were
included in Him. Hence, they were resurrected with Him (Eph. 2:6) and
regenerated through Him that they may have the eternal life as the authority
for them to be children of God as His species. Through regeneration we, who are
human, have become God-men; we have become God's kind. (The Secret of God's
Organic Salvation─“the Spirit Himself with Our Spirit,"
pp. 11-12, 14)
Further Reading: The Secret of God's Organic Salvation─“the Spirit Himself
with Our Spirit," ch. 1
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保罗的完成职事(21): 人的心思置於灵是生命平安
保罗的完成职事(十九): 经过了过程的灵(经文)
