約七39『耶穌這話是指着信入他的人將要受的那靈說的；那時還沒有那靈，因為耶穌尚未得着榮耀。』
羅八10『但基督若在你們裡面，身體固然因罪是死的，靈卻因義是生命。』
約翰七章三十九節里的『那靈』一辭，不是僅僅指神的靈，是指終極完成的靈:即那經過了成為肉體、人性生活、釘十字架與復活等過程的靈[經過過程的三一神的靈]。這靈在三十九節的時候還沒有，因為耶穌尚未得着榮耀[尚未復活升天]。
當基督在復活里得着榮耀之後，他就成了賜生命的靈（林前十五45 下）。這賜生命的靈乃是『那靈』，就是那終極完成的靈。
神的靈經過了過程，我們的靈也經過了過程。我們的靈是神所造的；但由於亞當，這靈墮落了，並且死了。然而，我們死了的靈由基督所贖回；既已贖回，就被那重生我們的靈所復甦、點活。終極完成的靈就在我們得重生的靈里。
我們說『那靈同我們的靈』，意思就是說，終極完成的靈是同着信徒那被造、得重生的靈。現在我們要看見，那靈同我們的靈，乃是對神生機救恩一切經歷的秘訣，這生機的救恩包括：重生、餵養、聖別、更新、變化、建造、模成和得榮。
我…的負擔，是要陳明最好的神學，論到神生機救恩的八段，加上神加強救恩的一段。神生機救恩的八段乃是重生、餵養、聖別、更新、變化、建造、模成和得榮；附加的一段乃是加強的一段。
當我們說到『重生的秘訣』…，我們用『秘訣』一辭，意指在作某些事情或製作某些東西上的技巧。保羅在腓立比四章十二節用到這辭：『我知道怎樣處卑賤，也知道怎樣處富餘；或飽足、或飢餓、或富餘、或缺乏，在各事上，並在一切事上，我都學得秘訣。』
保羅學得面對各種情形的秘訣、技巧。神生機救恩八段的秘訣，就是那靈同我們的靈。這二靈一起作工，就是一切屬靈事物，特別是神生機救恩之各面的技巧、秘訣。
約翰三章三節和五節告訴我們，重生乃是再生一次。那靈使罪人知罪自責，是要叫他們從水（受浸的水錶徵死），和那靈（他已將罪人從其餘的人中間聖別出來，並且他就是復活的實際），在他們那被復活的基督所點活的靈里，得以重生。
受浸的水指明，我們若要得重生，就必須承認我們一無用處，只配與基督同釘十字架，並被埋葬。這就是說，我們已經了了，我們的已往、我們的歷史已經過去。因着那聖別我們的靈乃是復活的實際，所以我們有了他，就有了復活。這復活就重生我們。
重生乃是借着基督的復活，使他將神聖的生命分賜到失喪的罪人裡面作權柄，叫他們成為神親生的兒女，作他的種類。當基督復活時，他所有的信徒，就是神所揀選並賜給他的人，全都包括在他裡面。
因此他們都與他一同復活（弗二6），並借着他得了重生，使他們得着永遠的生命作權柄，成為神的兒女，作他的種類。借着重生，我們人成了神人；我們成了神類。參讀：神生機救恩的秘訣─『那靈自己同我們的靈』，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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保羅的完成職事(21): 人的心思置於靈是生命平安
保羅的完成職事(十九): 經過了過程的靈(經文)
