保罗的完成职事(30): 神儿女生命长大_2

约一 12『凡接受他的，就是信入他名的人，他就赐他们权柄，成为神的儿女。』

罗十二 2『不要模仿这世代，反要借着心思的更新而变化，叫你们验证何为神那美好、可喜悦、并纯全的旨意。』

 

    一个罪人能在刹那间成为神的儿子，这是伟大的神迹。重生和那灵素质的充满并经纶的充溢都是很平常的，但也是极其神奇的。这些是神奇的常事。

 

    既然重生的意思是由神而生，自然重生就使我们成为神的儿女（约一 12~13）。我们是神的儿女，神是我们的父。我们借着重生所接受的神圣生命，就是我们得作神儿女的权柄。这生命也保证，借着我们魂的变化和身体的荣化，有一天我们要享受完满的儿子名分（译自『甚么是重生』英文小册─中文尚未出书）。

 

    成熟的信徒要借着一生被神的荣耀浸透而从里面得荣耀，也要借着被带进神的荣耀而从外面得荣耀。

 

    里面的浸透是一生之久的过程，而我们在外面被带进神的荣耀乃是眨眼之间的事。在一刹那，眨眼之间，我们要被带进神的荣耀（神生机救恩的秘诀─『那灵自己同我们的灵』，七九页）。

 

    圣灵在我们里面的变化不是一时所能完成 的 …，乃是一生之久才能成就的（ 林后四16~17）。我们天天接触主，就得着他复活生命新鲜供应的滋养，而得以不断的更新…变化（神生命的救恩，四一至四二页）。

 

    当我们相信主耶稣，呼求他名的时候，他这赐生命的灵就进入我们灵里，并重生了我们的灵。从此以后，三一神便内住於我们的灵。於是，我们在灵里就与他是一。

 

    现今他需要从我们的灵扩展到我们的魂里。他这位赐生命的灵扩展到我们的魂里，并浸透我们的魂时，

我们就被变化了。变化就是我们的魂被三一神浸透。重生是在我们灵里的出生，变化是在我们魂里的浸透。

 

    变化乃是一种新陈代谢的改变。就着物质的身体来说，新陈代谢是指细胞里排除旧素质，加上新素质的过程。这种改变应用到魂里，就是新约所说的『变化』（林后三 18，罗十二 2）。…变化乃是生命的改变，而不仅仅是外表的改变。神圣的成分加到我们里面，取代了老旧属人的成分。这种生机的改变发生在我们的魂里。

 

    因此，我们的灵需要重生，我们的魂需要变化。各地教会的圣徒都应当关心这件事，就是借着神圣之灵的扩展而带来生命上新陈代谢的改变。

 

    变化不是任何一种外面的改正或调整。…变化是一种新陈代谢的作用，借着将基督神圣生命的元素加到他们全人里面，而在外面彰显出基督的形像。…要有…健康的肤色，不是借着涂化妆品，乃是借着吃营养的食物，然后消化并新陈代谢的吸收。我们若吃得正确，我们所消化并吸收的食物就会供应我们一种新元素，这新元素至终会使我们的脸色产生一种外在、看得见的改变。变化的原则也是一样。变化是里面的新陈代谢，产生外面的显出。

 

参读：神生命的救恩，第一至二、四章。

 

John 1:12    But as many as received Him, to them He gave the authority to become children ofGod, to those who believe into His name.

Rom.  12:2  And  do  not  be  fashioned  according  to  this  age,  but  be transformed by the renewing of the mind that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good

and well pleasing and perfect.

 

    It  is  a  great  miracle  that  a  sinner  can  be  made  a  son  of  God  in  an  instant.

Regeneration and being filled with the Spirit essentially and economically are very normal, but they are also miraculous to the uttermost. They are miraculous normalities. (Elders' Training, Book 9: The Eldership and the God-ordained Way (1), p. 32) 

     Since regeneration means to be born of God, it automatically causes us to become the children of God (John 1:12-13). We are His children and He is our Father. The divine life we receive through regeneration is our authority to be His children. It is also a guarantee that one day, through the transformation of our soul and the glorification of our body, we shall enjoy full sonship. (What Is Regeneration? pp. 12-13)

 

    The matured believers will be glorified from within through the lifelong saturation with the glory of God and from without through their being brought into God's glory.

 

    Whereas the inner saturating is a lifelong process, our being brought into God's glory outwardly will be instantaneous. In an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, we will be brought into God's glory. (The Secret of God's Organic Salvation─“the Spirit Himself with Our Spirit," p. 69)

 

    The transformation within us by the Holy Spirit cannot be accomplished in an instant....[It] is achieved throughout our entire life (2 Cor. 4:16-17).

 

    When we contact the Lord daily, we receive the nutrients freshly supplied by His resurrection life. Thus, we will be renewed and transformed in a continuing way. (God's Salvation in Life, p. 40)When we believed on the Lord Jesus and called on His name, He as the life-giving Spirit entered into our spirit and regenerated it. Since then, the Triune God has indwelt our spirit. Thus, in spirit we are one with Him.

 

    Now there is the need for Him to spread from our spirit into our soul. When He as the life-giving Spirit has spread into our soul and saturated it, we are transformed. Transformation is the saturation of our soul by the Triune God. Regeneration is a birth in our spirit; transformation, a saturation in our soul.

 

    Transformation is a metabolic change. In the physical body metabolism refers to the processes in cells by which old materials are discharged and new are added. This change, applied to the soul, is called in the New Testament transformation (2 Cor. 3:18; Rom. 12:2)....Transformation is a change in life, not merely in appearance. The divine element is added to us; this discharges

the old human element. This organic change takes place in our soul.

 

    Our spirit, then, needs regeneration; our soul, transformation. In all the churches the saints should be concerned about this metabolic change in life through the spreading of the divine Spirit. (The Completing Ministry of Paul, pp. 65-66)

 

    Transformation i s not any kind of out ward  correction or adjustment....Transformation is a kind of metabolism, by the addition of the element of the divine life of Christ into the believers' being, to be expressed outwardly in the image of Christ....The way to have...a healthy complexion is not to apply cosmetics but to eat nourishing food and then to digest and assimilate it metabolically. If we eat properly, the food we digest and assimilate will supply us with a new element which will eventually produce an outward and visible change in our facial color. The principle is the same with transformation. Transformation is a matter of inward metabolism

issuing in an outward expression. (The Secret of God's Organic Salvation─“the Spirit Himself with Our Spirit," p. 41)

 

Further Reading: God's Salvation in Life, chs. 1-2, 4; What Is Regeneration?

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