第五週．週六
晨興餧養
羅八１１ 『…那叫耶穌從死人中復活者的靈，若住在你們裏面，那叫基督從死人中復活的，也必藉著祂住在你們裏面的靈，賜生命給你們必死的身體。』
弗三１６～１７ 『…藉著祂的靈，用大能使你們得以加強到裏面的人裏，使基督藉著信，安家在你們心裏…。』
１９ 『…使你們被充滿，成為神一切的豐滿。』
〔羅馬八章十一節〕有三件事。第一，完整的三一神—那叫耶穌從死人中復活者、基督耶穌、並祂住在你們裏面的靈；第二，祂的分賜所需要的過程—含示在『耶穌』（重在成為肉體），『基督』（重在釘死與復活），以及『復活』這些辭裏；第三，祂將自己分賜到信徒裏面—由『賜生命給你們必死的身體』所表示，指明分賜不只發生在我們這人的中心，也達到圓周，達到我們全人。
『賜生命給你們必死的身體』，不是指神醫，乃是指我們讓神的靈安家在我們裏面，用神的生命浸透我們全人的結果。（弗三16～19。）這樣，祂就將祂的生命賜給我們必死、漸死的身體，不僅醫治身體，更叫身體活過來，以完成神的旨意。（新約總論第十冊，七九頁。）
信息選讀
〔羅馬八章十一節〕的靈是復活的靈。…我們的靈是生命，（10，）我們的心思也是生命。（6。）…我們的身體一直在死。然而，甚至我們這在死、必死的身體，也得著生命的分賜。藉著祂住在我們裏面的靈，我們的身體能有分於這生命，憑這生命得扶持，且憑這生命得供應。毫無疑問，內住的靈就是復活的基督。（林前十五45，林後三17。）基督這內住的靈一直分賜生命給我們這人的每一面。
這事的絕佳例證就是電。雖然電已安裝到建築物裏，但電流能受阻而中斷。基督這賜生命的靈，已安裝到我們這人裏面作屬天的電。然而，我們這人只有一小部分給祂自由的通路；我們這人的大部分沒有向祂敞開，反而攔阻祂。例如，你的情感也許是基督的攔阻。所以，基督很難將祂自己這生命分賜到你的情感裏。你需要禱告：『主，對付我的情感。打通我的情感，使你能將你自己這生命分賜到其中。』我們需要這種經歷。…你若實行這事，就會發現基督這生命現今在你的靈裏，等候機會將祂自己擴展到你這人的每一範圍和通道。祂在等候滲透你這人隱藏的部分。你若將自己向祂敞開，祂甚至會將祂自己這生命分賜到你必死的身體裏，使你成為充滿祂生命一切豐富的人。
為了完成這事，神經過了過程，成了便利的生命之靈。（羅八2。）在經過過程以前，…雖然祂能在我們以外作許多事，但祂不能進入我們裏面，直到祂經過了成為肉體、釘十字架、和復活的完整過程。祂既經過過程，就成了便利的生命之靈，如今仍然是。現今祂像供人呼吸的空氣一樣，（約二十22，）很容易進到我們裏面。神這便利的生命之靈，已進入我們靈裏，使其成為生命。基督這賜生命的靈在我們裏面，我們的靈就因義是生命。（羅八10。）主藉著重生，已使我們的靈成為生命。現今，祂是在我們靈裏的生命之靈，正將祂自己從我們的靈擴展到我們的魂—我們的心思、情感和意志裏。至終，祂甚至要擴展到我們必死的身體裏。這樣，神就以祂自己浸透我們。（羅馬書生命讀經，二三四至二三五、二四二頁。）
參讀：羅馬書生命讀經，第十六篇。
WEEK 5 — DAY 6
Morning Nourishment
Rom. 8:11 …If the Spirit of the One who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who indwells you.
Eph. 3:16-17 …Be strengthened with power through His Spirit into the inner man, that Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith…
19 …That you may be filled unto all the fullness of God.
In Romans 8:11 we have three matters. First, we have the entire Triune God— the One who raised Jesus from the dead, Christ Jesus, and His Spirit who indwells you. Second, we have the process required for His dispensing, as implied in the words Jesus (emphasizing incarnation), Christ (emphasizing crucifixion and resurrection), and raised (emphasizing resurrection). Third, we have His dispensing of Himself into the believers, as shown by the phrase give life to your mortal bodies, which indicates that the dispensing not only occurs at the center of our being but also reaches to the circumference, to our whole being.
The phrase give life to your mortal bodies does not refer to divine healing but to the result of our allowing the Spirit of God to make His home in us and saturate our entire being with the divine life (Eph. 3:16-19). In this way He gives His life to our mortal, dying body, not only to heal it but also that it may be enlivened to carry out His will. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 3078)
Todays Reading
The Spirit in Romans 8:11 is the Spirit of resurrection…Our spirit is life (v. 10) and…our mind also is life (v. 6)…Our body is dying. However, life is given even to our dying mortal body. Our body can participate in this life, be sustained with this life, and be supplied with this life through His Spirit who indwells us. Undoubtedly, the indwelling Spirit is the resurrected Christ (1 Cor. 15:45; 2 Cor. 3:17). Christ as the indwelling Spirit constantly imparts life to every aspect of our being.
An excellent illustration of this is electricity. Although electricity has been installed into a building, its flow can be frustrated. Christ, the life-giving Spirit, has been installed into our being as the heavenly electricity. However, only a small part of our being gives Him a free course; most of our being is not open to Him but rather frustrates Him. For example, your emotions may be a frustration to Christ. Therefore, Christ has difficulty imparting Himself as life into your emotions. You need to pray, “Lord, deal with my emotions. Break through my emotions that You may impart Yourself as life into them.”
We need this kind of experience…If you practice this, you will find that Christ as life is now in your spirit, waiting for an opportunity to spread Himself into every area and avenue of your being. He is waiting to penetrate the hidden parts of your being. If you open yourself to Him, He will even impart Himself as life into your mortal body, making you a person who is filled with all the riches of His life.
God has been processed into the available Spirit of life (Rom. 8:2). Before being processed,…although He could do many things outside of us, He could not come into us until He had passed through the complete process of incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection. Since being processed, He has become and still is the available Spirit of life. Now, like the air for breathing (John 20:22), it is so easy for Him to enter into us. As the available Spirit of life, God has come into our spirit, making it life. Since Christ, the life-giving Spirit, is in us, our spirit is life because of righteousness (Rom. 8:10). The Lord has made our spirit life by regeneration. Now, as the Spirit of life in our spirit, He is spreading Himself from our spirit into our soul—into our mind, emotion, and will. Eventually, He will even expand into our mortal body. In such a way God saturates us with Himself. (Life-study of Romans, pp. 192- 193, 198)
Further Reading: Life-study of Romans, msg. 16
