第二週 • 週四
晨興餧養
約十四16~17 我要求父，祂必賜給你們另一位保惠師，叫祂永遠與你們同在，就是實際的靈…。
26 但保惠師，就是父在我的名裏所要差來的聖靈，祂要將一切的事教導你們，並且要叫你們想起我對你們所說的一切話。
照聖經的啟示來看，聖靈住在我們裏面，主要有以下六方面的功用：
聖靈進到我們裏面，首先乃是作素質的靈，為着我們的生存、所是、生命和生活。祂是經過過程之三一神的終極總結，也就是基督在復活裏所成的賜生命的靈（林前十五45）。這靈進到我們這信祂的人裏面（約二十22），並活在我們裏面，作我們裏面神聖生命、性情和所是的素質。
〔第二，〕聖靈進到我們裏面，也是作生命的靈（羅八2）。生命就是神聖三一的內容。當生命的靈進到我們裏面，就把神那永遠的生命分賜給我們，作我們的生命。…〔直到〕信徒全人靈、魂、體，…都為這生命的靈所充滿、聖別，且被模成神長子的形狀〔29〕，成為神的眾子，作祂團體的彰顯（真理課程一級卷四，六六至六七頁）。
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〔第三，〕聖靈進到我們裏面，也是在我們裏面作印記（弗一13，四30，林後一22）。…信徒被蓋上聖靈為印記，就是被聖靈這活的印記所標明，表明他們是屬神的，是神的基業（弗一11）。…祂的蓋印…從我們的靈，印到我們的心思、情感和意志，以聖別、變化我們的魂，至終也將我們的身體印透，就是將我們的身體浸透，而變化形像，那就是我們的身體得贖。
〔第四，〕聖靈…也在我們裏面作神聖基業的憑質（14，林後一22下，五5下）。在神的經綸中，我們是神的基業（弗一11），神也是我們的基業（14），神與我們乃是互為基業。…聖靈在我們裏面作印記，使神聖的成分形成一種形像，印在我們裏面，以彰顯神；聖靈在我們裏面作憑質，讓我們豫嘗，作為我們對神全享的樣品和保證。
〔第五，〕聖靈在我們裏面，也作內住的靈（羅八9，林前六19）。主耶穌在約翰十四章十七節清楚、確定的應許，聖靈來了，要住在信徒裏面。到主耶穌復活的晚上，祂就來到門徒們中間，向他們吹入一口氣，叫他們受聖靈（二十22）。…內住的靈…不是來我們裏面作客，乃是要在我們裏面定居、安家，並佔有我們全人，好在我們裏面將神和基督向我們啟示出來，使我們能在基督裏得着並享受神的一切豐富。
〔第六，〕聖靈內住在我們裏面也是作基督的實際。約翰十四章十六至二十節，啟示出那將要來的保惠師，乃是主耶穌的化身。…內住在我們裏面的聖靈，就是那死而復活，來住在我們裏面的基督。…〔在〕二十六節…保惠師就是聖靈，是父在子的名裏所差來的。在子的名裏來，就等於子來。這證明聖靈來就是子來，聖靈住在我們裏面，就是子基督住在我們裏面。…聖靈住在信徒裏面，乃是要向信徒啟示基督，榮耀基督，使基督在信徒裏面成為實際〔十六12~15〕。…凡神的所是和所有，都具體表現在基督裏面（西二9，約十六15）；凡基督的所是和所有，又都歸於那靈承受，且藉着那靈向信徒啟示為實際（14~15）。所以，聖靈在我們裏面，就是基督在我們裏面（真理課程一級卷四，六八至七一頁）。
參讀：新約總論，第一百三十篇；健康的話，第二章；真理資訊，第二章。
WEEK 2 — DAY 4
Morning Nourishment
John 14:16-17 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter, that He may be with you forever, even the Spirit of reality…
26 But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things and remind you of all the things which I have said to you.
According to the revelation of the Bible, the indwelling Spirit in us has the following six main functions:
First, the Spirit enters into us as the essential Spirit for our existence, being, life, and living. He is the ultimate consummation of the processed Triune God, the life-giving Spirit whom Christ became in resurrection (1 Cor. 15:45). This Spirit enters into us who have believed in Christ (John 20:22) and lives in us to be the essence of the divine life, nature, and being within us.
[Second], the Spirit enters into us as the Spirit of life (Rom. 8:2). Life is the contents of the Divine Trinity. When the Spirit of life enters into us, He imparts the eternal life of God into us to be our life…[until] the Spirit of life fills our entire being, including our spirit, soul, and body, sanctifying us and conforming us to the image of the firstborn Son of God (v. 29) that we may become the many sons of God to be His corporate expression. (Truth Lessons—Level One, vol. 4, pp. 56-57)
Todays Reading
[Third], the Holy Spirit enters into us also as the seal within us (Eph. 1:13; 4:30; 2 Cor. 1:22)…That we, the believers, are sealed with the Holy Spirit means that we are marked with the Holy Spirit as a living seal, indicating that we belong to God, that is, that we are God’s inheritance (Eph. 1:11)… This sealing is spreading from our spirit to our mind, emotion, and will for the sanctification and transformation of our soul. Eventually, even our body will be thoroughly sealed, that is, saturated and transfigured; that will be the redemption of our body.
[Fourth], the Holy Spirit is…also the pledge of the divine inheritance (v. 14; 2 Cor. 1:22b; 5:5b). In God’s economy we are an inheritance to God (Eph. 1:11), and God is an inheritance to us (v. 14). God and we are a mutual inheritance…As the seal, the Holy Spirit forms the divine elements into an impression in us for God’s expression; as the pledge, He gives us a foretaste as a sample and guarantee of the full taste of God.
[Fifth], the Holy Spirit in us is also the indwelling Spirit (Rom. 8:9; 1 Cor. 6:19). In John 14:17 the Lord Jesus clearly and definitely promised that when the Holy Spirit came, He would indwell the disciples. Then on the night of His resurrection, He came into the midst of the disciples and breathed into them that they might receive the Holy Spirit (20:22)…The indwelling Spirit…comes into us not to visit but to settle down in us, to make His home in us, even to occupy our whole being, that He may reveal God and Christ to us and that we may receive and enjoy all the riches of God in Christ.
[Sixth], the indwelling Spirit in us is also the reality of Christ. John 14:16- 20 reveals that the Comforter who was coming was the embodiment of Christ…The Spirit who indwells us is the Christ who died and was resurrected and who indwells us. [In verse 26] the Comforter is the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in the name of the Son. To come in the name of the Son is to come as the Son. This proves that when the Spirit comes, it is the Son who comes, and that when the Spirit dwells in us, it is Christ the Son who dwells in us. The Spirit’s indwelling the believers is to reveal Christ, to glorify Christ, and to make Christ real in the believers [16:12-15]…All that God is and has is embodied in Christ (Col. 2:9; John 16:15), and all that Christ is and has is received by the Spirit and is revealed to the believers through the Spirit (vv. 14-15). Therefore, when the Spirit is in us, it is Christ who is in us. (Truth Lessons—Level One, vol. 4, pp. 57-59)
Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 130; CWWL, 1978, vol. 3, “The Healthy Word,” ch. 2; CWWL, 1978, vol. 3, “Truth Messages,” ch. 2
