4月12日 道德上的主權

死也不再作他的主了……他活是向 神活著。這樣，你們向罪也當看自己是死的，向 神在基督耶穌裡，卻當看自己是活的。（羅六9-11）

同享永生，永生是耶穌基督以人的身份所表現的生命。若我們從神而生，在這必朽的肉身所彰顯的生命，正是這種生命，而非它的副本。永生不是從神而來的恩賜，乃是神把自己賜給我們。耶穌所彰顯出來的能力與權柄，在我們對罪作道德判決時，因著神的恩典，在我們身上彰顯出來。

“聖靈降臨在你們身上，你們就必得著能力。”——這能力並不是從聖靈而來的恩賜，乃是聖靈本身。換言之，這並不是聖靈所賜的什麼東西。我們一旦與他的死認同後，就借著十字架得著耶穌的生命。若覺得與神和好是件難事，那就一定是我們對罪未肯作確定的判決。只要一作決定，神豐盛的生命就立即進來。耶穌來了，是要供應永恆的生命：“叫神一切所充滿的，充滿了你們。”

永生與時間原不相關，永生是耶穌在地上時的生命。生命唯一的源頭就是主耶穌基督。只要肯“放手”，最軟弱的信徒也能經歷神兒子的能力。我們舊我的能力，若有任何殘餘存在，都會叫耶穌的生命受阻。我們要慢慢地放手，讓神生命的洪流湧進我們每一部分，以致人就認出我們是耶穌的門徒。

祈禱◆主啊，我感到自己渴望你的同在，並得著你極之美好和滿有喜樂的賜福。主啊，我將此心願交給你，若你認為是好的話，請賜給我。

April 12 Moral Dominion

“Death hath no more dominion over Him . . . in that He liveth, He liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God.” Romans 6:9-11

Co-Eternal Life. Eternal life was the life which Jesus Christ exhibited on the human plane, and it is the same life, not a copy of it, which is manifested in our mortal flesh when we are born of God. Eternal life is not a gift from God, eternal life is the gift of God. The energy and the power which was manifested in Jesus will be manifested in us by the sheer sovereign grace of God when once we have made the moral decision about sin.

“Ye shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost” – not power as a gift from the Holy Ghost; the power is the Holy Ghost, not something which He imparts. The life that was in Jesus is made ours by means of His Cross when once we make the decision to be identified with Him. If it is difficult to get right with God, it is because we will not decide definitely about sin. Immediately we do decide, the full life of God comes in. Jesus came to give us endless supplies of life: “that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.” Eternal Life has nothing to do with Time, it is the life which Jesus lived when He was down here. The only source of Life is the Lord Jesus Christ.

The weakest saint can experience the power of the Deity of the Son of God if once he is willing to “let go.” Any strand of our own energy will blur the life of Jesus. We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.