4当我们相信主耶稣而得救时,神就把我们放在作为模子的基督里。这模子就是记载在四福音书里耶稣的生活,这是完全照着实际而有的生活。实际(真理)是光的照耀,光的彰显。因为神就是光(约壹一5),所以实际(真理)就是神的彰显。福音书里所记载耶稣的生活,每一面都是神的彰显。……神的这个彰显,就是光的照耀;因此,这彰显就是实际(真理)。耶稣这照着实际而有的生活乃是模型,神已经把我们放在其中。在这模型里,我们照着那在耶稣身上是实际者,学了基督。这意思是,我们照着福音书所给我们看见的实际,亦即照着主耶稣那完全照着神实际的生活,学了基督。这生活是光的照耀。光的照耀是实际(真理),而实际(真理)是神的彰显。所以,在耶稣的生活里有实际。主耶稣所设立的模型,其素质乃是实际。这意思是,耶稣之生活的素质乃是实际。我们照着那在耶稣身上是实际者,学了基督。外邦人在他们心思的虚妄里行事为人,但我们信的人所过的生活,却是照着那在耶稣身上是实际者〔参弗四17、21〕。当主耶稣在地上生活时,祂从未在虚妄里行事为人,反倒一直在实际里行事为人,也就是在神圣之光的照耀下行事为人。这意思是,主耶稣的生活行事都彰显神。我们乃是照着那在耶稣身上是实际者,学了基督(以弗所书生命读经,四七七至四七八页)。 4When we believed in the Lord Jesus and were saved, God put us into Christ as the mold. This mold is the life of Jesus recorded in the four Gospels, a life absolutely according to reality, truth. Truth is the shining of light, the expression of light. Since God is light (1 John 1:5), truth is the expression of God. Every aspect of the life of Jesus recorded in the Gospels is an expression of God…This expression of God is the shining of light; hence, it is the truth, the reality. This life of Jesus according to reality is the pattern in which God has placed us. In this pattern we have learned Christ as the reality is in Jesus. This means that we have learned Christ according to the reality shown in the Gospels, that is, according to the life of the Lord Jesus, which was wholly according to God’s reality, God’s truth. This life is the shining of light. The shining of the light is truth, and truth is the expression of God. Therefore, in the life of Jesus there is truth, reality. The essence of the pattern set up by the Lord Jesus is reality. This means that the essence of the life of Jesus is reality. We have learned Christ as the reality is in Jesus. The Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind, but we believers live a life as the reality is in Jesus [cf. Eph. 4:17, 21]. When the Lord Jesus was living on earth, He never walked in vanity. Rather, He always walked in reality, in truth, that is, in the shining of the divine light. This means that the Lord Jesus lived and walked in the expression of God. We have learned Christ according to this very reality that is in Jesus. (Life-study of Ephesians, p. 383)