Books
罗马书生命读经 · 第54篇

藉复活而标出

DESIGNATION BY RESURRECTION
1我们看过保罗在罗马一章一节说，他是『被分别出来归于神福音的』。他接著又说，神的福音乃是论到神的儿子，我们的主耶稣基督。（3。）这指明神的福音乃是儿子名分的福音。这福音的目标，是要将罪人变化成为神的儿子，好形成基督的身体。
1We have seen that in 1:1 Paul said that he was “separated to the gospel of God,” and then he goes on to say that the gospel of God concerns God’sS on, Jesus Christ our Lord (1:3). This indicates that the gospel of God is a gospel of sonship. The goal of this gospel is to transform sinners into sons of God for the formation of the Body of Christ
复活的过程
THE PROCESS OF RESURRECTION
2我们来看儿子名分的时候，必须注意几个重要的辞：标出、复活、圣别、变化、模成、得荣以及显出。我们正藉著复活的过程，逐渐标出为神的儿子；这个过程包含了许多的步骤。这些步骤包括圣别、变化、模成以及得荣；这得荣也就是显出。今天人也许不晓得我们是基督徒。但是到了我们得荣的日子，人就不必问我们是不是基督徒，因为我们要显出为神的儿子。那个显出将是藉复活而标出之过程的完成。圣别、变化、模成以及得荣，不是四个完全分开的步骤。反之，当圣别在进行的时候，我们同时也在变化。不但如此，当我们在变化的时候，模成的过程也开始进行了。至终，当这些过程自然的延续并且达到完成的时候，我们就达到得荣或显出的阶段。当圣别、变化和模成达到高峰时，那就是我们得荣的时候。这得荣将是我们显出为神的儿子。我们现今正在经历藉复活而标出的过程，这个过程最终要带我们达到显出的地步。这个过程的关键乃是复活。因此，我们说到藉复活而标出。
2As we consider this matter of sonship, certain important words command our attention: designation, resurrection , sanctification , transformation , conformation, glorification, and manifestation. We are being designated sons of God through the process of resurrection. In this process a number of steps are involved. These steps include sanctification, transformation, conformation, and glorification. This glorification will also be the manifestation. Today people may not realize that we are Christians. But on the day of our glorification, no one will need to ask us whether or not we are Christians, for we shall be manifested as sons of God. That manifestation will be the consummation of the process of designation by resurrection. Sanctification, transformation, conformation, and glorification are not four altogether separate steps. Rather, as sanctification is going on, we are also being transformed. Moreover, as we are being transformed, the process of conformation begins to take place. Eventually, as the spontaneous continuation and consummation of these processes, we shall reach the stage of glorification or manifestation. When sanctification, transformation, and conformation reach their peak, that will be the time of our glorification. This glorification will be our manifestation as sons of God. We are presently undergoing the process of designation by resurrection, a process which will ultimately bring us to the point of manifestation. The key to this process is resurrection. Therefore, we speak of designation by resurrection
复活的经历
THE EXPERIENCE OF RESURRECTION
3在本篇信息中，我们需要详细来看复活的一些细节。我们不是客观的从道理的观点来看，乃是主观的从生命经历的观点来看。罗马六章五节说到复活的经历，这节说，我们有分于基督复活的样式。有些读圣经的人说，这里所题到的复活，就是启示录二十章四至五节所说头一次的复活。但我不信这是保罗在这里对复活的领会。保罗不是说，我们必须等到千年国，才能有分于基督的复活。保罗在罗马六章五节说，我们已在基督死的样式里与祂联合生长，我们也要在祂复活的样式里与祂联合生长。这不是指将来客观的复活，乃是指我们现今对基督复活生命的经历。我们不该像约翰十一章的马大那样，以为复活仅仅是一件将来的事。主耶稣告诉马大，祂是复活，祂是生命。（25。）祂的话指明，我们不必等到将来有一天，才能得著祂作复活。复活不是时间的问题，也不是地点的问题；复活乃在于基督。我们有了祂，就有复活；我们若没有祂，就不论现在或将来，都没有复活的生命。阿利路亚，复活就是神的儿子耶稣！只要我们有耶稣基督，不论我们在那里，都有复活。复活的道理教训与基督是复活的主观启示，是何等的不同！今天我们所需要的，不是复活的客观教训，乃是对基督是复活的主观、活的、现时的经历。
3In this message we need to consider the matter of resurrection in some detail. We shall not look at it objectively, from the standpoint of doctrine, but subjectively, from the standpoint of the experience of life. Romans 6:5 speaks of the experience of resurrection. This verse says that we share in the likeness of Christ’s resurrection. Some students of the Word have said that the resurrection mentioned here is the first resurrection spoken of in Revelation 20:4 and 5. But I do not believe that this is Paul’s understanding of resurrection here. Paul is not saying that we must wait until the millennium to participate in the resurrection of Christ. In 6:5 Paul says that we have grown together with Christ in the likeness of His death and that we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection. This does not refer to a future, objective resurrection, but it refers to our present experience of Christ’s resurrection life. We should not regard the resurrection merely as a future event, as Martha did in John 11. The Lord Jesus told her that He was the resurrection and the life (v. 25). His word indicates that there is no need for us to wait until a future day to have Him as resurrection. Resurrection is not a matter of time or place; it is a matter of Christ. If we have Him, we have resurrection. But if we do not have Him, we do not have resurrection life, neither now nor in the future. Hallelujah, resurrection is Jesus, the Son of God! As long as we have Jesus Christ, we have resurrection, no matter where we may be. What a difference there is between the doctrinal teaching regarding resurrection and the subjective revelation of Christ as resurrection! What we need today is not the objective teaching about resurrection, but the subjective, living, up - to - date experience of Christ as resurrection.
基督是生命的大能
CHRIST AS LIFE-POWER
4说基督是复活，意思就是说，基督是生命的大能。复活乃是生命的大能。生命具有生命的素质、生命的形状、以及生命的大能。首先我们有生命的素质，然后有生命的大能，接著有生命的样子、生命的形状。复活就是基督之于我们是生命的大能。这是一件非常有意义的事。一九三六年我到中国一所顶尖的大学访问。有一位学生对我说，他很难相信有复活的事。他说，根据他的现代科学知识，他实在信不来。对他而言，复活并不符合科学真理。在我们聚会的屋外，有一片麦田。我请他注意田间生长的麦子，并且指出，麦子是由一些埋在地里的种子长出来的。我告诉他，从某一种意义说，那些种子是死了，但牠们现今在复活里生长出来成为麦子。藉著这个死而复活的例证，这位年轻人得救了。他后来成为一位带领的同工。这个例证说出复活就是生命的大能。
4To say that Christ is resurrection means that Christ is the life-power. Resurrection is life-power. With life there are the life-essence, the life-shape, and the life-power. Firstly we have the life-essence and then we have the life-power. Following this, we have the life-shape, the life-form. Resurrection is Christ being the life-power to us. This is a very significant matter. In 1936 I paid a visit to one of the leading universities in China. One of the students spoke to me about his difficulty in believing in resurrection. He told me that due to his modern scientific knowledge he could not believe. To him, resurrection was against scientific truth. Outside of the room where we were meeting there was a wheat field. Drawing his attention to the wheat growing in the field, I pointed out that the wheat was produced by some grains of seed that were buried in the earth. I told him that, in a sense, those seeds died, but that now they had come forth in resurrection as wheat. Through that illustration of death and resurrection, this young man was saved. Now he is one of the leading co-workers in Taiwan. This illustration shows that resurrection is a matter of life-power.
复活的功能胜过消极的事物
THE FUNCTIONS OF RESURRECTION Conquering Negative Things
5这个生命的大能有许多功能。头一个功能是得胜。复活能彀胜过一切消极的事物，包括死在内。除了神自己之外，宇宙中最有权势的，就是死。只要死一临到，无人可以抗拒；人必须屈服在死的权下。死虽然这么有能力，复活却更有能力。死不能将复活拘禁。（徒二24。）相反的，复活却能征服死，胜过死。保罗在林前十五章二十六节说，『最后所废除的仇敌，就是死。』这指明死是最顽强的仇敌。这样顽强的仇敌，惟有复活才能将牠击败。因此，复活这生命大能的头一个功能，就是胜过消极的事物，尤其是胜过死。复活越被摆在死的境地，就越有机会发挥功能来征服死。
5This life-power has a number of functions. The first function is that of conquering. Resurrection is able to conquer every negative thing, including death. Apart from God Himself, the most powerful thing in the universe is death. Whenever death visits anyone, that one cannot resist it; he must yield to its power. Although death is so powerful, resurrection is even more powerful. Death cannot hold resurrection (Acts 2:24). On the contrary, resurrection conquers death and overcomes it. In 1 Corinthians 15:26 Paul says, “The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.” This indicates that death is the strongest enemy. Such a strong enemy can be defeated only by resurrection. Therefore, the first function of resurrection, of the life-power, is that of conquering the negative things, especially death. The more resurrection is placed in a situation of death, the more opportunity it has to function to conquer death
吞灭死
Swallowing Up Death
6生命大能的第二个功能乃是吞灭死。复活不仅能征服死、胜过死，复活还能吞灭死。在民数记十四章九节迦勒说，以色列百姓的仇敌要作他们的食物。死这最后，也是最大的仇敌，乃是复活的食物。有时候仇敌虽然被征服了，却仍然存在。藉著生命大能的功能，死不仅被征服，更被吞灭，直到消失为止。当生命的大能吞灭死时，死就消失得无影无踪了。
6The second function of the life-power is to swallow up death. Resurrection not only conquers death and overcomes it, but it also devours it. In Numbers 14:9 Caleb said that the enemies of the children of Israel would be their food. Death, the last and greatest enemy, is food for resurrection. Sometimes an enemy is conquered, but he is still present. Through the function of the life-power, death is not only conquered, but is swallowed up to the point that it disappears. When the life-power swallows death, death vanishes
产生长大、变化与成形
Producing Growth, Transformation, and Shaping
7得胜与吞灭是消极的功能，但复活还有许多积极的功能。头一个积极的功能就是产生长大与变化。一个东西越长大，就越有改变，越有变化。我们再次用康乃馨花的生长作例证。刚开始时，康乃馨只是一粒小小的种子。但种子撒到土里之后，就开始生长，先发出嫩芽，至终长出一株盛开的康乃馨。康乃馨刚发嫩芽的时候，我们很难将牠从别种植物中辨认出来。但是牠越长大，就越有改变，越有变化。牠乃是藉著长大而变化。
7The functions of conquering and swallowing are negative functions. Resurrection, however, also has many positive functions. The first of these is to produce growth and transformation. The more something grows, the more it is changed, transformed. Once again the growth of a carnation flower illustrates this. The carnation begins as a small seed. But after the seed is sown into the soil, it begins to grow, firstly into a tender sprout and eventually into a full-grown, blossoming carnation plant. When the carnation is still a sprout, it is difficult to distinguish it from other types of plants. But the more it grows, the more it changes and is transformed. It is transformed by growth.
8原则上，小孩子身上的改变也是一样。当小孩子长大的时候，他的身体就有某一种的成形。生命的大能带来变化的时候，也导致成形。我们越长大，就越成形。因此，复活能彀产生长大、变化与成形。
8In principle, the same kind of change takes place in children. As a child grows, his body assumes a certain shape. As the life-power transforms, it also shapes. The more we grow, the more we are shaped. Hence, resurrection causes growth, change, and shaping
释放积极的事物
Releasing the Positive Things
9复活也将积极的事物释放出来。结果子就是复活的功能所带来的一种释放。结果子是从一棵树里释放出生命的素质。这指明因著结果子，树里面生命的丰富就得以释放出来。藉著生命大能释放的功能，种子里所有的一切─根、茎、枝、叶、花、以及果实─都释放出来。种子复活的时候，牠里面一切积极的东西都释放出来了。我们常说到基督的丰富。基督带著祂一切的丰富，如同种子撒到我们里面。在马太十三章撒种者的比喻里，我们看见这件事。照著这个比喻，基督已经将祂自己当作生命的种子撒在我们里面。这粒种子包含一切积极的东西：爱、圣别、公义、谦卑、忍耐、恒忍。这粒种子里面有神圣的属性，也有人性的美德。牠惟一的需要，就是释放。复活将这粒种子里面所包含基督一切丰富的素质，全都释放了出来。
9Resurrection also releases the positive things. Fruit- bearing is one kind of release brought about by the function of resurrection. In the bearing of fruit there is the release of the life-essence from within a certain tree. This indicates that through fruit-bearing the riches of the life within that tree are released. By the releasing function of the life-power all that is in a seed—the root, the stem, the branches, the leaves, the flower, and the fruit—is released. As the seed is resurrected, everything positive in it is released. We often speak about the riches of Christ. Christ with all His riches has been sown into us as a seed. We see this in the parable of the sower in Matthew 13. According to this parable, Christ has sown Himself into us as a seed of life. This seed includes all kinds of positive things: love, holiness, righteousness, humility, patience, endurance. In this seed are both the divine attributes and the human virtues. The only thing that is needed is the release. Resurrection releases the essence of all the riches of Christ from within the seed
升起的大能
The Power to Rise Up
10复活还有升起的大能。复活就像出埃及三十章制造膏油所用的菖蒲一样，从『泥泞』的景况中升起。这菖蒲乃是基督里面这升起大能的一幅图画。
10With resurrection there is also the power to rise up. Resurrection, like the calamus used in making the anointing oil in Exodus 30, rises above the “muddy” situations. This calamus is a picture of the power in Christ to rise up
我们对复活的经历
OUR EXPERIENCE OF RESURRECTION
11我们这些信徒有基督在我们里面作为复活，这复活就是我们生命的大能。一天过一天，这大能发挥功能来征服死。死有许多方面：软弱、怨恨、黑暗、骄傲、批评、谣言。你甚至只要发一点怨言，说一点闲话，就摸著死。一切消极的事物，都包括在死的内容里面。但我们里面的复活，却征服各种形式的死，并将其完全吞灭。复活吞灭了我们的骄傲、我们的批评、我们虚伪的谦卑。此外，这生命的大能还产生长大、变化与成形。复活也将积极的事物释放出来，叫我们在各种『泥泞』的景况中升起。
11As believers, we have Christ within us as resurrection, and this resurrection is our life - power. Day by day this power functions to conquer death. Death has many aspects: weakness, hatred, darkness, pride, criticism, rumors. Even if you murmur or engage in a little gossiping, you will touch death. All negative things are included in the content of death. The resurrection within us conquers every form of death and swallows it up. It swallows our pride, our criticism, our false humility. Furthermore, this life-power causes growth, transformation, and shaping. It also releases the positive things, and it causes us to rise above every “muddy” situation.
12我们即使不知道这生命的大能就在我们里面，我们也的确有这大能的实际。我们若回顾这些年来对主的经历，就会看见我们里面的复活一直征服死，并且一直吞灭消极的事物。我们的经历也能见证，这生命的大能使我们长大、变化，甚至多多少少模成基督的形像。此外，我们的经历也显示，生命的大能已经从我们里面，将许许多多积极的事物释放出来。因此，当复活在释放时，复活也在我们里面升起。撒但总是竭尽全力叫我们下沉；他尽其所能的压制我们，压迫我们，使我们沮丧。但是赞美主，我们里面有升起的菖蒲！有时主许可仇敌将我们扔在『泥泞』的景况中，好让复活有机会发挥功能，将我们举起，远远超越那种景况。这种主观的复活，就是罗马书所说的复活。就在这复活里，在人性里的基督标出为神的儿子。藉著这样的复活，我们也在标出为神众子的过程中。
12Even if we do not have the realization that this life- power is within us, we do have the reality of this power. If we look back upon our experience with the Lord over the years, we shall see that the resurrection within us has been conquering death and swallowing up negative things. Our experience also testifies that this life-power has caused us to grow, to be transformed, and even to be somewhat shaped into the image of Christ. Furthermore, our experience reveals that the life-power has released so many positive things from within us. As resurrection releases, it also rises up within us. Satan is always doing his best to hold us down. He does everything he can to suppress us, depress us, and oppress us. But praise the Lord for the rising calamus within us! The Lord sometimes allows the enemy to cast us into a “muddy” situation just so that resurrection has an opportunity to function by raising us far above that situation. This subjective resurrection is the resurrection spoken of in the book of Romans. It is in this resurrection that Christ in His humanity was designated the Son of God. By means of such a resurrection we also are in the process of being designated the sons of God
那灵是复活的实际
THE SPIRIT AS THE REALITY OF RESURRECTION
13罗马八章十一节说，『然而那叫耶稣从死人中复活者的灵，若住在你们里面，那叫基督从死人中复活的，也必藉著祂住在你们里面的灵，赐生命给你们必死的身体。』在这节经文里，复活是联于那灵的；那灵乃是复活的实际。那叫耶稣从死人中复活者的灵，住在我们里面作复活的实际。人若没有圣灵，就无法有复活。我们所经历的复活，实际6上就是圣灵自己。我们若只有罗马六章，而没有罗马八章，就不能实际的享受基督作复活。在罗马八章，我们有复活的实际，也就是说，我们有圣灵的内住。我们绝不该将复活与那灵分开。
13Romans 8:11 says, “But if the Spirit of Him Who raised Jesus from among the dead dwells in you, He Who raised Christ Jesus from among the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit Who indwells you.” In this verse resurrection is linked to the Spirit. The Spirit is the reality of resurrection. The Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from among the dead dwells in us as the reality of resurrection. If a person does not have the Holy Spirit, he cannot have resurrection. The resurrection we experience is actually the Holy Spirit Himself. If we had Romans without Romans 8, we would not be able to participate in Christ as resurrection in a practical way. In Romans 8 we have the reality of resurrection; that is, we have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. We should never separate resurrection from the Spirit.
标出的过程
the process of designation
14我们乃是藉著复活而标出为神的儿子。我们天天都在经历标出的过程，而这个标出的凭藉乃是复活。我们都需要看见，今天主在我们里面一直在作的事，就是标出。
14We are being designated as sons of God by resurrection. We are daily undergoing the process of designation, and this designation is by resurrection. We all need to see that what the Lord is doing within us today is a matter of designation
15我还要以康乃馨种子作例证。要标出康乃馨的种子，不是将牠贴上标签，而是将牠种到土里，让牠逐渐长成一株成熟、开花的康乃馨。种子乃是一面长大，一面被标出。种子越长大，就越被标出。康乃馨盛开之时，就是牠完全被标出的时候。这意思是说，康乃馨花的盛开，就是牠完全的标出。我们都像康乃馨的种子一样，正在标出的过程中。我们越长大、越被变化，就越被标出为神的儿子。
15I would like to continue with the illustration of a carnation seed. A carnation seed is designated, not by being labeled, but by being sown into the earth and by growing gradually into a mature, blossoming carnation plant. The seed is designated as it grows. The more it grows, the more it is designated. When it reaches full bloom, it will be designated in a complete way. This means that the full blossoming of a carnation flower is its full designation. Like the carnation seed, we all are in the process of designation. The more we grow and are transformed, the more we are designated the sons of God
照著灵
ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT
16按肉体说，我们都是麻烦人物，对召会如此，对与我们一同生活的人也是如此。丈夫为难妻子，妻子也为难丈夫。但我们不一定要照著肉体行事为人，因为我们可以选择照著灵。当弟兄姊妹照著灵而行时，他们既美妙，又荣耀。你的行事为人到底是照著肉体，还是照著灵，全在于你的拣选。你自己可以决定，行事为人是要照著肉体，还是照著灵。愿主怜悯我们，叫我们拣选照著灵活著。我们急切需要学习，如何照著灵而行。我们若照著肉体而行，召会生活就会非常不愉快。但我们若照著灵而行，召会生活就是天上的生活。儿子名分乃是藉著复活，并且在那灵里得以实化。住在我们里面的那灵，是升起的灵，也是标出的灵。一天过一天，这灵一直将我们标出为神的儿子。
16According to the flesh, we all are troublesome, both to the church and to those with whom we live. The husbands trouble the wives, and the wives trouble the husbands. But we do not need to have our being according to the flesh, for we have the option of being according to the Spirit. When the brothers and sisters have their being according to the Spirit, they are wonderful and glorious. Whether you have your being according to the flesh or according to the Spirit depends on the choice you make. By your own will you may decide either to have your being according to the flesh or according to the Spirit. May the Lord be merciful to us so that we may choose to live according to the Spirit. We urgently need to learn how to walk according to the Spirit. If we walk according to the flesh, the church life will be most unpleasant. But if we walk according to the Spirit, the church life will be in the heavens. The sonship is realized by resurrection and in the Spirit. The Spirit who dwells in us is the rising - up Spirit and the designating Spirit. Day by day, this Spirit is designating us the sons of God.
17我们若要像保罗一样，在神儿子的福音上事奉神，我们就必须认识甚么是儿子名分，以及儿子名分如何实化。感谢主，保罗写了这封书信给罗马人！这卷书启示，我们不仅要帮助人得救，也要帮助人经历儿子名分。这意思是说，我们必须帮助他们看见藉复活而标出这件事，其中包括圣别、变化、模成和得荣。神众子的显出
17If, like Paul, we would serve God in the gospel concerning His Son, we must know what sonship is and how it is realized. Thank the Lord that Paul wrote this Epistle to the Romans! This book reveals that we should help others not only to be saved, but also to experience the sonship. This means that we need to help them to see the matter of designation by resurrection, including sanctification, transformation, conformation, and glorification. THE MANIFESTATION OF THE SONS OF GOD
18整个宇宙一直在等候神众子的显出。（八19。）这个显出并非突然的临到，乃是标出之过程的完成；正如康乃馨花盛开，是一段漫长的长大与改变过程的完成一样。我们越长大，就越藉复活而标出。有一天，当我们得荣的时候，我们会完全盛开，显出为神的众子。许多基督徒专门注意圣经中所谓『时代』(dispensation)的客观教训。然而，照圣经来看，dispensation一辞不是指时代，乃是指分赐的举动。新约的启示对我们必须是非常的主观。我不信一个活在主同在之外的人，会突然被提到祂的同在中。被带进主的同在中，包含圣别、变化、模成和得荣的过程。
18The universe is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God (8:19). This manifestation will not come as an accident, but it will come as the consummation of the process of designation, just as a carnation flower blossoms as the consummation of a long process of growth and change. The more we grow, the more we are designated by resurrection. One day, at the time of our glorification, we shall fully blossom and manifestly be the sons of God. Many Christians devote their attention to objective teachings regarding the so-called dispensations in the Scriptures. According to the Bible, however, the word dispensation does not denote an age, but it denotes an act of dispensing. The New Testament revelation needs to become very subjective to us. I do not believe that a person who lives outside the presence of the Lord will suddenly be raptured into His presence. Being brought into the Lord’s presence involves a process of sanctification, transformation, conformation, and glorification
主观的圣别
SUBJECTIVE SANCTIFICATION
19从来没有一位在基督里的信徒是突然被圣别的。我知道，从一面说，我们得救时就圣别了。但我们还需要经过圣别的过程，才能有性情上的圣别。在圣经中，『圣别』是指分别说的。因此，圣别就是被分别，有别于凡俗。当康乃馨还是幼苗时，牠看起来与别种幼苗并没有甚么两样。但牠越长大，和别种植物就越有分别，越不相同。到了开花之时，就和别种花完全有别，截然不同。这说明了主观的圣别，性情上的圣别。
19No believer in Christ is ever sanctified accidentally. I realize that, in a sense, we were all sanctified when we were saved. But we still need to pass through the process of sanctification in order to be sanctified dispositionally. In the Bible the words sanctification, holy, and holiness refer to separation. Hence, to be sanctified is to be separated, to be made different from that which is common. When a carnation plant is a tender sprout, it may not appear to be very different from other kinds of sprouts. But the more the carnation plant grows, the more it becomes separated, different, from other plants. When it blossoms, it is wholly separated, absolutely different, from all other flowers. This is an illustration of subjective sanctification, of dispositional sanctification
变化的完成
the consummation of transformation
20罗马书里的圣别，不仅是指地位上的改变，也是指性情上的改变。这包含了形状的改变，而这改变乃是内里生命改变的结果。这指明模成，也就是形状的改变，与长大和变化有关。康乃馨也说明这事。康乃馨一面长大、变化，一面就形成某种特定的形状。藉著长大，牠就从一种形状，改变成另一种形状。这种改变要一直进行到开花之时。开花就是变化的完成。
20Sanctification in Romans refers not merely to a change of position, but to a change of disposition. It involves a change in shape that is the result of an inward change in life. This indicates that conformation, the change in shape, is related to growth and transformation. A carnation plant illustrates this also. As a carnation grows and is transformed, it is shaped into a particular form. By growth, it is changed from one form into another. This change continues until the plant blossoms. The blossoming is the consummation of transformation.
形成生命的形状
SHAPED INTO THE LIFE-FORM
21变化乃是藉著生命的大能，以生命的素质，形成生命的形状。假如你的花园里有两种植物一同生长，一种是康乃馨，一种是百合花。当这两种花长大的时候，康乃馨长成一种形状，百合花则长成另一种形状。这两种植物都是藉著生命的大能，以其中生命的素质而成形的。每一种生命都有自己的形状。例如，狗有一种形状，鸡有另一种形状。某种生命长大，就产生那种生命完满的形状。我们今天是神的儿子，但我们还没有神儿子完满的形状和完全的样子。因此，我们需要藉著长大和变化，模成基督的形像。至终，我们要完全模成祂的形像。这样，我们就有完满的生命形状，这形状乃是来自生命的大能，及生命的素质。不论康乃馨、鸡、或狗，都是照著牠们的生命素质，各有不同的生命形状。康乃馨有康乃馨的形状，因为牠有康乃馨的生命素质。康乃馨的素质藉著里面生命的大能，就发展成康乃馨的形状。赞美主，我们里面有生命的素质和生命的大能！这生命的大能正将我们模成神儿子的形像。藉著这生命大能使人成形的功能，我们就要完全模成基督的形像。
21To be transformed is to be shaped into the life-form by the life-power with the life-essence. Suppose in your garden two kinds of plants are growing, a carnation and a lily. As these flowers grow, the carnation will take on one form, and the lily will take on another form. Each is shaped by the life-power with the life- essence within it. Every life has its own form. For example, a dog has one form and a chicken has another. The growth of a certain life brings in the full form of that life. Today we are sons of God, but we do not yet have the full form, the complete shape, of sons of God. Therefore, by growth and transformation we need to be conformed to the image of Christ. Eventually, we shall be completely conformed to His image. Then we shall possess the full life-shape which comes from the life-power with the life-essence. A carnation, a chicken, and a dog all have a different life-form according to their life-essence. A carnation has the form of a carnation because it has the life-essence of a carnation. The carnation essence develops into the carnation form by means of the life-power within the carnation. Praise the Lord that we have the life- essence and the life-power within us! This life- power is shaping us into the image of the Son of God. Through this shaping function of the life-power, we shall be fully conformed to the image of Christ
享受标出的灵
ENJOYING THE DESIGNATING SPIRIT
22赞美主，我们不仅有客观的教训，我们里面更有标出的灵！我们里面有标出的基督作为复活。不要设法改良自己，或使自己达到无罪的完全。反之，要享受并经历那标出的灵。我们若靠著那灵治死身体的行为，必要活著。（八13。）我们需要照著灵而行，将我们的心思置于灵，并靠著那灵治死身体的行为。我们若天天照著灵而行，我们就完全在藉复活而标出的过程中。藉著复活的大能，我们要变化、模成，至终要得荣。
22Praise the Lord that instead of mere objective teachings, we have the designating Spirit within us! We have the designating Christ as resurrection within. Do not try to improve yourself or to make yourself sinlessly perfect. Rather, enjoy and experience the designating Spirit. If by the Spirit we put to death the practices of the body, we shall live (8:13). We need to walk according to the Spirit, set our mind upon the Spirit, and by the Spirit put to death the practices of the body. If we walk daily according to the Spirit, we shall be fully in the process of designation by resurrection. By the power of resurrection, we shall be transformed, conformed, and, eventually, glorified.
23我们越藉著呼求主名来接触祂，就越感觉祂的同在，也越觉得祂在里面的膏油涂抹。呼求主名使我们得著浇灌、复苏、圣别、满足和加强。这样，我们就被带进祂的同在中，豫备好迎接祂的回来。今天我们所需要的教训，不是关乎豫言或时代的客观教训，乃是如何藉著享受并经历基督作生命的大能而得标出的教训。我们若有这一种教训，我们就会领悟，在我们自己里面是毫无盼望，且无能为力，我们也就不会再试著改良自己。我们反而会运用我们的灵来接触主，使我们能享受祂的膏油涂抹，并且有分于藉复活而标出的过程。
23The more we contact the Lord by calling upon His name, the more we sense His presence and the more we are conscious of His anointing within. By calling on the name of the Lord, we are watered, we are refreshed, we are sanctified, we are satisfied, and we are strengthened. In this way we are brought into His presence and we are made ready for His coming. The kind of teachings we need today are not the objective teachings about prophecy or about the dispensations, but those regarding how we are designated by enjoying and experiencing Christ as the life-power. If we have this kind of teaching, we shall realize that in ourselves we are hopeless and helpless, and we shall no longer try to improve ourselves. Rather, we shall exercise our spirit to contact the Lord so that we may enjoy His anointing and participate in the process of designation by resurrection