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加拉太书生命读经 · 第32篇

从那灵而生，以接受那灵（一）

BORN OF THE SPIRIT TO RECEIVE THE SPIRIT (1)
1读经：加拉太书3:2-3,5,14;4:4-6,29。我们这些在基督里的信徒，都已经从那灵而生，以接受那灵。我们既已重生，从那灵而生，就应该天天接受那灵。
1Scripture Reading: Gal. 3:2-3, 5, 14; 4:4-6, 29 As believers in Christ, we all have been born of the Spirit to receive the Spirit. Having been regenerated, born of the Spirit, we should daily receive the Spirit
重生的神迹
THE MIRACLE OF REGENERATION
2虽然这些辞也许相当普通，却非常有意义。从那灵而生是一件不得了的事，因为其实际的意思就是从神而生。神造了我们，所以我们是神的造物；但我们又堕落了，所以我们也是罪人。然而我们这些受造之物，这些罪人，竟然从神而生，这是何等奇妙！试想一只狗若是能彀从牠主人而生，并且得著主人的生命和性情，这样的事必然受到新闻媒体的注意。人的生命和性情竟能分赐到狗里面，使那只狗成为『人狗』，这岂不是一个大奇迹么？这只狗不但被洗得干干净净，打扮得漂漂亮亮，实际上还得著了人的生命和性情。这是何等令人惊异；但我们因著重生，得著了神的生命和性情，似乎就是这么令人惊异。这种对重生的领会，粉碎了天然的观念。我们用狗得著人的生命为例，就看见天然的观念仅仅是以为狗能洗得干干净净，打扮得漂漂亮亮而已。原则上，许多基督徒都忙著洗净人、打扮人，却没有帮助人藉著重生来得著神圣的生命和性情。神的方法不仅仅是在外面洗净我们、打扮我们、修饰我们。神在祂经纶里的心意乃是要重生我们，使我们成为从神而生的儿子。这件事重大得言语无法形容。毫无疑问，神的救恩包含了基督救赎之血的洗净。实际说来，我们这些得救的人，已经被神洗净了。可是，洗净不是神救恩中最重要的点。最重要的乃是神重生了我们，实际的把祂的生命和性情分赐到我们里面，使我们成为祂的儿子。现在我们不是神的养子，而是神亲生的儿子。在全宇宙中，的确没有甚么奇迹比罪人藉著重生成为神的儿子更大。今天许多人追求神迹奇事，但他们却不晓得，没有甚么神迹比重生更大。藉著重生，堕落的人得以成为神的儿子。神在祂的救恩里，已经使我们这些堕落的罪人成了祂神圣的儿子。
2Although these terms may be rather common, they are of great significance. To be born of the Spirit is a tremendous matter, for it means to be actually born of God. Because we have been created by God, we are God’s creatures, and because we are fallen, we are sinners. Nevertheless, we, creatures and sinners, have been born of God. How marvelous! Suppose a dog could be born of its master and receive its master’s life and nature. Such an event would surely catch the attention of the news media. Would it not be a great miracle for the life and nature of a human being to be imparted to a dog and to make that dog a man-dog? Such a dog would not simply be washed, decorated, and beautified. It would actually have the life and nature of a human being. As astounding as it may seem, through regeneration we have received the life and nature of God. This understanding of regeneration shatters the natural concept. Using the illustration of a dog receiving a human life, we see that the natural concept is merely that a dog can be cleansed and beautified. In principle, many Christians are occupied with cleansing people and beautifying them, instead of helping them receive the divine life and nature through regeneration. God’sway is not merely to wash us, beautify us, and decorate us outwardly. His intention in His economy is to regenerate us, to cause us to be sons of God born of Him. This matter is unspeakably great. There is no doubt that God’s salvation includes cleansing by the redeeming blood of Christ. In a very real sense, we, the saved ones, have been cleansed by God. Being cleansed, however, is not the highlight of God’s salvation. The highlight is that God has regenerated us, that He has actually imparted His life and nature into us to make us His sons. Now we are not God’ss ons-in-law—we are the sons of God in life. Certainly there is no greater wonder in the whole universe than that sinful men by being regenerated can become sons of God. Many today are seeking wonders and miracles. But they do not realize that there is no greater miracle than regeneration. By regeneration fallen people become sons of God. In His salvation God has made us, fallen sinners, His divine sons.
重生的意义
THE MEANING OF REGENERATION
3在今天基要派的基督徒当中，很少人谈到神是那重生人的灵。五十多年前我重生的时候，我领悟重生是奇妙的，就想找一本书能彀告诉我重生正确的定义。后来我买到一本书，叫作『重生的真义』，盼望这本书能告诉我所要的定义。但我大失所望，那本书一点没有说到神是那灵，进到我们里面来重生我们。那本书只说重生的意思是我们有了一个新起头，所有的旧事都过去了。但是经过了多年的经历，以及多年研读圣经和研读别人的著作，我们看见，重生就是从神而生。在重生里，神是赐生命的灵进到我们的灵里，以祂的生命和性情来重生我们。所以主耶稣说，『从肉体生的，就是肉体；从那灵生的，就是灵。』（约三6。）从神的灵所生的，乃是我们重生的灵。我们重生的时候，神的灵进到我们死了的灵里，以神圣的生命和性情来点活我们的灵，藉此使我们成为神的儿子。何等奇妙的事实，我们竟是神的儿子！我们确信我们真是神的儿子，因为我们能彀在灵里甜美的呼喊，『阿爸，父。』（罗八15，加四6。）
3Among fundamental Christians today, there is little talk about God as the generating Spirit. When I was regenerated more than fifty years ago, I realized that regeneration was wonderful, and I tried to find a book that could give me an adequate definition of regeneration. Eventually I purchased a book entitled The Genuine Definition of Regeneration, expecting that this book would give me the definition I wanted. But much to my disappointment, that book said nothing about God as the Spirit coming into us to regenerate us. Rather, it merely said that regeneration means that we have a new beginning and that all the old things have passed away. But after years of experience and of studying the Bible and the writings of others, we have come to see that to be regenerated is simply to be born of God. In regeneration, God as the life-giving Spirit comes into our spirit to regenerate us with His life and nature. This is the reason the Lord Jesus said, “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit” (John 3:6). That which is born of the Spirit of God is our regenerated spirit. At the time of our regeneration, God’s Spirit came into our deadened spirit to enliven it with the divine life and nature and thereby to make us sons of God. What a marvelous fact it is that we are sons of God! We have the assurance that we are truly God’ss ons because in our spirit we can sweetly cry, “Abba, Father” (Rom. 8:15; Gal. 4:6
接受包罗万有的灵
RECEIVING THE ALL-INCLUSIVE SPIRIT
4虽然重生是一个奇妙的实际，但我在本篇信息中的负担不在重生的本身；我的负担乃在那灵。惟有成为那灵，神才能重生我们。你若向人问及神是谁，有些人会说，神是创造者；有些人会说，神也是我们的救赎主和拯救主。但很少人会说，神就是那灵。这位是那灵的神并不简单，因为那灵乃是包罗万有、赐生命的灵。这灵包含了神性、人性、人性生活、钉十字架和复活。基督徒通常都把属灵的事视为理所当然。有些人谈论基督的成为肉体和人性生活，但几乎都不了解这些事的意义。那生在伯利恒的马槽里，并且长在拿撒勒一个木匠家里的一位，乃是取了人形状的神自己。想想看，全能的神、创造者，竟成了一个人，受限在一个木匠家里，甚至作了多年的木匠！耶稣被称为以马内利，就是神与我们同在。这意思乃是，耶稣在地上生活，就是神在地上生活。不仅如此，祂在这人性生活中忍耐著、隐藏著，并没有显扬自己。祂多年局限在拿撒勒那里。祂出来尽职事的时候，也没有大张旗鼓，只是小规模，甚至是卑微的尽职。人们对祂感到希奇，询问祂究竟是谁，因为他们认识祂的母亲、兄弟和姐妹。他们仅仅认识祂是拿撒勒的耶稣。
4Although regeneration is a marvelous reality, my burden in this message is not on regeneration itself. My burden is on the Spirit. Only by being the Spirit is God able to regenerate us. If you ask people who God is, some will say that He is the Creator. Others may say that He is also our Redeemer and Savior. Not many will say that God is the Spirit. As the Spirit, God is not simple, for the Spirit is the all- inclusive life-giving Spirit. This Spirit includes divinity, humanity, human living, crucifixion, and resurrection. Christians commonly take spiritual matters for granted. Some talk about Christ’sin carnation and human living with little realization of the significance of these things. The One who was born in a manger in Bethlehem and who was raised in a carpenter’sho me in Nazareth was the very God Himself in human form. Imagine that the almighty God, the Creator, became a man and was restricted to the home of a carpenter and even worked for years as a carpenter! Jesus was called Emmanuel, God with us. This means that when Jesus lived on earth, God lived on earth. Furthermore, in His living He was patient and hidden. He did not make a display of Himself. For years, He was limited there in Nazareth. When He came forth to carry out His ministry, He did not do so on a large scale, but on a small scale and even in a lowly way. People wondered about Him, asking who He was, for they knew His mother, brothers, and sisters. They knew Him merely as Jesus of Nazareth.
5有些基督徒说拿撒勒的耶稣是神的儿子时，他们认为祂作为神的儿子是与神不同。他们不领悟，神的儿子就是神自己。约翰一章一节不是说，『太初有话…话就是神的儿子。』这一节乃是告诉我们，太初的话就是神。这话成了肉体。（14。）话成了肉体，意思就是神自己成了肉体。神在肉体里在地上作工，洗门徒的脚，在园子里被捉拿，在大祭司、彼拉多和希律面前受审判，被定了死罪，并且被钉在十字架上。是的，被钉在十字架上的那一位就是神。有些人会问：神可能被钉在十字架上么？答案乃是这样：神是在耶稣的人性里被钉十字架。卫斯理查理认识这件事，就在一首诗歌中说，『惊人之爱，何竟如此？我主我神为我受死！』（诗歌二三四首。）这首诗的第二节第一行这样说，『不能死者，竟然受死！全是奥秘，谁能尽知？』为我们受死的那位，不但是拿撒勒的耶稣，更是造我们的神。然而，祂这位神在十字架上将死的时候，却向神呼喊说，『我的神，我的神…。』（太二七46。）那些搞道理头脑的人也许不晓得要怎样来解释。神怎么能对神说，『为甚么弃绝我？』答案乃是：神是在人的形状里死在十字架上。所以作为人，祂能彀呼喊说，『我的神，我的神，你为甚么弃绝我？』祂被钉死以后，就埋葬了，然后在第三天，祂复活了。林前十五章四十五节说，祂这位末后的亚当，成了赐生命的灵。所以，在林后三章十七节保罗接著说，『而且主就是那灵。』
5When some Christians say that Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of God, they consider that as the Son of God He is different from God. They do not realize that the Son of God is God Himself. John 1:1 does not say, “In the beginning was the Word...and the Word was the Son of God.” Rather this verse tells us that the Word in the beginning was God. This Word became flesh (John 1:14). For the Word to become flesh means that God Himself became flesh. It was God in the flesh who worked on earth, who washed the feet of the disciples, who was arrested in the garden, who was tried before the high priest and before Pilate and Herod, and who was sentenced to death and crucified. Yes, the One who was crucified was the very God. Some may ask: Is it possible for God to be crucified? The answer is that God was crucified in the humanity of Jesus. Recognizing this, Charles Wesley says in one of his hymns, “ Amazing love! How can it be that Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?” (Hymns, #296). The second stanza of the same hymn opens with the line: “’Tis mystery all! The Immortal dies!” The One who died for us was not only Jesus of Nazareth, but God, the very One who created us. Yet, as God was dying on the cross, He cried out to God, saying, “My God, My God...” (Matt. 27:46). Those with a doctrinal mentality may be at a loss to explain this. How can God say to God, “Why have You forsaken Me?” The answer is that God was dying on the cross in the form of a man. Therefore, as a man He could cry, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” After His crucifixion, He was buried. Then, on the third day, He was resurrected. First Corinthians 15:45 says that as the last Adam He became a life-giving Spirit. Therefore, in 2 Corinthians 3:17 Paul goes on to say, “Now the Lord is the Spirit” (Gk
6如今神乃是那灵，其中包含了成为肉体、人性、钉十字架、复活的成分。基督奇妙之死的功效、祂复活的大能、以及祂复活生命的实际，全都在那灵里。这灵不再仅仅是神的灵，或耶和华的灵，乃是耶稣基督的灵。
6God today is the Spirit including the elements of incarnation, humanity, crucifixion, and resurrection. The effectiveness of Christ’s wonderful death, the power of His resurrection, and the reality of His resurrection life are all in the Spirit. This Spirit is no longer merely the Spirit of God or the Spirit of Jehovah, but the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
7那灵作为耶稣基督的灵，包含了成为肉体、人性、钉十字架、复活的成分。我们呼求主耶稣的名而得救时，这样的一位灵就进到我们里面，使我们死了的灵得著重生，并使我们成为神的儿子。我们重生的时候进到我们里面的灵，乃是三一神的终极完成，是父、子、灵的实化和彰显。这灵已经进到我们里面，将神的生命和神的性情分赐到我们里面。我们既已在我们的灵里由这灵所重生，我们就成了神的儿子。基督徒当中，晓得自己是神的儿子，并且知道神要他们活神儿子生命的不多。基督徒得救以后，多半想要改良自己，或作些甚么来讨神的喜悦。绝大多数主的子民，都偏离了神经纶的目标，努力要改良天然的人，或者要作点甚么来讨神喜悦。神的救恩乃是为著祂的经纶，而祂的经纶不是一件伦理的事。神乃是照著祂的经纶，藉著祂的救恩，以神圣的生命重生了我们，使我们成为神的儿子，并且作神的儿子而活。神的目标不是仅仅要我们改良行为，此后行善不作恶。神的定旨不是只要得著许多的好人，神的愿望乃是要我们作神的儿子而活。神不只要我们得著洁净，神乃是要我们作神的儿子而活。我们若要如此，就必须接受神的灵。我们已经从那灵而生，来接受那灵。
7As the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the Spirit includes the elements of incarnation, humanity, crucifixion, and resurrection. When we called on the name of the Lord Jesus and were saved, such a Spirit entered into our being to regenerate our deadened spirit and to make us sons of God. The Spirit who came into us at the time of our regeneration is the ultimate consummation of the Triune God, the realization and expression of the Father, Son, and Spirit. This Spirit has come into us to impart into our being the life and nature of God. Because we have been regenerated by this Spirit in our spirit, we have become sons of God. Not many Christians realize that they are sons of God and that God wants them to live the life of a son of God. After they are saved, most Christians try to improve themselves or to do something to please God. In their efforts to improve the natural man or to do something to please God, the vast majority of the Lord’sp eople are missing the mark of God’secon o my. God’ss alvation is for His economy, and His economy is not a matter of ethics. Rather, by His salvation according to His economy, God has regenerated us by the divine life that we may be His sons and live as sons of God. God’s goal is not simply that we improve our behavior and thereby do good instead of evil. It is not God’s purpose merely to have a number of good people. God’s desire is that we live as sons of God. God wants us not simply to be cleansed. He wants us to live as sons of God. If we would do this, we need to receive the Spirit of God. We have been born of the Spirit to receive the Spirit
8不断的接受那灵加拉太三章五节说，『那丰富供应你们那灵，又在你们中间行异能的，是本于行律法，还是本于听信仰？』这一节指明神不断的供应我们那灵。我们可以用电作为例子。电在一幢建筑物里面安装完毕以后，就源源不断的供应那幢建筑物。照样，神藉著祂的灵重生我们，使我们成为祂的儿子以后，也不断的供应我们那灵。没有甚么比不断接受那灵更为重要。加拉太信徒已经得救了，也藉著听信仰接受了那灵，然而他们却误入歧途，受到打岔又回到律法。他们没有接受那灵作源头，反而接受律法作源头。今天许多基督徒也从那灵岔了出去。我们都必须回到作我们源头的那灵，我们必须回到神自己这位包罗万有赐生命的灵那里。姊妹们不该一心一意想作好妻子、好母亲。她们应当向属天的源头─那灵─敞开自己，将三一神的传输，就是属天的电流，接受到她们里面。她们若接受这样的传输，自然就成为好妻子、好母亲。我鼓励你们祷告说，『主耶稣，我将自己向你敞开。感谢你，我已经从神而生，就是从包罗万有的灵而生。主，这灵仍然将属于你的东西传输到我里面。主，为著这奇妙的传输，我感谢你。』
8THE CONSTANT RECEIVING OF THE SPIRIT Galatians 3:5 says, “He therefore Who is supplying to you the Spirit and doing works of power among you, is it by the works of law or by the hearing of faith?” This verse indicates that God continues to supply us the Spirit. We may use electricity as an illustration. After electricity has been installed in a building, electricity is supplied continually to the building. Likewise, after God regenerated us by His Spirit to make us His sons, He has been continually supplying to us the Spirit. Nothing is more crucial than the constant receiving of the Spirit. The Galatians had been saved and had received the Spirit by the hearing of faith. However, they had been misled and distracted and had turned back to the law. Instead of taking the Spirit as their source, they took the law as their source. Many Christians today have also been distracted from the Spirit. We all need to be brought back to the Spirit as our source. We must come back to God Himself as the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit. Sisters should not be occupied with trying to be a good wife or mother. Instead, they should open themselves to the Spirit as their heavenly source and receive the transmission of the Triune God, the heavenly electrical current, into their being. If they receive such a transmission, they will automatically be good wives and mothers. I encourage you to pray, “Lord Jesus, I open myself to You. I thank You that I have been born of God, born of the all - inclusive Spirit. Lord, this Spirit is still transmitting something of You into my being. I thank You, Lord, for this marvelous transmission.”
9不需要为你的软弱或脾气祷告，不需要求主使你有忍耐，或是使你作个好妻子、好母亲，或好丈夫、好父亲。那样的祷告是没有功效的。主等著你向祂敞开，并让祂充满你、浸透你、得著你。祂正等待机会要占有你里面的每一个角落。你若给主这个机会，接受那灵的传输，你自然就会是个好妻子或好丈夫。你已经从那灵而生，现在你需要一直向那灵敞开，不断的接受祂。不要向那灵关闭；倘若你一直向那灵敞开，不断的接受那灵，你就要希奇，这会多么影响你的日常生活。你多年祷告所得不著的，如今却要成为你的经历。你在家里需要灯光的时候，并没有为灯光祷告，你只是去打开开关而已。照样，我们若要接受属天电流的供应，我们所需要作的，就是到『开关』我们重生的灵─那里，去『打开开关』。然而，今天很少基督徒这样实行。许多人反而祷告要温柔、忍耐、谦卑、爱人。我能由多年的经历作见证，这样的祷告是不管用的。你也许一再的求主使你忍耐、爱人，但你却没有从那灵接受甚么。基督徒可能为许多事情祷告，却没有『打开开关』来接受神圣的传输。甚至我学会了打开开关的秘诀以后，有时候还是作没有果效的祷告。我确信你们许多人有过同样的经历。我们的需要乃是转向主，向祂敞开，并接受那灵的供应。
9There is no need to pray about your weaknesses or your temper. There is no need to ask the Lord to make you patient, or to cause you to be a good wife and mother or husband and father. That kind of prayer is not effective. The Lord is waiting for you to open to Him and to allow Him to permeate, saturate, and possess you. He is waiting for the opportunity to occupy all the ground in your inner being. If you give the Lord this opportunity, receiving the transmission of the Spirit, you will automatically be a good wife or husband. You have been born of the Spirit. Now you need to stay open to the Spirit and receive Him continually. Do not close your being to the Spirit. If you stay open to the Spirit and receive the Spirit constantly, you will be surprised how this will affect your daily living. What you for years have prayed for without receiving will now become your experience. When you need light at home, you do not pray for light— you simply go to the switch and turn it on. Likewise, if we would receive the supply of heavenly electricity, all we need to do is go to the “switch,” our regenerated spirit, and “switch on.” However, very few of today’s Christians practice this. Instead, many pray to be gentle, patient, humble, or loving. From years of experience I can testify that this kind of prayer does not work. You may pray again and again for the Lord to make you patient or loving, but you may not receive anything of the Spirit. Christians may pray for many things, but they do not “switch on” to receive the divine transmission. Sometimes even after I had learned the secret of switching on, I still prayed in a way that was not effective. I am sure that many of you have had the same kind of experience. Our need is to turn to the Lord, open to Him, and receive His supply of the Spirit
10我再说，神的心意不是要使你作个好人，而是要使你成为祂的儿子。以弗所一章五节说，神豫定了我们，得儿子的名分。神的心意是要使我们成为儿子。在加拉太四章五节保罗清楚的说，基督把我们赎出来，好叫我们得著儿子的名分。六节说，『因你们是儿子，神就差出祂儿子的灵，进入我们的心，呼叫：阿爸，父！』神儿子的灵就是儿子名分的实际。神首先差出祂的儿子，作我们的救赎主，然后差出祂儿子的灵，进入我们的心。如今神的愿望乃是不断的供应我们那灵。
10I repeat, it is not God’sin tent i on to make you a good person. It is to make you His son. Ephesians 1:5 says that God has predestinated us to sonship. God’sin tent i on is to make us sons. In Galatians 4:5 Paul says clearly that Christ has redeemed us that we might receive the sonship. Verse 6 says, “And because you are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father!” The Spirit of God’sS on is the reality of sonship. First, God sent His Son to be our Redeemer. Then God sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts. Now God’s desire is to supply us continually with the Spirit
两种极端
TWO EXTREMES
11照著三章十三至十四节，基督已经赎出我们脱离律法的咒诅，叫『亚伯拉罕的福，在基督耶稣里可以临到外邦人，使我们藉著信，可以接受所应许的那灵』。我们已经得著亚伯拉罕的福─那灵。神给我们独一的福，就是这包罗万有的灵。然而，许多基要派的基督徒不愿意谈到那灵；有些人甚至害怕题起那灵，这是一种极端。另一种极端是有些灵恩派的人强调那灵，却强调得不适当，或是不在神经纶的线上。加拉太书里的那灵，乃是三一神经过了成为肉体、人性生活、钉十字架和复活种种过程后的终极表现。加拉太书里的那灵，不是联于奇特或不寻常的事物。相反的，那灵乃是与基督活在我们里面有关。因此，那灵满了神圣属天的实际。主的恢复今天所需要的，乃是有许多圣徒蒙光照，将自己敞开，让属天的供应传输到他们里面。
11According to 3:13 and 14, Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law so that “the blessing of Abraham might come to the nations in Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.” We have received the Spirit as the blessing of Abraham. God’s unique blessing to us is this all-inclusive Spirit. However, many fundamental Christians are reluctant to even talk about the Spirit. Some are afraid of any mention of the Spirit. This is one extreme. At the other extreme are certain Pentecostal people who emphasize the Spirit, but in a way that is not proper or in line with God’secon o my. The Spirit in the book of Galatians is the ultimate expression of the Triune God, that is, the Triune God after He has been processed through incarnation, human living, crucifixion, and resurrection. In Galatians, the Spirit is not associated with strange or unusual things. On the contrary, the Spirit is related to Christ living in us. Hence, the Spirit is full of divine, heavenly reality. What is needed in the Lord’s recovery today is that a number of saints become enlightened and open themselves for the heavenly supply to be transmitted into them
实行与享受
PRACTICE AND ENJOYMENT
12我们都需要领悟，我们已经从那灵而生。因著我们从那灵而生，我们和以前就大不相同了。我们既从那灵而生，就需要实行向主敞开，接受祂的供应。我们应当祷告说，『主，以你自己这赐生命的灵来供应我。主，我赞美你，你是真实的。你在天上的宝座上，你也活在我里面。主，求你使我一直向你敞开。』为著一直向主敞开，我们要呼求主的名、祷读主的话、向主赞美、向主歌唱，这些都是有帮助的。我们作这些事的时候，就接受了那灵。当我们说，『主耶稣，我爱你，我将自己完全献给你，』我们就得著那灵的供应。我们既知道自己已经从那灵而生，现今就该一直敞开，时时刻刻接受那灵。
12We all need to realize that we have been born of the Spirit. Because we have been born of the Spirit, we are different from what we were before. Having been born of the Spirit, we need to practice opening to the Lord and receiving His supply. We should pray, “Lord, supply me with Yourself as the life-giving Spirit. I praise You, Lord, that You are real. You are on the throne in heaven, and You are also living in me. Lord, I ask that You keep me open to You all the time.” In order to stay open to the Lord, it is helpful to call on His name, to pray-read, to praise the Lord, and to sing to the Lord. When we do these things, we receive of the Spirit. When we say, “Lord Jesus, I love You and I give myself wholly to You,” we are supplied with the Spirit. Realizing that we have been born of the Spirit, we should now stay open to receive the Spirit moment by moment.
13我的确能作见证，不断的接受那灵，是何等的享受。没有一种喜乐能超过这种喜乐。不论我们在家里、在工作中，或在学校里，都可以接受那灵。那灵既是这么便利，我们随时都可以接受祂。真奇妙，我们已经从那灵而生，来接受那灵！愿我们都回到重生之灵的『开关』那里，并且『打开开关』，好接受属天的电流。
13I can surely testify how enjoyable it is to receive the Spirit continually. No joy can surpass this joy. We may receive the Spirit wherever we may be, at home, at work, or at school. Because the Spirit is so available, we may receive Him at any time. How wonderful that we have been born of the Spirit to receive the Spirit! Let us go to the “switch” of our regenerated spirit and “switch on” to receive the heavenly electricity