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加拉太书生命读经 · 第41篇

凭著灵而行以活基督

Walking By The Spirit To Live Christ
1读经：加拉太书1:13-15a,16a;2:19-20;3:2,6:18。在加拉太书里，神的两个经纶，祂旧约的经纶与祂新约的经纶，得著完全的论述。关于这两个经纶，圣经各用了一个特殊的辞─说到神旧约经纶的辞是律法，说到神新约经纶的辞是基督。你喜欢那一个？律法还是基督？我们和犹太人相反，他们喜爱律法，但我们这些相信基督的人都要说，我们喜爱基督过于律法。不错，一面我们的确爱基督，但另一面，我们也许仍紧握律法。在实际的经历中，我们可能紧握律法过于紧握基督。
1Scripture Reading: Gal. 1:13-15a, 16a; 2:19-20; 3:2, 5, 26-27; 4:6, 19, 29; 5:16, 18, 22-23; 6:18 5, 26-27; 4:6, 19, 29; 5:16, 18, 22-23; In the book of Galatians God’st wo economies, His Old Testament economy and His New Testament economy, are dealt with in a full way. Concerning each of these economies, the Bible uses a particular word. The word for God’secon o my in the Old Testament is law, and the word for His economy in the New Testament is Christ. Which do you prefer, law or Christ? In contrast to the Jews, who love the law, we who believe in Christ would all say that we prefer Christ to the law. Yes, on the one hand, we do love Christ, but, on the other hand, we may still embrace the law. In actual experience, we may embrace the law more than we embrace Christ.
对律法隐藏的爱
A HIDDEN LOVE FOR THE LAW
2大多数爱主又有心寻求祂的基督徒，对律法都有隐藏的爱。有的人听到这样的话，也许争辩说，『我们不要律法。我们爱基督，并且只要祂。』这可能是表面的光景，但大多数基督徒里面深处、潜意识里仍然爱律法。虽然他们没有察觉，但有某种律法隐藏在他们里面，像癌长在人里面重要的器官上。这样的人也许外表上看来很健康，里面却患了严重的病症；只有在动手术的时候，才知道病情有多深。我们可能是爱主并寻求主的好基督徒：然而，我们可能不察觉自己仍在遵守里面隐藏的律法。很少基督徒的日常生活行动是照著基督的。你能说你今天是照著基督而行么？我们祷告的时候，也许是照著基督活著、存留。但我们祷告以后，可能照著基督以外的事物生活、为人。每当我们不照著基督活著，我们就照著律法活著。这就是我说，虽然我们爱基督，却仍旧固守律法的原因。
2Most Christians who love the Lord and have a heart to seek Him have a hidden love for the law. When some hear such a word, they may argue and say, “We don’t want the law. We love Christ and want only Him.” This may be the situation on the surface, but deep within, subconsciously, most Christians still love the law. Although they may not realize it, there is some kind of law hidden within them, like a cancer growing on a person’s vital inward organs. Such a person may appear healthy on the surface, but he has a serious disease within him. Only when surgery is performed does the extent of this disease become known. We may be good Christians who love the Lord and seek Him; however, we may not be conscious of the fact that we still keep the law hidden within us. Not many Christians have their daily walk according to Christ. Can you say that you have been walking according to Christ today? During times of prayer we may have our living and our being according to Christ. But after we pray we may have our living and our being according to something other than Christ. Whenever we do not live according to Christ, we live according to law. This is my reason for saying that although we love Christ, we still hold to the law
3我们的光景好比亚伯拉罕的光景，他爱他的妻子撒拉，但他也和妾夏甲发4:24生关系；夏甲表征律法。保罗在四章二十四、二十五节说夏甲就是西乃山，颁赐律法的地方。在豫表里，使女夏甲表征律法。真正说来，夏甲，律法，就在我们里面，我们也爱她。这律法可能不是摩西的律法，而是某种自定的律法。
3Our situation can be compared to that of Abraham, who loved Sarah, his wife, but who also became involved with Hagar, a concubine, who signifies the law. In and 25 Paul identifies Hagar with Mount Sinai, the place where the law was given. In typology Hagar, the maidservant, signifies the law. In a very real sense, Hagar, the law, is within us, and we love her. This law may not be the law of Moses. Instead, it may be some type of self-made law.
4我们这些寻求的基督徒，也许天天都照著隐藏在我们里面的律法，不照著基督而行。例如，假定一位姊妹遭遇许多刺激她的事，她却不生气，也不发脾气。她的行为非常好。然而，我们需要问，她为甚么不发脾气。因为她是照著基督而活，还是照著某些准则、规条而行？又如，假定某位弟兄每当受试诱要撒谎，就操练说实话。但他为甚么说实话而不撒谎呢？他说实话是照著基督，还是照著某种准则或规条？换句话说，在说实话的事上，他是照著基督，还是照著律法而活？在类似这样的事上，人很可能不是照著基督，乃是照著律法而活。
4As seeking Christians, we may walk day by day according to the law hidden within us, not according to Christ. Suppose, for example, that a sister is subject to many irritations, but she does not become angry and lose her temper. Her behavior is very good. However, we need to ask why she does not lose her temper. Is it because she is living according to Christ, or because she is walking according to certain rules and regulations? Let us suppose, as another example, that whenever a certain brother is tempted to tell a lie, he exercises himself to speak the truth. But why does he tell the truth instead of a lie? Does he speak the truth according to Christ or according to some kind of rule or regulation? In other words, in the matter of telling the truth, does he live according to Christ or according to the law? It is very possible in matters such as this to live not according to Christ, but according to the law
四种律法
FOUR KINDS OF LAWS
5我从经历学知，基督徒很容易照著各种律法，却不照著基督而活。我们可能凭著从文化所吸收来的伦理教训，或是照著我们研读圣经所学习合乎圣经的原则而活。不仅如此，我们可能照著自己所定的律法而活。我们何等容易为自己定律法！我们定律法很容易，改变律法却很难。除了凭著伦理教训、原则、和我们自定的律法而活以外，我们也可能照著所谓『内里生命的律法』而活。当我们凭著这律法而活，也许就想要不凭著基督来对付肉体或否认己。我们也许不照著基督而活，却照著这四种不同的律法─社会伦理的律法、圣经伦理的原则、自定的律法、以及内里生命的律法─而活。
5From my experience I have learned that it is easy for Christians to live according to various kinds of laws instead of according to Christ. We may live by ethical teachings we have assimilated from our culture, or according to biblical principles learned from studying the Scriptures. Moreover, we may live according to the laws we ourselves have made. How easy it is for us to make laws for ourselves! Although we make laws easily, it is difficult for us to change them. In addition to living by ethical teachings, principles, and our self-made laws, we may also live according to what may be called “the law of the inner life.” When we live by this law, we may try without Christ to deal with the flesh or deny the self. Instead of living according to Christ, we may live according to these four different kinds of law—the laws of social ethics, biblical ethical principles, self-made laws, and the inner life law
6最近我蒙主光照，也受主责备，就是我每天太少实际的活基督。我必须向主承认，我每天只有很少的时间活基督。大部分的时间，我不知不觉，自然而然照著伦理、某种律法、或某些我建立起来的习惯而活。我没有以基督作我日常生活行动惟一的构成成分，反倒以道德、原则、自定的律法、甚至内里生命的律法，作我的构成成分。结果，我许多的时间是凭著天然的伦理、圣经的伦理、自定的律法、或内里生命的律法而活，却不照著基督而活。
6Recently, I have been enlightened of the Lord and also rebuked by Him concerning how little I actually live Christ day by day. I have had to confess to the Lord that only a small part of my time each day has been spent in living Christ. Most of the time I unconsciously and automatically live according to ethics, some kind of law, or certain habits I have built up. Instead of having Christ as the unique constituent of my daily walk, I have ethics, principles, self-made laws, and even the law of the inner life as my constituent. As a result, much of the time I live by natural ethics, biblical ethics, self-made laws, or the inner life law instead of according to Christ.
7凭著这四种律法而活，不需要我们祷告、信靠主、或倚靠祂。我们的态度可能是：主可以坐在天上的宝座上，我们不需要祂帮助我们在地上生活。我们也许以为自己足能正确的活著。我们没有基督，没有那灵，也能合乎道德，甚至很『属灵』。我们甚至可能没有基督而成功的『背十字架』，并且『钉死』自己。然而，我们作这一切事的时候，不是照著基督而活，乃是照著我所题到的某些律法而活。
7Living by these four kinds of laws does not require that we pray, trust in the Lord, or depend on Him. Our attitude may be that the Lord may sit on the throne in heaven, but we do not need Him to help us live on earth. We may think that we ourselves are quite capable of living in a proper way. We can be ethical and even “spiritual” without Christ and without the spirit. We may even succeed to “bear the cross” and “crucify” ourselves, also without Christ. Nevertheless, in doing all these things, we are not living according to Christ, but according to certain of the laws I have mentioned.
我们没有活基督
OUR FAILURE TO LIVE CHRIST
8你得救以前，可能根本没有注意过你自定的律法。但你得救以后，尤其你开始在召会生活中寻求主以后，你自定的律法就开始对你日常的生活产生很强的影响力。你的确能说你爱主并寻求祂，但你能坦诚的说，你天天都活基督么？你也许没有活基督，反倒活你那种律法。你犯了一条自定的律法，就同主悔改认罪。但你曾经因为没有活基督而悔改认罪么？我不相信有许多基督徒这样认罪过。
8Before you were saved, you might have paid little attention even to your self-made laws. But after you were saved and especially after you began to seek the Lord in the church life, your self-made laws began to exert a very strong influence on your daily living. You can say truly that you love the Lord and seek Him, but can you honestly say that you live Christ day by day? Instead of living Christ, you may live your kind of law. When you break one of your self-made laws, you repent and make confession to the Lord. But have you ever repented and confessed for not living Christ? I do not believe that many Christians have made this kind of confession
9在最近几个月里，我向主认罪主要是与我没有活基督有关。早上我可能有一段绝佳的时间祷告并享受主。在我的祷告里，我与主是一灵，并且活祂。但后来我到餐桌旁开始吃早餐时，可能把基督和活祂的事完全忘了。一段时间之后，我也许忽然察觉了，又转向基督说，『主阿，赦免我。主，我要与你成为一灵。』也许我又有几分钟与主同在。然而，不久我又被其他的事物霸占而忘了祂。这不也是你的经历么？我们无法说我们活基督。我们没有活祂，反而活我们自己的律法、文化、宗教与传统。我们已经指出，加拉太书说到神的两个经纶。祂的第一个经纶，旧约的经纶，与律法有关，包括我们伦理的律法和神赐的律法。人重生了，还是继续照著从自己文化中所吸收的伦理律法而活。很少有人（如果有的话)活基督。即使我们寻求基督，我们仍然活我们自己文化中的律法，因此在我们实际的经历中，我们把自己留在神的第一个经纶里。
9In recent months my confession to the Lord has mainly been related to my failures in living Christ. In the morning I may have an excellent time to pray and enjoy the Lord. During my prayer, I am one spirit with the Lord and live Him. But afterward I may go to the breakfast table, begin to eat, and completely forget about Christ and living Him. Sometime later I may suddenly realize what has happened and come back to Christ and say, “O Lord, forgive me. Lord, I want to be one spirit with You.” For a few minutes, I may again be with the Lord. However, I soon become occupied with something else and forget Him again. Is this not your experience also? We cannot say that we live Christ. Instead of living Him, we live our laws, culture, religion, and tradition. We have pointed out that the book of Galatians covers God’st wo economies. His first economy, the economy in the Old Testament, involves law, our ethical laws as well as the God-given law. Whenever a person is regenerated, he continues to live according to the ethical laws he has assimilated from his culture. Very few, if any, live Christ. Even though we may seek Christ, we still live our own cultural laws and, thereby, in our actual experience, keep ourselves in God’s first economy.
经纶的转变
a change of economy
10神的第二个经纶，祂新约的经纶，完全与基督有关。保罗信主以前，完全在神的第一个经纶里。保罗在加拉太一章十四节告诉我们，他『在犹太教中，比我本族许多同岁的人更有长进，为我祖宗的传统格外热心』。他为犹太宗教热心到一个地步，定意要逼迫活在神第二个经纶里的人。为这缘故，他『极力逼迫神的召会，并损毁神的召会』。（一13。)保罗在往大马色的路上，主来干豫并且向他启示祂自己，使他仆倒在地，这事我们都很熟悉。保罗经历真正的转变，从神律法的旧经纶转向祂基督的新经纶。他在十五、十六节说到这个转，他告诉我们，神乐意『将祂儿子启示在我里面』。基督不只向保罗启示，更启示到他里面。当保罗是带头的宗教家，犹太教中『拔尖的狗』时，神的儿子进到他里面。这就是保罗在一章十六节说神的儿子不仅仅向他启示，更启示在他里面的原因。因著保罗对基督有这样的启示，他就能向信徒见证：『亲爱的圣徒，我要告诉你们，我有神的儿子活的人位在我里面。这人位与律法是绝对不能相比的。律法固然好，却不如这活的人位。多年来，我努力要遵守律法。但是有一天，神的儿子活的人位启示到我里面。何等的希奇！何等的神迹！甚至现在我写信给你们时，这活的人位与我乃是一。我写信的时候，祂也写，因为祂在我的书写里书写。』
10The second economy of God, His New Testament economy, is wholly related to Christ. Before Paul was converted, he was altogether in God’s first economy. In 1:1 4 Paul tells us that he “advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries in my race, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.” So zealous was he for the Jewish religion that he resolved to persecute all those who were living in God’s second economy. For this reason, he “persecuted the church of God excessively and ravaged it” (1:13). We are all familiar with the fact that when Paul was on the road to Damascus, the Lord intervened and revealed Himself to Paul, causing him to fall to the ground. Paul experienced a genuine conversion, a real turn from God’s old economy of the law to His new economy of Christ. He refers to this turn in 1:15 and 16, where he tells us that it pleased God “to reveal His Son in me.” Christ was revealed not only to Paul, but also into him. When Paul was a leading religionist, a “top dog” in Judaism, the Son of God entered into him. This was the reason Paul says in 1:16 that the Son of God was revealed in him, not merely to him. Because he had such a revelation of Christ, Paul could testify to the believers, “Dear saints, I want to tell you that I have the living Person of the Son of God within me. There is utterly no comparison between this Person and the law. The law is good, but it is inferior to this living Person. For years, I tried to keep the law. But one day the living Person of the Son of God was revealed into me. What a wonder! What a miracle! Even now as I am writing to you, this living Person is one with me. When I write, He writes, for He writes in my writing.”
11我们在加拉太一章所看见的是经纶的转变，从旧的经纶转到新的经纶，旧约的经纶被新约的经纶顶替了。这转变不是理论、哲学、或文化的事，乃是与神经纶有关真实的转移。从前，保罗是绝对为著神旧约的经纶，但基督启示到他里面以后，他就完全在神新的经纶里。
11What we see in chapter one of Galatians is a change of economy, a shift from the old economy to the new in which the Old Testament economy is replaced by the New Testament economy. This change is not a matter of theory, philosophy, or culture. It is an actual shift related to the economy of God. Formerly, Paul was absolutely given to God’sOld Testament economy. But after Christ was revealed into him, he was wholly in God’s new economy
向律法死了
DEAD TO THE LAW
12保罗在二章十九节说，『我藉著律法，已经向律法死了，叫我可以向神活著。』保罗要加拉太人领悟，他向律法乃是死的。不管律法多好，保罗已经向律法死了，并且不再与律法有一点关联。死已将他从律法隔开，这使他可能向神活著。
12In 2:19 Paul says, “For I through law have died to law that I might live to God.” Paul wanted the Galatians to realize that he was dead to the law. No matter how good the law may be, Paul had died to it and had nothing more to do with it. Death had separated him from the law. This made it possible for him to live to God.
一个生命与一个生活
one life and one living
13保罗在二章二十节接著说，『我已经与基督同钉十字架；现在活著的，不再是我，乃是基督在我里面活著；并且我如今在肉身里所活的生命，是我在神儿子的信里，与祂联结所活的，祂是爱我，为我舍了自己。』这里我们看见，这位启示到保罗里面的基督，现今活在他里面。这两位─基督与保罗─同有一个生命与一个生活。这个生命与生活的一，好比一棵树上的枝子接到另一棵树上一样。那树与接枝到牠里面的枝子分享同一个生命，并同有一个生活。保罗与基督过这样一种奇妙的接枝生活。这里我们所有的不是交换的生命─人的生命换成神的生命，乃是接枝的生命─人的生命接枝到神的生命里。在这接枝的生命里，我们与基督乃是一。何等奇妙！没有言语足以描述这事。这接枝的生命乃是照著神新约经纶的生命与生活。
13In 2:20 Paul goes on to say, “I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself for me.” Here we see that the very Christ who had been revealed into Paul now lived in him. The two, Christ and Paul, had one life and one living. This oneness of life and living can be illustrated by the grafting of a branch from one tree into another tree. The tree and the branch which has been grafted into it share one life and have one living. Paul and Christ lived such a wonderful grafted life. What we have here is not an exchanged life, the exchange of the human life for the divine life, but a grafted life, the grafting of the human life into the divine life. In this grafted life we and Christ are one. How marvelous! There are no words adequate to describe it. This grafted life is the life and living which are according to God’s New Testament economy
接受那灵
RECEIVING THE SPIRIT
14保罗在三章二节问加拉太的信徒：『你们接受了那灵，是本于行律法，还是本于听信仰？』保罗在一章说到神的儿子启示在他里面，在二章说到基督在他里面活著。但现在他忽然转变用辞，说到接受那灵。这指明这位启示在我们里面神的儿子，和现今活在我们里面的基督，就是我们藉著听信仰所接受的那灵。不要弄错了，以为神的儿子、基督、与那灵是分开的。照著传统论到三一的神学，父、子、灵是三个分开的人位。我们按著圣经教导人基督就是那灵时，就被定罪，并被指控为异端。
14In 3:2 Paul asks the Galatian believers, “Did you receive the Spirit by the works of law or by the hearing of faith?” In chapter one Paul speaks of the Son of God revealed in him and in chapter two, of Christ living in him. But now he suddenly changes the term and refers to the receiving of the Spirit. This indicates that the very Son of God revealed in us and Christ who lives in us is the Spirit we have received by the hearing of faith. Do not make the mistake of considering the Son of God, Christ, as separate from the Spirit. According to the traditional theology of the Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are three separate Persons. When we teach from the Scriptures that Christ is the Spirit, we are condemned and charged with heresy
15我们无法在道理上充分解释神圣的三一。但我们从经历知道，神的儿子就是基督，基督就是那灵。每当我们说『主耶稣』，我们所接受的乃是那灵。每当我们呼求主耶稣的名，那灵就来了，这事实指明基督与那灵乃是一。为这缘故，当我们呼求主耶稣的名，我们就接受那灵。这证明那灵就是耶稣基督的人位。正如我们呼喊某人的名字，那个人（不是那个名字)就回应；照样，我们呼求主耶稣的名字，那灵就来了。我们从经历知道，我们呼喊『哦，主耶稣』，从来没有一次是耶稣回应而那灵没有回应的。每当我们呼求主耶稣的名字，来的就是那灵，没有一次例外。
15We cannot adequately explain the Trinity in a doctrinal way. But from our experience we know that the Son of God is Christ and that Christ is the Spirit. Whenever we say, “Lord Jesus,” the One we receive is the Spirit. The fact that the Spirit comes whenever we call on the name of the Lord Jesus indicates that Christ and the Spirit are one. For this reason, when we call on the name of the Lord Jesus, we receive the Spirit. This proves that the Spirit is the very Person of Jesus Christ. Just as when we call on the name of a certain person, the person, not the name, responds, so when we call on the name of the Lord Jesus, the Spirit comes. We know from our experience that there never has been a time that we have called, “O Lord Jesus,” when Jesus responded and the Spirit did not respond. Without exception, whenever we called on the name of the Lord Jesus, it was the Spirit who came
16加拉太一、二章与启示有关，说到神的儿子启示在我们里面，以及基督在我们里面活著。但我们转到经历，如我们在三章二节所看见的，我们就领悟到，我们所接受的那位乃是那灵。
16Galatians 1 and 2 are concerned with revelation and speak of the Son of God revealed in us and Christ living in us. But when we turn to experience, as seen in 3:2, we realize that the One we receive is the Spirit. The Spirit is the very Person of Christ, the Son of God
17那灵就是神的儿子基督的人位。
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18接受那灵不是一次永远的。这像呼吸一样，是一生之久的事。这就是保罗在三章五节用现在式的原因，他说，『这样，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？』这里保罗不是说神曾经供应那灵，或说祂将要供应那灵，他乃是说神正在供应那灵。因为神不断供应那灵，我们就需要不断接受那灵。
18Receiving the Spirit does not take place once for all. Like breathing, it is a lifelong matter. This is the reason that in 3:5 Paul uses the present tense, saying, “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?” Here Paul does not say that God supplied the Spirit or that He shall supply the Spirit; he says that God is supplying the Spirit. Because God is continually supplying the Spirit, we need to receive the Spirit continually
浸入基督
BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST
19加拉太三章二十七节说，『你们凡浸入基督的，都已经穿上了基督。』何等奇妙！一面，基督已经启示在我们里面，现今在我们里面活著；另一面，基督已经穿在我们身上。我们里外都有基督。祂是我们的中心，也是我们的圆周；祂是我们的里面，也是我们的外面。里面我们有基督，外面我们也有基督。基督是我们里面的内容，也是我们外面的彰显。我们如此经历的这位基督，乃是那灵。
19Galatians 3:27 says, “For as many as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.” How wonderful! On the one hand, Christ has been revealed in us and is now living in us; on the other hand, Christ has been put upon us. We have Christ both within and without. He is our center and also our circumference, our inside as well as our outside. Inside, we have Christ, and outside we also have Christ. Christ is our inward content and also our outward expression. This Christ whom we experience in such a way is the Spirit
从那灵而生，成为神的儿子
BORN OF THE SPIRIT TO BECOME SONS OF GOD
20在四章我们看见基督救赎了我们，叫我们得著儿子的名分。（5。)不仅如此，因我们是儿子，『神就差出祂儿子的灵，进入我们的心，呼叫：阿爸，父！』（二6。)在前面的信息里我们曾指出，我们成为神的儿子，是藉著孕育及出生的过程。那灵进入我们里面，并不像水倒进瓶子里，乃是藉著非常真实的孕育与出生的过程。我们确实已从那灵而生。那灵进入我们里面，是藉著导致奇妙出生的神圣孕育的过程。藉著这孕育与出生的过程，那灵已生机的作到我们这人里面。我们重生的时候，我们里面就发生这生机的联结。现今我们的确生机且主观的得著那灵。
20In chapter four we see that Christ has redeemed us so that we may receive the sonship (v. 5). Moreover, because we are sons, “God sent forth the Spirit of His Son in to our hearts, crying, Abba Father!” (v. 6). In a foregoing message we pointed out that we became sons of God through a process of conception and birth. The Spirit entered into us not like water poured into a bottle, but through a very real conception and birth. We have actually been born of the Spirit. The Spirit entered into us through a process of divine conception leading to a marvelous birth. Through this process of conception and birth, the Spirit has been wrought into our being organically. This organic union took place within us when we were regenerated. Now we have the Spirit in a way that is truly organic and subjective.
21因著我们已生机的联于那灵，现今我们无法将那灵从我们的灵分开。例如，我们所吃的食物，新陈代谢的消化并吸收以后，就再也不能从我们分开。同样，既然那灵生机的进入我们里面，祂就不能从我们分开，我们也不能从祂分开。赞美主，儿子名分的灵已进入我们里面，我们已从那灵而生，成为神的儿子！
21Because we have been joined to the Spirit organically, there is now no way to separate the Spirit from our spirit. For example, after the food we eat has been digested and assimilated metabolically, it can no longer be separated from us. In like manner, now that the Spirit has come into us organically, He cannot be separated from us nor we from Him. Praise the Lord that the Spirit of sonship has entered into us and that we have been born of the Spirit to become sons of God
基督成形在我们里面
CHRIST FORMED IN US
22我们这些神的儿子现在需要基督成形在我们里面。（四19。)要让基督成形在我们里面，我们就需要忘记我们自定的律法，让基督完全占有我们。基督越在里面占有我们，祂就越成形在我们里面。
22As sons of God, we now need Christ to be formed in us (4:19). For Christ to be formed in us requires that we forget our self-made laws and allow Christ to occupy us in full. The more Christ occupies us inwardly, the more He is formed within us
那灵的果子
THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
23保罗在五章嘱咐我们要凭著灵而行。他在十六节说，『你们当凭著灵而行，就绝不会满足肉体的情欲了。』这里凭著灵而行，实际上的意思是活基督，照著内住的灵行动、行事并为人。我们不发脾气，或不沉迷于某些属世的娱乐，原因该是我们照著那灵而活。同样，我们或是冷静，或是兴奋，我们冷静或兴奋的原因应当单单是我们照著那灵而活。我们若这样活基督，自然而然会有结出那灵果子的生活。（五22～23。)保罗列出那灵果子的各面以后说，『这样的事』，没有律法反对。他用『这样的事』一辞，指明那灵的果子不限于二十二、二十三节所题的各项。保罗所题的各项美德，都是基督各面的彰显。这些美德不是行为，乃是果子。仇恨是肉体的行为，而爱是那灵的果子，是活基督的自然结果。树不是凭著行为产生果子。树产生果子乃是树里面生命的结果。同样，爱、喜乐、和平、恒忍、恩慈、和那灵果子的其他各面，都不是我们行为的结果，乃是由那住在我们里面，并从我们活出来的基督所产生，惟一属灵果子不同的各面。
23In chapter five Paul charges us to walk by the Spirit. In verse 16 he says, “Walk by the Spirit and you shall by no means fulfill the lust of the flesh.” To walk by the Spirit here actually means to live Christ, to move, act, and have our being according to the indwelling Spirit. Our reason for not losing our temper or for not indulging in certain kinds of worldly entertainment should be that we are living according to the Spirit. Likewise, if we are calm or excited, the reason for our calmness or excitement should simply be that we are living according to the Spirit. If we live Christ in this way, we shall spontaneously have a living which issues in the fruit of the Spirit (5:22-23). After naming various aspects of the fruit of the Spirit, Paul says that against “such things” there is no law. His use of the expression “such things” indicates that the fruit of the Spirit is not limited to the items mentioned in verses 22 and 23. All the items mentioned by Paul are virtues which are different aspects of Christ expressed. These virtues are not works; they are fruit. Hatred is a work of the flesh, whereas love is a fruit of the Spirit, the spontaneous issue of living Christ. A tree does not produce fruit by working. The fruit produced by a tree is an issue of the inner life of the tree. Likewise, love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, and all the other aspects of the fruit of the Spirit are not the result of our working; they are different aspects of the unique spiritual fruit which is produced out from the Christ who dwells within us and whom we live out.
照著那灵而活，以彰显基督
Living According to the Spirit to Express Christ
24我们在日常生活所有的小事上，都需要凭著灵而行。例如，一位弟兄去理发，他不该照著某种方式或标准，乃该照著那灵。甚至在理发的事上，他也该与那灵有交通。同样，姊妹们的穿著需要照著那灵，而不该照著地方召会所实行的某种作法。遵照地方召会中的人一般穿著的方式，可能是很好的习惯或作法，却不是生命。姊妹们若照著某种习惯穿著，结果不会是生命。但她们若凭著那灵并照著那灵穿著，结果就会是生命。凭著灵而行，因而使我们日常生活行动的每一面都符合那灵，完全是生命的事。这不是习惯、习俗、或遵照成规的问题。从人的观点看，遵照某种标准与作法，也许是好的，因为这会改良人的行为。这也许会使那些粗鲁、不服的人，变得温和且顺从。这样一种外面的改变固然好，但与基督或那灵全然无关。神所要的不是我们遵照某些习俗或习惯，即使这样遵照成规在人眼中非常美好。神是要我们活基督；这位基督乃实化为那灵。神新约的经纶完全在于凭著灵而行以活基督。加拉太书里所启示的第一种凭著灵而行，乃是我们活基督，彰显那灵果子的各面。我们基督徒的日常生活应当是凭著灵而行，好藉著彰显基督同祂所有绝佳的美德而活祂。
24In all the small matters of our daily life, we need to walk by the Spirit. For example, when a brother gets a haircut, he should not have his hair cut according to a certain way or standard, but according to the Spirit. Even in the matter of a haircut he should have fellowship with the Spirit. Likewise, the sisters need to dress according to the Spirit, not according to a certain way practiced in the local churches. To conform to a certain way of dressing common to those in the local churches may be a very good habit or practice, but it is not life. If the sisters dress according to a certain habit, the issue will not be life. But if they dress by the Spirit and according to the Spirit, the result will be life. To walk by the Spirit and thereby to have every aspect of our daily walk in correspondence to the Spirit is altogether a matter of life. It is not a matter of habit, custom, or conformity. From the human point of view, it may be good for people to conform to certain standards and practices, for this will result in improved behavior. It may cause those who are crude and unruly to become kind and obedient. Although such an outward change is good, it has nothing to do with Christ or the Spirit. What God wants is not that we conform to certain customs and habits, even though such conformity may be very good in human eyes. God wants us to live Christ, who is realized as the Spirit. God’s New Testament economy is wholly a matter of walking by the Spirit to live Christ. The first kind of walk by the Spirit revealed in the book of Galatians is a walk in which we live Christ, expressing the various aspects of the fruit of the Spirit. Our daily life as Christians should be a life of walking by the Spirit to live Christ by expressing Him with all His excellent virtues.