0408 祂的复活命定
基督这样受害，又进入他的荣耀，岂不是应当的吗？《路加福音 24:26》
我们主的十字架是进入祂生命之门。祂的复活意味着祂有能力将祂的生命传递给我。当我重生时，我从耶稣祂自己那里领受的正是复活主的生命。
基督复活的命定——祂预定的目的——是要「使许多儿子得荣耀」（希伯来书2:10）。祂命定的实现使祂有权利使我们成为神的儿女。我们与神的关系永远不会与神子有的完全一样，但我们是被神子带入儿子位分的关系中。当我们的主从死里复活时，祂复活到一个绝对全新的生命——在祂道成肉身前从未经历过的生命；祂复活到前所未有的生命。祂的复活对我们意味着我们被复活到祂复活的生命，而不是复活到我们的旧生命。有一天，我们必会拥有一个像祂荣耀的身体一样的身体，但我们此时此地就可以认识祂复活的力量和功效，并且可以「一举一动有新生的样式」（罗马书6:4）。保罗坚定的目标是「使我认识基督，晓得他复活的大能。」（腓立比书3:10）
耶稣祷告说：「你曾赐给他权柄，管理凡有血气的，叫他将永生赐给凡你所赐给他的人。」（约翰福音 17:2）。圣灵一词实际上是另一个名称，就是此时此地体验在人类身上作工的永恒生命。圣灵是神的神性，祂继续将基督十字架的赎罪大能成就到我们的生活里。感谢神赐下荣耀威严的真理，只要我们顺服祂，祂的灵就能将耶稣根本的本质做工到我们身上。
来自章伯斯的智慧
当心不要用神的话换取你自己更适合的观念。《真的门徒》
0408 His Resurrection Destiny
Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory? —Luke 24:26
Our Lord’s Cross is the gateway into His life. His resurrection means that He has the power to convey His life to me. When I was born again, I received the very life of the risen Lord from Jesus Himself.
Christ’s resurrection destiny— His foreordained purpose— was to bring “many sons to glory” (Hebrews 2:10). The fulfilling of His destiny gives Him the right to make us sons and daughters of God. We never have exactly the same relationship to God that the Son of God has, but we are brought by the Son into the relation of sonship. When our Lord rose from the dead, He rose to an absolutely new life— a life He had never lived before He was God Incarnate. He rose to a life that had never been before. And what His resurrection means for us is that we are raised to His risen life, not to our old life. One day we will have a body like His glorious body, but we can know here and now the power and effectiveness of His resurrection and can “walk in newness of life” (Romans 6:4). Paul’s determined purpose was to “know Him and the power of His resurrection” (Philippians 3:10).
Jesus prayed, “…as You have given Him authority over all flesh that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him” (John 17:2). The term Holy Spirit is actually another name for the experience of eternal life working in human beings here and now. The Holy Spirit is the deity of God who continues to apply the power of the atonement by the Cross of Christ to our lives. Thank God for the glorious and majestic truth that His Spirit can work the very nature of Jesus into us, if we will only obey Him.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own. –Disciples Indeed, 386 R