0408 祂的復活命定
基督這樣受害，又進入他的榮耀，豈不是應當的嗎？《路加福音 24:26》
我們主的十字架是進入祂生命之門。祂的復活意味着祂有能力將祂的生命傳遞給我。當我重生時，我從耶穌祂自己那裡領受的正是復活主的生命。
基督復活的命定——祂預定的目的——是要「使許多兒子得榮耀」（希伯來書2:10）。祂命定的實現使祂有權利使我們成為神的兒女。我們與神的關係永遠不會與神子有的完全一樣，但我們是被神子帶入兒子位分的關係中。當我們的主從死里復活時，祂復活到一個絕對全新的生命——在祂道成肉身前從未經歷過的生命；祂復活到前所未有的生命。祂的復活對我們意味着我們被複活到祂復活的生命，而不是復活到我們的舊生命。有一天，我們必會擁有一個像祂榮耀的身體一樣的身體，但我們此時此地就可以認識祂復活的力量和功效，並且可以「一舉一動有新生的樣式」（羅馬書6:4）。保羅堅定的目標是「使我認識基督，曉得他復活的大能。」（腓立比書3:10）
耶穌禱告說：「你曾賜給他權柄，管理凡有血氣的，叫他將永生賜給凡你所賜給他的人。」（約翰福音 17:2）。聖靈一詞實際上是另一個名稱，就是此時此地體驗在人類身上作工的永恒生命。聖靈是神的神性，祂繼續將基督十字架的贖罪大能成就到我們的生活里。感謝神賜下榮耀威嚴的真理，只要我們順服祂，祂的靈就能將耶穌根本的本質做工到我們身上。
來自章伯斯的智慧
當心不要用神的話換取你自己更適合的觀念。《真的門徒》
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