0412 完全有效的统治
死也不再作他的主了……他活是向神活着。这样，你们向罪也当看自己是死的，向神在基督耶稣里，却当自己是活的。《罗马书 6:9-11》
同永生。永生是耶稣基督在人类层面上展示的生命。当我们重生时，是这个同样的生命，而非仅是其复制品，在我们必死肉体中显现出来。永生不是从神来的一个礼物，永生就是神的恩赐。一旦我们对罪做出了完全且有效的决定，耶稣身上如此明显的能量和力量，就会通过神绝对至高无上主权的恩典作为，在我们身上展示出来。
联合，耶稣内在的生命就因祂的十字架而成为我们的生命。如果与神和好很难，那是因为我们拒绝对罪做出道德性决定。但一旦我们做出决定，神全备的生命就会立即临到。耶稣来是为了给我们供应无穷尽的生命——「…便叫神一切所充满的，充满了你们。」（以弗所书3:19）。永生与时间无关，它是耶稣降世时所活的生命，而生命的唯一来源就是主耶稣基督。
即使是最软弱的圣徒，当他愿意「放手」时，也能体验到神子神性的能力。但任何「紧抓」我们自己一些些的努力，都只会削弱我们里面耶稣的生命。我们必须不断地放手，慢慢地，但确实地，神伟大、丰盛的生命会涌入我们里面，渗透到每个部分。那时，耶稣就会在我们里面拥有完全有效的统治，人们就会注意到我们是一直与祂同在。
来自章伯斯的智慧
我们开始我们基督徒的生活是通过相信被告知要相信的事情，然后我们必须继续如此同化我们的信仰，以至于它们以一种回应神荣耀的方式产生结果。危险是在于我们越来越接受我们自己没有活出的信念。《改变像祂的样式》
0412 Complete and Effective Dominion
Death no longer has dominion over Him.…the life that He lives, He lives to God. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God… —Romans 6:9-11
Co-Eternal Life. Eternal life is the life which Jesus Christ exhibited on the human level. And it is this same life, not simply a copy of it, which is made evident in our mortal flesh when we are born again. Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift of God. The energy and the power which was so very evident in Jesus will be exhibited in us by an act of the absolute sovereign grace of God, once we have made that complete and effective decision about sin.
“You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you…” (Acts 1:8)— not power as a gift from the Holy Spirit; the power is the Holy Spirit, not something that He gives us. The life that was in Jesus becomes ours because of His Cross, once we make the decision to be identified with Him. If it is difficult to get right with God, it is because we refuse to make this moral decision about sin. But once we do decide, the full life of God comes in immediately. Jesus came to give us an endless supply of life— “…that you may be filled with all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:19). Eternal life has nothing to do with time. It is the life which Jesus lived when He was down here, and the only Source of life is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Even the weakest saint can experience the power of the deity of the Son of God, when he is willing to “let go.” But any effort to “hang on” to the least bit of our own power will only diminish the life of Jesus in us. We have to keep letting go, and slowly, but surely, the great full life of God will invade us, penetrating every part. Then Jesus will have complete and effective dominion in us, and people will take notice that we have been with Him.
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
We begin our Christian life by believing what we are told to believe, then we have to go on to so assimilate our beliefs that they work out in a way that redounds to the glory of God. The danger is in multiplying the acceptation of beliefs we do not make our own. –Conformed to His Image, 381 L