0412 完全有效的統治
死也不再作他的主了……他活是向神活着。這樣，你們向罪也當看自己是死的，向神在基督耶穌里，卻當自己是活的。《羅馬書 6:9-11》
同永生。永生是耶穌基督在人類層面上展示的生命。當我們重生時，是這個同樣的生命，而非僅是其複製品，在我們必死肉體中顯現出來。永生不是從神來的一個禮物，永生就是神的恩賜。一旦我們對罪做出了完全且有效的決定，耶穌身上如此明顯的能量和力量，就會通過神絕對至高無上主權的恩典作為，在我們身上展示出來。
聯合，耶穌內在的生命就因祂的十字架而成為我們的生命。如果與神和好很難，那是因為我們拒絕對罪做出道德性決定。但一旦我們做出決定，神全備的生命就會立即臨到。耶穌來是為了給我們供應無窮盡的生命——「…便叫神一切所充滿的，充滿了你們。」（以弗所書3:19）。永生與時間無關，它是耶穌降世時所活的生命，而生命的唯一來源就是主耶穌基督。
即使是最軟弱的聖徒，當他願意「放手」時，也能體驗到神子神性的能力。但任何「緊抓」我們自己一些些的努力，都只會削弱我們裡面耶穌的生命。我們必須不斷地放手，慢慢地，但確實地，神偉大、豐盛的生命會湧入我們裡面，滲透到每個部分。那時，耶穌就會在我們裡面擁有完全有效的統治，人們就會注意到我們是一直與祂同在。
來自章伯斯的智慧
我們開始我們基督徒的生活是通過相信被告知要相信的事情，然後我們必須繼續如此同化我們的信仰，以至於它們以一種回應神榮耀的方式產生結果。危險是在於我們越來越接受我們自己沒有活出的信念。《改變像祂的樣式》
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