20支取的意思就是:在乎平常的时候,就承认主所作的都已成功了,祂所成功的对于我必是有效力的;在遇试的时候,就实行出来,一若我是已经得着主所赐给我们的地位(事实)一样。这样,经历随后就到。…信徒灵性生活的经验,完全是根据于神为信徒所成功的事实。事实是根据,经验是成功,信心是程途。换一句话说,事实是因,信心是法,经验是果。…在信徒高深灵命的前面,乃是有主耶稣的完全工作为它的发源地。…要圣别,得胜,死己等等,并非用己力可以得着,乃是承认我在主耶稣基督里,是圣别的,得胜的,死己的;就实行出来,相信你自己因为与主耶稣是有生命上的联合的,所以你必是圣别,得胜,死己,一如主耶稣一样。我们所有要得着的经验,都是主耶稣所已经经过了的。信心支取的意思,就是算主耶稣所有的就是我的,并用信心的态度和行为,使用我所算为恩典的。
20The meaning of claiming is to acknowledge daily all that the Lord has accomplished for us, that is, to acknowledge that all these accomplishments are effective in us. Then, when temptation comes, we will live out these accomplishments as if we have already attained to the position (the fact) that the Lord has placed us in. If we do this, our experience will follow. The experience of the believers’ spiritual life is fully based on the facts that God has accomplished for them. The facts are the basis, the experience is the accomplishment, and faith is the process. In other words, the facts are the cause, faith is the way, and experience is the result… Before there can be any lofty spiritual life in the believers, there first must be the perfect work of the Lord Jesus as its wellspring… Sanctification, victory, death, and so forth do not come from self-effort. They come from: (1) acknowledging our sanctification, victory, and death to the self in the Lord Jesus Christ, and (2) practicing it by believing that one is joined to the Lord Jesus in life and that one will be as sanctified, victorious, and dead to the self as the Lord Jesus is. The Lord Jesus has already encountered every experience that we have and will have. To claim by faith is to reckon as ours all that the Lord Jesus has and to apply through an attitude and a conduct of faith all that we have counted as grace.