14然而,我们这些信徒与人受造时的光景不同。借着神的救恩,我们得了重生,重新受造,被神重新制作。当我们第一次全人向主敞开,呼求祂的名,祂就进到我们灵里;并且祂一旦进到一个人的灵里,就永远住在这人的灵里,作他的生命。如今我们有主在我们灵里作我们的生命,我们的灵就不再仅仅是一个器官,乃是成了一个人位,一个人。因这缘故,圣经说到我们外面的人和里面的人(林后四16,彼前三4)。外面的人是魂,里面的人是重生的灵,有神的生命为其生命。在我们重生以前,我们的灵仅仅是一个器官,因为它没有神的生命。但是借着重生,基督作为生命进到我们的灵里,我们的灵就成了里面的人,也就是我们的人位。一面,我们的灵是器官,在属灵的范围里接触神;另一面,我们的灵是我们里面的人。……我们得救以前,只有外面的人,但是现在得救以后,我们有另一个人—里面的人—住在我们里面。在我们日常生活里,这两个人之间有许多争执。这是因为外面的人想要作些事,而里面的人不赞成。譬如,我们外面的人可能想要参与某种属世的娱乐,里面的人却禁止我们。我们得救以后,有两个人活在我们里面。我们不该再凭我们的魂而活,就是凭外面的人而活,乃该凭我们的灵而活,就是凭里面的人而活。 14However, we the believers differ from man in his created state. Through God’s salvation we have been regenerated, recreated, and remade by God. When we first opened our being to the Lord and called upon His name, He entered into our spirit, and once He enters into someone’s spirit, He will abide forever in his spirit to be his life. Now that we have the Lord as our life in our spirit, our spirit is no longer merely an organ but has become a person, a man. For this reason, the Bible speaks of our outer man and our inner man (2 Cor. 4:16; 1 Pet. 3:4). The outer man is the soul, and the inner man is the regenerated spirit, which has God’s life as its life. Before our regeneration, our spirit was only an organ because it did not have the life of God. But through regeneration, Christ as life entered into our spirit, and our spirit became our inner man, our person. On the one hand, our spirit is an organ to contact God in the spiritual realm; on the other hand, our spirit is our inner man. Before we were saved, we only had an outer man, but now after being saved, we have another man living in us—the inner man. There are many struggles between these two men in our daily life. This is because the outer man desires to do things that the inner man opposes. For example, while the outer man in us may desire to engage in a particular kind of worldly entertainment, the inner man forbids us from doing it. After being saved, we have two men living in us. We should no longer live by our soul, the outer man, but by our spirit, the inner man.