19基督作为七倍加强的灵,拯救信徒脱离与召会堕落有关的事物。……在以弗所的召会失去了四样事物:真正、正确的召会生活,对主起初的爱,灯台照耀的性能,以及对基督作生命的享受。……七倍加强的灵拯救信徒脱离在以弗所召会中形式的召会生活,以及失去了对主起初的爱、灯台照耀的性能以及对基督作生命的享受(启二1~7)。……这是很严肃的一件事。在主的恢复里,有些召会可能失去了这四样事物。这些召会里的圣徒没有真实、真正的召会生活,只有形式的召会生活。圣徒们仍然彼此相爱,但他们的爱很形式化。他们对弟兄没有真实、真正的爱。不仅如此,这些召会里的圣徒虽然仍旧来聚会,却仅仅是形式化的参加聚会。好些圣徒都有这种形式。我们需要真,要真就是要在灵里,并在灵里作一切事。 19As the sevenfold intensified Spirit, Christ saves the believers from the things related to the degradation of the church…The church in Ephesus had lost four things: the genuine and proper church life, the first love toward the Lord, the shining capacity of the lampstand, and the enjoyment of Christ as life. The sevenfold intensified Spirit saves the believers from the formal church life, the loss of the first love to the Lord, the loss of the shining capacity of the lampstand, and the loss of the enjoyment of Christ as life in the church in Ephesus (Rev. 2:1-7)…Such [losses are] very serious. Some of the churches in the Lord’s recovery may have lost these four things. Instead of a real and genuine church life, the saints in these churches have only a formal church life. The saints still love one another, but their love is quite formal. They do not have the real and genuine love toward the brothers. Furthermore, the saints in these churches still come to the meetings, but they attend the meetings merely in a formal way. A good number of saints have this kind of formality. We need to be genuine, and to be genuine is to be in the spirit and do everything in the spirit.