14凭基督而活，就是我们不凭基督以外的任何事物而活。我们若看见什么是凭基督而活，就会领悟，我们许多人仍旧在某种形式的辖制之下；这种辖制是由己所建立，由己所设立并执行的。这种辖制就是黑暗的权势。我们若在这种权势之下，我们读经就得不着光，祷告也没有话语。虽然父拯救了我们脱离黑暗的权势，脱离我们天然的思想、情感、喜好和行为，我们仍旧可能停留在天然人的一些光景里。这使我们被扣留在黑暗的权势之下。事实上，由于我们在黑暗的权势及辖制之下，没有实际在神爱子的国里，我们就很少享受基督作众圣徒的分。……我们在复活里，凭着子作我们的生命而活，我们就活在祂的国里，在父的爱里享受祂（歌罗西书生命读经，三八至四一页）。
14To live by Christ means that we do not live by anything other than Christ. If we see what it is to live by Christ, we will realize that many of us are still under some form of control established by the self, a control set up and carried out by the self. This kind of control is the authority of darkness. If we are under this authority, we receive no light in reading the Bible, and we have no utterance in prayer. Although the Father has delivered us out of the authority of darkness, out of our natural thought, emotion, preference, and behavior, we may still remain in some aspect of our natural being. This causes us to be held under the authority of darkness. Because, in actuality, we are under the authority and control of darkness and are not in the kingdom of the Son of His love in a practical way, we have little enjoyment of Christ as the portion of the saints. When we live by the Son as our life in resurrection, we are living in His kingdom, enjoying Him in the Father’s love. (Life-study of Colossians, second edition, pp. 33, 32-34)