12在马太十二章,子以人的身位凭着那灵赶鬼,带进父神的国(28)。在十六章,为着建造召会,就是国度的命脉,父将子启示给门徒(16~19)。在十七章,为着展示国度实现的小影(十六28),子变化形像(十七2),并有父喜悦的话(5)来印证。最终,在马太福音结束的一章,基督这末后的亚当,经过钉十字架的过程,进入复活的境地,成了赐生命的灵;以后祂回到门徒中间,在复活的气氛和实际里,吩咐他们去,将外邦人浸入神圣三一的名,就是祂的人位,也就是祂的实际里,使他们成为国度的子民。以后,使徒行传和书信揭示:将人浸入父、子、灵的名里,乃是将他们浸入基督的名里(徒八16,十九5);而将人浸入基督的名里,就是将他们浸入基督这人位里(加三27,罗六3);因为基督是三一神的具体化身,并且成了赐生命的灵(林前十五45),是便利的,人随时随地都可以浸入祂里面。根据马太福音,这样浸入父、子、灵的实际里,乃是为着构成诸天的国。属天的国不能用属血肉的人(林前十五50)组成,像属地的团体一样,只能用一班浸入与三一神的联合里,且因作到他们里面的三一神,而得建立并被建造的人来构成(马太福音生命读经,九一八至九一九页)。 12In Matthew 12 the Son, in the person of man, cast out demons by the Spirit to bring in the kingdom of God the Father (v. 28). In chapter 16 the Father revealed the Son to the disciples for the building of the church, which is the life pulse of the kingdom (vv. 16-19). In chapter 17 the Son entered into transfiguration (v. 2) and was confirmed by the Father’s word of delight (v. 5), bringing about a miniature display of the manifestation of the kingdom (16:28). Eventually, in the closing chapter, after Christ as the last Adam had passed through the process of crucifixion, entered into the realm of resurrection, and become the life-giving Spirit, He came back to His disciples in the atmosphere and reality of His resurrection to charge them to make the heathen the kingdom people by baptizing them into the name, the person, the reality, of the Divine Trinity. Later, in the Acts and the Epistles it is disclosed that to baptize people into the name of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit is to baptize them into the name of Christ (Acts 8:16; 19:5), and that to baptize them into the name of Christ is to baptize them into Christ the person (Gal. 3:27; Rom. 6:3), because Christ is the embodiment of the Triune God, and He, having become the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45), is available any time and in any place for people to be baptized into. According to Matthew, being baptized into the reality of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit is for the constituting of the kingdom of the heavens. Unlike an earthly society, the heavenly kingdom cannot be formed with human beings of flesh and blood (1 Cor. 15:50); it can be constituted only with people who have been immersed into the union with the Triune God and who have been established and built up with the Triune God, who has been wrought into them. (Life-study of Matthew, 2nd ed., pp. 789-790)