11复活是为着那人耶稣从祂人性的壳子里出来,并释放神圣的生命;这复活称为得荣。在基督这样得着荣耀之前,还没有那灵。约翰说,“还没有那灵”〔约七39〕,他的意思是说,还没有那灵从信徒的腹中,如同活水的江河流出来〔38〕。……基督这位末后的亚当,借着复活并在复活里成了赐生命的灵,以进入信祂的人里面,如同活水的江河流出来(林前十五45下,启二一6,二二17下)。神是灵,三一神的第二者在肉体里成了赐生命的灵。在基督复活之前神就是灵,但不是赐生命的灵。在基督的死与复活之前,神无法进到人里面作人的生命。在人与神之间有许多消极的事物成为障碍。按照我们在创世记所看见的预表,通往神这生命树的道路,因着神荣耀、圣别和公义的要求,而被封闭了(创三24,见创世记生命读经第二十一篇)。在基督的死满足这些要求之前,堕落、犯罪、不洁的人完全不能取用生命树,接受神作生命(李常受文集一九九三年第二册,一七五至一七七页)。 11Resurrection was for the man Jesus to get out of His human shell and to release the divine life, and this resurrection is called glorification. Before Christ was thus glorified, the Spirit was not yet. When John said “the Spirit was not yet” [John 7:39], he meant that the Spirit was not yet to flow out of the believers as rivers of living water [v. 38]…Through and in His resurrection Christ as the last Adam became the life-giving Spirit to enter into His believers to flow out as rivers of living water (1 Cor. 15:45b; Rev. 21:6; 22:17c). God is a Spirit, and the second of the Triune God in the flesh became a life-giving Spirit. Prior to Christ’s resurrection God was a Spirit but not a life-giving Spirit. Before Christ’s death and resurrection God had no way to enter into man to be man’s life. Between man and God there were a number of negative things as obstacles. According to the typology seen in Genesis, the way to God as the tree of life was closed by the requirements of God’s glory, God’s holiness, and God’s righteousness (Gen. 3:24; see Lifestudy of Genesis, msg. 21). A fallen, sinful, unclean man was altogether unable to take the tree of life, to take God in as life, until Christ’s death fulfilled these requirements. (CWWL, 1993, vol. 2, “The Spirit with Our Spirit,” pp. 130-131)