20在神救恩的第一阶段,我们有分于神的公义。这是称义,我们在其中得着神的公义。在第二阶段,我们在圣别的过程中,神在这过程中将祂神圣的性情作到我们里面。……虽然我们外面已得着并有分于神的公义,但神的圣别需要作到我们里面。……在下一阶段,我们要被提并得荣,……完全并绝对被带进作我们荣耀的神自己里面。……神救恩的第一阶段,称义,顾到我们的灵;第二阶段,圣别,主要是对付我们的魂,也有一点浸透我们的身体;第三阶段,得荣,与我们物质的身体有关。在罗马八章十节保罗说,基督若在我们里面,我们的灵就因义是生命,这意思是在神的称义里,我们得着了义。借着这义,我们的灵已活过来,并实际成为生命。然而,我们的魂里还没有神圣的生命。所以,我们需要借着将心思置于灵,与内住的基督合作,使生命之灵能以祂自己浸透我们的心思。这样,我们的心思就会成为生命。我们若继续合作,这浸透并扩展的一位,甚至要将祂自己从我们的灵扩展到我们必死的身体里。然后我们只需要等候我们的身体被带进祂荣耀里的时候,那将是我们的得荣(罗马书生命读经,二四一至二四三页)。
20In the first stage of God’s salvation, we participate in the righteousness of God. This is justification in which we gain God’s righteousness. In the second stage we are in the process of sanctification, a process in which God works His divine nature into us…Although we have obtained and participated in God’s righteousness outwardly, God’s holiness needs to be wrought into us inwardly…In the next stage we will be raptured and glorified,…absolutely brought into God Himself as our glory. The first stage of God’s salvation, justification, takes care of our spirit; the second stage, sanctification, mainly deals with our soul, with a slight amount of saturation in our body; and the third stage, glorification, concerns our physical body. In Romans 8:10 Paul says that if Christ is in us, our spirit is life because of righteousness, meaning that in God’s justification we have gained righteousness. Through this righteousness our spirit has been made alive and actually becomes life. However, there is not yet the divine life in our soul. Therefore, we need to cooperate with the indwelling Christ by setting our mind upon the spirit, enabling the Spirit of life to saturate our mind with Himself. Then our mind will be life. If we continue to cooperate, this saturating and spreading One will spread Himself from our spirit even into our mortal body. Then we only need to wait for the time when our body will be brought into His glory. That will be our glorification. (Life-study of Romans, pp. 197-199)