15在……神圣启示的光中,基督的十字架乃是雅各最大的缺欠。在雅各书中基督徒的完全,引到自我的修养;但保罗说,他已经与基督同钉十字架,并凭着基督复活的大能模成基督的死。乃是这样的生活产生基督身体的生活,终极完成于新耶路撒冷。……无论我们是好人或坏人,我们都必须被除掉。不再是我,乃是基督在我里面作赐生命的灵活着,结果就带进基督的身体。自我的修养不能完成神的经纶,否认己才能。我们必须否认我们自己,知道凡我们在旧造中的所是,都已经被除掉,被钉十字架了。我们每一天都在死。我们是在模成基督的死,好使基督能活在我们里面,以产生基督身体的生活,这会带进新耶路撒冷,作神在祂永远经纶里永远的目标。
15In the light of the divine revelation…, the cross of Christ is the greatest lack of James. The Christian perfection in James leads to self-cultivation, but Paul says that he had been crucified with Christ and was being conformed to the death of Christ by the power of His resurrection. It is this life that produces the Body life, which consummates in the New Jerusalem. Whether we are a good man or a bad man, we have to be crossed out. It is no longer I, but Christ lives in me as the life-giving Spirit to issue in the Body of Christ. Selfcultivation does not carry out God’s economy, but self-denial does. We have to deny ourselves, realizing that whatever we are in the old creation has been crossed out, crucified. Every day we are dying. We are being conformed to the death of Christ so that Christ can live in us to bring forth the Body life, which will issue in the New Jerusalem as God’s eternal goal in His eternal economy.