21 Due to Adam's fall, Satan joined himself to man's soul-life—man's self; to overcome him we must not love our soul-life; rather, we must hate it and deny it—Matt. 16:23-24; Luke 14:26; 9:23:
3a 撒但要我们凭自己的力量行事,并要我们在自己里面以我们魂的能力,我们天然的才能行动。
3a Satan wants us to act in our own strength and move in ourselves with the power of our soul, our natural ability.
4b 天然的才能就是我们原本有的才能,从未受过十字架运行的对付。
4b Natural ability is the ability which we originally had and which has never been dealt with by the operation of the cross.
5c 召会的失败,乃是由于人把他天然的才能带进来。
5c The failure of the church is due to man's bringing in his natural ability.
6d The purpose of the cross is to deal with our natural strength and ability so that we will not dare to move by ourselves, as seen in the cases of Moses and Peter—Acts 7:23-30; Luke 22:32-34; 1 Pet. 5:5-6.
7e We should have the attitude that we will not live by our self in any way; we will not value our own ability or have any self-confidence—1 Cor. 2:2-4; Phil. 3:3; cf. Isa. 11:2b.
82 We must be self-sacrificing persons, a drink offering, allowing Christ as the heavenly wine to fill us and cause us to become wine to God—Phil. 2:17; 2 Tim. 4:6; Judg. 9:13:
11c The drink offering typifies not only Christ Himself, but also Christ who saturates us with Himself as the heavenly wine until He and we become one to be poured out for God's enjoyment and satisfaction and for God's building—Matt. 9:17; Phil. 2:17; 2 Tim. 4:6.