5基督对我们不仅是生命,也是榜样(约十三15,彼前二21)。我们照着祂的榜样跟祂学(太十一29),不是凭我们天然的生命,乃是凭祂在复活里作我们的生命。……主耶稣并没有直接进到我们里面作生命。祂乃是在地上活了三十年之后,又尽职了三年半。祂在地上三十三年半的一生当中,设立了模型,模子,榜样……。写四福音书的一个原因,就是要给我们看见,神所要之生命的模型是什么,能满足神并完成祂定旨之生命的模子是什么。因这缘故,新约从四方面给我们一部独特的传记—主耶稣的传记。主耶稣设立了启示在福音书里的模型之后,就被钉在十字架上,然后进入复活。祂乃是在复活里,进到我们里面作我们的生命(以弗所书生命读经,四七四至四七五页)。 5Christ is not only life to us but also an example (John 13:15; 1 Pet. 2:21). We learn from Him (Matt. 11:29) according to His example, not by our natural life but by Him as our life…The Lord Jesus did not come into us as life directly. Rather, after living on earth for thirty years, He ministered for another three and a half years. During the thirty-three and a half years of His life on earth, He set up a pattern, a mold, a model…One reason the four Gospels were written was to show the pattern of the life that God desires, the mold of the life that can satisfy God and fulfill His purpose. For this reason the New Testament gives us a unique biography, the biography of the Lord Jesus, written from four directions. After the Lord Jesus set up the pattern revealed in the Gospels, He was crucified on the cross, and then He entered into resurrection. It is in resurrection that He comes into us to be our life. (Life-study of Ephesians, pp. 380-381)