那灵引导我们过神儿子的生活
那灵在我们里面也引导我们过神儿子的生活。罗马八章十四节的引导，不仅是那灵的一种行动，更是三一神自己在我们灵里成为引导。我们若顾到祂这住在我们里面的人位，我们自然就被祂引导。那灵的引导，不是外面的，乃是里面的，由生命之灵的律、那灵和生命所组成。
本节说我们被那灵引导，不说那灵引导我们，指明虽然那灵预备好要引导我们，我们却必须主动受祂引导。这就是说，我们必须接受祂作我们的生命和一切，并且必须治死我们身上的旧造。这引导不需要我们寻求，因为已经在我们里面，就是在我们重生的灵里。我们只要活在这引导之下，我们的生活行动与行事为人，就要证明我们是神的儿子。
这节神的儿子与十六节神的儿女，有很大的差别。儿女是儿子名分的初阶，是他们在灵里得着重生的阶段；儿子乃是神儿女在魂里变化的阶段。他们不仅在灵里得了重生，更在神的生命里长大，并且被那灵引导而行。所以我们若不照着那灵的引导生活行事，我们可能是神的儿女，有那灵与我们的灵同证（罗八16），却没有神儿子的标记。因此，我们都需要在生命的长大里，从作神儿女的初阶往前到更长进的阶段，在生命里接受那灵的引导，过神儿子的生活。
那灵圣别并变化我们
变化是圣别改变的一面，圣别是变化分别的一面。我们得救以前，是在堕落的光景里。有一天圣灵来寻找我们，将我们分别归神，为祂使用，以完成祂的定旨。然而，我们的生命、性情、元素和素质，甚至我们的全人，仍是在旧造里。为这缘故，那灵将我们分别归神的时候，也将神圣的生命、性情、素质和元素，分赐到我们里面，使我们得以变化，并模成基督的形像。
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The Leading of the Spirit of Son – Rom. 8:14
The Spirit in us leads us to live a life of God’s sons. The “leading” in Rom 8:14 is not merely an action of the Spirit, it is the Triune God Himself becoming the leading in our spirit. If we would care for Him as a person who indwells us, we will spontaneously be led by Him. The leading of the Spirit is inwardly, not outwardly, which is composed of the law of the life of the Spirit, the Spirit and life.
This verse speaks of our being led by the Spirit rather than of the Spirit’s leading us, indicating that although the Spirit is ready to lead us, we must take the initiative to be led by Him. This means that we must take Him as our life and everything and that we must put to death everything of the old creation in us. We do not need to seek after the Spirit’s leading, since it is already present within us, dwelling in our regenerated spirit. If we live under this leading, we will walk and behave in a way that proves that we are God’s sons.
There is a great distinction in verse 16 between sons of God and children of God. Children refers to the initial stage of sonship, the stage of regeneration in the human spirit. Sons are the children of God who are in the stage of the transformation of their souls. They not only have been regenerated in their spirit and are growing in the divine life, but they also are living and walking by being led by the Spirit. We may be children of God, whom the Spirit Himself with our spirit testifies, yet without the mark of God’s sons. Thus, we need to grow in life, from an initial stage of children of God to a more advanced stage, led by the Spirit in life to live a life of God’s sons.
The Spirit Sanctifies and Transforms Us
Transformation is the changing aspect of sanctification, and sanctification is the transformation and separating aspect. Before we were saved, we were in a fallen state. One day the Holy Spirit comes to seek us and sanctifies us for God, that we may be used by God in order to fulfill His purpose. However, our life, nature, elements, essence, and even our whole being are still in the old creation. For this reason, when the Spirit sanctifies us for God, He also dispenses the divine life, nature, essence and element into us so that we may be transformed and conformed to the image of Christ.