基督的十字架和祂的血乃是通路
福音的传扬只是客观的事实，并不是经历。因此，我们在接受这传扬之后，还需要经历，就是在一位灵里，得以进到父面前。这条进到父面前的通路，乃是基督的十字架和祂的血。
藉着基督
犹太和外邦信徒乃是藉着基督，得以进到父面前。这位基督废掉了那规条中诫命的律法，拆毁了中间隔断的墙，除灭了仇恨，使外邦人与犹太人和好，并且流血将两下赎回归于神。
在一位灵里
十八节指出，我们得以进到父面前的通路，乃是在一位灵里。我们若有十字架而没有灵，就是只有事实而没有经历。因此，灵是极重要的。先是犹太和外邦信徒，在一个身体里与神和好，那是地位的事；然后我们两下在一位灵里，得以进到父面前，这是经历的事。
进到父面前
在一位灵里的这条通路，乃是进到父面前。在地位上，我们是与神和好；在经历上，我们是进到父面前。与神和好是得救，进到父面前是享受神；祂是生命的源头，已经重生我们成为祂的儿子。
我们已经藉着十字架，在一个身体里与神和好了；这是事实。现今我们得以进到父面前，直接的接触祂；这是经历。在地位上，我们已经与神和好，使我们得救；在经历上，我们得以进到父面前，使我们享受祂。这些经节不是说我们与父和好，得以进到神面前；这是很有意思的。与神和好是一次永远的，而我们现今得以进到父面前，乃是为着继续不断的享受。
十八节含示神格的三一：藉着子神，祂是完成者，是凭借；在灵神里，祂是执行者，是应用；我们得以进到父神面前，祂是起源，是我们享受的源头。
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Unto the Father — Eph. 2:18
Christ’s Cross and His Blood Being the Access
The preaching of the gospel is merely the objective fact; it is not the experience. Hence, after receiving this preaching, we need the experience, which is the access to the Father in the one Spirit. This access is constituted of Christ’s cross and His blood.
Through Christ
Both Jewish and Gentile believers have access to the Father through Christ – the very Christ who abolished the law of the commandments in ordinances, broke down the middle wall of partition, slew the enmity to reconcile the Gentiles to the Jews, and shed His blood for redeeming both to God.
In One Spirit
As verse 18 points out, our access unto the Father is in the one Spirit. If we have the cross without the Spirit, we have the fact without the experience. Hence, the Spirit is crucial. Firstly, both the Jewish and Gentile believers were reconciled in one Body to God (v. 16). That was a positional matter. Then we both have access in one Spirit unto the Father. This is experiential.
Unto the Father
This access in one Spirit is unto the Father. Positionally we were reconciled to God; experientially we have access unto the Father. To be reconciled to God is to be saved; to have access unto the Father is to enjoy God, who, as the source of life, has regenerated us to be His sons.
In the one Body we have been reconciled to God through the cross. This is a fact. Now we may have access unto the Father and contact Him directly. This is an experience. We have been reconciled to God positionally for salvation, and we have access unto the Father experientially for enjoyment. It is significant that these verses do not say that we are reconciled to the Father and have access to God. No, having been reconciled to God once for all, we now have access to the Father for continual enjoyment.
In verse 18 the Trinity of the Godhead is implied. Through God the Son who is the Accomplisher, the means, and in God the Spirit who is the Executor, the application, we have access to God the Father who is the Originator, the source of our enjoyment.