我们已经看见,基督为着使祂自己便于给我们接受,经过了六个步骤-成为肉体、钉十字架、复活、升天、成为赐生命的灵、并具体化于生命的话。主已经成为肉体、钉十字架、复活、升天、从肉体变化形像成为那灵、并且具体化于话。话乃是主的灵的具体化身。你不能说你不知道如何接触主,因为主已经具体化于话。祂是灵,也是话。你若接受话,就有那灵作你对基督的享受。
现在我们可以辨别,人的观念与神的思想之间的差异。人的宗教观念,就是犹太人在二十八节所问的:“我们当怎样行,才算作神的工?”在整本圣经中,只有在这一章里,宗教的犹太人问了这样旳问题。宗教的教训总是劝勉我们行甚么,作甚么。人的观念就是行,神的思想乃是信。
神所要、所豫定我们作的工,乃是信入祂的儿子。在二十九节,主耶稣并不是告诉我们要“信祂,”乃是要“信入祂。”约翰六章给我们看见两种信法-信祂,与信入祂。当主答覆了他们的问题之后,犹太人在三十节反驳主的话说,“你行甚么神迹,叫我们看见就信你?你到底作甚么工?”他们说“信你,”但那并不是主所说的。主告诉他们要“信入”祂。这里的介系词,与罗马六章三节“浸入基督”所用的介系词完全一样。
我们已经看见,“信祂”的意思就是信祂是真实的,并且信关于祂的一切都是对的。但“信入祂”的意思是接受祂,并与祂联结,相调为一。你信入祂的时候,你与基督之间就有了一个联结和合一。换句话说,你已进入祂里面,也将祂接受到你里面。按照神圣的思想,我们没有甚么要作的,只要信入基督,并且天天将祂接受到我们里面。
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The Lord’s Words Are Spiritand Life (3) – John 6:35
We have already seen that Christ, in order to make Himself easy for us to receive, went through six steps: becoming flesh, being crucified, resurrecting, ascending, becoming the life-giving Spirit, and being embodied in the words of life. The Lord became flesh, was crucified, resurrected, ascended, was transformed in form from the flesh into the Spirit, and is now embodied in the words. The words are the embodiment of the Lord’s Spirit. You cannot say that you do not know how to contact the Lord, because He has already been embodied in the words. He is the Spirit, and He is also the Word. If you receive the Word, you have the Spirit for your enjoyment of Christ.
Now we can discern the difference between man’s concept and God’s thought. Man’s religious concept is like what the Jews asked in verse 28: “What shall we do that we may work the works of God?” In the entire Bible, only in this chapter do the religious Jews ask such a question. Religious teachings always exhort people to do something, to work something out. Man’s concept is “to do,” but God’s thought is “to believe.”
The work that God wants and has ordained us to do is to believe into His Son. In verse 29, the Lord Jesus did not tell us merely to “believe Him,” but to “believe into Him.” John 6 shows us two kinds of believing: believing Him and believing into Him. After the Lord answered their question, the Jews argued back in verse 30: “What sign then will You do that we may see and believe You? What work will You perform?” They said, “believe You,” but that was not what the Lord had said. The Lord told them to “believe into” Him. The preposition used here is the same as in Romans 6:3 — “baptized into Christ.”
We have seen that to “believe Him” means to believe that He is real and that everything concerning Him is true. But to “believe into Him” means to receive Him, to be joined to Him, and to be mingled with Him as one. When you believe into Him, a union and oneness is formed between you and Christ. In other words, you enter into Him, and you also receive Him into you. According to God’s thought, there is nothing for us to “do.” What He requires is that we believe into Christ and daily receive Him into us.