Complete and Effective Dominion

Death no longer has dominion over Him. . . . the life that He lives, He lives to God. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God . . . —Romans 6:9-11

Co-Eternal Life. Eternal life is the life which Jesus Christ exhibited on the human level. And it is this same life, not simply a copy of it, which is made evident in our mortal flesh when we are born again. Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift of God. The energy and the power which was so very evident in Jesus will be exhibited in us by an act of the absolute sovereign grace of God, once we have made that complete and effective decision about sin.

“You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you . . .” (Acts 1:8)— not power as a gift from the Holy Spirit; the power is the Holy Spirit, not something that He gives us. The life that was in Jesus becomes ours because of His Cross, once we make the decision to be identified with Him. If it is difficult to get right with God, it is because we refuse to make this moral decision about sin. But once we do decide, the full life of God comes in immediately. Jesus came to give us an endless supply of life— “. . . that you may be filled with all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:19). Eternal life has nothing to do with time. It is the life which Jesus lived when He was down here, and the only Source of life is the Lord Jesus Christ.

Even the weakest saint can experience the power of the deity of the Son of God, when he is willing to “let go.” But any effort to “hang on” to the least bit of our own power will only diminish the life of Jesus in us. We have to keep letting go, and slowly, but surely, the great full life of God will invade us, penetrating every part. Then Jesus will have complete and effective dominion in us, and people will take notice that we have been with Him.

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道德上的主權

死也不再作他的主了……他活是向神活著。這樣，他們向罪也當看自己是死的，向神在基督耶穌裡，卻當看自己是活的。 （羅六9-11）

同享永生。永生是耶穌基督以人的身份所表現的生命。若我們從神而生，在這必朽的肉身所彰顯的生命，正是這種生命，而非它的副本。永生不是從神而來的恩賜，乃是神把自己賜給我們。耶穌所彰顯出來的能力與權柄，在我們對罪作道德決判時，因著神的恩典，在我們身上彰顯出來。

[聖靈降臨在你們身上，你們就必得著能力。 ]以－－這能力並不是從聖靈而來得恩賜，乃是聖靈本身。換言之，這並不是聖靈所賜得什麼東西。我們一旦與他的死認同後，就藉著十字架得著耶穌的生命。若覺得與神和好是件難事，那就一定是我們對罪未肯作確定得判決。只要一作決定，神豐盛的生命就立即進來。耶穌來了，是要供應永恆的生命：[叫神一切所充滿的，充滿了你們。 ]

永生與時間原不相關，永生是耶穌在地上時的生命。生命唯一的源頭就是主耶穌基督。只要肯[放手]，最軟弱的信徒也能經歷神兒子的能力。我們舊我的能力，若有任何殘餘存在，都會叫耶穌的生命受阻。我們要慢慢的放手，讓神生命的洪流湧進我們每一部分，以致人就認出我們是耶穌的門徒。

祈禱◆主啊，我感到自己渴望你的同在，並得著你極之美好和滿有喜樂的賜福。主啊，我將此心願交給你，若你認為是好的話，請賜給我。