弗五18 不要醉酒，醉酒使人放荡，乃要在灵里被充满。

　　林前十二13 …我们…都已经在一位灵里受浸，成了一个身体，且都得以喝一位灵。

　　Eph. 5:18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in spirit,

　　1 Cor. 12:13 For also in one Spirit we were all baptized into one Body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and were all given to drink one Spirit.

　　人的灵比人的体更重要，因此以弗所五章十八节说，“不要醉酒，醉酒使人放荡，乃要在灵里被充满。”醉酒是在身体里被充满；这里说，我们不该在身体里充满酒，乃该在灵里被充满。我们需要被基督充满，成为神一切的丰满（一23，三19）。今天基督一切的丰富，就在赐生命的灵里；因此，在我们的灵里被充满，乃是被素质的灵充满；素质的灵就是赐生命的灵，也就是约翰十四章十七节所说，作基督实化的实际之灵。

　　The human spirit is more important than the human body. This is why Ephesians 5:18 says, “Do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in spirit.” To be drunk with wine is to be filled in the body. Here it says that we should not be filled with wine in our body but that we should be filled in spirit. We need to be filled with Christ unto all the fullness of God (1:23; 3:19). Today all the riches of Christ are included in the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b; 2 Cor. 3:17). To be filled in our spirit is to be filled with the essential Spirit. The essential Spirit is the life-giving Spirit, and the life-giving Spirit is the Spirit of reality as the realization of Christ, referred to in John 14:17.

　　圣灵的充满与圣灵的充溢不同；圣灵的充溢远不如圣灵的充满宝贵。所以新约在使徒行传之后，从罗马书到启示录，这二十二卷书信里，就不再使用外面的充溢这字，乃是强调里面的充满。

　　林前十二章十三节说，“我们…都已经在一位灵里受浸，成了一个身体，且都得以喝一位灵。”这里的连接词“且”，指明浸和喝乃是两件事；浸是外面的充溢，喝是里面的充满。…二次大战后，我住在上海，有时到南京尽职。当时长江下游一带流行一句话：“早晨皮包水，晚间水包皮。”意思是早晨到茶馆喝个饱，就是皮包水；晚上到澡堂去泡澡，就是水包皮；你若这样实行，必定身体健康。我听见这话，觉得真好，真有意思；因为皮包水就是里面的充满，水包皮就是外面的充溢。你要作个健康的基督徒，早晨就得晨晨复兴，这是皮包水；晚上要出外为主作工，就需要外面的充溢，也就是水包皮。

　　The inward filling of the Spirit is different from the outward filling of the Spirit. The outward filling of the Spirit is far less precious than the inward filling of the Spirit. Hence, after the book of Acts the word for outward filling is not used in the twenty-two Epistles from Romans to Revelation. Instead, inward filling is emphasized.

　　1 Corinthians 12:13, says, “For also in one Spirit we were all baptized into one Body...and were all given to drink one Spirit.” Here the conjunction and indicates that to be baptized and to drink are two matters. To be baptized is to be filled outwardly, and to drink is to be filled inwardly. Therefore, the Pentecostals are mistaken in neglecting the distinction between the two.

　　I stayed in Shanghai after the second World War. From time to time I ministered in Nanking. At that time there was a saying in the region around the lower Yangtze River. The saying was, “In the morning the skin encompasses the water; at night the water encompasses the skin.” When a person drinks tea in the tea house in the morning, his skin “encompasses” the water. When he goes to take a bath at night, the water encompasses the skin. They believed that if one practiced this, he would surely be healthy. After I heard this saying, I found it to be very good and meaningful. The skin encompassing the water is a picture of the inward filling, and the water encompassing the skin is a picture of the outward filling. If you want to be a healthy Christian, you have to be revived every morning. This is the skin encompassing the water. You also need to receive the outward filling of the Spirit when you go out to labor for the Lord at night. This is the water encompassing the skin. The Pentecostals make these two “encompassing” into one “encompassing.” As a result, many of them get too deeply immersed in water and drown.

　　今天灵恩运动的人，虽然也讲认罪，却错误的教导说，还必须加上说方言。圣经并没有说被圣灵充满必须说方言。…实际上他们所谓的说方言，就是叫人把舌头卷起来随便说话；结果他们被充满的不是圣灵，连邪灵也不是，而是他们自己。

　　这样的交通，一面是要帮助你们，给你们一条正途来追求圣灵的充满；一面是要给你们一点预防注射，免得一说到圣灵的充满，有人对你说，“是啊，我们也讲圣灵的充满。你会不会说方言呢？”你就说你不会，而受他们影响，中他们的毒。你必须清楚，圣灵的充满有两面，一个是外面的，一个是里面的。外面的一面只在使徒行传提到，可是到了书信，从罗马书到启示录，却只强调里面的充满，因为那才是最重要的（作主合用的器皿，一一八至一二○、一二二至一二三页）。

　　Those in the Pentecostal movement also talk about confession, but they wrongly teach people that confession must be accompanied by speaking in tongues. The Bible never says that we must speak in tongues to be filled with the Spirit. Today people are hungry and thirsty for God. Thus, those in the Pentecostal movement use tongue-speaking to attract them. Because the Pentecostals lack the truth, they encourage people to pursue after tongue-speaking. Actually, in many cases their so-called speaking in tongues is not genuine. They simply ask people to roll their tongue and speak out anything that comes to their mind. As a result of this practice, they are not filled with the Holy Spirit. They are not even filled with the evil spirits. They are filled only with themselves.

　　On the one hand, this fellowship is meant to help you by giving you the proper way to pursue the filling of the Spirit. On the other hand, it is meant to give you an inoculation. When you speak to people concerning the filling of the Spirit, they may say, “We also talk about the filling of the Spirit” and may ask you, “Do you speak in tongues?” If you do not know how to answer them, you will be poisoned by them. You must be clear that the filling of the Spirit has two aspects—an outward aspect and an inward aspect. The outward aspect is mentioned only in Acts, but in the Epistles from Romans to Revelation, the inward filling is emphasized because it is the more important aspect (Vessels Useful to the Lord, chap. 7).