罗八4　使律法义的要求，成就在我们这不照着肉体，只照着灵而行的人身上。
　　6　因为心思置于肉体，就是死；心思置于灵，乃是生命平安。
　　离了那灵，神就无法应用在我们身上。神是丰富的，祂一切的丰富都是为着我们；但是需要那灵作流，好将神的丰富应用在我们的经历里。那灵的流乃是我们里面膏油的涂抹和运行。……现今在我们的灵里，有神圣之流的涌流，有膏油的运行。我们里面有个东西不断地运行，这个运行的成分包括神性、人性、基督的人性生活、祂死的功效、复活的大能、复活的馨香、祂的升天、登宝座、为元首、为主、权柄及国度。
　　〔我们需要看见，〕我们的灵在应用三一神的流这件事上的重要性。我们的灵就像开关一样。我们运用我们的灵，就打开开关，接通了安装在我们里面属天的电。我们若没有开关，或者不知道开关在哪里，我们就无法应用电。同样的原则，离了我们的灵这开关，我们就无法应用属天的电。赞美主，我们有开关，我们也知道这开关在哪里！这开关乃是在我们全人的内室，就是在我们的灵里。打开电流开关最简单的路，就是呼求主耶稣的名（罗马书生命读经，六九三至六九四页）。

　　Rom. 8:4 That the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the spirit.

　　6 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.

　　Apart from the Spirit as the current, the flow, there is no way for God to be applied to us. God is rich and all His riches are for us; but there is the need of the Spirit as the current for the application of the riches of God to our experience. This flow of the Spirit is the anointing, the moving, of the ointment within us....Now in our spirit we have the flowing of the divine current, the moving of the ointment. Within us there is something that is constantly in motion. This moving element includes divinity, humanity, Christ's human living, the effectiveness of His death, the power of His resurrection, the fragrance of His resurrection, His ascension, enthronement, headship, lordship, authority, and kingdom.

　　[We need to see] the importance of our spirit in applying the current of the Triune God. Our spirit is like a switch. By exercising our spirit, we switch on the heavenly electricity which has been installed into us. If we did not have a switch or did not know where the switch was, we would have no way of applying electricity. In the same principle, apart from the switch of our spirit, we have no way to apply the heavenly electricity. Praise the Lord that we have a switch and that we know where it is! The switch is in the inner chamber of our being, that is, in our spirit. The simplest way to switch on the current is to call on the name of the Lord Jesus. (Life-study of Romans, pp. 587-588)

　　保罗在罗马一章九节说，“我在祂儿子的福音上，在我灵里所事奉的神。”事奉神的地方不是心思，乃是我们的灵。人很少说，“我的灵。”他们说到他们的心、他们的魂、他们的心思、他们的情感、他们的意志，却没有说到他们的灵。然而，保罗是
　　一个在他的灵里事奉神的人。我们需要养成说“我的灵”或“我们的灵”的习惯。正如八章十六节所说，“那灵自己同我们的灵见证我们是神的儿女。”我们需要更多说到我们的灵，转向我们的灵，并且在凡事上运用我们的灵（罗马书生命读经，六九四至六九五页）。
　　在腓立比二章十二节，保罗说，“作成你们自己的救恩”，这好像和路德马丁的教训相反。路德强调因信称义，而不是靠行为称义。但保罗却说要作成自己的救恩。这是什么意思呢？这就是打开开关。作成自己的救恩就是把开关打开。神已经把一切都安装好了，神自己也在操作，但你需要把开关打开。罗马八章二节说，“生命之灵的律，在基督耶稣里已经释放了我，使我脱离了罪与死的律。”这节里的“我”是谁呢？就是那个把开关打开的“我”。这节不是说生命之灵没有条件地释放每个信徒，至少七章里的那个信徒就还没得着释放，他仍在痛苦挣扎。一直等到八章，保罗才点出律法有所不能行的。律法早已设立了，也是在神的运作之下，然而，还需要保罗把开关打开。五十多年前我也听过生命之灵的律，这一类的书我也看过，但是没有人提到说这律需要信徒这一面有一些行动来配合才能运行。事实上，罗马八章是在解释生命之灵的律如何运行、作工。生命之灵的律如何释放人就是罗马八章的主题。但是，光从第二节你看不出这律是如何作工的。你还得往下看第三节，看完整章，才能知道生命之灵的律的运行。这律并没有释放每一个人。今天许多基督徒没有得释放。生命之灵的律所释放的对象，仅限于那些履行了八章中所有条件的信徒（成全训练信息，四二三至四二四页）。
　　参读：成全训练信息，第三十一篇。

　　In Romans 1:9 Paul said, "For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of His Son." The place to serve God is not the mind; it is our spirit. People rarely say "my spirit." They speak of their heart, their soul, their mind, their emotion, and their will, but not of their spirit. However, Paul was a person who served God in his spirit. We need to develop the habit of saying "my spirit" or "our spirit." As 8:16 says, "The Spirit Himself witnesses with our spirit that we are children of God." We need to speak more about our spirit, turn to our spirit, and use our spirit in all things. (Life-study of Romans, p. 588)

　　[Paul] says, "Work out your own salvation" (Phil. 2:12). Apparently, this is altogether against Martin Luther's teaching. Salvation should be by faith, not by works. Yet Paul says to work out your own salvation. What is this? This is just switching on. To work out your salvation is to switch on. God has installed something, and God is still operating something, but you need to switch on. Romans 8:2 says, "The law of the Spirit of life has freed me in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and of death." But who is this "me"? It is the switching "me." It does not mean that the law of the Spirit of life frees every believer with no qualification. At least the one in Romans 7 was not freed; he was still struggling there. Until Paul reached chapter 8, the law had no way to work out something. The law had been set up, and the law was still under God's operation, yet it needed Paul's switching on. Over fifty years ago I heard messages and I read books on this verse concerning the matter of the law of the Spirit of life. But no one ever told me that this law does not work without certain activities on the believers' side. Actually, Romans 8 is a definition of how the law of the Spirit of life is working. The subject of Romans 8 is the freeing of the law of the Spirit of life. But just by verse 2, you do not know how the law of the Spirit of life works. So from verse 3 onward, nearly the entire chapter is a definition of how the law of the Spirit of life operates. The law of the Spirit of life does not free everyone. Many Christians today have not been freed. The law of the Spirit of life only frees the believers who fulfill all the doings in this chapter. (CWWL, 1980, vol. 1, "Perfecting Training," pp. 314-315)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Romans, msg. 56; CWWL, 1980, vol. 1, "Perfecting Training," ch. 31