利二六1~2　你们不可为自己制造偶像，不可为自己立雕像或柱像，也不可在你们的地上安置石像，向它跪拜，因为我是耶和华你们的神。你们要谨守我的安息日，敬畏我的圣所；我是耶和华。
　　利未记二十六章一至二节给我们看见顺从的根据，这根据包括三件事。首先，不该有偶像（1）。这表征我们不可在神之外有其他的寻求目标，免得失去我们享受神圣产业的地位。第二，要谨守神的安息日（2上）。这表征我们该知道神的工作完全是由祂自己完成的，使我们可以享受；我们不需要作什么工。第三，需要敬畏神的圣所（2下）。这表征我们对神在那作祂居所、具体化身并彰显的基督里（约一14，西二9），并在那是基督的扩大、作神居所并永远彰显的召会里（提前三15~16，启二一10），所是并所完成的一切，有所敬畏。我们不仅需要从字句来领悟这些点，更需要看见这些点的内在意义（利未记生命读经，六二六至六二七页）。

　　Lev. 26:1-2 You shall not make for yourselves idols, nor shall you raise up for yourselves a graven image or a pillar, nor shall you place a stone figure in your land to bow down to it; for I am Jehovah your God. You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary; I am Jehovah.

　　In Leviticus 26:1-20 we are given a basis for our obedience, and this basis includes three matters. First, we should not have idols (v. 1). This signifies that besides God we should have no other goals that we are seeking after, so that we may not lose the position to enjoy our divine possession. Second, we should keep God's Sabbaths (v. 2a). This signifies that we should know that the work of God was done entirely by Himself that we might enjoy it, and that there is no need for us to do any work. Third, we need to reverence God's sanctuary (v. 2b). This signifies that we should regard with reverence all that God is and has accomplished in Christ as God's dwelling, embodiment, and expression (John 1:14; Col. 2:9), and in the church as the enlargement of Christ for God's dwelling and eternal manifestation (Eph. 2:22; Rev. 21:10). We need not only to understand these points in letter but also to see their intrinsic significance. (Life-study of Leviticus, p. 535)

　　我们是在禧年里。但我们若在神之外追求什么，就会失去禧年的享受。凡我们在神以外所追求的，都是偶像。……我们该只有一个目标，这独一的目标就是神自己（利未记生命读经，六一八至六一九页）。
　　约翰……在约壹五章二十一节的末了说，“孩子们，你们要保守自己，远避偶像。”“保守”即防备外来的攻击，如异端的袭击。“偶像”是指智慧派和塞林则派所带来异端的代替品，顶替了约翰一书和约翰福音所启示，也正是约壹五章二十节所提的真神。这里的偶像也指一切顶替真神的东西。我们这些真神的真儿女，应当儆醒、保守自己，远避这些异端的代替品，以及一切顶替我们那真实、实际之神的虚空之物；我们与这位神在生机上是一，并且祂对我们是永远的生命。这是年老的使徒对他所有孩子们警告的话，作他书信的结语（约翰一书生命读经，四三〇至四三一页）。
　　根据新约的启示，那灵已经经过了许多阶段。当然，在整本旧约里祂是神的灵、耶和华的灵、圣别的灵。在这四千年的人类历史里，神的灵没有任何改变。但是说神的灵永远没有改变，是一个大的错误。这是因为过了四千年人类的历史以后，三一神亲自进入一段时间里，经过了许多的过程（那灵同我们的灵，四九至五〇页）。
　　三一神采取了几个重要步骤，经过过程成为赐生命的灵。……“终极完成”这辞指明一种工作或过程已经完成、结束了。这可由烹饪说明。……在神成为肉体之前，神是“生”的，有神性却没有人性。经过了成为肉体、为人生活、钉十字架、复活、升天之后，神就经过了过程而终极完成了。现今祂不再是“生”的神；祂乃是终极完成、完整的三一神，带着神性、人性、为人生活、包罗万有的死、大能的复活、超越的升天。这一切都是在经过过程并终极完成之三一神里的元素或成分（三一神作三部分人的生命，五一至五二页）。
　　参读：三一神作三部分人的生命，第五篇；约伯记生命读经，第十二篇。

　　We are in the jubilee. But if we seek something other than God, we may lose the enjoyment of the jubilee. Whatever we seek as a goal other than God is an idol....We should have one goal, a unique goal—God as our one aim. (Life-study of Leviticus, p. 528)

　　In 1 John 5:2 1 John goes on to conclude, "Little children, guard yourselves from idols." The word guard means to garrison ourselves against attacks from without, like the assaults of the heresies. Idols refers to the heretical substitutes, brought in by the Gnostics and Cerinthians, for the true God, as revealed in this Epistle and in John's Gospel and referred to in the preceding verse. Idols here also refer to anything that replaces the real God. We as genuine children of the genuine God should be on the alert to guard ourselves from these heretical substitutes and all vain replacements of our genuine and real God, with whom we are organically one and who is eternal life to us. This is the aged apostle's word of warning to all his little children as a conclusion of his Epistle. (Life-study of 1 John, p. 356)

　　According to the New Testament revelation, the Spirit has passed through a number of stages. Of course, He was the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Jehovah, and the Spirit of holiness throughout the Old Testament. Throughout these four thousand years of human history, the Spirit of God never changed. But to say that God the Spirit has never changed is a big mistake. This is because after four thousand years of human history the Triune God Himself entered into a period of time in which He passed through many processes. (CWWL, 1993, vol. 2, "The Spirit with Our Spirit," p. 153)

　　The Triune God took several crucial steps in being processed to be the life-giving Spirit.

　　The word consummation indicates that a work or a process has been completed, or finished. This may be illustrated by the cooking of food....Before His incarnation God was "raw," having the divine nature but not the human nature. Through incarnation, human living, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension, God was processed and consummated. Now, He is no longer the "raw" God; He is the consummated and completed Triune God with divinity, humanity, human living, the all-inclusive death, the powerful resurrection, and the transcendent ascension. All these are elements, or ingredients, in the processed and consummated Triune God. (CWWL, 1990, vol. 1, "The Triune God to Be Life to the Tripartite Man," pp. 266-267)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1990, vol. 1, "The Triune God to Be Life to the Tripartite Man," ch. 5; Life-study of Job, msg. 12