腓三3　真受割礼的，乃是我们这凭神的灵事奉，在基督耶稣里夸口，不信靠肉体的。

　　徒七35　这摩西，就是他们曾弃绝……的，神却借着那在荆棘中向他显现之使者的手，差派他作首领，作救赎者。

　　在事奉中，我们必须在成为肉体的原则里作每件事。成为肉体的原则就是神圣的性情作到人性里。当主耶稣在地上时，祂是在满了神圣元素的人性里作每件事，而不凭着天然的力量和才干作任何事。……在祂一切的行事、说话并工作上，父都在祂里面并与祂是一（约十四10，十30）。凡祂所行、所说并所作的，完全是凭着父这神圣的元素。我们需要省察我们所用以事奉主的力量和才干，是天然的还是神圣的。

　　天然的力量和才干需要受十字架的对付。……在某种意义上，我们天然的力量和才干等于我们的己，我们天然的构成。……这就是为什么在否认己……之后，我们需要……说到弃绝天然的力量和才干，以及借十字架对付天然的力量和才干。

　　天然的力量和才干若经过十字架的对付，就会非常有用。它们经过十字架的对付之后，就是在复活里。……十字架总是将神圣的元素作到所对付的人里面，将神带到那人里面。……我们的力量和才干受过对付之后，在复活里对于我们事奉主就成为有用的（事奉的基本功课，一七五至一七九页）。

　　Phil. 3:3 For we are the circumcision, the ones who serve by the Spirit of God and boast in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh.

　　Acts 7:35 This Moses, whom they refused,...God has sent as both a ruler and a redeemer, along with the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the thornbush.

　　In our service we must do everything in the principle of incarnation. The principle of incarnation is that the divine nature is wrought into humanity. When the Lord Jesus was on this earth, He did everything in His humanity full of the divine element. He did not do anything by the natural strength or the natural ability.... The Father was within Him and one with Him in all His deeds, in all His words, and in all His works (John 14:10; 10:30). Whatever He did, whatever He said, and whatever He worked was altogether with the Father as the divine element. We need to consider whether the strength and ability we use for the Lord's service are natural or divine.

　　The natural strength and ability need to be dealt with by the cross.... In a certain sense, our natural strength and ability equal our self, our natural constitution....This is why after the denial of the self we need a lesson on rejecting the natural strength and ability and dealing with them by the cross.

　　The natural strength and ability are useful if they are dealt with by the cross. After being dealt with by the cross, they are in resurrection....The cross always works the divine element into the person it deals with, bringing God into him....After being dealt with, our strength and ability become useful in resurrection for our service to the Lord. (CWWL, 1979, vol. 2, "Basic Lessons on Service," pp. 140-143)

　　行传七章二十二节告诉我们，摩西在埃及人的一切智慧上受了训练，说话行事都有能力。……摩西照着自己的意思为神的百姓作事（23~26）。他满有把握自己能成就一些事，但他是实行自己的意愿，而不是神的意愿。……神特意并主宰地将摩西摆在一边，达四十年之久（出二14~15，徒七27~30）。……在那四十年中，摩西学会照着神的引导事奉神并信靠神（34~36，来十一28）。后来摩西成了一位不照着自己的意思作任何事的人。他总是照着主的引导行事。……他一点不信靠自己的才干。虽然他非常能干，但他不用他天然的才干。他天然的才干受了对付，就成为在复活里的才干……。我们天然的才干若未受对付，就与神的行动分离；然而，我们的才干经过了十字架的对付之后，就与神的行动成为一。实际上，是神作到摩西的才干里，他的才干至终就充满了神。

　　彼得对他天然的力量和才干很有自信，他甚至认为自己能同主下监，同主受死（路二二33）。……彼得受到试验；他三次否认主，甚至在一位使女面前否认主（约十八15~18、25~27）。……彼得彻彻底底被打倒，结果全然失败（太二六69~75）。……他对主的爱是宝贵的，但他天然的力量必须被否认并受对付。主容许彼得三次当面否认祂，让彼得彻底失败，好使他天然的力量和自信可以受到对付。……经过失败，彼得学会凭着在主里的信心，谦卑地服事弟兄们（路二二32，彼前五5~6）。彼得真的被破碎，并从天然的才干转到复活里的事物。

　　我们天然的力量和才干必须受对付并摆在十字架上，然后它们就会在复活里并充满神圣的元素。这样，凡我们在召会事奉中所作的，就都是将神圣的元素供应给人（事奉的基本功课，一七九至一八二页）。

　　参读：事奉的基本功课，第二十课。

　　Acts 7:22 tells us that Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in his words and works.... Moses did something for God's people according to his own will (vv. 23-26). He was full of assurance that he could accomplish something, but he was carrying out his will, not God's will. God purposely and sovereignly put Moses aside for forty years (Exo. 2:14-15; Acts 7:27-30)....In those forty years Moses learned to serve God according to His leading and to trust in Him (vv. 34-36; Heb. 11:28). Moses eventually became a person who did nothing according to his will. He always acted according to the Lord's leading....He had no faith in his ability. Although he was very capable, he did not use his natural ability. His natural ability was dealt with, so it became an ability in resurrection.... If our ability is not dealt with, it is separate from God's move. But after being dealt with by the cross, our ability becomes one with God's move. Actually, God was wrought into Moses' ability. His ability eventually was full of God.

　　Peter was self-confident in his natural strength and ability even to the point of thinking that he would follow the Lord both to prison and to death (Luke 22:33)....Peter was tested, and he denied the Lord three times, even before a little maid (John 18:15-18, 25-27). Peter was absolutely defeated and became a complete failure (Matt. 26:69-75)....His love for the Lord was precious, but his natural strength had to be denied and dealt with. The Lord allowed Peter to fail utterly in denying the Lord to His face three times, so that his natural strength and self-confidence could be dealt with. Through his failure Peter learned to serve the brothers by faith in the Lord and with humility (Luke 22:32; 1 Pet. 5:5-6). Peter was really broken and was turned from the natural ability to something in resurrection.

　　Our natural strength and ability must be dealt with and put on the cross. Then they will be in resurrection and full of the divine element, and whatever we do in the church service will be a ministry of the divine element to others. (CWWL, 1979, vol. 2, "Basic Lessons on Service," pp. 143-145)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1979, vol. 2, "Basic Lessons on Service," lsn. 20