徒二四16　我因此操练自己，对神对人常存无亏的良心。

　　罗八6　因为心思置于肉体，就是死；心思置于灵，乃是生命平安。

　　凡活在人治之下的人，都是活在人面前的。他们有许多事，都是因着怕人才不敢作。何时人管不到，或看不见，他们就为所欲为了。在自治之下的人就不是这样。他们乃是活在自己良心的感觉里，接受自己良心的管治，而不需要别人的管治。他们在一切言语行动上的约束，不是因为惧怕人，乃是因为良心的管治。良心赞同，他们才敢作；良心不赞同，他们就不敢作。虽然表面上，他们还是在人的管治之下，也是服在人的管治之下；但实际上，他们并不需要人的什么管治，他们自己的良心已经够管治并约束他们了（生命的经历，一一四页）。

　　Acts 24:16 Because of this I also exercise myself to always have a conscience without offense toward God and men.

　　Rom. 8:6 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.

　　All those who live under human rule are living before man....Whenever they are not under man's jurisdiction and observation, they do as they please. However, those who are under self-rule are not so....Being controlled by their conscience, they do not need to be ruled by others. They are restrained in all their utterances and behavior, not because of their fear of man but because of the ruling of their conscience. They are free to act only when their conscience approves. Outwardly, they appear to be still subject to the rule of man, yet practically, this rule is unnecessary, because their conscience is sufficient to rule and control them. (CWWL, 1953, vol. 3, “The Experience of Life,” pp. 284-285)

　　我们总要严格地对付良心，使自己从堕落的人治光景中，蒙拯救到良心自治的里面去，好叫我们在一切事上，都能凭着自己良心的感觉而生活行动。

　　但对付良心的最终目的，还不仅是叫我们恢复到自治里去。我们若只凭良心的感觉活着，而停留在良心里，这还是半堕落的光景，还够不上神的意思。所以，对付良心，不只是为着叫人从人治回到自治，从人面前回到良心里，更是为着叫人经过自治，而达到神治，经过良心，而回到神面前。……把我们带到神面前，才是积极的。所以达到神治，才是对付良心的最终目的。

　　自治与神治，是大不相同的。自治就是人凭良心的感觉而活，向良心负责；而神治却是人凭灵的直觉而活，向直觉负责，也就是向神负责。我们知道，神是借着圣灵住在我们的灵里。所以我们灵里的直觉，可说就是神的感觉。因此当我们凭我们的直觉而活，受我们直觉的管治，我们就是活在神面前，直接受神的管治。良心只有是非的感觉，它定罪一切非的、恶的，而称义一切是的、善的。但直觉却是超是非的，超善恶的。它超过非，也超过是；超过恶，也超过善。它定罪所有的非，所有的恶，却不一定称许一切的是，一切的善。它只要那些出于神的，出于灵的，并属于生命的。

　　〔例如，〕神乃是要我们说祂的话，说出乎祂，出乎灵，出乎生命的话。所以有的弟兄要起来为主讲道，他所讲的确实不确实，那是良心来负责监督的；但他要讲什么道，要取什么题目，神的意思要他怎样讲，这就不在是非善恶的范围之内。良心的感觉在这方面就无能为力了。他只能凭着直觉，摸到神的意思，在这方面得着神的引导，而说出神的话来。这些良心与直觉不同的地方，也就是自治与神治不同的地方。

　　许多弟兄姊妹都是活在三治混合的光景中。他们有很多成分是留在人治里，还需要人来管治；也有一些成分是在自治里，受良心的管治；但很少成分是在神治里，直接受神的管治。……所以还需要更彻底的对付良心，使自己一面在消极方面脱离人治，一面在积极方面进入神治，而直接受神的管治（生命的经历，一一四至一一六页）。

　　参读：生命的经历，第六篇。

　　Only severe dealings with our conscience will deliver us from the fallen condition of human rule to that rule by the conscience. Then in all things we can live and act according to the feelings of our conscience.

　　However, the final goal of dealing with the conscience is not simply to restore us to self-rule. If we remain only in the feelings of the conscience, we are still in a half-fallen situation and fall short of God's will. Therefore, dealing with the conscience is not just to cause man to return from human rule to self-rule, from the eye of man unto the conscience, but even more to cause man to pass through self-rule and attain to God's rule, to pass through the conscience and live in the presence of God....The positive objective is that we be recovered to God Himself. Therefore, the final goal of dealing with the conscience is to bring us back to God's rule.

　　Self-rule and God's rule differ greatly. Self-rule means that man lives by the feelings of his conscience, being responsible to his conscience; whereas God's rule means that man lives by the intuition of the spirit, being responsible to the intuition, that is, being responsible to God. We know that God through the Holy Spirit lives in our spirit. Therefore, we can say that the intuition in our spirit is the feeling of God. Hence, when we live by the intuition and are controlled by the intuition, we are living in the presence of God and ruled by Him. The conscience has only the feeling of right and wrong. It condemns all that is wrong and evil and justifies all that is right and good. But the intuition is above right and wrong, good and evil. It is above wrong and also above right; it is above evil and also above good. It condemns all that is wrong and all that is evil, but it does not necessarily approve all that is right and all that is good. It accepts only that which is of God, of the Spirit, and of life.

　　[For example], what God desires is that we speak His words, words that are of Him, of the Spirit, and of life. Therefore, when a brother ministers, whether he is speaking the truth or not will be attended to by the conscience. But as to what he should minister, what subject he should choose, what God has in mind for him to speak—these are not within the limit of right and wrong, good and evil. The feeling of the conscience is unable to do anything in this respect. Only through the intuition can one touch the mind of God and be led by God to speak His words. These differences between the conscience and the intuition are also the differences between self-rule and God's rule.

　　Many brothers and sisters are living in a condition that is a combination of the three kinds of government. The greater part of their being is under human rule; they still need to be ruled by man. Another part of their being is under self-rule, the rule of the conscience. But only a small part of their being is under God's rule so that they are controlled by God directly....There is the need to deal with the conscience more thoroughly so that we can, on the negative side, be delivered from human rule and, on the positive side, enter into God's rule to be directly under His control. (CWWL, 1953, vol. 3, “The Experience of Life,” pp. 285-286)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1953, vol. 3, “The Experience of Life,” ch. 6