太十六24 ……若有人要跟从我，就当否认己，背起他的十字架，并跟从我。

　　腓一19~20 ……这事借着你们的祈求，和耶稣基督之灵全备的供应，终必叫我得救。这是照着我所专切期待并盼望的，就是没有一事会叫我羞愧，只要凡事放胆，无论是生，是死，总叫基督在我身体上，现今也照常显大。

　　保罗……能说，“好叫我们在生命的新样中生活行动”（罗六4），就是在神圣生命之新样的范围中生活行动。在以弗所四章二十三节，保罗说，“在你们心思的灵里得以更新。”在我们心思的灵里得以更新，是里面的，内在的。我们若学习这样的得以更新，我们对人对事就会有更深的认识。……我们对人的认识常是肤浅的。我们缺少穿透障碍和遮蔽的认识，因为我们没有实行日日在我们心思的灵里得以更新。在我们心思的灵里的更新，总是使我们的逻辑、哲学、想法、观念和心理完全的改观。结果，我们对一切事物的认识就会不同，对我们所遇见的人也会有更深的了解。甚至从人问问题的方式，我们就能知道人的情形。天然的人是非常浅的，但我们若是属灵的，我们就是深的。我们若是深的，即使别人不能认识我们，我们会认识别人（林前二15）（一九九○年秋全时间训练信息合辑，一三至一四页）。

　　Matt. 16:24 …If anyone wants to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.

　　Phil. 1:19-20 …This will turn out to salvation through your petition and the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, according to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I will be put to shame, but with all boldness, as always, even now Christ will be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death.

　　Paul…could say, “Walk in newness of life” (Rom. 6:4), in the realm of the newness of the divine life. In Ephesians 4:23 Paul says, “Be renewed in the spirit of your mind.” To be renewed in the spirit of our mind is inward and intrinsic. If we learn to be renewed in this way, we will have a deeper perception with which to understand persons and matters….Often our knowing of people is shallow. We lack the perception that penetrates the barriers and coverings because we do not practice being daily renewed in the spirit of our mind. The renewing in the spirit of our mind always revolutionizes our logic, philosophy, thought, concept, and psychology. As a result, our perception in all things is different, and we have a deeper understanding of the people we meet. Even by the way they ask questions, we can know people's condition. A natural man is a very shallow man, but if we are spiritual, we will be deep. If we are deep, we will know others, even though they will not be able to know us (1 Cor. 2:15). (CWWL, 1990, vol. 2, “Messages to the Trainees in Fall 1990,” p. 453)

　　更新的灵与我们重生的灵调和成为一个调和的灵，扩展到我们的心思里（弗四23），而更新我们的全人，使我们成为新人的肢体；这是借着脱去我们的旧人（22），也就是借着弃绝并否认我们的旧己（太十六24），并借着穿上新人（弗四24），也就是应用基督在创造新人时所完成的（二15）。

　　以弗所四章二十三节说，我们要在心思的灵里得以更新。脱去旧人，穿上新人，是借着在心思的灵里得以更新。那住在我们的灵里，并与我们的灵调和的圣灵，扩展到我们的心思里，那调和的灵就成为我们心思中的灵。我们的心思得以更新，乃是借着这调和的灵。

　　主在马太十六章二十四节说，我们若要跟从祂，就需要否认己，背起我们的十字架。否认己就是弃绝己，将十字架应用到自己身上；这就是脱去旧人。穿上新人就是凭耶稣基督之灵全备的供应而活基督并显大基督（腓一19~21）。更新完全是与那灵和我们重生的灵密切相关；这二灵成为一灵，这一灵就是在我们的心思里更新的灵，改变我们的心思。

　　主用环境上的苦难销毁、杀死我们外面的人，使我们里面的人日日得更新。林后四章十六节说，“所以我们不丧胆，反而我们外面的人虽然在毁坏〔销毁〕，我们里面的人却日日在更新。”……这更新是借着神用我们每天环境中的各种情形作工。我们每天都从许多方面受困扰，这困扰可能来自我们的配偶、儿女或同工；这样的困扰销毁我们外面的人，我们天然的人，使我们里面的人能借着复活生命的供应得更新。

　　既然我们信徒都将是新耶路撒冷终极完成的部分，我们就必须被更新，像新耶路撒冷一样新（启二一2）。新耶路撒冷首先称为圣城，所以我们必须是圣的；她又称为新耶路撒冷，所以我们必须是新的。我们若没有得更新，就不够资格在新耶路撒冷里（神圣奥秘的范围，六二至六四页）。

　　参读：神圣奥秘的范围，第四章。

　　The renewing Spirit is mingled with our regenerated spirit as one mingled spirit to spread into our mind (Eph. 4:23) to renew our entire being as a member of the new man by putting off our old man (v. 22), that is, by renouncing and denying our old self (Matt. 16:24), and by putting on the new man (Eph. 4:24), that is, by applying what Christ has accomplished in creating the new man (2:15).

　　Ephesians 4:23 says that we are to be renewed in the spirit of our mind. To put off the old man and to put on the new man are by being renewed in the spirit of our mind. When the Holy Spirit who dwells in and is mingled with our spirit spreads into our mind, that mingled spirit becomes the spirit in our mind. It is by this mingled spirit that our mind is renewed.

　　In Matthew 16:24 the Lord said that if we want to come after Him, we need to deny ourselves and take up our cross. To deny ourselves is to renounce ourselves, to apply the cross to ourselves. This is to put off the old man. To put on the new man is to live and magnify Christ through the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ (Phil. 1:19-21). The renewing is altogether wrapped up with the Spirit and our regenerated spirit, which became the one spirit. This one spirit is the renewing spirit in our mind to change our mind.

　　The Lord uses the environmental sufferings to consume, to kill, our outer man so that our inner man may be renewed day by day. Second Corinthians 4:16 says, “Therefore we do not lose heart; but though our outer man is decaying [is consumed], yet our inner man is being renewed day by day”…This renewing is by God's working with every situation in our daily environment. Every day we are troubled from many directions. This trouble could be from our spouse, our children, or our co-workers. This trouble consumes our outer man, our natural man, so that our inner man can be renewed with the supply of the resurrection life.

　　Since we believers all will be the consummating part of the New Jerusalem, we have to be renewed to be as new as the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:2). The New Jerusalem is first called the holy city, so we have to be holy. Then it is called the New Jerusalem, so we have to be new If we are not renewed, we are not qualified to be in the New Jerusalem. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “The Divine and Mystical Realm,” pp. 131-132)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “The Divine and Mystical Realm,” ch. 4