弗四20~21 但你们并不是这样学了基督；如果你们真是听过祂，并在祂里面，照着那在耶稣身上是实际者，受过教导。

　　那在耶稣身上是实际者，是指耶稣一生的真实光景，如四福音书所记载的，乃是满了实际、满了真实的一生。……耶稣的生活总是符合神的义和圣。……保罗在以弗所四章二十四节说，新人是照着神，在那实际的义和圣中所创造的。无疑的，这实际就是那在耶稣身上是实际者。我们生活的标准不该是照着法律或社会的标准；我们生活的标准必须是照着那在耶稣身上是实际者，就是照着耶稣在地上时所活出的实际。因此，耶稣的生活该是我们今天在召会里的生活。换句话说，新人的生活该与耶稣的生活一模一样。耶稣在地上生活的方式，乃是今天新人所该生活的方式。

　　我们若要以这样的方式生活，就不该照着对错来讲理，乃该照着那在耶稣身上是实际者，来看我们日常生活的每一面。譬如，我们若要上街购物，我们该问主耶稣是否也上街购物。一个新人的生活必须是出于耶稣之实际的生活。我们若都照着属天、神圣、公义、圣别、荣耀的方式生活，在召会中就会有美妙的团体生活。这就是新人的团体生活（以弗所书生命读经，九四一至九四二页）。

　　Eph. 4:20-21 But you did not so learn Christ, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him as the reality is in Jesus.

　　The reality in Jesus is the real situation of the life of Jesus as recorded in the four Gospels, a life filled with truth, reality…. Jesus lived in a way that always corresponded to God’s righteousness and holiness. In Ephesians 4:24 Paul says that the new man is created according to God in righteousness and holiness of the reality. This reality no doubt is the very reality in Jesus. Our standard of living should not be according to the law or according to the standards of society; it must be according to the truth in Jesus, the reality lived out by Jesus when He was on earth. Hence, the life of Jesus should be our life today in the church. In other words, the living of the new man should be exactly the same as the living of Jesus. The way Jesus lived on earth is the way the new man should live today.

　　If we would live in such a way, we should not reason according to right or wrong. Instead, we should consider the various aspects of our daily life according to the reality as it is in Jesus. For example, if we are about to go shopping, we should ask whether the Lord Jesus is going shopping. The life of the one new man must be that of the reality of Jesus. If we all live in a way that is heavenly, divine, righteous, holy, and glorious, we shall have a wonderful community life in the church. This is the corporate life of the new man. (Life-study of Ephesians, p. 781)

　　基督对我们不仅是生命，也是榜样（约十三15，彼前二21）。我们照着祂的榜样跟祂学（太十一29），不是凭我们天然的生命，乃是凭祂在复活里作我们的生命。

　　一个人得救之后，他里面深处就渴望照着主耶稣所设立的模型过生活。然而，许多人不是忽视这渴望，就是错误地培养这渴望，以为凭着自己的努力可以成功地效法祂。我们以为靠着运用天然的生命可以效法基督，这是错误的。基督的信徒应当效法祂，但他们不该照着天然的生命效法祂。

　　那在耶稣身上是实际者，是指耶稣一生的真实光景，如四福音书所记载的。外邦堕落之人不敬虔的行事为人乃是虚妄；但在耶稣敬虔的生活里乃是真实，实际。耶稣在生活中总是在神里面，同着神并为着神行事。神是在祂的生活中，并且祂与神是一。这就是在耶稣身上是实际者。我们信徒既以基督作我们的生命得了重生，并在祂里面受过教导，就照着那在耶稣身上是实际者学了基督。

　　凭着我们天然的生命努力效法基督是错误的。……当我们相信主耶稣而得救时，神就把我们放在作为模子的基督里。这模子就是记载在四福音书里耶稣的生活，这是完全照着实际而有的生活。实际（真理）是光的照耀，光的彰显。因为神就是光（约壹一5），所以实际（真理）就是神的彰显。福音书里所记载耶稣的生活，每一面都是神的彰显。祂所说所行的，都彰显神。神的这个彰显就是光的照耀；因此，这彰显就是实际（真理）。耶稣这照着实际而有的生活乃是模型，神已经把我们放在其中。在这模型里，我们照着那在耶稣身上是实际者，学了基督。这意思是，我们照着福音书所给我们看见的实际，亦即照着主耶稣那完全照着神实际的生活，学了基督。这生活是光的照耀。光的照耀是实际（真理），而实际（真理）是神的彰显。所以，在耶稣的生活里有实际。主耶稣所设立的模型，其素质乃是实际。这意思是，耶稣之生活的素质乃是实际。我们照着那在耶稣身上是实际者，学了基督（以弗所书生命读经，四七四、四七六至四七七页）。

　　参读：以弗所书生命读经，第四十六至四十七篇。

　　Christ is not only life to us but also an example (John 13:15; 1 Pet. 2:21). We learn from Him (Matt. 11:29) according to His example, not by our natural life but by Him as our life.

　　After a person is saved, deep within him he desires to live a life in the pattern established by the Lord Jesus. However, many either ignore this desire or cultivate it in a mistaken way, thinking that by self-effort they can succeed in imitating Him. It is a mistake to think that we can imitate Christ by the exercise of our natural life. The believers in Christ should imitate Him, but they should not do so according to their natural life.

　　The reality in Jesus is the real situation of the life of Jesus as recorded in the four Gospels. In the godless walk of the nations, the fallen people, there is vanity. But in the godly life of Jesus there is truth, reality. Jesus lived a life always doing things in God, with God, and for God. God was in His life, and He was one with God. This is the reality in Jesus. We, the believers, regenerated with Christ as our life and taught in Him, learn from Him as the reality is in Jesus.

　　It is a mistake to endeavor to imitate Christ by the efforts of our natural life…. When we believed in the Lord Jesus and were saved, God put us into Christ as the mold. This mold is the life of Jesus recorded in the four Gospels, a life absolutely according to reality, truth. Truth is the shining of light, the expression of light. Since God is light (1 John 1:5), truth is the expression of God. Every aspect of the life of Jesus recorded in the Gospels is an expression of God. In everything He said and did, He expressed God. This expression of God is the shining of light; hence, it is the truth, the reality. This life of Jesus according to reality is the pattern in which God has placed us. In this pattern we have learned Christ as the reality is in Jesus. This means that we have learned Christ according to the reality, the truth, shown in the Gospels, that is, according to the life of the Lord Jesus, which was wholly according to God’s reality, God’s truth. This life is the shining of light. The shining of the light is truth, and truth is the expression of God. Therefore, in the life of Jesus there is truth, reality. The essence of the pattern set up by the Lord Jesus is reality. This means that the essence of the life of Jesus is reality. We have learned Christ as the reality is in Jesus. (Life-study of Ephesians, pp. 393-395)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Ephesians, msgs. 46-47