罗十二2 不要模仿这世代，反要借着心思的更新而变化，叫你们验证何为神那美好、可喜悦、并纯全的旨意。

　　林后三18 但我们众人既然以没有帕子遮蔽的脸，好像镜子观看并返照主的荣光，就渐渐变化成为与祂同样的形像，从荣耀到荣耀，乃是从主灵变化成的。

　　复活的过程有四方面：圣别、变化、模成以及得荣。……保罗在罗马十二章二节说到变化；他说，我们不要模仿这世代，反要借着心思的更新而变化。保罗在八章二十九节说到模成，在三十节说到得荣。我们将来的得荣乃是复活的终极步骤，就是把复活应用到身体上。

　　今天我们的儿子名分还不完全。不过，儿子名分会越来越完全，直到我们得荣的时候，要达到高峰；那时，我们将有完满的复活，并且在性情和外表上，都标出为神的儿子。我们不论在名义上或在实际上，不论在灵里、在魂里、或是在身体里，都是神的儿子（罗马书生命读经，六五三至六五四、六五六页）。

　　Rom. 12:2 And do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind that you may prove what the will of God is…

　　2 Cor. 3:18 But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit.

　　In this process of resurrection there are four aspects: sanctification, transformation, conformation, and glorification. In Romans 12:2 Paul speaks of transformation, saying that we should not be conformed to this age but that we should be transformed by the renewing of the mind. In 8:29 Paul speaks of conformation, and in the next verse, of glorification. Our future glorification will be the ultimate step of resurrection; it is resurrection as applied to the body.

　　Today our sonship is not yet full. However, it will get fuller and fuller until it reaches the peak at the time of our glorification, when we shall be fully resurrected and designated the sons of God in nature and in appearance. Both in name and in reality we shall be the sons of God in spirit, in soul, and in body. (Life-study of Romans, pp. 554, 556)

　　神在基督里，借着新陈代谢变化的过程，将祂自己建造到我们里面（参撒下七12~14上）。

　　基督就是那灵，所以祂能住在我们里面，我们也能在灵里与祂交通。我们该仰望祂、观看祂并返照祂，将我们这人的三层—我们的灵、我们的心、我们的口—向祂敞开。这样，我们就自然而然像镜子一样返照祂，而逐渐变化成为祂荣耀的形像，从荣耀到荣耀。结果我们将与祂有同样的形像；这完全是从主，就是从那灵变化成的（林后三18）。……主耶稣乃是借着这个方式，使我们像祂，甚至使我们成为祂。当我们仰望祂，祂就将自己印到我们里面，我们就成为祂的返照。

　　变化是一种新陈代谢的过程，借着将一些新的元素加到我们里面，并排除旧元素，而改变我们。……神的经纶就是将祂自己作到我们里面，使我们经历属灵的消化和吸收这种新陈代谢的过程，而在生命上产生逐渐、内在的改变。……神将祂自己建造到我们里面，完全是件生机的事。我们要让这建造进行，就需要接受、消化并吸收生机的元素。我们属灵的食物和饮料，就是那生机的、是灵的基督（约六51、57，七37~39），祂就是赐生命的灵（撒母耳记生命读经，二○七至二○九页）。

　　作为这样一位灵，祂进到神所拣选的人里面，将祂自己作为生命，分赐并建造到他们里面，成为他们内里的构成。这样，祂就使他们成为神人，成为神许多的儿子（来二10），就是祂自己这位神长子的大量复制（罗八29，约壹三2）。因此，他们作为人的后裔，就借着新陈代谢的变化过程，成为具有神性之神的儿子。……这新陈代谢的过程就是建造召会作为基督身体和神的家，……将神建造到人里面，并将人建造到神里面，亦即将神圣的元素构成到人的元素里，并将人的元素构成到神圣的元素里。这建造要终极完成于新耶路撒冷这伟大的团体神人，就是神众子的集大成与总和（启二一7）（圣经恢复本，撒下七14注1）。

　　在神那一面，是三一神成为肉体，来成为人；在我们这一面，是我们成为神，由经过过程并终极完成的三一神所构成，使我们在生命和性情上成为神，作祂团体的彰显，直到永远。这是最高的真理，也是最高的福音（约伯记生命读经，一四一页）。

　　参读：撒母耳记生命读经，第二十六篇；长老训练第二册，第六章。

　　[God is] building Himself in Christ into our being through the metabolic process of transformation [cf. 2 Sam. 7:12-14a].

　　Because Christ is the Spirit, He can dwell in us, and we can fellowship with Him in our spirit. We should look to Him, behold Him, and reflect Him, opening to Him the three layers of our being—our spirit, our heart, and our mouth. Then we will spontaneously reflect Him as a mirror and gradually be transformed into His glorious image from glory to glory. As a result, we will have the same image that He has [cf. 2 Cor. 3:18]. In this way the Lord Jesus makes us like Him and even makes us Him. When we look unto Him, He impresses Himself into our being. Then we become His reflection.

　　Transformation is a metabolic process that changes us by adding some new element into our being and discharging the old element….God’s economy is just to work Himself into us that we may experience such a metabolic process of spiritual digestion and assimilation that produces a gradual, intrinsic change in life. God’s building Himself into our being is altogether an organic matter. In order for such a building to take place, we need to receive, digest, and assimilate an organic element. Our spiritual food and drink is the organic, pneumatic Christ (John 6:51, 57; 7:37-39), the Christ who is the life-giving Spirit. (Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, pp. 171-172)

　　As such a Spirit He enters into God’s chosen people to dispense, to build, Himself as life into their being to be their inner constitution. In this way He makes them God-men, the many sons of God (Heb. 2:10), the mass reproduction of Himself as the firstborn Son of God (Rom. 8:29; 1 John 3:2). Thus, they, the human seeds, become the sons of God with divinity through the metabolic process of transformation….This metabolic process is the building up of the church as the Body of Christ and the house of God…by the building of God into man and man into God, that is, by the constituting of the divine element into the human element and the human element into the divine element. This building will consummate in the New Jerusalem as a great, corporate God-man, the aggregate, the totality, of all the sons of God (Rev. 21:7). (2 Sam. 7:14, footnote 1)

　　On God’s side, the Triune God has been incarnated to be a man; on our side, we are being deified, constituted with the processed and consummated Triune God so that we may be made God in life and in nature to be His corporate expression for eternity. This is the highest truth, and this is the highest gospel. (Life-study of Job, p. 122)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, msg. 26; CWWL, 1984, vol. 2, “Elders’ Training, Book 2: The Vision of the Lord’s Recovery,” ch. 6