约十二24 我实实在在地告诉你们，一粒麦子不落在地里死了，仍旧是一粒；若是死了，就结出许多子粒来。

　　　　　32 我若从地上被举起来，就要吸引万人来归我。

　　当我们被模成基督的死，我们就经历祂成就一切的死。首先，我们若与基督同死，就要保守自己的魂生命归入永远的生命（约十二25）。其次，我们若愿意模成基督的死，我们将会胜过世界并击败撒但（31，来二14）。第三，借着模成基督的死，我们就在祂的死里经历祂，使生命得以释放、分赐并繁增（约十二24~26，林后四12）。我们需要模成基督的死，好使我们里面神圣的生命得着释放，并分授到别人里面，使神圣的生命繁增。第四，当我们模成基督的死，我们里面神圣的生命自然而然会得着释放，父神这生命的源头就得着荣耀。因此，我们越模成基督的死，就越荣耀父（约十二28，十三31）。……第五，借着基督在十字架上的死，人被吸引归向基督（十二32）。真实的吸引是在于祂的死。当我们经历基督的死，并且模成祂的死，我们就成为吸引人归向基督的磁石。……这种吸引来自生命的释放；这是钉十字架的生命，同其吸引的能力（新约总论第十二册，三六至三七页）。

　　John 12:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

　　32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself.

　　As we are conformed to Christ’s death, we experience His all-accomplishing death. First, if we die with Christ, we will keep our soul-life unto eternal life (John 12:25). Second, if we are willing to be conformed to Christ’s death, we will overcome the world and defeat Satan (v. 31; Heb. 2:14). Third, by being conformed to His death, we experience Christ in His death for the release, impartation, and multiplication of life (John 12:24-26; 2 Cor. 4:12). We need to be conformed to the death of Christ so that the divine life within us may be released and imparted into others and thereby multiplied. Fourth, when we are conformed to the death of Christ, spontaneously the divine life within us will be released, and God the Father, the source of this life, will be glorified. Hence, the more we are conformed to Christ’s death, the more we glorify the Father (John 12:28; 13:31)…Fifth, through His death on the cross, people are drawn to Christ (12:32). The real attraction is in His dying. When we die the death of Christ and are conformed to His death, we will be a magnet drawing others to Christ…Such an attraction comes through the release of life; this is the crucified life with its attracting power. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3508-3509)

　　我们要模成基督的死，就必须背十字架，接受旧人钉十字架的事实，把肉体连肉体的邪情私欲钉十字架，治死身体的行为，否认己，丧失魂，并且经历与基督同死，脱离世上的蒙学。这里有六件消极的事需要对付：旧人、罪的身体、肉体连肉体的邪情私欲、身体的行为、己和魂（天然生命）。……在基督之死的模型里，找不着这六件事的痕迹。事实上，模成基督的死就是对付这六件消极的事。这些事越受对付，我们就越模成基督的死，越模成神长子的形像（真理课程三级卷三，七二页）。

　　我们需要忘记关于改良行为的教训。不要想去爱人、控制脾气，或者想要去作好丈夫或好妻子。反之，要竭力模成基督的死。……你唯一需要作的，就是模成基督的死。……我没有负担帮助你们控制脾气，或者作好妻子、好丈夫。我的负担是要嘱咐你们模成基督的死。当你想要爱某人时，要模成基督的死；当你快要发脾气时，要模成基督的死；当你想要往某地，或要作某事时，要模成基督的死。你只要模成基督的死。不信者无法模成基督的死，因为他们没有圣灵在他们里面。但我们有圣灵在里面，并且我们已经由神圣的生命所重生，我们就能模成基督的死。

　　我们需要看见异象，就是神的经纶不在于伦理或宗教，乃在于模成基督的死。这就是说，我们需要被埋葬，一直留在死里以模成基督的死。……我们常常照着天然的生命生活行事，甚至在作属灵的事或合乎圣经的事上也是如此。我们可能照着圣经行事，但作的时候却没有模成基督的死，反而是在天然的生命里。要基督徒不作恶事很容易，但是要模成基督的死，不凭自己天然的生命作任何事，却非常困难。大约五十年前，我离弃了罪恶的事，但我现在仍在学习如何模成基督的死（李文集一九七八年第一册，六二二页）。

　　参读：真理课程三级卷三，第四十五课。

　　For us to be conformed to the death of Christ, we need to bear the cross, accept the fact that the old man has been crucified, crucify the flesh with its passions and lusts, put to death the practices of the body, deny the self, lose the soul, and also experience dying with Christ to be freed from the elements of the world. Here are six negative things that must be dealt with: the old man, the body of sin, the flesh with its passions and lusts, the practices of the body, the self, and the soul (the natural life)…In the mold of Christ’s death no trace of these six things can be found. In actuality, to be conformed to Christ’s death is to deal with these six negative things. The more these things are dealt with, the more we are conformed to Christ’s death and the more we are conformed to the image of God’s firstborn Son. (Truth Lessons—Level Three, vol. 3, p. 61)

　　We need to forget the teachings about the improvement of behavior. Do not try to love others, to control your temper, or to be a good husband or wife. Instead, endeavor to be conformed to Christ’s death…The only thing you need to do is to be conformed to the death of Christ…I have no burden to help you control your temper or be a good wife or husband. My burden is to charge you to be conformed to the death of Christ. As you are about to love someone, be conformed to His death. As you are about to lose your temper, be conformed to His death. As you are about to go somewhere or do something, be conformed to His death. Simply be conformed to the death of Christ. Unbelievers cannot be conformed to Christ’s death because they do not have the Holy Spirit within them. But because we have the Holy Spirit within us and because we have been regenerated with the divine life, we can be conformed to the death of Christ.

　　We need to see the vision that God’s economy is not a matter of ethics or religion but of being conformed to the death of Christ. This means that we need to be buried and remain always in death to be conformed to Christ’s death…Often we live and act in a natural way, even in doing spiritual things or scriptural things. We may act according to the Scriptures, but we are not conformed to the death of Christ in doing so. Rather, we are in our natural life. It is easy for Christians to give up evil things, but it is very difficult to be conformed to the death of Christ and not to do anything by our natural life. Nearly fifty years ago I gave up the sinful things, but I am still learning how to be conformed to Christ’s death. (CWWL, 1978, vol. 1, “The Experience of Christ,” pp. 479-480)

　　Further Reading: Truth Lessons—Level Three, vol. 3, lsn. 45