第九单元 ： 身体的转化
作者重申属灵塑造的过程和目的：拥戴基督和拥有如他的内在，让我们从里到外自然的流露。
Spiritual transformation into Christlikeness, I have said, is the process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it takes on the character of the inner being of Jesus himself. The result is that the “outer” life of the individual increasingly becomes a natural expression of the inner reality of Jesus and of his teachings. (225页, 1段).
“…，因为基督如何，我们在这世上也如何。” 约翰一书 4:17
"This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus."1 John 4:17
1. 身体对属灵塑造的重要性
For good or for evil, the body lies right at the center of the spiritual life— …（226页，2段）
i。身体在属灵塑造过程里，是我们首要的协力同盟，但是，我们必须除掉已深居在肢体中作恶倾向的这个事实。
our body must increasingly be poised to do what is good and refrain from what is evil. The inclinations to wrongdoing that literally inhabit its parts must be eliminated. The body must come to serve us as a primary ally in Christlikeness. (225页，2段).
ii。我们误用了身体，因为我们把自己放在宇宙的中心，它成为我们终极的关注。
human ruin comes from placing oneself at the center of one’s universe, in place of God. We further saw how this naturally, if not inevitably, leads to worship of the body and to the life of sensuality that results. The body becomes our primary source of gratification and the chief, if not the only, instrument for getting what we want. That is a perversion of the role of the body in life as God intended it; and it results in “death,” in alienation from God (227页，1段）.
2. 对身体的正确认识
2.1 身体的本质
i。 身体是潜藏的能量
Our body are potential energy.。. to possess and access that energy is the constant human goal and problem.(227页，4段).
ii。 身体是我唯一能直接支取的能量
My body is the only body whose energy is directly accessible for my own use and satisfaction. I access it by choice.(228页，2段).
iii。它是我们基本的管理范围和责任
MY BODY IS the original and primary place of my dominion and my responsibility. (228页，3段).
iv。它让我们占据空间、时间和历史里
It is only with and through my body that I receive a place in time and space and human history. (228页，5段).
2.2 身体的本质：圣经和保罗的教导
i。 身体不只是物质系统，它更可拥有基督真实的同在
Our body is not just a physical system, but is inhabited by the real presence of Christ.(231页，3段).
ii。 使徒保罗对身体的教导：（231-236页）
i。在保罗的思想里：如果我们要转化身体，属灵塑造的过程是必须的
Now, these words of Paul refer precisely to the process and outcome of spiritual formation, of which we have spoken. “Now that you have been released from slavery to sin and enslaved to God by your dependence on him for your new kind of life, the benefit you get is sanctification, and the outcome is eternal life”, “the life that really is life”. The parts of our death-bound body are not mere physical things, but now carry in them a life that is not of them. He who raised Jesus from the dead now dwells in us and “will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells in you”. (234页，4段).
How the apostle Paul understood its transformation will make very clear why spiritual formation requires the transformation of the body (235页，1段).
ii。经过属灵塑造的过程，我们的身体可以逐渐表现出“内在”生命的素质
The proper retraining and nurturing of the body is absolutely essential to Christlikeness. The body is not just a physical thing. As it matures, it increasingly takes on the quality of “inner” life. （235页，1段).
iii。我们需要属灵操练，因为我们的旧“程序”还在运作和支配我们的身体。
When our heart (will, spirit) comes to new life in God, the old “programs” are still running contrary to our new heart, and for the most part they are running in our body and its parts or members. (235页，3段).
iv。我们是依靠另一股力量，也就是赐生命的圣灵。 圣灵可以透过属灵操练，让我们更能随从圣灵行事。
The law or force of the Spirit of life that is in Christ Jesus is now also a real presence in my body and it opens the way to liberation from the force of sin in my bodily parts (Romans 7: 23). By not walking in terms of the flesh but in terms of the Spirit, we are increasingly able to do the things that Jesus did and taught (236页，2段).
3. 圣经怎么看罪恶倾向和身体 ： 作恶的倾向是住在于我们的身体里面（肢体的某个部分）
i。品格和身体的关系 ：这种“习惯”或“准备就绪的状况” （readiness），其实是深居在身体的某些部分。
Most of what is called “character” (good or bad) in normal human life consists in what our bodies are or are not “at the ready” to do in the specific situations where we find ourselves. Those “readinesses” enter our consciousness primarily, if at all, through how we feel about things, how we are directly “moved” by things and events around us. Finally, those readinesses and feelings that run our life, whether we are aware of them or not, reside in fairly specific parts of our body, and they reveal themselves to others through our body language— in how we “carry” our bodily parts. (230页，2-3段).
ii。 我们忽略了这个事实 － 作恶的倾向是内住在身体／肢体的某个部分里。 所以，我们有自动作恶的行为和表现。
THE GREATEST DANGER TO our prospects for spiritual transformation at this point is that we will fail to take all this talk about our bodily parts very literally. It may help us to consider ordinary situations of temptation. We said earlier that temptation is a matter of being inclined to do what is wrong. But where do those inclinations primarily reside? The answer is, they primarily exist in the parts of our body.(236页，3段).
iii。住在肢体里的作恶倾向，是能不受我们的意向和思想所控制的，它是我们习惯和品格的一部分，所以，它是需要被改变的。 这也意味着习惯和品格的改变是必须的。
These various tendencies actually present in our bodily parts can move our body into action independently of our overall intentions to the contrary— often quite genuine— and of our conscious thoughts. Thus we act or speak “before we think.” The part of our character that lives in our body carries us away. (237页，2段).
4. 圣经以上的教道，消除我们对身体的憎恶
i. 错误的观念：身体本身就是邪恶。 保罗的教导颠覆了这思想，他教导我们将身体献上当着活祭，作义的奴仆。
A BURNING SENSE OF these powers of evil actually inhabiting our body and specific parts thereof is one of the reasons body hatred, throughout the ages and across cultures, has been such a dreadful fact. Sincere people really do find evil in their body and wrongly blame the body for it. This misguided and terribly harmful attitude toward the body correctly sees the power of sin that really is in the actual body and its parts. But it mistakenly assumes that the evil is the body and its parts, and does not know how to think about the readiness to sin, the sinful meanings and intentions, that have come to possess those parts through their habituation in a world of sin. （238页，4-5段）
ii。世人有这错误的观念，因为他们只看到，以肉体为念，沉迷欲望的结果必是死亡。 在基督里，我们可以／能以属灵为念，以致可以把身体放在对的位置上。
But that only illustrates, once more, that to be carnally minded— that is, obsessed with the merely natural— is death indeed. We should now be able to see the truth of this in everything we view or read in today’s world. But, by contrast, to be spiritually minded— that is, to be focused on our nature as spiritual beings and on our place in God’s eternal life and kingdom—“ is life and peace” (Romans 8: 6). Then the body is beautified and beatified in its proper place.(241页，2段).
iii。一位成熟的耶稣门徒会这样看待身体：我的身体，非我拥有，而是属于神的，由我负责照顾。
As a mature and competent individual, I am responsible for the care of my body, and it is the center of all the other responsibilities I have. But that does not imply that I and I alone have the right to say what is to be done with it, or in short, that I own my body. And this is all the more true for an apprentice of Jesus, whose body and whole being has literally been bought back from evil by God through the death of his Son. It is therefore God’s to do with as he pleases, and he pleases that our body should be “a showplace of God’s greatness”(242页，4段).
iv。 身体的唯一出路，唯一合理的用途是 ： 献上当着活祭给神
ACCORDINGLY, OUR “REASONABLE service,” the only thing that makes any sense for a human being who trusts Christ, is to “present our bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, very pleasing to God” (242页，5段).
5. 合宜的预备、操练和照顾我们的身体
i。我们要承认，接受身体的状况，不要一味的否定它的问题。
FOR MANY OF US today, our body is in a constant state of agitation and discomfort 。。。Wounds, fears, unsatisfied desires, shames, losses, and unhealthy ambitions and images of the self sink beneath the horizon of our awareness. We may even deny them. But they continue to disrupt our body and can even take over our life through the body’s “automatic” responses.
(243页，3段)
iii。 身体与其他面向的互补关系
We acknowledge once again that changes are required in other dimensions of our person than our body and that these other dimensions and changes can never be adequately understood or dealt with in total isolation from each other. We must never forget this.(245页，1段).
iv。 採取行动
a. We must actually release our body to God. (245页, 4段)
b. No longer idolise your body. What does that mean? It means that you no longer make it an object of “ultimate concern.” (246页, 5段).
c. You do not misuse your body. This means primarily two things:
First, you do not use it as a source of sensual gratification,
Second, you do not use it to dominate or manipulate others. (247页, 2段)
作者也特别提醒我们不要操劳过度，这是现今我们的问题
A final example, for now, is overwork. In our current world this is a primary misuse of the body. It is now said that work is the new “drug of choice.” (247页, 5段)
d. The body is to be properly honoured and cared for. (248页, 2段)
v。 操练安息日
SABBATH FULFILLED IN HUMAN life is really celebration of God. Sabbath is inseparable from worship, and, indeed, genuine worship is Sabbath. As the fourth commandment, Sabbath is the fulfillment in practice of the first three. When we come to the place where we can joyously “do no work” it will be because God is so exalted in our minds and bodies that we can trust him with our life and our world and can take our hands off of them. (249页，2段).
a. 独处和静默
Sabbath is first to be achieved in the practice of solitude and silence. (249页，3段).
b. 足够睡眠
First step well might be to start getting enough sleep. Sleep is a good first use of solitude and silence. It is also a good indicator of how thoroughly we trust in God. (250页，1段).
c. 足够休息，和其好处
Rest, properly taken, gives clarity to the mind. Weariness, by contrast, can make us seek gratification and energy from food or drugs, or from various illicit relationships, or from egoistic postures that are, in Paul’s words, “upon the earth.” They pull us away from reliance upon God and from living in his power. （250页，3段).
vi. 对身体的属灵操练，可以达到的结果
specific disciplines go far in retraining particular parts of our body away from the specific tendencies to sin that are localized in them. They enable us to stop the practice and remove the tendency in question by entering special contrary practices and circumstances, and thereby breaking the force of habit that has us in bondage.(251页，1段).
最后，这单元里我认为最美和有深度的一段话 ：
平安，是身体的一种状况，除非这个状况包围我们的身体，否则我们不算进入平安。 当身体在神的公义和能力之中如同安舒在家那般，平安才进入我们身体
Peace is a condition of the body, and until it has enveloped our body it has not enveloped us. Peace comes to our body when it is at home in the rightness and power of God. (249页，1段).
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