【读圣经学英语】完全洁净

主藉着成为肉体而来，将神带进我们里面；又藉死和复活而去，将我们带进神里面。这两件事都是在我们灵里发生的。就我们的灵而言，神是藉着主的来被带进我们里面，我们是藉着主的去被带进神里面。但是就我们物质的身体而言，我们仍在这地上。我们在灵里，已经联于属天、属灵和永远的事物；但在我们的身体里，我们仍是在地上。在我们灵中，主已将神带进我们里面，又将我们带进神里面；在我们灵中，我们与神是一；在我们灵中，我们也在诸天界里，因为我们是在神里面。但在我们的身体里，我们仍在地上。就我们重生的灵而言，我们不再是旧造；我们是新造。然而，就我们的身体而言，我们仍在旧造中，并在地上。一面，我们是新造，我们在神里面，我们是在诸天界里。这是真的，是实际的。另一面，我们仍在旧造中，仍在地上。

我们虽有了神圣的生命，并成了召会，却仍在地上，活在这堕落的肉体中。由于我们和地的接触，我们常是污秽的。这是无可避免的，因为我们无法不接触地。我们的脚是接触地的肢体，一天又一天，我们用脚接触地。古时在犹太地，人们来去大都靠步行，用脚接触地而行。每逢他们接触了地，他们的脚当然就肮脏了。因此，洗脚对他们是必需的。就属灵说，我们也是如此。

肮脏和有罪不一样。有罪是一回事，肮脏是另一回事。可能你完全没有罪，却很肮脏。也许没有什么错，但因着属地的接触，你就肮脏了。你知不知道我们仍在身体里，仍在这地上行走？我们一直接触地，这使我们肮脏。结果，许多时候我们是不洁净的。因此，我们需要洗脚。

Enlightenment:

The Lord came through incarnation to bring God into us and He went through death and resurrection to bring us into God. Both transpire in our spirit. As far as our spirit is concerned, God has been brought into us by the Lord’s coming, and we have been brought into God by the Lord’s going. Yet, as far as our physical body is concerned, we are still here on this earth. In our spirit we have been joined to something heavenly, spiritual, and eternal, but in our body we are still on the earth. In our spirit the Lord has brought God into us and us into God, in our spirit we are one with God, and in our spirit we are in the heavenlies because we are in God. But in our body we are still on earth. As far as our regenerated spirit is concerned, we are no longer the old creation; we are the new creation. However, as far as our body is concerned, we are still in the old creation and on the earth. On the one hand, we are the new creation, we are in God, and we are in the heavenlies. This is true and this is a reality. On the other hand, we are still in the old creation, still on this earth.

Although we have the divine life and have become the church, we are still living in this fallen flesh on the earth. Through the earthly touch we are often dirtied. This is inevitable, for we cannot avoid the earthly touch. Our feet are the members of our body that touch the earth. Day by day we are touching the earth with our feet. In the ancient days of Judea, the people went almost everywhere by walking, by contacting the earth with their feet. Whenever they contacted the earth, their feet certainly became dirty. Consequently, foot-washing was a necessity for them. Spiritually speaking, it is the same for us.

Dirtiness is different from sinfulness. To be sinful is one thing and to be dirty is another. You may be absolutely sinless and yet be very dirty. Perhaps nothing is wrong, but you are dirty simply because of the earthly touch. Do you realize that we are still in the body and are still walking on this earth? We constantly touch the earth, and this makes us dirty. As a result, much of the time we are not clean. Therefore, we need foot-washing.